Nicole Brice
Nov 9, 2026
They’re just a couple of friends who like to make stupid jokes.
No Call No Show is a band straight outta Staten Island that blends punk rock, hardcore, and metal. If you’re into loud, fast, and fun music, you’ll feel right at home here. Not to mention, in true New Yorker fashion, they call each other Tony because who isn’t named Tony in New York? They’re just a bunch of Tonys, and the band consists of Mike "Regular Tony" DelFino – Guitar, Vocals, and Band Lead; Paul (Little Tony) Terzano– Bass; and Josh "Big Tony" Salant – Drums and Production.
Honestly, the name No Call No Show says it all. If you’ve ever bailed on work after a night out with friends, you get it. The whole vibe is about not taking life too seriously and just having a blast—exactly what their music is all about.
Check out their video for “Time Thief”—it’s a total trip and really shows off how much fun these guys are having. If you want to get what they’re about, start here.
No Call No Show is pure feel-good punk rock. They keep that classic punk spirit alive, with every song packed full of energy and attitude. It’s the kind of music you want to jump around to, and back in 2021, they dropped the Punk AF EP—and trust me, it’s punk as hell: four tracks, all killer, no filler. The basslines thump, the groove is tight, and it’s everything you want from a punk record.
Then there’s Too Punk 2 F**k—just two songs, but both sound like they could’ve been ripped straight from a sweaty night at CBGB’s. Raw, fast, and totally unapologetic.
The Villain EP is straight-up heavy punk rock. No frills, no messing around—just pure, punchy songs that hit you right in the face.
Release the Grease (late 2025) is all about having fun. It’s fast, it’s loud, and it even throws in a bit of metal and thrash for good measure. Just pure noise from start to finish.
Honestly, No Call No Show is what punk is supposed to be—fun, loud, and totally unpretentious. Every track makes you want to let loose and have a good time. There’s nothing bad to say about these guys—they’re the real deal. Learn more below.
MaM: Let’s start off with introducing yourselves, and tell me a little backstory on how the band came to be.
Mike: My name is Mike. We all lovingly call each other Tony, so we’re all different-sized Tonys. Josh is Big Tony, I’m regular Tony, and Paul is little Tony.
MaM: Kind of like The Ramones or The Donnas.
Mike: Yeah, but kinda because everyone in our circle is Italian or Italian-adjacent, so everyone has a little Tony in them. It’s how we like to say it out here.
MaM: It fits, love it!
Mike: But yeah, we’re all lifelong musicians. I started the band with Josh about six years ago, and Paul is the newest addition; he’s been playing with us for about three years now. We like to play our favorite styles of music, from hardcore influences from the 80s to the 2010s, plus thrash metal and punk. It’s just a couple of friends who like to make stupid jokes and play fast and heavy music. It’s the vibe that we carry. I don’t know what else you guys want me to say.
Josh & Paul: Well said (in unison)
(laughter)
Josh: I’m Josh. I’m from Canarsie, Brooklyn. We started jamming right around COVID, me and Mike, and as soon as he started playing guitar, I was like, “Uh, where have you been my whole life?” All these riffs, like I could jump right on em, you know, and it was a lot of fun, and it’s been that way ever since. It just gets more and more fun, and having Paul on is the best. We just have a great time. We eat a lot of pizza. We eat a lot of good New York and Brooklyn food, and we party hard.
MaM: Hell yeah, and that’s what life is about, man, and life is too freaking short, especially with the world being so jacked up, ya know.
Josh: Yeah
Mike: True
Paul: Absolutely – and my name is Paul. I’m from Marine Park, Brooklyn. So, my dad was actually Mike’s high school teacher.
MaM: Oh wow
Paul: There’s this whole dynamic that goes back like a while. We got put in touch a couple of years back, and when there was an opening for a new bass player, I joined, and we all became really good friends really fast. It’s just fun playing in a band with your friends and the type of music you love. It’s great.
MaM: It’s like a brotherhood, so you gotta like the people you play music with. Growing up, which bands or musicians got you into music to the point where you wanted to play it?
Josh: That’s a good question. I’d have to say, for me, it was 90s thrash metal like Megadeth and Pantera. That kind of heavy stuff. My favorite thing is classic rock- anything like Zep or AC/DC, anything that moves and grooves all day.
MaM: I’m all about the groove metal.
Josh: A lot of great groove metal down south.
MaM: All about the southern metal.
Josh: The best
Paul: I listen to pretty heavy stuff like White Chapel and deathcore, but I started with bands on the lighter side like Linkin Park, and from there I started diving into heavier music. Breaking Benjamin is one of my favorites.
MaM: If you like Breaking Benjamin, there is this band out of Asbury Park, New Jersey, you’ll like called Hollow Heroes. They’re awesome.
Paul: I’ll have to check them out.
Josh: I heard about them the other day. I was actually just playing out in Asbury.
MaM: Oh really?
Josh: One of the locals was talking about how they see Hollow Heroes all the time.
MaM: They’re really good.
Mike: I grew up out here going to a lot of the local shows. Meeting local musicians influenced me to want to get involved. I listen to Korn, Slipknot, and Black Sabbath. A lot of Les Claypool and Primus – stuff like that. You know, groove-heavy, but I remember watching MTV as a kid and seeing the “Wait and Bleed” video when it came out; the energy made me think, “I want to do this.” I’ve been pursuing and playing in bands, and I’m sure Josh has, too, since we were fourteen years old.
Josh: Yep!
