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Chestnuts roasting in an oil drum fire, Jack Frost mugging you for your iPhone…though it is said, many times, many ways, it’s friggin’ cold outside, baby!!!!! Feel that Krispy Kringle chill in the air as we stomp through the various winter holidays of your particular denomination. In celebration of my favorite (the PAGAN), let’s us count the ways we can wantonly occupy ourselves in pursuit of high fun and rock and roll pleasure on these short days and long dark nights over the next couple…

Wednesday December 8th

“Oops Baby”, a new and local independent record label, is having a release show tonight at Brooklyn DIY mecca Death By Audio, featuring X-Ray Eyeballs (starring members of Golden Triangle), Shark? and a bunch more bands that you can learn about by checking out their links on the label’s blog page. The last of the cases of crack infused Four Loko are allegedly being served as your beverage of the evening. Is that a threat? $8 cover, All Ages.

CopyCat is back at Otto’s Shrunken Head, with tonight’s tribute being paid to the sounds and songs of the Lord of Fire Jimi Hendrix. Humboldt Fog, who’s histrionic guitars and wailing overdrive should do the man justice, are joined by The Bowery Boys for this evening of Spanish Castle Magic. Try the $5 themed drink “Purple Haze”, sure to make you see crooked after a couple on an empty gullet…

At CoCo 66 tonight, Lady Bree presents a mixed bag (party mix?) of a bill featuring The Horehound, who are worth the trip alone for their scuzzy garage-fuzz swagger. Comrade Val has always got nutty tricks up his sleeves, so go eat a dumpling (they got cheap dumplings at the place now, go figure!) and check ‘em out. Also on tap is a very strange, sloppy and out there band that kinda makes me think of  Fifty Foot Hose called Peter Pan and the Lost Boys and Personal Section, the new project featuring members of the sadly departed The Choke. All this nonsense starts at 9pm…

DJ ACTION! Wednesday night means kittens, gumballs, brown paper packages tied up with strings, and good good Manhattan grooving courtesy of Mr. Fine Wine and his unbeatable soul/r&b night at Botanica on E. Houston Street, and Jonathan Toubin‘s New York Night Train at Motor City Bar! Both go late, fun and free…

DJ Matt Fiveash of The Underthings and The Piggies will be spinning 60s flavored tunes at The Bar With No Name, which is a brand spanking new upscale drink hole on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint  from the people who brought you Bar Matchless and happens to, as of yet, have no name…personally I vote for The Bar With No Name to be it’s name…Ennio Morricone themed drinking? Why not?

Thursday December 9th

Public Assembly hosts Hipster Demolition Night VII, and as far as sequels go this one has a pretty strong lineup – in addition to your host Jay Banerjee and the Heartthrobs thrill to the sounds of The Demands, Big Eyes, and Whooping Crane, with Handsome Van Zandt spinning raucous 45′s before, between and after the live acts. 8pm doors, $7 cover…

Back at Otto’s Shrunken Head, it’s Move Your Mule, with DJ’s Agent Jay of  The Slackers, Johnny Metro and Bunny Punch spin heavy doses of ska, dub reggae and punk for your unending pleasure. 10pm, never a cover!

The Brooklyn weirdo-punk band Lost Boy? is playing this evening at Death By Audio, headlining a night in which they are preceeded by some charmingly unoffensive folk / twee bands in a feat of booking genius! $6 cover and 9pm doors, and no Loko to be found (unless you know where, nudge nudge puke puke)…

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That’s what’s up, till the weekend, at least…Stay Warm, HeatMeisers!

-Captain Heartlock