Empire Underground on North Pearl Street is a 500-cap club, and that matters more than it sounds. A room that size puts you close enough to the stage that you stop thinking about the room at all — which is exactly where you want to be when the drums kick in. Meet Me @ The Altar bring The Worried Sick Summer Tour to Albany on Sunday, June 7, 2026. Showtime is 8:00 PM.
Meet Me @ The Altar
The band started the way bands start now: online. In 2015, guitarist Téa Campbell discovered a YouTube drum cover posted by Ada Juarez. They were based in different states — Florida and New Jersey — but they built something from it anyway. Vocalist Edith Victoria, a Georgia native, joined in 2017. Their sound landed at the intersection of pop-punk hooks and easycore weight, and for a while it seemed like they were building slowly in the background.
Then came 2020. The Wonder Years’ Dan Campbell tweeted about their single “Garden” and everything accelerated — endorsements from Halsey and All Time Low followed, and Fueled By Ramen signed them, making Meet Me @ The Altar the label’s first group of women of color.
They’ve since moved on. Téa Campbell departed, and the band is now Edith Victoria and Ada Juarez — a duo on independent LAB Records, touring as a five-piece live. Their WORRIED SICK EP, released December 5, 2025, is their first record in this formation: six tracks, easycore-forward, rawer and more direct than anything they’d done before. A deluxe edition followed in January 2026, and this summer tour is the live leg of all of it.
“Your decisions need to be based off of what you truly want,” Edith Victoria told Zanywaves. “If you want to play a show to 50 kids in a shed, you should be able to do that.” Albany’s Empire Underground holds 500. The spirit is the same.
Songs to know before you go: “Garden,” “Say It (To My Face),” “Kool,” and “T.M.I.” Fluorescents open the Albany date.
Empire Underground
Empire Underground sits at 93 N Pearl St in the heart of downtown Albany — a 500-capacity club at the center of the Albany / Capital District concert scene. The June 7 date falls early in an 18-date run stretching May 30 through August 5. If you want the club version of this tour, this is the window to catch it.
Tickets & Pricing
Doors at 8:00 PM on Sunday, June 7, 2026. Tickets are available now — grab them through the link below before the room fills up.