Come out to Crown Heights this Friday and help us throw the best damn surprise birthday party in town. We’ve enlisted the help of our favorite bands to guide us all through the mania…Le Rug is coming off a sold out show @ the Knitting Factory with the Appleseed Cast and can’t wait to destroy some more of their equipment. The Shirkers, led by Max Kagan and his band of rogue musicians just want to make us all dance our pants off. Jose and Juan have been toiling away in their garage for the last few months, preparing for the second coming of The Beets and now have finally found the final piece of the puzzle. Ohhh yea and its our best friends, Erica and Anna’s fucking birthday!!! – [ Phil ]

[THE BANDS!]
-Le Rug
-The Shirkers
-The Beets

[THE SPOT!]
Friday, March 23rd
8pm, $5
@ Boring Studios
1054 Bergen St. and Nostrand Ave.

(basement apt.)
[ A or C train to Nostrand Ave.]

[ Photos gonna be on lock by Ben Shapiro ]

[ **VERY IMPORTANT** We need more houses. We dream of un-confiscated forties, shit-cheap liquor off a plywood bar, smoking inside, bands in the backyard, in the basement, in the bathtub. Out of necessity, we do shows at venues that are pretty lenient by New York standards, but in a perfect world every show would happen at home (in this city of eternal roommates). To get to the nitty-gritty, if you have a space, and think music forcefully shoved inside might work for us both, drop us an email (RatsOfNiMH@gmail.com). We can use all shapes and sizes, from pretty little alleyways or back porches for an acoustic kind of good time, or an industrial-looking basement for around 100 kids to spazz the fuck out in - Joe ]

[ Le Rug ]
“A pop music exorcism. Ray Weiss (also from Hundred Dollar Elephant and The Medics) channels post-punk fire from somewhere mysterious inside of himself. He must be hollow, because it couldn’t possible fit anywhere else. Double-drum dance solos, electric keyboard freakouts, tearing apart his guitar until he looks like he’s going to vomit… Le Rug starts off every set by doing a nose dive off the roof’s edge, and just keeps gaining speed until the whole room goes splat.” – [ SleepWhenDeadNYC ]

[ The Shirkers ]
“Four kinda-in-college, sort-of-working, maybe-making-music, New York-born Brooklynites tear shit up and don’t give a damn what you think. In fact, they’re probably not listening. In fact, they don’t even know how to use the internet.” – [ SleepWhenDeadNYC ]

[ The Beets ]
“Their story truly is a punk version of the American Dream. They came, they saw and they conquered the charts, the airwaves and, with their kicky kitsch appeal, pop culture in general. For a while, the band was virtually inescapable: TV guest shots, magazine covers, high-profile concert tours and movie offers turned these two daydreamers into believers. Well, maybe none of this has happened yet but it someday will and with the addition of their new drummer, Anna Fuenmayor…Juan and Jose are setting themselves up to control the universe.” – [ SleepWhenDeadNYC ]