From our friends in the TAYF crew:

Tell All Your Friends is excited to announce it’s first installment of our monthly music series.

Starting in November every second Thursday of each month we will be presenting a collection of the bands that make up our little musical family.

From new and upcoming acts to our more established artists debuting new material to our bands getting together and collaborating. We are looking forward to sharing with you the best Tell All Your Friends has to offer. It’s going to be fun!!

Since here at FREEwilly, we LOVE fun– we’ve got a pair of tickets to check out this stellar show! Just comment below to enter for your chance to win!

And in case you didn’t notice, this lineup is pretty damn rad (including Foxes In Fiction, one of our faves from our CMJ showcase lineup). Here are a few MP3s to get you through the week:

Foxes In Fiction “Teenage Dream” (Katy Perry Cover)

Valleys “Ordinary Dream”

Warm Ghost “Open The Wormhole In Your Heart”

Grandchildren “Saturn Returns”

Even if you can’t score these free tix, we suggest you make the trip to Glasslands on Nov. 11th. Doors 9pm // $8

From Nadja Nebas, owner of Rouge 58, and New York fashion photographer Chris Reed:

On Nov 1st Rouge 58 will present The Arche, a pop up boutique running for two weeks only, combining emerging talent and established designers in both fashion and jewelry. This inaugural installment will reflect the dark minimalism that has become an essential element of New York style. Playing on the industrial space of the gallery, clothes will be displayed suspended at different lengths from chains, whilst jewelry will be displayed hanging from a pillar in the middle of the store using satin ties and encased in a jewelry box. [...]

Adopting the word ‘arche’, referencing Greek philosophy that derives from the archaic period, it’s meaning lies in the root, the origin, the source. As a new pop up entity aimed to kickstart burgeoning young designers, the name was apt and held resonance.

Forget all that gobbles and ghouls, “Monster Mash” type stuff you’re used to during every troublemaker’s favorite holiday and get on this Prøms Mixtape, properly named Frozen /rony, by our good friend Tommy Chase Lucas. It’s got the perfect balance of creepy gloom and dance beats to get you ready for a night as a street walker, or in my case, perfect painting your face music.

Here’s the track list:

Naissance des pieuvres / para one
Escape Before The Rain / how to dress well
La Rose / sleep over
Big Boy / balam acab
Violent Dreams / crystal castles
Sedsumting / oOoOO
Traxx / salem
Roses / white ring
Paradise City / blondes
The Cries / cosmetics
Someone Chasing Someone Through A House / umberto
Burn Me Out From The Inside / the sight below

Download the Prøms Frozen /rony Mixtape (along with all the previous ones) here.

Kathryn Bigelow on set. Photo by Jonathan Olley

On Wednesday, November 10th, the Annual Film Benefit at the MoMA will be honoring Kathryn Bigelow– best known for making history as the first woman to win an Oscar in the Best Director category for her film, The Hurt Locker. Or some of you may know her from a little number called Point Break. Either way the lady deserves a party or two.

That said, the MoMA will be hosting an afterparty immediately following the benefit gala with a special acoustic performance by Metric as well as a DJ set by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. At $100 a pop, and the promise of an open bar (man, museums really do throw the best shindigs), these are the hottest tickets in town… and we’ve got a pair to give to one lucky reader. It’s as simple commenting below!

Vaya Con Dios! <— I just couldn’t resist.

The nice folks over at Jagjaguwar, Dead Oceans, and Secretly Canadian wanted us to help them celebrate their CMJ showcase tomorrow night at Pianos, which happens to be celebrating a slew of awesome new releases from some of our favorite bands, with a little giveaway.

One lucky reader will win a CD Prize Pack including the following:

S. Carey’s All We Grow
Suuns Zeroes QC
Sun Airway Nocturne of Exploded Chandelier
Small Black New Chain

Pretty sweet deal, huh!? Just comment below with your real email address to enter for your chance to win! And while you’re at it RSVP for the FREEwilliamsburg // Stadiums and Shrines CMJ Showcase TONIGHT at Glasslands… this little mixtape is getting us really excited for it!!

