Upcoming Shows

what the hell there was a whole series of cool djs in town and objekt is the 2ne to last 😭

It's in my sig but that's only visible in desktop web view, so here's my upcoming list. After a slow start the list has grown a lot in the past six weeks! Some of that is because the Brooklyn Paramount came online, a new venue just a block from home, which makes me happy. This does not include the St. Vincent show that I am getting comped for there, don't know which of September 10 or 11 yet EDIT:  Confirmed for September 10!  I also look to be spending a lot of time in Queens this summer, lol. Also still eyeing Pearl Jam at MSG (or Philly) in September, got shut out but not giving up hope.

4/5 San Fermin, Racket NYC
5/1 Belle & Sebastian, Brooklyn Paramount
5/17 Echo & the Bunnymen. Brooklyn Steel
6/7 Hozier, Forest Hills Stadium
6/8 Governors Ball, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
6/20 Future Islands, Radio City Music Hall
7/25 Billy Joel, Madison Square Garden
8/5 Green Day/Smashing Pumpkins, etc., Citi Field
8/21 The Gaslight Anthem, Central Park Summerstage
9/7 Bikini Kill, Brooklyn Paramount
9/13 The National/The War On Drugs, Forest Hills Stadium
9/14 PULP, Kings Theatre
9/27 IDLES/The Walkmen, Forest Hills Stadium
10/4 Bleachers, Madison Square Garden
10/6 Vampire Weekend, Madison Square Garden
10/9 Sting, Brooklyn Paramount

not sure about MSG but there were lots of drops day of show for Pearl Jam in Austin last year

Upcoming so far:

4/4 bar italia, The Casbah
4/16 Khruangbin, Rady Shell
5/2 Tim Robinson ITYSL Live, Cal Coast Amphitheater
5/10-12 Kilby Block Party, SLC
6/27 Diiv, North Park Observatory
9/21 Cornelius, Music Box
10/11-13 Desert Daze (probably)
11/2 King Gizz (acoustic), Rady Shell

Going to survive this semester, and then...

5/3-5/5--Shaky Knees, Atlanta
5/6-Alice Merton, DC
5/10-PJ, Portland
5/21-PJ, LA
5/22-PJ, LA
5/23-Starcrawler or Bully, LA
5/24-Cold War Kids and Mondo Cozmo, Napa
5/25-BottleRock Napa
6/9-Menzingers, Baltimore
6/14-DMB, Raleigh
6/16-Maggie Rogers, MD
6/23-Future Islands, DC
6/27-Sarah McLachlan, MD
6/28-The Frights, DC
6/29-Alanis and Joan Jett, DC
7/13-DMB, VA
7/23-Foo Fighters and Amyl and the Sniffers, Hershey PA
7/27-Two Door Cinema Club and Flipturn, Baltimore
8/9-Phish, NY
8/10-Phish, NY
8/11-Phish, NY
8/15-King Gizz, DC
8/22-PJ, Missoula
8/29-PJ, Chicago
8/31-PJ, Chicago
9/3 and 9/4-PJ in NYC if I get lucky
9/7-PJ Philly OR Bruce DC
9/9-PJ, Philly OR Goose Charlottesville
9/12-PJ, Baltimore
9/13-St. Vincent, DC
9/14 and 9/15-Sea Hear Now
9/20-Lawrence, MD
9/26-MMJ and Rateliff, Philly
9/27-9/29-Oceans Calling
9/30-Vampire Weekend
10/1-Vampire Weekend

Writing it all out really helped me understand why I'm so incredibly broke.

Alas, my days of 5+ shows in a week, 100+ in a year are behind me....

4/7 - Bruce Springsteen
5/12 - Demetri Martin
5/15 - Belle and Sebastian
5/18 - Just Like Heaven
6/2 - Zach Bryan
6/12 - Vampire Weekend
6/15 - Adrianne Lenker
6/21 - Noah Kahan
6/29 - The Roots Picnic
7/6 - Beck w/ LA Phil
7/13 - Rolling Stones
8/7 - Laufey
8/10 - Ben Howard
8/16 - Olivia Rodrigo
8/25 - Mt. Joy
9/5 - Keane
9/8 - Vance Joy
9/28 - Mitski
10/18 - Stars
10/19 - Joni Mitchell

this made me curious about my shows by year. not a super true figure since it counts individual festival sets:

2009 - 37
2010 - 38
2011 - 45
2012 - 41
2013 - 47
2014 - 40
2015 - 37
2016 - 76
2017 - 59
2018 - 37
2019 - 49
2020 - 0
2021 - 8
2022 - 17
2023 - 48
2024 - 1

2016 was an aberration because i went to jazzfest, bonnaroo, voodoo, and day for night. surprised to see 2023 actually got me back up to more "normal" shows per year.

1994 - 4
1995 - 29
1996 - 27
1997 - 39
1998 - 22
1999 - 18
2000 - 12
2001 - 7
2002 - 4
2003 - 14
2004 - 13
2005 - 16
2006 - 11
2007 - 6
2008 - 10
2009 - 11
2010 - 6
2011 - 3
2012 - 19
2013 - 15
2014 - 58
2015 - 53
2016 - 63
2017 - 43
2018 - 67
2019 - 66
2020 - 5
2021 - 28
2022 - 55
2023 - 39
2024 - 5

This is such a telling commentary on how we handled our first child vs. our second child. My first child was born in spring of 2011, while my second child was born spring of 2015. 

oh this is a fun game i'm going all the way back to the beginning

2004 - 1
2006 - 1
2007 - 4
2008 - 6
2009 - 14
2010 - 18
2011 - 22
2012 - 24
2013 - 15
2014 - 13
2015 - 23
2016 - 47
2017 - 45
2018 - 54
2019 - 51
2020 - 4
2021 - 26
2022 - 48
2023 - 38
2024 - 5

big increases came when i graduated college in 2015 then 2022 being my first full concert year in new york, i expect the downward trend to continue but i'm ok with it provided i'm not looking at like, 2 shows a year

edit re: festivals, these numbers count a day of a festival as a show, any more granular takes more time than i feel like right now

If I watch at least one entire song, I count it.

Fairly accurate, have added a lot of setlist.fm and I think they all got approved. Despite the covid lull, 2022 came back as my strongest year since 2015. Could easily trendline this data with disposable income for that year

2023 (17)
2022 (24)
2021 (5)

2019 (8)
2018 (13)
2017 (11)
2016 (15)
2015 (53)
2014 (38)
2013 (48)
2012 (16)
2011 (28)
2010 (8)
2009 (4)
2008 (10)
2007 (4)
2006 (6)
2005 (6)
2004 (27)
2003 (31)
2002 (46)
2001 (37)
2000 (11)
1999 (3)

Wrong coast or I would be all over it. Only u.s show of the summer too.

extremely impressive spreadsheet my friend. going to have to steal some of that from you.