It's Been Awful New York Performances

At Elsewhere, “It’s Been Awful” arrives as a live set that sits in the Rock/Pop lane while borrowing the looseness of a club night. Featured performer Isaiah Rashad brings a rap-centered presence into that frame, letting verses and hooks share the same air. The context matters: Elsewhere is one of the city’s flexible rooms, where genre lines tend to blur rather than hold. The show’s most telling quality is its refusal to resolve into a single style, which reads less like confusion than a document of how New York listens now.