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Live Show Update 10/19 – 10/25

Mon. 10/19 

  • Nightclub 101: Sleeper, Daisy’s Room, Celebrity Wife Swap
    • It’s rocknite babybeeeeee. This week on the rocknite bill are a group of bands dedicated to no frills guitar music. Daisy’s Room surfy and sweet indie rock, Celebrity Wife Swap’s atypical post-rock… show out to this gig. 

Tues. 10/20 

  • Baby’s All Right: Worldpeace DMT, Dyltwosix
    • Worldpeace DMT’s new album Stick Around For Tea could be the soundtrack for a twee musical with an absurdist plot and a cast of young adult actors. You could say that Stick Around For Tea is a post-ironic take on a Beatles album, written for the few of us who aren’t jaded. It’s unbelievably awesome. Tickets are sold out for this show, but Worldpeace DMT is also playing Baby’s Wednesday night. 
  • Pianos: Claud 
    • Claud’s third album Me and the Music drops Friday, but you have the chance to hear the album in full and celebrate its release a few days early at Piano’s! Expect music, gay witchcraft, fortunes, and spells. Entry is first come first serve, RSVP is required. 

Weds. 10/21 

  • Knockdown Center: Animal Collective, Eric Copeland 
    • To mark the 20th anniversary of Feels, Animal Collective is playing together for the first time in four years. Two nights at Knockdown Center: one iconic band, one memorable night of freak folk. 
  • Music Hall of Williamsburg: Built to Spill, Quasi, Melanie Radford 
    • Built to Spill are playing two nights at Music Hall of Williamsburg (also Thursday) as part of their fall tour. I haven’t listened to the band’s most recent album When The Wind Forgets Your Name, but be assured that Built to Spill will 100% play all the classics. I’m not knockinnggggggg…. you want to carry that home. 
  • Union Pool: Swapmeet, Baby Wave 
    • Australian alt-rock band Swapmeet sold out their show at Baby’s All Right on Thursday, but lucky for us, they’ve added a second date at Union Pool. The band’s debut album Mount Zero is a must listen. Lush guitars and fuzzy distortion capture the cognitive dissonance of being twenty something; the unrelenting feeling of naive hopefulness grating against reality. This gig is for fans of feeble little horse, Slow Pulp, and villagerrr. 

Thurs. 10/22

  • Brooklyn Paramount: Beck
    • Beck’s new album Ride Lonesome is melancholic asf. A blend of folk and lowkey psychedelic coastal rock, listen to this album when you are staring out a window and contemplating every decision you’ve made in your life. Beck’s on the road, all alone. 
  • Terminal 5: The Avalanches, Erick the Architect, Jessy Lanza (DJ Set)
    • The Avalanches’ latest album No Bad Memories is beautiful organized chaos. Mixing thousands of samples and featuring artists like Suzanne Ciani, Karen O, Panda Bear, Jamie xx, Barry Can’t Swim, and more, No Bad Memories will make your head spin. It takes you from the party, to the smoking area, to the afters. 
  • TV EYE: Asher White, Nara’s Room, Retail Drugs

Fri. 10/23 

Sat. 10/24 

  • The Broadway: Radiator Hospital, DUSK, Christopher Emond
    • Like many indieheads back in 2014, I was introduced to Radiator Hospital through Girlpool’s cover of his song “Cut Your Bangs.”  Sam Cook-Parrott’s indie rock project is expansive, and he recently put out his sixth album Distorting Time. Warm and lo-fi, to me Distorting Time feels nostalgic, it takes me back to the bus stop days. 
  • Elsewhere: Be Your Own Pet, Farmer’s Wife, Josephine Network
    • Be Your Own Pet, the Nashville based punk/garage band, reunited in 2023 after a fourteen year hiatus by request of, you guessed it, Jack Black. The band’s new album Mommy picks up right where Be Your Own Pet left off. It rocks.
  • Knockdown Center: L7, VIAL 
    • As I’m writing this, I put on L7’s 90’s hit “Pretend We’re Dead” and my sister perked up from the couch to say that she loves this song. L7, an iconic girl punk and grunge band is back on tour, following the release of their new single “Loma Linda.” Go to this show and channel your inner riotgrrrl. 
  • Music Hall of Williamsburg: Mac DeMarco 
    • While performing his new album The View from Tian Tian at the Hollywood Bowl last week, Nathan Fielder joined Mac Demarco on stage to play guitar. Will Nathan show up for the NYC show? Let’s hope.

Sun. 10/25

  • TV EYE: Flooding, bloodsports, Aeiou
    • Flooding + bloodsports + Aeiou… what more can one ask for? I love Flooding: the band’s self titled album and blend of slowcore, noise rock, and post-hardcore speaks to me on so many levels. object 1 is also a phenomenal EP. Tap in. 
  • The Broadway: Wiring, Fib, Papy Lady, nat shaheen
    • Wiring’s music is angular, verging on mathy, with an indie rock sentiment. In an interview, the band’s members said their album Like a Porcelain Lamb was written to be “playlistable.” That made me sad. We may have lost another band to the algorithm.