ginchy shit, 2025
Jesse Jarnow / @bourgwick@heads.social / @bourgwick.bsky.social
a running list
single-asterisk – extra-highly recommended
double-asterisk – I’ll figure out what 2 stars means one of these years
triple-asterisk – instant classic in my own personal canon
newish
Ever Lovin’ Jug Band, Move That Thing (Jalopy) *
Ikue Mori, John Zorn’s Bagatelles (Tzadik)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Old Hard & Marvelous (Drag City)
David Lynch & Chrystabell, Cellophane Memories (Sacred Bones)
Adrianne Lenker, Bright Future (4AD)
Being Dead, Eels (Bayonet)
The Submissives, Live at Value Sound Studios (Celluloid Lunch) ***
Vumbi Dekula, Congo Guitar (Hive Mind) ***
SML, Small Medium Large (International Anthem) ***
Josh Johnson, Unusual Object (International Anthem)
Fuli Miziki, Mokano EP (no label) *
new
Onilu, Onilu (Eremite)
Tom Borax, Hot Starlight Loosens Upholstery (no label)
Alvarius B., That’s How I Got To Memphis (& Other Egyptian Love Songs) (Via Piragi) *
Isaiah Collier/William Parker/William Hooker, The Ancients (Eremite)
Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton, live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk’)
Ed Kuepper & Jim White, After the Flood (12XU)
Kroba, Work It Out (no label)
Domestic Drafts, Only the Singer (no label)
Horsegirl, Phonetics On and On (Matador)
The Moles, Composition Book (Splendid Research)
William Tyler, Time Indefinite (Psychic Lines) *
Daniel Bachman, Through the Light (no label) *
Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes, Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes (International Anthem) ***
v/a, Tsapiky Music From Southwest Madagascar (Sublime Frequencies)
Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Flam (Three Lobed)
Brian Eno, Aurum (Apple Music)
The Ex, If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex)
Brigid Mae Power, Songs For You (Watusi) ***
Penn Bryce, Feel Free (no label) *
Panda Bear, Sinister Grift (Domino)
Dew Claw, E.L.F. (Dromedary)
Elijah Minnelli, Perpetual Musket (Breadminster County Council) ***
Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, @ Constellation, May 3, 2024 (HausLive) ***
Guilherme Granado Goat Unity, Ghost Parades (Keroxen) *
Neil Young, Coastal Soundtrack [redacted mix] (Neil Young Archives)
Penza Penza, Hang Loose! I Got Dem Ol’ Surfer Bloos… (Funk Night)
Willie Nelson, Oh What A Beautiful World (Legacy)
Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane’s Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa, N’Djila Wa Mudujimu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) *
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons, Live In Philadelphia (Ars Nova Workshop) ***
Modern Nature, The Heat Warps (Bella Union) *
Peter Rowan, Tales of the Free Mexican Airforce (no label)
James Elkington, Pastel De Nada (No Quarter)
Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!)
Peter Stampfel, Friends, & Daughters, Song Shards (Jalopy) ***
Jonathan Richman, Only Frozen Sky Anyway (Blue Arrow)
Matt Valentine, Grateful (no label)
Water Damage, Live at Le Guess Who? (12XU) *
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin, Ghosted III (Drag City) *
Motherfuckers JMB & Co., Music Excitement Action Beauty (Outre National)
Dwarfs of East Agouza, Tropic of Taurus: Dwarfs of East Agouza in Shenzhen (Old Heaven Books)
Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
Page McConnell, Something Will Land (Keyed)
Johnny Richards & Dave King, The New Awkward (False Door) *
Ensemble Nist-Nah, Spilla (Black Truffle)
Dougie Poole, At Tubby’s (Wharf Cat) ***
Barry Walker Unit, At the 13th Moon Gravity Well (no label) ***
Marshall Allen, Omniverse Orki (High Two) *
Tera Tera, Tera Tera (Hyperjazz) *
Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) *
Ringo Starr, Look Up (Universal)
Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override (dBpm)
Mahlathini and The Mahotella Queens, Buya Buya: Come Back (Umsakazo) *
Orcutt Shelley Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current)
Dagmar Zuniga, in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music (People’s Coalition of Tandy) *
Lagoss & Abagwagwa, Island Slang (no label)
Oren Ambarchi & Fredrik Rasten, Dragon’s Return (Black Truffle)
Michael Hurley, Broken Homes & Gardens (No Quarter)
Setting, At Public Records (no label) *
Arnold Dreyblatt & Horse Lords, FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field (RVNG)
Pastor Chris Congregation, West Virginia Snake Handler Revival: They Shall Take Up Serpents (Sublime Frequencies)
Discreet Charms, Delivery Model Stateholder Meeting (no label)
The Dwarfs of East Agouza, Sasquatch Landslide (Constellation)
Zachary Cale, Love’s Work (no label)
Taper’s Choice, Prog Hat (no label)
The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy)
Scree, August (Ruination Record Co.)
