Tonight is a big day for music here in Brooklyn, and even though I haven’t had great internet access over the past couple weeks I still need to let you know what is going on!

Death By Audio has a killer show happening with two of my favorite up and coming acts.  First is Swimsuit, a new band that features the one and only Fred Thomas and friends, making sweet surf pop.  Their debut cassette was pressed in an edition of 100 copies and sold out within a month!  This tape featured this blissful track called evaporation where one of the ladies in the band added some vocals to what has been so far just excellent instrumental surf rock:

[mp3] Swimsuit- “Evaporation”

• buy their new tape here.

Opening this show will be Philly’s own Pet Milk playing their fourth live show ever, and their first in NYC!  Pet Milk’s demo has been on at least a couple times a week since I first heard it, and “Cherry Outline” is probably one of my favorite songs of the year.  These guys are quenching my thirst for twee in the best possible way.  I can’t wait to see them in the flesh I’m sure it will be stupendous!

Although these were previously posted here they are again:

[mp3] Pet Milk- “Cherry Outline”

[mp3] Pet Milk- “Always Knew It Couldn’t Stay”

People Get Ready and Bad Indians are also playing too.

SWIMSUIT is also playing at Pizza Forest in Brooklyn tomorrow Saturday July 31st.

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Right around the corner from Death By Audio is Glasslands where New Jersey’s finest will be there in the flesh.  Not only will Mathew Mondanile, better known as DUCKTAILS, be there, but another one of my favorites…the one and only Julian Lynch!  Along side these two headliners will be Bathetic/ Mexican Summer veterans’ Campfires, another one of my personal favorites Big Troubles, and the up and coming Brooklyn group La Big Vic….all of which is being presented by  Microphone Memory Emotion!

[mp3] Julian Lynch- “Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper Cover)“

• Buy Julian’s music here.
  • Cyndi Lauper cover via Friendship Bracelet

[mp3] Ducktails- “Mirror Image”

• buy the mirror image 7″ here.

No matter which side of South 2nd and Kent Ave you end up on you are in for a treat, and if you get there early you can probably jump back and forth between both shows (if you pay for both!).  I’ll see you there.  Cheers,

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• more on Swimsuit here.
• more on Pet Milk here.
• more on Ducktails here.
• more on Julian Lynch here.
• more on Big Troubles here.

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I normally don’t write about two shows happening on the same night, but I love so many of these bands I had too…both shows will be amazing.  The heat broke so both of these venues should be pretty comfortable tonight.  No more 90 degree heat!

http://www.thelmagazine.com/blogs/NorthsideFestivalNews/

L Magazine’s Northside Fest starts today in Williamsburg and Greenpoint Brooklyn.  There are tons of bands, art, and movies to be seen.   The schedule can be overwhelming, and while this isn’t a definitive list  I’ve made a guide to the festival of all of the music I would like to see if I could be in many places at once (when I see that means bands that have caught my eye or ear…not necessarily a full endorsement, but things I want to check out).  Here it is as a google calendar…I hope it helps you, because it sure will help me.

View this calendar in your Google Calendar here.

As always, check set times…they change. These set times are as of 6/25 at 8:30am.

Please note that the Saturday and Sunday days shows do interfere with the World Cup (which I have included on the Calendar).

If by chance I left your band, your favorite band, or your friends favorite band off the calendar feel free to leave a comment and let us know about them…would be happy to check it out…and maybe add it to the list.

Cheers and happy northside.

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More on Northside Fest 2010 here.

• Northside Fest is a music, art, and film Festival happening in Williamsburg and Greenpoint Brooklyn from June 24-27th.
  • For a complete schedule click here, to buy an all access pass click here.

Tomorrow, Friday May 7th,  Blackburn Recordings will host a night at Cake Shop as part of the beloved New York City’s music venue’s fifth anniversary.  This party will also kick off the budding relationship between Blackburn Recordings and Connecticut’s masters of hazy psychedelica Sore Eros.

