NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: Reverend Horton Heat/Black Joe Lewis/ Piñata Protest Venue: Sony Hall , 235 W 46 St .,, New York, NY Date: Friday 4/10/26 Door: $35 (won tickets from DoNYC) 10pm Reverend Horton Heat Active: 1985 (Dallas, TX) Latest Release: Roots of the Rev (Vol. 1) (Fun-Guy, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wik i YouTube Spotify 9pm Black Joe Lewis Active: 2007 (Austin, TX) Latest Release: " Five Dollars " (Black Joe Lewis, 2020),  The Difference Between Me and You (Black Joe Lewis, 2018) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlis t AllMusi c Wik i YouTube Spotify Missed:  Piñata Protest Reverend Horton Heat is one of those bands I check in on every ten years or so.  I won tickets for tonight, so no time like the present.  I think I won last time too come to think of it.  Still good, still do "Psychobilly Freakout," still got Jimbo on bass although he is steel gray now.  The kind Reverend notes he looks like William Shat...

  Bill: Zebra/Anything But Human Venue:  Sony Hall ,  235 W 46 St . , New York, NY Date: Sunday 3/1/26 Door: $55 (had a free pair from DoNYC) 9pm Zebra Active: 1975 (Long Island, NY via New Orleans, LA) Latest Releae:   IV (Frontiers, 2003) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Anything But Human Active:  2019 (Dallas, TX) Latest Release: " Life " (Anything But Human, 2025) Facebook   Instagram Discog s Setlist   YouTube Spotify Zebra are doing 50th anniversary dates and coupled with getting a free pair of tickets, no time like the present to finally check them out.  I really only know their first record which I wrote about a couple years back on the other blog.  My friend Kenny had said they were good and when I heard "Who's Behind The Door" I instantly remembered it from 1983 more so than "Tell Me What You Want" and Kenny's favorite "Bears."  Those songs seem like established hits now when they we...

  Bill: Towncryer/Stephanie M. Hall Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse , 259 Front St. , New York, NY Date: Taco Tuesday 2/10/26 Door: Free 8:15 Towncryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Active: 2021 (Brooklyn, NY) Facebook 7:30 Stephanie M. Hall Active: 2024? (New York, NY via Memphis, TN) Affiliated: Stephanie Marie and the Double Knit Players Instagram   YouTube Towncryer continued their run of gigs at Seahorse.  Rich Meyer liked opener Stephanie M. Hall's band quite a bit.  I'm assuming that is Stephanie Marie and the Double Knit players.  She started the night solo acoustic with original material.  The one she said was her favorite to play was the one I took a clip of.  She closed with "Steel & Glass" by John Lennon from Walls and Bridges. The Cryer did their usual two sets of their mainstays of..what did Kenny call it?  Melodies, Rockers, Blues and I thought there was a 4th cover category they rotate.  Pe...

Bill: The Lemonheads Venue: Lucinda's , 169 Ave A , New York, NY Date: 1/21/26 Door: Free 7pm The Lemonheads Active: 1986 (Boston, MA) Latest Release: Love Chant  (Fire, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify In recent decades The Lemonheads would be something I'd blow off, but they/Evan Dando were doing a free acoustic gigs at Lucinda Williams new bar, so I figured what the hell, I didn't see Lucinda herself playing there a few days ago, so maybe I'd check it out. I knew it was a dice roll since Ticketweb gave out free advance tickets that weren't tickets at all, just something for the club to gauge how many people were coming.   "RSVP" in NYC parlance.   I think it was a little too much to do it this way because the overage wasn't "that" much.  Better to just cram people in, tell them it is sold out and let the bar sell drinks than making people stand a hour, let people in in dribs and drabs ...

  Bill: The Del Fuegos/Teddy Thompson Venue: Racket , 431 W 16 St. , New York, NY Date: Friday 12/19/25 Door: $40 9pm The Del Fuegos Active: 1980 (Boston, MA) Latest Release: Siver Star (February Records, 2012) Facebook   Discogs Setlist   AllMusic   Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Teddy Thompson Active: 2000 (New York, NY via London, UK) Latest Release: Live At The Rogue Folk Club (Teddy Thompson, 2025), My Love of Country (Teddy Thompson, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube   Spotify The Rock 'n' Roll highway is littered with the has beens, should beens, recently reactivated and still doin' it.  The Del Fuegos had their day in the major label sun in the 80's.  Teddy Thompson had his prime years in the aughts.  Both were known enough quantities to command a booking at the 650 capacity NYC venue Racket.  Teddy Thompson noted it was where he recently saw a surprise club gig by the Rolling Stones a coup...

  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 ...

  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:...

  Bill: Kula Shaker/The Mystery Lights/Dinowalrus Venue: Irving Plaza , 17 Irving Pl ., New York, NY Date: 9/22/25 Tickets: $47.50 (got free from DoNYC) 9:50pm Kula Shaker Active: 1993 (London, UK) Latest Release:   Natural Magick (Strange F.O.L.K., 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 8:40pm The Mystery Lights Active: 2008 (Brooklyn, NY via Salinas, CA) Latest Release: Before You Realize It b/w Cerebral Crack (Wick, 2025)  Purgatory (Wick, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic   7:50pm Dinowalrus Active: 2007 (Brooklyn, NY) Affiliated: Titus Andronicus Latest Release: " A Day Of Doing Nothing " (Dinowalrus, 2025), Complexion (Personal, 2014) Bandcamp Facebook Instgram Discogs Setlist Wiki YouTube Kula Shaker has been a bucket list band to see since I got their first CD on my old friends' recommendation.  I probably haven't heard it since 1996 but songs like "Hey Dude" and "...

 Bill: Eric Clapton/Wallflowers Venue: Madison Square Garden , 4 Penn Plaza , New York, NY Date: 9/19/25 Ticket: $150 (Section 109, Row 6 face at box office) 8:30 Eric Clapton Active: 1962 (Ripley, Surrey, UK) Affiliated: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes  Latest Release: Meanwhile (Surfdog, 2024)   Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Missed: Wallflowers I thought I had seen Eric Clapton for the last time a few years ago.  The buzz in the air was he was on his way out and between Covid shot paranoia and being rolled around in the wheelchair , the media played that up.  However, 2025 brings us a healthy looking active 80-year-old Clapton on stage, so maybe he has had a bit of a bounce back.   While he wasn't doing jumping jacks and played a large chunk in the center of the set sitting acoustic, there wasn't anything that seemed out of wack for a veteran of his stature.  C...