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Marshall Crenshaw/The Bongos @ Sony Hall, New York, NY 11/10/25

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  Bill: Marshall Crenshaw/The Bongos Venue:  Sony Hall ,  235 W 46 St . , New York, NY Date: Monday 11/10/25 Door: $39.50 (had free pair from DoNYC) 9pm Marshall Crenshaw Active: 1981 (Detroit, MI) Latest Release: From "The Hellhole"   (Yep Rock, 2025) Biggest/FirstRelease: Marshall Crenshaw (Warner Bros., 1982) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm The Bongos Active: 1980 (Hoboken, NJ) Latest Release: The Shroud of Touring: Live In 1985 (Jem, 2025) Biggest Release: Numbers With Wings (RCA, 1983) First Release: Drums Along The Hudson (PVC, 1982) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify Finally saw these two bucket list acts from the early 80's that I somehow never saw before.  Marshall Crenshaw has a new one on Yep Rock called From "The Hellhole."  The Bongos reform sporadically, and they have a new live archival release. The Bongos in 2025 pull mostly from their first Dr...

The Mars Volta/Kianí Medina @ Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY 11/9/25

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  Bill: The Mars Volta/Kianí Medina/Feliz Y Dada Venue:    Brooklyn Paramount ,  385 Flatbush Ave. Ext . , Brooklyn, NY Date: 11/9/25 Door: $86 (won tickets on DoNYC) 9:30 The Mars Volta Active: 2001(El Paso, TX) Latest Release:  Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacío ( Clouds Hill Records, 2025) Biggest Release:  De-Loused in the Comatorium   (Universal, 2003) First Release: Tremulant EP (Gold Standard Laboratories, 2002) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8:30 Kianí Medina Active: 2007 (Puerto Rico) Latest Release: " Muy lejos del encanto " (Pomero, 2025) Instagram Discogs Setlist    YouTube   Missed: Feliz Y Dada Mars Volta had long been a bucket list band to check out.  I've only really heard their 2005 album Francis The Mute, so I had no idea what they've been doing all these 20 years since.  DoNYC papered this show as a bonus free show, so free was a motivator to finally ch...

GBH/Slaughterhouse/The Mainliners @ Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY 11/7/25

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  Bill: GBH/Slaughterhouse/The Mainliners Venue: Gramercy Theatre, 127 E 23 St ., New York, NY Date: Friday 11/7/25 Door: $35 (paid $25 via Tickpick) 9:30 GBH Active: 1978 (Birmingham, UK) Latest Release: Momentum (Hellcat, 2017) Biggest/First Release: City Baby Attacked By Rats (Bronze/Clay, 1982) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8:45 Slaughterhouse Active: 2018 (Los Angeles/South Bay, CA) Latest Release: Sick and Tired (Slaughterhouse, 2025) Biggest Release: Fun Factory (Recess, 2021) First Release: Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, 2018) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist   YouTube Spotify 8pm The Mainliners Active: 2022 (Hollywood/Los Angeles, Latest Release: Discography (The Mainliners, 2025) Bandcamp   Instagram Discogs Setlist     YouTube Spotify It had been a few years since I last saw Charged GBH and 39 years since the first time on the Punks vs Skins tour with Agnostic Front opening in 1986 at ...

Boris/Uniform @ Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY 11/4/25

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  Bill: Boris/Uniform Venue: Brooklyn Steel , 319 Frost St ., Brooklyn, NY Date: 11/4/25 Door: $35 (had a friends extra advance ticket--thanks James!) 9:15 Boris Active: 1992 (Tokyo, Japan) Latest Release: Performing Pink In Its Entirety-Live at Shindaita Fever 20160924 (Relapse 2025), Live Noise Alive (Fangs Anal Satan, 2025), Fade (Fangs Anal Satan, 2022) Featured Release: Pink (Southern Lord, 2005) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   AllMusic   Setlist   Wiki  YouTube   Spotify 8pm Uniform Active: 2013 (New York, NY) Latest Release:  American Standard  (Sacred Bones, 2024) Facebook   Instagram   Bandcamp   Discogs   Setlist    AllMusic   Wiki  Youtube   Spotify This year Boris are doing a look back at the Pink album on it's 20th anniversary.  Last year it was Amplifier Worship.  They have such a massive discography they could pay tribute to many things, but Pink is...

John Cale's Steam on Glass/Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Sienko @ Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY 11/2/25

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  Bill: John Cale's Steam on Glass/Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Sienko Venue: Wu Tsai Theater , David Geffen Hall ,  Lincoln Center, 10 Lincoln Center Plz. , New York, NY Date: 11/2/25 Door: $5 (bought advance ticket), Suggested Donation Performance 8:30 John Cale 's Steam on Glass Year Active: 1957 (Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales) Associated: Velvet Underground Latest Release: POPtical Illusion (Double Six/Electric Drone, 2024), MiXology, Vol. 1 (Double Six/Electric Drone, 2025) Biggest Release: Paris 1919 (Reprise, 1973) First Release: Vintage Violence (Columbia, 1970) Bandcamp Facebook   Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 7:30 Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Sienko Years Active: Heinali 2010 (Kiev, Ukraine), Andriana-Yaroslava Sienko 2022 (Lviv, Ukraine) Latest Release: Hildegard (Unsound, 2025), Andriana-Yaroslava Sienko- Atlantis  (Adriana-Yaroslava Sienko, 2025) Biggest Release: Heinali- Kiev Eternal (Injazero, 2023) First Release:...