Angine de Poitrine played a sold-out SF club show on Aug. 19. Its only remaining Bay Area dates — Dec. 7 at the Castro, Dec. 8 at the Fox Oakland — are both sold out at face value. Here's the realistic way in.

The club-sized window on the year's strangest breakout act has closed, and if you weren't inside The Independent on Divisadero last Wednesday night, your only two remaining shots in the Bay Area are both already sold out.

The act is a masked duo who perform in papier-mâché heads and a blizzard of black-and-white polka dots, looping tangled double-neck microtonal guitar over tight, pulsing drums. They broke out of the internet, not the club circuit: their Live on KEXP session (external source, opens in a new tab) has pulled well past 10 million views across YouTube and Instagram, and CBC Music (external source, opens in a new tab) has called the Quebec pair the masked band "taking the internet by storm." The Aug. 19 stop on Divisadero was the kind of ticket people will name-drop for a year. The catch is arithmetic: The Independent holds about 500, and the band has spent 2026 outrunning rooms that size.

The two dates left, and what each one actually is:

Both rooms are booked by Another Planet, and both were gone well before the door. So your options, cheapest to priciest:

Day-of at the box office. Sold-out theater shows almost always shake loose a handful of production holds and no-shows the night of. It's a long shot, not a plan — but if you live near either room, standing at the window an hour before doors costs only the trip.

The official exchange. Because one promoter runs both rooms, the safest face-value path is the verified resale that opens when tickets get released back. Set an alert on the Ticketmaster links off the Castro (external source, opens in a new tab) and Fox (external source, opens in a new tab) pages instead of babysitting a scalper tab.

Open-market resale, eyes open. As of Friday, get-in prices ran about $131 in SF and $102 in Oakland, per the tracking sites SeatData (external source, opens in a new tab) and TickPick (external source, opens in a new tab). Those are resale, not face, and they'll drift between now and December — probably upward. Buy only where transfer is guaranteed; a $130 microtonal-rock ticket is precisely the kind counterfeiters target.

Here's the read the price history should give you: December is likely the last time this act plays anything this small around here. The duo has already outgrown clubs, and Dec. 7 and 8 amount to a goodbye to the theater-scale version before it turns into an arena-scale one. If I had a real shot at one, I'd take Oakland on the 8th — it's the cheaper way in, the Fox floor is the better room to actually feel a band whose entire pitch is making a crowd move, and Secret Chiefs 3 is a weird, worth-showing-up-early opener on its own terms.