END OF OKTOBERFEST PARTY! (FREE)
From the ever-expanding mind of Drew may we present the first annual
Tubby's End of Oktoberfest PARTY!
FREE!
Wednesday October 28
GERMAN BEERS ON TAP!!
Drew plays Popol Vuh and Herzog Happy Hour
Vegan Menu from YEAH DAWG!
DJs Playing Krautrock & Kosmische Musik
Drew 4-6
Jake 6-7
Cory 7-8
Doyle 8-9
Bel & Ryan 9-11
TUBBY'S HALLOWEEN COVER BAND BATTLE NIGHT 1
TICKETS ON SALE SEPT 14 AT 10AM
THIS NIGHT IS SOLD OUT
Our second annual cover band contest. Each ticket gets a ballot at the door. Winner takes the cash from the door! Hopefully we can stick to the schedule! Consider this an estimated guess at settimes!
Oct 29 (Night 1)
7:00 - 7:15 NIRVANA
7:30 - 7:45 fIREHOSE
8:00 - 8:15 WEEN
8:30 - 8:45 B 52S
9:00 - 9:15 THE CRANBERRIES
9:30 - 9:45 WIRE
10:00 - 10:15 THE FALL
10:30 - 10:45 GREEN DAY
TUBBY'S HALLOWEEN COVER BAND BATTLE NIGHT 2
ON SALE SEPT 14 AT 10AM
THIS NIGHT IS SOLD OUT
Our second annual cover band contest. Each ticket gets a ballot at the door. Winner takes the cash from the door! Hopefully we can stick to the schedule! Consider this an estimated guess at settimes!
Oct 30 (Night 2)
7:00 - 7:15 TWIN TEMPLES
7:30 - 7:45 GORILLAS
8:00 - 8:15 SQUEEZE
8:30 - 8:45 THE KINKS
9:00 - 9:15 KATE BUSH
9:30 - 9:45 GARY STEWART
10:00 - 10:15 HOLE
10:30 - 10:45 THE STOOGES
11:00 - 11:15 PAVEMENT
TUBBY'S HALLOWEEN COVER BAND BATTLE NIGHT 3
ON SALE SEPT 14 10AM
THIS NIGHT IS SOLD OUT!
Our second annual cover band contest. Each ticket gets a ballot at the door. Winner takes the cash from the door! Hopefully we can stick to schedule! Consider this an estimated guess at settimes!
Oct 31 (Night 3)
7:00 - 7:15 HEART
7:30 - 7:45 SILVER JEWS
8:00 - 8:15 EAGLES
8:30 - 8:45 RAINCOATS
9:00 - 9:15 VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO
9:30 - 9:45 NEIL YOUNG
10:00 - 10:15 WAYLON JENNINGS
10:30 - 10:45 WHITE STRIPES
11:00 - 11:15 BEASTIE BOYS
DITZ + GLOIN
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
‘Never Exhale’ is the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath. DITZ (UK) have toured relentlessly since the release of their first album ‘The Great Regression’ and even before
that, travelling at least 100 days a year since COVID. The songs that form their newest offering were written across Europe, often on off days and in borrowed rehearsal rooms just to break up the long drives.
It could be said that the band treat recording and release of music as an afterthought. Often playing songs live years before their release, tweaking them as they go. The songs on the final record may change before they are ever heard as part of the album.
FISH NARC + PHANTASIA
TICKETS
DOORS 7 // MUSIC 8
fish narc began in 2013 as a clean break from singing and performing in bands, which Ben Friars-Funkhouser had done since he was 16. Ben joined Thraxxhouse and Gothboiclique after teaching himself Ableton Live, and began to integrate guitar playing and rock songwriting into his beatmaking and production. He produced songs for Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, JuiceWRLD, and Lil Peep, including his final project: Goth Angel Sinner. Since 2019, Ben's returned to writing and performing his own songs, releasing the albums WiLDFiRE in 2020 and Camouflage in 2022. 2023 will see fish narc drop two full lengths and an EP, and touring North America and Europe with a full live band.
MVTANT + PINK STILETTO with DJs: Hueman / Midna Mayhem / A. Netboy
TICKETS
No Tears // Wrenches Rocks and Bottles Present:
MVTANT: The artist MVTANT (Los Angeles) creates dark industrial hypnotic EBM lyrically inspired by sci-fi and horror imagery. The result is both an ethereal and brutal subterranean aural experience.
Pink Stiletto: San Francisco’s Pink Stiletto blends inspiration from new wave, electro, Italo, art punk and EBM. The brainchild of Valery Kvochkova, who grew up in Kazakhstan, Pink Stiletto is raw, sensual and danceable synth punk without borders.
