After listing my favourite albums of 2013 I thought I should list my favourite shows, and a complete list since I managed to get to 154 in total!
I won't elaborate too much but here is my top 10:
Deerhunter: 18th September - Webster Hall
I hadn't seen Deerhunter before despite being a fan for years, they were just perfect and what a setlist. I mean really, check this out, one could scarcely ask for a better setlist when popping your Deerhunter cherry.
Follakzoid / The Holydrug Couple: 21st March - Mercury Lounge
I've elaborated briefly on this show HERE. This show was significant as I discovered so many great acts from Chile this year and it was an amazing treat to see two of the best.
Fuzz: 13th of October - Death By Audio
Ty Segall is possibly superhuman, and Fuzz put on one of the best rock shows possible.
King Khan and the Shrines: 30th October - Webster Hall
I was in a bit of an "I can't be bothered" mood for this one, but sometimes music turns your mood around spectacularly. There was so much energy coming from the stage and the blend of the brass among the 60s nuggets-like songs were a perfect marriage.
John Grant: 2nd of December - MHoW
I reviewed this show HERE.
Vivian Girls: 15th of Feb - Music Hall Williamsburg
I reviewed this show HERE.
Mikal Cronin / Roomrunner / Shannon and the Clams: 20th of June - Bowery Ballroom
What a lineup! Both Mikal Cronin and Roomrunner released albums that made my top 10 of the year and are both great live acts. Something great and/or weird happens every time I see Roomrunner and Mikal Cronin was down to about 2 strings (starting with 12) by the end of his set.
Perfect Pussy / Total Slacker / Sisu / Hunters / Tweens / Lodro: 16th of October - The Flat
I reviewed this show HERE.
Fuck Buttons: 18th of October - Le Poisson Rouge
I reviewed this show HERE.
Medicine / Weekend: 16th of August - MHoW
It seems like once a year a band reforms that you really didn't expect to, this year Medicine made a comeback with a new record and some shows. I had fairly high expectations but I didn't expect them to be quite as good as they were, it really was an immense show. With support coming from Weekend, one of the best bands of the year, it just made things even better.
Some 2013 stats for the nerds...
The acts I saw the most were Hector's Pets (5 times, a support slot for King Tuff at Bowery is not listed in the table below), then Sisu, Pop Zeus, Weekend and Liquor Store, 4 times each.
The venue I went to the most was, surprise surprise, Death By Audio, 13 times, next up was Glasslands which I went to 10 times.
I only went to 1 venue outside of New York, which was The Windmill in Brixton, London.
In total I went to 58 different venues.
Here is my complete list of shows for 2013. Note that the dates are in UK format.
Band | Date | Venue |
---|---|---|
Holy Fuck | 12/01/2013 | Death By Audio |
Diiv, Magic Trick | 13/01/2013 | Brooklyn Bowl |
Yo La Tengo | 14/01/2013 | Barnes and Noble - Union Square |
John Darnielle (Mountain Goats) | 16/01/2013 | Studio X |
Total Slacker | 18/01/2013 | 285 Kent |
Soundgarden | 22/01/2013 | Hammerstein Ballroom |
Soundgarden | 23/01/2013 | Hammerstein Ballroom |
The Growlers | 24/01/2013 | Knitting Factory |
Cat Power | 29/01/2013 | Terminal 5 |
Ty Segall, Mac DeMarco | 01/02/2013 | Webster Hall |
Memory Tapes, Teen | 06/02/2013 | Glasslands |
Nuclear Santa Claust, California X, Brick Mower | 07/02/2013 | Death By Audio |
Slutever | 09/02/2013 | Death By Audio |
Bleeding Rainbow, Daytona | 11/02/2013 | Cake Shop |
Total Slacker, Cassie Ramone | 14/02/2013 | Webster Hall Studio |
Vivian Girls | 15/02/2013 | Music Hall of Williamsburg |
Ken Stringfellow | 16/02/2013 | Mercury Lounge |
Dada | 20/02/2013 | Highline Ballroom |
Beach Fossils | 23/02/2013 | Bowery Ballroom |
Roomrunner / Speedy Ortiz / Stats | 28/02/2013 | 59 Canal |
