While Explosions In The Sky play Radio City Wednesday night, Williamsburg’s own I’ll Be John Brown will be a part of Spike Hill’s Brooklyn Country showdown — Live! Loud! Local! Free!

Spike Hill gets a countrified overdrive! 8pm Paul Thornton Band, 9pm Party Folk, 10pm I’ll Be John Brown, 11pm The Evangelines.

Here’s “Mine,” a track by IBJB that slips an aural peak at the kickass country in store. It’s off their self-titled album:

At Northeast Kingdom restaurant in Bushwick, come take part in “Fireside Follies,” a new monthly reading series beginning Oct. 24.  Writers Michael Lala and Eric Nelson created the event as an occasion for local writers to get out and read, gain an audience, and meet and share with more published local authors.  The format is pretty wide open, and experimentation and creativity are obviously encouraged. From Brooklyn Eagle:

“Fireside Follies” will showcase works from various aspects of literature, including fiction, memoir, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The inaugural season will feature authors Emily Gould (And the Heart Says Whatever), Arthur Nersesian (Mesopotamia) and Justin Taylor (Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever), poets Molly Gaudry (We Take Me Apart) and Melissa Broder (When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother), former New York Times columnist Matt Gross, and artist Cristy Road (Bad Habits).

We all know Bushwick is on the up and up.  This free literary event gives us yet another reason to head to the neighborhood. Check it out.

BREAKING NEWS! Venue Change:Brooklyn Fireproof, 120 Ingraham St.Brooklyn. (L to Morgan St.)

“For some people, this is like a living, breathing example of an anti-capitalist way of being,” Thadeaus said. “I was involved in a lot of the anti-globalization protests of the late nineties and earlier this decade, and that was a lot of protesting, breaking windows, saying what we’re against. And this is a demonstration of what we’re for. This is the new world that we wanna create. This is how it looks.”

You know the Brooklyn Free Store? You should. Go read (my piece) about it over at The Awl.

Get ‘em here.

Drake, Hanson, and Ninjasonik will be playing the Seaport tomorrow, June 15th, at 6-9pm for free, presumably to celebrate Drake’s Thank Me Later street date and the fact that the three brothers of Hanson have yet to leave earth in their alien spaceship.