This Here Sonic Crystal Ball Reveals Five Killer Shows in Your Future

April 26, 2016 By Nicole Disser

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SUUNS, Eaters, John Congolton and the Nighty Nite
Thursday April 28, 7 pm at the Marlin Room at Webster Hall: $15
The Marlin Room inspires a sense of foreboding in me: visions of an antechamber filled with clamoring sea beasts who’d like nothing more than to pierce my and your flesh with their Samurai snouts, then placidly inspect our writhing, tortured remains with their lifeless, black membranes-for-eyes. But I’m sure that people have made it in and out of shows at this Marlin Room before. Right? Could be a trap, or it could be worth it. If you can get past all this, then by all means go see Suuns and friends.

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Tags: alphaville, B Boys, Bushwick, Cinefuegos, Container, Creepers, Cruel Angels, East Village, Eaters, Greenpoint, Kaleidoscope, live music, Market Hotel, music, No Joy, Pharmakon, Rips, saint vitus, shows, Suuns, The Marlin Room, union pool, Wall, webster hall, Williamsburg

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Get Ready for These Four Sick Shows Appearing in Your Nearest of Futures

April 15, 2016 By Nicole Disser

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James Chance and the Contortions, Gary Wilson with Tredici Bacci, Horse Lords, Eartheater
Friday, April 29, 8 pm at Market Hotel: $13
Excuse me while I have a fangirl moment here, but when I found out that James Chance and the Contortions were playing Market Hotel I just about had an aneurysm. One of the weirder musicians out of the New York City no wave scene, James Chance, of course, fronted the outfit with his freakaleak saxophone skills, super-hyper screetching, and bleeding-throat acrobatics– a spirit reminiscent of James Brown. Chance’s devotion to jazz seeps through his music, and for that reason his live tracks, as documents of funky improvisational exercises, noisy meltdowns, and legitimate, Dr. Jekyll-worthy freakouts, are a new listener’s best bet.

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Tags: 13th Chime, alphaville, Anasazi, Art + Culture, Bushwick, Dame, Eartheater, Events, Gary Wilson, Greenpoint, Heavy Birds, Horse Lords, James Chance, James Chance and the Contortions, live music, Market Hotel, music, saint vitus, shows, Ttotals

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Four Sick Shows: No Wave Now and ‘Quickly Graying’ Noise Rock

February 15, 2016 By Nicole Disser

(Image via Trans-Pecos/ Arto Lindsay)

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 “the perfect New Yorker” (by the New Yorker, no less), is well on his way into his 60s. And it’s true that DNA spent only a brief time on this earth, shredding weirdness at Max’s Kansas City and closing out the B side of Brian Eno’s nothing less than perfect glimpse of that particular scene, No New York (1978). But the dude is still doing all sorts of wonderful and new things in the New York music scene that keep him relevant and has been, pretty much without stopping, since the ’70s. Last fall, Lindsay showed the kids what was up when he played with seminal Brooklyn weirdos PC Worship, and in 2014 he dropped a compilation spanning his career (Encyclopedia of Arto) which, by many accounts, was all too modest and left us drooling for more.

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Tags: alphaville, arto lindsay, Arto Lindsay Noise Quartet, Baked, bed stuy, Bushwick, C'mon Everybody, Celestial Shore, Cheena, Cold Sweat, Field Guides, Ghastly City Sleep, Giant Peach, Kyle Keays, Ora Iso, ridgewood, the men, trans-pecos, Zula

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Week in Shows: Mystery Ear Juice and a Dolled-Up Punk Band Gets Its Wings

January 25, 2016 By Nicole Disser

B Boys and who? (Photo via Baby’s All Right/ Photoshop trix by Nicole Disser)

Secret Show
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 10 pm at Baby’s All Right: $15 at the door

We’re not really all that into surprises. The chances of looking your birthday best after busting open your apartment door to find a surprise party are pretty low, especially considering it’s the one day each year that you leave your pants unbuttoned all the way from the dollar slice place back home. And let’s be real, those grab-bag things are usually filled with plastic dinosaurs, expired condoms, and airplane bottles, anyway– things only a child could love. But when Baby’s All Right threw another one of these secret shows back in December, they gifted us Blood Orange. And even though it would be kind of a not-surprise surprise, we’d be totally cool with another Blood Orange show.

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Tags: alphaville, B Boys, baby's all right, Baked, bueno, Bushwick, Haram, JJ Doll, music, palisades, Rathaus, Richard Papiercuts, Rodenticide, Secret Show, shows, the silent barn, Williamsburg

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Week in Shows: a Set So Harsh It’s Blister-Popping & a Cyber-Industrial Reawakening

January 18, 2016 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via Aviv/ Facebook)

Guido, Ritual Humor, Lover’s Touch, Rubber, Decorum
Monday January 18, 8 pm at Aviv: $8

Late notice, but we know you’re looking for something to do on what’s sure to be a cold-as-hell Monday night anyway. We’re talking something that doesn’t involve drinking a bottle of wine to the face in front of How to Make a Murderer and passing out, mid-text message while you’re attempting to convince your friend that Steven Avery did do it. Rest assured this one’s not going to be outside, but last we checked it’s a good idea to wear a lil cardi and a beanie to Aviv– industrial spaces can be tres drafty, y’all. But even if you’ve got the chills, count on em being long banished by the time the second opener, Rubber, takes the stage.

