NYC Show Obsessive

 Bill: Toody Cole and Her Band/Mopar Stars Venue: Union Pool , 484 Union Ave. , Brooklyn, NY Date: Sunday 8/2/2O6 Door: Free 4pm Toody Cole andi Her Band Active: 2023 (Portland, OR) Affiliated: Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows Latest Release: Burning Effigy-Live At The Tote (Disgraced Clergy, 2025), "Caroline" (Doomtown Sounds, 2025) Instagram   Discogs   Setlist   AllMusic   Wiki   YouTube   Spotify 3pm Mopar Stars Active: 2023 (Philadelphia, PA) Latest Release: Official Researchers of the NJ Devil (K/Perennial, 2026) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic    Youtube Spotify Union Pool's now annual Summer Thunder free Sunday matinee concert series had their show of the year with Toody Cole's new band.  Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows were garage rock mainstays and at 77 Toody has become a front woman of gravitas by default.  There really is nobody out there like her.  Timeless and eternal.   With Monoman...

  Bill: The Sun Ra Arkestra Venue: Union Pool , 484 Union Ave ., Brooklyn, NY Date: 8/24/25 Door: Free 3pm The Sun Ra Arkestra Active: 1956 (Philadelphia, PA) Latest Release: Lights On A Satellite (In + Out Records, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki   YouTube Led by 101-year-old Marshall Allen, The Sun Ra Arkestra has kept on going since the passing of Sun Ra in 1993.  This is currently, at least by what the website says, 17 active members of the group.  Marshall Allen has been with it since 1958 primarily on Saxophone, but he also brought out an EWI toward the end.  Those electronic wind instruments are crazy looking.  I never saw one before yesterday and while there were 70's prototypes, Akai officially introduced them in 1987.   From the website, there are six other members that joined in Sun Ra's lifetime.  They are Vincent Chancey on French Horn since 1976, Michael Ray on Trumpet since 1978, Knoel Sco...

  Bill: The Hard Quartet/Rat Henry/DJ Fantasy Man Venue: Union Pool, 484 Union Ave , Brooklyn, NY Date: 8/17/25 Ticket: Free 4:30pm The Hard Quartet Active: 2023 (Malkmus: Chicago via Santa Monica, CA, Sweeney: New Jersey, Kelly: Van Nuys, CA & White: Melbourne, Australia) Affiliated: Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Zwan), Emmett Kelly (Cairo Gang, The Double), Jim White (Dirty Three, The Double) Latest Release: Lies (Something You Can Do) b/w Coreopsis Trail (Matador, 2025), The Hard Quartet (Matador, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 3:30pm Rat Henry Active: 2018 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Material Pop Volume One (Rat Henry, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook   Discogs Setlist    YouTube This free Sunday afternoon show was part of Union Pool's regular outdoor Summer Thunder series.  Last years around this time was Kid Congo Power and the year or before that I saw Malcolm Mooney of Can in similar c...

  Bill: The Obsessed/Restless Spirit Venue: Union Pool , Brooklyn, NY Date: 10/19/24 Door: $25 9pm The Obsessed Active: 1976 (Potomac, MD) Affiliated: Wino AKA Scott Weinrich , Guitar & Vocals ( Bullring Brummies ,  Lost Breed ,  Place Of Skulls ,  Premonition 13 ,  Royale Daemons ,  Saint Vitus ,  Shine (21) ,  Shrinebuilder ,  Spirit Caravan ,  The Hidden Hand ) Latest Release: Gilded Sorrow (Ripple Music, 2024) Featured Release: The Church Within (Columbia, 1993) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist Wiki YouTube Encyclopaedia Metallum 8pm Restless Spirit Active: 2015 (Long Island, NY) Affiliated:  Witchtripper , and  DMP (7) Latest Release: Afterimage (Magnetic Eye, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist     YouTube Encyclopaedia Metallum Wino makes his way through town, currently with long running moniker The Obsessed.  The Obsessed existed prior to Win...