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catching up with some recent issues of gunk. #NYC #DIY lives!

Do not appreciate being able to see the air. #NYC #Smoke

50 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #nyc, their 2nd of 2 nights at the beacon theatre. spring ’76, show #8.
soundboard: https://

Basically we need to make transit free because our local government is too fucking dumb to figure out how to handle fares. #NYC #NY #MakePublicTransitFree

Jehiah (@jehiah.cz)
Absolutely ridiculous way to do enforcement. MTA should never delay a bus to do fare enforcement. "The agency’s fare enforcement “EAGLE” teams are ramping up an initiative where they halt buses for about five to 10 minutes while they scan riders’ phones or OMNY cards to check if they paid." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Good afternoon #BikeNYC #BikeTooter. Gorgeous day out there, make sure you've got your official #NYC garbage bin before the June 1st deadline!

50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead return to #nyc, the 1st dead show in manhattan proper in 4 years. tickets sold by mail order only. super hard ticket & mini-riots ensue. spring ’76, show #7.
donna-less soundcheck footage with some nice street b-roll & charming weir/hart interview:

sat on the stoop & mostly listened to people freaking out in the near distance during the last 10 minutes of the game. but besides the bar down the block, truly amazing stillness for a saturday night. nobody walking by, almost no cars. and now, obviously, beautiful fuckin' chaos. #nyc

Don't forget to vote #NYC! Democrat primaries are extra important here. #VoteNYC #NYCVotes

Brad Lander (@bradlander.bsky.social)
Ring ring: it's @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and me reminding you that early voting begins this Saturday!

sweet & noisy matinee at mama tried. greg fox's new project, wadari, drums & noise table & slippery dubby beat chaos. and then still minders, electri-fried #bluegrass zones with tunes by buzz busby & moby grape & more (feat. jr bohannon on pedal steel). #nyc

When we eventually #BanCars from #NYC, it will be drivers' own damn fault. Can't believe some of the psychopaths behind the wheel today..

the digital church bells in our neighborhood are sounding especially lo-fi this morning. #nyc #brooklyn

matinee jams at mama tried: synth-noise blowout plus kandy-kolored melodies by dan friel; viola/violin drone-float (amid movie-like rain outside) by jessica pavone & mari bruno; & spiky alt-prog by wendy eisenberg's editrix (who, like, belong on lollapalooza '91-'92) (complimentary!!) #nyc #brooklyn

So a judge just invalidated almost all red light tickets written to cyclists in #NYC, lol
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/21/tuesdays-headlines-cops…

like paul simon, i too have attempted to mitigate my hearing loss by pointing a speaker directly at my head. enjoyed the "quiet celebration"/"7 psalms" at forest hills very much, though could've been... louder? was maybe most moved when the crowd covered the high note in "me & julio" #nyc

Make it make sense... #NYC #MTA #FdTrain

at union pool, the 75 dollar bill little big band dream the eternal music, enormous drones & community pulses. rick brown's wooden crate sounded amazing through the UP speakers, like a huge resonant heartbeat. #nyc

This is some bullshit. #NYC #MTA

1st mama tried outdoor jam of the season for me. expansive space blues by drew gardner & co., kinetic improv by time trout (plus arthur russell's "hiding your present from you"), & the scene is now, #nyc's finest 40-year-running boho-jazz-pop surrealists (never caught "yellow sarong" before!)

Hey #NYC transit/train nerds, this might be up your alley - someone at my kid's school made an #MTA subway board game. Here's the kickstarter:

Hey #NYC it's election day! Did you vote yet? Remember, at least around here, primaries are the main elections that matter. By the time you get to the general election, things are pretty much decided. #VoteNY

the anti-dancing #nyc cabaret law might be finally dead? https://evgrieve.com/2026/05/as-2026-nears-halfway-point-new-york.html

As 2026 nears the halfway point, New York State eliminates restrictions on dancing in bars
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

Wallpaper at Fraunces Tavern Museum in NYC depicting General Washington arriving in Boston. The full 49-foot, 32-panel, 360-color "Views of the American War of Independence" is still produced by Zuber & Cie (est. 1797) in Rixheim, France, using 2,300 (!) wood blocks carved between 1834 and 1852. It takes a full year to print and is likely the world's most expensive wallpaper ($100,000?). The blocks themselves are classified as Historic Monuments by the French Ministry of Culture. #france #history #art #nyc #newyork #museum #wallpaper #woodblock #boston #war #independence #250th

graffiti cover-up as shitty rothko. #nyc

the next heads happening is happening for heads on thursday, july 9th, at mama tried in #brooklyn, with mountain movers, karen schoemer & her "august" band (including our big brah kid millions), & us sloppy heads. free, like air, jazz, & birds! #nyc

is bullshit #nyc https://greenpointers.com/2026/04/27/mta-to-suspend-g-train-service-every-weekend-in-june/

MTA To Suspend G Train Service Every Weekend in June - Greenpointers
The ferry's looking really good right about now!

wild polyrhythmic overload & double-drummer extended technique pulse-out at roulette with goat, from japan. like horse lords or Zs but maybe even more ecstatic & tightly wound. opening was YPY, who i've played on my radio show, but don't think knew was goat guitarist koshiro hino. #nyc

"supertanker" by al jarnow, for 3-2-1 contact (1980) #animation #nyc

at the vision fest at abrons arts center, leading off with marshall allen (102?!!) & all-stars including william parker, andrew cyrille, dm hotep, & darius jones, flowing through the outer darkness. then, trae crudup & co. with a powerful milford graves tribute, heartbeat thunder & glitched vocals. #nyc #jazz

safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz

Duck decoys found in 1924 inside Lovelock Cave (Nevada), sealed up approximately 2400 years ago by an earthquake. The one on the right is apparently a canvasback (Aythya valisineria). Museum of the American Indian, NYC. #ducks #archaeology #hunting #cave #birds #nevada #indian #smithsonian #nyc #anatidae #museum

next weekend! come vibrate with us! #nyc #jazz #psychedelics https://

this summer's heads happenings series starts june 11th at mama tried in #brooklyn with william tyler (!), gray/smith & speer (last gig before rob moves?!), & us sloppy heads! come happen! #nyc

enjoyed reading this, glad it exists, & delighted to be cited, but didn't quite capture the absurdity of brooklandia as i experienced it & what made DIY venues feel so special. structure felt a bit muddled & could've used a ton more historical/economic context (& more todd p., really). #nyc #books

the timeless weird american peter stampfel leads the atomic meta-pagans through banger after banger at piano's. mostly new in the past few years, including my faves "mission statement" & "this body's just meat," some even newer topical tunes, a lost/found antonia song from '66, "euphoria" & more. #nyc

“American art is suffering a polycrisis that combines a lack of belief in and support for its artists born after 1975, the structural de-centering of artists in the art industry, and the subsequent stagnation and possible breakdown of formal innovation in art. In other words, meaningful art, relevant for society and our time, may not be sustainable under the current conditions here.”
Fantastic essay on the economic problems making our cultural landscape more shallow because of the economic constraints placed on fine arts.
#art #contemporaryArt #AmericanArt #AmericanCulture #NYC #artMarket #ArtIndustry

I just got to tell two #GraceMeng canvassers, "Sorry, I'm voting for #ChuckPark
#Queens #NYC