This Saturday at Enid’s:

Books Through Bars moved, and we’re having a party to get us back on

our feet! It features awesome librarians and excellent music, so

you’d best be there.

The Desk Set (a group of young librarians who throw dope parties to

raise money for organizations promoting literacy) are hosting a party

at Enid’s in Williamsburg to pay for the postage we need to get back

to sending books to people incarcerated all across America.

After our old space was damaged by fire, Books Through Bars moved to

our new home in Freebird Bookstore, and we’ve built up a big backlog

of packages that need sending and letters that need replies. 100% of

contributions go to either postage or packing supplies, but we’re a

bit behind and need plenty of help.

So, now you know what your Saturday holds: dancing, drinks and librarians.

Books Through Bars benefit with The Desk Set @ Enid’s, 560 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg

10pm and on. Suggested Donation at the door.

Pavement tickets go on sale at noon for the Williamsburg Waterfront!

Our favorite coffee shop Second Stop is opening a small juice bar in early June which will be called Get Juiced. Get Juiced will be located “in the little store next to the Cafe on Ainslie Street” & will feature organic juices and smoothies made from fresh greens from the rooftop of The Brooklyn Grange. We can hardly wait!

*Image c/o Flickr

LCD Soundsystem’s latest, This Is Happening, finally hit stores this week (grab a digi-copy here), so this Thursday’s sold out show at Terminal 5 will be absolutely bouncing. It’s the first of four sell outs for James Murphy, the gang, and their openers Holy Ghost!.
Want to go rock it but having trouble scoring tickets? Us too, but fear not! Free Willy’s got your back. We’ve got a pair of tickets up for grabs and you can put your name in our proverbial hat by doing one of two things…
1. Follow us & Tweet something like: “Hook it up @freedubya for LCD tickets @Terminal5! RT to enter.”
2. Fan us over in PrivacyLand and leave a comment on this update.
That’s it! We’ll announce the winner around 2pm tomorrow. Good luck!
[photo by the talented ryan muir via flickr]

This Saturday get drunk for a good cause at The Will Point Pub Crawl. Nine Williamsburg/Greenpoint bars are part of the crawl, each donating $150 to the American Cancer Society as well as $1 for each drink sold. The Pub Crawl kicks off at 3PM at Spike Hill where participants can pick up their ‚”crawl card”. The Brooklyn Ale House, Soft Spot, Mugs Ale House, The Gibson, The Gutter, Shayz Lounge, and The Black Rabbit are all participating & the final stop/after party is being held at Red Star.

Good effort by these budding indie rockers on “Nothing Ever Happened,” who even got noticed by the band they cover, which wrote, “This made all of us really happy.” The solo bit around 4:00 is pretty sick, and the full video pan around 4:20 shows you the entirety of the situation.

Footage by the L Magazine’s Emmanuel Cruz.

Last year, the UK’s Deluka came crashing into Brooklyn with local label Vel Records and haven’t been able to stop the momentum since. The indie electronica band has found a special place for themselves with sonic references to anything coming out of Italians Do It Better and fellow UK rockers The Joy Formidable… and like their bio says, 2010 is the year Deluka just may well become your favorite band.
Deluka will be taking over NY for the next few nights with shows starting tomorrow at Ella Lounge followed by performances at Cameo, Piano’s, and Nublu (in that order). We’ve got a pair of tickets for one lucky reader to check them out on 5/20 in Williamsburg at Cameo Gallery, all you have to do is go comment on our Facebook thread for a chance to win.
FREEwilly got Deluka to answer some questions about their Brooklyn faves, how danceable songs can have melancholy lyrics, and that Franz Ferdinand is still kinda cool. Check out the rest of the interview after the jump, as well as the video for Deluka’s “Cascade”
First things first– the band is named after a hooker. Why?
Kris Kovacs: Well, as Bobbie Gillespie once said; ‚”Everyone’s a Prostitute”…and musicians, well they’re the biggest whores out there. Oh, and we needed a band name. One of us had just caught Pretty Woman on the TV, and we’d never noticed before, but Kit De Luca had ‘casually’ spent all the rent money on drugs! I mean, it’s not even made a big deal of, barely even touched on, which we found strange. Plus she had all the best one liners, and was generally more bad-ass than Roberts’ character. Like, who shouts after a friend ‚”work it baby, work it!”? Genius!

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This is my 2nd year with this lovely CSA (only their 2nd year too!) and they still have a few berry shares left.
From the website:
Each week you will receive 4 quarts of blueberries alternated with 4 pints of red and yellow raspberries or blackberries. There are two raspberry seasons, one in early summer and the other in the fall.
Shares are $320 and go for 13 weeks, from July 5th to September 27th.
Email Southsidecsa@gmail.com for more info or to hand over your money.