By the time They Might Be Giants took the stage at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate 30 years of Flood, Flood was 33 years old, and the shows could just have readily celebrated the 30th birthday of Apollo 18, their 1992 follow-up that’s at least as good.
The New York rock band They Might Be Giants has been around long enough—40 years and counting—to escape the pigeonholing of a particular scene or genre. They were a genuine alternative long before “alternative rock” was a section in mall record stores, a form of New Wave well after the wave had crested, and an indie act long before Taylor Swift used it as a sarcastic pejorative.
Still, the COVID-19 pandemic tested plenty of acts’ mettle, and seemed especially disruptive for such a prolific act, with such a beloved live show. TMBG did release a new record calledFlood back in 2020 mostly went the way of other things scheduled for 2020. A bunch of the shows were pushed back later in the year, then into 2021, then into 2022—and then Flansburgh was injured in a car crash, kicking a bunch dates into 2023.was 33 years old, and the shows could just have readily celebrated the 30th birthday of, their 1992 follow-up that’s at least as good; or the 20th birthday of the less-heralded but astonishingly eclectic 2001 releasewill be turning 30 and 20, respectively.
Analyzing the content and flow of They Might be Giants setlists is the stuff of nerdy fans, a group to which I absolutely, unavoidably belong; this weekend’s Friday and Saturday Bowery shows were my 59th and 60th time seeing them. I’ve been going to see Linnell and Flansburgh play rock ’’’ roll with a sly smile for 27 years.
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