NYC Show Obsessive

 Bill: Joudy/DeadTooth/Desert Sharks/Dawglet Venue: TV Eye , 16-47 Weirfield St. , Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: Wednesday 7/22/26 Door: $20 10:30pm Joudy Active: 2022 (New York, NY via Venezuela) Latest Release:  Permanent Maintenance (Trash Casual, 2026) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Setlist   YouTube   Spotify Missed: Dead Tooth / Desert Sharks / Dawglet I finished up work an hour early to catch Kenny's new found friends Joudy (pronounced Howdy).  They have an interesting story having coming from Venezula.  I saw them a couple years ago in the middle of like 12 bands and at the time thought they had a Meat Puppets feel.  They are doing a bit more of a straightforward  commercial grunge approach now.  The crowd for this was bigger and seemed totally different than last time.  This was their record release for Permanant Maitenance on the Trash Casual label.  Their new labelmates Dead Tooth were on right before, bu...

 Bill: Love Child/New Radiant Storm King/Phantom Tollbooth/Gerard Cosloy Venue: TV Eye , 16-47 Weirfield St. , Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: Friday 6/19/26 Door: $25 (James had an extra ticket--thanks James!) 9:30pm Love Child Active: 1987 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Witchcraft (Homestead, 1992) Bandcamp Facebook    Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8:30pm New Radiant Storm King Active: 1990 (Amherst, MA) Latest Release: Drinking In The Moonlight (Darla, 2008) Bandcamp Facebook    Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 7:30pm Phantom Tollbooth Active: 1984 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Beard of Lightning (Off, 2003) Bandcamp    Discogs Setlist Allmusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 7:00pm Gerard Cosloy Active: 1964 (Austin, TX via NYC via Wayland, MA) Affiliated: Air Traffic Controllers, Envelope, GG Allin, dustDevils Latest Release: Air Traffic Controllers- Live Action(s) 2009-2010 (Parallelism, 2011) Bandcamp  ...

  Bill: Fotocrime/Spirits of Leo/Warlander Venue: TV Eye , 16-47 Weirfield St. , Ridgewood, Queens, NY   Date: Sunday 4/12/26 Door: $16 10pm Fotocrime Active: 2015 (Louisville, KY) Affiliated: Coliseum Latest Release:  Security (Artoffact, 2026) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   Setlist   AllMusic   Wiki   YouTube Spotify 9pm Spirits of Leo Active: 2013 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Gossamer Blue (a la Carte, 2022) Bandcamp   Facebook Instagram   YouTube Spotify 8pm Warlander Active: 2022 (Los Angeles, CA) Latest Release: Origins (Warlander, 2025) Instagram   YouTube   Spotify   Joe Baxley had his triumphant return to NYC Sunday night with his new multi-media extravaganza Warlander.  He's got a new album coming soon but for now the mystery is part of the Warlander experience.   Since he was in the Barnyard Playboys, he got his old bandmate, the session player extrodinaire John ...

  Bill: Negative Approach/The Damage/Dog Breath/Runnin' Hot/No Values Venue: TV Eye , 16-47 Weirfield St. , Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: Thursday 4/2/26 Door: $25 ($26.08 with fee advance ticket bought via Eventim/See TicketsI, Sold Out when I got there ) 10:30 Negative Approach Active: 1981 (Detroit, MI) Latest Release:  Nothing Will Stand In Our Way  (Taang, 2011)  Friends of No One  (Taang, 2010) Bandcamp   Facebook ,  Instagram ,  Discogs ,  Setlist ,   AllMusic   Wiki   YouTube 9:45 The Damage Active: 2025 (Philadelphia, PA) Latest Release: Demo  (The Damage, 2025) Bandcamp   YouTube   Missed: Dog Breath , Runnin' Hot , No Values Another trip around the sun and that means it's about time for another Negative Approach show.  Knowing TV Eye sells these out, I got a ticket a couple months ago and fortunately was able to fix work hours to get over there in time.  I even got to see a full set from The Da...

