preview: Collective Scream and OWL bring a punk, nu-chip and emo benefit concert to the gutter spare room
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After a relaunching and raising over $5k for local organizations last year, benefit concert booking org Collective Scream teams up with Our Wicked Lady, host of NYC’s Winter Madness and now booking The Spare Room at The Gutter, to throw a dance-punk/pop-punk/dreamgaze/cyberskramz/nu-chip benefit show for the ages! Ultra Deluxe, Bad Humors, Goof Goblin and The Shining Hours all play sets and are donating their time and talent to raise funds for The Ali Forney Center, who provide services and resources to over 20,000 at-risk or homeless LGBTQ+ youth each year, as well as over 70,000 meals. The organization opened their youth shelter, Casa Cecilia, in Harlem in November 2025.
The Ali Forney Center provides a home with stability, support, and comprehensive service to help LGBTQ+ homeless youth get their lives back on track and to prepare them to live independently and thrive. Support includes physical and mental check-up, warm meals & showers, clothing, group therapy, support groups, recreational activities, emergency & transitional housing, and vocational/educational placement assistance.
In addition to funds being raised for Ali Forney Center, attendees can also do their part and are encouraged to donate rice, pasta/pasta sauce, dried beans, dried fruit, nuts, peanut butter, tuna, canned vegetables, powdered milk, cooking oils, granola, crackers, flour, salt, sugar, coffee.
Donations benefitting Make The Road New York, who serve over 42,000 immigrant and working-class community members annually via food pantries in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Westchester.
“Supporting the Ali Forney Center is important to us because members of our band have experienced serious poverty and instability firsthand. We know how fragile survival can be when you don’t have consistent housing, safety, or support. AFC does the kind of work that actually changes outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth—providing not just shelter, but stability, dignity, and a path forward. That kind of support saves lives, and it’s something we believe deeply in.”
GOOF GOBLIN
are a trans emo and punk trio in Brooklyn that pairs sad lyrics about being queer, mental illness, and politics with energetic, bouncy instrumentals. The shout-along, thrash punk in the boss-level of a video game is perfectly displayed in standout track, “Rolling Pumpkins.”
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The trio sets out on the Enter The Pizzaverse Tour from February 26-March 8, making stops in CT, PA, NJ and MA and are excited to take the live show on the road, play new rooms, and connect with communities that have supported them along the way.
The SHINING HOURS
are a 4-piece alternative/indie dreamgaze band. Formed in 2021 and featuring a rotating cast of musicians, the band blends elements of shoegaze and dreampop like vibey “Stuck Like This” off their 2024 EP Moment.
“Music provides a safe space for complex emotions. Songs actually help people feel better or provide an outlet for frustration, or it can simply help us process what we’re feeling. Music can make you feel less alone especially establishing a community. ”
“Punk rock is and always has been about thinking for yourself and rejecting the expectations of mainstream society, making punk culture and the LGBTQ+ community inextricably linked. Our bassist, Kelly, is proudly queer along with many of our friends and fans, so it’s really special to have the opportunity to give back to a community who always shows up for us—especially during a time when the trans community in particular is under attack by the current administration.”
BAD humorS
is a pop-punk-rock band from Brooklyn that goes hard. Their instrumentals, themes, all the way down to their cover artwork remind you that the new punk-heyday is now. The quartet put out their first EP, Who’s Hungry, a 4-track, ~9 minute ripper, this past September.
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self-described MARXIST CYBERSKRAMZ, whose post-hardcore/digi-punk has become notoriously harder to pin-point is led by NYC Max Narotzky,
Come hang at The Gutter Brooklyn on 2/21 to see Ultra Deluxe, Bad Humors, Goof Goblin and The Shining Hours tear it down to build us up!
