Your Not-Too-Distant Future in Four Shows

March 2, 2016 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via Torus Porta)

Madame Deficit, Astral Knife, Spreaders, Spiteful Womb, Transient in Barcelona
Saturday March 12, 8 pm at Torus Porta: $6
Trust this one’s going to be a, shall we say, intimate show– for one, it’s going down at the tiny Torus Porta space in Bushwick, and secondly, it’s going down at Torus Porta. It’s a place where weird, nudey, slimey, I guess you could call it “intimate” happenings are throbbing constantly upward toward some more enlightened psychedelic digi-future thanks to bizarro performance art collective Wild Torus. They also host music shows, but judging by experience, these are likely to be unlike any old Saturday-night thing at a dingy venue with cheap beer and even cheaper philosophies on toilet paper.
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Tags: Art + Culture, Bushwick, crazy spirit, DUST, Lower East Side, Madame Deficit, Mommy, Murderer, music, Nandas, nothing changes, One Prayer One Sin, palisades, Sadist, Savages, shilpa ray, shows, Spiteful Womb, Torus Porta, Warthog, Young Male

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Week in Shows: a No Wave Takeover at Trans-Pecos, Plus a Night of Brutal Industrial Noise to Test Your Limits

December 7, 2015 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via Trans-Pecos / Other People)

Other People Residency
Tuesday Dec. 8th through Friday Dec. 11th at Trans-Pecos

Our favorite no wave loudmouth Lydia Lunch will play at Trans-Pecos on Friday with her band, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, part of a full week of music curated by Other People. The “serial label,” founded by Nicholas Jarr drops a new rotation of new and nostalgic music each week, and they’ve just put out a stellar collection of the band’s live recordings, Live 1977 – 1979 (which you can stream for free right now over yonder). It’s pretty much the best thing happening this week, and it’s happening all week. Truly, it’s one of those events that helps us justify paying astronomical rents to live in this city.

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Tags: A Pleasure, arto lindsay, Bladerunner, dna, Drome, Home Sweet Home, Inferior Passions, john zorn, Ligature, Lower East Side, lydia lunch, MPHO, Nichola Jaar, No Ice, no wave, nothing changes, Other People, Other People residency, Pleasure Island, Retail, ridgewood, Sexy Neighbors, teenage jesus and the jerks, The Gateway, trans-pecos

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Shows: a Fest For Grade-A Grating Noise and a Change-Up at Nothing Changes

August 19, 2015 By Nicole DeMarco

Our only utterance of advice for this week: pack em in, kids. If you’re as unsettled about the end of summer as we are, consider taking some of that aggression out at any number of these shows (there’s enough punk to go around for all of yous) or, better yet, gaze at some of these truly gnarly noise-makers in awe of frustrations much deeper than your own. Best, best, best of all, though: see what happens after a legendary rapper denounces her medium but returns to the stage anyway for something altogether new. Cheers to spiteful finales.

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Tags: beach shows, Bushwick, Deli Girls, eating scabs for protein, End of Summer fest, hardcore, Home Sweet Home, jacob riis park, korean piss journals, Lower East Side, Mykki Blanco, Noise, nothing changes, palisades, Pox, Princess Nokia, punk, ridgewood, Riis Park Beach Bazaar, rockaway beach, Tozcos, trans-pecos, uninvited records

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Shows: Gaze at Synth-Psych Legends and Dance to the Sound of Crack Recovery

July 28, 2015 By Nicole Disser

We’ve got quite a week in music ahead of us, with no shortage of neuron-twisting, brain ‘sploding variety. A week in shows wouldn’t be the same without that post-punk sound that’s so very now. This time around, two (very different) bands of this persuasion are sharing a bill as well as a genre, demonstrating these constraints are as fluid as their riffs. But best of all, a legendary psych band that perhaps you took for extinct will light up the stage at one of our favorite lil’ DIY venues. Hope that’s enough flavor to get you scrolling.

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Tags: Appetite, Bookworms, Breathing Problem, Chimes, crazy spirit, flesh world, free concerts, free shows, Giant Claw, Home Sweet Home, How I Quit Crack, Lower East Side, lust for youth, music hall of williamsburg, nothing changes, palisades, Pollen Rx, sannhet, Silver Apples, total control, trans-pecos, Williamsburg