MaM: So, you mentioned “Wait and Bleed”, and that came out when I was a senior in high school. I remember when that album came out. “Eyeless” was the first song I heard off that album. At what age did you each first pick up an instrument?
Paul: I started playing piano when I was five. It was my first instrument. I started playing guitar at sixteen and taught myself. I had been playing guitar for quite a while before I joined this band, but I hadn’t played much bass. The type of stuff we play, you kind of play it almost like you’re playing guitar, but on a bass. I translated my guitar skills to bass. This is the most bass I’ve played ever. I also play drums, too. Been playing for a few years.
MaM: So you’re a guitar player who plays bass, and you hear that a lot with bands. It seems everyone is always looking for a bass player, and out of necessity, guitarists learn bass. Always looking for drummers, too.
Josh: I’ve been playing drums since I was fifteen, and I did it because the drummers wouldn’t show up to rehearsals.
(laughter)
Josh: They weren’t reliable.
Paul: I’ll do it myself.
Josh: And actually, I was the bass player in the band, and we had two guitar players, so I said, “You guys don’t really need me to play bass,” and so I hopped behind the kit to fill in, and found myself being at that seat for 25 years. And I love it! I wouldn’t trade it for the world, ya know.
MaM: And what’s crazy here in our local music scene, drummers are always needed. I know of two metal bands down here that need drummers, and it’s like good luck to ya.
Josh: Yeah, yeah, it’s hard to find because a lot of the drummers are in ten bands, and it’s hard to contribute and allocate time to play with all of them, so you gotta play with the bands your best friends are in, and that’s what this band is. These are my guys. I love these guys.
Mike: I started guitar around eight, but I didn’t take to it. It was too hard for me, so I started playing bass pretty heavily around twelve or thirteen, and I started playing shows immediately because I thought it was so cool. Yeah, so I played bass for about twenty years, and in college learned jazz and all that stuff, and then couldn’t really find a guitar player in this scene that I wanted to play with anymore. My favorite guitar players in this scene left to pursue other things, so I decided to take guitar more seriously again, and it kind of happened about ten years ago when I started teaching music professionally that guitar was the instrument I needed to focus on most. I started writing punk songs, and now it’s evolved into writing for guitar and bass; it can stretch, and now that I’m working with Josh and Paul, all the elements kind of go everywhere. Everything starts with an idea that we then work on together. I’ve been playing music live for about 25 years.
MaM: I’m not familiar with the local music scene up there, so one thing with Mixed Alternative Magazine is we like to cover the local scenes and the bands from them. So what is the state of the scene up there these days, and do you find that live original music is a dying culture?
Josh: You know, the metal scene in New York, especially in Brooklyn and Staten Island, is really good. There’s a really nice black metal scene. There’s a great punk scene and a trans-punk scene. It’s really all-inclusive, with a lot of great venues to play, and people come out. There’s a lot of camaraderie between the bands, and a lot of people have been living in New York. I guess you could say this about anywhere, but a lot of people stay in New York, so there are people that you play on a bill with from other bands that you’ve known for twenty years, so it’s kind of like you have these big family shows where everyone is playing on the bill, and it’s a really good scene, and I’d love to do some more weekenders and some more touring and get out to some other places and make some new friends and fans, but it’s been really nice, actually.
Mike: Josh is kind of right. The scene is a little cliquey because people seem to follow certain events. If you can link up with a promoter and get along with them and gain rapport, like out here in Staten Island, we’ve got a good relationship with the guy who does all the venues, and that’s great for us. Everyone kind of knows each other; we’ve been doing it for a long time.
MaM: How do you see the overall state of the music industry today? Do you think it’s thriving or is it a cluster?
Josh: I think that in the overall music business these days, there are two paths you can take. You can go with the labels, or you can do the DIY grassroots side. We tend to go more with the latter. We have a great fanbase, and Mike makes some really nice merch; people love to buy it and wear it, so we have a little community of friends and family who come to the shows. As for breaking into the industry, it takes a lot of you, and it’s expensive. A lot of labels don’t want to have to build a band from scratch. They want a band that’s established, working hard, making money, and has its own machine, so they can get a cut of it. That’s one way to look at it. We’re gonna keep working hard in our local scene, and we’re gonna hopefully branch out to as many markets as we can. Ride it until the wheels fall off.
Paul: It’s definitely an interesting time. From a consumer perspective, it’s tough. I'd say it’s a love/hate relationship. You have to do all your own marketing. You have to constantly put out reels and update social media, so I like that when you’re DIY, like us, because it’s another creative outlet; at the same time, it’s a lot more work. It’s not that we’re just recording music.
MaM: What would be the ultimate goal you’d like to accomplish with your music?
Mike: We are kind of realizing that goal as we go. The last show we played with The Casualties was right here in Staten Island, so the goal is to get bigger, better shows. We have been getting opportunities lately to play larger, more national venues this year. We’re playing The Meadows, and we’re playing a big 40-band festival where we are a co-headliner for a large stage. I guess we’re working the circuit and ranks to get as big shows as possible, but you’ve got to want to do it because it's so business-driven.
As No Call No Show continues bringing their energetic blend of punk rock, metal, and thrash to the masses, they're sure to win over even more fans—both those who've been around since the beginning and newcomers alike. Their music isn't just loud and fast (though it definitely is); it has an infectious energy that makes you want to move, shout along, and hit repeat. Every track shows off their killer musicianship, catchy riffs, and raw, honest lyrics. If you haven't checked out their discography yet, you're seriously missing out. Go give them a listen—your playlist will thank you.
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