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Live Show Round Up 9/14 – 9/20

Mon. 9/14

  • Barclays Center: Charli xcx, underscores 
    • Brat is over, rock is in. The Music, Fashion, Film tour is coming to New York and to quote “Rock Music,” “the dance floor is dead.” Instead, Charli wants you to head bang all night. 
  • Bowery Ballroom: Cardinals, Sex Week
    • Not every Irish band needs to fall in Fontaine’s D.C. ‘s shadow. The Cardinals have carved out their own lane of rock music imbued with their Irish heritage; complete with an accordion and post punk riffs. Give the band’s new album Masquerade a listen before the show. 
  • Elsewhere Rooftop: Locust, queenie
    • Locust, the project of British electronic music artist Mark Van Hoen, brings the ’90s into the nouveau with his new album Spectral+. The droning, atmospheric track “Long Distance Lover” features Slowdive’s Neil Halstead on guitar, while Van Hoen pulls out his collection of ’90s synthesizers to build the driving hip-hop beat of “Soul Sky.” Set inside a synthesizer and cast in silhouettes, Spectral+ gives dimension to ambience.

Tues. 9/15:

  • Elsewhere: Melt-Banana, Anarchy 99 DJs, Jackson-Pratt
    • To fit in with the cool kids I listened to Melt-Banana in college. Thank god I did, because it exposed me to the extreme noise punk that is Fetch. Bring earplugs to this one. 
  • Warsaw: Kim Gordon, voyeur 
    • Kim Gordon is one of my idols. The Sonic Youth’s co-founder’s third solo album Play Me dissects internet culture, technological absurdity, and fascism at face value through digitized rap beats and spoken word. Gordon is playing two nights at Warsaw: be prepared to enter Gordon’s digital delirium. 
  • Central Park Summer Stage: Danny Elfman 
    • I hope that Danny Elfman has a full orchestra playing at his Central Park Summer Stage performance. The former lead singer of Oingo Boingo turned composer has written scores for hundreds of feature films, my favorite being Edward Scissorhands. “Introduction (Titles)” hits different. 
  • Town Hall: Grouper
    • In a 2008 interview with Portland Mercury, Liz Harris stated “I felt like the music was at its barest just a grouping of sounds, and I was just the grouper.” A master curator, Grouper is playing two nights at Town Hall. Take the opportunity to have Liz Harris draw you into her melancholic, lullaby laden universe.  
  • TBD: youbet, Hiding Places
    • For Satellite Live’s debut session, the live music series is bringing youbet and Hiding Places for a free in-the-round performance. youbet, the bedroom pop duo of Nick Llobet and Micah Prussack’s, new self titled album showcases a confident and experimental indie pop sound. Fuzzy and dreamy, this show is for fans of This is Lorelei and feeble little horse. 

Weds. 9/16 

  • Nightclub 101: B0YG1RL (live), The Femcels (DJ), Technopagan, DJ listen to your heart
    • NYFW is coming to a close, and to celebrate its finale head to the Shame x Ben Doctor Fashion Week Party at Nightclub 101. B0YG1RL will be playing a live set and The Femcels will be DJing all night. 
  • Racket: Way Dynamic
    • Way Dynamic, the indie folk project of Melbourne based artist Dylan Young, is inspired by classic 70s singer songwriters like Nick Drake and Tim Buckley. Young’s album Massive Shoe is like a warm embrace on a chilly morning, sun streaming through the window. 
  • Elsewhere: Tiffany Day, Tommy Fleece
    • Tiffany Day is my hyperpop princess <3. Day’s album HALO brings the party: if you want more dancing Day is hosting the BassFluff afterparty at SILO. 
  • Forest Hills Stadium: The Hayley Williams Show, Magdalena Bay, RICO NASTY
    • No more Paramore, it’s “The Hayley Williams Show.” Expect only solo material, with an emphasis on Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, during Hayley Williams’s two day run at Forest Hills Stadium. 
  • Baby’s All Right: Alex Cameron 
    • Alex Cameron is playing Baby’s again this week. His new album Late to Set shifts perspectives, its songwriting painting vignettes of lost souls and washed up losers. But, “Red Hook Rain” is Late to Set’s silver lining: “You and me we had a storm to chase/ Dancin’ round each other like a hurricane/ I still hear that Red Hook Rain can you hear it too?” 
  • Trans Pecos: Truck Violence
    • Montreal band Truck Violence blends post-hardcore, sludge metal, noise rock, and Appalachian folk effortlessly in their new album The weathervane is my body. Rejecting genre? That’s punk. 

Thurs. 9/17 

  • Elsewhere: The Femcels, ideasforconversations
    • Are you the Indiest Girl at School? If you are, then you’ll be at this show. The duo’s debut LP I Have To Get Hotter was produced by Bassvictim’s Ike Clayton, a close friend of duo Rowan Please (Worldpeace DMT) and stylist Gabriella Turton. These two are bringing London cool to NYC.

Fri. 9/18 

  • 100 E Broadway 2nd Floor: kuru, Helen Sun, Push Ups, Cranes, Chinapoet, Dollmaker, Chinglish, Lan
    • The Ginseng Museum and 3rd Space present…“Life is nothing more than eating, drinking, and listening to music” with performances by kuru, Helen Sun, Push Ups, Cranes, Chinapoet, Dollmaker, Chinglish, Lan, and a very special surprise guest. Come hungry because dim sum will be served.
  • Forest Hills Stadium: Erykah Badu, De La Soul, The Alchemist
    • Erykah Badu and producer The Alchemist teamed up to release Before The World Blows, Badu’s first full-length project in eleven years. The neosoul album’s end all be all sound attitude sounds light and breezy, but the lyrics… they’re deep. 
  • Sony Hall: Luna, Lael Neale
    • Luna, the project of singer and guitarist Dean Wareham after the fall out of Galaxie 500, have been releasing live tapes on their bandcamp. If you can’t make the show, why not listen to Rendezvous (live)?

Sat. 9/19 

  • Brooklyn Paramount: Nation of Language, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Anika 
    • I used to think Nation of Language were New Order wanna-be’s, but their latest album Dance Called Memory steps away from 80’s revival. Also, shout out to the band for getting Anika on the bill; “He Hit Me” is one of my favorite songs. 
  • Lena Horne Bandshell: Liz Phair, Sleater-Kinney
    • Liz Phair and Sleater – Kinney defined late 90s indie rock. Now, the two bands are on their “The Flannel and the Fury” tour. Everyone in this crowd will probably be forty five and up, but I would go to hear Exile in Guyville live. 
  • First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn: Cold Cave, Rosa Anschütz
    • For the first time, Cold Cave is performing Cremations in its entirety at the First Unitarian Congregation Society. I saw the dark wave band once in college and it was spiritual; seeing the band play at a church will unlock a new level of divinity. 
  • Under the K Bridge: Tove Lo, COBRAH, Mallrat
    • Tove Lo’s new album ESTRUS drops this Friday. Based on the released singles, this LP is no Queen Of The Clouds. I don’t think any of her new work will ever top “Habits (Stay High).”

Sun. 9/20