Four people stand together framed within a stone archway of an overgrown, ivy-covered ruin. On the left, a person in a tan jacket and yellow shirt leans against the stone. In the center, two people stand close together—one in a dark blue jacket and the other partially obscured behind them. On the right, a person in a bright blue-and-purple jacket and a camouflage cap looks toward the camera. A weathered wooden fence is visible on the far right against the mossy stone walls. — Dana Credit: DANABANDOHIO / Facebook

Permanent Makeup has long been St. Petersburg’s premier purveyor of angular, face-crunching art-punk, and it warms the crowd up ahead of Dana, an Ohio band cut from the same cloth.

The tight grooves on a 2025 outing, Clean Living, are what happens when a band spends four years on the road together. From the bounce in the record’s opening track, “Blueteeth,” to the shouted vocals of the title track, and the doomsday vibe of sprawling closer “Mankind,” Madeline Jackson (who fronts the band, with Theremin at the ready) conducts an ensemble that sounds kind of like what might happen if David Byrne was a crusty Dadaist that ran the DIY space down the street.

There’s no cover to see Dana play The Bends in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

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This article appears in Feb. 05 – 11, 2026.