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white negroni | mezcal, gin, salers, blanc vermouth, grapefruit bitters
06/17/2026

white negroni | mezcal, gin, salers, blanc vermouth, grapefruit bitters

tomato margarita | tequila, mezcal, fino sherry, tomato, lime
05/29/2026

tomato margarita | tequila, mezcal, fino sherry, tomato, lime

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, May 20th from 6pm for the thirty-second edition of Playback with upsammy and Emily Je...
05/19/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, May 20th from 6pm for the thirty-second edition of Playback with upsammy and Emily Jeanne. Both artists will feature selections from their albums, remixes and collaborations ahead of their club sets at Public Records on May 22nd.

upsammy (Thessa Torsing) is an Amsterdam-based DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist. Known for her hybrid club sound, she blends abstract techno, electro, and drum & bass with natural field recordings. Having studied Image and Media Technology at the Utrecht University of the Arts, Torsing is intrigued by the rhythms and vibrational qualities of her surroundings – shaping a singular aesthetic that blurs the synthetic – natural divide. She has released albums on labels like PAN (Seismo w/ Valentina Magaletti), Dekmantel, AD 93 and holds residencies at NTS Radio and Garage Noord.

Emily Jeanne is a DJ and producer working in the spaces between experimental electronic music and physical, dance floor-focused sound. Her sets and productions move fluidly between broken rhythms, textured atmospheres and more direct club forms, balancing depth with momentum. Through her own label quỳnh and releases such as Call Of The Sea and Past Through Desire, The former was widely noted for its hypnotic, polyrhythmic
and aquatic qualities, while the latter pushes further into tense, coiled and intricately detailed terrain, described by critics as offering the dance-floor “more than cheap thrills,” favoring atmosphere, tension and long-form development over immediate payoff. Together, these releases clarify a sound that is as suited to late-night club rooms as it is to more open-ended, experimental environments.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where composers, record labels and producers feature their catalog, premiere albums, archives and other rarities.

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, April 22nd from 6pm for the thirty-first of Playback with Chloe Alexandra Thompson. C...
04/18/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, April 22nd from 6pm for the thirty-first of Playback with Chloe Alexandra Thompson.

Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree interdisciplinary artist and composer working with sound as a relational medium. Her work explores listening as an embodied practice, where tone, texture, and resonance shape perception beyond fixed narrative.

Her recordings utilize field recording, synthesis, and psychoacoustic techniques often unfolding as durational environments. Through this approach, she treats sound as both material and method, capable of holding memory, disrupting linear time, and creating space for reflection and attunement. Her work, which moves between ambient, experimental music, noise and sound art privileges atmosphere, fragmentation, and intimacy.

For this edition of Playback at Bar Laika, she presents past releases (including SIGE, Luminous Drift, Beacon Sound, Soundsetal, Blankstairs) and forthcoming works from an ongoing body of work that considers sound as a site of relation, listening into fragments, absence, and return as compositional form.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, April 22nd from 6pm for the thirty-first of Playback with Chloe Alexandra Thompson. C...
04/18/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, April 22nd from 6pm for the thirty-first of Playback with Chloe Alexandra Thompson.

Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree interdisciplinary artist and composer working with sound as a relational medium. Her work explores listening as an embodied practice, where tone, texture, and resonance shape perception beyond fixed narrative.

Her recordings utilize field recording, synthesis, and psychoacoustic techniques often unfolding as durational environments. Through this approach, she treats sound as both material and method, capable of holding memory, disrupting linear time, and creating space for reflection and attunement. Her work, which moves between ambient, experimental music, noise and sound art privileges atmosphere, fragmentation, and intimacy.

For this edition of Playback at Bar Laika, she presents past releases (including SIGE, Luminous Drift, Beacon Sound, Soundsetal, Blankstairs) and forthcoming works from an ongoing body of work that considers sound as a site of relation, listening into fragments, absence, and return as compositional form.
Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, March 25 from 6pm for the thirtieth edition of Playback with Selwa Abd. Selwa Abd is...
03/21/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, March 25 from 6pm for the thirtieth edition of Playback with Selwa Abd.

Selwa Abd is a Moroccan-born, New York–based interdisciplinary artist, composer, and design researcher working as Bergsonist. Her media, sound, and performance-based practice reconfigures archival and found materials into immersive environments. Drawing on electroacoustic and musique concrète traditions, she employs granular and spectral techniques to explore postcolonial identity, techno-futurism, and the psychological edges of virtuality. Abd has presented work at Roulette, ISSUE Project Room, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Film Festival and MUTEK, and has been featured in BOMB Magazine, The Washington Post, GQ, and NPR. She has received support from NYSCA x Roulette, NYFA x Mayor’s Office for Entertainment’s Women’s Fund for Women, the Jerome Hill Artist Program, Issue Project Room, and Harvestworks. Her discography spans more than a decade, with releases on labels including Optimo Music, Borft, Columbia Records, and a forthcoming album on Dark Entries. Abd is also the founder of the opportunity resource Pick Up The Flow, the imprint bizaarbazaar and has been a resident DJ on NTS Radio since 2018.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

Photo: Greg Zifcak

join us for false spring on the sidewalk ✨
03/10/2026

join us for false spring on the sidewalk ✨

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 4 from 7pm for the twenty-eighth edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝙏𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙𝙢𝙖𝙣. The a...
02/26/2026

Join us at Bar Laika on 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 4 from 7pm for the twenty-eighth edition of 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 with 𝙏𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙𝙢𝙖𝙣. The artist will present his forthcoming album 𝙈𝙀𝙏𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙍–a double LP of microtonal idiophones and fm synthesizer geometries–to be released March 27, 2026 on Radicant_Editions.

Tyler Friedman’s music vacillates between cosmic impulses and analytical inclinations. Escaping the rift between post-club experimentalism and the theory-driven partition of contemporary art, his output spans numerous releases, soundtracks, installations, collaborations and performances and draws on an unwieldy arsenal of divergent references and tactics. Friedman’s solo output focuses on a lysergic strain of dubbed minimalism, equally indebted to late-00s techno and the downtown avant-garde. Created largely in a feedback loop with modular synthesizers and Max/MSP, his sequences and generative patterns are infused with an intuitive complexity and alchemical formalism. Current trajectories point further away from the strictures of club music and have been increasingly oriented towards alternative tunings and uncanny harmonic interactions. His music has been released on Sweden’s Kontra Musik, Arjuna Records, Tokyo-based Protection and Radicant_Editions. In the context of contemporary art, Friedman works to manifest conceptual constellations in sonic form. He has been responsible for the sonics of collaborative projects that have been commissioned and presented worldwide, including at dOCUMENTA(13), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Manifesta, Cycle Music & Arts Festival and the Yokohama Triennale among others.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

back tonight 🦆🍸
02/24/2026

back tonight 🦆🍸

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224 Greene Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
11238

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Tuesday 6pm - 12am
Wednesday 6pm - 12am
Thursday 6pm - 12am
Friday 6pm - 1am
Saturday 6pm - 1am

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