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If We Could, Would We is the latest effort from Kingston / Brooklyn-based duo Gracie and Rachel (Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles), who have become known for their innovative brand of elevated indie-pop, complete with baroque string work and piercingly spare song structures. After releasing their self-titled debut to critical acclaim in 2017, Gracie and Rachel have been seen on stages opening for Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and others. They have performed two NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and been praised by the outlet to “mix pop and classical in stark, infectious ways and make unforgettable, surprising music.” Their 2025 single “WTF” earned praise from The Line of Best Fit who raved, “Gracie and Rachel Deliver Folk-Pop for the Future on “WTF,”’” and Rolling Stone which named it a “Song You Need To Know.”

The most personal and daring album of their career thus far, If We Could, Would We asks important questions about potential regret and openness, ultimately concluding that the only way out is through. It also finds Gracie and Rachel sharing space again after coming to a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. After the release of their 2023 EP Nowhere Now Here, Gracie spent part of the next year working on solo material, a journey that eventually led her back to Rachel, who was working through the end of a long-term relationship.

Our neighbors come over and spin some records! Innis and Slim Corvelli will be your selectors tonight.

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Clifford Allen's long running series (So, What Do You Think?) hosts it's 31st gig!

"The Ghost was formed as both a tribute to my disparate influences in free jazz, harsh noise, and the gay underground community, and as a middle finger to the suffocating heteronormative establishment of improvised music." Tonight it'll be Michael with Zach Rowden and Joey Sullivan.

Composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies and composer and bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause make music rooted in observation. Timbres across percussion and string instruments gradually meld into one; pitches gently float into consonance after bristling in dissonance.

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Sydney’s Party Dozen (saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet) are back with a new album Crime In Australia, the follow-up to 2022’s The Real Work. The Real Work proved to be an international breakthrough for the group. Tracks such as the Nick Cave-featuring “Macca The Mutt”, the radio-friendly skronk of “Fruits Of Labour” and the epic string-drenched beauty of “Risky Behaviour” won fans far and wide, enabling the group to take their wild and intense live show across four continents.

As with its predecessor, Crime In Australia was written, recorded, produced and mixed by the duo themselves in their studio in Marrickville, Sydney. This time, the location was more of an influence than on previous occasions:

“Marrickville in the 1960s-70s was a notorious crime hot spot. If a car was stolen, or someone was missing, they’d look for them in Marrickville. Since then, the area has been highly gentrified and slowly the once grimy industrial warehouse lined streets are being swapped for monstrous apartment blocks with palm trees.

We began without any theme in mind, just the beginnings of some song ideas. As we were discovering the songs for this album, each song felt more and more at home in an old cop tv series’ soundtrack. The Crime theme quickly became apparent.

The record feels split into two contrasting sides. The first half is ‘order’, being as listenable as Party Dozen has ever been. Each song is law abiding and dignified in its own place. The second half is ‘disorder,’ becoming more unlawful, unhinged, louder and noisier.”

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Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Anderson is the recipient of the 2025 Spark Award for Oregon Artists presented by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.

In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. In addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, among others.

Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union.

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Coasting into town on fumes, late and not speaking to each other because nobody would stop to ask for directions, The Ar-Kaics take their cues from the first wave of ‘60s punk — American teenagers taking cues from the British Invasion, in turn taking cues from pilfers of the hinterland originators — with the added vantage of several subsequent decades worth of wayward balladeers, no names and psychedelic rock hangovers.

The Ar-Kaics have been delivering their off-brand, spot-on garage rock originals out of Richmond, VA, via a flood of small press singles and a s/t debut album - all of which have since become highly desirable in the collectors market - and several successful DIY tours across the lower 48, with shows in Canada and Europe to boot. Since, they've drifted around some, gotten and lost jobs, opened a record store and label, and started families.

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What began in 2019 as a long-awaited creative reunion between long-time comrades Philipp Minnig (Sugar &Gold, Dura-Delinquent) and Hans Dobbratz (Gravid Wives, Dura-Delinquent) quickly evolved into something fargreater when drummer Tiffanie Lanmon (Mirror Travel, Jess Williamson, Suki Waterhouse) and bassist CyrusGengras (Kevin Morby, Jessica Pratt) joined the fold. Together, the four-piece forged a scrambled, elasticgrammar, music as legible in a backyard punk show as it is explosive in a stadium, rigged with trap doors thatconstantly pulled the floorout from under rock ’n’ roll.

