While you were busy literally peeling yourselves off of your couches, we spent Saturday dancing the night away on the rooftop of the Z Hotel for the first instalment of the PENT UP! summer party series! Check out some photos from the launch below…

The view was decent…

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Online eyewear darling Warby Parker are known for their Tom-like approach to commerce (you buy a pair, they give a pair) and styles that appeal to the hip but sight-challenged among us. But buying glasses online, even at the excellent price point of $95 dollars, is a drag. Bird is fixing to remedying that with a party – Wednesday the 27th from 6pm to 9pm you can try on 165(!) styles while downing prosecco, nibbling on snacks, and musing on the DJing by Justine D. My only question – will the monocle be there?

As part of Bon Iver Day (A real thing! At least in Milwaukee), Justin Vernon and crew played a show of mostly jams from this year’s self-titled record. But throw into the mix a cover of Björk’s “Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left, Carry My Pain On The Right),” and something really magical is happening here.

Grab and MP3 of this track over at Stereogum.

Image c/o ABC News/Mary Altaffer/AP Photo

Ugh. It’s hottt.

And, yeah, this post is a bit late. But let’s be serious. Stay home. It’s damn fucking gross out there.

But after you cool down, rest, hydrate, watch the entire first season of Game of Thrones (so awesome), and hang with your hobo friends camping out on your floor to mooch the A/C, venture out this weekend. Cuz the hydrants are a-flowin’ through Brooklyn and our borough is poppin’ hard!

Check out super fun BK Saturday along with the rest of our picks for the coming week:

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Try to stay cool, and rock out to this awesome Sesame Street-Beastie Boys mashup via Gizmodo.

Sesame Street breaks it down from Wonderful Creative on Vimeo.

If you’re reading this, that means that you’ve somehow managed to prevent your eyeballs from melting into your skull. Good for you! Reward your resilience this weekend at PENT UP!, a brand-spankin’-new rooftop party in Long Island City (only 2 blocks from PS1).

Featuring cheap drinks, early drink specials, and killer DJs spinning from 4pm to 4am (seriously…), there’s no better way to spend a summer Saturday. Plus, it’ll be a whole 5 degrees cooler than it is today, so don’t forget to bring a sweater!

PENT UP! launches tomorrow with special guests Beni, Dominique Keegan, Rok One, The DKDS, and Kaviar Disco Club!

Click here to RSVP!

FREE SHOW AND FREE PIZZA featuring:

Wild Yaks

Team Robespierre

MCTodd &Bobreezy

The Netherlands

Gang Signs

Papertwins

Alex Drewchin

+Super Secret Special Guest and more!

Also featuring:

Deth Killers

Deth Wrestling

Hose Down

Water World Dunk Tank

Arancini Eating Contest

Ryan Slack Photo Booth

& Meatballs by Best Pizza

Location: Party In the Streets!

Moore St (between Bogart and White)

FREE SHOW AND FREE PIZZA featuring: Wild Yaks Team Robespierre MCTodd &Bobreezy The Netherlands Gang Signs Papertwins Alex Drewchin +Super Secret Special Guest and more!
Also featuring: Deth Killers Deth Wrestling Hose Down Water World Dunk Tank Arancini Eating Contest Ryan Slack Photo Booth & Meatballs by Best Pizza
Location: Party In the Streets!

Twin Sister

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday! If you want to see one of our top 3 most blogged-about shows this week, get them on your calendar now. Get to PS1′s Warm Up for one of their best lineups of the season: Gang Gang Dance, Lunice, Syd tha Kid (Odd Future!), Laurel Halo and the Miracles Club. Your free option for Saturday (if Warm Up’s $15 cover is too steep) is The Feelies, Real Estate and Times New Viking at the Prospect Park Bandshell. After you’ve finished with either of those shows, check out some new buzz bands at 285 Kent; we’ve heard great things about Pictureplane and Teengirl Fantasy.

Prefer to chase your free shows with classic 80s films? Check out Twin Sister and Your Youth at McCarren Park with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (the movie, not some indie band with a clever name) on Tuesday night. We promise to be there, and if you can find us in the crowd we’ll buy you a Sixpoint can.

Unfortunately, the “on sale this week” feature of this column is on vacation (in Amsterdam!) this week, we will be back next week as regularly scheduled.  Still want more options? Check out My Social List’s database of FREE & OUTDOOR concerts.  

THE TOP 10 SHOWS FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

10. Real Estate @ Maxwell’s w/ Mike Viola
Sunday, July 24th at 9pm – All Ages, $12 -> tickets

9. Julian Lynch @ Glasslands Gallery w/ Dent May and Prince Rama DJ set
Tonight, July 21st at 8pm – 21+, $10 -> tickets

8. Twin Sister @ McCarren Park w/ Twin Sister and Your Youth
Wednesday, July 27th at 6pm – All Ages, FREE!

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Has everyone else been missing the Endless Summer taco truck as much as we have?  While its only been a week since the truck mysteriously disappeared it feels like years since we’ve salsa verde’d ourself into a mid afternoon coma and  let’s just say that the void left on Bedford and Metropolitan is almost as big as the one left in our hearts.  Not really but, we certainly have  been wondering, What gives? But now,  thanks to some very astute investigatory journalism from Gothamist, we are finally getting some answers.  Gothamist’s hunt went as such:

“…we called up the number on their website, which according to our caller I.D. connects to Riker’s Island!…Even more disconcerting, an email to the Endless Summer got what seemed to be an auto-reply of ‘Transmission failure.’ But further sleuthing turned up a Twitter account connected to Endless Summer explaining that this wasn’t an e-mail transmission failure but an actual, you know, vehicular transmission failure thingy…A representative of Endless Summer tells us the bummer isn’t endless, but guesstimates that it will “probably be another 10 days” before the truck returns. They’re currently ‘taking the opportunity to pimp out some things and have a vacay.’…”

Pimp away Endless Summer friends, but don’t be gone too long, those taco’s won’t drunkenly eat themselves over a trash can on a Tuesday night.