The Rapture
Alternative
The next The Rapture concert is scheduled for Thursday, November 20, 2025 at Salle Pleyel in Paris, France. See all 1 upcoming concerts
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About The Rapture
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Formed
1998
Genre
Alternative
If there’s one song that defines the early-2000s dance-punk revival, it’s The Rapture’s “House of Jealous Lovers”: Its muscular bassline, shrieking vocals, and insistent cowbell are a distillation of an entire era, and so is the New York band, thanks to its close affiliation with James Murphy’s iconic DFA label. The Rapture actually debuted with scabrous post-hardcore on San Diego’s Gravity label in 1999, then hopped to Sub Pop for 2001’s post-punkier Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks. But the group—singer/guitarist Luke Jenner, singer/bassist Mattie Safer, drummer Vito Roccoforte, and multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Andruzzi—really came into its own with their DFA debut, 2003’s Echoes, recording disco-punk barnstormers so hot they practically melted the wax they were pressed on. Safer left the band in 2009, after 2006’s Pieces of the People We Love, and the remaining members soldiered on with 2012’s In the Grace of Your Love, putting a more polished spin on their livewire sonics.
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