Night Marchers \ Dan Sartain \ Mrs Magician | 02/03/2013 | Glasslands |
Chelsea Light Moving | 03/03/2013 | Other Music |
The Babies | 06/03/2013 | Knitting Factory |
The Men | 07/03/2013 | Bowery Ballroom |
Pop Zeus / Hectors Pets / A Rex & J Rex / Las Rosas | 08/03/2013 | Death By Audio |
Girls Names | 10/03/2013 | Cameo Gallery |
Spanking Charlene | 16/03/2013 | The R Bar |
Beach Fossils | 20/03/2013 | Brooklyn Bowl |
Follakzoid / The Holydrug Couple | 21/03/2013 | Mercury Lounge |
Peach Kelli Pop | 26/03/2013 | Death By Audio |
Meat Puppets | 03/04/2013 | Mercury Lounge |
Jaill / Pop Zeus | 04/04/2013 | Knitting Factory |
Redd Kross | 06/04/2013 | Santos Party House |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 07/04/2013 | Webster Hall |
Kurt Vile, Kurt Vile & the Violators | 09/04/2013 | Apple Store, Soho |
Diarrhea Planet, Wild Yaks | 11/04/2013 | Shea Stadium |
King Khan & the BBQ / Bloodshot Bill | 13/04/2013 | Glasslands |
R Stevie Moore | 15/04/2013 | Glasslands |
They Might Be Giants | 16/04/2013 | Academy Records |
Euroheedfest (GBV tribute festival) | 20/04/2013 | The Windmill, Brixton, London |
Nobunny | 21/04/2013 | The Windmill, Brixton, London |
Dead Skeletons / Night Beats / Cosmonauts | 08/05/2013 | Glasslands |
Sisu / The Yellow Dogs / Young Boys | 10/05/2013 | Glasslands |
Mudhoney / Pissed Jeans | 11/05/2013 | Music Hall of Williamsburg |
Foxygen / Amen Dunes Lodro / Prince Rupert's Drops | 13/05/2013 | Knitting Factory |
No Joy / Weekend / Grand Resort | 16/05/2013 | Glasslands |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Flaming Lips / The Darkness | 17/05/2013 | Googamooga - Prospect Park |
Sharon Van Etten / Lee Fields and the Expressions | 18/05/2013 | Googamooga - Prospect Park |
JEFF the brotherhood | 19/05/2013 | Mercury Lounge |
Haunted Leather | 20/05/2013 | Death By Audio |
Natural Child / Liquor Store | 23/05/2013 | Brooklyn Bowl |
Apache Dropout / Pop Zeus / Thee Tsunamis / Blank Realm | 28/05/2013 | Death By Audio |
Weekend | 29/05/2013 | Brooklyn Denim Co |
King Tuff | 02/06/2013 | Bowery Ballroom |
Fuzz / Ex-Cult | 06/06/2013 | Red Hook Park |
Wyatt Blair / The Lovely Bad Things | 07/06/2013 | Death By Audio |
Heavy Blanket (shut down by police after one song) | 08/06/2013 | Union Pool |
Los Straitjackets | 11/06/2013 | City Winery |
Liquor Store | 12/06/2013 | Shea Stadium |
Bleached / Butter the Children / Pop Zeus | 13/06/2013 | Knitting Factory |
A Place to Bury Strangers / Iceage | 13/06/2013 | Music Hall of Williamsburg |
Torche / Ken Mode / Lo-Pan | 14/06/2013 | 285 Kent |
Paws | 14/06/2013 | South Street Seaport |
White Fence | 14/06/2013 | Knitting Factory |
The Zombies | 15/06/2013 | Central Park |
Spires | 16/06/2013 | Villains / Jamesons |
The Teen Age | 16/06/2013 | Muchmore's |
Nu Sensea / Destruction Unit / Big Ups / Psychic Blood | 16/06/2013 | Shea Stadium |
Heliotropes / Bad Cop | 18/06/2013 | Glasslands |
Mikal Cronin / Roomrunner / Shannon and the Clams | 20/06/2013 | Bowery Ballroom |
Fear of Men | 21/06/2013 | South Street Seaport |
Bear in Heaven | 22/06/2013 | Prospect Park |
Femi Kuti | 23/06/2013 | Central Park |
Cheap Time | 24/06/2013 | Pianos |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Bass Drum of Death | 28/06/2013 | South Street Seaport |
4Knots festival (Kurt Vile, The Men, Parquet Courts, Reigning Sound, The Babies, Fat Tony, White Lung) | 29/06/2013 | South Street Seaport |
Os Mutantes | 29/06/2013 | Prospect Park |
Big Star's Third | 30/06/2013 | Central Park |
Speedy Ortiz/Roomrunner/California X | 06/07/2013 | Death By Audio |
The Joy Formidable | 10/07/2013 | BAM Café |
Waxahatchee / Generationals | 11/07/2013 | Hudson River Park - Pier 84 |
Cheap Trick | 12/07/2013 | Coney Island |
The Mantles / Pale Lights | 13/07/2013 | Cake Shop |
La Luz / Heliotropes | 14/07/2013 | Mercury Lounge |
