Four Epic Music Gigs to Hit on the Horizon

February 24, 2016 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via the Acheron)

Uniform, Shredded Nerve, Super Secret Special Guests
Thursday March 3, 8 pm at The Acheron: $10 – $12

Next week Uniform returns to the stage following a show with the Soft Moon earlier this month at Market Hotel. This time, they’ll take their rip-roaring noise punk act to the Acheron where the band will be joined by some super mysterious, ultra top-secret special guests plus one ear-splitting noise set by an act most beloved. Expect speedy, metallic guitar monologues, speaker-quashing feedback, and vocal chord shredding screams.

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Tags: Art + Culture, bueno, Bushwick, Davey Crockett, drama, east williamsburg, Egg Cream, live music, Macula Dog, Museum of Recycling, music, Operator, palisades, shea stadium, shows, Shredded Nerve, Sodium Beast, the acheron, Thick, Uniform, Wume

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Inside Sunnyvale, the East Williamsburg Venue Where DIY’s Gone Legit

February 22, 2016 By Nicole Disser

A sprawling new bar and venue in East Williamsburg (Photo: Nicole Disser)

It was bitterly cold last Thursday night, but a sandwich board outside of Sunnyvale promised: “Free shot if you prove you went to Pumps!” Aside from the strip club, some lonely looking art studios, and hot corn smells emitting from the tortilla factory, there’s not much nightlife at this industrial edge of East Williamsburg. But walking inside the multi-purpose venue that opened its doors earlier this month, I didn’t find a throng of strip club patrons clutching lap dance receipts (which they probably thought were only good for “business lunch” write-offs until now) and clamoring for oversized pours of Jose Cuervo. Thankfully.

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Tags: Art + Culture, bars, Bars + Restaurants, diy, east williamsburg, live music, music, Sunnyvale, venues

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Pass a Tortilla Factory and Enter a Phantasmagoria of Art

January 26, 2016 By Cassidy Dawn Graves

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, “Breathless” (image courtesy of IDIO Gallery)

Rice paper aerobics exercises, blotchy watercolor eeriness, and vast colorful landscapes all intermingle in a dance of shapes and shades in Phantasmagoria, an exhibit of works on paper that opened this past Friday at Bushwick’s IDIO Gallery, curated by Gillian Zinser and IDIO’s director Montana Simone.

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Tags: a women's thing, Beth Hoeckel, Caroline Echols, dale appleman, east williamsburg, gallery openings, gillian zinser, hannah rose dumes, Idio Gallery, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Lola Rose Thompson, Mattea Perrotta, montana simone, nana ghana

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Alt Space is Moving to Bushwick, Rolling in an Ambitious New Project

January 22, 2016 By Nicole Disser

(Photo: Nicole Disser)

The past half-year has been a busy one at Alt Space, the gallery/boutique presence of Alt Citizen, the online/print culture mag devoted especially to music. They’ve hosted all kind of exhibitions, from sassy net-art shows to pop-up shops featuring their own lineup of hip, small-run clothing and goods curated specially by artists like photographer Anna Bloda (whose work is starting to look like it was shot by a Millennial Richard Kern). From this angle, Alt Space always looked packed with fresh, accessible art and covetable wares (they even went live with the stuff), but turns out their current space at 41 Montrose Avenue is no longer ideal.

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Tags: Alt Space, Alt-Citizen, Art + Culture, Bushwick, east williamsburg, Fashion + Shopping, Williamsburg

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Week in Shows: Throbbing Gristle Revival and a Dance Party Most Dark

January 11, 2016 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via Citizen Blast Kane / Facebook)

Yin Yangs, Sexy Neighbors, Citizen Blast Kane, World’s Greatest
Friday, Jan. 15, 8 pm at Shea Stadium: $10
The Yin Yangs were busy bees in 2015– what with dropping their new album (they premiered the track “21st century” on B+B over the summer), playing loads and loads of shows, and lending some of their members to the indie film They Read By Night (a veritable who’s-who of one particular sect of the Bushwick DIY scene). So if you haven’t had a chance to see their bass-driven guttural noise punk in person, here’s a wonderful opportunity.

To sweeten the deal, Shea also locked down the likes of Sexy Neighbors, who bear a remarkable resemblance to Television (which I already told y’all about back when they played Trans-Pecos).

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Tags: alphaville, Bushwick, Citizen Blast Kane, east williamsburg, psychic tv, ridgewood, Sexy Neighbors, shea stadium, trans-pecos, World's Greatest, yin yangs

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Shows: Your Cyberpunk Future and Women of the Katy Perry Research Institute

November 25, 2015 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via The Acheron/ Facebook)

Negative Approach, Night Birds, Child Bite, Outskirts
Sunday, Nov. 29th, 8 pm at The Acheron: $15
Years back, I was day drinking at an unassuming deep-fryer dive in Detroit. A surly looking guy with a grease-stained apron and hangover slouch from hell emerged out of a kitchen. My friend seated at the bar next to me guffawed and nudged me discreetly. “Look, it’s John Brannon.” And so it was. The hardcore legend could have been beer-sweating over my tater tots for all I know– and deep down, I sort of hope that was the case.

