Brooklyn

Obama revelers party in Williamsburg, clash w/ police on Bedford (some pictures from last night in Brooklyn)

Ryan got off the Bedford L stop at North 7th St. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn last night around 1 AM. The sidewalks and streets were filled with people celebrating Obama’s win…

Brooklyn Round Robin vs Baltimore Round Robin (tix on sale)

Parts & Labor @ Siren Fest 2008 (more by Leia Jospe)Saturday August 30th @ HARKET MOTEL :: CLASSIC BKLYN BAND ROUNDROBIN :: a bill straight outta Tommy’s Tavern…

Wilco @ McCarren Pool, Brooklyn, NYC - pics & setlist

Was Jeff Tweedy on edge last night at McCarren Pool (August 13, 2008)? Did he not like the crowd? I ask because of a few jabs he took during their approximately 2…

Converse recording artist Santogold filming in Red Hook

Amy spotted the above sign in Red Hook today. You probably already heard that Converse is giving away a song written “as part of the brand’s Century celebration”…

Protesters outside the Kanye West show last night

the Brooklyn Museum, April 3, 2008 (The Brooklyn Paper / Adrian Kinloch)Outside the Eastern Parkway art institute, hundreds of protestors started gathering at around 6:30 pm to greet more than 1,000 Museum supporters as they entered for cocktails and hors-d’oeuvres of miso-marinated cod and spicy taro with caviar…

NY TIMES: 'Alt-Rock Thrives in Alt-Borough'

High Places @ Market Hotel, Brooklyn, NY (mercurialn)For rock bands this is a great time to be weird and independent in Brooklyn. After years in which the sound of New York was defined by various shades of retro monochrome — the new wave minimalism of the Strokes, the disco-punk of the Rapture and LCD Soundsystem, the moody Anglophilia of Interpol — a new generation is making music that is indefinably eclectic and complex, and finding acclaim around the world…

Park Slope more 'creative' than Williamsburg

somewhere in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (Incandenza)Park Slope ranks the No. 1 most creative neighborhood in the borough with 3,500 independently employed designers and independent artists in residence…

no more concerts on Red Hook barge

The barge’s historical mission and the popular “Circus Sundays” will continue, but the concerts, which have encompassed almost every form of music from a swing-era revival big band to a Southern solo blues guitarist, are now a thing of the past…

Emo Bitches vs. Williamsburg

I present to you two lame videos by confused “artists” – both using lame stereotypes. The first song is supposed to be about “emo bitches”, and the second one was…

Sufjan Stevens performed "BQE" @ BAM

What does a Hula Hoop have to do with a crowded urban expressway? Much like the automobile, the hoop relies on the basic laws of physics administrated by the simple machine of the wheel, the greatest of human inventions…
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