Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Saturday, April 25.
An afternoon jam at Smalls gives you the unvarnished version of the scene before the marquee sets take over.
Spectacle is the right scrappy place for an anime program that sounds less like nostalgia than a rabbit hole.
Anthology doing a 3:45 matinee called The Howl is the sort of plan that makes the rest of Saturday feel a little too polished.
Club Cumming hosting a tea dance built around Romy & Michele is camp with a very precise social habitat.
A Purgatory bill with names like these reads like it was assembled by people who still flyer shows for each other.
Alphaville with a bill this scrappy and overnamed is the kind of Bushwick plan you only get by paying attention.
Main Drag still catches the handmade Brooklyn band-night energy better than the sleeker rooms do.
UnionDocs tends to reward the curious rather than the casual, and this one has the right slightly sunburnt strangeness.
The late set plus session format is half concert, half hang, which is exactly why Close Up keeps turning into a real scene pick.
La MaMa remains one of the few places where a project called Edible Tales can sound specific rather than whimsical by committee.