This show will be the 7″ Release party for the new Sore Ero’s record on Blackburn Recordings! I was a big fan of Sore Eros’ amazing full length from last year, Second Chants,  and the teaser video for the Taal Compass 7″ evokes the same emotions as the full length, and makes me very excited to hold a copy of this new piece of vinyl in my hands.  Here is a sample of the B side of the 7″ that will be released tomorrow which features Gary War on synths:

Blackburn was nice enough to send over the a-side from this new single for download.  ”Taal Compass,” the title track of the 7″, shares some of the same qualities as Sore Ero’s other works, but brings more of a olde timey folk side to the forefront.  A perfect song for a breezy cool morning like today:

[mp3] Sore Eros- “Taal Compass”

• Buy the Taal Compass 7″, eventually, here.

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On top of Sore Eros playing Alex Bleeker and his Freaks will be headlining the show, and they also have a new 7″ out on Group Tightener Records!  This record is the perfect follow up to his Underwater Peoples debut LP, and keeps with the same folky classic rock vibe that made us all fall in love with Bleeker in the first place.  ”Getting By” was premiered by Chocolate Bobka a while back, and could very well be the anthem of your summer, and the b-side “Never Going Back” can be a story that is very telling for many of us in our late 20′s…I know for me it rings home particularly hard over the past couple weeks.

[mp3] Alex Bleeker and the Freaks- “Getting By”

• Buy it from Group Tightener here.

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I can’t talk about this show and not mention one of my favorite newer bands that are opening up this show as well. Big Troubles have been tearing up my stereo for some time now, and the new 7″ (which I wrote about here) is just wonderful.  I feel like every person I play this band for ends up tracking down a 7″ or at least looking for more songs to download…they just get in your head and stay there.  These guys are indie rock at it’s finest, and if you haven’t heard them yet I would take this chance to download a couple tracks.  First up is what started the magic for me:

[mp3] Big Troubles- “Freudian Slips”

• Buy the Freudian Slips 7″ from Black Burn Recordings here
  • read more about his track here

and from the new 7″ on OESB:

[mp3] Big Troubles- “Drastic and Difficult”

• Buy that from OESB, eventually, here .
  • read more about this track here.

Also take note: BIG TROUBLES will PERFORM LIVE on WFMU‘s TALK’s CHEAP with JASON SIGAL this coming Tuesday May 11th between 9am and noon.  Tune and and listen, or check the archives!

(please note I’ve posted these before, follow the links to reviews of the songs)

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Last but not least Black Burn Recordings released a wonderful digital comp that has not only Big Troubles and Sore Eros on it, but other Great Pumpkin favorites like City Center, Lame Drivers, Sleep Over, Cloud Nothings and many more.

Tracklist:

Blackburn Recordings Presents…Various Deficiencies Vol.1

• City Center – Grow Up Again
• Big Troubles – Chalk Circles
• Cloud Nothings – Leave You Forever
• Campfires – Oh Golden Dawn
• Sore Eros – Melting
• Brett Marren – Love Is A Jawbreaker
• Possum – Red Hot
• Coasting – Snow Song (Live on WNYU)
• Lame Drivers – Working Song
• Metal Rouge – Fast Flora Lights
• Cursillistas – Trail of Tears
• sleep in sundays – Flour
• Falsetto Boy – Hey Sue
• mountainhood – Coney Island
• Sleep Over – The Key
• Island’s Eyelids – Western Cameo
• Sultan – There Goes My Girl

[album download] Blackburn Recordings presents: Various Deficiencies Vol.1

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Friday May 7th, 2010
Blackburn Recordings Presents:
Alex Bleeker & The Freaks
Sore Eros
Big Troubles
Procedure Club
live at CAKE SHOP

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• more on Blackburn Recordings here.
• more on Sore Eros here.
• more on Alex Bleeker here.
• more on Big Troubles here.
• Big Troubles photo by Ashle Bailey

Friday November 20th:

• Times New Viking, The Axemen @ Maxwell’s

Saturday November 21st

• Fluffy Lumbers @ Cake Shop
• The Beets, Beachniks @ Death By Audio
• Dirty Projectors, tUnE-YaRds @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Cold Cave @ Terminal 5

Sunday November 22nd

• Dirty Projectors, tUnE-YaRds @ Bowery Ballroom

Monday November 23rd

• Melt Banana @ Bowery Ballroom

Tuesday November 24th

• Greenpoint’s Manhattan Connection (6pm-9pm)
  • *Free Manhattan cocktail at Kill Devil Hill, 170 Franklin St!!!
  • *Manhattan Project beer based on said cocktail available at the Diamond!!!
  • *Experience the Double Manhattan Vortex!!!!
• Family Portrait @ Bruar Falls

…more to come next week.