DJs: Hueman Midna Mayhem A. Netboy
AKAI SOLO + bobbyy + ANOTHER PLANET
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
“NYC trailblazer AKAI SOLO has been known for his relentless output since 2018. Notable releases include but are not limited to Black Sand with Pink Siifu, Mad Space with fellow Tase Grip (a collective he founded in 2016) member iblss, and True Sky with Navy Blue. The Brooklyn native has also released two projects on backwoodz studios, Body Feeling and Spirit Roaming. With such a refreshing and interesting approach to the artform it is easy to see why fellow heavy hitters such as Madlib, Alchemist, Earl Sweatshirt, and billy woods champion for him so strongly.
After his second EU tour, first solo US tour and four incredible albums in the last two years (Verticality///Singularity, Only The Strong Remain, DREAMDROPDRAGON, and the latest, critically acclaimed No Control, No Glory) on his own label at that, Break All Records. AKAI has displayed a consistency with growth and expanding that has no intention of letting up.”
Los Angeles-based, Seattle-born drummer and producer Bobbyy returns with the announcement of his sophomore album, TACKYY, arriving October 16th via Dynamite Hill Records - founded by Pink Siifu.
Featuring contributions from artists including Salami Rose Joe Louis, Sam Gendel, AKAI SOLO, Demae, Tony Bontana, Telemakus, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Qur’an Shaheed, Astronauts, Etc., Niki Randa, and more, TACKYY is a result of a musical ecosystem cultivated through Bobbyy’s years of work with his bands sunking and High Pulp (Anti- Records). Following the success of his debut album Buckets, praised for blending Chicago house influences with experimental beat music, TACKYY marks a significant evolution, positioning Bobbyy as a key voice within Los Angeles’ thriving beat and jazz scenes.
Phiik & Lungs aka Another Planet kick it off
AXIS: SOVA + UPPER WILDS + AVA MENDOZA
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
On their journey from blown-out solo bedroom project to full-blown band, Axis: Sova have been described as "prime movers of robo-boogie for the central United States" (NPR) and "like The Stooges riding shotgun on a Suicide track" (Pitchfork). Yet their mutant glam has truly crystallized on a different level with their latest, Blinded By Oblivion. The group - Brett Sova, Jeremy Freeze, and Josh Johannpeter - wrote their new album within the steel-grey confines of their hometown, Chicago, then flew out to Southern California and recorded it at Harmonizer Studios with Ty Segall producing.
Stargazing Brooklyn noise-rock cosmonauts Upper Wilds — the power-trio led by Parts & Labor co-founder Dan Friel — return with another set of lean anthems filtered through a flamethrower. Their speediest, most explosive album yet, Mercury, is a meditation on death, with Friel expounding on his brush with skin cancer, climate change, funerals, Henry Kissinger, and a world seemingly on fire. Buoyed by recent tours with acts like Pelican, Uniform, Psychic Graveyard and Savak, the trio’s increased speed is met with a precision that gives every hairpin turn more wallop.
LIVE WELL + KILLER FILM + SPITE STORE
TICKETS
DDORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Live Well is an emo punk band from the greater New York area. The music feels nostalgic, with straightforward lyricism and short songs leaving listeners wanting more in the best way.
Spite Store A mix of dream pop and shoegaze from New Haven, CT.
KILLER FILM is an indie rock band from NY. Formed in 2022, the band blends elements of 90s alternative, post-punk, and modern indie, drawing inspiration from both obscure films and gritty urban landscapes.
LOS CUMPLEAÑOS
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Los Cumpleaños brings you Psych-Synth, Post-Truth Tropical Futurism from NYC.
With an unmistakable, freewheeling style, Los Cumpleaños mixes tropical rhythms and experimental sounds into an energetic, danceable, free-form musical experience. Citing influences as diverse as Colombian accordion legend Lisandro Meza, free jazz iconoclast Sun Ra and genre-defying tastemakers like Flying Lotus and Tame Impala, Los Cumpleaños is a group that could only emerge from the cultural landscape of New York City. The band features virtuoso percussionist/vocalist Nestor Gomez from Barranquilla, Colombia, Lautaro Burgos from Chaco, Argentina on Drumset as well as Eric Lane on Keyboards and Alex Asher on Trombone.
BENEFIT: RONDOUT VALLEY GROWERS ASSOCIATION with DOM and the FAM BAND
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Our benefit series continues. In November we are raising money for Rondout Valley Growers Association! We have DJs, and a live set from Dominick and the Family Band! All ticket sales goes to the organization.
The Rondout Valley Growers Association is a nonprofit organization, deeply rooted both in farming and community. We are committed to celebrating, educating, and advocating about the importance of local farming.
Mission – To strengthen our community and economy by supporting local agriculture.
Vision – A world nourished by local farms.
