This Memorial Day weekend, specifically 8pm on May 25, at Bushwick’s own Acheron – the home of the second coming of CBGB’s according to them – we’ll be hosting some of Brooklyn’s talented emerging women in rock n’ roll at our showcase: The Grrrlie Show.
May 13, 2013 Audio, Classic, Music Profiles, Shows
Kim and Thurston were role models for working in a creative partnership. We thought we could trust these over-30s to model a lifestyle we could get into, one that would veer away from such clichés as the midlife crisis affair. So, what now?
May 9, 2013 Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
Liz Godoy’s latest musical endeavor is a new LP under the guise of The Tablets, songs written by her, and co-produced with partner and collaborator the musician and producer Brenden Beu (Male Bonding, Pissed Jeans, o’death). This mélange of 60s garage infused new wave noise shoe-gaze sounds like a lot of things you want to hear, all at once.
May 3, 2013 Audio, Classic, Music Profiles, Shows
The SXSW film premiere of The Punk Singer, a documentary on the life of Kathleen Hanna, happened in Austin, Texas last week. The documentary on the Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin singer and longtime activist, artist and de facto leader of the 90s feminist movement riot grrrl, Kathleen, along with producer Tamra Davis and director Sini Anderson answered questions in a DIY media blitz down south. Special guest appearance by Amanda Palmer.
March 19, 2013 Boroughing, Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Photo, Video
I arrived at ABC No Rio on a recent Saturday, sixteen years after my first matinee for a record release party celebrating the local lady band Claire’s Diary. It was the first time it really sunk in how far things had come.
February 26, 2013 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Music Reviews, Shows, Video
Dominique Miniaci along with her partner and East Village Radio host, Mike Newman run Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records, an offshoot of Newman’s four-year-old EVR show by the same name.
December 17, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, New
You. Must. Write. About. This. Band. Was the message I got from Sharon Van Etten recently, and I obliged, and here we are. They’re playing this Saturday at Glasslands with Speck Mountain and a special guest – wonder who that could be!
December 12, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, New
Take the L train to Dekalb Avenue in Bushwick where Brooklyn The Borough is media sponsoring a new ongoing event series by our good friends Partners In Crime at The Lab.
December 10, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, New, Shows
Dare you to watch this video and not click away. Let’s play a game and see how long you can keep your high speed internet brain focused on the content.
May 10, 2012 Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Shows, Video
The buzziest Brooklyn band of the year so far has to be Bushwick’s FRIENDS, whose debut record MANIFEST is out soon.
May 10, 2012 Music Profiles, Shows
The music video for Shadow is a trip back to 1979 through the eyes of an introverted photo assistant who’s becomes far from camera shy when a nude model arrives on set. It’s written and directed by Ryan O’Hara Theisen who is a filmmaker based out of Brooklyn, he sent over his thoughts on it.
May 10, 2012 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
MOVEMENT is a brand new monthly party at Loreley in Williamsburg. Veteran DJs Ayesha Adamo and Cecil Grey are on the decks all night on third Wednesdays. Here’s a soundcloud of his inaugural set.
May 9, 2012 Audio, Bars, Boroughing, Classic, Music Reviews, Night/Life
The business savvy songstress, returned to her fans after four years of silence, came at her audience with a powerful message and they were ready to listen. On the eve of May Day, also the release of her second album Master of My Make-Believe (Downtown/Atlantic), her songs ring true as dark pop with a worldly punk twist, burrowing deep into our souls and forcing modicums of truth into the ether that sorely need recognition.
May 5, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Reviews, Photo
Big news arrived in my inbox today from Doug DeFalco, resident promoter and booker for Park Slope venue Southpaw. He writes: It is with an extremely weighted heart that I inform you that, after ten years, Southpaw will be closing its doors in late February. It seems like yesterday we …
January 26, 2012 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
The New York based singer-songwriter and accompanist is ironically the least recognizable name in a cadre of New York musicians slowly approaching marquee status and it was great to finally catch his solo act. With so many opportunities Bartlett is able to do what he wants with little regret or anything that resembles a shell. Here’s how he keeps busy.
April 7, 2011 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles
Brooklyn’s O’Death release their third LP Outside on Ernest Jenning Record Company after a tumultuous year-long hiatus and a clean bill of health.
March 31, 2011 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles
At an official ceremony featuring Marty Markowitz at Brooklyn Borough Hall recently, the folks behind Williamsburg’s annual Northside Festival announced bohemian favorite Beirut will headline the June festival. A week prior saw Brooklyn’s Panache Booking Agency organizing an early Spring Break with the first annual hipster Bruise Cruise to the Bahamas. Consider this the nation’s annual hang over recovery week as folks try to determine just exactly what they saw (and actually remember) at Austin’s South by Southwest Music showcase last week. Need more options?