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler, 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s (Eat Your Own Ears)
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka, Hiraeth (Unsound)
The Modern Folk, MF (no label)
Geese, Getting Killed (Partisan/Play It Again Sam)
Bonnie Dobson & the Hanging Stars, Dreams (Loose)
Joe Westerlund, Curiosities From the Shift (Psychic Hotline) *
Jantar, Acqua Vergine (no label)
Sonny & the Sunsets, The Diving Kind (no label) *
Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders, Live at Tubby’s (Eiderdown)
Shrunken Elvis, Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl)
Nobukazu Takemura, knot of meanings (Thrill Jockey) *
Walter Willy, Cinturões de Van Halen (Chupa Manga) *
Golden Brown, Patterner (Inner Islands)
Juana Molina, DOGA (Sonamos)
Steve Gunn, Daylight Daylight (No Quarter)
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, Different Rooms (International Anthem)
Tortoise, Touch (International Anthem)
أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama’a] (Audition) (Otoroku)
Bill Orcutt, Another Perfect Day (Palilia)
Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum, in lichem fol beloften (Makkum)
Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary, Wiretaps For Oral (Disciples)
Willie Nelson, Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy)
SML, How You Been (International Anthem) ***
Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
Sharp Pins, Balloon Balloon Balloon (K/Perennial)
Wreckless Eric, England Screaming (Tapete)
Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, Rebuilding (Fat Possum)
Madala Kunene & Sibusile Xaba, kwaNTU (Mushroom Hour Half Hour/New Soil)
Thor & Friends, Heathen Spirituals (Joyful Noise)
Meat Puppets, Up on the Sun 2022 MegaMix (no label)
singles/EPs/short-form/individual non-album performances
SUSS, “This Land Is Your Land” (Northern-Spy)
“It’s Gonna Rain Through Adobe Speech Enhance”/”I Am Sitting In A Room Through Adobe Speech Enhance,” Chromosaturation Interior (no label)
Rock Candy, “Swimming In” (Carbon)
Marisa Anderson & Luke Schneider, “First Bounce Fly Fly Fly” (Across the Horizon)
Utena Kobayashi & Motion Graphics, “Glossolalia”/”Sanka” (Domino)
BASIC, Dream City EP (No Quarter)
Julian Mark, “Bob Dylan’s Entire Discography But It’s Just the Word…” (no label)
Brigid Mae Power, Silver Strand Tapes (no label)
Will Rigby, Coincidence +3 (no label)
Coca Leaves & Pearls, All One Song (no label)
Evan Shornstein & Booker Stardrum, Rafting / Tall Grass (Extravagant Frequencies)
Wet Tuna, Sound Dimension: FMB (Child of Microtones)
reissues/newish old things
Cranberry Lifecycle, Cranberry Mixdown (no label)
Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Deluxe Edition) (Nonesuch)
v/a, The Original Sound of Mali, v. 2 (Mr. Bongo)
v/a, Zulu Guitar Blues – Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 (Matsuli) ***
W. Cullen Hart & Andrew Rieger, Leap Through Poisoned Air (Orange Twin)
Woody Guthrie, At Home, v. 1 & 2 (Shamus) *
Alick Nkhata, Radio Lusaka (Mississippi) *
Grupo Amigos, Paloma Mensajera (Munster) *
Ween, Shinola 1.5 (no label)
Jim O’Rourke, An Absolute Drag (no label)
v/a, Peripheral Vision: Bands Of Loisaida (Zoar)
v/a, Mr. Baxter EP + All Rarities From Lost Haledon (no label)
Les Rallizes Dénudés, Jittoku ‘76 (Temporal Drift)
Paris 1942, Paris 1942 (Superior Viaduct)
misc. new-to-me
Garth Hudson, Music For Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Buscador EGH)
Robert Wyatt, Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade)
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Artisan Acetate (no label)
The Only Ones, Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
Holger Czukay, Movies (Electrola)
Bantou Mentale, Bantou Mentale (Glitterbeat)
Rico Rodriguez, Waireeka Dub (Ghetto Rockers)
True Believers, Accept It! EP (New Age)
Peter Laughner, Fat City Jive (Smog Veil)
Michael Karoli & Polly Eltes, Deluge (Spoon)
v/a, Cool Cats Invasion (Highlife, Juju & Palm-wine) (Moochin’ About)
Robert Fripp, God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners (E.G.)
