Adam Weiner Setlist

Revolution Rock N Roll
Death and Destruction
Boozophilia
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears cover)
Livin in the USA
Little Freakers
Let’s Dance (David Bowie cover)
Lady Stardust (David Bowie cover)
Controversy (Prince cover)
Shake It Little Tina
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Bob Dylan cover)
Can’t Be Wrong
Don’t Change (INXS cover)
Oh Suzanne
Train in Vain (The Clash cover)
Pity Party
Beverly
Rio
I’ll Be Around (The Spinners cover)
Private Lives
Little Red Corvette (Prince cover)
Dirty Water

Sometimes when you get the singer from a band headed out for solo shows, it’s to have a change of pace or perhaps a foreboding harbinger of an upcoming breakup. But when it’s Adam Weiner, the South Philly based frontman, songwriter, and pianist for Low Cut Connie? Likely it’s just another Saturday night. Low Cut Connie is a We Heart Music favorite, who we have reviewed multiple times, most recently the October 2025 First Avenue show. If you aren’t familiar with Low Cut Connie (seven albums including 2023’s Art Dealers and a new one Livin in the USA coming in 2026), there’s multiple reviews to go read on the site, but know this is a very particular strain of rock & roll that spreads across multiple genres which is close to the Bruce Springsteen lane. And Adam Weiner IS Low Cut Connie as far as that goes. But instead of a packed show at First Ave., this was an intimate (and very sold out) show at St. Paul’s Turf Club, with Weiner solo at the piano.

Starting with Revolution Rock & Roll had the crowd completely into it right away and Weiner looked oh so comfortable at the helm. Death & Destruction had pounding keys and appropriately brutal lyrics. This was an almost revivalist feel with Weiner almost preacher style, but he was also high on humor. This break in the action really was a perfect connector and the audience ate it up. Weiner was charismatic and had a great way of playing piano, but also giving up complete coverage there to be more involved with the crowd (other piano players, take note!). He innately understood the precise music was secondary to the overall interaction and effect. He got back up and talked about how he cancelled a show at Kennedy Center, and both the positive and negative repercussions that followed from that. The political environment we live in, where the message from Mr. Rogers is considered political, led into the new single Livin in the USA, which had the crowd quietly enthralled. The focused energy from that piano and microphone set up was impressive and Weiner kept firing away. A Bowie cover of Let’s Dance was perfectly placed and the set was cooking.

Controversy was a brilliant mix of piano and lyrics right for the moment. Celebrating his 25th year as a “professional musician”, gave us the story of Weiner’s fist cut into the music world with Shake It Little Tina, and honestly, that explanation of a welcoming drag culture rings so true and spits in the face of the Fox “news” crap out there. A question of how to respond to the moment led to a song about not crushing our joy, but I also enjoyed an audience member’s reaction of “do something, don’t be a bystander”, and friends, that is how revolutions are fomented. Weiner continued to run the musical board, and a cover of INXS’s Don’t Change was another perfectly sequenced song. I loved his moments of standing at the piano, and the crowd reaction continued to be huge. Pity Party was an early song that still connects and showed why Weiner has had such a storied career. Beverly was blusey and delightful and a dedication to The Current seemed spot on and was a perfect number. A few more songs and it was the end of the main set, with Private Lives being a rollicking number that the crowd bellowed along with. Without leaving the stage, Weiner jumped into two more numbers, asking for the crowd to join on a cover of Prince’s Little Red Corvette. Dirty Water brought that nearly rockabilly piano and crooning vocals to the top and Adam Weiner had put the finishing touches on a great evening.