And don’t be a dummy, be sure to check out the show tomorrow night!

I was fortunate enough to sit in on this session, and feel really lucky to have seen the process Oh land uses to layer her sound. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Kudos to the Big Ugly Yellow kids to surviving the fire that burned down their old space, almost ruined the famed couch, and managed to come back with a bang. See the rest of the videos of Oh Land here.

White Nights by Oh Land from Big Ugly Yellow Couch on Vimeo.

Photo c/o Alexa Zoe Sullivant

If Jack White has anything to say about it, one of Nashville’s brightest stars, Pujol, will be at the top of everyone’s “OMG, I <3 This Band” playlist very very soon, if not already. With a sound reminiscent of your high school boyfriend’s band– you know that swoon-inducing kind of rock you wouldn’t really be into unless he was singing about you, until of course you learned a thing or two about music. This time Daniel Pujol, who’s last name is just darn cool enough as a moniker, may as well be singing about all of us. The boys will like the no-fuss delivery and the girls will, well, they’ll love it too.

Along with fellow Nashville boys, Turbo Fruits, the crew reminded Brooklyn that a good guitar hook, reverb or not, will get a crowd moving at Saturday’s Death By Audio show. On Jonas Stein of Turbo Fruits newest endeavor, Turbo Time Records, we can expect tons of vinyl coming in the direction of fans eager to eat up the booming southern city’s sound– thanks to friends JEFF The Brotherhood and the like, who’ve already paved pothole free lanes for any boy with a large sound holding a guitar. The label, which launched on October 12th with limited edition presses of both bands, will be announcing a larger roster soon– think Underwater Peoples via the Mississippi River (that’s close to Nashville, right!?).

We’re excited to have Pujol as a part of our CMJ lineup tomorrow night at Glasslands, for many other reasons than the fact that our readers will be able to say “Oh yeah, I saw that band before they got ridiculously huge”– although we’ve always been the kind of assholes who don’t mind bragging rights.

Check out the interview with Mr. Pujol after the jump for a little more insight on what makes him tick, what song he can’t live without, and what planet he’d live on if music wasn’t his thing.

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Fronted by sister act Jessica and Cristi Jo, Zambri evokes a multitude of sound– almost as if they had recorded one perfectly pop love song and then buried it below another track filled with rhythmic sadness. A mix of ethereal vocals and gloomy undertones fill their debut EP, Bang For Changes, with an evolving dichotomy which can simply be described as beautifully relentless.

But a lot has changed for Zambri since the summer of 2009– with the inclusion of a live band, working with producer Chris Coady (who’s resume includes all your favorite bands– Delorean, Islands, Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lemonade, Telepathe, TV on the Radio… well, you get the point), and a slight shift in sound.

Not to worry, the sisters haven’t lost that solemn yet airy harmony… but if tracks like “Carry“, a collaboration with Bear In Heaven‘s Jon Philpot, are any indication we can expect a tonality that has matured past taking photos of their own feet– an era every girl must go through in order to stumble upon self realization. I suspect Zambri’s full length debut will be just that, fully realized, and far from disappointing.

FREEwilliamsburg got a chance to catch up with Cristi Jo while planning tomorrow night’s CMJ showcase at Glasslands (with the honorable Stadiums & Shrines) about the ready to be mixed full length, whether or not it is easy to create with one’s sister, and what it’s like to get bit on the ass by a loving fan. If you haven’t already, check out the rest of our awesome lineup and RSVP here to check out Zambri, and be sure to carry on after the jump to get to know the girls a little better.

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Remember that time at the waterfront you couldn’t stop dancing? Chances are that was Punches fault– a trio comprised of our favorite twin brothers, DJs Finger On The Pulse, and vocal man Alan Astor. Tonight these boys celebrate the release of their debut EP, Sleepless City, at Public Assembly and you’re all invited!

Joined by fellow party makers Jacques Renault, Midnight Magic, Telephoned, and DJ Whitney Fierce, it’s sure to be a night of sweaty goodness. RSVP here for FREE admission and get there early for the open bar provided by Reyka Vodka. And be sure to stream Sleepless City over at Soundcloud to get into the mood.