live recordings
Magic Tuber String Band, 10 August 2024, Deep in the Valley, Red Hook, NY
Dickey Betts & the Great American Music Show, 14 December 1974 Winterland, San Francisco, CA
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, 25 July 2024 Headliners Music Hall, Louisville, KY
Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller, 19 November 2024 Tubby’s, Kingston, NY
Neil Young & the Friends & Relatives, 12 August 2000 Great Woods, Mansfield, MA
Kafka’s Ibiki, 8 February 2025 Sala dei Giganti, Padova, IT
Prairiewolf, 3 May 2025 Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Boulder, CO
Raphael Rogiński feat. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė & Shahzad Ismaily, 9 November 2024 Le Guess Who at Pieterskerk Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
Elkhorn, 26 April 2025 Thawed Out Fest, Chicago, IL
Flower-Corsano Duo, 12 July 2025 Curious Ear, Manchester, UK
SML, 29 March 2025 The Standard, Knoxville, TN
Booker Stardrum Trio, 3 March 2020 Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
Yo La Tengo with Jon Graboff, 3 May 2025 Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM
Jeremiah Chiu/Alexander DePlume/Gregory Uhlmann, 29 March 2025 Boyd’s Jig & Reel, Knoxville, TN
Phish, 26 July 2025 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sex Pistols, 19 September 1977 Club Zebra, Kristinehamn, SE
Nico feat. John Gilmore, 26 September 1980 Squat Theatre, NYC
Loose Fur, 6 December 2002 St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
Bob Dylan, 1 August 2025 Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY ***
Bob Dylan, 16 November 2025 SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, Scotland
Bob Dylan, 17 November 2025 SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, Scotland
Oneida, 21 June 2008 Terrastock 7, Louisville, KY
live
1 January – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
15 January – Taper’s Choice & Friends & Casual Acquaintances at Brooklyn Bowl
20 January – anti-inaugural reading of “The Descent of Alette” at St. Marks on the Bowery
26 January – Dave’s Waves at Sunview Luncheonette
8 February – Bill Frisell’s In My Dreams at Roulette
14 February – 75 Dollar Bill at Property Is Theft
17 February – Beck at Bowery Ballroom
1 March – Natural Information Society feat. Patricia Brennan at the Kitchen at Westbeth
5 March – William Parker & Marc Ribot at Nublu Classic
25 March – أحمد [Ahmed] at Roulette
7 May – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings at Carnegie Hall
14 May – Sleepy Doug Shaw, Prison at Union Pool
5 June – TAKAAT at TV Eye
11 June – Marc Ribot & Shahzad Ismaily at Roulette
20 July – Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders, Emergency Group at Mama Tried
27 July – William Parker/Daniel Carter/Cooper-Moore at Sultan Room
1 August – Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Wilco at Jones Beach
8 August – Bonnie Prince Billy at Pioneer Works
9 August – Johnson/Uhlmann/Wilkes at Public Records
10 August – Elkorn, Kerlin/Cordero Group at Valentino Pier
23 August – Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts at Jones Beach
12 September – The Feelies at Music Hall of Williamsburg
13 September – Oneida at Sueffert Bandshell
13 September – Chicago Underground Duo at Public Records
23 September – Sir Richard Bishop, Ryley Walker & Scott Colberg at Union Pool
13 October – Natural Information Society at Roulette
17 October – Brian Chase/Lee Ranaldo/David Watson at Roulette
22 October – Duets With the BQE (Little Black Egg, Geologist, Peter Kerlin, Sandy Ewen) at Mama Tried
24 October – John Medeski & Ikue Mori at The Stone
12 November – Wolf on Drugs at Mama Tried
23 November – Sharp Pins, Robyn Hitchcock at Bowery Ballroom
25 November – improv at Roulette
1 December – Patricia Brennan at Roulette
5 December – 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band at P.I.T.
12 December – SML at Sultan Room
13 December – SML at Sultan Room
14 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
15 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
16 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
17 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
18 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
19 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
20 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
21 December – Yo La Tengo & co. at Bowery Ballroom
30 December – Phish at Madison Square Garden
etc.
Hundreds of Beavers
The Life, Death, & Afterlife of the Record Store edited by Gina Arnold, John Dougan, Christine Feldman-Barrett, & Matthew Worley
Radio Dies Screaming
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Beat It! by Rick Brown & Julia Gorton
The Last Great Dream by Dennis McNally
Chaos by Errol Morris
The Pirate Book edited by Nicholas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska
Loud and Clear by Brian Anderson
Severance
Kneecap
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
Andor
Pee-wee As Himself
LCD #28-#29
Fugs Film!
