The Feelies
White Eagle Hall, Jersey City
May 23, 2026
Last Saturday, I saw the Feelies play for roughly 3-and-a-half hours to an enraptured audience (me included) to celebrate 50 years of the band. The show was at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City — a favorite spot of the band to play now that Maxwell’s, the center of the Hoboken scene that spawned them, is no more. Rumors circulated that it would be their last show.
For a long time, I never thought I’d see the Feelies. I first read about them when I started to get into music, around 1988 or 1989. Spin was, at the time, an early Bible for discovering important bands to investigate. For example, I first read about No Wave in Spin, thanks to Byron Coley’s unmissable “Underground” column. I can’t recall who wrote about the Feelies, but I remember that bassist Brenda Sauter was quoted as recommending choline for touring bands to keep fatigue at bay. I’ve never toured but the advice has stayed with me ever since.
