Honey Revenge x Dead Poet Society presale codes in Brooklyn NY

Honey Revenge bring glossy, neon-tinged pop-rock, while Dead Poet Society answer with raw, low-slung alt grit, and the pairing makes sense the second the room fills. The LA duo of Devin Papadol and Donovan Lloyd lean bright and bouncy; the Boston-bred DPS move like a slow fuse, then strike hard.

Split bill, shared bite

Expect Honey Revenge to pull from Retrovision with Airhead and Are You Impressed?, and DPS to hammer CoDA and .SALT. when the lights drop. The crowd skews young but mixed, with candy-dye hair and checkerboard nails up front, and black denim and drummer-nerd tees clustering by the consoles. Mosh pockets form center-left when DPS hit their drops, then turn to pogo sing-alongs when Honey Revenge lifts a chorus. DPS cut their teeth at Berklee before months of self-booked runs, while Honey Revenge first packed all-ages community spaces across SoCal with DIY lighting in tow. Consider these setlist and staging notes as informed guesses drawn from recent shows, not a promise.

Scene study: pastel meets charcoal

Fashion tilts playful up front: glitter eyeliner, pastel tees, and heart barrettes orbit Honey Revenge, while DPS regulars favor beat-up boots, patched denim, and dark caps.

Pastel meets charcoal

The pit swells on cue but stays considerate, with quick handoffs when someone stumbles. Call-and-response arrives without prompting, from the shouted tag in Airhead to a rough “Co-DA” volley before the last chorus of CoDA. Merch tables echo the sound: sherbet colorways beside stark monochrome long sleeves, plus a few handmade pins that vanish early. Between sets, you hear setlist theories, pedal talk, and local-scene gossip traveling faster than the bar line. If you want that jump-cut from candy to concrete, catch it when this run comes through your town. The room makes space for both sing-along pop heads and riff chasers, and they trade spots without fuss.

Sandpaper shine, candy chorus

Live, Honey Revenge centers Devin’s clean, high register, often stacked in choruses while Donovan threads chimey, slightly detuned leads that keep things buoyant.

Hooks over horsepower

They run tight synth stabs and handclap accents from a sampler so the guitars stay crisp instead of crowded. Dead Poet Society counter with a grainier vocal and guitars parked in a lowered tuning that lets the bass carry the main hook. On CoDA, they’ll stretch the intro with feedback swells before snapping to a dead-stop downbeat, which frames the chorus lift. Both acts nudge tempos a notch faster than record, adding energy without smearing words. Lighting mirrors the arc: candy pinks and teal for Honey Revenge peaks, stark whites and cobalt for DPS drops, with strobes saved for final hits. The result is a bill where parts interlock and space is earned, not guessed.

Kindred noise in the neighborhood

If Stand Atlantic sits on your playlist, Honey Revenge’s glossy bite and punchy tempos will click fast, since both swing pop-punk toward bright alt-pop.

Your overlap map

Fans of Badflower often find the same tension-and-release in Dead Poet Society’s bruised verses and cathartic hooks. Royal Blood loyalists who crave bass-forward grind will hear familiar weight in DPS’s low-tuned churn. Hot Milk lands between the two, blending duet sparkle with distortion that mirrors Honey Revenge’s bounce and DPS’s crunch. The common thread is melody discipline over noise, not genre labels. That overlap means a room ready to shift from pogo to measured head-nod without losing focus.