A Book With No Title by Rick Harris
Willie Nelson & Family
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna by Graham St. John
Other Networks: A Radical Sourcebook by Lori Emerson
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
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While I’ve come around to the utility of the LiveNation-owned setlists.fm (which Marc Hogan articulated well!), I still prefer a loving fan-made chronology or setlist database. Though there’s certainly some wonderful stuff to be gleaned from a giant universal database of live events, setlists.fm’s publicly-available sorting/slicing abilities are piddling at best. In general, as with streaming services, I suspect most artists are better served by not trying to cram their live performances into the same metadata container as every other act, not to mention the pedantic internecine labeling battles that are inevitable when combined with open web 2.0 style collaboration. Idiosyncratic musicians deserve their own data representation.
Below is a list of the spread-out setlist databases and live chronologies I’ve returned to while researching, or perhaps just enjoyed (and a few I’ve made myself). There are surely oodles more of these, the below list representing only the subjective limits of my interests and tastes. Please leave your faves in the comments.
To roll your own chronology, I recommend building from live tapes in circulation listed in the etree database, Newspapers.com searches (subscription only, or through your local library), Independent Voices (if artist was active in the ’60s/’70s), and archive.org text contents search. Many states maintain free newspaper archives, such as NYS Historic Newspapers and the California Digital Newspaper Collection. College newspapers from an artist’s performing region(s) are also extremely useful, and often digitized.
Artists
If a chronology is spread across multiple pages, I have often only linked to the starting point. I’ve attempted to focus on lists that are complete about gigs or circulating tapes, which includes some but not all jazz sessionographies. One exception is for Willie Nelson, since many of his studio recordings are notoriously messy to date and I find myself returning to it often.
Allman Bros. (1969-1971)/Duane Allman: Duane Allman Chronology
The Band: History
The Beach Boys: Eric’s Beach Boys Setlist Archive
John Cale: On the Road
The Charlatans: The San Francisco Sound
Don Cherry: Christian Oestreicher
John Coltrane: JazzDisco
Chris Corsano: Cor-Sano
Elvis Costello: ElvisCostello.info
Creedence Clearwater Revival: The San Francisco Sound
Karen Dalton: Jesse Jarnow
Miles Davis: Miles Ahead
The dB’s : The dB’s Live Appearance Gigology
Eric Dolphy: Alan Saul
Bob Dylan: BobServe, Olof’s Files, BobLinks
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper eChive
The Feelies: FeeliesWeb
The Fugs: Bruno Ceriotti
Jerry Garcia: JerryBase
Keith & Donna Godchaux: Lost Live Dead
Grateful Dead: JerryBase
post-Grateful Dead (1998-2023): OtherOnes.net
The Great Society: The San Francisco Sound
Hampton Grease Band: GreaseBase
Robyn Hitchcock/The Soft Boys: The Asking Tree
Hot Tuna: TunaBase
Robert Hunter: GDSets, Still Unsung
Hüsker Dü Hüsker Dü Database
Jefferson Airplane/Starship: JABase, The San Francisco Sound
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: KGLW.net
Ned Lagin: NedBase
Phil Lesh: PhilBase
MC5: Make My Day
Medeski, Martin, & Wood: MMW History
Moby Grape: Chicken On A Unicycle
Modern Lovers: Precise(r) Modern Order
Van Morrison: Vanomatic
Willie Nelson: Country Discography (studio only)
New Riders of the Purple Sage: NRPS.net, Hooterollin’ Around
Nico: Tapes
Charlie Parker: Miles Ahead
William Parker: Sessionography
Pearl Jam: Five Horizons
Phish: Phish.net
Prince: PrinceVault
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Family Tree/Shows List
Lou Reed: The Lou Reed Rock and Roll Animal Web Page, Lou Reed Gigography
R.E.M.: The R.E.M. Timeline
Rolling Stones: Rocks Off
Sonic Youth: Concert Chronology
Bruce Springsteen: BruceBase
The Stooges: Rock Prosopography 102
Billy Strings: BillyBase
Talking Heads: Concert History
Television/Tom Verlaine: The Wonder
They Might Be Giants: TMBG KnowledgeBase
The Turtles: Rock Prosopography 102
The Velvet Underground: Live Performances & Rehearsals
Bob Weir: GDSets (1974-1995), RatDog.org (1995-2023)
Yo La Tengo: Sunsquashed, Hanukkah & misc.
