Regardless of what side of the internet you crawled out from, you probably heard about Jane Remover in 2026. The Chicago-based musician has been hitting the stage hard lately, even getting pulled up onstage by Charli XCX before setting off on a headlining tour of her own, selling out New York’s Terminal 5 and drawing increasingly raucous crowds (many of which do smell, she’ll be the first to admit). She’s come a long way from the days when her distinctive genre of internet music could barely fill a room at Baby’s All Right. “So much of what has started on the internet has exploded into the mainstream,” she told us, calling in from West Monroe, Louisiana between shows. “I feel like this shit is limitless because people are craving for something new.” While we had her, we also got to talking about overflowing toilets, musty crowds, and her new single, “Beauty Sleep.”
MONDAY 12 PM SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 LOUISIANA
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JULIAN RIBEIRO: It’s good to meet you. How are you?
JANE REMOVER: I’m good. You?
RIBEIRO: I’m good. I was just saying I’ve been in London and Milan all week for the fashion week cycle. I got back to America last night and I’m kind of brain-dead, but in a totally good, normal, productive way.
JANE REMOVER: I feel you.
RIBEIRO: Where are you right now?
JANE REMOVER: I’m calling you from West Monroe, Louisiana.
RIBEIRO: Let’s make a little noise for Louisiana. Where are you coming from?
JANE REMOVER: Our last stop was last night in Atlanta, and we’re driving to Austin tonight.
RIBEIRO: Fierce. How was the show?
JANE REMOVER: Honestly, it was great. There was a technical difficulty in the beginning of the show where the speakers blew out. We had to stop for a few minutes, but other than that, it was an amazing show, an amazing crowd. Definitely a highlight of the tour for sure.
RIBEIRO: Where have you guys been already and what’s left to cover, city-wise?
JANE REMOVER: We did Minneapolis, Detroit, Columbus, two nights in Boston, New York, Philly, D.C., Atlanta, and now we have Austin, Dallas, Denver, Portland and Seattle, and then Mexico City.
RIBEIRO: Mexico City is going to be fun too. Have you played there before?
JANE REMOVER: Never been.
RIBEIRO: It’s so fab. The people there rock. I go a few times a year, and every time I’m like, “This place is just so fierce.” Has there been a show thus far that has been particularly fun for you?
JANE REMOVER: Honestly, a highlight was Terminal 5 in New York, because we sold it out the day of the show. I didn’t think we would sell it out. That was huge for me.
RIBEIRO: Right.
JANE REMOVER: It was the biggest show I’ve ever played by far. I was like, “Wait. It’s not all bad. Everything is amazing.” It’s all sunshine and rainbows.
RIBEIRO: To that point, how has touring in this cycle made you feel?
JANE REMOVER: Well, I normally don’t get sick on the road, but this time I did. I’m coming out of the other side of that now, but for the first five or six shows of the tour, it was bad. Now I’m alive again. It’s been really nice having showers and laundry onsite.
RIBEIRO: That’s actually a good segue into another question, which is how do you take care of yourself on tour? I feel like people don’t grasp how rough it can be on your physical and mental health.
JANE REMOVER: Most of me likes that I’m never alone on tour. There is very little time in the day that I have to myself. There’s no time to be thinking about shit that isn’t work or hanging out or just being in a room full of people. I’m really only ever in a bad mood when I’m by myself.
RIBEIRO: I’ve been familiar with the music you’ve put out since Leroy. How has your crowd evolved? Can you tell when people are like, “You’re a Dariacore person and you heard a song six months ago on Spotify Radio and you’re here”?
JANE REMOVER: Part of me feels like I can tell, but I don’t like to judge a book by its cover. That being said, I have noticed the change in my crowd, because two years ago when I was touring it was mostly just trans girls in the crowd. Then, when my album came out, a lot of boys started getting in the crowd. But not men, boys.
RIBEIRO: Yeah. Distinction.
JANE REMOVER: Then I dropped the EP and I started seeing a bunch of girls in the crowd. Now, on this tour, I’ve seen literally everybody under the sun. I’m like, “Ugh. Thank god.” I don’t do this for any specific age group or demographic. I want everybody to be in this room having the same fun. But it does get scary when I’m worrying for these little girls on the barricade, because there is so much jumping and energy going on. I’m like, “Are they okay?”
RIBEIRO: Right. 
JANE REMOVER: I want to make sure they’re safe and shit.
RIBEIRO: I know. It’s like, “No permission slips, babe.”
