Entries tagged with: Williamsburg
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Jesus Lizard & Bad Brains @ Vice's Halloween Party - pics
photos by Tim Griffin David Yow rides the crowd as beer flies Titus Andronicus drama aside for a second, I was worried that the "party" crowd wouldn't be a good audience for the Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains. But as...
Posted on November 2, 2009 11:58 AM
Nathan WAVVES & Jared from Black Lips fought @ Daddy's after the Roseland & Market Hotel shows (there was blood)
WAVVES @ Market Hotel last night (9/25) (more by Leia Jospe) "Wavves was playing with Zach Hill as his drummer [at Market Hotel] and the sound was different and pretty cool. We were partying pretty hard, and as always seems...
Posted on September 26, 2009 4:11 PM
Les Savy Fav & Hannibal Buress helped open the new Knitting Factory in Brooklyn - pics
photos by Tim Griffin Knitting Factory's move to Brooklyn is finally complete and the doors are open. After a friends and family performance-less soft opening on Tuesday, Les Savy Fav truly broke in the place with one of the band's...
Posted on September 10, 2009 2:11 PM
Death By Audio's The Maze - schedule (includes 1 of 4 upcoming Skeletons Big Band shows & much more)
Sam Hillmer (left) playing with Zs @ the Yard (more by Sarahana) You Are Here (The Maze) is a performance festival in a sculptural maze taking place at Williamsburg's Death By Audio from September 10 - October 2, 2009. Emphasizing...
Posted on September 2, 2009 9:25 AM
The Bowery Presents is now booking Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl and Bowery Presents are announcing today that they've formed a partnership. Josh Moore of Bowery Presents is now the head talent buyer (booker) for, not only Music Hall of Williamsburg, but also Brooklyn Bowl. Brooklyn Bowl will...
Posted on September 2, 2009 8:48 AM
pictures of people enjoying Girl Talk @ Sunday's Pool Party
photos by Tim Griffin "From every vantage point, there were flailing body parts, sweat-drenched faces and tumbling body surfers. After hours of shoving, pushing, jumping, air-humping and fist-pumping, the crowd screamed and let out a huge breath of air and...
Posted on August 24, 2009 1:16 PM
Death by Audio maze installation running Sept 10-Oct 2 (Skeletons, Mick Barr, Calvin Johnson, Extra Life, Ty Segall)
Remember Death By Audio's 12-hour benefit on July 25th for something called You Are Here: A Maze?Sam Hillmer & Laura Paris, who dubbed their art collaboration Trouble, had the first You Are Here festival in 2007, at 44th street...
Posted on August 11, 2009 1:45 PM
the Polvo & Obits show has moved to Brooklyn Bowl!
Brooklyn Bowl (more by Chris La Putt) ONE NIGHT ONLY! SEAPORT MUSIC HEADS TO BROOKLYN For the first time in it's history, Seaport Music is ducking the rain and headed to Brooklyn, to save tonight's scheduled concert featuring Polvo with...
Posted on July 31, 2009 6:19 PM
Time Magazine writes a 'Brief History of Hipsters'
"Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They're the people who wear T-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is...
Posted on July 31, 2009 1:01 PM
"the rise and fall of The Shank" (the Brooklyn venue)
Spank Rock & Amanda Blank @ The Shank in March (by Tod Seelie) "What went on inside soon became the stuff of legend, so much so that very few revelers were willing to go on the record for this story,...
Posted on July 22, 2009 2:41 PM
Daily News reports on gutter punks in Williamsburg
Heroin-addict hobos from around the country are overrunning hipster haven Williamsburg - living in stalled luxury condo projects in the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood. The newcomers, who call themselves "gutter punks," are stirring outrage among residents and shopkeepers who charge the...
Posted on July 16, 2009 9:42 AM
O'Death & Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt @ Brooklyn Bowl (the new NYC bowling alley in Williamsburg) - pics
words & photos by Chris La Putt On Friday night (7/10), Brooklyn Bowl became one of the newest concert venues in Williamsburg with Brooklyn band O'Death as the first of many bands to come grace its stage. Bowling and concerts...