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Tags: alphaville, Art + Culture, Aviv, Bushwick, diy, Events, Greenpoint, Jobs, live music, Lost Boy?, music, Needle Driver, palisades, Pop. 1280, Ritual Humor, Rubber, Sediment Club, shows, Stove, the silent barn, Unnatural Ways, Washer

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

January 11, 2016 By Nicole Disser

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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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Week in Shows: Best Live Acts This Side of the Hudson and the Borough’s Bleakest Show

January 5, 2016 By Nicole Disser

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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 candy and you’re sort of getting at what T-Rextasy are all about. Their sound defies what might first be taken for twee, instead invoking an array of complexity of sweet, sassy, sour, sad, and snappy feelings delivered in a way that’s interchangeably manic, then replete with earnest babbling from the front, supported by plucky punk guitars and primitive, clap-clap drums from the rear.

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Tags: alphaville, Aviv, baby's all right, Band Practice, Blackie, Bushwick, Dalek, Deli Girls, Doubles, Dreamcrusher, Future Punx, Gingerlys, Greenpoint, Machine Girl, Mommy, music, Nandas, Pill, ridgewood, shows, T-Rextasy, trans-pecos, Vomitface, Williamsburg, Worse

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Week in Shows: ‘Creepy Crawlycore’ and M Lamar’s Radical, Black Metal Opera

November 30, 2015 By Nicole Disser

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PC Worship‘s EP release show is coming up this week at Palisades, as we trust you know from last week’s interview with Justin Frye. But there’s plenty else to get your hips poppin’ till then. Scroll your roll and see what’s in store.

An Evening with M Lamar
Monday, Nov. 30, 7 pm at Cooper Union: FREE
M Lamar is the “negro gothic devil-worshipping free black man in the blues tradition” you’ve undoubtedly been dying to see perform since we wrote about him back in September. The multi-talented, epically outspoken musician, composer, opera singer, and visual artist’s shows are enthralling not simply because M Lamar is a magnetic force all his own (just try being in a room alone with him, you’ve never feel so gazed-at in all your life, I promise), but because his operatic compositions wrestle with the deeply troubling history and harsh, continuing reality of racial injustice in this country. Lamar’s central aims are agitation and awakening, so prepare to be moved.

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Tags: alphaville, Art + Culture, Barbed Wire, Best Available Technology, Bushwick, Gag, JJ Doll, Kate Mohanty, live music, M. Lamar, Marital Dispute, music, Narcoleptics, Odd Rumblings, palisades, PC Worship, Pleasure Industry, ridgewood, shows, The Neue Avant-Garde Project, The Spookfish, trans-pecos, Via App, Victims

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Shows: Father/Daughter Prom Party and CMJ Without Agoraphobic Nosebleeds

October 13, 2015 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via Santos Party House)

CMJ is upon us, which translates to either the arrival of a complete shit show or (if you’re not really the observant type) venues suddenly appearing slightly more crowded with douchery than usual. Regardless of whether you’re in touch with the less-than-ideal reality for regular show-goers, or prefer to put on chakra glasses and render all those grayscale suits as rainbow zombies, you still gotta plan out this week just a little better than usual– having your friends drag you out of a cab, splash beer on your face, and carefully deposit your lifeless body at your favorite venue’s doorstep isn’t gonna fly. Instead, you’ll need PMA, advanced tickets, and whatever lies beyond this line.

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Tags: alphaville, cmj, CMJ 2015, Cult Ritual, Destruction Unit, Dilly Dally, Dirty Ghosts, Downtown Boys, Father/Daughter Records, Hiccup, Latishia's Skull Drawing, live music, Lower East Side, Michael Rault, Miscreant Records, music, Nicholas Nicholas, palisades, PAWNS, Perfect Pussy, Protomartyr, PWR BTTM, santos party house, shopping, shows

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Shows: EP Release from the Dukes of Fuzz and Last Beach Show of the Season

September 21, 2015 By amiltonnymag

We’re stuck between seasons here but in the best way possible, experiencing the best of fall and summer all between sun up and sun down. That’s why this week we’re bringing you everything from a sizzling time at the very last Riis Park Beach Bazaar show by the water to a dark rager deep inside the belly of our favorite metal bar. Jump for deets.
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Tags: 440ppm, Advaeta, alphaville, Bushwick, Dreamcrusher, Ghost Dads, Greenpoint, Guerilla Toss, Guerrilla Toss, lydia lunch, PAWNS, Pill, Psychic Blood, Riis Park Beach Bazaar, saint vitus, Shifted, Show Me The Body, Skarn, The Tinnitus Music Series