Baby’s All Right

Baby’s All Right is located on 146 Broadway in Brooklyn, right after turns and South 6th Street splits from it.  A new venue, it opened to concerts at CMJ...
Baby's All Right

Baby's All Right

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Baby’s All Right is located on 146 Broadway in Brooklyn, right after turns and South 6th Street splits from it.  A new venue, it opened to concerts at CMJ 2013, with a series of free shows from Brooklyn Vegan.

Hearing ‘new Brooklyn venue’ and that it’s not a few blocks from the Bedford Avenue subway stop, a.k.a. hipster central, and you might think that it’s a DIY place akin to Shea Stadium.  In fact, Baby’s All Right is a much classier joint, which includes a restaurant.  There is restaurant seating just to the right of the entrance, raised above the entryway (which has a neat light-up glass bricks curve on its left), and in a separate section to the further right.  There are three bars, one past the entryway facing the entrance, one to the right in the separate dining area, and one on the other side of the bar, facing the stage in the back of the space.  The bathrooms are rather confusingly located downstairs through the separate dining area, past a number of turns and doors/curtains for staff only, practically asking for drunks to wander into some place they shouldn’t.

The concert space itself is about on the level of Manhattan’s Mercury Lounge, though a little bigger, with poor lighting but better sound.  Baby’s All Right, despite not having the booking pull of Mercury, has not only tapped the local well but become a favorite for secret and one-off shows.  It was even featured in an episode of Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series, Master of None, where he gets a “hot ticket” for a special Father John Misty show there.  However, when the space is packed for ‘big band playing intimate space’ shows, the main back room can not only become unbearably hot, but also unbearably crowded, with the rather inexplicable barriers on the stage floor creating even more audience flow problems.  But with Williamsburg proper getting gentrified into high prices like the Lower East Side was before it, the Marcy Avenue area is due for it’s own music scene.

Capacity: 206

21+

Address:

146 Broadway (between Bedford Avenue and Driggs Avenue)

By Subway:

J or M to Marcy Avenue – four blocks west south side of Broadway

QRO Coverage:

-Alex Lahey, June 7th, 2023 – live review, photos

-Dougie Poole, April 6, 2023 – photos

-VAPERROR, with Floated, Couch Prints, and DV-I (Music Website Warmup Party) – live review, VAPERROR photos, Floated photos, Couch Prints photos, DV-I photos

-Justus Bennetts, with Gigi, September 28th, 2022 – Justus Bennetts photos, Gigi photos

-City of the Sun, August 10th, 2022 – photos

-Piff Marti, with Nohemy, June 8th, 2022 (Tribeca Festival Music Lounge opening night party) – review, Piff Marti photos, Nohemy photos

-Widowspeak, April 6th, 2022 – photos

-Helena Deland, March 5th, 2022 – photos

-The KVB, with Numb.er and Devon Church, November 1st, 2019 – The KVB photos, Numb.er photos, Devon Church photos

-Suzi Wu, with Umru, June 3rd, 2019 – Suzi Wu photos, Umru photos

-Jonathan Bree, with Dion Lunadon (DJ set) and Mahogany, March 20th, 2019 – Jonathan Bree photos, Dion Lunadon photos, Mahogany photos

-Roosevelt Island, with Chest High Fires and Sam Kogon, February 24th, 2019 – Roosevelt Island photos, Chest High Fires photos, Sam Kogon photos

-Operators, December 13th, 2018 (‘Present Handsome Furs’) – photos

-Tokyo Police Club, with Maxband, October 16th, 2018 – Tokyo Police Club live review, Tokyo Police Club photos, Maxband photos

-Mothers, with LaLa LaLa and Toast, September 20th, 2018 – Mothers photos, LaLa LaLa photos, Toast photos

-Jessica Lea Mayfield, with Active Bird Community and Esther Rose, December 1st, 2017 – Jessica Lea Mayfield photos, Active Bird Community photos, Esther Rose photos

-BØRNS, October 20th, 2017 – photos

-Land of Talk, September 19th, 2017 – photos

-The Japanese House, November 22nd, 2016 – photos

-Blaenavon, November 1st, 2016 – photos

-Grouplove, September 9th, 2016 – live review, photos

-Wild Beasts, August 10th, 2016 – photos

-ARMS, June 7th, 2016 – photos

-Operators, April 21st, 2016 – photos

-Neon Indian (DJ set), with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Blow, and Guerilla Toss, March 3rd, 2016 (Force Field PR 10th Anniversary) – Neon Indian (DJ set) photos, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart photos, The Blow photos, Guerilla Toss photos

-Ra Ra Riot, November 3rd, 2015 – live review, photos

-San Cisco, March 22nd, 2015 – photos

-The Cribs, with Cold Fronts, March 13th, 2015 – The Cribs photos, Cold Fronts photos, The Cribs backstage photos

-Will Butler, March 7th, 2015 – photos

-The Twilight Sad, February 24th, 2015 – photos

-Beach Fossils, with Heavenly Beat and Axxa/Abraxas, September 26th, 2014 – Beach Fossils photos, Heavenly Beat photos, Axxa/Abraxas photos

-‘Slumber Party @emmieshouse’, with DJ sets from The Knocks, MS MR, and Charli XCX, July 9, 2014 – photos

-Clouder, with The Love Supreme, Friend Roulette and Winstons, June 14th, 2014 (Northside) – Northside recap, Clouder photos, The Love Supreme photos, Friend Roulette photos, Winstons photos

-Operators, June 13th, 2014 (Northside) – Northside recap, photos

-Little Racer, April 12th, 2014 – photos

-Calvin Love, with TOPS and Jimmy Whispers, March 24, 2014 – Calvin Love photos, TOPS photos, Jimmy Whispers photos

-Little Racer, March 4, 2014 – photos

-FIDLAR, with Big Ups, January 27th, 2014 – FIDLAR photos, Big Ups photos

Baby's All Right

Baby's All Right

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