This Weekend: Kill Shop Kill Opening Party, Aesop Rock, and More

Heavy Load Synopsis: Heavy Load are Lewes’ answer to the Ramones, a punk outfit subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band. But they’re also, uniquely, made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities, which makes the bands’ survival a precarious negotiation between two different worlds: on the one hand the institutional timetable of day centres, work placements and social workers; on the other the chaotic slacker life of rehearsal rooms, studios and gigs. Home life and band-life; from invisibility to stardom of a sort and back again.

Venue: The Lawn at Automotive High School, 50 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
8:00: Sound Fix presents live music by J.A.C.K.
9:00PM: Films
more information at rooftopfilms.com

If you’re a two-finger pro (or just into moves made famous by Travolta), this weekend’s Warm Up, hosted by nu-disco imprint Environ, is for you. Viola whiz Kelley Polar shows up with an eponymous quartet in tow, masterfully interpreting his classical-meets-electronica compositions. Meanwhile, Environ head honcho Morgan Geist and co-producer Darshan Jesrani (aka Metro Area) get behind the decks for a bit of synth-infected funk. Rounding out the sweaty afternoon is Tony Conrad, whose new-music antics have made him an enfant terrible of the minimalist scene since the ’60s.

more information at the PS1 website.

It’s the second to last pool party and this one’s no joke. Warming things up are noise-rocker’s Panther and FreeNYC favorites Chin Chin, followed by Def Juxian, Aesop Rock kicking some conscious , abstract lyrics over freaked out beats. My favorite show of the series and, for real, make sure you catch Chin Chin… they kill it every time. And be sure to check out Chin Chin, again, along with El-P on the tables at the after party.

Cost: Free, Time: 2-8pm
more information at mccarrenpark.com