During the Thursday, November 12, through Sunday, November 15, concert window, Public Records supplies a particularly vivid venue story within DURATIONS, its multi-day festival. The Gowanus campus occupies the former ASPCA headquarters and divides its activity among The Atrium, Sound Room, UPSTAIRS, Café Public, and The Nursery. That layout can read as hospitality infrastructure on an ordinary night; across this run, it becomes a programming instrument. Thursday’s intimate presentation, followed by Friday and Saturday club bills that span three spaces, puts the room itself at the center of the listening plan. Public Records’ founding proposition joined a DJ and live-act room to a hi-fi listening bar and café, with custom sound systems designed for the spaces. This week’s sequence gives that founding idea a practical, concentrated form.[1][2]

Thursday’s upstairs proposition

The first selected date arrives Thursday, November 12, with DURATIONS: Acid Horizon presents Civilization Is Over, scheduled for 7 PM. Acid Horizon brings Emma Stamm, Stuart Kendall, and essentialsalts to UPSTAIRS, the venue’s smaller listening lounge and cocktail-bar room. The billing matters because it frames the opening as a presentation with a stated host, a shape well suited to a seated-scale room where the venue’s calendar places the event away from the Sound Room’s main-stage activity. Public Records has long treated focused listening as one strand of its wider identity: its original plan placed a hi-fi bar alongside club and live programming, while its current description calls UPSTAIRS an intimate listening lounge. For a Thursday arrival, this is the route for listeners drawn to the festival’s conversational, close-range side before the weekend expands outward.[1][2]

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Friday’s three-room pressure

Friday, November 13, shifts the scale at 10 PM. DURATIONS: Dasha Rush is listed across the Sound Room, The Atrium, and UPSTAIRS, with Decoder, Innersha performing live, Human Space Machine, Claudio PRC and Francis Harris, plus Afrikan Sciences. The format is central here: one ticketed club program moves through the campus instead of treating a headliner as a self-contained room assignment. Rush’s own catalog and profile describe an electronic practice built around experimentation, alongside her Fullpanda and Hunger To Create labels; that background makes her placement inside a night of live and DJ configurations feel aligned with Public Records’ broader mix of electronic, ambient, and experimental music. Francis Harris’s presence also connects the bill to the venue’s early history, since Resident Advisor identified him as a cofounder when Public Records opened in 2019.[1][2][4]

DJ Sprinkles and the long Saturday arc

Saturday, November 14, carries the club sequence forward at 10 PM with DURATIONS: DJ Sprinkles across the Sound Room, The Atrium, and UPSTAIRS. The supporting roster pairs [g] with Naone, and Abby Echiverri with Eden Aurelius, giving the night several points of entry across the three spaces. DJ Sprinkles is the deep-house persona of Terre Thaemlitz, whose official biography traces a history through New York activist-benefit DJing, a residency at Sally’s II, the Deeperama party in Tokyo, and Comatonse Recordings. Thaemlitz’s work joins deep house, ambient, improvisational jazz, writing, and media critique, which makes this booking an especially sharp expression of Public Records’ long-running interest in club music that rewards attentive listening. The venue’s weekend calendar also continues DURATIONS activity through Sunday, placing this Saturday bill within a larger campus-wide arc.[1][3]

Plan the room, then recheck the calendar

For this guide’s selected shows, head to Public Records at 233 Butler Street in Gowanus: Acid Horizon on Thursday at 7 PM, Dasha Rush on Friday at 10 PM, and DJ Sprinkles on Saturday at 10 PM. Friday and Saturday use the Sound Room, The Atrium, and UPSTAIRS; Thursday’s Acid Horizon program is at UPSTAIRS. Recheck Public Records’ official calendar and ticket pages before leaving, since room assignments, door times, and lineups can change.[1]

Sources

  1. Public Records — Public Records
  2. Public Records is Brooklyn's new hi-fi listening bar, performance space and cafe — Resident Advisor
  3. Terre Thaemlitz Profile — Comatonse Recordings
  4. Music — Dasha Rush