Neil Young: Sugar Mountain
Wilco: WilcoBase (through 2012 only)
Frank Zappa: Zappateers
Venues & Cities
Cafe Au Go Go: Bruno Ceriotti
Carousel Ballroom: Chicken On A Unicycle
Ebbets Field, Denver: QueenCityJamz
Fillmore Auditorium: Chicken On A Unicycle
Fillmore East: Chicken On A Unicycle
Fillmore West: Chicken On A Unicycle
Freight & Salvage: Chicken On A Unicycle
Gainesville, FL: Gainesville Shows
Keystone Berkeley: Chicken On A Unicycle
The Matrix: Chicken On A Unicycle
New Fillmore East/Village East: Jesse Jarnow
Village Theatre: Jesse Jarnow
Whisky A Go Go: Chicken On A Unicycle
Winterland: Chicken On A Unicycle
Promoters
Bill Graham Presents: Chicken On A Unicycle
Family Dog: Chicken On A Unicycle
The Modern Lovers
Precise(r) Modern Order: a chronology, 1970-1974
a work in progress
(please comment with all corrections/memories/additions or email!)
1970
summer 1970, Boston, MA
Jonathan Richman solo demo
Waiting For the Man (Velvet Underground), Hospital, Astral Plane, Ride On Down the Highway, Cosmic Plane of the Arcane, She’s Taking the Pill For Me, Sunshine Your Eyes, Someone I Care About
10/18/70 Central Square YMCA, Cambridge, MA
possibly billed as The Highway Dance Band (with Rolf Anderson on bass), opening for The Act featuring Peter Green.
Setlist via Reddit post titled “Cambridge YMCA 1972” and captioned ‘Quite possibly their first or one of the first gigs and not yet named ‘the modern lovers’ 1972 Cambridge MA.” Later articles confirm Cambridge YMCA show with Peter Green’s Act as band’s first (see “Last of the Modern of Modern Lovers” below, also discussed here).
1971
Enter Ernie Brooks (bass) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards/guitar)
Ernie Brooks [to Legs McNeil]: “Our first gig [was] at some teen center out in Natick, Massachusetts.” Perhaps remembering this show in Newton?
4/3/71 First Church, Newton, MA
6/5/71 Commodore, Lowell, MA
with Cat’s Cradle
xx/xx/71 Cambridge Common, Cambridge, MA
xx/xx/71 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Walk Up the Street, She Cracked, Astral Plane, The Mixer, Old World, 96 Tears (? & the Mysterians), Fly Into the Mystery, Modern World, Someone I Care About, Hospital, I’m Straight, Wake Up Sleepyheads, Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste, Roadrunner
9/xx/71 Intermedia Studios, Boston, MA
Roadrunner, Someone I Care About, Ride On Down the Highway, Hospital
12/1/71 Uncle Sam’s Dance Palace, Hotel Continental, Cambridge, MA
1972
xx/xx/72 Sword in the Stone, Boston, MA
Tapes labeled “Sword in the Stone” are usually a mislabeled version of Stonehenge, March ’72, see below.
xx/xx/72 Boathouse, Cambridge, MA
Tracks included on Live at the Longbranch and More
A Plea For Tenderness, Roadrunner
2/18/72 Somerville High School, Somerville, MA
2/19/72 Speakeasy, Boston, MA
3/24/72 Stonehenge, Ipswich, MA
3/25/72 Stonehenge, Ipswich, MA
3/26/72 Stonehenge, Ipswich, MA
unclear which night at Stonehenge the recording comes from
Modern World, Ride Down On the Highway, Girlfriend, She Cracked, Womanhood, Old World, Fly Into the Mystery, Dignified and Old, Pablo Picasso, Cambridge Clown, Astral Plane, Song Of Remembrance For Old Girlfriends, Such Loneliness, I Grew Up In the Suburbs, Roadrunner
4/1/72 Outer Limits, Northfield, NH
4/21/72 Long Branch Saloon, Berkeley, CA
with Earth Quake
Someone I Care About, Dance With Me, She Cracked, Hospital, Womanhood, Dignified and Old, Girlfriend, Foggy Notion (Velvet Underground), Ride On Down the Highway, Pablo Picasso
4/26/72 Whitney Studios, Glendale, CA
John Cale demos. Songs in bold included on The Modern Lovers [1976]. Discographical info via Early Jojo/Lovers Sessionography
Such Loneliness, Astral Plane, Modern World, Girlfriend, She Cracked, Roadrunner, Someone I Care About, Roadrunner, Old World, Pablo Picasso, Song of Remembrance For Old Girlfriends
4/xx/72 A&M Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Allan Mason demos, late April 1972, following Cale demos. Songs in bold included on The Modern Lovers [1976]. Discographical info via Early Jojo/Lovers Sessionography
Girlfriend, Modern World, Dignified and Old
6/xx/72 Dinky Dawson Basement Studio, Boston, MA
Kim Fowley demos. Songs in bold included on The Original Modern Lovers [1981]. Discographical info via Early Jojo/Lovers Sessionography
