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As a reminder, you must not forget (lest you screw up your life FOREVER) to set your clocks FORWARD one hour this Saturday night (wait, who the fuck has clocks anymore! My cell phone will do ALL the work for me! So there, Willard Scott!). That means if you’re hanging out lat night and you’re wondering why they called “last call” at 2:30, don’t make trouble for your poor bartender and get thee to the afterparty. Or Bed. But ULTIMATELY what this means is winter is pretty much officially DONE (no whammy no whammy no whammy), as the days get longer, the temperatures warmer, the skirts shorter and all kinds of crazy start to gleam in your eye! Glory Be! Now you can all stop bitching – you’ve lost an hour of sleep and you’ve gained a season. Not that many of you are THAT big on sleep to begin with…

ANYWAY…the weekend! What are we doing?

Friday March 11th

Eight consecutive hours of non stop bad ass rock and soul at Home Sweet Home:  the new weekly happy hour for Friday nights is METROPOLIS VINTAGE HAPPY HOUR, presented by that fab vintage store of the same name. Mad man about town (and one of the stores clothiers) Drew Redmond slings garage-punk, 50′s R&B and 60′s brat rock from 8 till 11pm, with a sweet 2-1 drink special with coupons you can pick up directly from the store…at 11 Jonathan Toubin’s ‘Shakin’ All Over Sideways Down’ begins; this week he’s joined on turntable duties by Ian Svenonius; password “Blue is Beautiful” gets you to the front of the line ahead of the weekend invaders…$3 cover after 11pm, free before and after 3am!

Phast Phreddie and Mr. Fine Wine present CRAWLING KING SNAKE – An Action Blues Dance Party at Teddy’s in Williamsburg, where the two impresarios will spin “wild and greasy” , jump and jive blues (not the oh so typical 12 bar blues rock standards version of  “the blues”, think the kind that MOVES,  the kind that accompanies those party scenes from the day with guys throwing chicks over their shoulders onto the roof of barns – aka, “origin of rock and roll” blues…). No cover! Starts at 9pm…

As on any other Friday Night, be assured of the fact that Linda Rizzo is up to good no-good spinning her weekly party at uptown Manhattan rock and roll dive bar The Ding Dong Lounge, spinning all manners of punk, funk, soul and rock and roll from 10pm on…

Back in Brooklyn: At Williamsburg’s Satellite Lounge Your Pal Josh (drummer of Travelling Circle) and DJ It provide a haven of tripped out smooth, spinning selections of psychedelia, kraut rock, shoe gaze, soul and whatever else they damn please, from the 60′s through…TODAY! Open your mind-ind-ind and watch the lights of the pinball machines flashing in the reflection of your beer glass…10pm to close, no cover!

Saturday March 11

Start your Saturday on the weird: I’m really digging this new series of local rockers hosting underground cinema at Don Pedro! This week at Saturday Grindhouse Madness, behold the majestry of the strangeness that is John Waters as they screen Mondo Trasho. It’s CLASSIC trash (featuring the one and only Divine) and must be seen. Enjoy the happy hour and the tasty as hell bar snacks and burgers on hand from 5pm on…

If you’re a fan of rocka/psycho-billy and 50′s rock and roll greaser sounds, this is your Saturday Night:

FIRST, legendary roots rockers The Blasters and U.K. rockabilly icon Robert Gordon perform at Gowanus, Brooklyn’s Bell House for an early show that starts at 7pm…THEN later on in Manhattan at The Rodeo Bar and Grill (375 3rd Avenue at 27th Street) catch The Buzzards (10pm and 1am sets) and Laura Rebel Angel (midnight!) for a FREE show at the long running honky-tonk/rockabilly Saturday night party…THEN if you’re adventurous you could follow Laura over to Le Poisson Rouge which hosts the Dances of Vice party, a popular regular shindig we normally don’t cover except for the fact that she (along with Rebel Night’s DJ Sei) will be spinning 50′s and 60′s doowop, R&B and golden era Rock and Roll music in one of the most lush spaces in town…burlesque beauties The Rhinestone Follies wiggle delightfully and modern revivalists Matthew Piazzi and the Debonairs peform live. Starts at 10pm, $10 In Advance / $15 At the Door, FREE after 2 am…

THEEEE punk rock bowling alley of Brooklyn, The Gutter, is gonna have a little punk rock show, oddly enough! The Live One’s and Triple Hex perform loud and wild for a mere 5$ buck cover in the back room of the joint that has 8 old skool lanes, air hockey, and beer on tap.

In a rare appearance for this group, catch the wild garage-punk / surf infused sounds of Johnny Chan and The New Dynasty 6 at Bowery Electric tonight! They headline an early bill that starts at 8 o’clock, supported by Sportsmen’s Paradise and French ye-ye rockers Les Sans Culottes. $9 cover…

In case you’re STILL in carnival mode or missed the party night completely, celebrate Mardi Gras days later at Zebulon for TARDY GRAS (see what they did there???)! Jonathan Toubin slings records in honor of the The Crescent City, playing New Orleans/Louisiana party favorites and bayou-thick dance numbers! Beads, Masks, and Mardi Gras cake EVERYWHERE. Reverend Vince Anderson and his Love Choir perform TWO sets for your salvation! $5 Cover, 9pm kick off…

Flip City returns, this time to The Alligator Lounge, on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, one of the last of the “free paper thin dried out personal pizza with your beer purchase” joints left in town.  You’re better off not stuffing your gullet but filling your MIND and your EARS with the sweet sounds of soul, garage, and beat that DJ’s Mic Lo (Strange Haze) and Jumpy will unleash, strictly on ’45. No cover for this, and the action starts at 10pm….

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Falling Back,                                                                                                                      -Captain Heartlock