Thanks to all the French intellectuals roaming around Brooklyn these days, the Walls & Bridges series delivered to our door many talented young francophones including the cast of the musical Please Kill Me, based on the popular book, an oral history of punk. Read our review and watch video of this one time exclusive performance.
October 26, 2011 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Theater, Video
I’m sitting in Molly Neuman’s kitchen, where the punk rocker, newly incarnated as a chef and proprietor of Simple Social Kitchen, is making a tortilla de patata. She’s hardly the first musician to create a new career in food, but although it’s not quite a movement, there is something superficially similar about the two careers. “For me the connection is creativity, being able to make something from an idea,” she says, when I ask her what the similarities are between cooking and music. Of course, there’s much more to it than that.
October 5, 2010 Classic, Food, Multi/Media, PhotoOver the weekend, All Leather, a new, loud formation fronted by Locust singer Justin Pearson, played two shows in New York. First, at Webster Hall’s basement Studio who, by selling $3 Pabst cans, nearly missed having the hipster cache of the following night’s show at Death By Audio on South 2nd Street in Williamsburg. Brooklyn The Borough caught a sexy video at the first show, of Pearson’s little dance in this two minute long dance punk metal mash up that is their sound.
August 15, 2009 Brooklyn Beats, Music ProfilesIf the young hedonists of Brooklyn could have a cheerleader – one that works his mysticism in the form of a Marty Markowitz – it’s Mike Edison.
May 28, 2009 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Music ProfilesA few weeks ago a friend took me to see Blake Schwarzenbach play a few songs at Matchless Bar in Greenpoint, and now a live show of his new band, Thorns of Life, playing at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California, has made its way onto the internet
February 12, 2009 Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles
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