Time Doesn't Stop For Anyone - But She Does Like to Boogie
Hey kids! Happy weekend, and Congratulations on surviving October! You deserve a cookie! OR a slap on the bum! Hope you’re well rested because the fun don’t stop for nobody: we’ve got a fully stocked cabinet of fun this weekend, and of course NEXT week is the HUGE 25th Anniversay Norton Records Blowout (which we will be EXTENSIVELY covering every night so keep it tuned right here) so you better take your energy pills and keep up!
Oh and don’t forget to set your clocks forward Saturday night! That means ONE WHOLE EXTRA HOUR of SELF DESTRUCTION!
Friday November 4th
THEEE BAT! A wild, psychosexual garage punk trash band from Japan is invading our town for the weekend. First of THREE shows will be tonight: they play the monthly ape hangout Go Go Gorilla at Otto’s Shrunken Head, hosted by the Baxx SiSi kids Kick and Hiromu. They’ll be joined on stage by The Dirty Shames, with our boy Drew as special guest DJ! Dancing and drunk prancing! Starts at 10pm, no cover…
Over in Williamsburg at The Cameo Gallery (inside of the tasty gastro-dive The Loving Cup): The ultra bombastic rock and roll duo The Naked Heroes will be performing in celebration of the release of their new record AND comic book (!) “Demon the Whiskey Down” on Drug Front Records. They’re joined by the psych pop heavies Weird Owl for an early show that starts at 8pm!
This is the weekend of The International Pop Overthrow, the long running international festival celebrating power pop and garage music. Tonight at Local 269 be sure to catch those dirty beasts from the garage The Beat Rats who headline at midnight. Can’t speak for the other bands on the bill but hey, life is adventure….more on this later
Over in Park Slope, a real cool show at Union Hall, underneath the bocci ball courts: Heavy boogie guitar fuckers The Brought Low play their style of early 70′s style anthemic “day on the river” rock and roll with support from local punks The Live Ones. I suspect doors for this are at 8pm with an $8 cover…
PEOPLE BE SPINNING RECORDS ON A FRIDAY NIGHT, like it’s going out of style or some shit:
Start it out at Manhattan’s branch of The Beauty Bar for To Sir With Love, where CrystalBlu regales the primpers with prime 60′s psych, garage and girl group groovers from 7pm till about 11…
End up at Home Sweet Home for Shakin’ All Over, where Sir Jonathan Toubin teaches those filthy weekend warriors of Manhattan night life all about garage rock and vintage soul music from 11pm till close…$3 bucks to get in with secret password “”THANK YOU MASK MAN” to skip the line. If that ain’t enough: Matt Holywood from The Brian Jonestown Massacre DJ’s in the fancy cocktail lounge upstairs and DJ Phil rocks the happy hour slot from 8pm till Shakin’ time for Metropolis Happy Hour…
Over in Williamsburg: it’s the last hurrah for our pal Your Pal Josh: you may know him as the former drummer of Sorceress and Travelling Circle, but many know him as one of the genuine nice guys in the rock and roll set! He and his lovely lady Erin (Check out her AMAZING rock show poster art at erinaceous illustration) are leaving our scumfuck city for the hippy pastures of San Francisco, so he’ll be spinning psych, glam and kraut rock records for his farewell party along with DJ It at The Satellite Lounge tonight from 10pm till close…no cover!
Rad Lady Grace of Spades spins soul, doo wop, garage and a lil’ bit o dub at rock and roll bowling alley The Gutter from 10pm on…no cover and real cheap bowling games!
Linda Rizzo keeps the uptown set moving at Ding Dong Lounge on Columbus Ave and 106th Street, rocking psych, soul, garage and funk for a bunch of cuckoos from 10pm till close…
Saturday November 5th
Update: The good cap’n missed a fine show at Lone Wolf on Broadway in Brooklyn: The Puta Records Digital Release party with Sorceress, the Above, Philadelphia garage poppers the Eeries, Nervous Assistant and DJs! -Shimmy
Night TWO of the Japanese takeover, with Theee Bat *** appearing at the Bushwick Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Fireproof, along with some of NYC’s finest trash in the form of Organs, Lovestruck and Activations (the NEW punk rock super group featuring Shingo (Baxx SiSi’s), Rico (WLWL/ The Othermen) & Dan (Test Patterns/ Radio Beat)! Co-founder of this very blog and Hullabaloo statesman DJ Shimmy keeps it rocking with his new ’45 finds between and after sets! 9pm kick off, $7 cover…
*** Theee Bat will close out their weekend of chaos on SUNDAY evening at Don Pedro with The Enthusiasts, The Jigglers, The Baxx SiSi’s and The Othermen, with FREE sake from 9pm till 10pm and DJ Drew Redmond and yours truly! Catch a Fire!***
The ONLY pure surf rock party in town, Unsteady Freddie’s Surf-Rock Shindig is on tonight at it’s natural habitat Otto’s Shrunken Head…No word on the acts tonight but you can expect at least three authentic surf bands from this area and abroad from 10pm with Freddie spinning surf 45′s up front…
Over at Local 269, The International Pop Overthrow Continues: Acts of note for the evening are a special acoustic set of music by Kurt Reil and Kristin Pinell from The Grip.Weeds at 9:30 and super mod headliners The London Egg at midnight…$7 cover?
Lastly, DJ C’mon spins power pop, punk, garage and good indie rock at Idle Hands on Avenue B, where the whisky flows sweet and smooth! 10pm, no cover!
That’s it for me…go not softly into the night
Captain Heartlock
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