The toast of Brooklyn’s nightlife descended on the Poconos for BangOn!’s Elements Lakewood Festival, now in its second year. The best of our local DJs, performers, and party organizers united with an international roster including Claude VonStroke, REZZ, and Jamie Jones to create an extrasensory experience for the roughly 5,000 attendees, with music and more going well past dawn every day. More →
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Fall Into a ‘Chasm’ of Art, DJs, and Music at This East Williamsburg Festival
(image courtesy of Julia Sinelnikova)
Tonight, a chasm of art opens up in East Williamsburg. More specifically, tonight marks the beginning of CHASM, a four-day late-night multimedia/nightlife/performance/music event, showcasing some of the most groundbreaking artists working in the Brooklyn scene today. The experience is curated by Julia Sinelnikova, a multimedia artist who often creates under the name The Oracle and is drawn to the usage and interactions of light in her work, whether it be through curation or creation. More →
Get to Know ‘AfroHouse’ at Rhythm of Afrika, a Diaspora Dance Party Here to Stay
(Flyer via Rhythm of Afrika)
It’s rare when a music trend hits at all levels of the listener spectrum, but right now African music is resonating with everyone from pop junkies and passive, whatever’s-playing-at-the-club consumers to crate-diggers with eclectic collections and torrent combers with multiple hard drives devoted to the most obscure sounds they can find.
Variance Joining the Bushwick Festival Fray this Summer
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Tags: Art + Culture, bands, brooklyn, Bushwick, dance music, DJs, festivals, live music, music, North Brooklyn, ridgewood, shows, Variance
Berlin's 'Trash Drag' Scene Invades Brooklyn Tonight
From left, Taylor di Pasquale (aka Olympia kkakkkakis) and Derek Marshall (Photo by Nicole Disser)
Boulton & Watt Team Opens Drexler’s, Serving Booze in a Trophy Cup
(Photo courtesy of Drexler’s)
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Shows: Trip Metal Metastasizing and Sweaty Dance Party in a Bathtub
Here’s to hoping you took this past weekend to cram your butt, beach umbrellas, and coolers full of malt liquor onto the A train, also known as the Express Train to Beach Salvation. Lord knows nearly all of Brooklyn decided this was the way to go. I’ve got the bite marks to prove it. If you didn’t get your Rockaway kicks in along with the rest of us, chances are you’re gonna miss out big time on a weekend of epic gigs on the horizon. Trust us, this is the time to play hooky, because how else are you possibly going to realize your Best Summer Ever without skipping out on your earthly responsibilities? You’ve really dug yourself a hole, haven’t you? Here are the shows happening this week that’ll get you out of it.
Tags: Aspects of War, Aviv, bossa nova civic club, Bushwick, Couch Slut, Dawn of Humans, DJ Dog Dick, DJs, Dog Leather, East Village, hardcore, L.O.T.I.O.N., Mommy, Murderer, Publicist, punk, Sadist, Sewn Leather, Shredder, silent barn, Summer Thunder Series, trip metal, tropical goth, union pool, Williamsburg, Wolf Eyes
Here’s What Justin Strauss Dropped at Panther Room Last Night
Welcome to Last Night’s Playlist, in which our favorite DJs share the tunes they played last night.
Justin Strauss behind the decks at Panther Room. (photo: Bryan Mette)
For the very first instalment of Last Night’s Playlist, we’re pleased to feature a living nightlife legend, Justin Strauss. Strauss has been keeping folks dancing for decades – since well before the “death of New York nightlife” (i.e. Michael Alig’s incarceration). He’s played at infamous institutions like Area, Danceteria, Limelight and Tunnel. He’s remixed Tina Turner. He’s worked with Depeche Mode. And even after over three decades of spinning, remixing and producing, Strauss is still at the forefront of what’s fresh – under the moniker a/jus/ted – a collaborative project with Teddy Stuart – he’s remixed everyone from Holy Ghost! to Blood Orange.
Here are just a few tunes Strauss played yesterday evening at Output‘s Panther Room during his back to back set with Eric Duncan aka Dr Dunks. If you like what you hear, you can catch Strauss tomorrow night at the Bossa Nova Civic Club.
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