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Posted in To Do | music | pictures on May 15, 2009
No Fun Fest kicks off, partially at the New Museum where the Gamma Rays & Younger Lovers played (pics)
photos by Leia Jospe
Gamma Rays @ the New Museum
The 2009 edition of No Fun Fest kicks off at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight (5/15). All three nights are sold out, even the nights Sonic Youth aren't playing (though those tonight's took a bit longer to sell). Bastard Noise headlines tonight, and Thrones and Noveller are also among the many artists on the Friday bill.
Not sold out is the bit of No Fun that will take place in Manhattan's New Museum. The Saturday afternoon show at that location will feature contributions by Noveller, Jim O'Rouke, and a few others. Read more about that here, and check out more pictures from the show that took place at the same museum on May 8th, below....
Gamma Rays...
Younger Lovers
Friday, May 8, 2009 | 7:00 PMThat is what it was. More New Museum events listed HERE.
Younger Lovers + Gamma Rays
Part of Get Weird
The stripped-down, insistent rock and roll of the Younger Lovers careens, buzzes, and leers with an energy unheard in decades. Led by Brontez Purnell, known for his performances with Gravy Train!!!! and his confessional 'zine Fag School, the Younger Lovers draw on the intoxicating legacy of The Replacements, Jonathan Richman, and The Gories, revitalizing the breathless spirit of adolescence. As Brontez explains, "This decade showed a dramatic decrease in the good old standard of cool, queer, punk-kid records. Everyone ran for a drum machine and opted to be the next Justin Timberlake. No probs. No shade. This just left the playhouse empty. Enter the Younger Lovers."The Gamma Rays reunite downtown legends Alex Neimetz and Alice Blythe, who demonstrated all of the swagger and catchiness of The New York Dolls and Richard Hell in their first band Modrocket. A year later, they've added a bit of haze and ache to their New York upbringing, creating a dizzyingly fun and occasionally heartbreaking new sound for The Gamma Rays.
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Posted on May 15, 2009 2:44 PM
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Comments (16)
Fun sucks
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 3:45 PM
thruston moore sucks
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 3:49 PM
Brooklynvegan commenters suck the most.
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 4:04 PM
fun thruston moore vegan comments from brooklyn suck mostly when read
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 4:08 PM
you see,
soon we'll have a poem going on here-
somebody give it to thurston tomorrow night to read in his sultry, narrator voice
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 4:10 PM
not fun
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 4:52 PM
sonic youth set time tomorrow?
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 4:56 PM
OMG it's Alex & Alice, formerly of ModRocket
Posted by Anonymous | May 15, 2009 7:46 PM
this site SUCKS. hipsters are so bad for music.
Posted by brooklyn vegan is horrible | May 16, 2009 1:08 AM
how late did no fun go tonight?
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2009 2:49 AM
ended at 1:20.
bastard noise was amazing.
everything else suuuuuucked.
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2009 3:28 AM
"this site SUCKS. hipsters are so bad for music."
What is a hipster? Never heard that term before...
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2009 1:55 PM
MEHdRocket
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2009 5:08 PM
the MEH guy is "MEHlarious!" REALLY! Don't ever stop... its SO funny!
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2009 5:17 PM
^^Is that sarcasMEH?
Posted by Anonymous | May 16, 2009 7:29 PM
i think its funny when haters go anonymous,
wouldn't want anybody to know you're a hater would ya?
Posted by Ludwig Persik | May 17, 2009 10:34 PM