July 2, 2009
Ménage à Twang sing "Listen Sister, Don't Date a Hipster"
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Brooklyn Bowl - open July 7
"After two years of development, we're happy to finally say... Brooklyn Bowl has arrived!"
Brooklyn Bowl, the highly anticipated 16-lane bowling alley, 600-capacity performance venue with food by Blue Ribbon in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, is pleased to announce it will be open for business in a soft launch capacity beginning this Tuesday, July 7, at 6:00 p.m.The venue, that's been in the works for a while, is finally opening. The first concert at the Brooklyn Bowl will be O'Death, Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin and Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt on Friday, July 10th.Operating hours will be scaled back during the soft launch: Sunday, Tuesday - Thursday, 6:00 pm - 2:00 am, and Friday and Saturdays 6:00pm - 4:00am. During this time Brooklyn Bowl will not be open on Mondays, and are serving only to a 21+ crowd. A small snack menu will be served from July 10 through the 20th. On the 21st, an expanded "preview" menu will be presented, with the full menu by Blue Ribbon debuting on August 4th. Live music performances, advance lane reservations, and extended hours (including child-friendly weekend days) will begin in late summer. Brooklyn Bowl is located at 61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
The other event currently on the Brooklyn Bowl's schedule is the Lebowski Fest New York, which will hold one of its three nights at the space on Thursday, September 24th. Bowling and non-bowling tickets are on sale.
More info on the venue, below...
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O'Death played MHOW (pics), playing Brooklyn Bowl (really)
photos by Ryan Muir
The first concert at the new Brooklyn Bowl will be O'Death, Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin and Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt on Friday, July 10th. Tickets are on sale now. You may remember that O'Death's June 13th Northside Festival show, which ended up happening at MHOW, was originally scheduled for the venue. More pictures from that show below...
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What's going on Thursday?
Jay Reatard @ the Stuy Town Oval (more by Tim Griffin)
Screaming Females
tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* Rubblebucket @ Zebulon
* The Feelies @ Maxwell's
* Dam-Funk @ Academy Records
* Forro in the Dark @ MoMA Sculpture Garden
* Kuroma, Acrylics, Gift Horse, Renminbi @ Pianos
* Cage, Yak Ballz, Junk Science, Tone Tank @ Southpaw
* The Germs, Krum Bums, Bridge & Tunnel @ Mercury Lounge
* Maria Taylor, Morgan Nagler, Soy Un Caballo @ Union Hall
* Drunkdriver, Cult Ritual, Twin Stumps, White Suns @ Cake Shop
* Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, The Beets, German Measles @ Glasslands
* Jay Reatard, Screaming Females, TV Smith @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Hisham Bharoocha, Ben Vida, Ateleia, Sadek Bazaraa @ Issue Project Room
* Cubic Zirconia, Head Automatica, Chico Mann, Dam-Funk @ Santos Party House
* Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Tammy Faye Starlite, .357 Lover @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band's summer tour stops at Woodstock's Bearsville Theater tonight. In two days, they'll be playing a free July 4th show with Jenny Lewis in Battery Park.
More 4th of July shows listed HERE (and in the dance post).
Tonight the Feelies kick off the first of three nights at Maxwell's.
Stones Throw artist Dam-Funk will play a free DJ set at Academy Records(E. 12th St) today at 6pm. Later, he'll be DJing at Santos. Look for live sets by Cubic Zirconia, Head Automatica and Chico Mann at the latter. Academy Records flyer below.
Jay Reatard plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg after rocking a short, free show at the Stuy Town Oval last night. Rising stars Screaming Females and ex-Advert TV Smith open.
Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, The Beets and German Measles play a pre-Woodsist Fest gig at Glasslands tonight. In addition to their shows this weekend, Thee Oh Sees, who were amazing at the Mercury Lounge in April, will return to NYC in October on their big fall tour with the Fresh & Onlys (also in town this weekend).
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players bring friends Tammy Faye Starlite and Corn Mo's .357 Lover to (Le) Poisson Rouge tonight.
Cage and Yak Ballz, on tour together, perform at Southpaw tonight - the first of two shows at the Brooklyn venue.
Forro in the Dark kick off the first Music Thursday in MoMA Sculpture Garden.
Billy Corgan revealed an unreleased Sky Saxon collaboration.
Joly posted some video of Sky Saxon (RIP) & The Seeds playing live in 2005. Watch it below...
What else?
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Lee Fields playing Joe's Pub w/ Handclap Band & stuff
DOWNLOAD: Lee Fields & the Expressions - Ladies (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Lee Fields & the Expressions - Love Comes and Goes (MP3)
Lee Fields buttons (on sale now)
Soul crooner Lee Fields's new LP, My World, is out now on Truth and Soul Records. Fields and his band the Expressions, made up of Dap Kings, Budos Band and Antibalas members, celebrated that disc with a CD release show at Southpaw on Friday, June 5th. Two songs from that record are posted above.
