+CLONE- Brooklyn alt rockers CLONE have released their new 'Care To Try' EP, a blazing three-track offering, as well as fine limited edition 2-track '7” vinyl release. Together, this is their second major release via Portland label Little Cloud Records, featuring cover photography by famed artist Simon Larbalestier, well known for his work with Pixies and 4AD Records.
Written over the past year with Clone's original lineup of LG Galleon (Dead Leaf Echo), Gregg Giufree (Pilot to Gunner), Max Idas and Dominick Turi, this EP was produced by LG Galleon and Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, Brian Eno, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop, Helmet, Dresden Dolls) at his famed BC Studio (built together with Brian Eno), and mastered by Fred Kevorkian (The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Juliana Hatfield, Regina Spektor, Lloyd Cole).

+My Love Lucifer- My Love Lucifer is the shoegaze project of NYC native Peter Carlovich (vocals and guitar). Born out of the ashes of his previous band Peter is Dead, My Love Lucifer Peter takes the psychedelic sound to challenging new heights with a sonic assault of loud fuzz guitars, improvisational jams, and emotionally crushing lyrics. Joined by drummer Eden Pacheco (of Peter is Dead) and bassist Ebban Maeda, My Love Lucifer Peter promises to deliver a psychedelic brain melting experience every time.

Duets with the BQE. Set order determined by drawing straws. Get here early!

+Sanday Ewen- prepared guitar

+Spirit Vexation- Devotional and intense, Spirit Vexation is Brooklyn harsh noise that confronts demons with volume

+Little Black Egg- Georgia Hubley & Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo)

+Kid Millions (Oneida)- drums

+Geologist (Animal Collective)-

Spinsored by Hornitos Tequila

BNSFest

An Art Auction & Benefit Concert for Brooklyn New School

With performances by:

James Mcnew

Fran López

Sloppy Heads

Tatters & Rags

Jon Glaser

Love, Burns

& More!

Phantom Tollbooth - We're hugely honored to be closing out the 2025 Dot Dash Series with this special reunion! First NYC show in 20 year for this classic 80s NYC band on Homestead Records.  We spun their records to death on college radio back in the day - classic 80s "alternative" noise-rock who shared the stage with bands like Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Butthole Surfers, Big Black and more. They got back together this year for the DromFest upstate and we convinced them to play one more show - THRILLED!!!

Subskin Cables - Art-rockers who had their start in the fertile 80s Boston scene.  Band leader, Fernando Avila, since moved to NYC and re-started the band in the 20-teens. As they aptly noted on their bandcamp page - "Psychedelic Punk Rock" - yep!

Baby Spiders - New York City heavy indie rock trio comprised of Tony Zajkowski and Rob Youngberg, formerly of Lotion, on guitar and drums respectively, and Anton Sword, of Anton Sword & The We Ours, Blythe Sword, and formerly of J.C. & Anphibius, on keyboards. Think Cream meets early Pink Floyd late at night in a turkish bathouse.

Sponsored by Hornitos Tequila

+Jupiter Boys- Matt! Josh! Jim! Jenny! Izzy!

+Knickerbocker 5- play funky. groovy a little bit jazzy-rock'n roll. We started at Knickerbocker Ave.in Bushwick and wear Knickerbocker pants. 

+Gladys- Subversive songs about seltzer and pensioners, with a dash of psychedelia. Exceptional trousers. 

On the second Monday of each month our friend and neighbor plays selections from his library of classic disco and soul videos.

+Discreet Charms-

+Human Hearts-

+Psychic Phil-

+Sloppy Heads- shambling/pretty, structured/disintegrating

+Greg Cartwright (Oblivians, Reigning Sound, Hypos)- solo w surprise guests

+Dew Claw- ft Evan “Funk” Davies on drums

DJs Ira & Georgia (Yo La Tengo)

THIS WEEK: Halloween (1978) duh

+Live Skull-Legendary NY noise rock band of the manic 80’s, live and kicking. New York Times critic Robert Palmer called them “as challenging, as spiritually corrosive, and ultimately as transcendent as Albert Ayler’s mid-’60s free-jazz or the implacable drone-dance of the early Velvet Underground. It’s one of the essential sounds of our time.

+Quattracentaa- is a three-piece, no-wave art rock band from Baltimore, MD. Like an early Renaissance painting, their music is grand, saturnine, and cathartic.

+Katheryn McGaffigan w Hannah Moorhead (Giraffes)- Katheryn McGaffigan with Hannah Moorhead: Raw, driven acoustic songs with haunting melodies

+Drummers Can Achieve- sling upbeat power pop and shoegaze songs that poke fun at the randomness, heartbreak, joy, and absurdity of modern life.  This indie rock quartet crafts high-energy, toe-tapping ditties about the pets that own us, cities that change shape, skinwalkers passing as people, and the plight of mammals creating art from inside the belly of a capitalistic beast.  

+The Lookout Honeys- una banda punk femenina, have played three short tours in Latin America, as well as an overabundance of shows while traveling through the states near their hometown of Brooklyn. This all-female group is bursting with hot-rodding riffs and snarling vocals, hearkening back to classic dark punk. 

