Baby It's Cold Outside...

the SHAYDES return Saturday!
Well it's a bit chilly out there but check the weather forecast and you'll find warmer temperatures and our old friend from Summer, RAIN, stoppin' by tomorrow. Should be nice on Sunday though so maybe it will be yet another great day for the Atlantic Antic fest in Brooklyn.

WAY too much to do this weekend (bookers, take note: you've fucked yourselves!) so choose wisely, lieges:

TONIGHT (FRIDAY):
9 events listed on the calendar, let's start with Manhattan:

Way up there on Columbus ave & 105th st, there's fun brewing at the Ding Dong Lounge with special guest DJ Lawdy Miss Claudia of Detroit's ultra-garage label NO FUN label plus the local DJing of Linda Rizzo. FREE.

Further down the island, Smashed Blocked! fills its regular monthly dancin' slot at Beauty Bar with special guest DJs Mike Lo & Gregg of Sorceress plus resident Josh Styles. FREE.

Not too far away, New Jersey's psych poppers the Grip Weeds are performing at "The Studio" at Webster Hall (e 11th St). We're guessing... $10?

Farther downtown you'll find Mr Fine Wine of WFMU filling in for Jonathan Toubin at Home Sweet Home with his unbeatable soul sets. FREE.

Hopping the Williamsburg bridge, you'll find Images (LA), Born Loose (ex-Candysnatchers), the Mess Around, and the ExHumans @ Don Pedro. $?

Head further out to Ridgewood, and you'll find Nashville's excellent Cheap Time playing the first of two shows at Silent Barn this weekend.

Grab the L train back to Bedford area and you'll see Pissed Jeans plus Chicago's Vee Dee @ Music Hall of Williamsburg -- WFMU Fest (let's say... $15?)

Finally around the corner you can rest at Bruar Falls where there's indie/garagers Thomas Function, Nice Face and Georgiana Starlington for $10. After the bands, the "Subcultured" party starts featuring Derek of Othermen plus Seanzi Dirtbag and the "Telephone Hooker" (from DC of course!) DJing garage, rockabilly, surf, punk, etc til the wee hours (that's FREE).

SATURDAY (really? you're going out again?)

Only one Manhattan event for tonight: Unsteady Freddie's great Surf Nite @ Otto's featuring bands and the man himself on the decks. FREE.

Back in Brooklyn, more choices:

Down in Central Brooklyn we've got the return of the FANCY! Video Clips party at the (what the...?!) resurrected Bait & Tackle bar in Red Hook. It's FREE and features all kinds of newies, so check it out.

Get in the car (and get your teetotaller GF to blow into the breathalyzer) on your way to Union Hall in Park Slope for a triple threat garage bill: the Above, the A-Bones & the Fleshtones... surely orchestrated by Mr. Lee, sounds like fun. $?

Go NORTH young man to find yourself back in the same old shitty triangle of dive... on the far East side in Ridgewood/Queens, you'll find Cheap Time wondering why they're at Silent Barn for a second night in a row this time with local punks Uzi Rash. $?

Speaking of Far East, check out Jonathan Toubin's new Todd P-promoted digs: 171 Lombardy Street in "Greenpoint". Most of us will know this area as "Where the fuck is that?" but it's technically Greenpoint, score 1 to TP... Toubin puts on his next HAPPENING tonight with bands-- Ian Svenonius's Chain & the Gang, Preacher & the Knife and ... Fiasco. (really? not Fiasco & the Confidence or something?) There's DJs, Anna Copa Cabanna dancing, all sorts of clubbiness. It's $10 plus the car fare either way (face it, you're not walking there).

In case a tour of Ridgewood and "Greenpoint" aren't in the cards for you on this night, you might head over to real Greenpoint and Tommy's Tavern for the world's premiere lampshade band, the Shaydes plus 70's powerpunks the Totallys.

Or you might find yourself once more at Bruar Falls on Grand St for the Choke's LP debut / goodbye party with Images (from LA), Foster Care (possibly the most fun band in NYC right now) and Burlesque dancers. It's only $6.

Even better, inject something else besides maximum rock'n'roll into your veins at Huckleberry, on the South Side of Grand St, where Jumpy and Girlsoul will be dishing out all fast 60's soul tunes all night. And it's deliciously FREE.

SUNDAY:
Supposed to be the nicest day of the week. Skip Church and check these thingies out:

Atlantic Antic street festival on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Walk by the shuttered Magnetic Field and shed a tear or head over to still hoppin' Last Exit where for the umpteenth year in a row, Les Sans Culottes will blast out their fake 60's french ye/ye thing and later on when you're good and drunk (especially off the "bucket" at that one place with all the Schlitz and PBR.. what's it called? it's got bace ball) you'll settle in there for a DJ set by Mr. Lee. FREE.

Later on you've got your Chain & the Gang @ Mercury Lounge... and of course Andy M / possibly Dave the Spazz DJing at Union Pool.

WHEW. Done! October is giving us carpal tunnel. Coming soon is the clusterfuck of CMJ and the WFMU record fair. Stay tuned!

SHIMMY

Labels: chain and the gang, cheap time, fleshtones, last exit, les sans culottes, nice face, pissed jeans, the choke, thomas function, vee dee

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Whatta great show this past Saturday-- five bands, two djs and everything was damn good! And Longtime loft/"art space" Asterisk is now venue Lake Johnson.

It all kicked off with the Siberians, playing their second show ever. One of the few new garage rock bands in Brooklyn this year, they have some killer songs and for once, two frontmen equally capable of writing, playing and singing. A cover of the Fabs' classic "That's the Bag I'm In" was an early highlight, as was this killer set-finisher (and apparent original!):

Next up were Providence's Black Clouds, who were new to me... they kicked off with moody instrumental sounds, probably my favorite part of their show (no dig on the vocals of course). The band rock a pretty dark late 70's/early 80's vibe but do it in a way that doesn't
feel hackneyed.

Between the bands and then for quite a while after (as my nextdaylong PBR headache can attest), myself and Erick from Golden Error spun records whilst local go-goer Anna danced (the crowd was mixed: the creeps stared and the cool cats cut a rug).

But enough about me- third in the line were the Nymphets, a great Montreal trio Charles and I booked for Hullabaloo back in February. They were even better this time, just bursting with shouty girl/boy vox and serious pop hooks. Their 7" is awesome if you can find it (produced by one member of the CPC Gangbangs I'm told) and there's apparently more of this on the
way:

Following that, Brooklyn's Golden Error took the stage. I liked this set better than what I saw of them before (when they opened for Cheap Time at Europa back in the Summer). Very tight and more melodic sounding (but then, they were just too loud at Europa...)

Finally, Cheap Time were once again better than their showing at Europa (opening for Jay Reatard). Club sound works better for their vocals (at Europa, they sounded a little tinny...) This show is so tight! With showers of power chords and attitude. Total party!