Show Brain returns to Tompkins Square Park tomorrow (Sunday) with another stacked lineup. (This free show is in collaboration with Casa Gogol Records.)
Crazy and the Brains is one of the bands on the bill for the free Show Brain show on Sunday afternoon in Tompkins Square Park. Anticipated set time on Sunday: 3:50 to 4:25.
The video here is for the early summer release "Fantasy."
The band got its start playing at the late, great Sidewalk Cafe on Avenue A and Sixth Street (soon to be Corner Bistro).
This summer, we've been taking portraits of some of the bands playing the free Show Brain-sponsored shows in Tompkins Square Park (here, here, and here).
Tomorrow (Saturday!) afternoon, Show Brain is presenting another free show in Tompkins Square Park with the following bands (set times are approximate!):
And next weekend (Aug. 2-3) — The free concerts commemorating the 37th anniversary of the Tompkins Square Police Riot of Aug. 6, 1988. Bands are scheduled for both days. We'll share more info in the days ahead.
Usually a five-piece, the Queens-based Dead Tooth played as a power trio, led by lead vocalist-guitarist Zach James...
... including special guest Ozzie, founder of Show Brain (on the left), joining the band on drums this day...
Meanwhile, Dead Tooth's debut record is out today on Trash Casual.
As our friends at Magnetnoted: "Dead Tooth has essentially fashioned its own subgenre: 'rodeo core,' a sound that borrows from post-punk, goth, hardcore and (in an oddly peripheral sense) country music." (They also once opened for GWAR.)
Here are portraits of other bands from the day, starting with Jasno...
We caught two of the bands on Saturday afternoon during the Show Brain-sponsored free concert in Tompkins Square Park.
Despite the intermittent showers, Show Brain founder Ozzie and his volunteers had tents and tarps for the bands, and the show went on to an appreciative crowd.
We saw another playful set from endearing locals Um, Jennifer? ... (below) Eli, Fig, Carmen and Grayson...
And afterward (with Show Brain's Ozzie on the left)...
Then there was the headliner Vial, an indie punk trio from Minneapolis making a Tompkins tour stop...
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Previously on EV Grieve: