Bad Girlfriend is made up of singer/guitarist Christian Owens, bassist Savannah King, drummer/singer Lyla Vander, and singer/guitarist Brianna Lance. We spoke to Lance, who’s also head designer at local It Girl fashion favorite Reformation, ahead of tomorrow night’s show at Glasslands Gallery, where Bad Girlfriend will open for fellow North Brooklynite Luke Rathborne. Read the B+B Q+A — and listen to their eponymous EP and their new single, “Feelings” — below.
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Tonight: Bjorn Copeland of Black Dice’s Gallery Opening Should Be Worth the Trip
Here’s a last-minute addition to our end-all, be-all guide to September art: Bjorn Copeland, co-founder of psychedelic noise collective Black Dice and an inimitable mainstay in North Brooklyn’s music and art scenes, has a new exhibition opening tonight at the Lower East Side’s Jack Hanley Gallery.
As you can see from the video for “Pigs,” below, Black Dice’s brand of experimental electronic music is an exercise in sensory overload, and Copeland applies the same aesthetic to his visual art (not to mention the T-shirts he just designed for DFA). His third solo exhibition with the gallery features works of collage that are described in the press release as “psychotropic Pop assemblages” — the result of “combing the commercial landscape for product detritus and two-dimensional media.”
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Dark-Pop Duo Weeknight Will Take You into the Weekend
Since October of 2011, Andy Simmons and Holly MacGibbon have been making dark, beautiful pop rock together as Weeknight. After a busy summer of finishing up a forthcoming debut album and touring the U.S. with Montreal shoegaze-pop outfit Valleys, the burgeoning Bushwick duo spoke to us ahead of their show at 285 Kent tonight, where they’ll be sharing the bill with another Montreal-based act, Blue Hawaii.
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LODRO Brings ‘Neo-Noir Punk’ to SummerScreen Tonight
Tonight, SummerScreen takes over McCarren Park for an evening of free music and a screening of “Peewee’s Big Adventure.” Starting at 7pm, you’ll hear from power-pop dudes Oberhofer, saxo-pop outfit Bueno, and self-described neo-noir punk trio LODRO.
We thought this an opportune moment to chat with LODRO frontwoman Lesley Hann, formerly of the Fat Possum band Friends. Where Friends brought a funk-tinged take on the ‘60s girl-group pop sound with tracks like “Friend Crush,” Bushwick-based up-and-comers LODRO sound decidedly more Wednesday Addams-goes-to-Glasslands Gallery.
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The 20 Cutest, Coolest Things We Saw at Renegade Craft Fair

The Renegade Craft Fair set up camp in Williamsburg’s East River State Park this weekend, alongside regulars Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea. We withstood the sweltering heat to show you a few of our favorite things, amass a collection of business cards, and to indulge in some ice cream from the Coolhaus truck (which, unfortunately, could not withstand the heat). We may have even come away with a purchase or two – because, indeed, one can always use another bloody tote.
If you missed out on the fair, don’t worry: all of the vendors also sell their wares online, and many of them are based locally in Brooklyn. You’ll find links to their online shops with each image, and the full list of Renegade Craft vendors can be found here.
Artist-Musicians (and a Former Pro Runningback) Open AP Coffee
Yesterday, Wes Mapes and his business partners opened AP Coffee on a once desolate block that, until recently, had been known more for its murals. He thinks it was a good call. “This street is going to be the street off [the Jefferson] stop, for sure,” he told Bedford + Bowery. “It may even be the premiere street in all of Bushwick, even above a lot of places off the Morgan stop.” (He may be on to something: the sister bar of Welcome to the Johnsons is set to open just a block away.)
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