The New York project Tempers plays on October 8, 2026 at the Pave club in Sofia, starting at 20:00. This is one of those nights where the club matters more than the arena - Pave is a small Sofia space, and Tempers is a band that sounds best at exactly that kind of proximity.

Tempers is a synthpop and indie darkwave project founded in 2013 in New York by singer and songwriter Jasmine Golestaneh. In the beginning it was a duo with Eddie Cooper, a New York producer who had previously lived and worked in Berlin and released music on electronic labels including !K7 and Eskimo. Golestaneh is of Latvian-Iranian descent, born in Florida and raised in Europe before moving to New York. Today she runs the project alone.

As a duo, Tempers released the albums „Services”, „Private Life” and „New Meaning”, as well as „Junkspace” - a collaboration that also involved the architect Rem Koolhaas. The sound is cold, synthesiser-driven and deliberately blurred, closer to European darkwave than to American indie pop, which probably has something to do with where Golestaneh grew up.

Darkwave and post-punk have a steady audience across eastern Europe, and Sofia is one of the few Balkan capitals where bands like this stop regularly. Tickets are around 20 euros via bilet.bg, roughly 1,232 denars.