NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: The Spits/Dirty Fences/Pyrex Venue: Xanadu , Brooklyn, NY Date: 4/9/25 Door: was on list from DoNYC, Dice was going for $38 and change with fees advance so guessing $35 or $40 door 10:15pm The Spits Active: 1993 (Seattle, WA via Kalamazoo, MI) Latest Release: VI (Thriftstore, 2020) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist Wiki YouTube 9:15pm Dirty Fences Active: 2013 (New York, NY) Latest Release: " Running Again " (Dirty Fences, 2025)  Goodbye Love (Greenway, 2017) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist YouTube 8:15pm Pyrex Active: 2022 (Brooklyn, NY) Latest Release: Body (Total Punk, 2025) Bandcamp   Discogs AllMusic Setlist   YouTube I finally got the chance to see a show at Xanadu, the new roller rink with a stage.  This was a bill of bands I had seen before but thanks to a freebee pair I saw them all again.  I hadn't seen the Spits in over 10 years.  They haven't changed much, they do fast punk ro...

  Bill: Roger That!/Town Cryer Venue: Cowgirl Seahorse , New York, NY Date: 4/7/25 Door: Free 9:15pm Roger That! Active: 2017 (Brooklyn, NY)  Affiliated: Windbreaker (2017-2020, changed name to Roger That!), Kenny "Kreisor", Guitar Vocals: Mirror Queen, Kreisor, Aytobach Kreisor Latest Release:  Flashback Fever  (Tee Pee, 2024) Facebook   YouTube 7:30 Town Cryer Affiliated: Mirror Queen, Roger That, Hopewell, Ghost of Past Mistakes Kenny set up his roughly quarterly Seahorse Monday night with two of his bands, Roger That! and Town Cryer.  Both have played the South Street Seaport restaurant before and now I'm getting a bit of a band evolution documented since I tend to show up for these guys regularly. Roger That! have been relentlessly recording and probably have two albums in the can at this point.  Still, last Fall's Flashback Fever is the "new record."  Paul the singer got the ladies screaming after he dumped water on himself after using the f...

Bill: Stepmother/Loosey/Brower/Disket Venue: TV Eye , Queens, NY Date: 4/3/25 Door: $20 (had list +1) 11pm Stepmother Active: 2022 (Melbourne, Australia) Affiliated: Witch, Lecherous Gaze, Annihilation Time, Rot TV Latest Release: " Vacant State " (Legless, 2025),  Planet Brutalicon (Tee Pee, 2023) Bandcamp    Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist    YouTube 10pm Loosey Active: 2021 (New York, NY) Latest Release: Spring Promo '24 (Loosey, 2024) Bandcamp   Instagram   Setlist   YouTube Missed: Brower , Disket Coming from Sacri Monti's set opening for Elder, the other Tee Pee band of the night featured members of Tee Pee bands past.  Actually there was a third Tee Pee band, Valley Lodge who were in Park Slope at Littlefields but we had to catch the two out of town bands that rarely come around.   Stepmother is led by Melbourne's Graham Clise who played in Witch starting around 2009 with the late great Dave Sweetapple and J Mascis....