Monday August 18th:
- Gold Sounds: What Counts, Self Interest, The Tarrys, Comeuppance
- Cut a sour Monday with hardcore: Bored Friends x Barely Cultured presents a stacked line up with What Counts, Self Interest, The Tarrys, Comeuppance, and Who Remembers. Head to Gold Sounds and hear some Indiana and Ohio straightedge, plus CTHC.
Tuesday August 19th:
- Night Club 101: Case Oats, Isaac Stalling
- Case Oats’s debut album Last Missouri Exit is set to release on Merge Records August 22nd. If the title of the LP is any indicator, Case Oat’s music is sweet, twangy americana. But, do not be fooled, the band is actually from Chicago.
- Hart Bar: Debris Bardot, Copies, Little Chair, Reading
- Incinerate this industry! Debris Bardot’s new EP All it Takes For Evil Prosper dropped a few days ago, and this band just gets it. You know? Hear their new songs live at Hart Bar.
Wednesday August 20th:
- Union Pool: Bloomsday, Why Bonnie
- In my sophomore year of college, I was obsessed with Why Bonnie’s song 90 in November; it’s the perfect distillation of indie folk-pop. Now, with a second album and EP under her belt, Why Bonnie is playing Union Pool with Bloomsday. Prepare to sway accordingly.
Thursday August 21st:
- Night Club 101: Heaven Slight, Memory Card, Tal Castle
- Heaven Slight’s new single Hear you, boy floats, it’s effervescent. This show is for fans of Chanel Beads, and more generally, the nina protocol-verse. Someone needs to coin a descriptor for the digital parallel to cloud rock.
- Baby’s All Right: Omni, Grumpy
- A lot has changed since Omni’s hit single Wire dropped in 2016. Do not fret, despite the passage of almost a decade, Omni preserved their classic post-punk feel. Their new single Forever Beginner is of the 2010s indie essentials sound.
- Elsewhere: Midrift, February, I Promised the World, All Under Heaven
- Don’t just stand there, at least be human. It’s a requisite to move at this show. I saw I Promised the World (formerly sinema) a few months ago and it’s difficult to find a few words to describe the chaotic, community driven energy present; stage diving, a mosh pit encroaching on the venue’s walls. Jogging down Market Hotel’s steep staircase, drenched in sweat into the pouring rain. I never felt more alive. It’s not all about I Promised the World though, February’s I’d Rather Burn Than Fall is one of my favorite songs right now.
Friday August 22nd:
- Footlight Presents at the Windjammer: Blue Mena, Otobo, Next 2 Jimmy, Laughing Stock
- Mena Sachdev of Blue Mena found influence in Arthur Russell and the Cocteau Twins for their solo dream pop project. The music holds hues: “Deep blue/Crashing,” Sachdev sings in Indigo. Their work is coated in a muted, melancholy, color palette.
Saturday August 23rd:
- Stone Circle Theatre: Yeah Baby, Truman Flyer, Amiture Music
- Yeahh babyyyy!! Shoegaze in a church. Nothing holier.
Sunday August 24th:
- Union Pool: Zohran Mamdani Benefit: Lowertown, Venus Twins, Lexie, and Kolb
- NYC’s mayoral election is coming up and musicians are rallying for Zohran! All proceeds will be split between New Yorkers for Lower Costs (the official Zohran Mamdani support PAC), NYC Migrant Solidarity, and the Sameer Project. The show will also include voting registration and volunteering sign up opportunities.
- Stone Circle Theater: Christopher Emond with People I Love, Zachary Paul, Ideas for Conversations
- Christopher Emond’s new album Music from Clocks comes out August 22 via Orange Label Records. If you aren’t familiar with Chris’s music yet, check out his cover of The Virgin Loses Again by The Glands. The show will not be short of violins.