GARBAGGIO + BASIC NEEDS + BEN VIDA W/ WESTON MINISSALI, BRIGID SLATTERY & WILL EPSTEIN
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Garbaggio One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and with Garbaggio we all hit the jackpot. It’s form over function in a land where the only tool you have is a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Colors run together for the better over beats for your pleasure (members of I.U.D, !!!, Blondes)
Basic Needs Action-oriented skeletal post-punk rhythm music from artists Michael Bell-Smith and Sara Magenheimer formerly of early aughts bands Professor Murder, Restless People, Flying, WOOM, and Free Paint.
Ben Vida w/ Weston Minissali, Brigid Slattery and Will Epstein. The quartet will play pieces from Ben Vida’s recent Lp Oblivion Seekers
WEIRD NIGHTMARE + VISION BOARDS
TICKETS
DOORS 7 /MUSIC 8
Every band worth its salt has a member who worked in a record store. In METZ, the fearless noise rock trio who released five full-length albums on Sub Pop between 2012 and 2024, it was singer and guitarist Alex Edkins. Slinging indie rock and hardcore records in his hometown record store while attending university, Edkins became an ardent student of rock ‘n’ roll; from the psychedelic 1960s to the DIY 1990s and beyond. Hoopla, the catchy, melodic second LP from Edkins’s solo project Weird Nightmare, mixes and matches these influences in fun and exhilarating combinations, displaying his sophisticated musical mind. Bursting to life with hooks and earworms, Hoopla is that one tape that never gets ejected from the car stereo, but plays on repeat, soundtracking the summer. New and nostalgic at the same time, Hoopla will perk up your ears.
Weird Nightmare’s self-produced, and decidedly lo-fi, self-titled debut was recorded at home during the pandemic and released by Sub Pop in 2022. Weird Nightmare displayed Edkins’s indie rock sensibility, with a penchant for undeniable hooks and massive sing-along choruses. His skills at writing and performing only tightened on a series of singles that followed.
LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) + GODS WISDOM
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Born on Cape Cod, Cooper B. Handy started releasing music as LUCY in 2009. In the years since, the Western Massachusetts based singer/producer has made a career of self-releasing music and videos, unpolished & posted in near real time. LUCY's captivating live performance has earned him a cult following on the DIY circuit, playing shows in basements and warehouses across the country. His music is experimental and raw – at times even abrasive. His GarageBand-based production has never swayed far from the sample packs and synth sounds he started writing music with 14 years ago. Aggressively prolific, Handy has amassed an extensive catalogue that is both eccentric and earnest. His music channels a sense of creative exploration, and his lyrics pack real wisdom into unassuming one-liners.
Gods Wisdom is an wild experimental artist who has collaborated with LUCY on a couple of albums.
FRANK HURRICANE + TARA ZORTHIAN + BILLY WAKEMAN
TICKETS
DOORS 7 // MUSIC 8
Frank Hurricane - A Spiritual Blues and Folk Storyteller from the Holy south and north of the US. He has been traveling and performing across the world for well over a decade gathering tales and shrymping with ease!
Tara Zorthian - Angelic songstress from Los Angeles, CA, who plays mystical psych folk transmuted through the thinning veil.
Billy Wakeman - Billy Wakeman is a Kingston native and solo Singer-Songwriter. Possessing a unique and offbeat lyrical voice, his music yo-yo's between irreverence and sincerity, between humor and heart. For fans of lo-fi, outsidery indie pop acts and meandering walks about town
RITUAL ARCANA + SUN VOYAGER
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Ritual Arcana are a U.S. occult hard-rock/doom trio built around genuine Legends: Scott “Wino” Weinrich on guitar (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan), SharLee LuckyFree on bass/vocals (Moth), and Oakley Munson on drums (The Black Lips). Their style is supernatural heavy rock - riff driven, hooky, and steeped in candlelit atmosphere - where classic doom tone meets rock n roll swing. Their debut album Ritual Arcana was unleashed earlier this year on Heavy Psych Sounds.
New-York garage psych trio SUN VOYAGER present the follow-up to their revered 2018 debut 'Seismic Vibes'. Fusing early metal influences from the comedown era with kraut jam-inspired stoner rock freakouts, you can expect plenty of groove and loads of fuzz. For fans of Kyuss desert grooves, expansive garage psych à la King Gizzard and Oh Sees, and Earthless wah-driven explorations. Decibel Magazine says, "If you're a connoisseur of the latest in fuzzed-out heavy music, Sun Voyager are a band that should have a place on your radar."
MOON MULLINS + NICK SCHOFIELD
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
My love for the music of Moon Mullins is well documented, and I'm always excited to present it at Tubbys!
Moon Mullins is a Brooklyn based composer/producer specializing in exotica, ambient and lounge music.
Nick Schofield is a "dazzling electronic artist” (Aquarium Drunkard), producer and ambassador of ambient music based in Gatineau, Quebec.
