NYC Show Obsessive

 Bill: Joanna Sternberg & Friends (Alex Orange Drink, Jason Adam Katzenstein (J.A.K.), Jeremy Willis, Jackie West, Jay Henry, Josephine Network, Maya Luz, Milky Maze, Jamie Frey, Katy Pinke, Michael Leviton, Tommy Volume, Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Sternberg) Venue: Bowery Ballroom , New York, NY Date: 12/19/24 Door: got $14.25 ticket from Stubhub, Ticketmaster was $28 with fees guessing door was $20-25 9:45 Joanna Sternberg Active: 2018 (New York, NY) Latest Release: A Country Dance (Fat Possum, 2024), I've Got Me (Fat Possum, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Wiki 9:15 Michael Sternberg Instagram   9:05 Jeffrey Lewis Active: 1997 (New York, NY) Latest Release: 2023 Tapes (Jefferey Lewis, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs    AllMusic YouTube Wiki 8:55 Jeremy Willis Active: 2020 (Brooklyn, NY) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs     8:45 Jackie West Active: 2022 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Clos...

  Bill: The Jesus Lizard/Cohort B Venue: Brooklyn Steel , Brooklyn, NY Date: 12/11/24 Door: unsure, friend James gave me his extra ticket (advance ga's were $45 plus fees) 9pm The Jesus Lizard Active: 1987 (Chicago, IL via Austin TX) Latest Release: Rack (Ipecac, 2024), Cost of Living (Ipecac, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Wiki 8pm Cohort B Active: 2020 (Queens, NY) Latest Release: SNAFU (Cohort B, 2024) Bandcamp   Facebook Instagram   Discogs   Setlist   YouTube I had a little longer than expected break of being the "NYC Show Obsessive."  First I was up in MA around Thanksgiving, then I got a bit of an upper respiratory wipeout.  My friend James had sent me this ticket right before that happened and fortunately, I recovered enough to trod through rain hither and yon for the show.  Let's just say I was never more enthused about the option for a $5 coat check. I started the day out going to the Big Ap...

  Bill: Gogol Bordello ( Eugene Hütz  & Sergey Ryabtsev/Q&A with Eugene, Sergey and the films editors and directors/Film: Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (2023) Venue: Gramercy Theatre , New York, NY Date: 11/21/24 Door: $35 10pm: Gogol Bordello (Eugene Hutz & Sergey Ryabsev acoustic) Active: 1999 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Solidaritine (Cooking Vinyl, 2022) Bandcamp Facebook   Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Wiki 9:40 pm Q&A with  Eugene Hütz , Sergey Ryabsev , Nate Pommer , Eric Weinrib & Beverly Chase 8pm Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story Time flies.  Watching Scream of My Blood for the first time in the year it has been out sure put an explanation point on that. Eugene managed to make a small theatre tour with the film, its directors, producers and the two longest running band members of Gogol Bordello.  People come and go in a blip in this movie and it's odd for me to have actual concentrat...

 Bill: Slowdive/quannic Venue: Brooklyn Paramount , Brooklyn, NY Date: 11/19/24 Door: unsure had a +1 comp ticket 9:15pm Slowdive Active: 1989 (Reading, UK) Latest Release: Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Wiki Missed: quannic Slowdive are one of those bands with a resurging popularity among a young audience for no discernable reason .  Sure it happens all the time.  Revisionist history of music with later generations spiking draw we have seen from Kiss to Slint to Sleep to friggin Avril Lavigne.  Sometimes it is because of television advertising or reunion, however in Slowdive's case it is the use of social media for soundtracks with an effect like advertising on Tiktok. Slowdive I always thought were a bit third tier shoegaze.  I bought Call It A Day in it's day and pretty much ignored the band until I won tickets to see their reformation in 2017.  My friend Danny had won a pair a...

 Bill: Coco Montoya/Ronnie Baker Brooks Venue: Iridium , New York, NY Date: 11/16/24 Door: unsure had a +1 9:40pm  Coco Montoya Active: 1977 (Santa Monica, CA) Affiliations: Albert Collins (1977), John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (1984-1993) Latest Release: Writing On The Wall (Alligator, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Discogs AllMusic Setlist YouTube Wiki 8:30pm Ronnie Baker Brooks Active: 1986 (Chicago, IL) Affiliations: Lonnie Brooks (1986-2017) Latest Release: Blues In My DNA (Alligator, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist YouTube Wiki The veteran pair of Alligator recordings artists made their way to Iridium on a Saturday night.  My friend Kenny had some history seeing both of these guys years ago--close to 40 for Coco Montoya.  Montoya started as a drummer for Albert Collins in the 70's then became a guitarist in the 80's for John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.  His solo debut came in 1994.  Ronnie Baker Brooks started as a...