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4 Good Shows to See This Week

February 4, 2016 By Nicole Disser

(Flyer via Wolf Eyes)

Wolf Eyes: Trip Metal Residency
Thursday February 4 through Saturday February 6 at Union Pool: $12 – $14
Vape with the dirty dogs and witness half of Detroit’s noise music scene take over Brooklyn this weekend. The Poppa Bear old timers of Wolf Eyes will lead their little pack of trip metal prodigy puppies– all of whom you’re guaranteed only to have heard from if you lurk around shows in Detroit occasionally, or can claim at least a few drunken years of crashing/ trolling, pissing on pool tables at co-ed parties in Ann Arbor. Or maybe you just read the internet a lot. Who knows? Let’s go with internet underground music dweeb, that way everyone’s invited. More →

Tags: Art + Culture, B L A C K I E, Bushwick, detroit, Dumb Wolves, Holy Tunics, live music, Lower East Side, Market Hotel, music, Ohnomoon, pianos, Queen of Jeans, Show Me The Body, shows, Tarpit, Thanks USA, the silent barn, trip metal, union pool, Viki Viktoria, Williamsburg, Wolf Eyes

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CBGB? CMJ? OMG! Your Guide to The Acronym Invasion

October 6, 2014 By Nicole Disser

In the coming weeks a flurry of acronyms approacheth the city as CMJ and the CBGB music festival make landfall. Both apparently used to stand for something cool. It’s safe to open your ears now, because we promise our picks have developed a special antibody rendering them resistant to a case of the lames which develops in conjunction with Apple collaborations and/or the advanced stage of Music Industrial Complex infection.
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Tags: baby's all right, bars + nightlife, captured tracks, CBGB Music & Film Festival, Ceramics, cmj, CMJ Day Party at Baby's All Right, D'arkestra, Devo, Interarma, Kanine Records Day Party at Pianos, live music, miriam, pianos, shows, Talib Kweli, the acheron, The Wives, upset

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10 Days In, Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co. Is Off the Hook

August 8, 2014 By Kate Beaudoin

Adam Geringer-Dunn at the fish counter. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Even at 3 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co. is packed like a sardine can (the salmon spot was slammed mid-week, too). So it’s no surprise that fifth-generation fishmonger Vinny Milburn and former Pianos booker Adam Geringer-Dunn, co-owners of Greenpoint’s newest fish market and lobster joint, are starting to crack up. After the first ten days, when many restaurants are already floundering, this corner spot is making waves. We fought off the steady stream of customers to see how things are going.
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Tags: Bars + Restaurants, grand banks, Greenpoint, greenpoint fish & lobster co., lobster rolls, pianos, seafood

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Don’t Call Him a Pick-Up Artist, But This Man Will Help You ‘Live Like a Stud’

April 18, 2014 By Brigit Katz

(Photo courtesy of Anthony Recenello)

Two Anthonies walk into a bar.

The first Anthony – a tall, swarthy man with a thick Russian accent – surveys the packed crowd at Pianos with quiet determination, and walks slowly towards the back of the room.
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Exclusive: Toons’ ‘Bazooka Joe’ Video Premiere

March 17, 2014 By Loren DiBlasi

Photo courtesy of Toons’ Facebook page

In a world of much-too-serious video concepts and utterly ridiculous music trends, think of Toons as your classic Brooklyn party collective. At least, that’s what the band’s first video, “Bazooka Joe,” seems to suggest: a free, maybe even slightly volatile good time, where anything can, and probably does, happen. But aren’t those always the best stories?

On Toons’ self-titled debut, there’s no real agenda; just eleven quick, pop-inspired alternative tracks, perfect for blasting at the highest volume possible. Bedford + Bowery scored the “Bazooka Joe” premiere as well as an interview with Toons and video director Seamus McGuire, where topics like potential lawsuits were brought up and references to early-aughts action movies were made. If “Bazooka Joe” is your classic “happy nightmare” story, here are some thoughts from the morning after.
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Tags: bands, Bazooka Joe, pianos, Seamus McGuire, Toons

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The Best Brooklyn Bands We Saw at CMJ

October 23, 2013 By Loren DiBlasi

Ava Luna (Photo: Gustavo Ponce)

CMJ seems to have been a success this year — or at least, that’s what a handful of Brooklyn club owners said when we spoke to them earlier this week. Peter Shapiro said Steven Spielberg dropped into Brooklyn Bowl, Jake Rosenthal said Glasslands was sold out every night, and Todd P seems to have come around to the fest.
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Tags: 285 kent, Arts + Culture, ava luna, bands, big ups, brooklyn bowl, Bushwick, cameo, cmj, greys, heliotropes, hunters, jake rosenthal, Lower East Side, old flame records, ovlov, peter shapiro, pianos, pile, porches., shark?, todd patrick, Williamsburg

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A Couple of Pianos Bookers Have Opened Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg

October 22, 2013 By Daniel Maurer

Last night after our talk with four Brooklyn club operators, Zachary Mexico and Billy Jones, who attended the event, invited us over to their new club Baby’s All Right for a tour.

The bar and live music venue, located in a former plumbing supply warehouse at 146 Broadway, is now “openish,” having hosted a Brooklyn Vegan’s CMJ showcase last weekend, but it might be a couple of weeks before it’s fully open for what Mexico describes as a “nice clean lunch” during the day and “experimental bar food” at night.
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Watch Swaai Boys Turn Their Practice Space into an African Beach Hut

August 1, 2013 By Stephen Robinson

It’s Tropical Thursday here on Bedford + Bowery — now that we’ve introduced you to “castaway rock,” how bout some “turf rock”? Swaai Boys take their inspiration from the idea of adventure, manifesting in a hybrid genre they also call “tropical pop.”
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Tags: andrew mcinerney, Arts + Culture, gowanus, king killer studios, live music, Lower East Side, pianos, swaai boys, the postelles, wardell, Williamsburg