REAL YOUNG AND LAZY HORSE
THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT
DOORS 6 / MUSIC 7
An unreasonably faithful, occasionally feral Neil Young & Crazy Horse tribute
LILY SEABIRD + ELIZA NIEMI
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
“Sometimes life gets so dark, it starts to feel like a bad trip,” at least that’s how Lily Seabird reflects on the seasons that led to the making of her new record, Lightspheres on Their Way. Seabird’s third record in as many years for Lame-O Records deals in mortality and reverence for the innately human, piecing her troubadour-ish folk to a grungy rock sentimentality. Though born from a period of reckoning and renewal, Seabird orients Lightspheres on Their Way around a holistic realism that buoys the spirit, with loose, earthy arrangements that meet intensity and depth with both twangy spaciousness and searing drive.
BCMC + GIFT HORSE
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
BCMC’s groove-based understanding/space-based alignment of purpose is two-headed (four-handed) intuition in music, aurally forming whenever playing, composing, improvising, or all the above. Cooper Crain (Bitchin Bajas) on organ & synth and Bill MacKay on guitar.
Gift Horse: Now a trio, guitarist Ryley Walker joins electronic experimentalists Matthew Hord and Jonathan Schenke for an album that re-contextualizes and expands the group’s early sound. The dusted digital beat framework and expansive FM tones remain, now reinforced by a deep dive into self-sampling and Walker’s intricate guitar work immersed within the sine waves
MANAS
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
MANAS Tashi Dorji: guitar Thom Nguyen: drums Che Chen: guitar, percussion, homemade instruments
Formed in 2012 in Asheville, NC by guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Thom Nguyen. The intensity of their live shows, characterized by Dorji’s angular guitar preparations and Nguyen’s multi-limbed maelstroms exploding outwards in parallel, immediately caught the ear of the underground.
Originally from Bhutan, where he absorbed American and UK hard rock and heavy metal via bootleg cassettes while surrounded by a family full of folk musicians, Dorji arrived stateside for college and immersed himself in Asheville’s DIY punk scene and formative listening sessions with records by Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Derek Bailey. It was there that he met Nguyen, a Vietnamese-Mississippian transplant who had been playing in local free rock outfits Nest Egg and Mendocino.
The two hit the ground running, funneling their love of grindcore, black metal, free jazz, noise and other extreme sonics, and burgeoning anarchist/mutual-aid politics into their newfound freedom in improvisation. Relentless woodshedding and touring on both sides of the Atlantic has long since solidified their reputation as an undeniable live act, and their post-hardcore take on improvised music has found them space on bills and collabs with Nepali grindcore band Chepang, heavy music headliners SUMAC and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and free improv musicians like Joe McPhee, Susie Ibarra, Zoh Amba, Audrey Chen and countless others.
Multi-instrumentalist Che Chen (of 75 Dollar Bill) has been a longtime friend of the band and frequent collaborator over the years, and now joins MANAS as second guitarist/aux percussionist. His guitar can be foil or twin to Dorji’s own, while his battery of small percussion and homemade instruments is able to refract Nguyen's multi-directional rhythms, or create wholly other textures.
TAPERS CHOICE
impact is doing this show. Tickets can be purchased HERE
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Velvet Underground New Year's Eve with LOADED
TICKETS
DOORS 7
Join us tonight as Velvet Underground tribute act LOADED (from Deep Thoughts // Owsley's Owls) play two sets of VU, including rarities and live-only cuts…. Plus a little solo Lou. Skronky jams, great vocals and harmonies, Andy Warhol projections… the whole 9 yards!
Doors 7 Set 1 8:30 Set 2 11:00
Shots at midnight!
TARA CLERKIN TRIO
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Somewhere Good is the first new music from the Bristol three-piece - Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos, and Patrick Benjamin – since their acclaimed 2023 mini album, On The Turning Ground. Described by Pitchfork as an “amble through blissful psych-pop and washed-out breakbeats, harpsichord interludes and dubby balladry”, it’s already on its fourth repress, as are previous releases In Spring and the 2019 self-titled debut.
Musician Ryan Davis (of Ryan Davis and the Roundhouse Band) was inspired to write about the album: If – in some parallel universe (or perhaps a not-so-distant-future version of the one we’re already sentenced to living in) – the evil overloads of artificial intelligence were actually successful in their attempts to create convincingly enjoyable “original music,” more specifically tasked with wholly encapsulating my own personal tastes by data-chugging some cocktail of – oh, I don’t know – the posters on my wall, the records in my “most listened to” pile, the mixtapes I made for others, intensive physical scans of my auditory cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, heart strings, whatever else they have splayed out on their autopsy table with the intention of generating one all-encompassing “perfect band” based on the fruitful sum of their findings – that band, for me, would be (or would at least sound exactly like) the Tara Clerkin Trio. It is, quite simply, without exception, the music I wish to hear.
THIS IS THE KIT
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
In today's fast-paced, mid-apocalyptic world, it can feel like a waste of time to speak about time at all. Why dwell on the past when we could just live in the present because the future won't shut up about how bad it's going to be?
But with This is the Kit aka Kate Stables (songwriter/banjo strummer/pinhole camera lover /Winchester UK born Parisdweller), we're going to have to give time just a modicum of consideration. Because not only is Kate still here and making albums of cataclysmic honesty and welcoming tonal embraces, they are continuing to grow, which is probably the only smart way to move forward through time.
This is The Kit's music places companionship at a premium, so being welcomed into its space feels like an obvious privilege, on record and in concert hall with her stellar supporting cast of Rozi Plain(bass), Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums), and Neil Smith (guitar). And at this current point in our confusing history, continuing to be here at all, to stand tall and make music to gather to, that's a heroic act. Joyful survival as an act oftime-wasting, I'll take that any day of the week. Look to ThisIsThe Kit to spend at least one day of your week this year; I guarantee it will be time well wasted.
GUITAR CARE WORKSHOP (FREE)
4-6pm
UNION FROG GUITARS walks you through a little guitar care.
Building practical skills in home guitar maintenance. A course for the working class musician
FLOODING + BLOODSPORTS + SPAIN
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Flooding is a gut feeling.
Fronted by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Rose Brown, Flooding is a 3-piece band that explores genres like slow-core, noise rock, post-hardcore, and post-punk. Brown is supported by bassist Cole Billings and drummer Zach Cunningham, who share the songwriting goal of curating abstract elements of different music styles to create a distinct composition with each album and song, rather than fitting into a particular genre. Flooding is interested in what music can allow us to feel and things it can force us to confront. Softness and harshness coexist in everything - and there's freedom in allowing ourselves to be both at the same time.
Taking over the sweaty New York venues and curbside congregations that came to be synonymous with the name, bloodsports is set to release their long awaited debut LP 'Anything Can Be A Hammer' via brand new New York label Good English Records on October 17th. Bloodsports has become an undeniable force amidst their latest line up, where members Sam Murphy (guitar/vox), Jeremy Mock (Guitar), Liv Eriksen (bass/vox) and Scott Hale (drums) find solace in the capitulation of sonic strain; where angular sedition blends with economical melodies that lighten the load of the self-destruction that these songs embrace.
JUNE MCDOOM + LUTALO
TICKETS AT THE DOOR
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
There is a hush most of us only knew as children, the warm drift between familiar household sounds and being carried to bed, a place that belongs to you and to some self you have not met yet. June McDoomʼs debut full-length, Follow the Light, lives in that dream space and then keeps walking, slipping out of time and waking somewhere new, barely familiar enough to feel like home yet wholly your own.
She came up in a Jamaican household on the edge of the Florida Everglades, an existence built of extended family, communal care, bass and harmonics. Her father, a carpenter and a student of sound, built his own speakers and kept three sound systems going across as many rooms. His low end would rise through her bedroom floor like some wayward cat while she lay above it with folk records, finding harmonies that were new and hers alone. Two musics in one room. Lushness as past and premonition.
She found folk on her own, somewhere between the cast recording of The Sound of Music and Simon and Garfunkel, while everyone around her called it sleepy music. She did not mind being the only one. The solitude let her fall for harmony first, before words, before anything else, and harmony is still the thing she reaches for
JOHN BURDICK TRIO + MARK LERNER
TICKETS AT THE DOOR!!
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
John Burdick Trio Prolific mid-Hudson Valley songwriter, bandleader, sideman, and music critic, John Burdick leads the New Paltz-based stumble pop quintet the Sweet Clementines as well as this more song-forward trio with Marianne Tasick and Jason Sarubbi. Beatle-esque pop, the circus, old guy guitar shredding, and Romantic chamber music interact in a drum-free ensemble.
Mark Lerner Lerner (bassist for Life in a Blender, Two Dark Birds, and many others) brings songs from his two solo projects, Rosine and Sugar Fight, along with American Primitive–inspired fingerstyle guitar.
OPEN TURNTABLES (FREE)
FEM FRONTED BANDS ONLY!
Open decks! Bring some records play some tunes. Gets going around 7
WESTERLUND // HAGEN + M. GEDDES GENGRAS, MICHAEL BEHARIE, OTTO HAUSER (TRIO)
TICKETS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
A duo ensemble born from a childhood friendship in the midwest, Joe Westerlund and Trever Hagen have merged their solo work on drums and trumpet into a distinct sound world of melodic, rhythmic and lush electroacoustic texture. The pair pays respect to this instrumentation’s historical context, while reaching further into sonic geographies with their shared voice.