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actually no more to come next week.  this was the last weekly recs post.  keep an eye on the blog for specific shows though…still posting about those.  Cheers.

Tonight! Friday November 13th:

• Boat, How I Became the Bomb @ Union Hall
• Art Brut, Midnight Masses, Surfer Blood @ Brooklyn Bowl
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Northampton Woods, Keith Fullerton Whitman, No Fun Acid (Carlos Giffoni), Prehistoric Blackout @ Glasslands
• The Family Portrait @ Sycamore
• Krallice, Liturgy, more @ Union Pool

Saturday November 14th:

• Boat, miniboone, SHARK? @ Bruar Falls
• Slumberland Records 20th Anniversary Party @ The Bell House
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Crystal Stilts, Brown Recluse, Pants Yell!, Frankie Rose, The Ropers, Nord Express, Lorelei

Tuesday November 17th:

• A Camp (w/ Nina Persson of Cardigans) @ le Poisson Rouge
• Shonen Knife, Golden Triangle, Jeff: The Brotherhood @ Brooklyn Bowl
• Kurt Vile, Home Blitz, more @ Europa

Wednesday November 18th:

• Dirty Projectors, tUnE-YaRds, Glass Ghost @ Bowery Ballroom
• Big Star, Kurt Vile (and the Violators) @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
• Times New Viking @ Mercury Lounge

Thursday November 19th:

• Cave-In @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
• Dirty Projectors, tUnE-YaRds, Cale Parks @ MHOW
• Times New Viking @ Union Pool

all band links link back to previous gprecs posts.  more things to be added though out the week.

Tonight, Friday November 6th:

• Girls & Real Estate @ Bowery Ballroom
• Jeremy Jay @ Cake Shop
• Vivian Girls, Bitters, Grass Widow @ Market Hotel
• Love as Laughter, Hartwell Littlejohn @ Union Pool
• The History Eraser Button @ The Charleston

Saturday November 7th:

• Crystal Stilts, Grass Widow, The Beets @ The Brooklyn Museum
• Small Black, Picture Plane, Grass Widow, Cale Parks, Girls At Dawn @ Market Hotel
• Glorrytellers (ex- Karate) @ Union Hall

Sunday November 8th:

• Nana Grizol @ Cake Shop
• Gary War, PC Worship, Liturgy, Florida @ Death By Audio

Monday November 9th:

• Jason Anderson @ Cake Shop

Wednesday November 11th:

• Overwhelming Beer Tasting with Matthias Neidhart of B. United International @ The Diamond
  • Buy Tickets here.  This will sell out.
    • Featuring: Aventinus Wheat Dopplebock heated with a beer blow-torch, creating lovely caramelized flavors.  Served w/ S’mores.
    • and:
      • JW Lees Harvest Ale barleywine aged in Calvados barrels.  Served from wooden cask.
        
      • Schrami’s Dry Mead matured in plum brandy barrels
        
      • Hanssen’s Experimental Raspberry Gueuze
        
      • Le Baladin Xyauyu.  (influenced by Jerez Sherries of Spain, produced from variously oxygenated strong ales)

band links lead to previous gprecs posts.  more events get added as I find them.  these lists are going to become more refined.

hot dog from Bark.

Tonight Friday October 30th:

• Wooden Shjips @ 92YTribeca
• Pissed Jeans @ Le Poisson Rouge
• Lightning Bolt @ Above the Auto Parts Store
• Pinback & Obits @ Irving Plaza

Halloween: Saturday October 31st:

• Halloween Parade!
• Greenpoint’s Halloween Dog Parade!
• Greenpoint Zombie Bar Crawl!
• Vivian Girls, Wooden Shjips,Crystal Stilts, Religious Knives @ 171 Lombardy St.
• Mount Eerie, Liturgy, Malkuth, Tara Jane O’Neil, No Kids @ Market Hotel
• King Khan & BBQ Show, Dum Dum Girls @ Bell House

Sunday November 1st:

• Mount Eerie, Tara Jane O’Neil, No Kids @ Le Poisson Rouge

Monday November 2nd:

• Girls & Real Estate @ Maxwell’s

Wednesday November 4th:

• The Fiery Furnaces @ Maxwell’s

Thursday November 5th:

• Fucked Up (performs The Chemistry Of Common Life) with Andrew W.K. on keyboards and Vivian Girls doing backup vocals, & Titus Andronicus, Katie Stelmanis @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
• Grass Widow, Bitters @ Monster Island LATE NIGHT!
• Herman Dune, Julie Doiron @ The Bell House
• Grass Widow @ The Woodser
• Jeremy Jay @ Union Hall

All band links go to previous post, and more events will be added as I find them.