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Tags: Ashcan Orchestra, Ayumi, bed stuy, Bushwick, Child Bite, CP Unit, Cyberpunk, east williamsburg, electronic music, Fielded, Food Stamps, John Brannon, Love Spread, Negative Approach, Night Birds, Outskirts, palisades, Patrick Higgings, Phantasy Wars, Reighnbeau, silent barn, the acheron, The Gateway, Yohuna, ziemba

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Wanna See David Bowie’s Sold-Out Musical, Lazarus? Don’t Buy That $1,000 Ticket

November 17, 2015 By Daniel Maurer

(Photos: Other Music’s Facebook)

If you want to see the short film accompanying David Bowie’s new song, “★,” when it premieres at Nitehawk on Thursday, there’s still one time slot that isn’t sold out. But if you want to see the new play, Lazarus, co-written by Bowie and featuring original songs, it won’t be so easy. The last batch of tickets sold out soon after we gave you the heads up about them (after all, the New York Theatre Workshop has a capacity of around 200), and there are just four tickets on StubHub: two for $600 each, and two for $1,000 each.

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Tags: backstar, david bowie, East Village, east williamsburg, lazarus, new york theatre workshop, nitehawk cinema

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Week in Shows: DIY Venue Loses the Diapers and Ohio Punks ‘Pissed Off For a Reason’

November 16, 2015 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via Aviv/ Facebook)

Wow guys, big week for the DIY scene: Aviv turns a whole one year old. And actually, that’s kinda getting up there in DIY years. Though, of course, we wish them many more. The Greenpoint venue has wasted no time in becoming pretty much the (true) DIY spot in North Brooklyn. To celebrate, Aviv is hosting a b-day party on Saturday featuring Bambara, Parlor Walls, and word on the street (er, on Facebook) is that an appearance is inevitable by one Ronnie Stone— quite possibly Brooklyn’s only leather-licking, “Moldovan” ’80s-fetish band fronted by a keytar-wielding, struttin’ mustache. Definitely don’t miss this banger. Details on that show and more to preoccupy you in all that might-as-well-be-dead time from now till then.

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Tags: Alyse Lamb, Art + Culture, Aviv, BAMBARA, Bushwick, Creepoid, diy, east williamsburg, Gingerlys, Greenpoint, Holy Tunics, live music, Longings, Melt, music, No Ice, Oneohtrix Point Never, palisades, Parlor Walls, Puberty Wounds, Ronnie Stone, shows, slav, Slur, the acheron, The Tinnitus Music Series, Tinnitus, Total Slacker, villain, Williamsburg

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Week in Shows: Lady Vets of Avant-Garde Noise and Guilt Free Disco for Weirdos

November 9, 2015 By Nicole Disser

(Via Escape-Ism / Bandcamp)

This week, as I’m sure you’ll be surprised to hear, there are plenty of shows worth blowing your ears out for. Our picks include a brand new project from a longtime blues punk devotee, The Dark Prince of Garage, and sugar-sweet disco that’s not afraid to hit sour notes. All that and more below this here line.

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Tags: AdHoc, Alyse Lamb, bowery ballroom, Bushwick, Chain and the Gang, Dead Waves, Dull Tools, east williamsburg, Escape-Ism, EULA, Famous Swords, Future Punx, Fuzz, Heavy Birds, ian svenonius, Lower East Side, MV Carbon, Ora Iso, Parlor Walls, Pod Blotz, Rebel Kind, record release, shea stadium, silent barn, the men, Ty Segall, US Girls, Walter, Wetware, Williamsburg

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Toast Diamond Dave at Rothtoberfest, Attend a Felabration For Fela Kuti

October 8, 2015 By Daniel Maurer

Screen-Shot-2015-10-02-at-9.35.49-AM For he’s a jolly good Fela, and so is David Lee Roth. This Saturday, celebrate the legendary frontmen and bon vivants at these two fests.

Rothtoberfest
Saturday, Oct. 17, 4pm at The Diamond, 43 Franklin St., Greenpoint; free.
Might as well jump. The Diamond’s annual birthday celebration of its namesake will have you doing air kicks like “Diamond” Dave himself. The soup savants at Good Stock will be serving up Brat.s for Teacher and Runnin’ with the Deviled Eggs, to go along with that Roggen with the Devil beer from Greenpoint Brewing Co. (Hopefully there won’t be an “eruption” in your stomach, har har.) And rest assured you’ll be able to dance the night away: DJs Easetheseatback and Frau Mary will be spinning Van Halen tunes along with German metal and (sorry, no way around this) Oktoberfest tunes. But please, respect The Diamond’s neighbors. No dancing in the street.

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Tags: Bushwick, david lee roth, east williamsburg, Fela Kuti, felabration, Greenpoint