For your hungry ears and keen stomachs, head out for summer fun this Saturday with these two great picks for daytime fun.
August 19, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Food, In Brooklyn, MultiMedia, Show of the Week, 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, MultiMedia, 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 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, Music Profiles
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.
August 6, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, MultiMedia, Photo, Preview
Fresh off a tour with punk legends GBH, rock band Outernational is back in New York (their hometown!) and will be playing a special acoustic set this Saturday at Bar 4 in Park Slope.
August 2, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, MultiMedia, Show of the Week, Video
While traces of the dark, wandering weirdo vibe of Amen Dunes’ Murder Dull Mind remain intact, the blown-out “rock” moments of the former are largely absent, replaced by brooding, skeletal folk insinuations.
July 26, 2010 Music Reviews
Nowhere in Brooklyn is there a more foreign enclave than Brighton. Under the elevated tracks of the B and Q, caressed by sea breezes, the sidewalks of Brighton Beach Avenue vibrate with a cacophony of voices: the Russian of women hawking pastries, the English of sand-seeking day trippers, the hum of shoppers hailing from Omsk to Kiev.
Our weekly tip sheet on where to see what in the Brooklyn art world. This week’s featured listing is Smack Mellon’s: “A Canvas of Opportunities,” opening Friday, August 27, 6pm. Click through to read more.
You decide! Are these famous folks tragic or groundbreaking? It’s up to debate. Each note-worthy figure is paired with an …
Your weekly listing of readings and literary events around Brooklyn: a comic artist lands at Desert Island, a funny girl from the Bronx stops in DUMBO, and runner-extraordinaire Christopher McDougall shares advice at WORD.
