by Bill Pearis

Brooklyn Flea's 4th Annual Superstar DJ Record Fair + Independent Label Market: Brooklyn
Saturday, Oct. 8, 10am-5pm
Smorgasburg, 27 North 6th St. (btw. Kent Ave. + East River), Williamsburg
FREE

After having success with the concept in London, they're bringing the Independent Label Market, in association with Brooklyn Flea, to Brooklyn Saturday afternoon -- sharing space with the myriad deliciousness that is Smorgasburg. In London, label bigwigs actually manned the tables. Will James Murphy be working the DFA booth? We shall see. Also, hopefully they'll all be selling at cost, seeing how they're elimnating the middlemen. Pass the savings on to us! There's some ILM exclusives being sold I'm told (like the Portishead 12" from XL), so keep an eye out. There's also album cover face painting. I wonder if they can do any record? So alt-parents, bring your kids so you can later say to old people, "Yes, that is The Dwarves' Blood, Guts and Pussy on my son's face."

This is kind of cool:

All Tomorrow's Parties are returning to the USA at the end of September, hosting the festival in the new location of Asbury Park, New Jersey. This will be the US's first edition of I'll Be Your Mirror, ATP's sister event that has currently been held in Japan and the UK. This edition will be curated and headlined on the Saturday and Sunday by Portishead, who will be playing their first shows on the East Coast since 1998.

From this Saturday 3rd September and every Saturday up to the event itself, tickets for I'll Be Your Mirror USA will be available to buy in person at the Brooklyn Flea at Fort Greene from 10am-5pm at 176 Lafayette Ave. (btw. Clermont + Vanderbilt Ave.). The ATP stall will be near the main entrance.

All ticket types as listed HERE and will be available at the Flea with a $5 booking fee per ticket (cash only). The stall will also be selling ATP merchandise from past ATP New York events including shirts and posters.

What's more, anyone that buys Weekend Passes on the first Saturday 3rd September will go into a draw to win a room at the Berkeley Hotel (where rooms are no longer available) situated directly across from the festival venues for the weekend. Runners up will win ATP prizes including festival merchandise.

ATP recently added Company Flow & Public Enemy to the Asbury Park lineup.

the Brooklyn Flea @ 1 Hanson Place - 6/6/2010 (Dean Keim)

"Camera Obscura may not be Brooklyn natives, but many of the borough's residents braved the heated Vault inside the Brooklyn Flea to see the Scottish pop band play a free pop-up show on Sunday. The show was the first of many shows the weekly flea market plans to host this summer.

"There's more people [here] than we anticipated, so that's nice," frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell told the crowd as the band got ready to play their set.

In addition to the 30-minute show, local ice cream shop Blue Marble gave away free scoops of "The Sweetest Cream" in honor of the band's song 'The Sweetest Thing.' Camera Obscura got into the flea market spirit by setting up their own shop and selling limited edition t-shirts and tote bags designed especially for the day's event along with typical band merch." [Spinner]

Sunday's show was the first of two that Camera Obscura will play in NYC while they're here. The next is tonight (6/7) at Grand Ballroom with The Love Language. Videos from the Flea, below...

Continue reading "Camera Obscura played the Brooklyn Flea (videos) "

Camera Obscura @ Coachella (more by Rachel Carr)

Camera Obscura will pay a visit to Brooklyn Flea on Sunday, June 6th to play a set at the market one day before their June 7th gig at NYC's Grand Ballroom (for which tickets are still on sale). Their 2pm performance will be the first live music at the Flea's Downstairs in the Vault location (located at One Hanson Place/Williamsburg Savings Bank, near BAM/Atlantic Center) (the same place the recent National BAM after-party was held).

[Camera Obscura] will also set up their very own table and will sell their wares, including some items created especially for this event. Since you can't have an "ice cream social" without ice cream, our friends at Blue Marble Ice Cream will be joining in the fun and have created a special flavor in the band's honor - "The Sweetest Cream" in honor of the band's song "The Sweetest Thing" - available with or without honey - in honor of the band's song "Honey In The Sun"!

Camera Obscura will be on a short tour the US following their Sasquatch Festival appearance on May 31st. The Love Language are opening the Grand Ballroom show and others on the tour (plus their own headlining NYC show on July 15th - tickets are on sale).

Camera Obscura also has a new 7" out.

Released on May 17, 2010, 'The Nights Are Cold' b/w 'The Sweetest Thing' is a release they've put together in honour of Richard Hawley, as he has been one of their favourite artists for years. The A-Side features them covering his 'The Nights Are Cold' while the AA is Richard's own remix of their 'The Sweetest Thing' (taken from their My Maudlin Career album of last year).

The cover art, videos of the band, and tour dates are below...

Continue reading "Camera Obscura playing & setting up @ the Brooklyn Flea"

DFA cancelled. More info on who didn't, below....

Continue reading "Superstar DJ Record Fair @ the Brooklyn Flea Sunday"