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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On October 12 Brooklyn’s interstate sensation Sufjan Stevens will release The Age of Adz, the highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed Illinois, after nearly six years in the making. It’s an ambitious record — dense, cryptic, beautifully melodic and at times a terrifying headphone listen from the online stream alone. News hit last week that Sufjan would ask fans to purchase the record from his Bandcamp site.
October 6, 2010 Audio, Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Shared Content
Sharon Van Etten has performed and collaborated with some of indie’s most celebrated names, now she emerges from the basement with the release of Epic on Ba Da Bing! on October 5. Catch her live local performances shortly after that.
September 21, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
Twin brothers Benjamin and Stefan Ramírez Pérez, an animation team based in Cologne, Germany, make sense of the latest release from Clogs with a delicately animated video for “Last Song.”
August 13, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Video
Family Band continues its steady rise by popping at just the right time. Catch them at Union Pool this Friday, August 13, 2010.
August 12, 2010 Classic, Music Profiles, Show of the Week
For local musicians to be prolific in this modern-day cash-is-king society – and specifically in the pricey bohemian mecca of New York City – one has to be realistic, and get one of those things regular people call a “day job” to pay the bills. Often when that 9 am to 5pm or 4pm to 1am shift is done, a double-life is born.
August 10, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Music Profiles
Queerespondence recently interrogated Mississippian gent Seth Garrison, 27, of the danceable and dreamy, chamber music-infused, The Fancy. We didn’t tie him up, but we came close.
August 3, 2010 Classic, Music Profiles, Queer Life, Queerespondence, Video
Seattle native Mike Hadreas brings Perfume Genius to Glasslands July 23 for the second of two New York shows. His debut LP Learning is out now on Matador.
July 23, 2010 Classic, Music Profiles
Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck had his van and $40,000 worth of gear and merchandise stolen. Two days of panic and an outpouring of support came full circle from years spent on the road.
July 15, 2010 Classic, Music Profiles
Performance artist, producer and director Sini Anderson appeared last month at the Franklin Park Reading Series and recently announced she is directing a documentary about her long time friend Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre fame.
July 9, 2010 Classic, Music Profiles
Brooklyn fixture Frankie Rose preps her debut LP for Slumberland under Frankie Rose & the Outs after having a hand in Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts and Dum Dum Girls.
July 7, 2010 Classic, Music Profiles
When the sun fell, the Northside Festival began to feel like another average night on the Bedford strip, the usual carnivalesque vibe, chic-ified with the stereotype of Williamsburg; either frilly messes straight out of costume shops or ripped up, fuck-it attire.
June 29, 2010 Music Profiles
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