Usually a five-piece, the Queens-based Dead Tooth played as a power trio, led by lead vocalist-guitarist Zach James...
... including special guest Ozzie, founder of Show Brain (on the left), joining the band on drums this day...
Meanwhile, Dead Tooth's debut record is out today on Trash Casual.
As our friends at Magnetnoted: "Dead Tooth has essentially fashioned its own subgenre: 'rodeo core,' a sound that borrows from post-punk, goth, hardcore and (in an oddly peripheral sense) country music." (They also once opened for GWAR.)
Here are portraits of other bands from the day, starting with Jasno...
White crafted the avant-pop record — titled You Took That Walk for the Two of Us — over the past two years in a small office space he rents inside the New York Center for Creativity and Dance (NYCCD) on the NW corner of Avenue A and 10th Street (the former Boys Club), a multi-use rehearsal and studio building operated by the Joyce Theater Foundation.
"The album was born over the time that I came to call the East Village my beloved neighborhood," he told EVG. "I will always associate these recordings with late nights at the NYCCD studio building, and listening to demos while walking around Tompkins at dusk."
The one-sheet for the new releases suggests the following RIYL: Arthur Russell, Spacemen 3 and Roy Montgomery. You can hear for yourself.
He also filmed a video inside the NYCCD. Check out "One & One" below.
White's music career began as a teenager in Orlando, Fla. He played in the duo Tonstartssbandht with his brother Edwin and also spent six years playing guitar in the touring band for Mac DeMarco.
We dropped by Baker Falls this past Thursday, where EVG faveSuburban Speed (below) opened a night of music at the Allen Street venue between Houston and Stanton.
Carson Walsh (vocals, guitar, sax), Seth Sosebee (bass, keyboards), and Dalton Patton (drums, theremin) comprise the Brooklyn-based band.
Suburban Speed plays an unconventional, quirky punk noir that feels tailor-made for a hot summer night's drive through nowhere, chasing ghosts along empty roads...
They are also a good fit for the fever-dream mansion vibe of Baker Falls...
We had to leave before we could see Fine Mess, a new band featuring (in the middle below) Julia Pierce of TDA and Dustin Dollin, an Australian skateboarding legend.
You can catch both Fine Mess and Suburban Speed Saturday night at Alphaville in Bushwick.
Baker Falls is at 192 Allen St. (as of January). Check out their calendar of bands, open mics and other events. They are also open during the day for coffee service.
Brooklyn's Big Girl is one of the bands on the bill this Sunday afternoon (June 29, 2-6 p.m.) in another free Show Brain-sponsored show in Tompkins Square Park.
The video here is for "I Can't Tell" from their EP Dye.
Last week, Bec Lauder & The Noise, a band said to be born in the East Village, released "Give It." The song — a rhythmic, retro-tinged pop track with a subtle funk groove — is the first single from their debut album, The Vessel, out Aug. 22.
As you'll see, the video was filmed on Astor Place, as well as along Third and Fourth avenues, and features dancers for the Brooklyn Nets.
On May 11, during the first 2025 Show Brain show in Tompkins Square Park, we had a chance to see the band, featuring Bec Lauder (vocals/guitar/bass), Maggie Bishop (drums/vocals), and Soph Shreds (guitar/bass).
Pics by Stacie Joy...
You can follow the band on Instragram for updates.
The debut record from Brooklyn’s queer femme punk band SHAGGO has a June 6 release date. (The record-release show is June 12 at Trans-Pecos in Ridgewood.)
Tbe above video is for the band's single "I Wanted Fun."
And each time, we weren't sure what we might be in for. This held true again on April 25 at Night Club 101 on Avenue A, where PMFD opened the night as part of the record release show for Um, Jennifer?
PMFD — vocalist-guitarist Tim Seeberger, guitarist Nicole Harwayne, bassist Carmen Castillo and drummer Violette Grim — took the stage in full clownface, a tribute to horrorcore rap duo Insane Clown Posse and Juggalo culture. The night was intended as an homage, complete with the spirit — if not the presence — of Faygo, the soda closely associated with ICP performances.
When asked about the missing Faygo, the band explained they couldn't find any but assured that "the Faygo was there in spirit."
The sold-out crowd was then swept into PMFD's unrelenting punk fury and no-wave dissonance.
PMFD's last show until July is Saturday night at The Broadway as part of a 10-year-anniversary show for Radio Free Brooklyn. Find ticket info here.
We'll leave you with the band's most recent video, "Elegy for a Memory."
As you'll see in the above clip, the NYC-based band filmed parts of the video in the East Village, including the stage at Otto's Shrunken Head on 14th Street.
Torture and the Desert Spiders, "a left-field garage project based around the songwriting" of the Brooklyn-based Anna Kunz, has several shows coming up in the neighborhood, including Wednesday at Mercury Lounge and a residency at Baker Falls (April 22 and 29). Check them out.
From left on 2nd Street: Olive Faber and Emily Green
This past Thursday night, Star's Revenge — Olive Faber and Emily Green — held a record release party at Berlin on Avenue A for the duo's latest single, "Me and My Friends." Joining them on the bill were Talli Sow and EVG faves Genre Is Death.
"The Berlin show was the best Star's show yet — bringing a bunch of friends under one roof is what it's all about," Faber, who has played drums for Sunflower Bean, told us. "Our next show is April 16 at Mercury Lounge, and we're planning something really special for summer."
You can check out the band's music — spare, off-kilter indie pop that sticks with you — on all the usual streaming platforms. You can follow them on Instagram here.
Last Wednesday night, we headed out to TY Eye in Ridgewood (Queens!) for a show featuring several of our favorite local bands.
Organizers billed the evening as the first annual Fuck Fest, ostensibly an LP release show for TDA's latest, and titled Fuck.
We've seen TDA (aka, Tits Dick Ass), led by Julia Pierce (below), play multiple times in Tompkins Square Park and local venues like Berlin and Baker Falls.
The East Village duo The Acute opened the show. Look for their new record coming soon. (Revisit our Q&A with Viveca Butler and Stephen Cacouris in the EVG archives here.)
Next up: Genre Is Death, who hurtled through another frenzied set of pulsing post-punk grooves. (Read our Q&A with Ty Varesi and Tayler Lee in the EVG archives here.)
Unfortunately, another fave, Adult Human Females, was a late scratch. (Listen to their Live at Tompkins Square Park release here.)
We saw for the first time (and enjoyed) Namesake...
And then came the headliners, TDA, shown here with its current lineup...
The band brought its usual whirlwind energy to the set, with a moshpit quickly forming.
Sometime after midnight, the sweaty crowd didn't seem to mind the 4-degree windchill outside the venue.
Voyeur was one of the local bands on the bill this past New Year's Eve at Night Club 101, the new venue opening in the former Pyramid Club and Baker Falls. (More background here.)