Roadrunner, Astral Plane, Walk On Up the Street, Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste, Dance With Me, I’m Straight, A Plea For Tenderness, Song of Remembrance For Old Girlfriends
6/23/72 Stone Phoenix Coffeehouse, Boston, MA
8/15/72 My Father’s Place, Roslyn, NY
opening for Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
I’m Straight
9/26/72 My Father’s Place, Roslyn, NY
with Crazy Horse
9/27/72 My Father’s Place, Roslyn, NY
with Crazy Horse
10/27/72 Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
I’m Dropping My Friends One By One, I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms, I’m Straight, Someone I Care About, Astral Plane, Carla, A Song Of Remembrance For Old Girlfriends, Roadrunner, Pablo Picasso, I Know I Turn Her On, Hospital, I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms, A Plea For Tenderness, Foggy Notion (Velvet Underground), I’m Straight
11/24/72 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
11/25/72 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
12/31/72 Mercer Arts Center, New York City, NY
with New York Dolls, Magic Tramps, Queen Elizabeth
Someone I Care About, Dignified and Old, She Cracked, Astral Plane
1973
1/12/73 Stone Phoenix Coffeehouse, Boston, MA
1/13/73 Stone Phoenix Coffeehouse, Boston, MA
3/16/73 Auditorium, Gloucester High School, Gloucester, MA
with Funky Potatoes
4/10/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/11/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
with Fiery Limbo Dancers
4/12/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/13/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
opening for Esso Steel Band
4/14/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/17/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/18/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
with Fiery Limbo Dancers
4/19/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/20/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
opening for Esso Steel Band
4/21/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/24/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/25/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
with Fiery Limbo Dancers
4/26/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
4/27/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
opening for Esso Steel Band
4/28/73 Inverurie Hotel, Paget, BM
5/23/73 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
with Joe Droukas
5/24/73 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
with Joe Droukas
5/25/73 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
with Joe Droukas
5/26/73 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
with Joe Droukas
7/21/73 Long Branch Saloon, Berkeley, CA
with Earth Quake
8/25/73 Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA
opening for Tower of Power & Lee Michaels
Ernie Brooks (to Legs McNeil): “One of the funniest things was when we played at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino—the gig was set up by Warner Bros., and we played with Tower of Power in front of 10,000 people—and everyone started throwing stuff at us.”
9/1/73 Long Branch Saloon, Berkeley, CA
with Earth Quake
9/xx/73 Elektra Studios, Los Angeles, CA
John Cale LP sessions. Discographical info via Early Jojo/Lovers Sessionography
Who Knows?, Hey There Little Insect
10/xx/73 Gold Star Studios, Hollywood, CA
Kim Fowley session. Songs in bold included on The Original Modern Lovers [1981]. Discographical info via Early Jojo/Lovers Sessionography
She Cracked, I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms, Girlfriend, Roadrunner, I’m Straight, Government Center, Modern World, Fly Into the Mystery, Hospital, A Plea For Tenderness, Yea Pretty Life, Falling In Love Must Be Two Ways, Dignified and Old
10/12/73 Long Branch Saloon, Berkeley, CA
with Earth Quake
10/13/73 Long Branch Saloon, Berkeley, CA
with Rockets
11/11/73 Phil Kaufman’s Backyard, Los Angeles, CA
Kaufman’s Koffin Kaper Koncert, thrown by Phil Kaufman after his arrest for stealing Gram Parsons’ casket. With Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt Kicker 5.
1974
Exit David Robinson, replaced by Bob Turner (drums).
1/26/74 Townhouse Theater, New York City, NY
with Sidewinders. Songs mentioned in Village Voice review, unclear which night they are from, put with night 1 as placeholder.
