Upcoming events.

Sloppy Heads, tk, Little Black Egg
May
9

Sloppy Heads, tk, Little Black Egg

Sloppy Heads - shambling/pretty, structured/disintegrating

tK - (Phil Milstein, Heather Kapplow & Thalia Zedek) causes situations in which everyday aural experience is distended from its natural function. By applying arbitrary manipulations, new functions and contexts are undertaken. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is mutilated and all possible interpretations are quashed.

Little Black Egg (Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo)

Sponsored by Horniotos Tequila

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June Star + Emily Duff Band
May
11

June Star + Emily Duff Band

June Star aching vocals and plaintive folk arrangements, comes off like a Smog-era Bill Callahan if he had chosen to dive inward or The Jayhawks if they were more keen to stark emotional realism

Emily Duff Band small-batch Sweet & Sour Rock & Roll with a great big hit of Country Soul sews a patchwork of heaven, hell, romance and regret. Emily was born in NYC and raised by a pack of cigarettes. 

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Goodbye Mario + Gold
May
16

Goodbye Mario + Gold

Goodbye Mario - three-piece rock band from NYC melding together elements of indie rock, grunge and shoegaze, delivering lovely vocal harmonies layered over crunchy guitar parts, melodic bass lines, and driving drums that pay homage to the alt rock scene of the 90's.

Gold - is a driving bass and drums with three part harmony making soulful punk rock quartet.

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Weegee, Cartoon, The Whimbrels
May
18

Weegee, Cartoon, The Whimbrels

TomDash Double Nickels Birthday Bash! 

WEEGEE - Heavy, dark post-punk with serious Bad Seeds, Touch & Go art rocker vibes.  Sophisticated and metallic walls of guitar bring back that 80s Lower East Side noise rock sound, updated for the new era - a recent Dot Dash fave!

CARTOON - Philadelphia avant punk band with a new record out now on Human Headstone that is destined to be on many "best-of" lists of 2024. They combine the 70s kraut/psych vibes with 80s punk action to make a sound all their own - hugely honored to host

THE WHIMBRELS - Local minimalist, guitar driven art rock with members of Glenn Branca's guitar ensembles, Swans,  Savak and King Missle - serious pedigree with a serious sound - new record coming in '24

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HARD JOB, Felt, Space Tenants, Onward Debacle
May
19

HARD JOB, Felt, Space Tenants, Onward Debacle

HARDJOB - if Tall Dwarfs, PJ Harvey, R.E.M., Mission Of Burma, Dog Faced Hermans, Barbara Manning, the Feelies, & Kim Deal were all in the same support group monitored by Larry David, Mike Judge, and Bob Odenkirk with DJ sets by Kurt Cobain, spinning nothing but Michael Nesmith tunes.

Felt - Indie/Alt/Post-punk duo from Brooklyn

Space Tenants - a dynamic alt/indie/post-punk duo based out of Gowanus

Onward Debacle -

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Natica, Zanna Du, The Azures
May
23

Natica, Zanna Du, The Azures

Natica is for the people who walk their own paths. Born and raised in Queens, NY, NATICA channels the borough’s DIY-attitude to carve out her own path as a vocalist, songwriter, and podcaster. Born out of necessity as a third culture kid, she walks a path between her many worlds. It’s a path that’s somewhere between analog and digital, in front of and behind the camera, and inside the booth and behind the board. Her debut EP Awakening marks the start of her journey on this path, and hopes to inspire people to do the same in their lives.

Zanna Du NYC psychedelic rock band

The Azures four-piece psychedelic blues band from Central Jersey, influenced heavily by the Delta era of original southern rock as well as all the wild shit that went down in the 70's like The Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Please enjoy the music! Caio

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Life in a Blender, Psychic Lines, Rose Thomas Bannister
Jun
22

Life in a Blender, Psychic Lines, Rose Thomas Bannister

*Life in a Blender - singer and songwriter Don Ralph's blackly comic landscapes. The group has released albums ranging from screaming punk to orchestrated chamber pop

*Psychic Lines -

*Rose Thomas Bannister - (FKA Ember Schrag) is a singer and guitarist originally from western Nebraska. Hailed as "distinctive and free of affect or artifice" by the A.V. Club, her Great-Plains-gothic style "lands somewhere between Scout Niblett and Karen Dalton, writing about land and space and hope and despair" (Nightlight)

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Elly Kace, Aaron Edgecomb, Claire Dickson
Jul
3

Elly Kace, Aaron Edgecomb, Claire Dickson

*Elly Kace - loosened the grip on her acclaimed opera career during lockdown, taking an unconventional leap into composition and production. Enhancing her voice through dense layering and electronic effects, experimenting with synthesizers, drum machines and sound healing instruments, she began to build a sound that could seamlessly oscillate between classical and mainstream musical textures.

*Aaron Edgecomb - (he/they) is a composer, percussionist, and multi-disciplinary artist from Reno, NV, currently living in Brooklyn, NY whose work appears in such contexts as improvisational music, jazz, “new music”, noise, and song.

