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Wed Apr 30th 2025 | Doors 7:30pm | Tickets $30-40

Leftöver Crack is an American punk rock band formed in 1998 following the breakup of its predecessor Choking Victim, sharing band members Stza and Alec Baillie (also bandmates in their first band that they formed together in high school: No Commercial Value) until Alec’s tragic death in November of 2021.

The band is currently recording new music and will be reissuing all of their previous albums, with the exception of their debut LP “Medicore Generica” (Hellcat/Epitaph). Manufactured and distributed by MVD in North America, Leftöver Crack’s own Recidivist Bible Camp record label released its first song and video for the track “Shooticide” from the upcoming Leftöver Crack recording: “Abandon the Precincts” aka Volume 4 on RBC records and psalms.

Song: Shootacide

Here’s a link to “the meaning” of the song “Shooticide”

The album also features two songs recorded during the “Constructs of the State” LP sessions: “The Dead,” co-written by Stu Daly of Dublin, Ireland’s legendary “Chewing on Tinfoil” aka “Chewie” and Stza. It features vocals by the late Erik Peterson of Philadelphia’s beloved Mischief Brew. The second track, “Manger Danger,” was co-written by Stza with the Huntington Beach-based team of Brad Logan and Donny Morris, who also played together in the hardcore band “Rats in the Wall.”

Leftöver Crack’s current touring line-up consists of Scott Sturgeon aka Stza Crack (vocals, guitar, synth), Tibbie X (vocals, synth), Marc Cody (bass, vocals), Skunk Chelovec (guitar, vocals), Jon Yi (guitar, vocals), and Ethan Nickles (drums). Leftöver Crack has both defied genre pigeon-holing while creating the “Crack Rock Steady” music genre (along with LöC predecessors Choking Victim & No Commercial Value), which mixes anarcho-punk with ska, hardcore, garage, crust-punk, and the gloriously unholy metal trifecta of thrash, doom, and death.

All of this and many other styles are combined with grating crust-punk vocals delivered with a snotty, snarling attitude by a multitude of genders, and an endless list of vocal and musical inspirations. These influences include vastly contrasting forms of top 40 pop from the last 50 years, to 90’s hip-hop, early 80’s goth, late 80’s “alternative,” indie rock, and most styles in between and outside of every box. The lyrical content is of a radical leftist nature, opposing religion, capitalism, authority, and prejudice.

Members of Leftöver Crack’s band and crew reside at C-Squat near Tompkins Square Park. Band members have had a well-known history of back-and-forth conflict with the NYPD, which precedes the band's formation. The name "Leftöver Crack" is explained by Stza as being "an oxymoron," based on the idea that crack cocaine addicts are known for vigorous use and are unlikely to have any "leftover(s)."

Leftöver Crack’s band members and collaborators have been in a plethora of other bands, both punk and otherwise, with recognizable names such as: Suicidal Tendencies, The Coup, Dead Milkmen, Nausea, The Beastie Boys, Reagan Youth, Dwarves, Choking Victim, Skarp, F-Minus, D.R.I., Bouncing Souls, Union 13, Dead Kennedy’s, Crass, NOFX, Riverboat Gamblers, Big Black, GASH, Street-Sweeper Social Club, Anti-Flag, The Adolescents, Star Fucking Hipsters, DayCare Swindlers, the Distillers, Phobia, The Hold Steady, Lard, X-Possibles, Operation Ivy, INDK, Band of Horses, informal Society, MDC, No Commercial Value, Jello Biafra, John Cougar Mellencamp, World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Infirmities, Classics of Love, Destruction Made Simple, Scoflaws, Total Chaos, Henry Thugsworth & the Severinator, Hepcat, Lagwagon, and many many others...

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Sun May 4th 2025 | Doors 2:00pm | Tickets $11-15

w/ TBD
You SING in an "all-star" punk Band made up of:

Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks): Guitar-Vocals
Stan Lee (The Dickies): Guitar
Randy Bradbury (Pennywise): Bass-Vocals
Darrin Pfeiffer (Goldfinger) Drums-Vocals

The original deal since 1996. We play....YOU sing! Pick a song,we give you the lyrics.We call your name and voila! you are the singer in a punk rock band backed by the finest hand picked side men.

Simple...we have sign up sheet at venue. Pick your song,we give you lyrics.When your song is called,come up and join the band! No, we can't play every punk song from 1867 to present day. We hand pick our favorites from 1983 back to when dinosaurs pogoed along side with the punkers.

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Day of Show $15

Sun May 18th 2025 | Doors 1:30pm | Tickets $10

others tbd

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Sun May 25th 2025 | Doors 1:30pm | Tickets $15-20

“John would have wanted the record to come out. The music was what was important to him, and he would have wanted us to keep going.” — The Effigies drummer Steve Economou

The new album from The Effigies begins, unfortunately, with a moment of tragedy. Just as the long-running and influential Chicago punk band was finishing its fifth album Burned in late 2023, singer John Kezdy was killed in a biking accident.

Reaction from the music world was swift. “John Kezdy was a hero of mine,” Steve Albini wrote on social media immediately following Kezdy’s passing. “Effigies were the first great band from Chicago’s scene, his stern, declamatory style influenced a generation and he helped me in material ways. Not overstating to say that without John and the Effigies, I would never have made any records.”

While The Effigies were never the biggest band in the punk world, they were an important one. The group — which featured rotating guitarists but primarily consisted of Kezdy, bassist Paul Zamost, and drummer Steve Economou — formed in 1980 and released four full-length records and a few EPs over the course of their on-and-off history, all while touring with the likes of Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, Naked Raygun (which featured John’s brother Pierre), and even pre-fame Green Day.

Most importantly, the band helped punk thrive in their hometown of Chicago in the early ‘80s, where the scene was smaller and more insular. “That early Chicago scene — there was a collective consciousness there,” says Economou. “It was Steve Albini, Naked Raygun, Strike Under. We all had our roles — sound, promotions, t-shirts. It was a collective scene from the beginning. We held it together until the next generation of bands hit and the crowds got bigger.” (During this time, the band also founded and released their music on Ruthless Records, an influential punk label that also featured albums by Naked Raygun, Big Black, and Urge Overkill, among others.)

A smaller local scene may have kept The Effigies from reaching the heights of some of their peers. But the band’s unwillingness to fit into a predetermined genre or musical category also played a role. “There was no scene for us,” admits Economou. “But what was great was how diverse the Chicago scene was. We were all very different from each other.” In a 2015 interview, Kezdy — eschewing the term “hardcore” — noted that “we tried to write real songs but they had the punk energy. I don’t mind if people call us a punk band because that’s what we’ve always been. I don’t mean to be presumptuous, but the lineage of The Effigies has always been more along the lines of the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers, the Ruts and that kind of stuff.”

That said, you’ll notice a consistency from The Effigies through every release, including the new album. Burned, the band’s first record since 2007’s Reside, was produced and recorded by Andy Gerber (a longtime friend of the band who also plays guitars on parts of the album) and mixed by J. Robbins. It’s aggressive but melodic, with Kezdy’s wry, political, and often personal commentary at the forefront.

“It’s John’s best work,” says Zamost. “And I think it’s consistent with our other music because the music’s always been written around me and Steve, the rhythm section. It defined our sound.”

Along with a new record comes a 40th anniversary re-release of the band’s classic album For Ever Grounded, which has been remixed and remastered. “We’d record the early records very quickly, sneaking into studios and pretty much laying ‘em down over a weekend,” says Economou.

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