The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis/Brandon Seabrook/Trinary System @ Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY 5/6/26

 


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)

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8:30 Brandon Seabrook



Active: 2011 (Brooklyn, NY)

Latest Release: Hellbent Daydream (Pyroclastic, 2024)

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7:30 Trinary System



Active: 2016 (Boston, MA)

Affiliated: Roger Miller (Mission of Burma)

Latest Release: The Hard Machine (Cunieform, 2025)

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This was a solid lineup of music start to finish.  First on were Roger Miller's "new" band Trinary System which formed in 2016.  He formed this band not to be tied to indie rock guitar formalism, but that just means he sounds like an SST type guitar heavy band.  Considering he actually released solo records on SST, that should come as no surprise.  Even though I saw Burma's Monoman tribute last month, I spaced that Roger now has long hair until I had an "oh DUH!" moment  at the end of the night..  Brandon Seabrook played guitar solo innt the middle and had heavy reverb on his microphone when he spoke.  His playing is top tier and engaging.  

Mike Watt had a song called "Relating Dudes To Jazz."  Well you can take Joe Lally and Brenden Canty out of Fugazi, but you can't take the Fugazi out of them even if you slap some 70's fusion guitar over it.  You start to hear variations of the "Waiting Room" groove continuously.  Adding James Brandon Lewis as a recording partner the last couple records for sax front and center alleviates this to a degree.  I'm not putting it down, they took their Jazz all the way to Impulse! records to sit with the Coltrane catalog.  It's a hybrid that works in a way that's informally formal yet belongs to it's parts.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Mission of Burma @ Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge, MA 3/12/26

Mission of Burma-ONoffON (2004)







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