With ‘Strange Tanks’, Street Fruit expanded the foundation laid on their 2022 debut ‘Beneath The Screen’,sculpting a sound both unruly and razor-sharp. The new record blends drunken, lurching riffs with wiry stabs ofguitar, slinky rhythmic undercurrents,and melodies that oscillate between playful and punishing. Lyrically, theband pushes beyond the caustic humour and libidinal bite of their early work, carving out unexpected pockets ofromance, repose, and redemption. Tracked to 2” tape at 64 Sound withengineer Jimmy Dixon, the album leansinto the studio’s vintage gear to create a heavier, warmer, more tactile sonic world, one that mutates and revealsitself in new ways with every listen.

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“ennio morricone meets zz top at lee hazlewood’s house on mescaline” -emerald city reader

led by william slater (grails, black mountain, ugly casanova), silver triplets of the rio hondo is a fantasy western outfit whose sound marries synthesizer, noise collage, & drum programming to a set of barrel-chested crooners, lending the live band an eerie camp that could live as easily on a dilapidated cruise ship as inside a honky tonk bar. dusty, cinematic textures floating about a dystopian harbor. jim reeves meeting vangelis for a piña colada. sci-fi roadhouse music for dissociatives.

HEAVEN: space rock sonic reverberation from NYC. matt sumrow, mikey jones, and sonia manalili formed heaven after touring and recording with swervedriver, dean and britta, ambulance LTD, LSD and the search for god and more. their 3rd full length dream aloud was released april 4, 2025 on little cloud records.

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My New Band Believe, led by Cameron Picton, bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, with whom he practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex storytelling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos. The moniker serves as an open invitation, a subtle nod to listeners willing to meet the music on its own terms, to reap the rewards of taking a flying leap into the dark. Picton leads his band so that each track forms, scatters and re-groups, the uplift of one song crashing head-long into the rush of another. Inspired by Bert Jansch’s hypnotic, hard-driving guitar, Judee Sill’s panoramic pop, and the terrifying possibility of dance music, My New Band Believe is both all-encompassing and constantly in flux.

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Your DJs for the night:
7   Foggy Notion
8   Grand Format
9   Foolish Moon
10  Field Guides
11  Ethical Drift

“The Ulster County SPCA is a private nonprofit 501(c)3 which is not a part of the ASPCA or the Ulster County government. They are 96% funded by our local community.”

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Ben Seretan & John Thayer - two mighty practitioners of Hudson River ambient - together channel their formidable powers into work that is graceful, sublime, and often a little sorrowful. Seated before a Fender Rhodes amid a nest of wires they call forth the specters of the valley, gathering signal noise and tape hiss as gentle as a breeze. Sunbeam of No Illusion, their debut LP as a duo, is out now on AKP Recordings.

The Early is Alex Lewis (guitars, synthesizers) and Jake Nussbaum (drums, electronics). The two began playing music together in high school during the apex of post-rock, fixated on acts like Do Make Say Think, Jim O’Rourke and Tortoise. Reunited in Philadelphia in 2019, the two have spent the past seven years reinventing their shared musical language, infusing the textural grandeur of post-rock with the communicational intimacy of jazz improvisation, the patient grooves of minimalism, electronica, and drone. Their 2026 release, I Want To Be Ready (Island House Recordings) was described by Record Crates United as “drifty, minimalist jazz fusion soundscapes that hum, drone and rumble like the atmosphere of a clockwork city.”

Bent Light is the duo of Michael Slyne and Russel Linder. 2 punk rockers and less volume. Two guitars. Millions of pedals. Busted tape machines sing too. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes harsh. They say it feels like a dream.

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Pinpointing the specific catalyst for an avalanche can be slippery — any combination of classic elements, human interference, or freak accident can trigger disaster — and documenting these precise moments often rests on serendipitous reflexes. On Two Wheels Move the Soul, Robber Robber offer themselves as ignition and capture every sound in the wake. Involuntarily thrust into the throws of rootless nomadism, Robber Robber ringleader Nina Cates collects a series of pressurized vignettes to assemble the Burlington quartet’s thrillingly explosive sophomore album.

