Genre Is Death / The Art Gray Noizz Quintet

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Genre Is Death (NYC) is a limitation-destroying noise band formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive and malignant--- using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create music that feels both minimal and overwhelming. While comparisons to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks are inevitable (and quite welcome), Genre is Death builds on NYC's legacy without repeating it... eschewing nostalgia and nihilism in favor of sonic liberation. Their record 'Attractive People' was released on May 1, 2026 on In The Red Records and was recorded by legendary sound producer Martin Bisi. 'Attractive People' prods and pushes its listener with tongue in cheek lyrics that accuse and indict their audience, cacophonous guitar shrieks of power and madness, and bass lines that oscillate from funky to erratic dissonance. Live, this cacophony is dangerous. The duo moved to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than the mundane lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements. Their move to NYC, coupled with their desire to express something, anything with a pervasive disgust for incessant pandering, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could...