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[jgthirlwell]

10.07.25 Swans final tour in this iteration at Brooklyn Steel. Stellar lineup of Michael Gira, Kristof Hahn, Larry Mullins, Norman Westberg, Dana Schechter, Phil Puleo and Chris Pravdica

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Swans – Brooklyn Steel – October 7, 2025

Longtime New York city experimental noise-rock outfit Swans came home on Tuesday night to close out the North American tour in support of their 17th acclaimed studio album, Birthing, with a packed headlining show at Brooklyn Steel.

Photos courtesy of Dana Distortion | distortionpix.com

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Masonic Temple, Detroit, Mi, USA

19 Apr., '25

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Iggy Pop - Bizarre Festival : Rockpalast (1998 - HD)

WDR archive 2020 HD

Iggy Pop: Vocals Whitey Kirst: Guitar Pete Marshall: Guitar Hal Cragin: Bass Larry Mullins: Drums

1 I Wanna Live 2 Down on the Street 3 Heart is Saved 4 Raw Power 5 Search & Destroy 6 Real Wild Child 7 I Wanna be your Dog 8 The Passenger 9 Lust for Life 10 Home 11 Sick of you 12 TV Eye 13 No Fun 14 Sweet Sixteen 15 Louie Louie

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Iggy Pop Naughty Little Doggie 1996 Virgin ———————————————————————   Tracks: 01. I Wanna Live 02. Pussy Walk 03. Innocent World 04. Knucklehead 05. To Belong 06. Keep on Believing 07. Outta My Head 08. Shoeshine Girl 09. Heart Is Saved 10. Look Away ———————————————————————  

Hal Cragin

Eric Mesmerize

Larry Mullins

Iggy Pop

* Long Live Rock Archive

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Swans – Racket – May 16, 2024

Swans rose up out of the Lower East Side more than four decades ago, led by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. They’ve survived a long breakup and another hiatus, and last year the highly influential experimental outfit put out their 16th studio album, The Beggar, which the Guardian dubbed, “dark and unsettling, purifying and beautiful.”

And with their spring tour just about over, Swans have returned to New York City for their last three shows of the year, the first of which was a rowdy affair in the Meatpacking District last night at Racket. 

(Swans close out their tour at Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight and tomorrow.)

Photos courtesy of Lexi Yob | @filmbyyobby

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Swans Rattle a Sold-Out Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sunday

Swans – Music Hall – October 1, 2023

The walls of Music Hall of Williamsburg were shaking on Sunday night. As was the floor and the ceiling and the body parts of everyone at the band’s third straight sold-out show at the venue. An opening set from guitarist Norman Westberg established the evening’s energy, solo guitar and effects that seemed to buzz and resonate into every nook of the club’s foundation, eventually finding sweet melodies and enchanting echoes.

A little after 9 p.m., Swans took the stage for their third of three packed shows. Crowded on a stage bathed in a deep red for the night, Michael Gira led the ensemble with the strums of an acoustic guitar. The simplicity of the opening chords soon yielded to complex layering, first Gira’s chanting lyrics, then a shower of cymbal rattling, shrieks of electric guitars, lap steel moans, and hair-raising bass and drum drones. It was a growing intensity that was mirrored by an almost pronounced gentleness running counter in the empty spaces left by the growing wall of sound, the drums reaching a tribal pitch as the whole room trembled in response, rattling parts of my body I’m not sure are supposed to be rattled. This was “The Beggar,” the title track of the newest release from the veteran noise-rockers, a thick sauna of sound, nearly unbearable and yet cleansing.

When I looked at the time again, it was 10 p.m. and I’m not sure how many songs had been played or if I had passed out from the intensity of the noise, but it did feel good. The rest of the night was a taffy-pull of seven or eight more songs, many, like “The Memorious” and “Ebbing,” were off the new record, dark poetry and wild-eyed, room-shaking music. The latter was a personal highlight, a spellbinding intro, Gira’s chanting feeling like a summoning of spirit as he sang, “Gestating — just dreaming / Not breathing” making way to lovely melodic bits even as the chaotic energy grew. In the end, the show was a two-hour-plus endurance test, similar peaks and troughs of dark and light, a massive sound that, despite all the vibration, had no cracks in its foundation. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

Photos courtesy of Samantha Schraub | @samcsch

[jgthirlwell]

05.27.17 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are touring the world and stopped for two dates at the gorgeous Kings Theater in Flatbush, Brooklyn, the second of which I caught. Nick electrified the crowd, who hung on every gesture, and they stormed through extended versions of their hits and spoke tracks from the latest, Skeleton Tree. Larry Mullins (aka Toby Dammit, not the guy from U2) is a new addition on keys, and nice to see Thomas Wydler behind the skins again.