NYC Show Obsessive

 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...

 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...

  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...

  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...

  Bill: The Fleshtones/The Minus 5/GOONS! Venue: Bowery Ballroom , 6 Delancey St ., New York, NY Date: Friday 8/7/26 Ticket: $21 (via Tickpick, $40 door) 10pm Fleshtones Active: 1976 (Queens, NY) Latest Release: "Float Your Showboat" b/w "Hear Today" (Yep Rock, 2026) It's Getting Late...(and More Songs About Werewolves) (Yep Rock, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook   Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 9pm The Minus 5 Active: 1993 (Portland, OR) Latest Release: Oar On, Penelope (Yep Rock, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify Missed: GOONS! The holy triumverate of modern garage rock had it's two remaining founding lights on stage last night: Lenny Kaye the archivist and Peter Zaremba of the Fleshtones who put their stake in the frat rock revival.   Jeff "Monoman" Connely who passed last week was the third and the Fleshtones payed tribute covering "How Do You Know?" at the start of th...

 Bill: Toody Cole and Her Band/Mopar Stars Venue: Union Pool , 484 Union Ave. , Brooklyn, NY Date: Sunday 8/2/2O6 Door: Free 4pm Toody Cole andi Her Band Active: 2023 (Portland, OR) Affiliated: Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows Latest Release: Burning Effigy-Live At The Tote (Disgraced Clergy, 2025), "Caroline" (Doomtown Sounds, 2025) Instagram   Discogs   Setlist   AllMusic   Wiki   YouTube   Spotify 3pm Mopar Stars Active: 2023 (Philadelphia, PA) Latest Release: Official Researchers of the NJ Devil (K/Perennial, 2026) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic    Youtube Spotify Union Pool's now annual Summer Thunder free Sunday matinee concert series had their show of the year with Toody Cole's new band.  Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows were garage rock mainstays and at 77 Toody has become a front woman of gravitas by default.  There really is nobody out there like her.  Timeless and eternal.   With Monoman...