Gutterween Gives Our Wicked Lady Three Halloween Nights of Covers, October 29–31

Halloween weekend tends to scatter New York’s live music energy across costumes, late sets, and one-off theme parties. Gutterween gives that impulse a useful shape. From Thursday, October 29, through Saturday, October 31, Our Wicked Lady presents three consecutive, free bills at The Gutter BK, each built around local performers inhabiting familiar catalogues. Thirty tribute slots are spread across the run, making this less a single nostalgia night than a compact survey of the songs and personas that working musicians want to pull into a loud room right now. Our Wicked Lady describes its presentation work as a long-running effort to build community around bands, and Gutterween applies that local-network ethos to cover-show spectacle. The payoff is choice: attend one night for a particular musical lineage, or treat the three dates as a changing Halloween revue.^[1][2]

The programming also avoids a single era or genre. Thursday tilts toward alternative and post-punk touchstones; Friday gathers punk, emo, hard rock, hip-hop, and contemporary pop under the same roof; Saturday moves through singer-songwriter drama, arena rock, dance-pop, Latin pop, rap, and soul. Those quick shifts give each date its own internal logic while keeping the series grounded in the shared physical occasion: a packed October weekend at the same Williamsburg-adjacent room.^[1]

Thursday, October 29: Alternative-rock dress-up

Thursday’s 7 p.m. opener puts Mixed State in the Bikini Kill slot, then stacks The Replacements, Joy Division/New Order, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Ween, the Police, the White Stripes, ABBA, and System of a Down. It is an unusually broad map of guitar music’s underground-to-mainstream passage: punk abrasion, angular new wave, grunge-era heaviness, art-pop and hard rock all appear in the same sequence. The individual projects sharpen the idea. Bastards of Young identify themselves as an NYC Replacements tribute band, so their inclusion gives the bill a dedicated specialist amid a night of rapid costume changes.^[1][3]

This is the date for listeners drawn to the friction between canon and interpretation. Mixed State’s own work is described as electro-acoustic alternative jazz that moves among classical, straight-ahead jazz, and rock influences; placing that group under the Bikini Kill banner gives the evening an opening gesture that reaches beyond a routine recreation. The rest of the card asks the room to follow a relay of styles, from the severe silhouettes of Joy Division/New Order to the blunt hooks of the White Stripes and the theatrical swing of ABBA.^[1][5]

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Friday, October 30: Punk lineage, emo flash, rap scale

Friday begins at 7 p.m. and carries the sharpest genre collision of the series. The headlining Distillers tribute is joined by a Green Day set from The Greener Days, Creed from Steal, Cheat & Gamble, My Chemical Romance from Michael Romance, Blink-182 from Blink 212, Kendrick Lamar from Cherch / Deathrow Tull, Queens of the Stone Age from Little Sister, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from The No No Nos, Bad Bunny from Conejo Malo, and Alice in Chains from Scarys On The Wall. The list reads like an alternate radio dial assembled by scene regulars.^[1]

The useful way into Friday is through its shared appetite for large gestures: punk choruses, emo catharsis, compressed rap verses, hard-rock riffs, and pop hooks all demand performers who can make a recognizable language feel immediate again. It is also the night where the Gutterween premise feels most elastic. Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny sit alongside Creed and Alice in Chains, which turns the tribute format into a chance to hear radically different fan cultures share a room and a costume-heavy Friday.^[1]

Saturday, October 31: Pop’s big voices, reframed

Saturday’s 7 p.m. finale gives Halloween itself a wider emotional palette. Sammi Lanzetta takes on Amy Winehouse, with Pete Mancini as Oasis, Pink Phony Club as Chappell Roan, Mel & The Tall Boys as Madonna, Marialina and Depression Tropical as Selena, 3MCs&1DJ as Beastie Boys, All Time Darling as Sabrina Carpenter, Nite Music as Tom Petty, It’s Britney Bitch as Britney Spears, and Chick Eddie as Prince. The names connect decades of pop stardom without pretending the originals occupy one stylistic world.^[1]

Lanzetta’s released work has been framed around guitar-driven rock, making the Amy Winehouse assignment an especially appealing curveball: it centers an artist whose songbook depends on phrasing, rhythm, and emotional precision as much as vocal power. Around it, Saturday moves from Oasis and Tom Petty’s guitar songs through Madonna, Britney Spears, and Sabrina Carpenter’s pop architectures, then toward Selena, Beastie Boys, and Prince. That breadth gives the closing night room for camp, craft, and collective singalong energy.^[1][4]

All three Gutterween shows take place at Our Wicked Lady’s Gutter BK at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 29; Friday, October 30; and Saturday, October 31. They are listed as free, though the scale of the lineups makes an early arrival sensible. Recheck Our Wicked Lady’s official calendar before heading out for door details, capacity information, artist changes, and any schedule updates.^[1][2]

Sources

1. Calendar — Our Wicked Lady
2. Our Wicked Lady Presents — Our Wicked Lady
3. Bastards of Young — Bastards of Young
4. Sammi Lanzetta — The Masquerade
5. Mixed State — Danielle Sopchak