Genre Is Death / The Art Gray Noizz QuintetChicago · Tue, Dec 8, 2026

Genre Is Death / The Art Gray Noizz Quintet takes place at Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL on Tuesday, December 8, 2026, starting at 9:00 PM local time.

Face-value tickets have been listed at $20.39 before fees; prices and availability can change, so check the official seller for live inventory.

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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... However, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. The pair have since played Gonerfest, toured with Gogol Bordello and Jon Spencer, and opened for Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and A Place to Bury Strangers. , "rdquo" -> Menacing and sexy, living in the dark urban corners where the roaches still roam" - Donita Sparks, L7 , "rdquo" -> Sexy Southern Fried Psycho-Sludge, Genre Is Death is heavy as hell, wonderfully weird and absolutely irresistible." - Lydia Lunch , "rdquo" -> A whirlwind of grinds, squalls, screams and power..." - Cynthia Sley, Bush Tetras "Smart, feral, uncompromising, and diametrically opposed to an indie scene populated by floppy-hatted nepo babies content to recycle milquetoast rock music until the inheritance comes through." - Bandcamp Daily