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Drink The Sea @ Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY 2/20/26

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  Bill: Drink The Sea Venue: Le Poisson Rouge , 158 Bleecker St. , New York, NY Date: Friday 2/20/26 Door: Sold Out ($55 table advance ticket) 8pm Drink The Sea Active: 2022 (Olympia, WA to Sao Paolo, Brazil to Santiago, Chile to...) Affiliated: Peter Buck (REM), Alain Johannes (Eleven, Queens of the Stone Age), Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Skin Yard, Tuatara),  Duke Garwood (Mark Lanegan Band), Lisette Garcia (Barrett Martin Group), Abbey Blackwell (La Luz, Alvvays, Dean Johnson) Latest Release: I & II (Sunyata, 2025) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic   YouTube Spotify This was the first taste I got of the new "supergroup" Drink The Sea.  This is a players band where you can focus your attention on anyone on stage and zone in on what they are doing at any given time.  Sure there are nods to the elephants in the room: " The One I Love " was the lone REM played and don't know the Mad Season or QOTSA records enough to recognize ...
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Margo Price/Pearl Charles @ Webster Hall, New York, NY 2/19/26

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  Bill: Margo Price/Pearl Charles Venue: Webster Hall , 125 E 11 St ., New York, NY Date: Thursday 2/19/26 Tickets: $46 (advance via Tickpick) 9pm Margo Price Active: 2013 (Nashville, TN) Latest Release: Hard Headed Woman (Lorna Vista, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discog s Setlist   AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Pearl Charles Active: 2012 (Los Angeles, CA) Latest Release: Desert Queen (Taurus Rising, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Spotify I went to check out Margo Price at the behest of a friend from Tennessee that saw her stand out on a Lincoln Center tribute bill and wanted to see more.  Then another friend coming to town said he was drinking with the bass player in Memphis.   Stars align!  I'm glad she asked me to go with her because this discovery of a "new" (more than 10 year veteran) artist was for me the best new "alt-country" I've heard in quite some time.  Well new to me and I'm glad I c...
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Gnarcissists/Torture and the Desert Spiders @ TV Eye, Queens, NY 2/11/26

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  Bill: Gnarcissists/Torture and the Desert Spiders/Licks/Opera Venue: TV Eye , 16-47 Weirfield St ., Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: Wednesday 2/11/26 Door: $12 11pm Gnarcissists Active: 2017 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Gnarcissists (BLISS, 2025) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs Setlist    YouTube   Spotify 10pm Torture and the Desert Spiders Active: 2019 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: " Working On Myself " (M O O N Umlaut, 2025), " Blood On The Reef " (Torture and the Desert Spiders, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist   Wix   YouTube Spotify Missed: Licks , Opera Had a jam packed night last night first checking out comedian Dave Hill at the Bell House in Gowanus, where I hadn't been to in a while.   It seems like they are exclusively a comedy venue now complete with insanely uncomfortable metal folding chairs.  Mine was bent and creaking to make me think it was on the verge of collapse in a sold out space.  I ...
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Towncryer/Stephanie M. Hall @ Cowgirl Seahorse, New York, NY 2/10/26

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  Bill: Towncryer/Stephanie M. Hall Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse , 259 Front St. , New York, NY Date: Taco Tuesday 2/10/26 Door: Free 8:15 Towncryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Active: 2021 (Brooklyn, NY) Facebook 7:30 Stephanie M. Hall Active: 2024? (New York, NY via Memphis, TN) Affiliated: Stephanie Marie and the Double Knit Players Instagram   YouTube Towncryer continued their run of gigs at Seahorse.  Rich Meyer liked opener Stephanie M. Hall's band quite a bit.  I'm assuming that is Stephanie Marie and the Double Knit players.  She started the night solo acoustic with original material.  The one she said was her favorite to play was the one I took a clip of.  She closed with "Steel & Glass" by John Lennon from Walls and Bridges. The Cryer did their usual two sets of their mainstays of..what did Kenny call it?  Melodies, Rockers, Blues and I thought there was a 4th cover category they rotate.  Pe...
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The Tubs/Low Healer @ Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY 2/3/26

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  Bill: The Tubs/Low Healer Venue: Union Pool , 484 Union Ave. , Brooklyn, NY Date: Tues 2/3/26 Door: Free 9pm The Tubs Active: 2018 (London, UK via Cardiff, Wales) Affiliated: Joanna Gruesome Latest Release: Cotton Crown (Trouble In Mind, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Low Healer Active: Active: 2025 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Hold Music (Low Healer, 2025) Bandcamp   Instagram Setlist   YouTube Spotify I heard a few tracks by The Cadiff (or I guess London now sez Bandcamp) band The Tubs.  They have two vocalist and one of them sounds like a speedy Nick Saloman.  Other people have compared Owen William's voice to Richard Thompson and I thought that too, but the guitar liscks sound like poppier Bevis Frond songs.  That didn't really transfer as well live, I feel this is a band I prefer their recordings.  It might be a style thing where I'd rather hear it than see it.  I'm streaming ...
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The F. U.'s/Bowhead/DIYing Breed/Boiling Point @ Bar Freda, Queens, NY 1/23/26

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  Bill: The F. U.'s/Bowhead/DIYing Breed/Boiling Point Venue: Bar Freda , 8-01 Seneca Ave. Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: 1/23/26 Door: $18 11pm The F.U.s Active: 1982 (Boston, MA) Affiliated: Straw Dogs Latest Release: Death Squad Nostalgia (The F.U.'s, 2022) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 10pm Bowhead Active: 2019 (New York, NY) Latest Release: The Mutiny (Bowhead, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram   9pm DIYing Breed Active: 2016 (New York, NY) Latest Release: " Alex " (DIYing Breed, 2019) Bandcamp   Facebook 8pm Boiling Point Active: 2024 (North NJ) Boston's long running hardcore band The F.U.'s came down to NYC.  Their original bass player Wayne Maestri passed last week.  He was in the band during the peak early 80's years as well as when they became the Straw Dogs later in the 80's.  John Sox was singing the hits of yore like "Young Fast Iranians," "Daisy Chain" and of course ...
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The Lemonheads @ Lucinda's, New York, NY 1/21/26

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Bill: The Lemonheads Venue: Lucinda's , 169 Ave A , New York, NY Date: 1/21/26 Door: Free 7pm The Lemonheads Active: 1986 (Boston, MA) Latest Release: Love Chant  (Fire, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify In recent decades The Lemonheads would be something I'd blow off, but they/Evan Dando were doing a free acoustic gigs at Lucinda Williams new bar, so I figured what the hell, I didn't see Lucinda herself playing there a few days ago, so maybe I'd check it out. I knew it was a dice roll since Ticketweb gave out free advance tickets that weren't tickets at all, just something for the club to gauge how many people were coming.   "RSVP" in NYC parlance.   I think it was a little too much to do it this way because the overage wasn't "that" much.  Better to just cram people in, tell them it is sold out and let the bar sell drinks than making people stand a hour, let people in in dribs and drabs ...
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