Unspeakable Garbage comes to ShapeShifter Lab as a live rock/pop and art set built around the subject of waste, not as metaphor but as civic reality. The work treats the city’s leftovers as material for sound, image, and narrative, tracing how disposal systems shape daily life and public space. If this marks an NYC premiere, it lands in a town where sanitation is both infrastructure and identity, from curbside rules to waterfront remediation. The piece’s clearest strength is its refusal to moralize; it observes and assembles.