Here We Are in Dreamland, Falling in Love Must Be Two Ways, Awkward Love, Roadrunner, Pablo Picasso
1/27/74 Townhouse Theater, New York City, NY
with Sidewinders
2/7/74 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
with Sidewinders
2/8/74 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
with Sidewinders
2/23/74 Boston Center For the Arts, Boston, MA
Boston USA, Goin’ Home, Little Latin Lupe Lu (Bill Medley), Falling In Love Must Be Two Ways, Winters Get Hard In New England, Take A Walk Around Town, Government Center, Pablo Picasso, Just Wanna Be Young, Johnny Too Bad (The Slickers), Roadrunner, Song of Remembrance For Old Girlfriends, Hey Good Lookin’ (Hank Williams)
3/1/74 Sociedad Latina, Jamaica Plain, MA
A Night At the Factory, including Hound Dog Taylor documentary and “Cosmic Cartoon”
3/15/74 Sandy’s Concert Club, Beverly, MA
3/22/74 Stone Phoenix Coffeehouse, Boston, MA
3/23/74 Stone Phoenix Coffeehouse, Boston, MA
Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
21 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 8)*
opening act: Florry
comedian: Jon Benjamin
mix CD: DJ Trouble
benefiting: New York Immigration Coalition
“Hanukkah Time” through “Before We Run” with CJ Camerieri (trumpet/French horn), Mike McGinnis (saxophone), Cheryl Kingan (baritone saxophone)
It’s Hanukkah Time (Al Johnson)
Everyday
Moby Octopad
Eight Candles (Sam Elwitt)
Swing For Life
Mr. Tough
Watch Out For Me, Ronnie
Before We Run
Hog of the Forsaken (Michael Hurley) (with Peter Stampfel & Stephanie Coleman on fiddles)
Polynesia #1 (Michael Hurley) (with PS & SC)
Cherry Chapstick
Fallout
Styles of the times
Upside Down
Blue Line Swinger
*(encore)*
I’ll Keep It With Mine (Bob Dylan) (with Susanna Hoffs)
In Your Room (The Bangles) (with SH)
Mrs. Robinson (Paul Simon) (with SH & CJ Camerieri on bongos)
Things I Should Have Said (The Grass Roots, wr. P.F. Sloan/Steve Barri) (with SH & CC)
Manic Monday (Prince, as Christopher) (with SH)
Griselda (Antonia) (with Marilyn Kaplan on vocals, PS, & SC)
My Little Corner of the World (Lee Pockriss/Bob Hilliard) (with MK, PS, & SC)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
20 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 7)*
opening act: Lucinda Williams
comedian: Al Madrigal
mix CD: Godlis
benefiting: Fòs Feministas
whole show with David Mansfield on violin/pedal steel
Night Falls on Hoboken
The Summer
Tiny Birds >
The Ballad of Red Buckets
Song For Mahlia
I Feel Like Going Home
One PM Again
The Way Some People Die (James vocals)
River of Water
I’ll Be Around
Super Kiwi
Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)
We’re An American Band
The Story of Yo La Tango
Our Way To Fall
*(encore)*
Love Comes In Spurts (Richard Hell)
Yummy Yummy Yummy (Ohio Express, wr. Arthur Resnick/Joey Levine) (with Lucinda Williams on vocals)
Tears Are In Your Eyes (with LW)
Pale Blue Eyes (Velvet Underground) (with LW)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
19 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 6)*
opening act: The Raccoonists (Jeff, Spencer, & Sammy Tweedy)
comedian: Jo Firestone
mix CD: Georgia
benefiting: Mary Mitchell Family & Youth Center
whole show with Jeff Tweedy (guitar/bass/vocals), Spencer Tweedy (drums/vocals), & Sammy Tweedy (keyboards/vocals)
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven
Little Eyes
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Bob Dylan)
Aselestine
Season of the Shark
You Are Not Alone (Jeff Tweedy)
The Lie & How We Told It
Did I Tell You?
