We know, we know… you do!! Well, today is your lucky day it seems because we have a pair of tickets for one lucky reader. By now this should be second nature to you guys since we give away tickets like woah– head over to our Facebook page, comment on the contest thread, and BOOM! those tickets may be yours.

This Northside Festival show starts at 1:30pm on Sunday the with ARMS followed by A.A. Bondy and Elvis Perkins in Dearland, and tickets are still on sale for those of you with bad luck.

And after an afternoon of laid back jams on the Greenpoint waterfront, head over to the FREEwilly showcase at Brooklyn Bowl because in case you haven’t heard, it’s pretty much the best ever.

Just a pic of signage for our showcase up on the wall at Brooklyn Bowl! Awesome…

Listening to new music that, “can’t be defined by conventional music genres” can often be a taxing chore– like brushing your teeth after a night of binge drinking. The music feels foreign and you’re stimulated by so many elements that you can’t even figure out if you’re enjoying this listening experience. Although duo Glass Ghost combines diverse genres together, their music feels interesting and provocative on the first listen allowing you to immediately dissect and delve deeper into their sound.

Glass Ghost backs lead singer Eliot Krimsky‘s dynamic falsetto with rich and big sounds inspired by hip hop, R&B, electronic, and swelling rock. Most would assume the juxtaposed fragile voice and rich music would compete with (or detract from) one another but in Glass Ghost’s case, the sound surprisingly becomes even bigger– each complementing and completing the other.

Glass Ghost will be playing the FREEWilliamsburg Northside Festival showcase at Brooklyn Bowl this Sunday, June 27th along with The Babies, Oh Land, Hooray for Earth and Keepaway! Click here for more details and check out the interview with Glass Ghost drummer Mike Johnson below!

FREEWilliamsburg: Your songs are packed with so many different variables– a dynamic and expansive falsetto, elements of hip hop and R&B, and a variety of electronic and percussive instruments– it’s nearly impossible for an outside listener to synthesize. How would you describe your music?

Mike Johnson: Well, when it’s working well, I feel like there’s a nice absence of fear in our music. And we’ve played together so much that we don’t have to worry too much about the more fundamental aspects of how our music are working and we can kind of play around a little. I heard someone describe a J Dilla jam as, “The Cosby Slop.” I guess I’m interested creating a kind of slop, probably not a Cosby slop though. We take the songs pretty seriously though too. We really try to respect each song and kind of let it be it’s own world. And we try to figure out where it comes from and what it’s about.

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Victory is the sweetest revenge.

When NBC fired Conan O’Brien, they said his numbers sucked and Letterman was beating him and they were losing money. So they replaced him with Jay Leno. The bad news is that Leno gets even lower numbers than Conan did. The badder news is that Lenos comeback numbers have dropped and now he doesn’t beat Letterman either. So if NBC’s plan was to piss away 200 million dollars on a complete clusterfuck, mission accomplished!

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Man Forever in action

Percussion enthusiasts rejoice! The bestest and fastest drummer this side of the Milky Way brings you Man Forever! Two tracks titled “Man Forever” on a record called Man Forever, BY Man Forever! Can you dig it?

Now that we know what the record is called, I’ll tell you the who/what/where/why’s of Oneida drummer Kid Millions’ solo jam. Recorded over a weekend at the Ocropolis in Brooklyn after seeing the Fireworks Ensemble’s performance of “Metal Machine Music,” Kid wanted to “do something with acoustic drums inspired by the ‘noise’ of electronic instruments”. The label St. Ives had previously approached Kid on cutting a solo record for them, and this gave him the opportunity to perform outside of Oneida.

Immediately upon the start of the record the pummeling begins. Beats like these will pound you into submission, hailing on you like a angry gargantuan! The incorporation of Sightings bassist Richard Hoffman produce a distorted reverb of unearthly proportions, complimenting the whirlwind pounding that is Kid Millions’ style. Drums are everywhere, creating a thick wall of sound that is impossible to break through. I don’t think the fiercest of tribes in the deepest of Africa can even handle a sound like this!

Man Forever is for those who like their drums loud and fast, and not for the faint at heart. Clocking in at twenty and fifteen minutes on each track respectively, and at almost 180BPM, I’m summing this guy up to be the Energizer Bunny on speed!

Limited to 300 hand-printed copies on vinyl on the St. Ives label.

Check out Man Forever live this Friday at 8pm at Issue Project Room.

Review by Diana Kinscherf

Foursquare users checking in to three different participating venues this weekend will be pleased to see this fantastic little Northside badge.

As the L notes, “This includes any concert venue, any art gallery, any restaurant/bar with a Northside badge deal, indieScreen + the metroPCS stage at Barge Park.”

The L Magazine‘s 2nd annual Northside Festival is upon us and it looks like this year is going to kick our asses–in that really awesome “remember the summer of 2010!?” kind of way. The lineup is looking pretty “stacked” and we’ll be heading over to the Northside HQ soon to pick up our badges and pound some mid-afternoon beers. Remember, a badge will get you into a sold out show but you should arrive early to avoid the usual music festival badge holder shit show. Here are our recommendations, feel free to let us know what you’re looking forward to most in the comments:

Thursday

CRUSHfest at Public Assembly had us at Sissy Bounce and Big Freedia. In case you’re not aware of the sweaty mess magnitude of this combination, let me just say that this many white girls shakin’ their asses at once might cause another earthquake. Both rooms will be packed with current faves like MillionYoung, Fang Island, Dinosaur Feathers, and Yes Giantess as well.

The L Mag is throwing a pretty rad ALL AGES opening night party over at The Knitting Factory with Wavves, Cloud Nothings, and DOM– unfortunately for most of you, it’s SOLD OUT. If I were you, I’d try to head over to Shea Stadium early to catch Hussle Club before the Pitchfork-hosted Wavves afterparty starts at 1am, with a DJ set by Mr. Wavves himself.

Panache’s Union Pool show and Au Revoir Simone with CALLmeKAT at the Warsaw are worth checking out too.

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“There are names like White Fang, Time Bomb and Monster Power, which is decorated with an image of the grim reaper with a scythe. There are allusions to religion (Deadly Sin and the Last Temptation), crime (Notorious and Outlaw) and publishing (Life, in white capitals against a red background, and Daily News, along with the old camera logo of that tabloid). There is also a packet stamped with the words “Tango and Cash,” the name attached to a fentanyl-laced brand of heroin that infamously caused 12 fatal overdoses in one weekend in 1991.”

- From a New York Times article describing heroin packets on display at a weeklong show at White Box Gallery (329 Broome St.)

Following Monday’s passage of the Loft Law, which seeks to protect tenants living in illegally converted lofts but may end up raising rents over time, some see it as the end the artist’s loft lifestyle in industrial Williamsburg/Bushwick.

Leah Archibald, executive director of the East Williamsburg Valley Industrial Development Corporation, told the Brooklyn Paper just that.

“The real artists can say goodbye,” she said. “They will have to go out and colonize another neighborhood. They’re going to lose cheap studio space with the relentless onslaught of gentrification over time.”