Shows Archive

• Ruin (Philly Hardcore band) 1/30/84
• Half-Japanese (with Don Fleming) 2/4/84
• Human Switchboard 3/31/84
• Trypes + The Willies (aka The Feelies) 4/27/84 (house parties)
• Beat Rodeo 4/28/84 (early afternoon on mushroom day)
• dB’s 4/28/84 (early evening on mushroom day)
• Dumptruck + Miracle Legion (house parties)
• The Wombats (Cleveland garage band)
• The Impossible Years (local – Philly garage pop band)
• Tommy Keene band
• Christmas + Birdsongs of the Mezozoic + Willie “Loco” Alexander

Music chair: Sally Jacob

• Birdsongs of the Mesozoic – 1985 or 1986
• Murphy’s Law – 1987 or 1988 (according to Amanda from cassettemythos; confirmed by Ethan Stein)
• Gwar – 1988 (See the discussion page for more)
• DJ Richard ‘Nixon’ Fleming – Many shows, sometimes almost weekly. Sometimes 2 floors of speakers. Whole building dancing. I still have some tapes that should be converted to MP3.
• Lydia Lunch – Spoken word. Not a particularly interesting show. ? Kim Sever sponsored
• Blues Traveler – ? Jul 86 – When they were still in High School (Princeton based). Summer event. Popper blew me away.
• Firehose – April, 1991 (according to Hugh Hynes)

Music chair: Brian Grady

• the Verlaines – 1989 (according to Andrew Chalfen and Jon Solomon)
• Superchunk + Erectus Monotone – 1991-02-03 (sign-ins week)
• Yo La Tengo – 1991-05-05 Terrace Club Lawn (cited here)
• Sebadoh – 1990 or 1991
• King Kong – 1991
• Jawbox – 1991-09-27 (Sean Murphy reported on cassettemythos that this gig took place the same night that Nirvana played City Gardens; a Nirvana fan site provides the date of the Nirvana gig)

Music chair: Lisa Harper

• GWAR debuts at Terrace
• Birdsongs of the Mosozoic
• Wilbo, the funky bass player who did that fusion-y stuff with Henry Rollins’s drummer
• Pull the Wool
• Jorma Kaukonen
• Fishbone (possibly 1987?)
• Flathead
• DJs Perry LeBlanc and Rich “Nixon” Flemming
• various jazz stuff

Music chair: Geoff Hager

• Fugazi – April 6, 1989 (according to Jon Solomon, mentioned in Ethan Stein’s interview with Ian Mackaye here) (I was there; Ian very sensitively asked all the women who had been victims of sexual assault to raise their hands before “Suggestion”)
• Screaming Trees
• Flaming Lips
• GWAR
• Swallow (the subpop band that never went anywhere)
• The Walkabouts
• Noise Petals (at least, I’m pretty sure I saw them play at Terrace)
• GWAR again (never enough GWAR)
• Green River
• The Dickies, not sure if 1989 or 1990
• Lawnparties, all ska all the time: Bim Skala Bim, Panic, NY Citizens
• some random reggae band that played a lot of Grateful Dead covers … I think their name was Lamb’s Bread

Music chair: Nisid Hajari

• Helium + Alkaline + Juicy, 1993-01-30 (Indie List via Internet Archive)
• The Styrenes + The Mirrors, 1993-03-?? (in the Red Room)
• Versus + Shudder to Think, 1993-03-06 (Indie List via Internet Archive)
• Pitchblende + Eggs + Purple Ivy Shadows, 1993-03-27 (cited here)
• The Drovers, 1993-04-01 (Indie List via Internet Archive)
• Karl Hendricks Trio, summer 1993 (cited here)
• King Kong, summer 1993 (according to Jon Solomon)
• Codeine + Lois + Hurl, 1993-10-8 (Indie List via Internet Archive)
• Pansy Division + Size Queen, 1993-10-15 (cited here)
• Poster Children + Mercy Rule + Jacob’s Mouse, 1993-11-06
• Tiger Trap + Sleepyhead, 1993-11-13 (Indie List via Internet Archive)
• William Hooker Quartet + Stereolab, 1993-11-20 (Indie List via Internet Archive)
• Don Byron Quintet – 1993-12-5 (??? referenced as upcoming in the Indie List – definitely happened…maybe houseparties?)
• the Ohio Players (1993 lawnparties – like having 50 Rick Jameses in the house)
• Silkworm, Karl Hendricks Trio
• Helmet and Quicksand (yes!)
• Juliana Hatfield
• Yellow Man* The Village People

Matthew Brown / Nick Fogler

• Unrest + Stereolab, 1994-09-30
• Portastatic and the 3-Ds (1994 houseparties)
• the Scofflaws (1994 lawnparties)
• Candy Machine
• Air Miami, Tuscadero, Blast-Off Country Style, and Versus
• Blunderbuss
• Polvo
• Girls Against Boys & Dolomite, January 1994
• DJ Dimitri / Dee Lite, January 1994
• Barbara Manning, January 1994
• Helium, January 1994
• Ruby Falls
• Guided by Voices (or could have been spring 93)

