HELMET The Palladium Times Square - NYC - 11/21/25 ©Alice Teeple Helmet hit The Palladium Times Square like a municipal vehicle that lost its brakes somewhere around 1992 and never bothered to get them fixed. Page Hamilton walked out first: calm, stoic, professorial, the only man alive who can make…
KULA SHAKER 9/22/25 - Irving Plaza - NYC ©Alice Teeple Kula Shaker returned to Manhattan on the evening of the autumnal equinox: this time, they landed at Irving Plaza on a stage lovingly decked out in bright color: malas draped across amplifiers, beads hanging from mic stands, the keyboard and…
GLASS SPELLS 9/7/25 - The Meadows - Brooklyn, NYC ©Alice Teeple At The Meadows in Brooklyn, the night was lit by pink pillars that cut through the cavernous dark like neon relics. It was the kind of room where time felt elastic: past and future meeting in a bass line.…
CURSE MACKEY w/ SINE, Void Palace 8/10/25 - Mercury Lounge - NYC ©Alice Teeple On a hot August New York night, the Mercury Lounge in the Lower East Side felt like a secret chapel for those who’d come to worship at The Red Party’s “Special Sunday Service.” The pews were…
OBSERVATION ROOM w/ MangoDog, Stare Away 8/7/25 - Bowery Electric Basement - NYC ©Alice Teeple Half a block from CBGB’s ghost, in the Bowery Electric’s charged basement, August's edition of New Goth New York unfolded like one of those fever dreams you half-remember on the subway, the ones that carry…
OMD Terminal 5 - 7/8/25 - NYC ©Alice Teeple Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark lit up Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen with a high-voltage finale at Terminal 5, wrapping up an electrifying 30-date run that had fans counting down since health issues pushed the original dates back last year. Sure, OMD could’ve…
Since their formation in Düsseldorf in 1980, Germany's Die Krupps have etched an indelible mark on industrial music, laying foundational sounds that reverberate through the DNA of acts like Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb. Last night at the gorgeous Brooklyn Paramount, that legacy surged forth in full technicolor fury, an…
Born in the scuffed and sweating cityscape of New York, Blu Anxxiety feels like it crawled up from a subway grate with a bag full of breakbeats and bad intentions. They cherry-pick chaos and brute force, slap it against sneering punk snarl and freestyle’s feverish pulse, then spike the whole…