Father John Misty, Wild Nothing | 24/07/2013 | Terminal 5 |
OBN III's | 25/07/2013 | Death By Audio |
Beck | 26/07/2013 | Le Poisson Rouge |
Turbo Fruits | 27/07/2013 | Union Pool |
Fletcher C. Johnson / Hector's Pets / Rozwell Kids, Boy Toy | 27/07/2013 | Shea Stadium |
Pete Rock and CL Smooth | 28/07/2013 | Central Park |
Rasputina | 30/07/2013 | City Winery |
Hector's Pets / The Numertors / Juniper Rising | 31/07/2013 | McCarren Park |
The Go-Gos | 01/08/2013 | Coney Island |
Blue Hawaii | 02/08/2013 | 285 Kent |
Grand Resort | 04/08/2013 | Fulton Stall Market |
Hunx and his Punx | 08/08/2013 | 285 Kent |
They Might Be Giants | 10/08/2013 | Prospect Park |
Shuggie Otis | 11/08/2013 | Central Park |
Medicine / Weekend | 16/08/2013 | Music Hall of Williamsburg |
Japanther | 17/08/2013 | The Flat |
Radical Dads | 18/08/2013 | Fulton Stall Market |
Blanche Blanche Blanche / Son of Salami | 21/08/2013 | Silent Barn |
Bent Shapes | 25/08/2013 | Fulton Stall Market |
Mac DeMarco | 28/08/2013 | East River Park |
Blouse | 30/08/2013 | Glasslands |
Thurston Moore trio / bEEdEEgEE | 31/08/2013 | Union Pool |
Neko Case | 04/09/2013 | Skylight West |
The Babies | 07/09/2013 | Mercury Lounge |
Will Sheff | 09/09/2013 | Other Music |
Liquor Store | 12/09/2013 | Walker Street |
Chromatics, Glass Candy | 13/09/2013 | Terminal 5 |
Zola Jesus | 14/09/2013 | Our Lady Temple of Lebanon |
Crystal Stilts | 16/09/2013 | Other Music |
Cassie Ramone | 17/09/2013 | Studio X |
Deerhunter / Crystal Stilts | 18/09/2013 | Webster Hall |
Laura Veirs | 19/09/2013 | Mercury Lounge |
Mordus | 20/09/2013 | Sullivan Hall |
Obits | 21/09/2013 | The Bell House |
The Young Sinclairs | 22/09/2013 | Cake Shop |
Colleen Green / The Memories / White Fang / Hector's Pets | 02/10/2013 | Death By Audio |
Wavves / King Tuff / Jacuzzi Boys | 03/10/2013 | Irving Plaza |
Funky Meters | 05/10/2013 | Brooklyn Bowl |
Meat Puppets | 12/10/2013 | Brooklyn Bowl |
Fuzz | 13/10/2013 | Death By Audio |
Joanna Gruesome / The History of Apple Pie | 15/10/2013 | Ran Tea House |
Perfect Pussy / Total Slacker / Sisu / Hunters / Tweens / Lodro | 16/10/2013 | The Flat |
The Beets / Hausu / Rose Windows / Moondoggies | 17/10/2013 | Death By Audio |
Fuck Buttons / Lichens | 18/10/2013 | Le Poisson Rouge |
Weekend / Odonis Odonis / Hunters / Hsy / Flashlights | 19/10/2013 | Muchmore's |
Mac McCaughan | 19/10/2013 | Baby's All Right |
Crocodiles / Bleeding Rainbow / Dream Boys / Punks on Mars | 19/10/2013 | Passenger Bar |
Fidlar / The Orwells | 24/10/2013 | Bowery Ballroom |
King Khan & the Shrines | 30/10/2013 | Webster Hall |
Guantanamo Baywatch / Journalism | 02/11/2013 | Cake Shop |
Fly Ashtray | 03/11/2013 | Cake Shop |
Twin Peaks / Drowners | 08/11/2013 | Baby's All Right |
Diarrhea Planet, Lovely Bad Things | 09/11/2013 | Glasslands |
Anna Calvi | 11/11/2013 | Music Hall of Williamsburg |
Steve Gunn | 11/13/2013 | Studio X |
Wooden Shjips / Cave | 14/11/2013 | Knitting Factory |
Nada Surf (Yellow Dogs Benefit) | 18/11/2013 | Brooklyn Bowl |
Minor Alps | 20/11/2013 | Bowery Ballroom |
Shannon and the Clams / Liquor Store | 23/11/2013 | Metropolitan Pavillion |
Crocodiles / Wymond Miles | 23/11/2013 | Music Hall of Williamsburg |
John Grant | 02/12/2013 | Music Hall of Williamsburg |
Potty Mouth | 05/12/2013 | Converse Rubber Tracks Studio |
Holograms / TV Ghost | 06/12/2013 | 285 Kent |
Iron and Wine, Nick Lowe, Beth Orton, etc WFUV Cheer | 10/12/2013 | Beacon Theatre |
Mikal Cronin / The Entrance Band | 11/12/2013 | Webster Hall |
Pizza Underground | 13/12/2013 | Baby's All Right |
Diarrhea Planet / Purling Hiss / Big Ups | 14/12/2013 | Brooklyn Night Bazaar |
Sisu | 20/12/2013 | Brooklyn Night Bazaar |
Lightspeed Champion | 21/12/2013 | Cameo Gallery |
So So Glos / California X / Palehound / Darlings | 21/12/2013 | Brooklyn Night Bazaar |