New Finch.

An independent five-piece from Buffalo, New York, playing alternative and indie rock shaped by the records that raised them, with covers of Radiohead, Nirvana, The Beatles, and Jeff Buckley woven into their sets. The 2025 Music is Art band battle put them on the festival's main stage, and this year they followed it with their debut album, Letter Me, eight originals that move from the restlessness of the opening tracks to the quieter resolve of the title song. They are a hometown band on a hometown stage, still early and already going somewhere.