NYC Show Obsessive

Bill: Topaz/Roger That!/Ashtray Angel Venue: Berlin , 25 Avenue A , New York, NY Date: Thursday 6/25/26 Door: $15 (went in early helping load in, didn't get to "list") 9pm Topaz Active: 2026 (New York, NY) Instagram 8pm Roger That! Active: 2017 (Brooklyn, NY)  Latest Release: Flashback Fever (Tee Pee, 2024) Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   YouTube   Spotify 7:15 Ashtray Angel Active: 2018 (New Haven, CT) Instagram One of those epic nights for Roger That!  We loaded up Kenny's car and his bandmate Steve drove since Kenny was still recovering from the Breeders night at Pier 17 which I couldn't make.  This meant I was in the Berlin basement by like 6 or something.  After all the soundchecks, Chloe seemingly from Connecticut did her acoustic set under the moniker Ashtray Angel.  Well played guitar with warbley vocals in that current trend, occasionally devolving into a screaming rant, but not too often.  I guess that's about right.  An...

  Bill: CS Cleaners/Prostitution/Genre Is Death/OBOY! Venue: Berlin , New York, NY Date: 11/7/24 Door: $15 11pm: CS Cleaners  Active: 2023 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Drolomon (Spirit Lust/DIM Things, 2023) Bandcamp   Instagram   Discogs   YouTube 10pm: Prostitution Active: 2011 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Luxury Tax (Prostitution, 2023) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   YouTube 9pm: Genre Is Death Active: 2023 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Talk (Genre Is Death, 2023) Bandcamp   Instagram   YouTube Missed: OBOY! Every once in a while I'll get the itch to go out and see some band that I know very little about.  Tonight was one of those night.  The band that brought me out was CS Cleaners who I saw were featured in the Noise Rock Now facebook page.  I had also thought I heard good things about the long running Brooklyn band Prostitution.  I ran into Ryan Skeletonboy at Lucky's before the gig and he was heading...

  Bill: Split System/TVOD/Puffer/Killer Kin Venue: Berlin , New York, NY Date: 10/7/24 Door: $15 10:15 Split System Active: 2022 (Melbourne, Australia) Latest Release: Vol. II (Legless, 2024) Bandcamp   Instagram   Discogs   AllMusic   Setlist   YouTube 9:30 TVOD Active: 2021 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Live At Radio Bean 7" (On The Fly, 2024), Poppies (TVOD, 2023) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   Setlist   YouTube 8:45 Puffer Active: 2022 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Latest Releaes: Puffer EP (Roachleg, 2023) Bandcamp   Instagram   Discogs   Setlist   AllMusic   YouTube 7:30 Killer Kin Active: 2020 (New Haven, CT) Latest Release: Point Blank 7" (Wop Shoo Wop, 2024), Killer Kin (Deadbeat, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic   YouTube There are alot of international Garage Punk bands running around on tour and in NYC this week after last weeks GonerFest in Mem...

  Bill:  Greaser Phase/Best Dressed Ghost/Ironbound Venue:  Berlin , New York, NY Date: 8/23/24 Door: $15 9:45 PM Greaser Phase Latest Release: Greaser Phase (Greaser Phase, 2024) Active: 2024 (New York, NY) Jonny Couch   Benny Imbriani Facebook   Bandcamp   Instagram 8:45 Best Dressed Ghost Active: 2024 (Jersey City) Youtube 8pm: Ironbound Active: 2024 (Jersey City, NJ) Earlier in the week I got a text from Jonny Couch that his new band Greaser Phase was playing at Berlin, so I took the opportunity to come out, catch up and see the night he put together.  He set it up with a couple bands he's played with in his recently adopted hometown of Jersey City. Ironbound was the first band up.  Considering there is very little info about this band, they had a very full room.  Apparently a couple of them have some skater ties, but he sound was quality country.  The singer was wearing a Gary Stewart hat and the guitarist was quality cosmic rock. ...