Weak Signal: October 2, 2026 Tubby’s

November 6, 2026
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This was a joyous night for two very specific reasons:

  1. We were celebrating the 20-year anniversary of one of the last truly great music resources on the internet, the beloved Raven Sings the Blues.
  2. We could welcome back one of the last truly great Rock and Roll bands, Weak Signal.

Anyone who has followed this site knows my feelings for Weak Signal.  I believe them to be one of the great bands to come out of NYC in recent times. Since I last wrote about them, they have dealt with the loss of good friend Doug Shaw, the heaviness of a cancer battle, and a subsequent permanent move to the UK.  If you asked me 6 months ago, I would have assumed Weak Signal were over.

But here they are, back on this side of the pond, playing a double bill with their partners in crime, Garcia Peoples, and sounding like they never went away. The set opened with “I Don’t Miss You”, giving everyone an instant taste of what we have been missing: snarling guitar tones, haunting harmonies, and my favorite rhythm section working today. Over the course of the set, Weak Signal worked through tunes from their entire catalog, including a great telling of one of my personal favorites, “YR Deal,” which always brings to mind the dark, sludgey psych of mid-90s Ween. The best news of the evening came after the set, when word started to spread that they would spend some time in NY to record new material before heading back to the UK.

As for Andy and Raven Sings the Blues: we should all take a second to thank him for the time and energy he continually brings to championing bands that would, often, have no other champion.  His mission statement mirrors ours; there are incredible artists producing incredible things that the mainstream has chosen to ignore, but he won’t.  He will listen to it, promote it, and give us all a reason to pay attention with his pitch-perfect, concise reviews. Cheers to 20 more years.

I recorded this from the usual spot with the MK22’s and a nice board feed from FOH engineer Wil.  Play it LOUD!

Download and stream from the live music archive!

Weak Signal
2026-10-02
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY

Source: Scheops MK22 > KCY > PFA + SDB > SD MixPre 3 > SD (24/48) > Adobe Audition/Izotope 9 > Audacity Flac (lvl8) > Mp3Tag

Thanks to Tubby’s FOH engineer, Wil, for the board patch!

Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com

  1. I Don’t Miss You
  2. Poor People
  3. Hallelujah Baby
  4. Rich Junkie
  5. Spooky Feeling
  6. Devotion
  7. Tera Tera
  8. YR Deal
  9. Drugs In My System
  10. Chill
  11. A little Hum
  12. Dripping In Gold
  13. Tell me How You Like It

This was part of the 20th Anniversary celebration for the excellent Raven Sings the Blues blog!
https://ravensingstheblues.com/

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https://weareweaksignal.bandcamp.com/

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The Tubs: October 15, 2026 Tubby’s

October 20, 2026
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The Tubs at Tubby’s.  It was inevitable.  It was also WELL worth the wait.

This was the first show on The Tub’s tour supporting their truly excellent “Hard Life” (Merge). For the next month, they will be crisscrossing the US and Canada, bringing their high-energy blend of hook-laden jangle pop to venues east and west. Lucky for us, this didn’t feel like a tour opener.  The band was tight and high-energy from the jump.

The set started, just as the record does, with the one – two punch of “Hard Life” and “Who’s Gonna Love You Now,” which had the crowd fully invested and singing along immediately.  They played a good chunk of the new record as well as choice cuts from the previous two albums. The set closed with the no bullshit Rock of “Wretched Lie” off their first record,  “Dead Meat”. This evening was definitely on the short list of best shows I’ve seen this year. It was so much fun, I’m considering going down to NYC for the tour closing set at LPR on 11/11. I even bought a T-Shirt.  I haven’t even bought a Tubby’s T-Shirt yet.

In the days since the show, I’ve struggled to explain to people exactly why I loved it so much. While I was working on mixing it, it finally came into focus. There is something about The Tubs sound that hits me in a very primal way.   It pulls the same type of emotions I had as a kid when I was first really discovering my own music.  Lying in my room listening to WLIR/WDRE and hearing these absolutely perfect songs from bands like REM and Teenage Fanclub. Back when all I cared about was if a song registered with me directly and immediately. Back when my only criterion for enjoyment was whether it elicited an emotional response beyond my control, and before I complicated things by trying to quantify or explain those feelings. When this was over, I wasn’t trying to explain to my son that the band is “a sort of harsh noise project inspired by minimal techno and Indian drone”.  None of those pretenses.  It’s four guys playing instruments and one guy singing about what he sees and feels. I was able to access the core memories of simply hearing and loving music without having to intellectualize it. I could just be in it.

I recorded this from the usual spot in the back with the MK22’s and a board feed from Tubby’s FOH engineer, Wil.  This was a rocker, so play it loud!

