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Swervedriver/Slow Fiction @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 8/29/26

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  Bill: Swervedriver/Slow Fiction/The Still Out Venue: Music Hall of Williamsburg , 66 N 6 St., Brooklyn, NY Date: Saturday 8/29/26 Ticket: $31 (resale via AXS, Door $40) 9:45pm Swervedriver: Raise at 35 Active: 1989 (Oxford, UK) Latest Release: Raise: Demos ( Outer Battery , out 10/3/26), " Flawed " (554874 Records, 2026),   Future Ruin s (Rock Action, 2019) Featured Release: Raise (A&M, 1991), Mezcal Head (A&M, 1993) Bandcamp Facebook I nstagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8:45 Slow Fiction Active: 2022 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Dollhouse (Tight Knit, 2026) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusi c  YouTube Spotify Missed: The Still Out Adam Franklin has been about in NYC seemingly at least a couple decades, so I was wondering what Swevedriver constituted for band members nowadays since I first saw them all the way back when Raise came out at T.T. The Bears in Cambridge .  The Raise debut was featured thi...
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Sun Voyager @ Lucky 13 Saloon, Brooklyn, NY 8/28/26

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  Bill: Sun Voyager/Borracho/Mean Green/Green Hog Venue: Lucky 13 Saloon, 644 Sackett , Brooklyn, NY  Date: Friday 8/28/26 Door: $20 11pm Sun Voyager Active: 2014 (New York, NY) Latest Release: " Coming Down " (Tee Pee, 2026), Sun Voyager (Ripple Music, 2022) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Riffipedia   YouTube Spotify Another succesful Tee Pee night out.  I got to Lucky 13 a little after 10 on the longest Uber share ever.  I did get a slow tour to an East NY hospital over to the Eastern Parkway t before co-passengers picked up after me we dropped off and I could head West to Gowanus, 3rd Ave and Lucky 13.  My early plan was to get there early and see all 4 bands but day turned into night and suddenly Kenny was the one getting there first and I got the car to avoid the hour plus B26 to the R train from home but it saved no time.    Once there, we couldn't pry ourselves away from the callipygian wonders parading up and d...
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Death Side/Guerra Final/Vaxine/Salvaje Punk @ Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY 8/25/26

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  Bill: Death Side/Guerra Final/Vaxine/Salvage Punk/Nisemono/Dead Sky Venue: Bowery Ballroom , 6 Delancey St. , New York, NY Date: Tuesday 8/25/26 Door: $40 (had a gifted ticket via Ticketmaster) 11:45pm Death Side Active: 1983 (Tokyo, Japan) Latest Release: Unreleased Tracks & Video Archives (Break The Records, 2021), Save The Live House Benefit (Break The Records, 2020) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic   MRR   YouTube Spotify 11pm Guerra Final Active: 2021 (Dallas, TX) Latest Release: Purgatorio (Desolate, 2024) Bandcamp    Discogs Setlist   MRR 10:15pm Vaxine Active: 2019 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: (with The Last Survivors) Split EP (General Speech, 2025), Frontal Lobotomy (Discos Enfermos/Toxic State, 2024) Bandcamp   Instagram Discogs Setlist Spotify 9:30pm Salvaje Punk Active: 2020 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Salvaje Punk (Toxic State, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discog s Setlist   MRR YouTube...
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Acid Bath @ The Rooftop at Pier 17, New York, NY 8/21/26

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 Bill: Acid Bath/Obituary Venue: The Rooftop at Pier 17 , 89 South St., Pier 17, New York, NY Date: Friday 8/21/26 Ticket: Free on List via DoNYC (face was $69.50 plus fees) 8pm Acid Bath Active: 1991 (Hourna, LA) Latest Release: Paegan Terrorism Tactics (Rotten Records, 1996) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist     AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify Missed: Obituary I had a group meetup at Seahorse near Pier 17 before the show, so we didn't make it out in time for Obitiuary who went on at 7.  We got in just as they were wrapping and the "Slowly We Rot" screen was out.  I've seen them a couple times since the start of this blog, so I'm sure they were good.  This is also the 4th time I've seen Acid Bath.  For a "special occasion" band, it seems like they are playing more and more and getting bigger and bigger.  The Rooftop at Pier 17 is a 3,500 capacity venue and I'd say it was about 80-90% full.  The weather cooperated, and the storm th...
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Mau Maus/Stepmother @ TV Eye, Queens, NY 8/18/26

