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: Overdose/Killer Kin/Lyger/Torsion Venue: TV Eye, 1647 Weirfield St., Ridgewood, NY Date: 1/8/26 Door: $20 10:30 Overdose  Active: 2019 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Two Wheels and Gone (Splattered!!, 2020) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist   Y ouTube Spotify   Encyclopaedia Metallum 9:30 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 8:30 Lvger Active: 2018 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Fvll Villain (Cannon, 2020) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs   YouTube Spotify I was in one of those moods last night where I needed to get out and see something.  I saw Killer Kin a little over a year ago and thought they would surround themselves with some good bands if they were coming down from New Haven.  It was a night of speed ...

     Bill: Tropa Magica/Paint Fumes/Ratas En Zola/The Flytraps/The Stones/Genre is death/Joseph Keckler plus others on flyer  Venue:  TV Eye ,  1647 Weirfield St ., Ridgewood, NY Date:  12/31/25 Door: $40 8pm The Stones Active: 2025 (New York, NY) Latest Release:  Rock 'n' Roll Band/T-H-U  (The Stones, 2025) Bandcamp   Facebook  Instagram   Setlist  9pm The Flytraps Active: 2012 (Los Angeles, CA) Latest Release:  Wild Card  (Burger, 2020) Bandcamp   Facebook  I nstagram   Discogs   Setlist  AllMusic   YouTube   Spotify 10pm Ratas En Zelo Active: 2014 (New York, NY) Latest Release:   Desvergue  (Ratas En Zelo, 2024) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   Setlist  YouTube  Spotify 11pm Paint Fumes Active: 2010 (Charlotte, NC) Latest Release: " Crime of Love " (Why Me, 2025),  Real Romancer  (Bachelor, 2023) Bandcamp ...

  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...