Illuminati Hotties Offer Career-Spanning Set For ‘Tiny Desk Concert’
Watch the band led by Sarah Tudzin perform favorites including “freequent letdown,” “Pool Hopping” and more.
By Nate Todd Apr 14, 2025 • 2:50 pm PDT
illuminati hotties recently captured a Tiny Desk Concert. The Los Angeles-based band led by Sarah Tudzin offered a selection of songs from the illuminati hotties catalog.
A renowned producer/engineer who’s worked on albums by boygenius, Weyes Blood, Speedy Ortiz and more, Sarah Tudzin founded illuminatti hotties in 2017 as an outlet for her own music. For the Tiny Desk set, Tudzin brought the band including Brian Robert Jones (guitar, banjo), Jake Noveck (guitar), Mal Hauser (guitar), Zach Bilson (bass) and Brendan Philip McCusker (drums).
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NPR’s Lars Gotrich offered a rundown of illuminati hotties Tiny Desk:
Tudzin and her band hop, skip and jump through the Illuminati Hotties catalog, rearranging her songs along the way. “Pool Hopping” features a 10-second ska riff. Free I.H. mixtape favorite “freequent letdown” gets a little twang singalong. POWER‘s “Didn’t,” originally a Weezer-indebted rocker, becomes a banjo-led hoedown. It all speaks to the malleability of Tudzin’s songwriting. “We’re here to share joy. We’re here to inspire resistance,” Tudzin says in a mission statement before the satirical and sneering “MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA,” which gets a pointed last-minute lyric change of its own. “That’s the least we can do with our art.”
Watch illuminati hotties Tiny Desk Concert below:
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