Archive for February, 2008

Genghis Tron / Aa (Big A little a) / Shooting Spires / Ponytail / Cheveu (Paris!) / Double Dagger @ The Market Hotel

Friday, February 29th, 2008

- ALSO -

- These kids run one of the coolest houses in Fort Greene I’ve ever been to. Nothing like a little soda, brownies, and rock ‘n roll in my Saturday afternoon. More soon.

Showpaper #18

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

This is Showpaper #18.
I really really really want to write reviews of all the shows I see from Showpaper every issue, but it’s issue-fucking-#21 now, and, honestly, it’s probably just never gonna happen.
Fuck me.

[ SHOWPAPER BENEFIT! ] Bikes In The Kitchen / Brooklyn By Hand presents: Team Robespierre / Ninjasonik / Vivian Girls / Snakes Say Hisss! / dj Bradley D (Famous Friends) / Rage Mountain djs / dj Never Forget (Finger On The Pulse) @ The Market Hotel

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

[ Super-quick up-to-the-minute Brooklyn scene primer ]
SHOWPAPER = All ages show listing that comes out every two weeks with a completely new artist
THE MARKET HOTEL = Over-sized, beautiful, pizza-shaped venue run by The So So Glos and friends
BIKES IN THE KITCHEN = Notoriously out-of-control, ex-PRATT party throwers
FAMOUS FRIENDS = Whipped the kids into such […]

 
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. 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…