Speaking of Wil, shout out to him for pulling off some truly Herculean sound guy shit when the board essentially crashed after the opener, and he had to rebuild the band’s presets from memory. Buy this guy a beer next time you see him!

Download and stream the complete show from the Live Music Archive!

The Tubs
2026-10-02
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY

Source: Scheops MK22 > KCY > PFA + SDB > SD MixPre 3 > SD (24/48) > Adobe Audition/Izotope 9 > Audacity Flac (lvl8) > Mp3Tag

Thanks to Tubby’s FOH engineer, Wil, for the board patch!

Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com

  1. Hard Life
  2. Who’s Gonna Love You Now?
  3. Illusion
  4. Illusion Pt. II
  5. Narcissist
  6. If You Don’t Love Me
  7. Stoop To Me
  8. Chain Reaction
  9. Heaven or London
  10. Banter
  11. Freak Mode
  12. One More Day
  13. Wretched Lie

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Silk Fence: October 7, 2026 Tubby’s

October 9, 2026
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Silk Fence’s debut album was released less than a week ago and they got to celebrate by playing a 3 show run with Horse Lords and we were lucky enough to catch one!

Silk Fence is a project that fuses minimalism, jazz, kosmische repetition into a tightly coherent package of electroacoustic instrumentals.  I’d been listening to the album while working throughout the week and often found myself lost in the textures of sounds and floating blissfully through multiple relistens. It makes the passage of time seem inconsequential.

A trio consisting of Arian Shafiee (Guerilla Toss), Booker Stardrum (SML), and Justin Frye (PC Worship) Silk Fence are old friends finding new ways to explore sound.  Across the 30+ minute set they played through their entire new self titled album.  I found a personal connection to the album’s closing track “Statue of Liberty” so I was really excited to see that close out the set with a ten minute march towards bliss.

Sadly, Silk Fence doesn’t have any more dates lined up so for now, you’ll enjoy this recording as a taste of what’s to come. I recorded this from the usual spot in the back with Scheops MK22’s and a really nice board feed from Tubby’s ace FOH engineer, Wil.  Also, shout out to Reed Jackson for coining the term “Tubby’s Core” which got some good laughs from the staff while chatting prior to the show.

Download and stream from the Live Music Archive

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Silk Fence
2026-10-07
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY

Source: Scheops MK22 > KCY > PFA + SDB > SD MixPre 3 > SD (24/48) > Adobe Audition/Izotope 9 > Audacity Flac (lvl8) > Mp3Tag

Thanks to Tubby’s FOH engineer, Wil, for the board patch!

Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com

  1. (A)RT
  2. HD
  3. FAMBI
  4. Statue of Liberty

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Hour: September 11, 2026 Tubby’s

September 28, 2026
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I had never heard of Hour before this performance.  I came to see Thor & Friends and was greeted with what seemed to be an unusually large band setting up.  The woodwind player, Keith, came over and we got chatting. He explained that the ensemble was the brainchild of composer Michael Cormier-O’Leary.  This mostly-Philly-based instrumental ensemble was not only our opening act for the evening, but would also be providing the bulk of the “friends” for headliner Thor Harris & Friends.

Hour was a pleasure to listen to. Despite the size of the band, or maybe because of it, this is a group of musicians that understands how to listen to each other.  While mixing, I was shocked at how much space they each allowed. Nothing stepped on anything else, which really allows the listener to enjoy the huge dynamic range they play in.

I’ll lazily describe this ensemble as playing library music, but every piece feels more purposeful than what you usually find in those library comps. It also had interesting moments that somehow made me think of The Glands, a compliment I very, very rarely throw around.  

There is a lot of action coming up for Hour. A new record titled “Ghost Bridge” (Dear Life Records) is due out on October 9.  They will be playing two shows to celebrate the release: one in Philly on February 12th and one in NYC on February 13th. Both will feature a 13-piece ensemble and opening sets from the incredible Bridget St. John. You can find tickets and more info HERE.

I recorded this from our usual spot by the soundboard with the MK22’s and a really nice board feed from Tubby’s FOH engineer Nic Panken.  I think this is one of the best mixes I’ve heard Nic do in this room, and it makes for a fantastic listen with a glass of wine as we watch the Hudson Valley fall settle in.

Download and stream from the Live Music Archive:

Hour
2026-09-11
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY

Source: Scheops MK22 > KCY > PFA + SDB > SD MixPre 3 > SD (24/48) > Adobe Audition/Izotope 9 > Audacity Flac (lvl8) > Mp3Tag

Thanks to Tubby’s FOH engineer, Nic, for the board patch!

Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com

  1. Untitled >
  2. Sonny
  3. Ghost Bridge
  4. Centralia
  5. The Carter Starter
  6. KC & Clem

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Memorials: September 3, 2026 Tubby’s

September 8, 2026
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The show bill called Memorials “The UK’s finest psych Prog Folk Electronic Duo”. Any of those identifiers is accurate, but so are all of them. Hailing from Canterbury, there is certainly a nod to that town’s glorious Prog past, but with so much more on top. The idea of “Soft Machine meets Stereolab” isn’t inaccurate; it’s just reductive. It was Memorials third time at Tubby’s this year, and at least half the room was people who had been at one or both of the previous shows. That should tell you something.

Their new record, “All Clouds Bring Not Rain,” is beautiful and filled with strong songs and what sounds like a million instances of studio trickery layered on top. Going in, I was curious how they would manage all of those overdubs and effects live with just two people. After seeing and hearing it happen, I’m honestly still not sure how they pulled it off. Verity and Matthew each seemed to be doing 3 peoples jobs up there. 

The set started with a short Winged Wheel Duo set of Will and Cory, who were eventually joined by Memorials. I’ve included their intro jam as track one, but things really heated up the second Bell Miner began, and the crowd was treated to Verity’s commanding vocals and Matthew playing one of the best-sounding snare drums I’ve heard all year.

As a Duo, they created such a tremendous amount of sound that it was difficult, on occasion, to tell what was live and what was sampled. The marriage of electronics and sampled material, with the raw emotion they exhibited on stage was really breathtaking. It seems impossible that something as intimate and vulnerable as “Wildly Remote” can exist side by side with the Motrik psych of “Dropped Down the Well,” but it does, and, like I said, I’m honestly still not sure how they pull it off.

I recorded this from the regular spot by the soundboard with the MK22’s and a stellar board feed from FOH engineer Kyle, who had the room sounding great all night.  Memorials have a few more US dates left before heading home from some UK dates.  Don’t miss them!

Download and stream from the Live Music Archive!

Memorials
2026-09-06
Tubby’s
Kingston, NY

Source: Scheops MK22 > KCY > PFA + SDB > SD MixPre 3 > SD (24/48) > Adobe Audition/Izotope 9 > Audacity Flac (lvl8) > Mp3Tag

Thanks to Tubby’s FOH engineer, Kyle, for the board patch!

Recorded and produced by kliked for nyctaper.com

  1. Memorial Wing Jam*
  2. Bell Miner
  3. Cut It Like A Diamond
  4. Wildly Remote
  5. I Can’t See A Rainbow
  6. In The Weeds
  7. Cut Glass Hammer
  8. Acceptable Experience
  9. Reimagined River
  10. Lemon Trees
  11. Mediocre Demon
  12. Dropped Down the Well
  13. Life Could Be A Cloud
  14. Holy Invisible

Support this excellent artist!
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Cheater Slicks: August 5, 2026 Tubby’s

August 17, 2026
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Not many bands can brag that Mudhoney covered one of their songs on record. But Cheater Slicks, who have been no-so-quietly slinging garage-sludge tunes since the late 80s, reached immortality in 1998 when Mudhoney covered “Ghost” on Tomorrow Hit Today. Now approaching 40 years as a band, they’re still going at it full-throttle. I confess they’ve only recently come on my radar and I was excited to catch them at Tubby’s a couple weeks back. Of course, “Ghost” was played as were some newer tunes like last year’s “I Am Low.” Show-opener “Apocalypse” hails from the late 90’s (a Y2K premonition perhaps) but is all too punishingly relevant. The band just wrapped up touring, but follow them on Instagram for notice of future action.

Check the Cheater Slicks Bandcamp page for a ton more music!

I recorded this from our usual location at Tubby’s, with a stereo board feed courtesy of FOH Kyle. The sound is excellent. Enjoy!

Stream and download at the Live Music Archive

Cheater Slicks
2026-08-05
Tubby's
Kingston, NY

Recorded and produced by Eric PH for nyctaper.com

Soundboard (engineer: Kyle) + MBHO KA200N/603A > Naiant PFA >> Sound Devices MixPre-6 > WAV (24/48) > Adobe Audition CC + Izotope Ozone 5 > Audacity 2.4.2 > FLAC

Tracks [56:33]
01. Apocalypse
02. No 4
03. Erotic Woman
04. Refried Dreams
05. Ghost
06. Feel Free
07. I Am Low
08. Think I'm Coming Down
09. My Little Red Book
10. Stop Breeding
11. Mystery Ship
12. Crackin' Up
13. Murder

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