Tonight will be host to the final night of Zambri’s April residency at Pianos and we expect you all there to party with us!
Check out the FREEwilly curated lineup below and start dreaming about those frozen margaritas because there’s no better way to celebrate this muggy weather than with a frozen cocktail and the musical styling of some hot ladies!
8 PM Rarechild
9 PM Beige
10 PM Zambri
11 PM millionyoung
Bear in Heaven DJ set
And if you’re feeling extra lucky, comment below for your chance to win a pair of tickets to tonight’s show… or, just buy the $8 tix here. And grab a free download of Zambri’s EP, On Call — artwork seen left, right over here.
If there’s anything my collection of mid-1980s Let’s Talk About… books taught me as a child, it’s that stealing isn’t cool. Unless it’s internet or you’re just “borrowing” your roommate’s last beer. But we all know that sometimes alcohol can make you do stupid things — just take a look at most of your friend’s tattoos.
So, if you were the drunk bastard that stole The Commodore’s mounted Mahi-Mahi on Saturday night, just return it and we can all share a laugh. Or don’t, and eventually let karma bite you in the ass. Some encouraging words from resident DJ Lucas Walters:
Our beloved fish was stolen off the wall of the commodore at some point saturday night. this fish (a Mahi-Mahi) was given to the bar by a friend and has a lot of sentimental value. This neighborhood is small. Your “prank” will get you pistol-whipped.
IF YOU SEE IT ON SOME RANDOM PERSONS WALL LET US KNOW! WE WILL GIVE YOU A HANDSOME REWARD!!
One can only wonder if that handsome reward is free drinks for life… Although all I really need is just half of a Commodore Piña Colada to get me dancing on their bar. So don’t be a dick, and email us if you have any leads!
In these times of dynamic change, amazing things are happening in the Bushick and beyond. People and businesses are coming together to assist, contribute, and help keep this creative hub alive and pumping as one of the last bastions of awesomeness in NYC. The Morgan has invited Eastern District to bring their artistic vision and experience to its walls and curate exhibitions for the space to continue the great things that have been growing over the years in their new home Eastern District @ the Morgan.
Please join us for a night of Modern ART:
EDM
Eastern District @ The Morgan
FREE show- performance by the Yellow Dogs
and special DJ SETS BY The Black Lips and DJ Ghost Dad
Installation by Jason Grunwald
Doors open at 8pm, Show starts at 10pm
If you need more convincing, here’s what DJ Mike Dextro — who DJ’d the venue’s opening night on Friday — had to say about the space:
It’s got a bit of a rustic look to it and there are satellite speakers in all the non dancefloor areas, but once it’s complete, it will have 3 MAIN music areas and will fit close to the amount of people that BK Bowl fits!!!
So yeah, this place seems pretty RAD but, um, do me a favor and stay out of my ‘hood. #kthxbai
Tonight at 7pm, Inuk singer Elisapie Isaacta will be taking the stage for the first night of her three night residency at the Lower East Side’s coziest venue, The Living Room.
Her sound bubbles with a sort of blissful buoyancy, interrupted by slight touches of the eerie solitude of her childhood home.
Elisapie’s first solo project, There Will Be Stars, follows the singer’s progression in communication — from on-air personalities in radio and TV to an award-winning Taima, the world-renowned duo she formed with composer/guitarist Alain Auger a decade ago.
We’re giving our readers a chance to listen to Elisapie’s perfect balance of lightness and weight with a giveaway of her CD, There Will be Stars.
Just comment below and you’ll be entered to win a copy of this cheerfully melancholy collection of tracks.
Our homegirl over at Downtown Diariestipped us off on a new play in the works from Brooklyn’s own Perf Productions. A multimedia production which claims to use “live performance, film, motion graphics, illustrations, and music to chronicle the different pockets of one man’s neurosystem,” Degeneration X sure has our attention.
The half-film, half-play, which seemingly takes a nod at some our generation’s favorite films (I’m looking at you, Eternal Sunshine and Science of Sleep), is slated to launch this Fall and seeking funds on Kickstarter in order to put this theatrical masterpiece into full production mode. So refill your karma bank and donate a buck or two, or $25.