You Can Have It All (Harry Wayne Casey)
The Race Is On Again
For You Too
A Shy Dog
Brain Capers
Tom Courtenay
I Heard You Looking
*(encore)*
I’m Into Something Good (Herman’s Hermits, wr. Carole King/Gerry Goffin)
Hold On (Herman’s Hermits, wr. Steve Barri/P.F. Sloan)
Just A Little Bit Better (Herman’s Hermits, wr. Kenny Young)
No Milk Today (Herman’s Hermits, wr. Graham Gouldman)
My Reservation’s Been Confirmed (Herman’s Hermits, wr. Keith Hopwood/Derek Leckenby/Harvey Lisberg)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
18 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 5)*
opening act: This is Lorelei
comedians: Clare O’Kane & Patti Harrison
mix CD: James
benefiting: Just Making A Change For Families
Big Day Coming (quiet)
Ashes
Autumn Sweater
The Cone of Silence
Gee, The Moon Is Shining Bright (The Dixie Cups)
The Point of It
Until It Happens
If I Ever Was A Child (Wilco)
Black Flowers
Satellite
Sudden Organ
Paddle Forward
Deeper Into Movies
Big Day Coming (fast)
Mushroom Cloud of Hiss
Miles Away
*(encore)* with Norah Jones on vocals/keyboard
I’m Gonna Get You (The Dixie Cups)
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today (Randy Newman)
Carry On (Norah Jones)
Tears Are In Your Eyes
Little Broken Hearts (Norah Jones)
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
17 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 4)*
opening act: Bonnie Prince Billy
comedian: Wyatt Cynac
mix CD: Tara Jane O’Neil
benefiting: Smoketown Thunder
Green Arrow
From A Motel 6 >
Tonight’s Episode
Here To Fall
Shades of Blue
A Worrying Thing
Here You Are
Pablo & Andrea
Two Trains
Stupid Things
False Alarm
The Evil That Men Do (Craig’s version)
86-Second Blowout
Sugarcube
Pass the Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
*(encore)*
Trustfall (P!NK) (with Bonnie Prince Billy on vocals)
Little Bit of Rain (Fred Neil) (with Matt Berninger on vocals)
Inland Ocean (Matt Berninger) (with MB)
Bloodbuzz Ohio (The National) (with MB)
Eve of Destruction (Barry Maguire) (with MB & Lenny Kaye on guitar/vocals)
Free Money (Patti Smith/Lenny Kaye) (with BPB, MB, & LK)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
16 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 3)*
opening act: Scrawl
comedian: Gary Gulman
mix CD: Ira
benefiting: Afrikana & Artists Athletes Activists
whole show (minus “We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together”) with Joe McGinty on keyboards
Center of Gravity
Forever
Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House
All Your Secrets
Damage
Apology Letter
Everybody Loves A Clown (Gary Lewis/Snuff Garrett/Leon Russell)
If It’s True
The Crying of Lot G
Artificial Heart
Drug Test
Shaker
Double Dare
Decora
Little Honda (The Hondells)
*(encore)*
We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Velvet Underground) (with Marcy Mays & Sue Harshe of Scrawl on vocals)
Kicks (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil) (with MM & SH)
Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Fabian Andre/Wilbur Schwandt/Gus Kahn) (with Ana Gasteyer on vocals)
(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me (Burt Bacharach/Hal David) (with AG)
Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Ole Oak Tree (Irwin Levine/L. Russell Brown) (with AG, MM, & SH)
Silver Bells (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans) (with AG, MM, & SH)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
15 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 2)*
opening act: Built To Spill
comedian: Alex Edelman
mix CD: Gail O’Hara
benefiting: Neighbors Together
whole set with Teresa Esguerra of Built to Spill on drums/percussion
Nutricia
Sinatra Drive Breakdown
Stockholm Syndrome
Beanbag Chair
Let’s Do It Wrong
I Was the Fool Beside You For Too Long
Detouring America With Horns (acoustic)
Alyda
Nowhere Near
The Room Got Heavy
Last Days of Disco (with Doug Martsch on guitar)
Barnaby, Hardly Working (with DM)
Nothing To Hide (with DM)
Ohm (with DM)
Heroin (Velvet Underground, arr. Roky Erickson) (with DM)
*(encore)*
Gimme Some Money (The Thamesmen)
She’s My Best Friend (Velvet Underground)
Jokerman (Bob Dylan) (with TE on drums & DM on guitar/vocals)
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Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom
14 December 2025
*(Hanukkah, night 1)*
opening act: Sun Ra Arkestra
comedian: Jon Glaser
mix CD: Daniel Clowes
benefiting: Housing Justice For All
whole set from “We Travel the Spaceways” onwards with Sun Ra Arkestra horns
Big Crime (Neil Young)
Back in the New York Groove (KISS) (as “Back With the New York Jews”)
Periodically Double or Triple
Can’t Forget
Madeline
We Travel the Spaceways (Sun Ra) >
Let’s Be Still
Don’t Have To Be So Sad
Dreaming (Sun Ra)
My Heart’s Reflection
Clumsy Grandmother Serves Delicious Desert By Mistake (Jad Fair)
This Stupid World
Emulsified (Rex Garvin)
More Stars Than There Are In Heaven (boogie version)
Nuclear War (Sun Ra)
*(encore)*
The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell)
This Ain’t the Summer of Love (Blue Oyster Cult)
Be My Baby (Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich/Phil Spector)
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