NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill:  OUTLINE: The Spits/Prison Affair/Times New Viking/Snooper/The Serfs Venue: Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, Queens, NY Date: Friday 3/6/26 Door: $35 (had free ticket from DoNYC) 11pm The Spits Active: 1993 (Seattle, WA via Kalamazoo, MI) Latest Release:  VI  (Thriftstore, 2020) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs  AllMusic   Setlist   Wiki   YouTube   Spotify 10pm Prison Affair Active:  2018 (Barcelona, Spain) Latest Release: Demo IV (Under The Gun, 2025) Bandcamp Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic    YouTube Spotify 9pm Times New Viking Active: 2003 (Columbus, OH) Latest Release: Over And Over (Siltbreeze, 2012), Dancer Equired (Merge, 2011) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Snooper Active: 2020 (Nashville, TN) Latest Release: Worldwide (Third Man, 2025) Bandcamp Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify MIssed: The S...

  Bill: Zebra/Anything But Human Venue:  Sony Hall ,  235 W 46 St . , New York, NY Date: Sunday 3/1/26 Door: $55 (had a free pair from DoNYC) 9pm Zebra Active: 1975 (Long Island, NY via New Orleans, LA) Latest Releae:   IV (Frontiers, 2003) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Anything But Human Active:  2019 (Dallas, TX) Latest Release: " Life " (Anything But Human, 2025) Facebook   Instagram Discog s Setlist   YouTube Spotify Zebra are doing 50th anniversary dates and coupled with getting a free pair of tickets, no time like the present to finally check them out.  I really only know their first record which I wrote about a couple years back on the other blog.  My friend Kenny had said they were good and when I heard "Who's Behind The Door" I instantly remembered it from 1983 more so than "Tell Me What You Want" and Kenny's favorite "Bears."  Those songs seem like established hits now when they we...

  Bill: Blues For Greeny Venue: The Cutting Room , 44 E 32 St. , New York, NY Date: Saturday 2/28/26 Door: $25 (had a +1) 9pm Blues For Greeny Affilliated: Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac cover band, Daniel Cervantes (Howlin' Rain, Chest Fever), Dylan Donovan (Sacri Monti), Ryan Grenda, Justin de la Vega (Warish)   Facebook Instagram   Setlist   YouTube   Dylan from Tee Pee band Sacri Monti was in town from San Diego with his Peter Green cover band Blues For Greeny, so I met up with Kenny at his local Tradesman and when subwayed it L to the 6 to 33rd St. to go to the "new" Cutting Room which opened in 2013 after the previous room went down in 2009.  Cutting Room always had low key industry showcase band and revival tours.  This particular Saturday night was dedicated to cover bands.  We got there when Fleetwood Macked were doing their final run of hits to a packed room. Bands like Howlin' Rain and Sacri Monti don't usually play the Cutting Room and thi...

  Bill: Drink The Sea Venue: Le Poisson Rouge , 158 Bleecker St. , New York, NY Date: Friday 2/20/26 Door: Sold Out ($55 table advance ticket) 8pm Drink The Sea Active: 2022 (Olympia, WA to Sao Paolo, Brazil to Santiago, Chile to...) Affiliated: Peter Buck (REM), Alain Johannes (Eleven, Queens of the Stone Age), Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Skin Yard, Tuatara),  Duke Garwood (Mark Lanegan Band), Lisette Garcia (Barrett Martin Group), Abbey Blackwell (La Luz, Alvvays, Dean Johnson) Latest Release: I & II (Sunyata, 2025) Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic   YouTube Spotify This was the first taste I got of the new "supergroup" Drink The Sea.  This is a players band where you can focus your attention on anyone on stage and zone in on what they are doing at any given time.  Sure there are nods to the elephants in the room: " The One I Love " was the lone REM played and don't know the Mad Season or QOTSA records enough to recognize ...

  Bill: Margo Price/Pearl Charles Venue: Webster Hall , 125 E 11 St ., New York, NY Date: Thursday 2/19/26 Tickets: $46 (advance via Tickpick) 9pm Margo Price Active: 2013 (Nashville, TN) Latest Release: Hard Headed Woman (Lorna Vista, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discog s Setlist   AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Pearl Charles Active: 2012 (Los Angeles, CA) Latest Release: Desert Queen (Taurus Rising, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic YouTube Spotify I went to check out Margo Price at the behest of a friend from Tennessee that saw her stand out on a Lincoln Center tribute bill and wanted to see more.  Then another friend coming to town said he was drinking with the bass player in Memphis.   Stars align!  I'm glad she asked me to go with her because this discovery of a "new" (more than 10 year veteran) artist was for me the best new "alt-country" I've heard in quite some time.  Well new to me and I'm glad I c...

  Bill: Gnarcissists/Torture and the Desert Spiders/Licks/Opera Venue: TV Eye , 16-47 Weirfield St ., Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: Wednesday 2/11/26 Door: $12 11pm Gnarcissists Active: 2017 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Gnarcissists (BLISS, 2025) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs Setlist    YouTube   Spotify 10pm Torture and the Desert Spiders Active: 2019 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: " Working On Myself " (M O O N Umlaut, 2025), " Blood On The Reef " (Torture and the Desert Spiders, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist   Wix   YouTube Spotify Missed: Licks , Opera Had a jam packed night last night first checking out comedian Dave Hill at the Bell House in Gowanus, where I hadn't been to in a while.   It seems like they are exclusively a comedy venue now complete with insanely uncomfortable metal folding chairs.  Mine was bent and creaking to make me think it was on the verge of collapse in a sold out space.  I ...