C86’d DIY Vol. 21: Bloom Dream x Open Carry State Summer Tour this Wednesday in NYC (August 19th)!

After a little hiatus we are excited to be back at Trans-Pecos to bring a couple more of our fav Southern Emo/Screamo acts to NYC! 

Bloom Dream blew us away with their 2024 release  of “It Didn’t Have to be this Way” riding the line between controlled chaos and beauty - sometimes the things that set an album or band apart are the soft bits interwoven between the chaos.  Their vein of emotional hardcore has hints of shoegaze and emoviolence, creating a transcendent experience. 

Open Carry State are time travelers bridging some of the classic chaotic hardcore sounds (before there was even “screamo” bands) with mathy melodic guitars, pinhead start/stops, and chunky breakdowns that only last long enough for one or two spin kicks.  A band that we’ve been checking in on regularly since the release of their demo last year only to be melted to the ground by “Spitting in the Face of Progress.”  

Our Southern friends will be sandwiched between an amazing line up of locals!

Opening up the show will be NYC x LI’s weonlyspokeinellipses with their first show in over a year.  Their two demos are incredibly impressive screamo and we can’t wait to see them perform live! 

Wellness (members/x-mem of Heavenly Blue, Massa Nera, Forever, and Liturgy) will also be bringing their mathcore intensity to the stage - Seeing them at Endless Fest was truly a site to see! 

Closing out the night will be our friends in Epoxy . Their self described “post-emo” covers a lot of ground hinting at influences from emo/screamo to Touch & Go Records, and even the angular, at times dancey, post-hardcore of the early 00’s that we don’t hear often enough these days.   

It’s an amazing line up and so happy we can help out some of more of our Southern friends.  Come hang. 

Wednesday August 19th, 2026 
Trans-Pecos 
9-15 Wycoff Ave 
Ridgewood, Queens, NYC 
All Ages // Doors at 7pm
$14 advance // $18 day of show 

Links:

- more info

- advanced tickets

Check out the bands:

- Epoxy

- Bloom Dream

- Open Carry State

- Wellness

- weonlyspokeinellipses

"Today we’re proud to announce a new partnership we’ve been working on for a while now. u/persistentvisionrecords is now the new official US store for Zegema Beach Records.

Based in Canada, the long running DIY label is home to a dizzying amount of iconic releases across screamo, emoviolence, punk, noise rock and other genres. Persistent Vision will now be the place for US fans to pick up new releases and back catalog classics from bands like Nuvolascura, Usurp Synapse, Carrion Spring, New Forms, Adobe Homes, Joliette, and others. We’ve listed some initial titles from the ZBR catalog in our shop and will be slowly adding more items in the weeks to come.

To kick things off, we’ve just added the new second pressing of Nuvolascura’s “As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination” LP which was just released via Zegema Beach and Dog Knights Productions. We have copies available on two limited vinyl variants: Green/Black Merge and Clear with Multi Color Splatter. These are now available to order. Keep your eyes on our site for another new release dropping later this week!"

Cool German bands.

hi! my band Year of the Snake just released our first studio ep “Skylike Fractals” for your ears to hear. please do let me know what you think! if u like it u can also get it on bandcamp to support us in our more diy endeavors. i booked a little east coast run next weekend for us if you’d like to hear it live too.

ffo: midwest screamo, dance gavin dance, emery, alexisonfire, fall of troy

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Specifically, their New Friends Fest set live video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL96JK5Masg Taylor Jewell is an insane drummer who completes the whole band, the way he plays screamo drum licks is incredible - he doesn't cross his hands over and uses doubles on the floor tom. His foot work is also really good, as he doesn't use a double pedal.

FFO: Ostraca, Senza, Frail Body

lowkey might be my new favorite screamo album ever the orchestra really brings everything together and omg all their old songs reimagined UGHHHHH its sososososo good Ive been listening all day

I’ve seen this kill hoodie before but i don’t know where i think i’ve seen a band OLTH do a rip of it but i’m pretty sure i seen a band member maybe vocalist to be specific wear it with the exact same kill font while preforming, pretty sure it was from 10+ years ago lmk if y’all have an idea or if i’m js trippin and OLTH really created that shi