Monday: 1/12
- Nightclub 101: Or Best Offer, Vangas, Gavin Sultan
- Good English Records starts their series at Nightclub 101 off with Or Best Offer, Vangas, and Gavin Sultan. Slowcore heads, you’ll love Crawl Up.
Tuesday: 1/13
- Baby’s All Right: Fashn, The Heaven, Sledding, Heaven Slight (DJ)
- Grab your toboggan, look down from the top of the hill, and get ready to sled. Sledding is playing their debut show at Baby’s All Right alongside a Nina protocol approved lineup. I’ll be at this one.
- King’s Theatre: Not For Radio
- Not For Radio is the solo project of María Zardoya of The Marías. Zardoya’s new debut album Melt creates a dreamlike space for somber melodies to settle. If you can’t make this show, Not For Radio is also playing King’s Theatre the 14th and 15th.
- Union Pool: Dark thoughts, Ballistix, Blue 100
- Dark Thoughts is on the slate for Union Pool’s next iteration of free Tuesday shows. Show up for some classic upbeat rock n’roll.
Wednesday: 1/14
- Purgatory: Sana Sana, Fraternal Twin, and Prophet II
- Evanescent, misty shoegaze: that’s what Sana Sana is all about. The band’s latest EP for tomorrow is hazy, drenched in reverb.
Thursday: 1/15
- Nightclub 101: Guyscrapers, Billy Plastered, Darlin’
- Get ready to rock. Guyscrapers’s music is only on bandcamp: true punks dedicate themselves to taking down the streaming service monopoly.
- Stone Circle Theater: Broom, Tiger Mafia, Twin Brother
- Broom defines themselves as a “street cleaning service,” as they play most of their sets in public spaces. Now, they’re bringing their everlasting ambient music to the Stone Circle Theater.
- Xanadu: Storm, Dazegxd, Eurohead, Frost Children (DJ), Grace Ives, King Krule (DJ), Kuru, Lucy Bedroque, Quiet Light (DJ)
- What’s cooler than a roller rink show? Slide on your skates, and lap around the rink to a stacked lineup.
Friday: 1/16
- Bar Freda: Cause and Control, Varnish, The Gelf
- Madison WI based band Cause and Control is stopping in NYC on their East Coast tour. My band is joining this bill, so I might be impartial, but Cause and Control is beyond talented. Make sure to listen to the band’s new single Waiting Game.
- Elsewhere Zone 1: Shower Curtain, smush, Paper Lady
- Indie Hourzzz presents a nugaze bill to yearn for. Shower Curtain hasn’t released any new music since words from the wishing well, and I hope something is coming soon in 2026.
- Irving Plaza: Cate Le Bon
- Michelangelo Dying, the new Cate Le Bon album, teems with heartbreak. It aches, it yearns, and though it sounds light, the music carries weight.
- Nightclub 101: Local Weatherman, Retail Drugs, K. Porcelain
- Check out Local Weatherman’s set of singles ahead of the release of Weighing before their show at Nightclub 101. If you’re into 2000s alt rock, you’ll like what Local Weatherman has to offer.
Saturday: 1/17
- Gold Soundz: Porcelain, Velvet, Misuser, Holiem
- Porcelain understands the 90s grunge ethos. This one is for fans of Unwound and Fugazi. Before the show, listen to World I Know.
- Market Hotel: I Promised The World, skycamefalling, Rosasharian, Cash Only Tony’s
- Last time I saw I Promised The World at Market Hotel, I was pressed up against the back wall in fear of being swept up in the ever expanding, contracting mosh pit. The show was unforgettable. These guys are awesome.
- Warsaw: shame
- I’m not going to lie, shame lost me. Songs of Praise was a perfect album, and the rest of the band’s discography can’t resemble what that album was. To me, shame’s new album Cutthroat feels like a rip off of Blur, even down to the album art. Enough rambling, go to this show and hope shame plays Dust on Trial.
- Wonderville: A Benefit for Violette Grim
- Celebrate the 29th birthday of Pop Music Fever Dream’s own Tim Seemburger and raise money for the band’s drummer Violette Grim’s post-surgery living costs. This bill features both Laveda and Caitlin Starr.
Sunday: 1/18
- Le Poisson Rogue: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth stands the test of time. It breeds hope. “I will try on New York City/ Explaining that the sky holds the wind/ the sun rushes in”