Since their 1981 inception, British band Chameleons have always been up against fate. After a seminal 1980s era that yielded exceptional music of shadowy majesty that helped shape the iconic post-punk landscape, they folded before they could reap proper credit or reward. Since then, Chameleons have sputtered through cycles of resurrection and dissolution. Even against those star-crossed odds, their legacy endures.

Chameleons’ latest current rise, going since 2021, just last year culminated in their first studio album in nearly a quarter-century. Now the pioneering survivors come to Orlando, where we know our alternative music history well, on the miraculous and unlikely tailwind of the critically hailed Arctic Moon LP as part of a North American tour.

Come see these living post-punk gods and give them their rightful due in person. Opening will be excellent North Carolina soul-gaze band The Veldt.

6 p.m. Friday, April 24, The Social, foundation-presents.com, $30.

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