The Spits/Prison Affair/Times New Viking/Snooper @ Knockdown Center, Queens, NY 3/6/26

 


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)

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10pm Prison Affair



Active:  2018 (Barcelona, Spain)

Latest Release: Demo IV (Under The Gun, 2025)

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9pm Times New Viking



Active: 2003 (Columbus, OH)

Latest Release: Over And Over (Siltbreeze, 2012), Dancer Equired (Merge, 2011)

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8pm Snooper



Active: 2020 (Nashville, TN)

Latest Release: Worldwide (Third Man, 2025)

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MIssed: The Serfs

What the fuck is egg punk?  I guess it is nerdy lo-fi indie rock smirk vs "serious" chain punk with it's leather and studs. Lo-fi apparently was not enough of a sub-genre.  This unfortunately is a term that seemed to come out of the blue and I see more and more sort of like "D-Beat" is to Discharge knock-off bands.  

Anyway, my friend Danny couldn't use his won pair so I got the spoils for this years edition of the Outline Festival at Knockdown Center.    It seems to me this festival happens more than once a year but maybe it just seems that way.  This years headliner were The Spits who I just saw last year;  They are one of those band I see every few years.  They do a Ramones-early Misfits style hybrid that I find appealing.  How can you go wrong with a mournful but resigned chorus like "tonight/he's gonna sleep with you." 

Prison Affair from Barcelona were a straight up garage punk trio.  Times New Viking were around 20 years ago for about 10 years then took some time off.   They did fairly non-descript guy-girl vocal indie rock, but they were the curio of the night for me. Snooper had a shrill vocalist and an agitpunk rant.  I totally missed the Serfs.  So there you have it, not much to add.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

The Spits @ Xanadu, Brooklyn, NY 4/9/25









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