Fruit Bats (Photo courtesy Merge Records)

With support from Merge Records, Fruit Bats released two albums in 2021 — The Pet Parade and Siamese Dream! This year, the band followed those albums with a compilation, Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits, and Lost Songs (2001–2021).

Fruit Bats now cap that prolific period with a lot of touring, and they turn up at 9:30 Club on Saturday, April 23.

You can win tickets to see Fruit Bats at 9:30 Club with Parklife DC!

Formed in the late 1990s, indie folk-rock act Fruit Bats grew from the four-track recording project of songwriter Eric D. Johnson into a touring band with an ever-shifting lineup. Constant are Johnson’s warm vocals and melodic sensibility, both of which often seem to split the difference between Lennon and McCartney.

Watch the official music video for “The Balcony” by Fruit Bats on YouTube:

Parklife DC is giving away a pair of tickets to see Fruit Bats at 9:30 Club. To win, simply leave a comment on this blog. You can leave any comment, but we would like to know your favorite song by Fruit Bats!

Rules of The Giveaway

Comments will be closed at 3pm on Wednesday, and a winner will be randomly selected. The winner will be notified by email. The winner must respond to our email within 24 hours, or they will forfeit their tickets and we will pick another winner. We will email you instructions on claiming your tickets. Good luck!

Buy your tickets online if you don’t win!

Fruit Bats
w/ Johanna Samuels
9:30 Club
Saturday, April 23
Doors @ 10pm
$25
All ages