Julien Baker at Beacon Theater (photo by Kate Hoos) Julien Baker returned to New York City for the first time since the end of 2018 to play her largest headlining show here to date. The show was at Beacon Theater, a gorgeous old fashioned ...
Les Savy Fav performing at Market Hotel (photo by Kate Hoos) Les Savy Fav played their first show back in the (semi) after times on Sunday 9/12 at Market Hotel which was also their first hometown show since early 2019. Like any LSF show, it...
Gal Fieri performing at Our Wicked Lady 8/8/2021 (photo by Kate Hoos). I’ve found myself on the rooftop of OWL a lot lately and I tell ya, its a good place to be. I was originally supposed to work on this night, but the venue I work ...
Glass Animals performing at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival (photo by Ellen Qbertplaya) This past Tuesday, British indie pop band Glass Animals headlined the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park for a sold-out show benefiting the BRIC...
Jawbreaker at Starland Ballroom, 3/30/19 (photo by Kate Hoos) I have a considerable archive of images of live shows that have for one reason or another never been published before, so I have decided to start sharing some of those because wh...
Ali of Control Top on the Williamsburg Bridge (photo by Kate Hoos) I love seeing music any time, any place, and I will never not love going to DIY events. I very much stand by these statements and put them to the true test as I walked up th...
Cloud Nothings at Elsewhere (photo by Ray Rusinak) Cleveland, Ohio’s indie/punk rock outfit, Cloud Nothings, brought their current midwest/northeast tour to Bushwick (yes, contrary to what you might have heard at the show, Elsewhere is in Bu...
TVOD at Rippers (photo by Kate Hoos) I’m not one to really ever go to the beach…the sand, the heat, all the rigamarole with getting there…it’s just not for me (many have tried to convince me to change my ways over t...
Rebirth Brass Band at City Winery (photo by Ray Rusinak) To quote Monty Python, “and now for something completely different.” We here at FTA like to mix it up sometimes and yes, even cover things outside the punk/indie/rock realm,...
Son Rompe Pera (photo by Ellen Qbertplaya) My concert pal Hewitt recently sent me a link to a video on YouTube of the Mexican band Son Rompe Pera, who did an at home pandemic performance for radio station KEXP. After watching this video, I ...
The Wilful Boys at Our Wicked Lady (photo by Kate Hoos) Another humid summer night, another banger on the rooftop of OWL. This was a five band bill, which I have recently said can either be awesome or a bummer depending, but this night fort...
Cafuné at Mercury Lounge (photo by Ellen Qbertplaya) For my first visit to Mercury Lounge in over two years (!), I caught a nice double dose of local indie rock goodness – Groupie followed by Cafuné. These two bands played the early...
Colatura at The Broadway (photo by Ray Rusinak) About a month ago, I happened upon a video of a band playing the New Colossus Festival over at 18th Ward Brewing and was immediately hooked. That band was Colatura. I knew as soon as I saw t...
Screamin’ Rebel Angels performing at Our Wicked Lady (photo by Jeanette D. Moses) Laura Rebel Angel kicked off her fall tour with Screamin’ Rebel Angels last night in Our Wicked Lady’s downstairs bar. The intimate show ...
Heavy Lag performing at Bushwick Public House (photo by Kate Hoos) As a hurricane is bearing down on your town, what is one to do? Head to the punk rock show of course! Wait….is there something else I should have done as Hurricane Hen...
Creek & Kills at 18th Ward Brewing (photo by Kate Hoos) Creek & Kills just put out a stunning new EP, Unstitching (read our review), and hosted a release show at 18th Ward to celebrate. Having attending a show with metal and sto...
Mikey Erg at Our Wicked Lady (photo by Ray Rusinak) I have to admit after spending over a year with no live shows, when concerts and shows started being announced again back in May and June, I pretty much jumped on every one that even remot...
Weeping Icon at TV Eye (photo by Kate Hoos) Weeping Icon was one of the very last bands I saw before everything shut down in 2020 (I covered that night for Brooklyn Vegan), and they just played their first show back in the (semi) af...
Frida Kill (photo by Kate Hoos) It was a dark and stormy night……wait isn’t that the start of a scary campfire story? Well turns out it is also applicable to punk shows on a steamy Leo night, as this was exactly the case wh...
Winterwolf at Arlene’s Grocery (photo by Kate Hoos) Five band bills can go a lot of different ways. Sometimes you’re there and one band is killer while the rest barely classify as filler, maybe you’ll luck out and two are ...
Oceanator at Trans-Pecos (photo by Ellen Qbertplaya) Teenage Halloween at Trans-Pecos (photo by Ellen Qbertplaya) Maneka at Trans-Pecos (photo by Ellen Qbertplaya) This past Saturday, the Ridgewood, Queens, venue Trans...
Lucy Dacus was in New York this past weekend to play here for the first time since 2019 (though she was here recently to do a signing at the new Rough Trade location). She opened for Bright Eyes on Saturday at Forest Hills Stadium and had been sch...
Spite Fuxxx at Rubulad (photo by Kate Hoos) My band Witch Slap was booked to play this bill and I personally was very excited to finally get to play with Spite Fuxxx because they always put on such a killer show and are one of my local Bro...
Creek & Kills at Parkside Lounge (photo by Kate Hoos) On a recent sweaty July Friday night, a “multi generational” show went down at Parkside Lounge and this was most certainly true with the band members across the four acts rangin...
WORLDSUCKS (photo by Kate Hoos) Anyone who knows me (or reads this blog) knows I go to a lot of shows. Between playing, shooting, and (soon to be again) working shows, I’m at shows almost every night of the week. And I see shows in a ...
SAVAK at 18th Ward Brewery Summer Sundays presented by The New Colossus Fest weekly series of shows outside of 18th Ward Brewery continued this past weekend and incorporated a Declared Goods showcase featuring SAVAK, Women of the Night, an...
I am always down to rock out with my fellow queers and it doesn’t need to be Pride month at all for celebrations of queer artists and queer magic; we don’t need a marketing angle to know we are worthy of all the space to be ourselves a...
The New Colossus Festival has been hosting free shows just outside 18th Ward Brewing in East Williamsburg almost every Sunday since mid-April. This past weekend, I was tied up for most of the afternoon, but I was able to get to the corner of Richa...
VACANT COMPANY Putnam Palace is a backyard DIY spot that we have featured before and I am happy to report has been continuing to host shows. As I’m sure most readers are aware, DIY spots are constantly under threat of being shut down, tail ...
I love to see a big band in an intimate space, and that’s exactly what The Black Lips provided on Thursday July 8th during their second sold out show of the week at TV Eye in Ridgewood, Queens. At this point I’ve lost track of just how many Bl...
Just because Pride weekend 2021 had already come and gone didn’t mean there was room for more queer celebration, because there is ALWAYS room for more queer celebration. And that was exactly the scene when the night kicked off for the “...
Go Skateboarding Day and Make Music New York both come around every year on June 21st and draw scores of enthusiastic participants. Go Skateboarding Day is an event to celebrate- you guessed it- skateboarding and skate culture, as well as to enc...
The earth is officially healing because DIY shows are alive and well! As traditional venues large and small remain closed or on limited capacity/schedules for the time being, backyards and rooftops dotting Brooklyn are beginning to fill the void l...
Spite Fuxxx recently took to the streets of Bushwick to celebrate their singer MG’s birthday with not one, but two sets of noisy synth punk mayhem that had the of fans and friends thrilled and the normie brunch crowd walking by periodically...