Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, September 25, 2026.
Toney W. Merritt attends this selection of masked figures and shifting identities, with filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh moderating the conversation afterward.
Dutch Interior and Racecourse play LPR in the round, bringing their two-band bill into the middle of the audience; doors at 6, show at 6:45.
The Doomstompers, the Abruptors, Ben Basile and Girth Control pack the Broadway’s bill for a night connected by ska and punk.
Rico Speight revisits Frantz Fanon’s life and anti-colonial thought at Maysles, part of the Black Panther Party Film Festival.
Bring a synth to NYC Resistor for impromptu jams and short performance slots, or listen in as musicians trade sounds at the Brooklyn makerspace.
Medieval vocal ensemble Concordian Dawn presents Fracture and Restoration at the Church of the Transfiguration, moving centuries-old repertoire into an intimate evening concert.
Jennifer Reeves’s portrait of an agoraphobic writer screens on 16mm, paired with Ricky D’Ambrose’s The Sky Is Clear and Blue Today.
Alien D, Deep Glens and Bryce Hackford share Dada’s Low Intervention bill, with Tetsuro on DJ duties—a close-up of local electronic experimenters.
Spectacle’s late documentary follows Philadelphia musician Kenn Kweder, whose decades of stubborn local performance outlasted his brush with major-label attention.
Takuya Nakamura brings Cosmic Jungle to Elsewhere for a late session at the intersection of trumpet-led improvisation and fast-moving club rhythms.