5PM DJ ONE ICE JACK spins Rockabilly, R&B, Punk and Soul. The Mermaid and Mai Tai Market features vintage, art, jewelry and other one of a kind wonders and oddities! Hosted by Miss Frizz Dazzle Vintage and each month featuring different guest vendors. 5pm-10pm.

6PM-9PM 3 bands in the back, 1 dj up front, 2 bartenders in between and you shakin’ yer tailfeather all over the place! No cover- just a whole lotta rock’n’roll!

7PM-12AM with DJ Tania Insomnia playing garage, glam, punk and new wave, and sh*t you can dance to...

8PM-10PM "Bird and Friends - Cosmic Unity" 18-year improv veteran Michael Bird creates the improv show with the audience, including YOU…so come on out to Otto's to join the ultimate, improvised cosmic unity of PLAY!

6-8pm Old 2 Begin: a Variety Open Mic for Writers & Performers Age 35+

“Tiki Lounge Comedy” TLC is a hilarious stand up comedy show with chill Shaka vibes hosted by comedian Chase Allen and produced by Dark Matter productions. Grab a drink, have a laugh and get on Island time!

9pm We're BACK!!
Come join us for the rebirth of Dark Water Tuesday's back where it all began!
Every third Tuesday night with your Hostess and Resident DJ Paradox with DJ Pitter Pat spinning your favorite goth,punk,rock from the 80's onward.
From 9pm until close To continue in Father Vincent's memory and Honor one of his many Legacies!

6-8pm Old 2 Begin: a Variety Open Mic for Writers & Performers Age 35+

“Tiki Lounge Comedy” TLC is a hilarious stand up comedy show with chill Shaka vibes hosted by comedian Chase Allen and produced by Dark Matter productions. Grab a drink, have a laugh and get on Island time!

6PM-12AM A weekly open mic. Hit this link for more info. Otto's Wednesday Open Mic

7PM-11PM DJ Yana Lil’Jerk and guests spin selections from the Cool Brittania era. Late 80s to early 2000s UK Indie, Indie Dance, Britpop, Shoegaze plus. All vinyl!

7PM DJ Pitter Pat
A night of Alternative Dance
Industrial/EBM/Electroclash/New wave/minimal Syth And 80’s classic

Alternative Dance Party
Dj Ultra V
Dj Pitterpat
And weekly guess dj.
Spining Electro/EBM/New Wave/Classic 80’s

7-9 NeuroNautic Institute / Neuronautic Press an art collective and Poetry Press dedicated to open eyes, minds, and hearts. A monthly reading series every third Thursday of the month.

It's the first Friday of the month so it must be time for FLIP FLOP & FLY! That's right, come down to OTTO'S SHRUNKEN HEAD have a few Tiki drinks, put on your dancing shoes and check out the coolest sounds around! Dig the scene baby! Live music!

7pm-8:30pm No Name…And a Bag of Chips, New York City's longest running comedy variety show, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2024 by returning to the scene of some of its greatest triumphs, Otto’s Shrunken Head.
They return with their beloved blend of some of the country's best stand-up comics alongside an eclectic mix of variety acts, including storytellers, musicians, and magicians, among others.
Holding it all together is their house band, The Summer Replacements. The shows always end with a cheap door prize giveaway. It's always fun, and it's always free. Hosted by No Name co-founder and producer, the amiable Eric Vetter.

Subway to Skaville is your monthly ska party with a tiki twist, hosted the second Friday of every month at Otto’s Shrunken Head (East Village, NYC), and bringing you the best of the ska genre in all its styles.
You’ll hear bands with traditional 60s influence to ska-core and everything in between, along with the best NYC selectors spinning you a potpourri of ska, rocksteady, reggae, and dub!
Our shows feature a mix of local, regional, and touring bands. You never know who may be playing at the next subway stop!

6-8pm Adverse Abstraction: A Community of Experimental Expression A showcase of poetic and experimental works curated to highlight the talents of both emerging and established artists alike.

UNSTEADY FREDDIE known as "The Ed Sullivan of Surf", is a passionate cheerleader for the instrumental surf-beat music genre. This is due to his wildly popular Monthly SURF-ROCK SHINDIG concert series which he has been running successfully at a tiki bar in NYC called OTTO's SHRUNKEN HEAD, featuring reverb-drenched bands every first Saturday of the Month!! And no shows are ever alike!! He is also known for his internet radio show, TWANG SHEBANG. Unsteady Freddie archives a lot of live music events, such as those at OTTO's, which can be viewed at his YouTube Channel

After 8 years with Soulfinger! Connie T. Empress is returning to her roots with The Empire State Soul Club monthly dance parties at Otto's starting January 2025.

Every 2nd Saturday expect to hear new djs, plus ones you know and love all playing so you get the feelin' deep down to your toes! Genres spanning Classic to Latin, Boogaloo, Northern/Southern, soul adjacent crossover and modern 45s will fill your senses in every way. You CAN'T sit down!