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 Bill: Mau Maus/Stepmother/Vaxine/Disket/Scrapyard Venue: TV Eye , 16-17 Weirfield St. , Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: Tuesday 8/18/26 Door: $20 (on list) 10:45pm Mau Maus Active: 1978 (Sheffield, UK) Latest Release: The Battle Scars of Human Debris (Boss Tuneage, 2026) Bandcam p Facebook Instagram   Discogs Setlist AllMusic   John Peel Wiki YouTube Spotify 10:00pm Stepmother Active: 2022 (Melbourne, Australia) Affiliated: Witch, Lecherous Gaze, Annihilation Time, Rot TV Latest Release: Absurdus Manifestus (Tee Pee, 2026) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist    YouTube   Spotify Missed: Vaxine , Disket , Scrapyard I managed to sneak out of my night sales job to get to TV Eye in time for Graham Clise's latest Tee Pee band Stepmother.  Since I've been putting some hours in the Tee Pee office of late, I'm starting to see the long history of bands he's put out through the label, but somehow the new one went straight to the distribu...
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New York Guitar Festival: "The Misbehaving Guitar" featuring The Messthetics with Marc Ribot/Pierre Bensusan/Gyan Riley @ Bryant Park, New York, NY 8/15/26

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  Bill: " The Misbehaving Guitar " featuring The Messthetics with Marc Ribot/Pierre Bensusan/Gyan Riley Venue: Bryant Park , 41st St and 6th Ave. , New York, NY Date: Saturday 8/15/26 Door: Free 8:45 The Messthetics with Marc Ribot Active: Messthetics: 2016 (Washington, DC), Marc Ribot 1981 (New York, NY) Latest Release: (Messthetics)  Deface The Currency  (with James Brandon Lewis) (Impulse, 2026), Anthropcosmic Nest (Dischord, 2019)   Ribot: Map Of A Blue City (New West, 2025), Trifecta (with Ivo Perelman, Elliot Sharp and Joe Morris) (Makakala, 2026) Messthetics: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify Ribot: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusi c Wiki YouTube Spotify 7:45 Pierre Bensusan Active: 1975 (Château-Thierry, France via Oran, Algeria) Latest Release: Azwan (MVD-Audio, 2020) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 7pm Gyan Riley Ac...
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New York Guitar Festival: "A Carnival of Classical Guitar" featuring Raphaël Feuillâtre/Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque/Ziggy & Miles/Gabriele Leite @ Bryant Park, New York, NY 8/14/26

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  B ill:  New York Guitar Festival : "A Carnival of Classical Guitar" featuring Raphaël Feuillâtre/Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque/Ziggy & Miles/Gabriele Leite Venue: Bryant Park , 41st St. & 6th Ave. , New York, NY Date: Friday 8/14/26 Ticket: Free 8:45pm: Raphaël Feuillâtre Active: 2017 (Paris, France via Dijbouti) Latest Release: Bach-Festive Nocturnes (Deutche Grammophone, 2025), Spanish Serenades (Deutche Grammophone, 2025) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm  Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque Active: Haque: 1983 (Chicago, IL), Ivanovic: 2000 (Chicago via Croatia) Duo: 2003 Latest Release: Duo:   IndoBalkan (Delmark, 2020)  Haque: Return To The Joyous Lake (Wahdude, 2022) (with R. Wesley Carr) Adam Larrabee: The Haunted Hollow (R. Wesley Carr, 2025), Ivanovic: Far Away Feeling (Goran Ivanovic, 2026) Haque: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify Ivanovic: Band...
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