NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: Gogol Bordello ( Eugene Hütz  & Sergey Ryabtsev/Q&A with Eugene, Sergey and the films editors and directors/Film: Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (2023) Venue: Gramercy Theatre , New York, NY Date: 11/21/24 Door: $35 10pm: Gogol Bordello (Eugene Hutz & Sergey Ryabsev acoustic) Active: 1999 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Solidaritine (Cooking Vinyl, 2022) Bandcamp Facebook   Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Wiki 9:40 pm Q&A with  Eugene Hütz , Sergey Ryabsev , Nate Pommer , Eric Weinrib & Beverly Chase 8pm Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story Time flies.  Watching Scream of My Blood for the first time in the year it has been out sure put an explanation point on that. Eugene managed to make a small theatre tour with the film, its directors, producers and the two longest running band members of Gogol Bordello.  People come and go in a blip in this movie and it's odd for me to have actual concentrat...

 Bill: Slowdive/quannic Venue: Brooklyn Paramount , Brooklyn, NY Date: 11/19/24 Door: unsure had a +1 comp ticket 9:15pm Slowdive Active: 1989 (Reading, UK) Latest Release: Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Wiki Missed: quannic Slowdive are one of those bands with a resurging popularity among a young audience for no discernable reason .  Sure it happens all the time.  Revisionist history of music with later generations spiking draw we have seen from Kiss to Slint to Sleep to friggin Avril Lavigne.  Sometimes it is because of television advertising or reunion, however in Slowdive's case it is the use of social media for soundtracks with an effect like advertising on Tiktok. Slowdive I always thought were a bit third tier shoegaze.  I bought Call It A Day in it's day and pretty much ignored the band until I won tickets to see their reformation in 2017.  My friend Danny had won a pair a...

 Bill: Coco Montoya/Ronnie Baker Brooks Venue: Iridium , New York, NY Date: 11/16/24 Door: unsure had a +1 9:40pm  Coco Montoya Active: 1977 (Santa Monica, CA) Affiliations: Albert Collins (1977), John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (1984-1993) Latest Release: Writing On The Wall (Alligator, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Discogs AllMusic Setlist YouTube Wiki 8:30pm Ronnie Baker Brooks Active: 1986 (Chicago, IL) Affiliations: Lonnie Brooks (1986-2017) Latest Release: Blues In My DNA (Alligator, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist YouTube Wiki The veteran pair of Alligator recordings artists made their way to Iridium on a Saturday night.  My friend Kenny had some history seeing both of these guys years ago--close to 40 for Coco Montoya.  Montoya started as a drummer for Albert Collins in the 70's then became a guitarist in the 80's for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.  His solo debut came in 1994.  Ronnie Baker Brooks started as a...

  Bill: Antibalas/Toubab Krewe Venue: Brooklyn Bowl , Brooklyn, NY  Date: 11/15/24 Door: $27 (got in on guest list via DONYC) 10pm: Antibalas Active: 1998 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Fu Chronicles (Daptone, 2020) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic   Setlist   YouTube Wiki 8:30PM Toubab Krewe Active: 2005 (Asheville, NC) Latest Release: Stylo (Toubab Krewe, 2018) Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist YouTube Antibalas is doing a 2-night stand at hometown jam band venue/bowling alley club chain Brooklyn Bowl this weekend for the flagship venues 15th anniversary.  I last saw Antibalas in Prospect Park and I'm thinking way before the 2005 date that is up on setlist.fm although 15-20 years ago was what was in my head.  Maybe it was as late as 2005, the park was jam packed that day and I had to watch from the lawn. Anyway, I won a pair of tickets for this, so no time like the present to see NYC's premier Afrobeat band inspired by Fe...

  Bill: CS Cleaners/Prostitution/Genre Is Death/OBOY! Venue: Berlin , New York, NY Date: 11/7/24 Door: $15 11pm: CS Cleaners  Active: 2023 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Drolomon (Spirit Lust/DIM Things, 2023) Bandcamp   Instagram   Discogs   YouTube 10pm: Prostitution Active: 2011 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Luxury Tax (Prostitution, 2023) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   YouTube 9pm: Genre Is Death Active: 2023 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Talk (Genre Is Death, 2023) Bandcamp   Instagram   YouTube Missed: OBOY! Every once in a while I'll get the itch to go out and see some band that I know very little about.  Tonight was one of those night.  The band that brought me out was CS Cleaners who I saw were featured in the Noise Rock Now facebook page.  I had also thought I heard good things about the long running Brooklyn band Prostitution.  I ran into Ryan Skeletonboy at Lucky's before the gig and he was heading...