About tomorrow's Show Brain-sponsored concert in Tompkins Square Park

Tomorrow (Saturday!) afternoon, Show Brain is presenting another free show in Tompkins Square Park with the following bands (set times are approximate!):

• 1:55 to 2:25 — Torture and The Desert Spiders 

• 2:40 to 3:15 — Joudy 

• 3:30 to 4:05 — Two Man Giant Squid 

• 4:25 to 5:05 — Avishag Cohen Rodrigues 

• 5:20 to 6 — P.H.0. 

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.

Bands we like: Dead Tooth

Photos on July 13 by Stacie Joy 

This past Sunday, Dead Tooth was part of an afternoon of free music via Show Brain in Tompkins Square Park. 

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 Magnet noted: "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...

SORRYNOTSORRY...

... and Pinc Louds...

And to Tilt — sorry that we missed you!

About tomorrow's free show in Tompkins Square Park

Tomorrow (Sunday!) afternoon, Show Brain is presenting another solid free show in Tompkins Square Park.

On the bill:

• Pinc Louds

• Dead Tooth

• Tilt

• Jasno

There may be an additional act as well... we'll update if so... SORRYNOTSORRY has been added to the lineup.

Tetchy in Tompkins

Photos by Stacie Joy 

It was late Saturday night, after a show at Our Wicked Lady, that Tetchy knew they'd be playing in Tompkins Square Park the following day. 

The local band was a midnight-hour addition to Show Brain's free slate of music on Sunday. 

We were glad to experience their sinewy punch of punk (a band we really like), despite a hectic day that cut our afternoon at the show short. 

Below... lead singer-guitarist Maggie Denning...

Bassist Kaitlin Pelkey...

Guitarist Jesse French...

and drummer Ransom McCafferty...

Here's the band with Show Brain founder Ozzie on the right...

This was Tetchy's last live show until the end of the summer. They'll be in the recording studio this month.

Leaving you with their summer 2024 single "Mommy"...

 

[Updated]About the free live music tomorrow (Sunday) in Tompkins Square Park

The next Show Brain-sponsored free show in Tompkins Square Park features four bands from 2-6: 

• PINKLIDS 

• Big Girl 

• Abby Jeanne + the Shadowband 

• Surgeon General 

We don't have the set times just yet. 

Here's a taste of the headliners, PINKLIDS, who hail from Wareham, Mass.

 

Updated 6/29 

Tetchy has joined the bill... 

Approximate set times:

• Surgeon General: 2-2:35

• Tetchy: 2:50-3:25 

• Abby Jeanne: 3:40-4:15 

• PINKLIDS: 4:30-5:05 

• Big Girl: 5:20-6

Live from Tompkins Square Park with Um, Jennifer? and Vial

Photos by Stacie Joy 

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...

You can sign up for a Show Brain mailing list here for news on upcoming shows in Tompkins and elsewhere. Previously on EV Grieve:

• A band to know: Um, Jennifer?