DOWNLOAD: Making Friendz - Situation (MP3)

Making Friendz aka Tami Hart

MEN (featuring JD Samson of Le Tigre) started a tour at Bowery Ballroom back in March. That tour ends tonight, April 7th, at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn with opening sets by Australia's Romy and No Bra (who literally wears no bra, or shirt even). Tickets are still available for tonight's show and I have a pair you can win. Details below.

MEN bassist Tami Hart is otherwise known as Making Friendz, who used to be signed to Kathleen Hanna's Mr. Lady Records, and is now signed to Brooklyn's Last Bummer Records who are releasing her next album, Social Life, on 6/21. The first track from that high energy "sweet, sweaty mixture of lo-fi punk and glossy pop, R&B and disco" is called "Situation" (hopefully not a reference to Jersey Shore). You might remember dancing to the song at one of Tami's live shows, or heard the demo on MySpace, but now the album-ready, studio-recorded and mastered version is finished, and it makes its first appearance in this post. Download it above. Stream it below.

Some videos and the contest details below too...

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Delta Spirit @ Bowery Ballroom in February (more by Tim Griffin)

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* THIS WEEK IN INDIE
* The Dave Hill Explosion @ UCB
* Gene Ween Band @ PS 29 Auditorium
* The Shins, Delta Spirit @ Terminal 5
* Bruce Springsteen @ The Izod Center
* Bonnie "Prince" Billy @ Apollo Theater
* Jonah Matranga, Chase Pagan @ Mercury Lounge
* Ann Anderson, Twi The Humble Feather @ Monkey Town
* Thrones, Blues Control, Lake, Popped Blimp @ Coco 66
* Lady Circus and FUCT in Cirque du Quoi @ House of Yes
* CircleSquare, Michna, Zombie Zombie, Apache Beat @ Studio B
* Senors of Marseille, pow wow!, Dinosaur Feathers @ The Cameo
* Alina Simone, The Black Swans, Lindsay Sullivan @ Union Hall
* Her Space Holiday, City Light, Lymbyc Systym @ The Bell House
* Psychedelic Horseshit, These Are Powers, Pterodactyl @ Glasslands
* White Rabbits, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Antlers @ Bowery Ballroom
* Cheetah Crome (Dead Boys), The Blackhearts, Sister Anne, Kissy Kamikaze @ Europa
* 826NYC Prom w/ DJ sets from Vampire Weekend, Pat Mahoney, Hercules & Love Affair @ MHOW
* Dylan Fest w/ Hymns, Adam Green, members of The Strokes, Fountains of Wayne, Teenage Prayers, more @ Mercury Lounge

'A TWISTED AND TITILLATING COMEDY CIRCUS': "Adult sketch comedy troupe FUCT and Lady Circus, a performing arts troupe specializing in a concoction of riot and glamour have joined forces to present Cirque du Quoi?!? at 8pm on May 21st and 22nd, May 28th-30th and June 4th-6th at The Skybox at the House of Yes, 342 Maujer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (between Morgan Avenue & Waterbury Street, just east of the Grand Street stop on the L train). Tickets are $20 or $10 for student rush."

UPCOMING BENEFIT: heart&feet -- "a Unique Party to Benefit the Pediatric Dance Therapy Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering -- is happening on Thursday, June 18th at EMI Music (150 5th Ave). At the event, "New York dance companies, Synthesis Dance Project and Border Crossing Collective join forces with the Andréa Rizzo Foundation for a night of cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and live dance." More information at Drea's Dream.

No Bra performed at Santos Party House Tuesday night. NSFW video below...

What else?

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photos by Tim Griffin

So how was [Thursday] night's Music Hall of Williamsburg show, only the second on their tour for Entertainment, and the first of a stand that [continued Friday] at Webster Hall? Hardly rudimentary, my dear. Let's dispose first of the big news: Madonna was in attendance (hanging off of some man, Lourdes knows who).

Spooner, surely to her dismay, made Madonna's presence known -- probably mischievously, as he also asked, seemingly with mock surprise, where she'd gone to once the set was over. (Madge ducked out after a few songs.) So what new material might she have gathered for her own live show? We were too busy attempting to move in rhythmic patterns to jot down any notes, but with four dancers (in a variety of often shiny costumes), two stand-up mirrors, two flat-screens, and a large video projection, the crew created an ultraenergetic, unapologetically arty, but resolutely playful stage show. [NY Mag]

If you count the three rehearsals, Fisherspooner has now played five NYC shows in the past 2-3 weeks. More pictures (including the NSFW opener No Bra) from MHOW below...

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