Reptaliens play the Showbox on Saturday, April 27. EIRINN GRAGSON
When she answers the phone, Bambi Browning is standing in windy Joshua Tree, California. The Reptaliens frontperson is about to eat breakfast on a day off from her band’s long national tour with East Coast punk bands Turnstile and Turnover. The night before was spent at a friend’s comfy house in the California desert, and after breakfast, Browning and her bandmates will head south to the massive Coachella music festival—not to perform, but just to hang out, thanks to the generosity of their tour partners.
“It’s a lovely magical desert weekend,” Browning says. “We have the best luck.”