Phoebe Bridgers boygenius reunion anchors A24’s Cherry Lane Sound Check

A small theatre in New York’s West Village turned out to be the occasion for the most affecting Phoebe Bridgers boygenius reunion since the trio last shared a stage. Bridgers joined Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus at Cherry Lane Theatre for a three-song stripped-back set, part of the Sound Check performance series produced by A24, A24 Music and the theatre itself.

The centrepiece was ‘On Video’, Bridgers’ original song written for A24’s film Primetime, performed alongside her longtime producer Ethan Gruska. The track plays over the film’s end credits, extending Ari Balouzian’s noir-inspired score into the movie’s closing moments, and it also appears on the official Primetime soundtrack. Rounding out the set were ‘Haunted’ and ‘Lost Boys’, delivered with Baker and Dacus in the intimate acoustic setting the Cherry Lane affords.

The Phoebe Bridgers boygenius reunion in context

The last time the boygenius trio performed together on camera was during Saturday Night Live in November 2023, which makes the Cherry Lane session only the second documented reunion since the group’s last run together. There is something instructive in the choice of venue: the Sound Check series is designed to be unshowy, placing artists in theatrical rather than arena surroundings, and boygenius, whatever their individual trajectories, have always been a band that sounds better when the room is small enough to hear the breath between the harmonies.

Previous Sound Check instalments have featured Tame Impala and Blood Orange, and all episodes are available on A24’s YouTube channel. The series reflects a broader ambition at A24 Music to weave original composition and performance into the studio’s theatrical releases, rather than treating the soundtrack as a secondary consideration.

The Primetime soundtrack and its release

That ambition is further evidenced by the plans around the Primetime score. According to The Line of Best Fit, A24 Music will release the Primetime soundtrack on 25 September, placing ‘On Video’ alongside Balouzian’s complete score in a formal release. For a film whose sonic texture is so deliberately constructed, the soundtrack arriving as a standalone object makes a certain sense: Balouzian’s work has been described as noir-inspired, and Bridgers’ closing contribution carries that nocturnal weight into the album’s final stretch.

Primetime itself stars Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, and is directed by Lance Oppenheim. Bridgers makes her acting debut in the film. It is now playing in US theatres, with Australian cinemas set to open it on 29 October and the UK release scheduled for 30 October.

A tour and a festival on the horizon

The Cherry Lane appearance comes while Bridgers is in the middle of her phone-free arena tour in support of her latest album, Lost Weekend. The tour visited Charlotte, North Carolina on 9 October, with further dates to follow. The phone-free policy has attracted attention as a broader trend across large-scale touring, and Bridgers has been among its more prominent advocates at arena level.

Beyond the current run, she has already been confirmed as one of the headliners for Primavera Sound in Barcelona in June 2027, a booking that sits comfortably alongside her status as one of the more reliably thoughtful presences in contemporary songwriting. The boygenius dynamic remains part of that story: even in a stripped acoustic context at a 180-seat theatre, the three voices pull against and towards each other in ways that neither Baker, Dacus nor Bridgers quite replicate alone.

The Primetime soundtrack is due from A24 Music on 25 September.