New YouTube video today! Nate covers The Beatles’ “It’s Only Love,” live, by request on Twitch.
You can make song requests and join the sweet online crowd and chat on Twitch, twice a week, free to watch from anywhere.
Lift Your Head Up
New YouTube video today! Nate covers The Beatles’ “It’s Only Love,” live, by request on Twitch.
You can make song requests and join the sweet online crowd and chat on Twitch, twice a week, free to watch from anywhere.
Hello friends! While Barbara is recovering from sugery for the next few months, Nate will be performing solo shows. You can catch him with Plant Powered Disruptors at Urban Vegan Roots on Friday November 8th. You can also join, watch, and make requests from home twice a week on Twitch. Twitch is free to watch from anywhere in the world with an internet connection, and a lot of fun. You can lurk and listen while you do your chores, or join the friendly people in chat, and choose from hundreds of requests for Nate, every Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon.

Barbara says hello, and she is looking forward to performing again when she is fully recovered. There will be plenty of Repressions’ content releasing on YouTube, Spotify, Tiktok, and more before the big comeback show. Until then, she is so grateful to her wonderful friends and family, and Nate, for their support.
Hope to see you next Friday, or on Twitch!
New YouTube video today! The Repressions started noodling on piano and guitar, and kept going, and Nate improvised some lyrics, and now it’s a song. This is often how it begins.
This video is the creation of this song, live on the Twitch show, and we’re calling it “We’ll Find Ouselves Back Here.” We are sharing this to inspire ourselves to keep working on it. Look for a more polished version in the future.
You can see more musical improv and make song requests twice a week on Twitch, it’s free to watch from anywhere! Thank you for watching!
There are certain songs that everyone MUST sing slong to. New YouTube video today! The Repressions cover “Take Me Home, Country Roads ” by John Denver, live from The Local Hostels NY in NYC as part of the Metro Retro Folk rock Review.
Thanks for watching! You can see The Repressions live in NYC or on tour, or twice a week live streaming shows on Twitch!
Tonight! We are so glad to be part of the Musicians Unite – Together, Wherever and No Kid Hungry Twitch Music Festival! This is a 4 day event… Thursday through Sunday so many talented artists! We’re on Friday August 9th at 8pm. Twitch is free to watch from anywhere!





New YouTube video today! The Repressions cover “Nice Dream” by Radiohead, live on their Twitch show. This version has some serious synth.
See the show and make song requests twice a week on Twitch, it’s free to watch from anywhere! You can also see The Repressions live this Saturday 8/3/24 at Espresso 77 in Queens, NYC. Thank you for watching!
See our short, loud and live performance of “Just An Animal” on YouTube today. The Repessions return to Espresso 77 on Saturday August 3, 2024, at 8:30pm.
You can listen to the official electric version of Just An Animal anywhere you stream and download music:
The Warrior Women Concert highlighting Female Artists in New York City was just the right event to play “I’m Just Pieces,” a song about what it’s like to walk around in a woman’s body. You can see it on YouTube video today!
The Repressions perform their original song, “I’m Just Pieces,” live at The Warrior Women NYC concert at American Federation of Musicians New York, on June 28, 2024. So many thanks to Jasmine Sandler of Warrior Women In Business for putting this amazing show together. Thank you to Citizen Hullabaloo for the video!
I’m Just Pieces Words and music by The Repressions (Barbara Dragon and Nate Lay) © 2016 Colorful Castle
What a marvelous month of music! June was flutteringly full of music, every day was a live show, a Twitch show, a recording session, piano and voice classes, open mics, videos, and putting artwork together for our new Song Title Storybook. This was New York Music Month, and The Repressions certainly particicpated. Thank you to The Local Hostels Hotel, Ronny Kornfeld, Jasmine Sandler, American Federation of Musicians, Afzal Hussain, Jedi Nitemare, Plant Powered Disruptors and everyone who came out to watch! July shows begin this week, Wednesday July 3rd at LIC Bar! Here are some highlights from June:
The Local Hostels Hotel ~ June 5, 2024




Espresso 77 – June 15, 2024








Central Park with Plant Powered Disruptors ~ June 21, 2024





Warrior Women Concert at AFM NYC ~ June 28, 2024




















Twitch Shows, Astoria Music Collective Open Mics, Jamming with Bill Lay, and recording with original Repression Ben Olson!











Here’s to a jumpin’ July!
New YouTube video today! The Repressions perform their original song, “To The Wilds,” live at Espresso 77 in Jackson Heights NYC.