Deep HV trio with Ged, Michael, and Otto!
LIVING LANGUAGE + DJ BUSQUELO + FREAKOUT SPOT DJS (FELA KUTI BIRTHDAY NIGHT)
Some tickets left at the door, but not many!
DOORS 7 /
First set 8ish
Second set 9:15ish
Living Language is a Brooklyn-based group led by Nikhil P. Yerawadekar (Antibalas, Hailu Mergia, Say She She), bringing the architecture and pan-African dialect of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music to today's dance floors and listening rooms. The members of Living Language have worked closely with icons such as Tony Allen, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Charles Bradley, and David Byrne, and the free expression within the band's hypnotic music reveals a connection to our common roots, inviting audiences into the spirit of liberation and resistance that is synonymous with Afrobeat.
To celebrate Fela Kuti's 88th birthday in the Hudson Valley, the sextet will be doubled in size by aligned musical guests from the area for some special large-ensemble performances from the legend's catalog.
THE TUBS + MOPAR STARS
This show is sold out
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Upon arriving in the United States for The Tubs’ first tour of the country, frontman Owen Williams told The New Yorker, “We’re here to unite the country. We’re gonna come, like, three times. By that point, I think this place will start healing.” Then, joyously, they did just that, piling into a van and criss-crossing the States, bringing their literary, bleary-eyed, world-weary, night-of-your-life highwire act to the masses when it was needed most. Along the way, they signed to Merge Records, who will release The Tubs’ third full-length album, Hard Life, on September 11, 2026.
The Tubs have never lacked for ambition — on Hard Life, theirs is to complicate the Tub-ullar experience. Having perfected their sound across two albums and hundreds of shows, the London-based Celtic jangle boyband — Williams (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass), Dan Lucas (guitar), Taylor Stewart (drums), and Max Warren (bass) — push themselves even further into the shimmering heart of virtuosic indie rock. They’re joined by frequent collaborators Lan McArdle (vocals), George Nicholls (guitar), and Rachel Kenedy (keyboards), all of whom have orbited various Tubs and Gob Nation-adjacent efforts dating back to Joanna Gruesome, but the secret to Hard Life’s lushness is the addition of fiddle player Chris Haigh, an instructor and session musician who left an indelible mark on British pop on Steps’ “5, 6, 7, 8.”
Mopar Stars is the hooky, guitar-forward indie rock project from Philly artist Nao Demand (Poison Ruïn), joined by guitarist Bill Magerr (Zorn), bassist and vocalist Nneka Anyaoku (S-21), and drummer Evan Campbell (Sheer Mag). Since first surfacing in 2023 with the Shoot the Moon tape, the band has quietly built a catalog that rides the line of familiar (think Bob Mould, Teenage Fanclub, Big Star) while still landing outside any one clear reference point.
The band’s forthcoming album Official Researchers Of The NJ Devil is out July 31, 2026 via beloved Olympia label K Records (Sharp Pins, early Modest Mouse & Built to Spill). Recorded and mixed by Trish Quigley at Studio North and mastered by Amy Dragon, the 11-song LP leans further into the band’s loose, melodic instincts. Across the record, Mopar Stars move effortlessly between power pop, 90s alt rock, and classic guitar songwriting without settling too cleanly into any one of them.
JUMA'S SULTAN'S ABORIGINAL MUSIC SOCIETY
TICKETS AT THE DOOR
DOORS 7 // MUSIC 8
Juma Sultan has a 60-plus year history as a musician, composer, archivist, activist, and educator. His band, Aboriginal Music Society, has been an evolving collective of musicians for over 50 years, playing a unique, ever-changing, genre-morphing style of music.The current iteration of the band continues exploring spirit grounded in sound, playing Juma's original compositions, most of which have not yet been released on record.
Juma has played and collaborated with countless significant individuals --- Jimi Hendrix, Archie Shepp, Sonny Simmons, Pharaoh Sanders, James "Blood" Ulmer, Dave Burell, Sam Rivers, and many, many more.
BOB DYLAN ENTIRE STUDIO DISCOGRAPHY DJ NIGHTS VOL 2 (FREE)
Here is a rough time line:
4:00 — New Morning
4:35 — Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
5:10 — Dylan
5:43 — Planet Waves
6:25 — Blood on the Tracks
7:17 — The Basement Tapes
8:34 — Desire
9:30 — Street-Legal
10:20 — Slow Train Coming
If the staff hasn’t lost their mind by the end of this shift they MIGHT play one of the three live albums released during this time span! (Flood / Hard Rain / Budokan)
HORSE LORDS + SILK FENCE
This show is sold out
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore in 2010; they evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner, and bassist Max Eilbacher, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble. Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nurtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish, Matmos), their approach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate.
