NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: Bambara/LEYA Venue: Baby's All Right , Brooklyn, NY Date: 3/7/25 Door: Free 12AM Bambara Active: 2007 (Brooklyn, NY via Athens, GA) Latest Release: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat/Bella Union, out 3/14/25) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist Wiki YouTube 11pm LEYA Active: 2020 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: I Forgot Everything (NNA Tapes, 2024) Facebook   Instagram   Bandcamp   Discogs   Spotify   AllMusic   Setlist After the Avengers show my friend Eric alerted me to a free show at Baby's All Right, so I hopped back on the good ole B60 to Broadway and walked over there from Gold Sounds.  Bambara have been around for some time--18 years-- but I never heard of them before.  Tonight was a sort of a record release show for their 6th album coming out next week called Birthmarks.  Eric thought the singer had a Jim Morrison vibe and I could see what he was talking about.  It made me think of another band I saw last...

  Bill: Avengers/Lupo Citta/Adult Human Females Venue: Gold Sounds , Brooklyn, NY Date: 3/7/25 Door: $25 9:30 Avengers  Active: 1977 (San Francisco, CA) Latest Release: The American In Me (Superior Viaduct, 2019 recorded 1978-9) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist Wiki YouTube 8:30 Lupo Citta Latest Release:  Lupo Cittá   (12XU, 2024) Active: 2024 (Boston, MA) Affiliated:  Chris Brokaw :  7 Or 8 Worm Hearts ,  Ativin ,  Charnel Ground ,  Cimt ,  Codeine ,  Come (2) ,  Consonant ,  Dirtmusic ,  GG Allin & The Aids Brigade ,  Hidden Tooth ,  Kahoots ,  Pullman ,  Sunset To The Sea ,  The JLP Sessions Project ,  The Martha's Vineyard Ferries ,  The New Year Jenn Gori & Sarah Black:  The Bleeding Hickeys Facebook   Instagram   Bandcamp   Discogs   Setlist   YouTube 7:30 Adult Human Females Active: 2024 (New York, NY) Latest ...

  Bill: Patti Smith Venue: The Great Hall at  Cooper Union , New York, NY Date: 3/5/25 Door: Free with Eventbrite "First Come First Serve" Advance Ticket 7pm Patti Smith Active: 1967 (New York, NY via Deptford Township, NJ) Latest Release: Banga (Columbia, 2012), (with Soundwalk Collective) Khandroma (Khu, 2024) Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist Wiki YouTube This free show was more a Q&A with Kit Nicholls .  There was an acoustic guitar ominously set up on stage next to a a couple comfy looking chairs.  The event had advance "first come first serve" tickets, which of course meant a line in the pouring and ever intensifying rain before Cooper Union security started letting people in.  Carefully, oh so carefully.  You wouldn't want to make people miss out on as much rain as possible while people were getting situated unassigned.  About 1/3 of the seats were reserved with white paper and with the concrete pillars of the Great Hall the ...