Coming up, he'll be at Joe's Pub on Tuesday, July 21st with The Phenomenal Handclap Band (who just put out an album of their own) and Fight the Big Bull. Tickets are on sale. Fight the Big Bull, an ethnic folk-inspired jazz band, is also playing an early set that same night with Sex Mob. Tickets to that are on sale too, and you can get a two-ticket package by phone.
The Phenomenal Handclap Band also have a show coming up at Le Poisson Rouge.
Fields was recently sampled by J. Cole, "Jay-Z's first and only signing to his newly formed label, Roc Nation." The mix tape with that on it, titled The Warm Up, is streaming on Vibe (RIP).
A video of Lee doing "Love Comes and Goes" at that Southpaw show, with more vids, below...
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BMI suing NYC bar & music venue Pianos
Pianos (more by Tim Griffin)
"A bar or club isn't technically allowed to play a copy written song without first securing the appropriate licenses from the performance rights group--such as ASCAP or BMI--that represent songwriters. Enforcement has traditionally been pretty lax over the years, although every once in a while, the organizations file a lawsuit to remind venue owners that they exist. In 2007, for example, ASCAP filed suits against a handful of spots, including Jay-Z's 40/40 and Hiro at the Maritime Hotel. More recently, ASCAP and BMI slapped Cafe Wha? with a suit back in March.Kuroma, Acrylics, and Suckers all have shows coming up at Pianos. So do The Grates. Japandroids play there on July 11th.This time around BMI is turning its attention to the Lower East Side and coming down on Pianos, claiming the venue caused "great and incalculable damage" for illegally playing such favorites as "Say It Ain't So" by Rivers Cuomo; the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black"; and your fave hit from 1986, "Final Countdown"." [Cityfile]
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Kuroma & Acrylics play Pianos tonight ++ Suckers do soon
Kuroma in Prospect Park (more by Natasha Ryan)
Kuroma used to be in MGMT. Last night he opened for them in Prospect Park. Tonight (7/2) you can catch him at Pianos with Acrylics.
Suckers also opened for MGMT last night. They don't play Pianos tonight, but they do have four shows coming up there starting with one on July 9th.
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MGMT, Kuroma & Suckers in Prospect Park - pics & video
photos by Natasha Ryan
Zen: stumble into MGMT bringing it live(!) while walking the hound. Brooklyn has a great soundtrack. - Doug Moore
MGMT, Suckers, and Kuroma played a big Brooklyn show together last night in Prospect Park (7/1). I listened to most of it while hanging out in the grass from outside the black, heavily guarded, tall, not-see-through fence (which was behind a 2nd, smaller fence which had lots of security guards behind it (aka people between the two fences) (there were also a LOT of police around).
The highlight of the show for me was at the very end when MGMT (a band who I generally don't like... especially live... but last night I thought sounded ok... lots of people having fun also = good...) started playing "Kids" and, as the crowd could be heard erupting in cheer on the inside, a huge dance party broke out in the street behind the bandshell. Nobody could see what was going on inside, but that didn't stop everyone from getting down.
There were lots of people taking video of the people dancing. Please post it if you were one of them. More pictures from the inside, and some other videos, below...
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Tift Merritt, Sarah Lee Guthrie & John Irion @ Stuyvesant High School in NYC - pics
photos by Chris La Putt
"Wow Tift Merritt's voice is even more spectacular & nuanced in RL than on my iPod. Best river to river performance yet"While Jay Reatard was playing a free NYC show in Stuyvesant TOWN yesterday (7/1), Sarah Lee Guthrie, John Irion, and alt-country star Tift Merritt were playing a free NYC show (courtesy of the River to River Festival) in Stuyvesant HIGH SCHOOL (which is where the originally-outdoor show was moved to due to the threat of rain). More pictures below...
- Tara Lannen-Stanton
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Jay Reatard @ the Stuy Town Oval in NYC - pics
photos by Tim Griffin
Jay Reatard on at 7:15 over by 7:40 - Jim | July 1, 2009 8:30 PM
"Jay reatard shows are usually around 35 minutes played ramones 123 style. they sounded amazing and the scene was hilarious with all the kids... he even played "greed, money, useless children" and pointed to the playground during every chorus... pretty funny.Catch Jay Reatard again, tonight (7/2) at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn with TV Smith and Screaming Females. More pictures from yesterday's show in Stuyvesant Town, below...on my bike ride home cut thru prospect park, there was some wishy washy music, tons of 'hippies' and the sweeet smell of marijuana(right near all the cops). kinda reminded me of a Dead show parking lot. thanks to this post i now know that was MGMT. Next! [the truth | July 2, 2009 10:57 AM]
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