Todd P’s ‘New Music’ Venue, Trans-Pecos, Is Up and Running

Todd Patrick’s latest all-ages venture, Trans-Pecos, opened last night in the old Silent Barn space on the Bushwick/Ridgewood border. There wasn’t an overabundance of fanfare at the “preview show,” maybe because of an unforeseen pause in L train service. A decent-sized crowd came out to watch Gnaw, Notekillers and Psalm Zero, a lineup curated by Northern Spy Records. But the unknowing visitor might not have guessed that the occasion was semi-momentous, or, more likely, he or she wouldn’t have even known about it at all.

The same trippy murals that decorated the walls when this was the Silent Barn remain now that it’s called Trans-Pecos, and a liquor license was prominently displayed near the bar. The mellow opening seemed like a harbinger of what’s to come at what Patrick describes on his site as an “all-ages music venue for ‘new music’ (aka noise, avant composition, artistic rock, etc).”

Patrick gave a short spiel thanking everyone for attending, and laying out the plans for the new space (he had already announced that would “will double as a neighborhood bar on nights without shows, plus a gallery, and a separate gallery and show space in the basement to open at a later date”). Meanwhile, B+B got the rundown from Northern Spy co-founder Adam Downey. The label now has offices at Trans-Pecos, and will be curating the lineup every Thursday. There are plans for a cafe adjacent to the space, a backyard, and, hopefully, a recording studio next door. “Kind of what the new Barn is like,” Downey said, referring to that venue‘s new home on Bushwick Avenue. “Everything in one place.”

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