Free to Be You and Me
Hello, how are you Midweek? I really really hope you’re doing well. I hope you and me have some fun times together again. Maybe we can get some pizza cones and, like, eat them while dangling our feet over the Gowanus Canal. I’ll bring the Fresca, you bring the styrofoam cups. Cause it’s important to me. To know you are free. Free to be you and me.
Wednesday August 18th
The dark surf punk sounds dipped in creamy reverb sauce are represented by The Vandelles tonight at Bruar Falls on that majestic stretch of Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They’re on first just before 9pm. I can’t vouch for the more “indie-tastic” bands following them but if you’re on a neighborhood trek these guys are a fine way to start the night.
You could always go across the street to The Trash Bar to check out The Dirty Fences, an excellent local smutty sounding, surf beat heavy punk band. They are on first coinciding with the legendary one hour open bar with show admission from 8-9. Tater Tots up in your face!
As dependably as the sun rising in the East, Mr. Fine Wine will be at Botanica Bar on East Houston Street, NYC, educating the people on the finer points of soul through his fantastic rare collection of ’45 R&B dance platters.
The Captain of the Good Ship Fuck Yeah, Jonathan Toubin, is back in town and holding court at Motor City for New York Night Train, where he will unleash a sonic cornucopia of rock and soul perfect for watching decadents walk by at Motor City Bar on Ludlow Street from 11pm on…
Thursday August 19
There’s a good ole’ fashioned Rock & Roll Bash going on at R-Bar at 218 Bowery, NYC, featuring a bunch of old school NYC punk/glam rockers who could tell you a thing or two about things as they were and will hopefully be again, like The id!, Hi-Fi (featuring Doug Pressman, aka THE RECORD GROUCH, on bass guitar) and Flash Cooney and the Deans of Discipline…word has it that Bobby Steele (The Misfits, The Undead) will also be performing in the early part of the evening! Only $5 dollars for what ought to be a special time.
The lysergicially inclined are encouraged to talk to their doctor at Perfect Prescription, the psychedelic, kraut rock, space rock and shoegaze-centric party for mind and ear which now takes place monthly at Secret Project Robot, which literally “down by the river” in Williamsburg Brooklyn. This months happening features the heavy acid deluge that is White Hills and the spaceman symphonies of the legendary shoegazers Hopewell. Your Hosts and DJ’s Paul Dillon and Voidsong play that trippy mad music for you all night long, and you can expect lots of visual stimulation to match at a space MADE for this kind of party. Doors at 9pm and it’s only $5 smackers…
Another edition of HIPSTER DEMOLITION NIGHT is upon us at Public Assembly, tonight featuring New Jersey’s True Love, the Rickenbacker rock of host and overlords Jay Banerjee and the Heartthrobs, the power and majesty of soul-punk kings Mighty Fine and the sweet swagger and primitive garage sting of Lovestruck! This is happening in the back room with the big boom sound for a $7 cover with DJ C’mon spinning between sets and $1 dollar Magic Hat beer for all you poor alcoholic lovers between the hours of 9 and 10pm… IXNAY on Free Beer-ay
Meanwhile! Back in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Union Hall hosts a night of power pop love and swagger – The Paul Collins Beat is playing for your pleasure and entertainment, supported by local hard foxes The Anabolics, Mother’s Children (a fast power punk band from Ottowa) and garage bent kids from CT The Suicide Dolls.
Impose Magazine is having their semi-monthy party tonight at the true rock mecca of Brooklyn (in my highly biased opinion), Bushwick Brooklyn’s Don Pedro. On hand from Chicago are the wild and primitive garage-punk yowl of White Mystery, again dripping with that fat reverb sauce! They are preceded by: Philly garage kids Reading Rainbow, who besides rightfully loving Levar Burton with a love that will burn forever, hit you with these really tight and pretty vocal harmonies that might raise ghosts up from the basement - Cassie Ramone of The Vivian Girls does a psycedelicized solo acoustic performance – and Easter Vomit, from the town of Schenectady New York, who dabble in Syd Barret-esque experimental noodlings on top of lo-fi vocals and dingy distortion guitars. There’s gonna be a light show by Your Friend Matthew and DJ sounds from Pop Jew. Oh, and $1 dollar PBR’s till 11, which sounds like Big Ass Trouble. $8 Cover and show kicks at 8pm!
So that’s it, Midweek. I hope you and me can dance under the moonlight all night, hold hands, and not get jacked up by coyotes.
Love forever,
Captain Heartlock.
Tags: Bobby Steele, Cassie Ramone, Easter Vomit, Flash Cooney and the Deans of Discipline, Hi-Fi, Hopewell, Impose Magazine, jonathan toubin, Mother's Children, mr fine wine, paul collins beat, Perfect Prescr, Pop Jew, The Dirty Fences, The ID, The Suicide Dolls, The Vandelles, The Vivian Girls, White Hills, white mystery, Your Friend Matthew
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