  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 ...

  Bill: Lydia Lunch's Murderous Again/Art Gray Noizz Quintet/Genre Is Death Venue: TV Eye , 1647 Weirfield St ., Ridgewood, NY Date: Friday 12/26/25 Door: $25 10:45PM Art Gray Noizz Quintet Active: 2013 (New York, NY) Latest Release:   (split with Gravel Samwidge): " Relief " (Sound Pressing, 2024),  The Art Gray Noizz Quintet  (Bang!, 2022) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   All Music   Setlist   Wiki  YouTube 10pm Lydia Lunch 's Murderous Again Active: (Lunch)  1976 (New York, NY)  (Murderous Again) 2025 (New York, NY) Lunch: (with Marc Hurtado): Suicide or Murder...You Decide (Widowspeak, 2022), The War Is Never Over (Widowspeak, 2021) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   All Music   Setlist   Wiki   YouTube 9pm Genre Is Death Active: 2023 (New York, NY) Latest Release:  Talk  (Genre Is Death, 2023) Bandcamp   Instagram   YouTube A "family" show...

 Bill: Billy Plastered/Genre Is Death/Lord Friday The 13th Venue:    TV Eye ,  16-47 Weirfield St ., Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: 11/22/25 Door: $15 1am Lord Friday The 13th Active: 2020 (Los Angeles via Austin, TX) Latest Release: Promoerotica (Feels So Good Records, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist    YouTube Spotify Missed: Billy Plastered, Genre Is Death After a bunch of Jager shots after Drop Nineteens at some bar not Cobra Club near Elsewhere, I got into a car and went to TV Eye to catch the rescheduled late night Genre Is Death show that got moved from Purgatory.  Well the Jager caught up to me and I barely remember the band I saw (the one video clip was the only thing I took), went outside before Genre Is Death was to play at 1:45, sat down and promptly dozed off.  I woke up and stumbled home thinking I missed everything but just hit a wall and had to go home and crash.  I woke up with a TV Eye wristband on, so I ...

  Bill: Ed Kuepper & Jim White/Mick Harvey Venue: TV Eye, 16-47 Weirfield St ., Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: Monday 11/17/25 Door: $25 before sellout (had advance ticket) 9pm Ed Kuepper & Jim White Active: Kuepper 1973 (Brisband, Austrailia), White 1980 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) Latest Release (together): After The Flood (Remote Control, 2025) Kuepper:  Bandcamp   Facebook   Discogs   Setlist   AllMusic   Wiki  YouTube   Spotify White: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify 8pm Mick Harvey Active: 1973 (Rochester, Victoria, Australia) Latest Release: (with Amanda Acevedo)  Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions, Vol. 1) (Impressed/Mute, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Spotify With the Saints 73-78 show in the past, Ed Kuepper used an off night for a duo show with drummer Jim White.  They have a new album called After The Flood which mo...

  Bill: Iron Chic/Moving Targets/HAVAK/Hasty Venue: TV Eye , 1647 Weirfield St . Ridgewood, Queens, NY Date: 10/17/25 Door: $20 9:45pm Iron Chic Active: 2008 (Long Island, NY) Latest Release: You Can't Stay Here (SideOneDummy, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 9pm Moving Targets Active: 1982 (Boston, MA) Latest Release: Red Eyes (Dead Broke Rekerds, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube 8:15pm SAVAK Active: 2015 (Brooklyn, NY) Affiliated: Obits, Holy Fuck, The Cops Latest Release: Squawk!  (Peculiar Works Music/Ernest Jennings Record Co., 2025) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   AllMusic   Setlist   Wiki   YouTube 7:30pm Hasty Active: 2024 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: e.p. (Hasty, 2024) Bandcamp  I nstagram   It's always a great day when Kenny Chambers comes to town.  Moving Targets has had a burst of activity in the past 7 years...