The inaugural dance is Sat. Jan. 11 9PM: Soul Twist featuring 5 DJs in 30 minute and one on one turns: The Empress, Girlsoul, DJ Breakaway, Sick Nick, and DJ Kojak. Let the musical mayhem begin.

GET WEIRD is a rock and roll party featuring wild live bands, while DJ GREG-GORY and guests spin garage rock, surf, punk, psychobilly and more to the delights of all trash weirdos everywhere.”

6PM Join DJ PITTER PAT for an alternative dance night Festuring Industrial,EBM Electrockash,80’s classics and new wave. Guest DJ Ultra V

8PM-10PM Your favorite Hillbilly balladeers are back! These talented young lads will enchant you with their renditions of 50's rockabilly and hillbilly lovesongs as well as their own originals.
and guest singin' from Stella Rose Saint Clair!

9PM DUBCORPS (NY)
10PM JOKER’S REPUBLIC (NJ)
11PM BRUNT OF IT (RI)
DJ Tania Insomnia and DJ LoPoint

GET WEIRD is a rock and roll party featuring wild live bands, while DJ GREG-GORY and guest DJs spin garage rock, surf, punk, psychobilly and more to the delights of all trash weirdos everywhere.”
8PM Drew & The Blue
9PM The High Stride
10PM The Rebel Set
GUEST DJS Doctor Zoddity and Dale Ensane

4:30PM MIKE MOK AND THE EM-TONES

7PM-12AM with DJ Tania Insomnia playing garage, glam, punk and new wave, and sh*t you can dance to... 7:30 Hoca Christ Devil
8:15 Dracula and his Band the Draculas
9:00 The Changelyngs

6PM-7:30PM Adverse Abstraction Presents: Collage Poetry Workshop with Laura Salvatore
collage workshop

8PM-10PM "Bird and Friends - Cosmic Unity" 18-year improv veteran Michael Bird creates the improv show with the audience, including YOU…so come on out to Otto's to join the ultimate, improvised cosmic unity of PLAY!

6PM-12AM A weekly open mic. Hit this link for more info. Otto's Wednesday Open Mic

DJ Pitter Pat
A night of Alternative Dance
Industrial/EBM/Electroclash/New wave/minimal Syth And 80’s classics.

7:30PM Brian K & The Parkway
8:30PM Belle and Chain
9:30PM Late Cambrian

6PM-8:30PM No Name…And a Bag of Chips, New York City's longest running comedy variety show, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2024 by returning to the scene of some of its greatest triumphs, Otto’s Shrunken Head.
They return with their beloved blend of some of the country's best stand-up comics alongside an eclectic mix of variety acts, including storytellers, musicians, and magicians, among others.
Holding it all together is their house band, The Summer Replacements. The shows always end with a cheap door prize giveaway. It's always fun, and it's always free. Hosted by No Name co-founder and producer, the amiable Eric Vetter.

It's the first Friday of the month so it's time to FLIP FLOP & FLY! That's right, come down to OTTO'S SHRUNKEN HEAD, have a few Tiki drinks, put on your dancing shoes and check out the coolest sounds around! It's where all the Hip People meet! Did the scene baby! Here's this month's line up:
9:00PM WEXWAX (Americana)
10:00PM JAMES COOK & CO.(Surf/Country)
11:00PM VOODINI (Surfin' Psychedelic Psychobilly)
Doors 8:30 First Band 9:00
As Always NO COVER!

Twangstock swings into NYC once again to start the Summer off in style. Unsteady Freddie & Marbles Mahoney present the coolest Surf Bands on the East Coast for an entire weekend of Twang. The event is always free and takes place at Otto's Shrunken Head in NYC in the East Village. It is the center of all things Tiki and it's the location Unsteady Freddie's Monthly Surf Rock Shindig. We take that event over for this Annual tradition that started in Marbles' Backyard in Levittown, Long Island, way back in 2004. Come on down and dance till you drop at Twangstock 2025!
5PM CHA CHA BOOM
6PM CUPIDS NEMESIS
7PM DRIP 2.0
8PM THE VIVISECTORS
9PM AGENT OCTOPUS
10PM STRANGE BUT SURF
11PM THE SUPERTONES

THE MERMAID and MAI TAI MARKET features vintage, art, jewelry and other one of a kind wonders and oddities! Hosted by Miss Frizz Dazzle Vintage and each month featuring different guest vendors.4PM-9PM.

5PM PASS THE POI
6PM TIME SURFERS
7PM ALIEN SURFDOGS
8PM JAMES COOK & CO.
9PM LONESOME DAVE FISHER TRIO
PLUS DJ PITTER PAT in front room

6PM-8PM A Variety Open Mic for Writers & Performers Age 35+

8PM SASQUATCH and the SICK-A-BILLYS

6PM-12AM A weekly open mic. Hit this link for more info. Otto's Wednesday Open Mic

7PM Join DJ PITTER PAT for an alternative dance night Festuring Industrial,EBM Electrockash,80’s classics and new wave.

8PM GOLDEN ALPHABET
9PM JAMES G BARRY BAND