Jill Stempel / Ashley Salisbury

• Shellac + Uzeda + Dis-
• Jawbox + Bedhead
• Spectrum + Air Miami
• Tortoise + The Sea & Cake + Run On
• Stanley Jordan
• Chavez
• DJ Keoki
• Trans-Am, Rachels, and Rex
• Ida • Les Savy Fav

Dan Gabbe / Gisela

• • David Grubbs, Hall of Fame (Saturday February 5th, 2000)
• Bonnie Prince Billy, Nuzzle (Thursday February 10th, 2000)
• Ui, Seely, Wheat (Thursday February 24th, 2000)
• Tara Jane O’neil, Ida, Jenny Toomey, Brand Loyal (Saturday February 26th, 2000)
• The Make Up, All Scars, the Gunga Din (Thursday March 2nd, 2000)
• Rainer Maria, Ivory Coast, the Plan (Saturday March 4th, 2000)
• Dianogah, Paul Newman, French Kicks (Thursday March 9th, 2000)
• Sex Mob, Elliott Sharp (Thursday March 23rd, 2000)
• Vanilla Ice (Saturday March 25th, 2000)
• Sean Na Na, Rondelles, Holy Childhood, Atom and His Package (Friday March 31st, 2000)
• Arsonists, Dalek (Saturday April 8th, 2000)
• M. Doughty (Thursday April 13th, 2000)
• Lois, Mark Robinson, One AM Radio (Friday April 14th, 2000)
• Sex Mob (Sunday September 17th, 2000)
• Oval, Sporangia (Thursday September 21st, 2000)
• Luna, Flare (Thursday September 28th, 2000)
• Jets to Brazil, Hey Mercedes, The Love Scene (Saturday October 7th, 2000)
• Dismemberment Plan, Sweep the Leg Johnny, the Ivory Coast (Saturday October 14th, 2000)
• the Disco Biscuits (Thursday November 9th, 2000)
• The Sea and Cake, Dymaxion (Thursday November 16th, 2000)
• Virgil Moorefield (Saturday December 2nd, 2000)
• Dalek meets William Hooker ensemble (Friday December 8th, 2000)

Xabi Vasquez-Gil

• Masquerave featuring Victor Dinaire (January 16th)
• The Pilfers with The Rhythm Method (January 18th)
• Suran Song in Stag (January 20th)
• Emma Gibbs Band (February 3rd)
• Twerrampon Drum Ensemble (February 9th)
• Schleigho with Black-Eyed Susan (February 10th)
• Kristin Hersh (February 17th)
• The Dor-Nays, The Gena Rowlands Band, Ulf Magnet, and Lee Baby Sims (March 3rd)
• The Lapse, Radio 4, and Helms (March 10th)
• The Recipe (March 15th)
• Harriet Tubman with DJ Singe (March 29th)
• Pan Sonic with Hrvatski (March 31st)
• The Bass Conspiracy Presents BALANCE (April 6th)
• Mountain Brothers (April 12th)
• Evolution Quartet (April 13th)
• Jenny Toomey and Karla Schickele (April 14th)
• 4 East Madison and the Rhythm Method (April 20th)
• Addison Groove Project (April 21st)
• Melissa Ferrick (April 22nd)
• Retsin with Warn Defever (April 26th)
• jessica del vecchio (April 27th)
• Xiomara Laugart with Yerba Buena (April 27th)
• Von and Sketch (May 3rd)
• Sporangia, Hand Held Sound System, and Yusuke Yamamoto (May 5th)
• AUTECHRE (May 6th) (plus a late-night impromptu DJ set in the red room)
• Zookjera (May 12th)
• OXES, SubArachnoid Space (Saturday, September 22nd)
• Amon Tobin (Saturday, September 29th)
• Drums & Tuba (Thursday, October 4th)
• Exile and J-Mil of Project Element X, SL-One and Kid Kaos of Vintage Imperial, DJ sets by J-Smoke of the Allies, SL-One, and Nader (Saturday, October 13th)
• The John Scofield Band, Zookjera (OCTOBER 18th)
• Addison Groove Project (Saturday. October 20th)
• BULLFROG featuring Kid Koala (Thursday, October 25th)
• Therefore (Saturday, November 8th)
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Maestro Echoplex (Saturday, November 10th)
• Mori Stylez, Black-Eyed Susan (Saturday, November 17th)
• ANTIBALAS (Thursday, November 29th)
• Rob Reddy’s Sleeping Dogs, No Sale Value (December 1st)
• Hrvatski, Sporangia, Charles Cohen, Greg Davis, Clocklife (live collaboration with Loki), Knights of Resignation (December 7th)
• Cloud Nine, DJ Virus, The Notice Co. (December 8th)
• Dieselboy (Thursday, December 13th)

Justin Goldberg