NYC Show Obsessive

 Bill: Silkworm/Come Venue: Elsewhere , 599 Johnson Ave ., Brooklyn, NY Date: Monday 5/11/26 Door: $30 9pm Silkworm Active: 1987 (Seattle, WA via Missoula, MT) Latest Release: Chokes EP (12XU, 2006)  Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discog s Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Come Active: 1990 (Boston, MA) Latest Release: AKA The Come Club (Chunklet Industries, 2021), Gently Down The Stream (Matador, 1998) Bandcamp Facebook I nstagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify There was a hint of 90's nostalgia in the march of the grays Monday night at Elsewhere.  Silkworm started in the later 80's but really hit their stride around 1998 with Firewater and put records out until their drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed in a car accident in 2005.  They took time off,  but reformed in 2024 to tribute Steve Albini.  There isn't any new releases yet, just archival stuff, but you know how that goes.  Interestingly, Joel R.L. Phelps, who...

  Bill: The Messthetics/Brandon Seabrook/Trinary System Venue: Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., New York, NY Date: Wednesday 5/6/26 Ticket: Door $27 (had a +1) 9:30pm The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Affiliated: Fugazi Active: Messthetics: 2016 (Washington, DC), James Brandon Lewis: 2010 (New York, NY via Buffalo, NY) Latest Release: Deface The Currency (Impulse, 2026) Messthetics: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify James Brandon Lewis: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist    AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8:30 Brandon Seabrook Active: 2011 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic, 2024) Bandcamp Instagram Discog s Setlist AllMusic WIk i YouTube Spotif y 7:30 Trinary System Active: 2016 (Boston, MA) Affiliated: Roger Miller (Mission of Burma) Latest Release: The Hard Machine (Cunieform, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook I nstagram Discog s Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTub e Spotify This...

  Bill: Sugar Venue: Webster Hall , 125 E. 11 St. , New York, NY Date: Sunday 5/3/26 Ticket: $59 50 Face plus fees (got a friends ticket for $40) 8:30pm Sugar Active: 1992 (Brooklyn, NY via Minneapolis, MN/Boston, MA/Athens, GA) Affiliated: Bob Mould ( Hüsker Dü ), David Barbe ( Mercyland ), Malcolm Travis ( Human Sexual Response ) Latest Release: " Long Live Love " (BMG Rights Management, 2026), ' House of Dead Memories " (BMG Rights Management, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify While Sugar didn't carry the deep nostalgic impact that  Hüsker Dü  or even Human Sexual Response has for me, I did have a residual desire to check in on their reformation on a slightl y greater urge in comparison to seeing Bob solo.  I guess that is because it guaranteed I was going to see a full band vs Bob alone with guitar, which I last went to at Iridium .  No dig on that, I enjoy Bob Mould in any format, but I prefer him with a...