Do These Bands Fux Live?

May Day, May Day, your concert is sold out, head directly to Bushwick for immediate debriefing. This is not a drill, this is some power post punk. Women are not available for flirting. 4.25/5. Over and out.

Faced a packed subway and incredibly heightened door security and a Ticketmaster failure to get to this show, but in the end, the first act was worth it. Unfortunately Youth Lagoon tried to transition from their older stuff to the new hoping no one would notice, but we did. 3.5/5. First Uber of the year was necessary (took to Popeyes 4.5/5)

When I found out steel guitar grunge wunderkind would be playing at a chapel on Easter weekend, I had to take the 90 minutes trip up North. After climbing (and kinda missing) Bull's Hill, having a pint and chowda' at the local watering hole, then taking a little stroll through town I ended up at my 2nd religious batiment in 2 months, making this dangerously close to a trend. I was wiped with a drive back, so couldn't stay for both halves of the show, but from what I saw 2/2.5. If anyone sees my black NYC hat they can keep it.

On the day when countless so-cal bros and brodettes would be going Ga-Ga over at Coachella, the real festival was happening in a rambunctious (and odd smelling) Brewery in Brooklyn. First time seeing that man play bass as part of Couples Therapy. Saywordstatz opened a killer house set, but unfortunately couldn't fit in a second gif.

Sometimes, even though its 9:00 on a Wednesday, you need to get your ass on the express bus to take it to the best show in town. We rocked, we rolled, we had a 7 on 7 (which like the bar tender pretended wasnt a thing), but most of all we supported live music on a weeknight, would do again 4.75/5 times.

Wow so nice to see a band here and it actually be the one you came to see. Honestly hard to complain about their 4.5/5 performance, except wondering why they (thankfully) went on second.

On what would be a night of pouring rain, id had to take the bus and check into the Meadows to see none other but that vivacious Shilpa Ray open for the low key Jeffrey Lewis. Unfortunately slow security delayed my entrance to Ray's 2/2 set by more than 5 minutes, but I got up close and personal for Lewis's whimsical 4/5 performance, before getting soaked on the way back home (no Uber).

Back so soon to the Ballroom, and having to agonize between this and a Hovvdy/Video Age concert, though I think I chose correctly. Full of 90s fogies, and youthful fogies, Ratboys really blew some minds with their bug-eyed post-punk (though lacking in Elvis), then I finally understood what the Kim Deal was. 4.5/5.

While it would have sounded better if Blau was bearded we respected his (and the opener's) choices to a rock-us-silly 4.5/5 night. Guess anything can happen once you descend a liminal staircase in Queens.

Great crowd, and I may have thought the 2nd band was the closer (I really gotta start learning more about these bands before seeing them), we returned just in time to catch a second blast of sparkling guitar from Hello Mary (4.5/5)