Meet Boys Go To Jupiter: The NYC Band Merging Indie Rock with Performance Art

There’s a particular kind of band that doesn’t just play shows so much as stage small, glittering disruptions of reality—where the setlist blurs into theater, and the audience starts to feel like they’ve accidentally walked into a plot already in motion.

Boys Go To Jupiter live comfortably in that space.

Comprised of Jess Kantorowitz, Luke Volkert, and Caleb Martin-Rosenthal, the band has been quietly building a world that feels equal parts indie rock urgency, pop instinct, and something more performative—almost ritualistic in its execution. Their new EP, “Now You’re A Circle,” sharpens that vision into something cohesive and strangely cinematic, led by the standout track “Revenge Tour,” a song that feels less like a confession and more like a character arriving fully formed.

There’s a theatrical thread running through everything they touch. Songs don’t simply begin and end; they unfold. Hooks arrive with the timing of stage cues. Breakdowns feel like scene changes. Even in recorded form, the music carries the sense that something is being acted out just beyond the frame.

But it’s on stage where Boys Go To Jupiter fully collapses the distance between band and performance art. Their shows lean into skits, bits, and deliberately cheeky interludes that turn the set into something closer to a fractured musical—half indie concert, half high school drama club fever dream. The effect is disarming in the best way: earnest without irony, playful without losing emotional weight. There’s a kind of “Glee-club-meets-underground-rock-show” energy to it, but filtered through something more self-aware and entirely their own.

That approach has started to catch on. A sold-out Bowery Ballroom in New York City marked a recent peak—less a breakthrough moment than a confirmation of what’s been quietly building in rooms just a little too small for them. And now, with West Coast headlining dates on the horizon this fall, the band is stepping into a larger circuit without shedding the intimacy or chaos that made them compelling in the first place.

Now You’re A Circle doesn’t try to resolve that tension. Instead, it leans into it: identity as performance, heartbreak as choreography, momentum as something both ecstatic and slightly unsteady.

Find “Revenge Tour” wherever you listen to music.

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