Across sixteen years of frequent touring, Horse Lords have released ten studio, live, and collaboration albums in addition to a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens, a handful of singles and compilation tracks. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series, the band collaborated with Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt, a onetime student of La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros whose just intonation chamber music was a crucial part of the post-Fluxus Downtown New York City environment.
Silk Fence is a New York–based instrumental electro-acoustic trio between three longtime friends and collaborators—Arian Shafiee (Guerilla Toss, etc.) on electric guitar, Booker Stardrum (SML, etc.) on drums and percussion, and Justin Frye (PC Worship, etc.) on double bass and tapes. The group stretches the sonic possibilities of their instruments while exploring long-form, texture-driven minimalism and time-based improvisation.
Recorded throughout 2024 and 2025 between Brooklyn and Bethel, New York, Silk Fence presents the trio at its most focused. Over the course of 35 minutes, the group creates unhurried snapshots that appear and dissolve––at times into immersive soundscapes, and at other times into unflinching, propulsive grooves. The album unfolds as a study in subtle changes within repetition, blending kraut-jazz intuition and slowly shifting acoustic and electronic textures. It batters and lilts, resisting easy categorization: crossing stylistic boundaries to arrive, ultimately, at a sound all its own, deeply rooted in the musicians’ shared devotion to improvised music in all forms. At just four tracks, Silk Fence is a complete, unfussy musical statement.
KOEN HOLTKAMP (release show) W/MATT BAUDER & BEN VIDA + ALEXANDER TURNQUIST
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DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Artist and composer Koen Holtkamp has spent more than two decades shaping a body of work at the intersection of ambient, experimental, and electroacoustic music. Known for his role in the influential duo Mountains, as well as a solo catalog defined by texture and spatial awareness, Holtkamp has long explored how sound interacts with environment and perception. With his latest ensemble album Nightlife on Wester Vinyl, he enters a new phase of that inquiry, one shaped as much by physical relocation as artistic evolution. Album release show featuring Matt Bauder on sax, Ben Vida on electric guitar and mbira and Koen Holtkamp on modular synthesizer.
Alexander Turnquist is a Hudson-Valley based instrumentalist who has been rooted in the experimental and ambient music world for over 20 years. Making use of fingerstyle guitar landscapes as a primary foundation for his compositions with a focus on overtone play and harmonic counterpoints. His releases on VHF Records and Western Vinyl have stretched the boundaries of the new “new-age” , neoclassical, and traditional American Primitive stylings into a personal sound best experienced live. Turnquist’s next forthcoming LP for VHF will be released in early 2027 digging deeper into his darker ambient and textural drone sounds."
RSTB 20 Night 2: The Reds Pinks and Purples, Simon Joyner & the Nervous Stars, Jeanines
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Raven Sings The Blues 20th anniversary weekend Night 2
The Reds Pinks and Purples Longstanding champions of melancholy jangle and bruised indie, The Reds, Pinks and Purple swerve toward bigger sounds, specifically citing California by American Music Club and 16-Lover’s Lane by The Go-Betweens. Eschewing the myriad pitfalls of those who translate intimacy onto a grander scale, the new record only amplifies the anguish and anxiety that crested out of his quiet comforts in the past, burning them into celluloid wonders rendered in vibrant hues.
Simon Joyner A perennial favorite around here, Simon Joyner has tattooed his insightful missives across the better part of the last few decades. There’s always been a bittersweet vulnerability to Joyner’s works, but on his latest he’s balancing grief with self-forgiveness, and doing so with the kind of skill many lesser songwriters could easily fumble.Tough Love is another high water wader from Joyner, a songwriter never content to let his legacy be behind him.
**Jeanines **The band’s brand of indie pop; fed on a steady diet of ‘60s folk and ‘80s jangles, wrapped tight in bittersweet sighs, never ceases to be just the sound you need at any given moment. The early albums were scuffed with a scrappiness that tied them tighter to the ‘80s DIY of Dolly Mixture, Marine Girls, and Talulah Gosh, but as they’ve progressed the sound has thickened. Guitars chime in perfect clarity and the vocal harmonies have gone from tin whispers careening around the room to lush and layered embellishments that feel more indebted to ‘60s folk circles.
RSTB 20 Night 1: Garcia Peoples + Weak Signal
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DOORS 7 // MUSIC 8
Raven Sings The Blues 20th anniversary weekend Night 1 Garcia Peoples Embracing a prog spirit, chewing on Agitation Free and UK psych-folk, but this time they’re cycling through the ‘80s indie roots of Cosmic Americana, Garcia Peoples just as often swerve the ‘70s for a taste of SST-era thickness.By now you’re either locked onto what the Garcias are doing or you’re left behind. The band proves again and again that they’re one of the most dynamic rock bands going.
