Torture & the Desert Spiders: Rock Band in New York

About Torture & the Desert Spiders

Torture & the Desert Spiders is a New York City–based group working at the edges of Rock/Pop and Free music, often heard at Baker Falls. Their sets move between structured songs and open-ended passages, with a loose, responsive interplay that treats the room as part of the arrangement. They’ve appeared on bills alongside Torture, the Desert Spiders, Beaven Waller, The Actor, and Monte, and have framed their live work through events like the Torture & the Desert Spiders Residency and Sunday Scaries Singalongs. The approach favors immediacy over polish.