+The Planes- are a four-piece indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY. Since their founding in 2010 by guitarist/singer Stephen Perry, they’ve earned a reputation for writing catchy indie rock jams, showing up to gigs on time, and taking that last drink ticket off your hands, y’know, if you’re not going to use it anyway and it would just go to waste.

+Even Twice-

+Girls on grass-

+Pastel Hell-

+Life in a Blender-

+Nuclear Family Fantasy - explores the impact of growing up with the illusion that the nuclear family is still the ideal. Their songs convey the struggles with addiction and mental health that sometimes result from being expected to continue believing in the attainability of the American Dream.  

+Viennetta- NYC trio of 2 Joans and a JB. We write songs about among other things, communication or lack thereof, lustful longing, procrastination, getting in your own way, being in your head, and feeling out of your mind. 

+Tiers la Familia- started life on cassette with releases of punk beat tapes by bandleader Sef Sidney before developing into an experimental pop group that has played live now since 2023. Augmented by Jeff Tobias (Modern Nature, Sunwatchers) and Cheryl Kingan (75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band, The Scene Is Now), TLF plays frequently in Brooklyn and Queens where they turn Sidney’s songwriting into a singularly weirdo party-vibe.

**LAST PERFORMANCE OF 2025**

𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒏𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒏…

The Last Summer is a Rock Opera starring Christoph Whitbeck and Haley Bowery as star-crossed revolutionaries traversing the trials of love and loss in the nuclear apocalypse.

A dramatic one-night only performance at Mama Tried featuring live rock music from the Teenage Death Squad, sparkling costumes, and a whole lot of ooze.

+NAPE NECK- Leeds, UK post-punk trio in the tradition of kinetic/frenetic/rhythmic acts like The Ex, Erase Errata, Delta 5, etc. This marks their US debut and they will be celebrating the release of their new LP "The Shallowest End" - due out 9/19 on Dot Dash Sounds w/ 1st U.S. tour!

+NATURAL DISASTERS- Heavy local trio bringing the noise-infused, damaged indie rock action. New cassette, recorded by Martin Bisi, out now on Outburst Records. 

+pHoaming Edison - James from Fly Ashtray is back with his side-project band returning to the stage for their first show in 10 years! .  Arty, indie, clever, psych-pop tunes.  

Sponsored by Hornitos Tequila

+Still Minders- A country rock supergroup featuring long time heads Dave Shuford (No-Neck Blues Band, Rhyton), JR Bohannon (Torres) and Rob Smith (Pigeons, Animal Surrender).

+Zachary Cale- Zachary Cale has been a fixture of the underground music scene in NYC for over 20 years. Often cited as a songwriter’s songwriter, his eclectic musical influences have guided his own unique style of songcraft. Whether alone with an acoustic guitar in an intimate room or on a festival stage with a full band, the song itself has always been his magnetic north. An expressive singer and masterful guitarist Cale has honed his craft over years of touring and recording.

+Names Divine- Names Divine is a rock trio fronted by Kendra Amalie who also performs solo under the name Kendraplex. An expressive singer and guitarist Kendra crafts heady tunes both dark and cosmic.

Celebrating one year of Under the BQE Press!

Extremely cheap beer while supplies last thanks to Five Boroughs Brewing! Unsolicited writing prompts on every coaster! And so much underground literary talent on one stage that you may completely conceptualize and birth your next best seller JK Rowling style on a bar nap before you even leave Mama Tried! (I swear.)

Our flash reading series involves snippets of works-in-progress no longer than 5 minutes. Meet our next BQE author Judson Merrill and hear a little flash from his forthcoming novel Paranoid Storytelling along with friends Brian Russ (of the band Hand Gestures), Leo Kouklanakis (of the band Katzin), Heidi Diehl (Lifelines) & Stephen Aubrey (The Assembly). All to a sweet cosmic funk soundtrack provided by The Vinyl Historian.

Books and possibly some merch for sale if I can motivate myself to screenprint some sweatshirts & t-shirts. And birthday cake! 

+Freaky Wilderness-

+Lookout Honeys-

+Hila the Earth-

+Jounce-

DJ Coconut

Sponsored by Jim Beam

Sloppy Heads will be joined by the very heavy lineup of Geologist (doing a solo hurdy-gurdy set!) and Tom Carter & Pat Murano, with honorary Head James McNew DJ’ing before, between and after.

+Sinead Youth- Sinead O'Connor tribute band featuring:
Clara Latham (New Pope, Starring) - vocals/guitar
Peter Kerlin (Animal, Surrender!, Sunwatchers) - bass

Dan Friel (Upper Wilds, Parts & Labor) - drum machine/electronics

+The Re-Cliners- 4-Piece covering the tunes of Patsy Cline. Based in Queens NYC

On the second Monday of each month our friend and neighbor plays selections from his library of classic disco and soul videos.

Pogues Tribute

+Arklight- Experimental rock band from Queens. Punk energy, haunting atmospherics, and metallic noise incursions perched atop a throbbing, tribal rhythmic base. 

+Short Porch- Dark, lyrical storytelling over Crazy Horse meets garage soul grooves. Murder ballads for thinking fellers. 

+Woodhead- Woodhead combines no-wave, post-punk, avant-garde improv, beautiful feedback and ballads creating a texture not quite like anything you've ever heard.