Basically, if you’re not going to Good Co. every other Saturday, you’re not #winning. The Rude Dudes pump out hits to make your booty shake and enough dancing goes down that the glass doors of this fine establishment have no other option than to steam up.
Permanent Vacation is just that kind of party, and the Rude Dudes just want to take you to a time and place where we all wear short shorts and drink margaritas. So I bring to you The Rude Dudes – Cold Cuts, a mixtape that steps it down a notch from prime time party hour. From the Dudes themselves:
Cold Cuts was born one night recently after our party at Good Co. A bunch of people who didn’t speak English came back to our house and we listened to records as we smoked Lil Wayne’s weed (dont ask but also ASK) Pretty damn good trapped indoor rainy/snowy day tunes if you ask us.
The truth is, we listened to D’Angelo’s Voodoo while staring at iTunes as we one by one fell asleep on the floor, because smoking Lil’ Wayne’s weed knocks you on your ass. But this mixtape is almost as good as that.
So download it for when you get home at 5am tonight, after dancing your ass off at Good Co. It’s perfect for that moment when you’ve decided you’re just about ready to undress that stranger in your bed.
Find me on the dancefloor tonight and I’ll give you a sip of my Mai Tai. RSVP here.
At the top of many a Best of 2010 list, Clinging to a Scheme marked the return of Sweden’s The Radio Dept.– a band which has fused dreamy indie-pop with new wave subtleties in a perfect cult-following fashion since their first release in 2003. Unlike fellow Swedes that have made big headlines for dance moves in recent years — think of your Robyns, Lykke Lis, and The Knife here — The Radio Dept. keeps their beats at somber levels, inducing the sort of sway dancing one may encounter at any given Smiths night.
Staying slightly under the radar has given the band time to work out the kinks in their own sound, on their own terms, leaving a yearning fanbase at their personal whims. But if these records take 4 years to make, I say, take your time dear friends.
The Radio Dept. plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight and tickets are still available. And for those of you bummed about the canceled Webster Hall show on the 3rd , your tickets will be honored tonight– so we suggest to get there early before it gets packed, and to catch the dreaminess that could only come from San Francisco, Young Prisms.
Check out our interview with The Radio Dept.’s Johan Duncanson after the jump where he talks about the band’s weary progression, whether or not Sofia Coppola catapulted them into fame and what Swedish bands we should never listen to again.
You all remember the awesome Stadiums & Shrines — our partners in crime for the FREEwilliamsburg CMJ Showcase blowout at Glasslands this past summer. Well, the awesome music blog has partnered up with Neon Musical Insight to throw another perfect night of music, booze and dancing at Cameo Gallery tomorrow night!
Luckily for all of you, it’s only $8 and will include the musical musings of such favorites as SOARS, Headless Horsemen, Com Truise and the lovable Kohwi. Moreover, one of you fantastic readers will be winning a pair of tickets to a show that has a flying walrus on the flyer– and we all know there’s nothing cooler than flying sea dwellers, right!?
What’s better is that each blog has posted mixtapes to preview the night, which you can grab here and here.
So comment below for your chance to feel the same exhilarated joy as a young Jason James Richter!
In 1985, a rather unremarkable adult movie was released titled Sex Crimes 2084 — it was vaguely based on George Orwell’s 1984. While the book was about a state controlling its citizens through extreme measures and the nature of personal freedom, the movie was about people fucking. It wasn’t about people fucking in the future though, or people fucking in space, or people fucking aliens or robots or anything exciting you’d imagine an adult movie with 2084 in the title would have. This is a failure of imagination.
Thusly, I was inspired to create a mix that would serve as perfect accompaniment to a movie that did have all of those elements, a theoretical movie I call Sex Crimes 3084. Obviously, a soundtrack mix, to a non existent sequel of a poorly received twenty six year old porno, will be comprised of tracks explicitly about sex.
Download what is sure to creep out your girlfriend, but probably impress that hoe in the club here. And don’t worry, you’ll get your girlfriend back once she hears the first few notes of “Love You Down.”
Tonight will be host to the final night of Zambri’s April residency at Pianos and we expect you all there to party with us!