March 23, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Music Profiles
And now, a follow up. BrooklynTheBorough.com noted a Lou and Laurie sighting in December when local duo Buke & Gass played a homecoming show at Mercury Lounge. We had no idea the evening would end with the couple asking the band out for slices of pizza – or a full blown collaboration.
February 3, 2011 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Video
From pie weights to Pyrex, each of us considers a different set of elements to be crucial to our cooking, and we often have strong opinions as to why. In this column, I will ask chefs, foodies, and restaurateurs from across the borough for the top ten necessities—both edible and utensil—that they keep stocked in their home kitchens. In this installment, Working Class Foodies producer Rebecca Lando gives us her top ten must-haves.
February 1, 2011 Beats Playlist, Boroughing, Classic, Culture, Food, Multi/Media, Video
The Buke & Gass duo, featuring Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez, highlights precisely what’s frustrating about small scene independent sound these days from New York to Portland – they always leave us wanting more.
December 22, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles, Music Reviews
The past decade for New York-based independent labels has either been rough going or a coming out party that no one saw coming. It is not easy to trace how every tiny label arrived at this point, right down to the micro-trends littering Brooklyn’s past decade in music, but there are two labels in particular that might offer the perfect snapshot of Brooklyn 2001 and Brooklyn 2010.
December 13, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic
In the spirit of holiday giving, we bring you LIVE LEAK, our new video series featuring live acts from Southpaw and around the borough. We begin with leaks from our most recent event on November 11 at Southpaw featuring performances by Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye, Outernational, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers and singer Tamar Korn. Our first Live Leak feature is an acoustic performance of She Craves Spring by Outernational.
December 9, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Shows, Video
Musician Kevin Johnston has to be just about our favorite regular hanging around Brooklyn these days, and now the time has come to put his life’s endeavor on the horizon and strive for it. Like many folks around the borough this time of year, Kevin is raising money for a creative project – in his case, to record an independent record of his own creation. Read more about this project and watch Kevin’s video about what, exactly, he’s planning to create.
December 8, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
Tamar Korn has performed professionally for Cangelosi Cards for many years, paying melodic homage to jazz and country tunes from the ’20s and ’30s.
November 10, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Fortnight Journal, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
Guitarist Lenny Kaye talks about ‘the old internet’ and why he’s not on Facebook at the launch party for FortnightJournal.com plus the rocker’s extra special millennial-era rendition of Gloria, the so-called National Anthem of Rock n’ Roll.
November 8, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Fortnight Journal, Multi/Media, Video
We caught up with local rockers Outernational a few times this year, most notably for a recent acoustic performance at Bar 4. That acoustic performance and our interview with singer Miles Solay turned into the premiere episode of our new video series profiling local musicians (click to watch). What we did not know at the time was that the guys would be previewing their acoustic set before heading to nearby Southpaw to share a stage with Shilpa Ray and Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye on November 11 for our evening to benefit FortnightJournal.com.
November 3, 2010 Boroughing, Fortnight Journal, Music Profiles, Video
Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers ended a late afternoon set at Knitting Factory during CMJ with Shilpa Ray stepping away from her harmonium and pogoing wildly, stabbing the air like a child throwing a tantrum. The whole orchestral molotov should fit perfectly at Southpaw on November 11 when the band shares a bill with locals Outernational and Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye at a benefit show for FortnightJournal.com, sponsored by BrooklyntheBorough.com.
November 2, 2010 Boroughing, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Fortnight Journal, Music Profiles
Gloves are off starting tomorrow as Pitchfork hosts its inaugural #Offline Festival 2010 at the Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg through Saturday. The online publication is no stranger to carefully curated festivals, throwing one of the year’s best in Chicago each July. However, this will mark the first time the indie taste-maker will go up against New York’s long running CMJ Music Marathon in their own back yard.
October 21, 2010 Brooklyn Beats
Brooklyn locals Atomic Tom released the homemade video for their latest single on October 14 and nearly two million YouTube hits later found themselves charting below Lady Gaga in iTunes sales for the week — all without touching an instrument that does not require charging. The viral video features the band playing “Take Me Out” using their iPhone instrument apps to a sparse crowd on the B train as it crosses the Manhattan Bridge.
October 21, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
BrooklynTheBorough.com and FortnightJournal.com are excited to announce performances by Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers and Outernational plus special guests Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at Brooklyn’s hometown rock venue Southpaw on Thursday, November 11, 2010. Tickets are on sale now!
October 18, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Fortnight Journal, Shared Content, Show of the Week, Shows
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