*Claire Dickson - is an experimental vocalist, composer, and sound artist based in Brooklyn. Her projects embrace a range of musical aesthetics and modes including songwriting, improvisation, ambient, text scores, electronic music, and mythmaking.  In 2022 she released Starland, an album inspired by a residency in the arctic. In 2024, she will release an album with myrtle, her ongoing collaboration with Camila Ortiz, as well as her debut solo album with New Amsterdam Records.

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Jul
6

Live Band Karaoke

Music: It's Pretty Alright!

Dave Ruder and a passel of NYC's mightiest musicians tackle a few dozen songs that they didn't write in a freewheelin and boisterous manner in the open air of 3rd Avenue.

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Jul
14

Bury Your Memories benefit for the Jed Foundation w 5 bands + 1 comedian

The Jed Foundation is a nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults, giving them the skills and support they need to thrive today…and tomorrow.

Cold Wrecks 615-7 emo pop-punk

Allie Lawrence (Comedy) 605-615

Latewaves - 515-6 emo

Beach Shoppe 430-5 emo

No Conditions - 345-415 pop punk

Ghost Tour 3-330 Queens NY sad songs ( aka emo)

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Dot Dash presents Jupiter Boys, Autopolitan, Sam Zalta
Apr
24

Dot Dash presents Jupiter Boys, Autopolitan, Sam Zalta

Jupiter Boys - co-ed indie, arty wave/punk with a wry sense of humor!

Autopolitan Infectious, angular, art-pop meets post-punk from Cleveland, OH. Vocal harmonies and catchy, tight riffs drive this exuberant group - features members of Cloud Nothings

Sam Zalta Local songwriter and member of Bambra brings his lush, moody, synth pop with a distinctive haunting approach. There is a mildy maudlin, baroque approach to his atmospheric new wave songs.

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Quattracenta, Rip Room, Bob Bert
Apr
21

Quattracenta, Rip Room, Bob Bert

Quattracenta Quattracenta is a three-piece art rock band from Baltimore, MD, who draw on post punk and no wave influences to create cathartic and meditative songs about mortality and longing. The trio of indie rock veterans is led by guitarist/vocalist Sarah Matas, bassist Christian Sturgis, and drummer Andrea Shearer. Their most recent record "II" was produced by J Robbins (Jawbox, Government Issue) and released by Bob Nastanovich's (Pavement, Silver Jews) Brokers Tip label.

Rip Room john + sarah + gracie = wound-up art punks

Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, Wolfmanhattan Project) solo drums

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Jounce + 12090ad
Apr
4

Jounce + 12090ad

Jounce - "Think Mother Love Bone, Pavement and Matthew Sweet…” -State of Mind magazine

12090ad - blends evocative instrumentals, nostalgic-pop sounds from the 1980’s, neon tinged aural aesthetics, post rock, and all the epic drama of the big screen.

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Different Birds
Mar
28

Different Birds

Different Birds: Peter Zummo (Tape Hiss, Arthur Russell) - trombone, Ernie Brooks (Tape Hiss, Arthur Russell, Modern Lovers) - bass, Mustafa Ahmed (Arthur Russell) - percussion and special guest Joy Schiff (International Anthem) - xylophone

Animal songs by:

Rin Tin Drum!

Rin Tin Can!

Rin Tin Foil!

Rin Tin Roof!

Using spoken (and processed) word, interruptions, with traditional, modified, and invented instruments. 

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Mar
24

Country Westerns + Prison

Country Westerns - “depressing songs with fun drums” FFO Dwight Twilley, Dead Moon, Wipers, The Saints, replacements, Green On Red

Prison - Paul Major (Endless Boogie), Sarim Al- Rawi (Liquor Store), Matt Leibowitz, Mike Donovan (Sic Alps), Matt Lilly, who knows who else will show up! Freedom is the goal for Rockaway Beach’s very own state of mind jam band. Everybody’s got their point of view and one slamming riff at a time unites all of them: five guys, four vocals, three guitars melded together outrageously in a craft that runs on it’s own rock and roll synergy, and lots of it.

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Dan Friel + John Bohannon w Animal Surrender (Peter Kerlin & Rob Smith)
Mar
11

Dan Friel + John Bohannon w Animal Surrender (Peter Kerlin & Rob Smith)

Dan Friel + J.R. Bohannon: Debut collaboration between synth/electronics experimentalist Dan Friel (Parts & Labor, Upper Wilds) and pedal steel/guitar wizard J.R. Bohannon

Animal, Surrender!: Peter Kerlin (Sunwatchers and Chris Forsyth & Solar Motel Band) and drummer Rob Smith(Grey/Smith, Rhyton, Pigeons, D. Charles Spear). Kerlin leads the duo through a set of bass-driven compositions and interpretations, incorporating spare electronics through a post-rock/weird-folk trance with intricate and sometimes blasted interplay between the rhythm section. The project’s title refers to the ambiguous creatureliness of the human animal: How in trying to kill the animal within we eradicated all wildness on the planet; How in our never-ending evasion of any discomfort we guaranteed the destruction of all that sustains us. It's about other things too, like falling outs among friends and how even if it's the end it's not the end. Their self-titled debut will be released on Ernest Jenning Records in May 2024.

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