Weak Signal Over the last few years Weak Signal have steadily established themselves as one of the best NYC bands. An alley-hardened trio who suture ‘70s punk austerity to the bone-dry bash of the ‘90s in a way that most bands could only hope to accomplish. They’re the soul of the underbelly — turning the everyday into bruised brilliance and tattooing it onto the subconscious. Every song out of the Signal feels like it’s been a canon classic since college radio spilled out of dorms and onto the roster of every label lookin’.
CHÚPAME EL DEDO (COLOMBIA)
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Introducing Chúpame El Dedo, a group formed by Eblis Álvarez (Meridian Brothers) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo). Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, Chúpame El Dedo (Suck my Finger) deconstructs and manipulates the aesthetics of grindcore and black metal by mixing it with a strong tropical flavor made of salsa, cumbia & reggaeton.
"Expect tropical disoriented madness, stylistic dislocation and very very fast drums. Head banging mojitos!"
ANNA WEBBER'S SHIMMER WINCE + PLAY TIME
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DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Clifford Allen's series blazes on! This one is volume 32!
Shimmer Wince is quintet led by saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber. Featuring Adam O’Farrill on trumpet, Mariel Roberts Musa on cello, Elias Stemeseder on synthesizer, and Lesley Mok on drums, the music for this ensemble explores the applications of Just Intonation in a jazz/improvised context, including its intersections with rhythm and groove. Just Intonation, or JI, is an ancient tuning system based on the natural harmonics and resonances of notes and, for Webber, represents a continuation of her research into timbre and sound.
Play Time (Ben Vida, Booker Stardrum, and Will Epstein) great trio. Debut record out now
ANIKA
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DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Anika (Annika Henderson) is an artist who defies easy categorization—a sonic alchemist weaving together dub, post-punk, and psychedelia with flashes of drum & bass, all anchored by her striking voice and confrontational lyricism. Formerly a journalist, she brings a sharp, observational depth to her music, which oscillates between rebellion and release. Her latest album, Abyss, is a raw response to the chaos of our times,
"The world might be going to shit, but that’s why we need to meet in real life, vent, dance the pain away, play music, listen to music, laugh, cry, build bridges, come together..."
This ethos pulses through her work, where sound, poetry, and activism collide. She embraces imperfection, leaving flaws exposed, structures loose. In a musical landscape obsessed with technology Anika’s directness feels radical. Abyss isn’t about chasing novelty; it’s about clarity, presence, and the urgent need for human connection.
WOODSIST FEST WARMUP W/ WOODS + STAR MOLES
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DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
OPEN TURNTABLES: 45s ONLY hosted by FREAKOUT SPOT
Best 3 song set wins. 3 panel judge.
BRING THE HEATERS!
DOWNTOWN BOYS + POP MUSIC FEVER DREAM
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DOORS 7 /MUSIC 8
American punk rock band Downtown Boys are known for putting their progressive politics front and centre. Their album titles include Full Communism and Cost of Living, and their lyrics take shots at slumlords, police and white supremacists. In 2020, they recorded their own version of the communist anthem ‘L’Internationale’ for Miss Marx, a biopic about Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Downtown Boys also practise what they preach, routinely putting on free shows for fans that can’t afford tickets.
TUBBY'S 8 YEAR ANNIVERSARY / PLANTASIA AFTER PARTY
Free!
DJs all day!
cory 4-5
nathan 5-7
josephine 7-9
jared 9-10
freakout spot 10-?
RUBY OF THANKS (ALBUM RELEASE WOODSIST) + BLUE RANGER
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DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
Release show for a new record by Ruby of Thanks (Andy Weaver) out Sept 18 on Woodsist. Support from Blue Ranger (Troy, NY). Let us party in celebration.
LAURA STEVENSON + THE STEVENSON RANCH DAVIDIANS
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Yo! It’s Sammi Niss’ birthday party, and we’ve got two Stevenson acts ready to roll. Cheap tickets. Will go quick!
L'RAIN + AKAI SOLO
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DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
L’Rain is the musical project of multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and curator Taja Cheek. Operating between the worlds of art and music, and outwards into film, fashion and cultural discourse, Cheek is forging a unique path that transcends disciplines to become one of the most vital and adventurous voices for this warped contemporary moment.
Currently the artistic director of Performance Space NY and readying the release of L’Rain’s fourth album, fata morgana, Cheek’s creative impact resonates through her uncompromising commitment to community-building, navigating structural inequality while challenging musical conventions and expectations at every turn. L’Rain is its thrilling manifestation.
Raised in Brooklyn and rooted in the city’s vibrant noise community, Cheek’s world was defined by a tension of contrasts from the off — classically trained yet steeped in DIY iconoclasm, drawn to lush orchestrations and gritty tape loops alike, finding cracks in established forms, taking risks and letting the light pour through.