Monday: 9/01
- MetLife Stadium: Oasis, Cage the Elephant
- Call me basic, but I love Oasis. I wish I had $250 to drop on a nosebleed seat at MetLife. I entered not one, but two, online sweepstakes to score a ticket. Unfortunately, luck was not on my side. You don’t have to face my grim reality. Buy a ticket off StubHub and live out my dreams.
- Rippers: Mary Shelley, Tea Eater, The Sheer Currents, Not Proud to Be
- There is no better place to spend Labor Day than the beach. Soak in the last seconds of summer at Ripper’s Labor Day Spectacular. Sea breeze, sweet Rockaway sun; this show is free, and I promise, it will be a good time.
Tuesday: 9/02
- Rough Trade: Listening Party with David Byrne
- David Byrne’s ninth studio album “Who is the Sky” drops September 5th. Describing each song as “a new adventure,” Byrne collaborated with the Ghost Train Orchestra to “bring out the emotion” of his “stockpiled” guitar loops and lyrics. Byrne is one of the most talented musicians out there, listening to Who is the Sky in his presence is a once in a lifetime opportunity (see what I did there…)
- Elsewhere (rooftop show): Ora Cogan, Tasha, Umer Piracha
- Ora Cogan’s psych-folk is mystical. It’s from the forest, someplace deeper and undefined, nurtured under heavy conifers. Listen to Cogan’s new EP Bury Me before the show.
Wednesday: 9/03
- Baby’s All Right: ivri, Scarlett Taylor
- Bedroom pop renaissance! Ivri’s digitized shoegaze feels intimate. Songs like tower of memories sound as if they were written on the floor, an interface and laptop plugged in on the carpet.
- Honey’s: Indie Rockers For A Better New York: Rallying for Zohran
- Run it back until election day. This week, Indie Rockers For A Better New York: Rallying for Zohran presents Christian Lee Hutson, Wild Pink (solo), and Diamond Grinder. I’ll be across the street on Scott Ave practicing at Pirate wishing I was at Honey’s (they have $4 beer).
Thursday: 9/04
- Night Club 101: Avery Tucker, Scarlet Rae
- If Avery Tucker’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he was one half of Girlpool. Since the band broke up in 2022, Tucker’s released a series of singles in anticipation of his debut album Paw, dropping October 10th. Tucker states his new LP is a collection of “the most emotionally raw songs I’ve ever written,” a step not too far from Girlpool’s lyricism.
Friday: 9/05
- The Windjammer: Zachshots, ideas for conversations, Varnish, Debris Bardot
- Shameless self promo… my band, Varnish, is playing a show with an awesome line up full of friends. Zachshots, ideas for conversations, Debris Bardot, all indie all the time….
- TV Eye: Lots of Hands, Deadharrie
- “I know if you looked for me, I’d look you in the eyes,” Lots of Hand’s song mistake, with its honest lyrics and overdriven toy keyboard remind me of early Car Seat Headrest. We all know that vulnerable feeling, searching eyes sweeping a room, looking to lock.
- Triest: More Drawings by Bar Italia
- Technically, not a live show. Bar Italia is showing drawings at Triest from 6-9pm on Friday. RSVP required.
Saturday: 9/06
- Night Club 101: Liam Benzi, Country Girl, Melody English
- Add Blood Orange’s new LP Essex Honey to your “to listen” list this week. Liam Benzi is featured on Countryside, a track brimming with Angelo Badalamenti- esque synths, a sonic indicator that something more is to come.
- The Warsaw: Have a Nice Life
- Have a Nice Life’s droning ambience and shadows of shoegaze nestled in the confines of “post punk” is gripping. The band’s released three albums since Deathconsciousness, but I hope they play every song off that LP on this leg of their tour.
- Knockdown Center: Snow Strippers, LAZER DIM 700, evilgiane + Eera, Cece Natalie, DJ Rennessy, 901 krueger, DJ Ess,Cranes
- It’s a dream… Snow Strippers is playing Knockdown. Throw on some micro shorts and become one with the bass.
Sunday: 9/07
- Music Hall of Williamsburg: Slow Crush, Faetooth, Flooding
- Bring earplugs to this show. Slow Crush is all about heavy distortion, with slowcore, post metal, and shoegaze influences; cathedrals and chasms of architectured noise.
- Radio City Music Hall: Mac DeMarco
- Mac DeMarco returns to his roots. DeMarco may have just turned 35, but the song’s on his new LP Guitar sound as if they were off Salad Days; sweet, simple, and yearning.