Two Wheels Move the Soul was written and recorded throughout the winter of 2024 and 2025, a season of Cates’ life characterized by near-constant upheaval. In January of 2025, Cates (and Robber Robber co-founder) Zack James were displaced from their longtime home at the behest of a landlord’s call to have their building demolished. In a moment’s notice — and amidst a particularly brutal Vermont winter — Cates and James were left to fend for themselves. Luckily, the two were able to tap a deep well of support within their community, finding respite on the couches of Lily Seabird, Greg Freeman, and Thus Love’s Echo Mars. An unused attic provided their longest arrangement.

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Wolf Eyes is a band from Michigan. Formed in the fall of 1996 by N. Young. They are known for their bizarre and otherworldly approach to music. Creating a sound that is both disturbing and hypnotic. The band has released numerous albums and EPs on various labels. With their intense and bizarre live performances, Wolf Eyes has garnered a reputation as one of the most frightening and weird bands in the world. Wolf Eyes is currently John Olson and Nate Young. They have performed together for over 20 years and have collaborated with Smegma, Anthony Braxton, Richard Pinhas, Merzbow, Marshall Allen, and many more.

“Guitarist Matt Sargent and synthesist Dani Dobkin’s Bend stands out thanks to its almost hypnotic pull. Riffs altered through computer programming intertwine with swirling, glitching electronics and stretch into a strangely emotional, gossamer-like tapestry of sounds, from barely audible phrases to saturating swells of noise. It all sounds almost like an American primitive guitar record retrieved from far in the future.” - Antonio Poscic (Research Music)

All skill levels welcome.
6ish - 9ish

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John Andrews has spent the past few years tucked away in Red Hook, Brooklyn—a neighborhood that sits just beyond the natural drift of the city. Once shaped by maritime industry and later a haven for artists in search of vast warehouse space, its history and isolation give it a quiet magnetism. Streetsweeper, the fifth album by John Andrews & The Yawns, reflects that vantage point—tranquil, self-contained, and curious about the movements most people overlook.

Sarah La Puerta is an artist, musician, and calligrapher who works in different dimensions. She was born in New Orleans, raised in Texas and now lives in rural upstate New York. Her favorite tree is the weeping willow, and her favorite flowers are water lilies.

Tubbys is happy to have our friend Andy Weaver/ruby of thanks back again!

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Doug Gillard has a new record coming out on Kingston based label Dromedary Records. Join us for a release party! Doug Gillard is a guitarist, songwriter & has recorded / played with Guided By Voices, Nada Surf, Lifeguards, Neko Case, Death Of Samantha, Gem, Bambi Kino, Sally Crewe, The Hold Steady, Scarcity Of Tanks, My Dad is Dead, Gramercy Arms & many more. The new record rips!

Cathedral Ceilings were formed in the late 2010s by singer/guitarist Ralph Malanga (Stuyvesant), drummer Nick D’Amore (Overlake, Worldsucks), and bassist Tom Diello (Bad Karma).

Fronted by poet Karen Schoemer, Albany NY’s Sky Furrows combine influences from krautrock, NZ bands the Clean and the Verlaines, the Minutemen, Sylvia Plath and early Sonic Youth. Schoemer collaborates with bassist Mike Watt in Jaded Azurites, and with Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby. Eric Hardiman, Mike Griffin and Phil Donnelly are members of psych rock unit Burnt Hills.

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MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire), create panoramic pop that draws on both the familiar and the strange, while also treading new ground. With their playful and experimental style, combined with a love of good tunes, they sit comfortably alongside Broadcast, Portishead, Arthur Russell, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo and Tortoise.

‘Memorial Waterslides’ is the debut album from MEMORIALS. This is an otherworldly, surrealist pop record that is both timeless and timely, displaying a rare mix of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes.

The album is awash with imagery evoking a lost future, a veiled present and a daydreamed past, each song playing a role in creating a swirling, widescreen atmosphere, the listener taken along for the ride. Produced entirely by the two of them, the sound of the record was inspired by the reel-to-reel tape experiments they first played around with onstage as they began to develop their multi-layered recordings for live performances as a duo.

Following their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks ‘Women Against The Bomb’ and ‘Tramps!’, a European tour with Stereolab (they’ve been called “Stereolab’s evil twin”) and a new music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity and Matthew arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their soundtracking day jobs to create cosmic journeys through the garden shed into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.