Photo via.

All Weekend:

• WFMU RECORD FAIR!!!!

Tonight Friday October 23rd:

• Califone performing All My Friends Are Funeral Singers@ 92ndYtribeca
• Still Flyin’, Air Waves, Beach Fossils, The Smith Westerns, Knight School, Moonmen On The Moon, Man @ Bruar Falls
• Let’s Wrestle, Male Bonding, Surfer Blood, more @ Cake Shop
• Nebula @ Fontana’s (Brooklyn Vegan Day Show)
• Misery Index @ Fontana’s (night show)
• The Love Language @ Living Room
• Surfer Blood @ Market Hotel
• Sore Eros, Blood Oranges, Little Girls @ Pianos
• Heavy Winged, Gary War, more @ Silent Barn
• Tickley Feather,Kria Brekkan @ The Cameo
• Real Estate, Claymation Velociraptor, New Villager, Frat Dad, Holiday Shores, Pill Wonder, Inlets, Eternal Summers @ The Delancey
  • Underwater / Two Syllables Peeps Showcase!
• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Lemonade, Cold Cave, Harlem, Glasser, Tanlines @ The Suffolk
• Nebula @ Union Pool

Saturday October 24th:

• New York Dumpling Festival!!!
• Kombucha Kegger @ Brouwerij Lane
• Surfer Blood, Screaming Females, more @ Above the Auto Parts Store
• Soft Black, Surfer Blood, more @ Brooklyn Bowl
• Future Islands @ Death By Audio
• Pitchfork / Todd P’s Show Paper Benefit @ Market Hotel
  • Lemonade (4:30am – DJ Set), DJ Alan Palomo/Neon Indian (3:00am – DJ Set), 20 Jazz Funk Greats (2:00am – DJ Set), Jamie XX (1:00am – DJ Set), Special Guests (11:00pm), Cymbals Eat Guitars (10:00pm), Cold Cave (9:00pm), Delorean (8:00pm), Real Estate (7:00pm), The Smith Westerns (6:00pm), Javelin (5:00pm), Small Black (4:00pm), Bear in Heaven (3:00pm), Highlife (2:00pm), Surfer Blood (1:00pm)
• Sub Pop @ Mercury Lounge
  • Male Bonding, Obits, Pissed Jeans, Golden Triangle, The Dutchess & The Duke, The Moondoggies, Dum Dum Girls, Unnatural Helpers
• Holiday Shores, The Dutchess & The Duke, Lightspeed Champion, Headlights, Dum Dum Girls @ MHOW (Day Show)
• Mexican Summer/ Kemado @ MHOW
  • The Amazing (members of Dungen), Real Estate, Farmer Dave Scher, The Smith Westerns, Young Prisms
• Pete and the Pirates, A Classic Education, My Teenage Stride,Slang Chickens, Jacques Detergent @ Silent Barn (PopJew Presents!)
• Underwater Peoples Day Show @ the Cameo (Day Show)
  • Eternal Summers, Sun Dagger, Big Troubles, Family Portraits, Fluffy Lumbers, Pill Wonder, Frat Dad, Air Waves

Sunday October 25th:

• Greenpoint Oktoberfest @ Transmitter Park!!!

Monday October 26th:

• Surfer Blood, Small Black @ Death By Audio

Wednesday October 28th:

• Charles Bissel (of The Wrens), They Might Be Giants, Nada Surf (acoustic) @ MHOW
• Steve Brodsky (Cave In) @ Bowery Ballroom
• Jeffrey Lewis Band @ The Glasslands

Thursday October 29th:

• Karl Blau!, Lake, White Diamonds @ Ash’s Place