In advance of tonight’s show at the Black Cat, we talked to Lemuria’s Sheena Ozzella about their upcoming 7-inch.

Stop the presses: Area bands release new music, knock local’s socks off.

From left: Alex Kerns, Max Gregor, Sheena Ozzella. Image from the artist’s website. Hey, check this out: Semi-local indie pop group Lemuria have a preview of their new album, The Distance Is So Big, streaming over at NPR Music. The trio features D.C. resident Sheena Ozzella on vocals/guitar, along with drummer/vocalist Alex Kerns, who lives in Buffalo, and bassist Max Gregor, who lives in Austin. How they make that work is a mystery, but…

Thursday night offered a reprieve from the sweltering heat — a blessing for anyone at the Black Cat with functioning olfactory bulbs — as two similar but distinct factions of punk fans converged: the young and crusty (literal) and the old and crusty (attitudinal).