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Mexico City’s Mint Field creates a unique blend of avant dream pop and shoegaze that explore the nostalgia and melancholy of daily life. The band is led by Estrella del Sol and Sebastian Neyra.

Formed in the spring of 2023, New York-based grungy shoegazers Glimmer spent their first two years releasing a series of well-received singles (to praise from NPR, Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, and CREEM Magazine), and playing countless live shows in both the US and Europe. Now, with the release of their debut LP, Get Weak, the band has proven that not only can they produce heavy-hitting, hook-filled singles, but that their softer, dreamier soundscapes leave just as much of an impression.

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Release show for a comp out on Hudson Valley label Portraiture. Featuring a live set from ANGELS IN THE LEFT FIELD (Pamela& her sons and 30000AD) +downstairs j + MUSIC LOVERS ANONYMOUS + DJ FEMALE

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Detroit's Tyvek is an evolving meditation on the bizarre world we’ve created. While the format of a blistering punk group might not scream subtlety, the introspective lyrics and recurring themes of the group provide a far greater dividend than one might initially expect. Laying down the defensive wall of distorted guitars and building on a dream-like narrative with a request for human decency, Tyvek continues and puts down another album leaving much to think upon.

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Free Emo party with molly!

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lovetempo: Lonelyhearts disco from Brooklyn. New project from Mattie Safer best know from The Rapture/Poolside. Debut record "There is a light" is a ripper. Out April 17 on Bastard Jazz.

Meghan Dowlen (Material Girls) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and performer from Atlanta, GA, crafting bold, shape-shifting pop that lives in the tension between brute force and vulnerability. Her music explores the duality of femininity with theatrical flair and emotional precision, unafraid to be soft, furious, ecstatic, or strange nods to dance pop and new-wave traditions.

La Mirage is a new project from Lenny Lynch (founding member of Habibi) and Tyler Love

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Sluice, now a four-piece band from Durham, North Carolina—with Morris on guitar and vocals, Oliver Child-Lanning on bass and various instruments, Avery Sullivan on drums, and Libby Rodenbough on fiddle—return with Companion, their third album and Mtn Laurel Recording Co. debut. It follows 2023’s Radial Gate, the quietly beloved record Morris made after fleeing NewYork for a Craigslist house in Hillsborough with then-stranger Child-Lanning, tracking songs at Sylvan Esso’s studio Betty’s while working carpentry jobs and wondering, as he sings on “What The Fuck?,” if he should do something else like “go back to school.” Radial Gate caught him halfway out the door of music, steeped in a hermit-like loneliness of rivers, dams, and floodgates. Instead, its release brought the dream back, but it looked different than it did to the “kid reading in a bunk” on a tour bus, crying and asking, “What happened to it all feeling so good?” that he sings about in “Vegas.” Companion begins where that disenchanted loneliness leaves off. Recorded with producer/engineer Alli Rogers at Betty’s in the winter of 2024 and slowly tended over two years, it sounds like someone deciding there may yet be a dream of music worth struggling for—and that the point of that dream isn’t stardom or escape, but companionship.

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Our olde pal Ryan is releasing a book. We’ve got bands Sunburned hand of the Man + Slyne & The Family Stoned plus poetry readings from the legends Vlad and Bel.

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The Lowliest One (Kingston, NY) is a dark, manic plunge into the soul of America’s haunted heart. Fusing the raw, chaotic energy of grunge with ghostly country and punk’s restless spirit, they create a sound that’s both fevered and haunting. Where every riff is a storm and every beat feels like the last desperate breath of a world on fire with lyrics that wrestle with madness, heartache, and the wreckage of life on the edge; a fevered confession. For those who crave a raw, unfiltered journey into the dark side of the American psyche, The Lowliest One is the soundtrack to your restless nights.

MEOW MEOW is a queercore post-genre band based in the Hudson Valley, New York. The band is composed of Kitty (vocals, rhythym), Harry (lead guitar), Ash (bass), with additional instrumentations from Celina (saxophone), and Matt (drums).

Bird Week is an indie rock band based in Kingston NY, built around the songwriting of lead singer Justin Hatch. With members from across New York State, the band acts as a rotating cast with lineups as small as 3 people and as large as 6. They are currently working on their fourth studio album and playing shows in support of two recently released EPs.