JANE REMOVER: No. [Laughs]
RIBEIRO: What is the crowd like?
JANE REMOVER: To be honest, when I’m onstage, I have my in-ears in, I’m blind and deaf to the rest of the world. I can really only see what’s immediately in front of me. I usually see the barricade and if I really try to pay attention to look around, I just see a lot of jumping, and then I will read about individual experiences on Twitter being like, “Oh, that was fun,” or, “Oh, that was the worst time I ever had.”
RIBEIRO: The duality of man.
JANE REMOVER: But I don’t know. When I look at the crowd it looks like everybody is having fun, and I usually do a checkup being like, “Oh, is everybody okay?” They’re like, “Yes.” So, that leads me to believe that everything is okay.
RIBEIRO: You mentioned something about seeing people talk about their experiences on Twitter. Do you try to read any of that stuff or do you block it out?
JANE REMOVER: Honestly, everybody in my camp has caught me name searching one time or another. I am extremely online, so I pretty much see everything that people say.
RIBEIRO: Has anything stood out in a positive way?
JANE REMOVER: It’s just a lot of people having a good time. I feel like I don’t really do anything that’s outstanding, differentiating from one show to the other, because it’s just a strict hour and 45 minute regiment. But I do see a lot of videos, and it’ll be like, “Oh, I had such a great time, but the crowd was smelly.” Like, this is what you signed up for.
RIBEIRO: “Get with the program, babe.”
JANE REMOVER: But I do apologize for anybody who has the displeasure of smelling the crowd, because it does smell.
RIBEIRO: That’s not a unique problem to you.
JANE REMOVER: Oh, yeah. I think I just take a couple bullets for it.
RIBEIRO: God’s strongest soldier. [Laughs] Will you walk me through a little bit of what the show looks like and how you structure it?
JANE REMOVER: We have this insane light fixture that is spread out across the stage. My friend Dazegxd, who opens for me, his set directly transitions into my set. So, it’s a DJ set in a way. I walk out a couple of times, because we do little interludes, whether that be a cappella interludes or letting the beat play for two or three minutes or something.
RIBEIRO: Is there a part of the set that’s a highlight for you or something that you’re particularly proud of?
JANE REMOVER: Well, everybody knows “Dancing with your eyes closed.”
RIBEIRO: Right.
JANE REMOVER: Which is the common denominator as to why everybody is here. I really love performing, but I can tell that I’m ready for new music when I start getting tired of playing the same songs over and over.
RIBEIRO: Right.
JANE REMOVER: You can only do “Professional Vengeance” 150 times. After the 151st time it’s like, “Can’t do this anymore.”
RIBEIRO: You start to also realize why so many bands are like, “No. We don’t play the early album,” because they probably had to do that 5000 times. You know what I mean?
JANE REMOVER: I’m not doing “TWICE REMOVED” after this tour. I’ve played that song over 100 times. Same with half the songs on the setlist. Every second that I’m onstage I love it. But I’m like, “Wow. I really wish I had new music to play.” You know what I mean?
RIBEIRO: Do you want to talk about “Beauty Sleep” for a second? Because that’s new music.
JANE REMOVER: It is.
RIBEIRO: The video is cool. The visual is really developed and, from my perspective, as someone who has listened to your music for a long time it feels like a growing step in building the world. Talk to me about making the video.
JANE REMOVER: Well, I worked a lot with my friend Brendan [Burton], who directed the video, and is pretty much the mastermind behind it. I sent him a moodboard and I was like, “Can we replicate this vibe?” Then he made a whole story out of it. I actually didn’t want to put the song out at all just because I’m going into this next cycle very discouraged from dropping music. But honestly, just to see how many people wanted the song to come out, I was like, “You know what? I might as well.” When I was in Europe I was listening to “Beauty Sleep,” like 50 times a day, and I was just like, “I do want to turn this into an album. This is the start of something really important.”
RIBEIRO: Do you feel like you’re able to continue to be creative and make stuff while you’re touring? Because I know certain people experience that differently.
JANE REMOVER: I work on a PC setup so when I’m on the road I can’t make music. So because most of the year I’ve been on the road, I’ve barely made any music.
RIBEIRO: Right.
JANE REMOVER: The Venturing EP, I made that shit in three days, because I had three days to kill when I was at home. Hopefully, after this tour is over I’ll just become a powerhouse with all of the music that I have charged up in my head.
RIBEIRO: Is there anything that happened on this tour behind the scenes that was wild that hasn’t been posted about?
JANE REMOVER: The toilet.
