It’s been a busy year and 8 months for electronic/rock/rap/pop/digicore (and honestly probably a few more genres) artist Jane Remover. After a year of only a couple singles in 2024, Jane kicked it into high gear in January of 2025 with rage-digicore fusion song “JRJRJR”, the lead single for their album Revengeseekerz. After that, their music output didn’t stop, despite going on tour multiple times, opening for other artists, and playing multiple festivals. In February they dropped Ghostholding, the first full-length album released for their indie-rock side project venturing, followed soon after by the second single for Revengeseekerz, “Dancing with your eyes closed”, which remains their biggest song to date. The album surprise dropped on April 4, putting an end to the mysterious aura-farming buildup since “JRJRJR” dropped.
After the so-so critical success of their past 2 albums, 2021’s Frailty and 2023’s Census Designated (both of which I personally love), Revengeseekerz acted as the project that really put Jane on the map for many listeners and critics, getting an 8.0 from Pitchfork and a 9 from Anthony Fantano of TheNeedleDrop, as well as landing in the top 20 albums of 2025 on Rate Your Music.
Since then, they have continued releasing new songs and projects almost monthly. Whether that’s the heartbreaking single “In the dark” and the melancholic Nowhere EP for venturing, or the monthly release of songs for the album status update music for their dariacore/hyperflip side project leroy (which has a whole story of its own that I would love to delve into in another article someday), the output of new, quality music has been constant. And with the surprise drops of both the rage album Indie Rock that was removed from streaming after only two hours of being available, and the 6 song Heart EP compiled of songs from a scrapped pop album, Jane has kept fans on their toes for the last 20 months in the best way possible.
When I saw them on tour in April of 2025, Jane primarily played the louder songs off of Revengeseekerz, opting to cut softer songs from the album, such as “Fadoutz” and “Dark night castle”. And while they did play a few old classics from other projects, such as “homeswitcher”, “Flash in the Pan”, and a new mix of “movies for guys”, and it was an AMAZING show, I couldn’t help but feel as though it was slightly one note.
However, when I went to see them again at Newport Music Hall on September 18 for their Live Exhibit Tour, any small issues I had with the last show faded away. First of all, while I really appreciated the smaller and more intimate venue of the last show, Newport Music Hall was at least double the size, making the crowd even louder and the performance feel larger than life. And second, the setlist was everything I could’ve hoped for and more, mixing albums and genres and songs from all across their catalogue.
The show opened with a great DJ set from Jane’s contemporary Dazegxd, who also opened for them when I saw them last year. He mixed classic pop songs, some of Jane’s more unknown songs, and other modern internet music classics like Ninajirachi’s “F**k My Computer” and Lucy Bedroque’s “Ultraviolet”. After his set, Dazegxd was also Jane’s DJ throughout the rest of the performance.
Jane opened her set with the glitchy “TWICE REMOVED”, the opening track from Revengeseekerz. It immediately got the crowd excited and moving, and from there the momentum didn’t cease. The second song they performed was the at the time unreleased song “Beauty Sleep”, which has since been released as a single with a beautiful music video. This immediately set this show apart from the last one, breaking the Revengeseekerz flow to play a song not even officially part of Jane’s discography yet. This continued, with every Revengeseekerz song being accompanied by a song from another project or alias, keeping the setlist fresh and full of anticipation for what deep cut could possibly be next. Jane also later performed another unreleased song, titled “push” that sounded like an updated version of “movies for guys”.
One of the highlights of the set was when Jane sang part of Zendaya’s “Replay” over the beat of their song “Flash in the Pan”. “Replay” has been having its moment in the spotlight lately, and to hear it sung over one of my favorite pop instrumentals was so ridiculous and exciting, and I could hear everyone around me laughing and singing along. It almost felt like a cameo in a movie.
Throughout the show, Jane also sang acapella versions of a couple songs off of their less popular projects, such as “Believe” and “In the dark” from venturing, as well as “search party” from Frailty, which had me and the 3 other Frailty superfans in the crowd losing our minds.
However, despite all of these electric and speaker-blowing moments, my favorite performance was easily the leroy remix of “Experimental Skin / How to Teleport”. The heavy, angry EDM drops and shrieking guitar paired with the robotic autotune on Jane’s voice made it feel like i had been transported to hell, surrounded by people soaked in sweat and bathed in the red light emanating from the stage. It was like our moshing bodies were all melting together in the heat of flaming synths, before eventually being pulled out of the sonic hellscape and back into reality by the catchy pop melody of “How to Teleport”.
Jane looked almost otherworldly up on the stage, backlit by blinding white lights and fog, the only easily distinguishable part of them being their blood-red hair blowing in the wind. Despite having no set dressing or props throughout the show, Jane’s stage presence was more than enough to keep the audience visually engaged.
Jane ended the show with “Dancing with your eyes closed”, which, despite the almost 2 hours of nonstop singing and dancing prior, had the most energy from both Jane and the crowd. People were jumping and SCREAMING the lyrics along with Jane, it was the most energetic response to a song at a concert that I’ve experienced.
It all felt like the venue had been transported somewhere else, to a universe where time moves differently and music sounds better, and Palkia from Pokémon roams just a street over. Leaving the show felt like a hero from an adventure series returning to the regular world, their aching muscles and memories of the other world the only things to emerge with them from that place.
