At the Fonda, Jane Remover's violent yearning heralds a new kind of stardom

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As the noise-rap-electro act Jane Remover shrieked and pleaded through a 90-minute marathon set at the Fonda on Thursday night, one very young couple dressed right out of a conservative‘s nightmare — gender-ambiguous, purple hair, facial piercings — tapped me on the shoulder.They politely asked if I could mind their newly bought vinyl for a bit as they thrashed in the heaving crowd.

Of course, this unc obliged them.Anyone who laments that L.A.crowds don’t dance should go to one of the last sets of Jane Remover’s three-night stand at the Fonda this weekend.

It had the most genuinely raucous pit I’ve seen in 2026, made all the more feral for how sweet and earnest it was.After a hotly tipped Coachella set, this Live Exhibit tour affirmed that the subculture Jane Remover built may or may not have wider pop potential, but it’s getting big enough to count for stardom in the fractured music world of today.Jane Remover is a trans polymath producer and singer-songwriter with influences across rave, shoegaze, trap and beyond.

They’ve built up a ferocious elaboration on the hyperpop of predecessors like Sophie, who similarly packed so many good ideas into songs they became talismanic to fans, a tonic to reinvent yourself (new Charli XCX opener Underscores is another fellow traveler).The music itself sounds like reverse-engineering the moment in the 2000s when metalcore kids discovered EDM.Only now it’s Discord-disaffected youth ramping up hardstyle techno, autotuned girlypop ballads and rage-rap to an explosive fusion point.

“Census Designated,” Jane’s brash and dramatic 2023 coming-out LP, tipped them as a force beyond the underground.But they soon eclipsed it with 2025’s “Revengeseekerz,” a deliriously overheated mix of romantic yearning, internet score-settling and virtuosic production prowess.Backed by just a DJ (Dazedgxd, who opened the set) and a reti...