NYC Show Obsessive

 Bill: Skitzopolis/Lifestyle Change/Johnny Mellor's Bastardos/Oedipus Triple Rex Venue: Otto's Shrunken Head , 538 E 14 St. , New York, NY Date: Sunday 6/28/26 Door: Free 10:00pm Skitzopolis Active: 2014? (New York, NY) Instagram   YouTube 9pm Lifestyle Change Active: 2025 (New York, NY) Latest Release: The Lifestyle Change (Lifestyle Change, 2025) Bandcamp Instagram Missed: Johnny Mellor's Bastardos/Oedipus Triple Rex I had one of those days I went to run East Village errands and procrastinated going home by doing a bar crawl up Avenue A to the L train.  First up from storage was Lucky's.  Modern rock producer Jake Sinclair was setting up.  He is responsible for stuff like Panic At The Disco and Fall Out Boys.  Stuff I have spent 20 years totally ignoring.  He was wearing a Mike Viola shirt which is an old Boston rock name of somebody else I ignored in the 80's, but was curious about.  I went to ask about it given my 80's MA roots but didn't ge...

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: The Lemonheads Venue: Lucinda's , 169 Ave A , New York, NY Date: 1/21/26 Door: Free 7pm The Lemonheads Active: 1986 (Boston, MA) Latest Release: Love Chant  (Fire, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify In recent decades The Lemonheads would be something I'd blow off, but they/Evan Dando were doing a free acoustic gigs at Lucinda Williams new bar, so I figured what the hell, I didn't see Lucinda herself playing there a few days ago, so maybe I'd check it out. I knew it was a dice roll since Ticketweb gave out free advance tickets that weren't tickets at all, just something for the club to gauge how many people were coming.   "RSVP" in NYC parlance.   I think it was a little too much to do it this way because the overage wasn't "that" much.  Better to just cram people in, tell them it is sold out and let the bar sell drinks than making people stand a hour, let people in in dribs and drabs ...

  B ill: The Thing/Jesus Christ Taxi Driver Venue: Nightclub 101 , New York, NY Date: 7/10/25 Door: $10 11pm The Thing Active: 2022 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: " Above Snake s" (The Thing, 2025) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram     10pm Jesus Christ Taxi Driver Active: 2023 (Denver, CO) Latest Release: Lick My Soul (Daddyrock, 2023) Bandcamp Facebook   Instagram Discogs Setlist   YouTube I had it in my head that I wanted to see The Thing, but I already saw them this year at the end of a long bill at Our Wicked Lady last January.  They are doing a residency at Nightclub 101 (the Knitting Factory's new NYC venue formerly Baker Falls formerly the Pyramid for many many years.  Since NYC is the city that now sleeps, this was the only show I could go to after Los Mirlos at Lincoln Center since the doors were 10pm.  I noticed  The Thing are opening for Jon Spencer in Staten Island Saturday along with SKORTS who were also on the Our Wi...

  Bill: Towncryer Venue: Pangea , New York, NY Date: 5/3/25 Door: Free 9pm Towncryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Active: 2021 (Brooklyn, NY) Another week, another night of Towncryer.  Two sets at Pangea in the East Village. Lychee vodka made a special guest appearance.  Lychee is sometimes considered a nut as opposed to a fruit.  Towncryer can confirm this with ease.  I was listening to Blind Faith on 8-track and realized they also did a version of the Towncryer standard "Well All Right" that Buddy Holly did in 1958. Not too many clips, a couple from the bar were obliterated by chatter. FOR FURTHER REVIEW:  Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse, New York, NY 4/7/25 Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse, New York, NY 1/20/25

  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: Sally Can't Dance : In Tribute to The Cramps with Dirty Blond , Bollocks! Venue: Bowery Electric , New York, NY Date 10/30/24 Door: got in free late, don't really know Missed: Dirty Blonde, Bollocks! After Robyn Hitchcock, we got word that Dave McGaulley was playing Bowery Electric and was up to hang so my nightcap was the Cramps tribute.  The house band had Bob Bert drumming as well as Palmyra Delran from the Friggs on the guitar  and a couple Skull Practitioners rounding out the band.   I saw a half dozen singers come and go and met the best one I saw, Cole Becker from Swmrs later that on at KGB.  That's a band I'd like to check out down the road. I didn't get around to any video here, just a few quick snaps when I walked in and had a clear visual path.  The place was packed to the point where it was easier to watch from the bar and shoot the shit with Joff who was doing the same thing.   I'll let you figure out the rest from th...

  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...