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.
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.
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.
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!
This Saturday Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (backed by the Bushwick Philharmonic!) are bringing a full ‘Super Soul Revue’ to Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. Our resident photographer Jacob Blickenstaff shot some great backstage portraits of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings before they hit the stage at their last New York show at the Apollo Theater back in May.
On July 31, the Ponderosa Stomp will feature sixties garage icons Mitch Ryder and ? and the Mysterians, iconoclastic rockers The Gories and Death, nomadic bluesman Eddie Kirkland, stirring soul singers Melvin Davis and Spyder Turner, Motown hitmakers The Velvelettes and Dennis Coffey and R&B all stars The Party Stompers. Photographer Jacob Blickenstaff shares portraits and images from Detroit.
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.
