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Mike Pride & Sam Mickens' Ecstatic Showband & Revue dates

by Andrew Frisicano

Sam Mickens (by Elizabeth Leitzell)
Sam Mickens

The Dead Science’s Sam Mickens pulls together a rotating crew of some of NYC’s most talented jazz regulars to form his Sam Mickens’ Ecstatic Showband and Revue, a falsetto-fronted act that combines twisted bubblegum pop with the vocabulary of retro soul. They play the Cake Shop on Friday, January 29th (tonight) with genre-crossing, soul/funk/post-punk acts D. Rider and Whales & Cops. Videos of all three are below.

Sam Mickens picks up a guitar to play with drummer Mike Pride as a duo at Zebulon on January 31st. Extra Life (who have a new CD coming out) and Kush are also on the bill.

Mickens & Pride add saxist Darius Jones to form Black Lantern Trio, again at Zebulon, on February 21st. A video of that group is below.

The Showband & Revue have another show on Mike Pride’s exhaustive schedule, listed below – it’s a TBA date in Bushwick on March 12th. Videos and all tour dates are below…

Sam Mickens’ Ecstatic Showband & Revue | NYC @ Monster Island | 23 Oct 2009

Whales and Cops live at The First Unitarian Chapel 7/16 “Choice Fruits”

D.RIDER – “in heat” at Whistler 03/22/09

Black Lantern Trio | NYC @ Cake Shop | 05 Nov 2009

Mike Pride – 2010 Tour Dates
Jan 28 Seth Meich Quartet @ La Grand Dakar Brooklyn, Clinton Hill, New York
Jan 29 Sam Mickens Ecstatic Showband & Revue @ Cakeshop w/ D. Rider NYC, New York
Jan 31 Mike Pride Quartet: From Bacteria To Boys @ Douglass St. Music + Nate Wooley 5 + Jaseon Ajemian 4 Brooklyn, Park Slope, New York
Jan 31 Sam Mickens/Mike Pride duet @ Zebulon Brooklyn, WIlliamsburg, New York
Feb 16 Mike Pride Quartet: From Bacteria To Boys @ Rose Live Music Brooklyn, Williamsburg, New York
Feb 21 Sam Mickens Black Lantern Trio w/ Darius Jones @ Zebulon Brooklyn, Williamsburg, New York
Feb 26 Jackson Moore Septet @ MacCarren Hall Brooklyn, Greenpoint, New York
Mar 12 Sam Mickens Ecstatic Showband & Revue @ tba Brooklyn, Bushwick, New York
Mar 15 Mike Pride Quartet: From Bacteria To Boys @ Local 269 NYC, New York
Mar 23 Katherine Young Ensemble @ Issue Project Room (Porter Records Festival) Brooklyn, Gowanus, New York
Mar 26 Jackson Moore Septet @ MacCarren Hall Brooklyn, Greenpoint, New York
Mar 31 Josh Sinton’s Holus-Bolus @ Douglass St. Music Collective Brooklyn, Park Slope, New York
Apr 21 Yukari Trio @ Tea Lounge Brooklyn, Park Slope, New York
Apr 30 Jackson Moore Septet @ MacCarren Hall Brooklyn, Greenpoint, New York
May 20 Jon Irabagon/Mike Pride “I Don’t Hear Nothin’ But The Blues” @ Ars Nova Workshop Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 28 Jackson Moore Septet @ MacCarren Hall Brooklyn, Greenpoint, New York