Brooklyn-based singer songwriter, Josh Ritter and his Royal City Band, provided safe harbor from the storm at Brooklyn Steel (309 Frost St) during Sunday’s torrential downpour. The weather was a nice […]
Tag: folk
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Rock Your Tastebuds at National Sawdust’s Food/Drinks/Music Pairing Event Next Thursday (9/28)!
Next Thursday evening (9/28) at 7:30pm, National Sawdust (80 N 6th St) is presenting a night of inspired food, mixology and music as they pair up small bites and cocktails […]
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Early Riser is a Contrarian Name for a Greenpoint Band
Heidi Vanderlee and Kiri Oliver are the band Early Riser, and they recently released an album called Currents. They both live and practice in Greenpoint. Hit the jump below for their […]
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Weekend Music (12/22 – 12/24): Sex Dungeons and Alternate Identities
El Vez moved his Christmas show to San Diego. This year there were also no quirky holiday theme shows from Ronnie Spector and alt-cabaret icon Tammy Faye Starlite. WTF? Don’t close […]
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Weekend Music for Cool Kids and Weirdos Too (12/1 – 12/4)
Here are some famous acts playing this weekend. Don’t worry, we also save room in the back for unsung heroes. The Hold Steady have three sold-out Brooklyn Bowl shows beginning tonight. […]
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Weekend Music: Climbing Sunshine Mountain (7/29 – 7/31)
The Grand Victory is closing this weekend so I’m going to use this week’s post to highlight final shows there, for your last hurrah (or oi-oi rebel shout). But we also have Peach […]
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Last Night’s Wye Oak Show At Warsaw
It could be easy to dismiss Wye Oak as another band for the denim shirt crowd—mellow, buttery dream-folk churned to the point of blandness. But the Baltimore duo, who played […]
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Weekend Music: Day Job, Night Vision (5/20 – 5/23)
Why do you work all day at a job that is not your true calling? For cash, of course. Or maybe stock options. My day job pays the bills, but I also […]
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Jim Testa Q&A: On the Trump & Christie Double Bill, Jersey Bands, and Making Music in North Brooklyn
Whether you are fourteen or forty years old, your parents went through some boom years, either the go-go ’80s or the post-war Baby Boomer era. People were making good money, […]
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Weekend Music: Hanami vs. Myrtle Manor (4/7 – 4/10)
Had some friends return from Japan recently and they couldn’t stop talking about how clean and orderly everything was. They were there for hanami, too, the Japanese ritual of going […]