Posted on July 13, 2009 4:10 PM
2009 Siren Fest set times ++ cops messed w/ people @ Thee Oh Sees Glasslands show ++ Mercury tickets on sale
Thee Oh Sees @ 979 Broadway Backyard (more by Tim Griffin) San Francisco pals Thee Oh Sees and The Fresh & Onlys, who both made an appearance at the Woodsist/CT Fest on July 4th, are touring this fall. Their tour...
Posted on July 8, 2009 5:29 PM
Woodsist/CT Fest Day Two in pics & video (Thee Oh Sees, Real Estate, Ganglians, Fresh & Onlys, Woods & more)
photos by Tim Griffin, words by Andrew Frisicano The Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival's Day One (7/3) was moved inside the Market Hotel. Thankfully, the weather held out for its second, 4th of July lineup, which went off as planned in the...
Posted on July 7, 2009 6:23 PM
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...
Posted on July 2, 2009 3:49 PM
JellyNYC announces Pool Parties @ Williamsburg Waterfront!
"The emails have been piling up and everyone's asking, "dude, what's up with the Pool Parties?" Well DUDE, so sorry to keep you waiting, but here at JELLY we've been working our asses off to bring you one of the...
Posted on July 2, 2009 10:31 AM
Jay Mundy returns with another Williamsburg rant (listen)
"In this monologue, conservative talk show host Jay Mundy lambastes New York City yuppies and hipsters, individuals that he assesses as self-loathing and who have been so psychologically disturbed by their earlier life experiences that they seek to become outcasts...
Posted on June 28, 2009 2:01 AM
And Everyone Laughed (Trus'me) @ S.L.A.M. in NYC - pics
words by Showtrotta, photos by Ryan Muir "S.L.A.M. is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is the home of STREB activities. Open rehearsals, performances, STREB classes, and other explorations of action mechanics happen here daily. SLAM is open to the public...
Posted on June 19, 2009 4:06 PM
Jay Mundy calls Williamsburg, Brooklyn the "sick, deranged mecca of far-left hipsters" on the radio (listen)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (not Jay Mundy) on Sunday (photo by Ryan Muir) "I've never seen so many sick weirdos gathered in one place. They're all doing drugs all day. They have their hair dyed and tattoos so they can't have a...
Posted on June 18, 2009 2:32 AM
Black Betty, RIP
"When I stopped into Black Betty last night [June 15th] around 8:30pm, there was an eerie sense of calm and night-like-every-other-nightliness in the air. The kitchen was smoky, the waitresses conferring about honoring reservations, and the tables populated, but not...
Posted on June 16, 2009 6:30 PM
Sound Fix Records is moving to Berry and N. 11th St
DOWNLOAD: Sound Fix Podcast #1 - April 10, 2009 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sound Fix Podcast #2 - May 13, 2009 (MP3) Five years ago, Sound Fix opened its doors with the aim of creating a new kind of record store, one...
Posted on June 15, 2009 2:15 PM
Shilpa Ray - street show pics & more upcoming shows (dates)
photos by Maryanne Ventrice You may have randomly come upon a band or two playing on the streets of Williambsburg this past long Northside Festival weekend. On Thursday, Pow Wow! was one of those bands. On Friday, many people on...
Posted on June 15, 2009 11:57 AM
Williamsburg bar/club Black Betty closes tonight (June 15th)
Tonight = Black Bety's last night (lachance) Bud Schmeling and Sandy Glover, owners of Black Betty, announce the long-time Williamsburg boite and eatery will close its doors, effectively Monday, June 15th 2009, with Rev. Vince Anderson and his Live Choir...
Posted on June 15, 2009 1:29 AM
Williamsburg trust-funders affected by recession! (NY Times)
Williamsburg Walks - Bedford Ave, June 6, 2009 (aloha orangeneko) "Famed for its concentration of heavily subsidized 20-something residents -- also nicknamed trust-funders or trustafarians -- Williamsburg is showing signs of trouble. Parents whose money helped fuel one of the...
Posted on June 8, 2009 11:35 AM
Bedford will be closed to cars on Saturdays (including during Northside) ++ other NYC pedestrian walkway news
Car Free Times Square (BF 09) In addition to the car free Times Square, which started Memorial Day weekend and will run at least till the end of the year (see article below), New Yorkers and tourists will get more...
Posted on June 2, 2009 1:31 PM
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