RIBEIRO: Oh, no. What happened with the toilet?
JANE REMOVER: So, last night in Atlanta not one but two of the bathrooms started overflowing with this soap. Like, bubbles of soap just started exploding out of the toilet. And we couldn’t go in there for the whole day. But nothing really crazy happens. We just get to the venue, do our thing, go back to the bus, drive, repeat. That’s my routine.
RIBEIRO: Right.
JANE REMOVER: I used to be very wary of going on the bus, because I was like, “How am I going to sleep or do this and that?” You just get used to it.
RIBEIRO: At any point in the tour have you had any interactions with fans that have felt particularly cool?
JANE REMOVER: I’ve avoided talking to fans on this tour, but last night it was unavoidable, because we had the bus parked until 1:30 and it was directly outside of the venue. So, logically, there were three dozen fans just waiting by the bus.
RIBEIRO: Right.
JANE REMOVER: I’ve said on my story, like, “Yo. I don’t come out.” But what am I going to do? If I come out of the venue, walk to the bus, and everybody is watching me, I’m going to feel like an asshole. So, I said hi. But they’re very sweet. They mean well.
RIBEIRO: I’ve been going to shows and seeing everyone has the 3DS, which is fierce. But then I was at a show recently, and someone had a Chromebook, and it was their camera. I was like, “How did security even let you in here with a Chromebook, girl?”
JANE REMOVER: That’s crazy. Someone brought a Chromebook to my show in June at Irving Plaza. But they usually just ask me to sign their phone case or their vinyl. I signed somebody’s ID last night. I’m like, “That’s going to get you in trouble.”
RIBEIRO: That’s fierce.
JANE REMOVER: Yeah. But usually, I don’t really go out to say hi, because I don’t really know how to talk to my fans.
RIBEIRO: Have you been in the grocery store and someone’s been like, “Hey, Jane”?
JANE REMOVER: Right before I left for tour I got matcha with my friend and there were, like, three people in the matcha place alone that recognized me. I was like, “We have to get out of here.”
RIBEIRO: Right. But also, to be fair, the matcha place is maybe a more likely place to meet a Jane Remover fan than some other places.
JANE REMOVER: Maybe it’s just because it was Lincoln Park, Chicago.
RIBEIRO: Is there anyone in this scene that you work with or just fuck with that is worth shouting out?
JANE REMOVER: I feel like me and Underscores are going through very similar things right now.
RIBEIRO: Right.
JANE REMOVER: She’s going on her tour with Charli XCX, but I got to see her before she left and we caught up and everything. Whenever we hang out I feel like we really see each other. It’s cool to know that there is a sister me going out there. 
RIBEIRO: That actually brings up a really interesting point. There was a total pop; of people working in 2020 to 2023 in this musical space and now we’ve seen people really break into mainstream success like Underscores and you. Five years ago it was very much insider internet music and now that’s just shifted so radically.
JANE REMOVER: Well, five years ago, you couldn’t really go anywhere. You know what I mean? I didn’t really go to my first show until five years ago and it was at Baby’s All Right.
RIBEIRO: Shout-out.
JANE REMOVER: This shit was not big enough to be playing a room bigger than Baby’s All Right. So much of what has started on the internet has exploded into the mainstream. But it wasn’t always like that. I feel like this shit is limitless because people are craving for something new. And, for lack of a better term, it is a more left field approach to what is popular right now to the point where it is going to become the popular thing, I think.
RIBEIRO: 100%. We see these movies really hit right now like Obsession. It’s not a franchise, but it’s a new thing and it blows up. Then the studios in Hollywood are like, “Why the fuck doesn’t everyone want to see the 19th X-Men movie?” The times have changed, babe.
JANE REMOVER: What’s crazy is that now there is both a demand for Obsession and the 19th X-Men movie. It’s not that people are streaming music less. It’s just that people are streaming more different kinds of music. The average person is more tapped in than they were five years ago.
RIBEIRO: Is there anything that you’re looking forward to in the next few months or the rest of the year for the Jane Remover project?
JANE REMOVER: I’m not looking forward to finishing this tour, because, honestly, I’ve been having a great time. A lot of repeat venues which are very nostalgic in a way, not because I have headlined them before, but because I was playing a lot of these venues as an opener. It also gives me a little triumphant feeling. I’m excited for the festivals like, niteharts, III Points, Camp Flog Gnaw. I’m just excited to really get this album going.
RIBEIRO: Hell yeah.
JANE REMOVER: I’m in a place now where I’m so inspired, it’s going to flow like water.
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