FYI.

This story is over 5 years old.

Vice Blog

NEW YORK - BEST WIERD OF THE YEAR

This weekend for the sixth year running New York is blessed with No Fun Fest, a three-day extravaganza of all things industrial, synth, noise, and whatever-wave. You know the scene, a lot of shirtless malnourished dudes sweating over pedals, face punching and chest bumping over drum machines, and secret fetish nerds self-flagellating to the sound of power electronics. Plus Sonic Youth. Too bad it's sold out. But if you've got five bones and some extra time, you should go to Home Sweet Home tonight.

Advertisement

Wierd

is throwing a pre-party of sorts for the fest featuring four bands that are playing at No Fun.

I don't know about you, but festivals freak me out as much as they excite me. I have a nightly four-band threshold, no matter how solid the lineup. After the six-band bill for the Carcass show at the Nokia Theater I wanted to shoot myself in the head. Who wants to see four hours of filler just to get that taste of killer because some promoter got greedy? That said, No Fun Fest rules because its lineup is essentially all killer, full of special performances by fanatics you don't get to see very often over one weekend, let alone all in one place. Too bad for you if you don't already have tickets, but at least you can get your fix a few nights early at Wierd.

Tonight's live lineup is:

Martial Canteral

- Local solo synth genius (not an exaggeration) Sean McBride (also of Xeno and Oaklander)

Envenomist

- Dark ambient industrial from the brain of David Reed (Columbus, Ohio)

Hive Mind

- Assaultive death drone noise from the proprietor of

Chrondritic Sound

(Ann Arbor, Michigan)

R. Jencks - Black noise from the dark force behind

Sixes

,

Deathroes

, and

Crash Worship

(Oakland, California)

BEVERLY HAMES

(photo by Naomi Ramirez)