Monday: 10/27
- Webster Hall: Indigo de Souza, Mothé
- Sophomore year of college, my friend and I rented a zipcar and roadtripped to New Jersey to see Indigo de Souza play at the Stone Pony. A lot has changed since then, including de Souza’s sound. Precipice, released in July, is a hi-fi pop album. I’ll be honest, I like her old work better…
Tuesday: 10/28
- Union Pool: Jordan Patterson, Superfan
- Jordan Patterson’s new album The Hermit dropped in mid September. Though folksy guitars and raw vocals are telltale descriptors of your average indie folk project, trust me, Jordan Patterson is doing something special.
- Elsewhere: ERASERHEAD XIU XIU, Che Chen
- Before you, Eraserhead is projected on the screen. No, that is not Alan Spelt and David Lynch’s soundtrack you are hearing. What you are listening to is Xiu Xiu’s own Eraserhead score. Using field recordings, homemade instruments, modular synths, flashlights, electrical interference and elements of musique concrete to accompany Eraserhead, Xiu Xiu brings his “epitaph to an idol” to Elsewhere.
Wednesday: 10/29
- Cafe Carlyle: St. Vincent
- From Tuesday to Thursday, St. Vincent is playing at Café Carlyle. Embrace the swank, and see St. Vincent unplugged in an intimate, classy space.
Thursday: 10/30
- TV EYE: UNIVERSITY, Retail Drugs, bloodsports, Perfect 100
- Retail Drugs’s new single Anti-Lonely, released in anticipation of Factory Reset, shifts and morphs. One second you’re listening to distorted samples, the next you’re in the throws of a hyper-digital post punk anthem. This is a track for the present ear.
- Elsewhere: Winter, Hooky
- Listening to Adult Romantix calls up sun drenched memories: high school crushes, notes taped to the door, reaching out for a hand to hold. Innocent nativity is always with you, even when you’re 23. Adult Romantix is my reminder.
- Brooklyn Steel: Purity Ring
- Purity’s Ring’s new self-titled LP is a concept album; a soundtrack created for an imagined RPG. I know nothing about video games, but if I had my own video game soundtrack, it’d probably be Snow Strippers.
Friday: 10/31
- Nightclub 101: Deeper, Wiring, S.3.R
- Dig. Go deeper. There is more to Deeper’s discography than Auto- Pain.
- Knockdown Center: NY Night Train 20th Annual Halloween Haunted Hop
- With performances by ESG, Gustaf, Sun Ra Arkestra, Martin Rev, and a host of other bands, Knockdown’s Haunted Hop guarantees “hours of nonstop chills & thrills.” Wear your best costume.
- Elsewhere: Loukeman, Somewhere Special, Kassie Krut, voyeur, Chanel Beads, deer park
- Kassie Krut? Deer Park? Chanel Beads?! On Halloween? Elsewhere knows what the cool kids want.
Saturday: 11/01
- National Sawdust: Dan English, Superfan, Brittle Brian
- National Sawdust writes that Dan English’s latest LP Sky Record “is less an album, more a weather system.” Listening to the record, I hear vast fields and open skies; sharp rays of sunlight and piercing blue hues.
- Nightclub 101: Ken Park, Zachshots, Dovetail
- If you haven’t heard of Ken Park yet, check out his two singles Maybe Delete and Shatter. Everything Park sets his hands on becomes drenched in reverb.
- Elsewhere: Beach Fossils, Being Dead, Smut, Scarlet Rae
- 10 years of Bayonet Records! Celebrate the anniversary with some of Bayonet’s best artists: Beach Fossils, Being Dead, Smut, and Scarlet Rae.
Sunday: 11/02
- Cassette: Heaven Slight, poc, Varnish
- I don’t just write, I play too. My band, Varnish, is playing alongside Heaven Slight and poc at Cassette. It will be legendary.
- Lincoln Center: John Cale’s Steam on Glass / Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko
- As part of the Unsound Festival’s programming, John Cale is presenting Steam on Glass – a performance in which the well-renowned artist will explore noise, improv, experimentation via his connection to NYC. The press release writes that Cale will “showcase his vast repertoire,” of songs. Does this mean he’ll play some Velvet Underground? Let’s hope.