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No Need To Be Lonely, the latest from Philadelphia band Gladie, is serene, but for only just a moment. For a moment it’s a swirling dream, like paper dancing in the wind, as Augusta Koch’s voice filters in all calm and measured with words that crack the surface of the heart. “Small dose of humiliation/it keeps me humble/it keeps me waiting,” she sings. And then a snap as incandescent rhythms arrive like wolves at the gate, all guitar and drums like a whirling storm, and the crack on the heart tears until it becomes an ocean.

Each minute on No Need To Be Lonely is a memory carried out on the nerves of the body, unshakable melodies that become blood in the veins. There is something about a good and perfect song that lives in your bones, as if it has become a part of you. What has long been the unshakable core of Gladie’s prowess is Koch’s indelible strength as a songwriter, a craft that has only been honed with time, creating inalienable hits that will burrow in and never leave the core of your memories.

NOUN is a new project from Marissa Paternoster (the former lead singer and guitarist of the band Screaming Females)

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The Hobknobs, the new Netherlands band featuring Arie Van Vliet of Lewsberg and Yaël Dekker of The Klittens on guitars and vocals, have just announced a 16-show tour of select US cities that begins this Wednesday, 4/22 in Chicago. They'll be touring as a trio joined by The Klittens’ Katja Kahana on bass.

This tour and the accompanying tape, or should we say this tape and the accompanying tour, means a turning point. Not for the world, not for music, but for The Hobknobs. The first months of the year were all about working on new music. And that work was done mostly behind the scenes. But today 2026 has properly started for Yaël Dekker and Arie van Vliet. With a sixteen-date tour in the U.S., an album on the way (more about that later), and the first proper release on 12XU (a tape called ‘Turning 26’). Or is it a proper release? This tape is a collage of live performances, rehearsals, alternative takes and field recordings. And as Dekker and Van Vliet state: “We invite everybody to listen to this tape, but this tape is not for everybody.” Which is the reason why this tape is only available during the upcoming tour, and will not be available for streaming or purchasing online.

Kingston's $500 will generously be providing support for the evening.

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For just over a decade, EXEK has very quietly become one of the most hypnotic bands on the planet, mutating and growing from record to record, gradually opening themselves up without ever losing that strange, inscrutable, altogether essential quality that’s made them so great—so EXEK-y.

On 27 February, the Melbourne post-punk outfit—vocalist and chief architect Albert Wolski, guitarist Jai Morris-Smith, drummer Chris Stephenson, synth specialist Andrew Brocchi, trumpet-brandishing vocalist Valya YL Hooi, and bassist Ben Hepworth—will release Prove The Mountains Move, their seventh album and first for DFA. It is, as Wolski says, “a bit more 'epic’” than anything he’s recorded to date, a lush and unabashedly melodic set of surrealist pop that luxuriates in contradiction. “This record is experimental in its craft,” Wolski says, “but it may not necessarily sound experimental.”

Over the course of more than two decades, Philadelphia musician Bill Nace (guitar, taishogoto) has carved out unique collaborations across a wide range of contemporary improvisational practices, and though these range from solos to small groups, there’s a keen ear toward the immediate, stark tug of duets. Some of these meetings are one-offs for now (saxophonists Evan Parker and Masayo Koketsu), while others are regular partnerships that have evolved across continual play and refinement. Tonight Bill will be in a duet with French saxophonist Sakina Abdou, whose searing and personally declarative solo CD, Goodbye Ground, was released by Relative Pitch at the close of 2022. From Lille, Abdou has participated in collectives for many years, but recent solo work has garnered her more attention (especially Stateside) and offers a clear and focused explication of her language.

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Deface the Currency, the new second collaborative album from the Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, grew out of a simple intuition. The group — with saxophonist Lewis joining the core Messthetics lineup of Brendan Canty on drums, Joe Lally on bass and Anthony Pirog on guitar — was on tour in the summer of 2025 when Canty knew it was time to go back into the studio.

This configuration of the band had debuted on record the year prior, releasing an acclaimed self-titled album via Impulse!, the legendary jazz label. But as the quartet logged serious time on the road, the drummer felt their chemistry evolving, so he called up engineer Don Godwin and booked a couple of days at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, Maryland, where The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis was recorded.