NYS Music 20​19

Tag: Pearl Street Pub

  • Emergency Appendectomy Scraps The Front Bottoms Shows

    New Jersey folk-punk duo The Front Bottoms have been forced to cancel a string of shows this week due to Brian Sella’s emergency appendectomy on Monday.

    According to a post on the band’s Twitter feed, the surgery went well but the band was unfortunately forced to cancel all dates scheduled for this week, including one in Amityville on Thursday and Albany on Saturday while Sella recovers.

    Refunds for the shows are available at point of purchase. The Front Bottoms are next scheduled to perform at their annual curated Champagne Jam at the Fillmore Complex in Philadelphia on Dec. 21. This year’s event is sold out.

  • In Focus: Mihali at Pearl Street Pub

    Twiddle frontman Mihali Savoulidis performed to a near sold out crowd at Pearl Street Pub in Albany on Friday, November 1. A wide array of Twiddle songs, some new songs and a closing cover of Harry Nilsson’s “Lime in the Coconut.”

    Catch Twiddle November 29-30 at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester for their annual Frendsgiving, with Aqueous opening both nights.

    Mihali setlist (via iTwiddle): New Song, Everysoul, Son’s Gonna Rise, Strongest of our Kind, Round Here, Stubborn Smile, New Song, Apples, Heart Song, Carved Lines, New Song, Mickey’s Medley (Orlando’s > RickiSnick > Nicodemus Portulay > Frankenfoote > Jamflowman > Carter Candlestick > Frankenfoote), Lost in the Clouds, Girl I Want to Lay you Down, Over Land & Sea, Hatties Jam > When it Rains it Poors, Lime in the Coconut

  • Ripe Rolls Down onto Pearl Street Pub

    Pearl Street Pub in downtown Albany is generally a home to college students, Albany natives, and ‘out of towners’ alike. On Friday, however, the patrons all had something in common. They all shared a love of funk, and they all loved Ripe.

    The night began with a set from the Australian-based group Castlecomer. The quartet got the collective blood flowing just as the packed room began to cut loose. A roar came over the crowd when the headliners later took the stage. Lead singer Robbie Wulfsohn welcomed the band and belted out the beginning to “Pretty Dirty.” “A Little Lighter” followed and the band went into a night-long serenade to the vibrant fans.

    The group is taking their tour south later this month as they head to Hulaween, and then head out to the midwest. They will return to the Northeast with shows in Burlington, VT; Syracuse, NY; Northampton, MA; and Norwalk CT in mid-November.

    Ripe Setlist: Pretty Dirty, Little Lighter, Talk to the Moon, Passerby, Cease Fire, Lola, Ladies Night, Caralee, Pedro, Young Tom Rose, Text You First, Goon Squad, Flipside, Downward.

    Encore: Follow Through

    Check out photos from the night below via Zatchmo Lives Media.

     

  • Mike Gantzer, Kris Myers and Ryan Stasik drop DOOKIE

    Albany was certainly the place to be Friday, February 1. The Palace Theater hosted Umphrey’s McGee for another always-astounding performance, and the Pearl Street Pub threw a legendary after-show. Once the UM show concluded at The Palace, drummer Kris Myers and bassist Ryan Stasik made their way down the block to meet up with Aqueous guitarist Mike Gantzer.  The three collaborated on an energetic, punk-rock tribute to Green Day‘s 1994 album Dookie that took the Pearl Street Pub’s crowd on a high-speed cruise down memory lane.

    The trio took the stage with attendees anxious to take it all in.  Set one blasted off with “Burnout,” “Having a Blast” and “Chump.” Stasik then dropped into the signature bass line of “Longview,” bringing about a crowd sing-a-long. One highlight of the night was a set of three Ween covers. In between Green Day hits “Longview” and “Welcome to Paradise,” the guys played Ween’s “The Grobe,” “It’s Gonna Be a Long Night,” and “Transdermal Celebration.” The set continued with Dookie tracks in sequential order, mixing in genre-relevant covers from Nirvana, The Ramones and Weezer.  Craftily weaving in a tease that was also featured at the UM show earlier, “Norwegian Wood” (The Beatles) was heard throughout “In The End.”  The end of the evening featured an epic trio of songs including “Brain Stew,” “Geek Stink Breath,” the first single from Green Day’s album Insomniac, and “Bad Mouth,” a Fugazi cover.

    This date marked the 25th Anniversary of the release of Dookie, making the performance a celebratory collaboration.  Mike Gantzer, Kris Myers and Ryan Stasik have performed full covers of the Green Day album on two other occasions: once as a late night tribute set at Summer Camp Music Festival 5/26/17 and again at Brooklyn Comes alive on 9/24/17.

    (Unofficial Setlist)

    Burnout, Having a Blast, Chump > Longview, The Grobe (1), It’s Gonna Be a Long Night (1), Transdermal Celebration (1), Welcome to Paradise, Pulling Teeth > Basket Case, She, Drain You (2), Sassafras Roots, When I Come Around, Coming Clean, I Wanna Be Sedated (3) > Blietzkreig Bop (3), Emenius Sleepus, In The End (4) > F. O. D. > All By Myself, My Name Is Jonas (5), Say It Ain’t So (5), Undone – The Sweater Song (5), Brain Stew

    Encore: Geek Stink Breath, Bad Mouth (6)

    1- Ween cover
    2- Nirvana cover
    3- The Ramones cover
    4- Norwegian Wood (The Beatles) tease
    5- Weezer cover
    6- Fugazi Cover

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