For Luis Martin, the curator of a small gallery project inside East Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brush Studios called Paranthesis Art Space, this last weekend was the culmination…
Variance Joining the Bushwick Festival Fray this Summer
What’s being billed as a “16 hour fully immersive, internationally inspired” music and visual art event is coming to a yet-to-be disclosed location near the Jefferson…
Dirt-y Dancing Is Back! Nowadays Reopens Today
Okay, our post-winter PTSD is finally starting to wear off, thanks to all the booze boats, street fairs, and beach haps. As of 4 p.m. today, Nowadays, the…
Rockaway Brewing Co. Brings a Beach to Bushwick and More Beer to the Beach
For several summers now, Rockaway Brewing Co. has been a fixture at the beach. Now the budding brewery is fixing to build a beach of its own, with…
Four Sick Shows: No Wave Now and ‘Quickly Graying’ Noise Rock
Arto Lindsay Noise Quartet, Celestial Shore, Zula Tuesday February 16, 8 pm at Trans-Pecos: $10 Arto Lindsay, the tireless no-wave guitar legend who’s been called…
Bonus Room is ‘Dad’s Basement Bar’ Where Tampons Are As Good As Cash
We like the way bars are going these days– which is to say backwards. In the past year we’ve been given a slew of cheeky…
Week in Shows: Throbbing Gristle Revival and a Dance Party Most Dark
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…
Week in Shows: Best Live Acts This Side of the Hudson and the Borough’s Bleakest Show
T-Rextasy, Band Practice, Doubles Friday January 8, 8 pm at Aviv: $7 Picture a femme Parquet Courts fronted by Ellen Page all hopped up on…
Week in Shows: a No Wave Takeover at Trans-Pecos, Plus a Night of Brutal Industrial Noise to Test Your Limits
Other People Residency Tuesday Dec. 8th through Friday Dec. 11th at Trans-Pecos Our favorite no wave loudmouth Lydia Lunch will play at Trans-Pecos on Friday…
In Ridgewood-Bushwick, the Last of the Rooftop Pigeon Whisperers
To get to his rooftop, Paul Wohlfarth passes by a gigantic stag’s head hanging in the hallway, climbs a wobbly ladder and slips through a narrow…