New York’s underground pulses with restless energy, a city of ghosts and machines, of neon-lit basements and sweat-slicked dancefloors. New Goth New York is a veritable lifeline, a semi-monthly gathering in the Big Apple where post-punk, goth, darkwave, and industrial acts collide in a blur of drum machines, distorted basslines, and fevered intent.
Founded by DJ Ivy Oh and Patrick B (MIDNIGHTCHOIR), the project stitches together a scattered scene, bridging boroughs and bringing like-minded misfits into orbit. As the city staggers under the weight of shuttered venues, empty pockets, and another era of uncertainty, New Goth New York refuses to retreat. A gathering point in a fractured underground, it burns bright against the dimming landscape.
Burrowed in a heritage of high art, literature and celluloid as much as waveform, this project revives a scene too alive to vanish. Here, art and audio collide in darkened doorways and backroom bars, forging a fellowship of movement, memory and mutiny.
Their first showcase is April 11th at Alphaville:
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Blu Anxxiety are a genre-warping force clawing their way through the neon-lit underbelly of punk, goth, and electronic music. Equal parts darkwave dystopia and hardcore hysteria, the New York outfit twists skeletal synths, slashing guitars, and frantic beats into a relentless, high-energy spectacle. Their sound—somewhere between a nightclub meltdown and a punk show gone feral—draws from EBM, industrial, and the raw immediacy of classic punk. Known for chaotic, theatrical performances and an ever-mutating sonic identity, Blu Anxxiety thrive in the tension between the dancefloor and the abyss, delivering anxiety-laced anthems for the disillusioned and the defiant.
Blood Handsome, the alias of Los Angeles-based Gerren Reach, treads the line between neon-soaked nostalgia and forward-facing futurism. Reach conjures a world where post-punk’s brooding spirit collides with the glacial pulse of synthwave. Echoes of Art of Noise, New Order, and John Carpenter reverberate through his compositions, yet there’s an undercurrent of something unique; a restless shape-shifting that pulls from post-punk’s angularity and darkwave’s cinematic sprawl.
Native New Yorker Patrick Bobilin has been sculpting auditory experiences under the moniker MIDNIGHTCHOIR since 2014. Sarah Simon joined MIDNIGHTCHOIR in 2023. Bobilin’s fury at the system is not merely the lamentation of an artist scorned. Loverboy Molotov was made with much of Bobilin’s urgency and energy of his political campaigns in 2017, 2020, and 2022. Besides his runs for public office, Bobilin led community action organizations during the 2020 social justice uprisings, organized Black Lives Matter protests, and founded a Manhattan mutual aid organization. That social justice work, which had Bobilin arguing with former-mayor de Blasio about policing on live radio, has found its way into his lyrics.
The next showcase is June 5th at Bowery Electric.
Ghost Cop is a New York City-based electronic duo that fuses dystopian synthwave with post-punk paranoia, crafting hypnotic, beat-driven soundscapes laced with eerie melodies and biting social commentary. Fronted by Lucy Swope’s commanding vocals and lyrical dissections of media manipulation and surveillance culture, and propelled by Sean Dack’s pulsating analogue synthwork, Ghost Cop channels the claustrophobic unease of a world drowning in digital noise. Their music draws from the haunted minimalism of early industrial, the cold futurism of EBM, and the noir-drenched aesthetics of cyberpunk cinema.
Spookystack is a cold-wave, post-punk, synth-punk artist from Brooklyn. Spookystack melds cold-wave, post-punk, and synth-punk elements. Their discography includes the EPs Static (2022) and Doll (2023), as well as the single Mystery (2024).
Holy Wire, conceived by Alain Paradis, emerged in the wake of a geographical and existential transition from Brooklyn to Austin during the pandemic. In the aftermath of a personal upheaval and a commitment to sobriety, Paradis found himself an isolated figure in a city gingerly awakening from its pandemic-induced solitude. Surrounded by nothing but the echo of memories and the expanse of time, he turned to songwriting as a solace and a means of connection, gradually syncing his rhythm with the vibrant pulse of Austin’s musical landscape.
Listen to the official New Goth New York playlist below and get acquainted with these emerging talents:
Beyond New Goth New York, Ivy Oh sharpens her selections at LUJURIA, a Brooklyn-born bacchanal at Selva, where Latin goth and darkwave surge through the speakers like a ritual in full swing. From NYC to Puerto Rico, her sets summon sounds from the periphery—tracks soaked in sweat, synth, and the pulse of past and future entwined. While the city sways, these nights stay standing, electric and alive.
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