Sat 05/23/2026: SHELLSHAG, KEPI GHOULIE, KAIT ELDRIDGE, BEAUTY @ Cats Luck Vegan

Sat 05/23/2025
@ Cats Luck Vegan
140 Steiner Ave
Neptune City, NJ

6:00 pm doors // $12 adv // $15 at the door
ALL AGES // BYOB // be respectful of the space and the neighborhood

TRASH CITY GIGS & CATS LUCK VEGAN present an evening of acoustic and/or stripped down punk rock n roll solo & duo sets!

SHELLSHAG
Now approaching their 30th year of making music together, and with roots stretching from the late 90s Bay Area to turn of the century Brooklyn to presently, the Great State of New Jersey, Shellshag are quite simply one of the most beloved and respected names in DIY punk. The two piece band consisting of John “Shellhead” Driver and Jennifer Shagawat play a raw, no frills brand of punk rock with an earnest emotional honesty that simply cannot be faked…and cannot help but get anyone who witnesses it caught up in the spirit. At the risk of becoming hyerbolic, see Shellshag live and you’ll believe in punk rock…or remember why you did in the first place! At this show Shellshag will be performing a stripped down / acoustic set in the intimate space at Cats Luck that lets the raw power of their songwriting shine through!
https://shellshag.bandcamp.com/

KEPI GHOULIE
Known equally for his time in 80s-90s Lookout! Records mainstays THE GROOVIE GHOULIES and his decades-long career of solo performances and collaborations with his friends since then, KEPI is a massive figure in underground music. Fusing such adjacent but disparate influences as horror movies, 60s garage rock, goth, country & folk, and pop-punk (and that’s just the tip of the iceberg), whether Kepi is singing about vampires, life on the road as a musician, or the importance of compassion and friendship, he is an individual continuously driven to endless creativity and a desire to share that creativity with any like minded souls that will listen!
https://kepighoulie.bandcamp.com/music/
https://groovieghoulies.bandcamp.com/

KAIT ELDRIDGE
From her time fronting Brooklyn by way of Long Island’s snotty-as-hell DIY punk scrappers CHEEKY through stepping up into the role of garage-punk guitar hero as the central singer-songwriter of BIG EYES, KAIT has been a force in punk rock ‘n roll for the better part of the past two decades. Reinventing herself once again in the 2020s and recording under her own name for the first time, she has again surprised her longterm fans by mixing her trademark guitar bluster with synthesizers and textured elements executed with complete confidence. Her two solo albums with LET’S PRETEND RECORDS have been a sprawling concept record based on the works of STEPHEN KING (2022’s THE DARK TOWER), and most recently, deeply personal meditations on memory and release (2025’s VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE). With deep musical and personal connections to New Jersey dating back many years, this will be an incredible home-away-from-homecoming for one of today’s most fiercely independent songwriters.
https://letspretendrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/kait-eldridge-very-special-people-lp
https://letspretendrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/kait-eldridge-the-dark-tower
https://bigeyes.bandcamp.com/
https://cheekybandny.bandcamp.com/music/

BEAUTY
With the 2025 release of their debut LP I’D DO ALMOST ANYTHING FOR YOU on STRANGE VIEW RECORDS, the world at large are starting to catch on to what fans of power-pop/punk/indie at the Jersey Shore have known for several years: that BEAUTY are some of the most extraordinary songwriters and performers doing it today. This songwriting will be showcased with this acoustic duo performance by the band’s two primary singer/songwriters, DEAGLAN HOWLETT & NIC MAKOTO PALERMO.
https://beautylovesyou.bandcamp.com/music