After an explosion of popularity through DIY creativity, “sheer will power,” and somewhat of a scene build in the Nashville, post-pandemic 2020s, EDM/grunge rock/funk fusion/space disco duo The Weird Sisters, are playing their last shows, including a penultimate one at Murfreesboro’s Hop Springs Beer Park, this Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, due to an “indefinite break from the live realm,” featuring cohesive fusion jam quintet, Omcat, as their openers.

The Weird Sisters “project” formed out of a quartet, including Murfreesboro drummer Jeff Brown and singer Caitlyn Crawley, eventually replacing the latter two with other family and friends after a creativity-reinforcing road trip up north by Izaac and Gabrielle (both originally out of Pennsylvania) which juiced and produced the current Gabrielle and Izaac duo creating a stage show and presence that landed them in a modern Nashville sub-genre of Warehouse disco (kind of a revived utilization of warehouse-esque venues utilized in the past by up-and-coming house show bands, as well as popularizing alt. country/bluegrass bands in the late aughts and early teens) over the course of the past decade.

The Weird Sisters’ current and popularized formation, comprised of Izaac Short on the Jack White-esque lead guitar riffage and classically trained keyboardist, Gabrielle Lewis, also on saxophone and phyrigian scale-influenced vocal tact, loop and oscillate through Moog and 8-trak Tascam388 synthesizers and mixing boards, while on an assortment of keys and pedals.

“The Weird Sisters,” began in 2017 as a way to express the unique musical chemistry between us. The boundaries of our shared creativity is, as always, vastly untapped, undocumented, and unexplored,” explained the band.

“Throughout the years, and many eras of the project, the thing we created took on a life of its own, and became larger than just the two of us. The project has grown to a point where we can no longer manage/balance the time and financial responsibility alone. We need a break.”

“Truth be told, we have been hustling and starving for years to deliver you the highest quality music and performances we possibly can with a strict DIY approach.”

“Together, we have written, recorded, and produced every song, screen printed every T-shirt in our kitchen, and designed every concert bill, created and built most of the gear we use live, booked, managed, and overseen the smallest details. And we paid for it all, through a litany of insane jobs and sheer will power, together.”

“If you ever paid for a polaroid picture of yourself down on Broadway and got a fortune cookie with it, that was us.”

There has been no shortage of bizarre hustles between us to support this project,” said the band.

Throughout 2026, the band has continued their normal, arcing-upwards routine, releasing new music—a live album, Live at Post 82, from a Sept. 25, 2025 Inglewood show at The Post—among a slew of incredible live shows over the years, including gigs at East Nashville’s The 5-Spot, The Eastside Bowl, and some warehouse disco at 1015 N. Kirkland Ave., among others.

There was an April “Wasting Time,” release involving a borrowed 8-track Tascam388, as well as, “Top Dog” and “Call Me Dion,” two new double-banger singles.

It has been life-altering to receive the intense joy and support from those who have found identity and connection through this project. This cannot be overstated,” said the band.

But “after careful consideration, we have decided to hit the pause button on our project, The Weird Sisters. Specifically, on the live frontier,” stated the band.

“All future collaborations between the two of us will most likely be in the studio.”

“We have had innumberable mentors over the years,” they continued, “but at the end of the day, everything was created and executed by the two of us. When we wanted to do something, we figured it out, and we did it.”

“We could have cut corners, but learning through doing, while exploring and pushing our boundaries is our process for making art. No regrets, because it has always been real.”

“Balancing all of this alone is why we have inevitably created more than we have ever been able to share.”

“We have a hard drive with over 10 terabytes of music to prove it.”

“Some unsolicited advice to the bands out there grinding: Do not allow anyone to come on your scene and start telling you how you need to sound, or tell you that you shouldn’t release music, or that releasing music for your current small fanbase is ‘a waste.’ The music business industrial complex is working against you. Never wait for anyone. Nobody can help you if their communication isn’t already better than your own. Just be who you are and always remember the greatest joy of music—which is sharing it with others.”

The Weird Sister’s second-to-last show will be held at Murfreesboro’s Hop Springs venue located at 6790 John Bragg Hwy. Find more information at hopspringstn.com.

Find more on the Weird Sisters at theweirdsistersband.com and on their Bandcamp page.

Videos of their live shows can be found on the B.E.Harmon YouTube channel.