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

Happy Birthday Barcade!  If you are in Williamburg this weekend it is probably worth stopping into Barcade to see what they have left over from the birthday celebration…the keg list was amazing.

Tonight Friday October 16th:

• Vashti Bunyan @92nd Y Tribeca
• MV & EE @ Issue Project Room
• Beach Fossils and PC Worship @ Market Hotel
• Raincoats @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
• No Age @ the New Museum
• Dirty Projectors @ The Bell House

Saturday October 17th:

• No Age, Soft Circle and more @ Market Hotel
• Free Blood @ Bruar Falls
• Small Black, Fluffy Lumbers @ Death By Audio
• The Glenn Branca Ensemble @ Issue Project Room
• Echo & The Bunnymen @ Mercury Lounge

Monday October 19th:

• Washed Out @ Santo’s Party House

Tuesday October 20th:

• Atlas Sound @ Le Poisson Rouge
• Small Black, Holiday Shores, Surfer Blood, Grooms,  Little Girls, and more @ Cake Shop (Day Show!)
  • Pop Tarts Showcase
• Best Coast @ Cake Shop (Night Show)
• Mountain Men, Julian Lynch, Alice Cohen, Family Portraits, Fluffy Lumbers, Africa Germany Germany @ Monkey Town
  • Chocolatebobka Showcase
• Cold Cave @ the Studio at Webster Hall
• Here We Go Magic, Titus Andronicus, Woods, Beach Fossils @ Webster Hall

Wednesday October 21st:

• Surfer Blood @ Cake Shop
• Screaming Females @ Mercury Lounge
• Ducktails, Highlife, Best Coast, Fluffy Lumbers @ Monster Island Basement
• Atlas Sound @ MHOW
• Holopaw,Real Estate, Surfer Blood, and more @ Pianos (Day Party)
• Cold Cave @ Public Assembly (Late Night Party)
• Real Estate (10:00 – downstairs), I Was A King (9:30 – upstairs), Small Black (9:15 – downstairs), Beach Fossils (7:00 – downstairs), and more @ Santos Party House
• Franklin Bruno, Kleenex Girl Wonder, Peter Hughes @ Union Hall

Thursday October 22nd:

• Yacht @ Brooklyn Bowl
• Nebula @ Cake Shop
• The Smith Westerns, The Beets, Beach Fossils, X-Ray Eyeballs @ Don Pedros
• Japandroids, Real Estate @ Glasslands
• Gary War, Eric Copeland (of Black Dice), Amen Dunes, Expo 70, Fluffy Lumbers @ Market Hotel
• Javelin, The Smith Westerns, Holiday Shores, Railcars @ Shea Stadium
• Small Black @ the Bell House
• The Bruery @ Spuyten Duyvil
  • featuring
    • Orchard White 5.7% (unfiltered witbier spiced with coriander, citrus peel and lavender)
    • Trade Winds Tripel 8% (brewed with rice and Thai basil)
    • Autumn Maple 10% (brewed with 17 lbs. of yams per barrel plus cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla, molasses, and maple syrup, and fermented with Belgian yeast)
    • Rugbrød (a new strong brown rye ale)
    • Mischief (a new dry-hopped golden strong)
    • White Oak (a brewery-only release; blend of a bourbon-barrel aged wheat wine and a Belgian golden strong)
    • CASK!: 2 Turtle Doves 12% (a dark, roasty Belgian-style ale brewed with cocoa nibs, caramelized sugar and toasted pecans)

There is a ton of stuff going on this week…this is just a small selection.  Check out venue websites for more info…lots of shows are free, cheap, sold out, or require RSVP.

As always more will be added as I see it.

All links to bands link to previous Great Pumpkin posts.

Photo from the Maze at Death By Audio.

Tonight: Friday October 9th:

• The Beets, and Special Guest @ Death By Audio
• The Boss @ Giants Stadium
• Owen @ Mercury Lounge
• Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, Fresh and Onlys @ Bell House

Saturday October 10th:

• ROTH-TOBERFEST! @ The Diamond!
• Mirah @ Bowery Ballroom
• Dinosaur Feathers, pow wow!, Reina Del Camino, Lame Drivers!, Clean Equations @ Bruar Falls
• Oh Sees @ Maxwells
• Owen @ Union Hall
• Mugs Ale House 17th Anniversary

Sunday October 11th:

• OM, Six Organs of Admittance, Lichens @ Europa

Monday Ocotber 12th:

• Sarah Cahill, Rachel Grimes (of Rachel’s) @ Le Poisson Rouge
• Built to Spill @ Webster Hall

Tuesday October 13th:

• OM, Six Organs of Admittance, Lichens @ Bowery Ballroom
• Former Ghosts @ Monkey Town
• Built to Spill @ Webster Hall

Wednesday October 14th:

• No Age, Woods, Silk Flowers @ Le Poisson Rouge
• Real Estate, Big Troubles @ Monster Island
• Built to Spill @ MHOW

Thursday October 15th:

• Titus Andronicus @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
• Built to Spill @ MHOW
• No Age @ the MOMA

as always more will be added to the list as I see it.

* any bands names that are links take you to previous posts on the Great Pumpkin about that artist.

All Weekend:

• Brooklyn Blast! (cask) and Southern Tier Pumpking (tap) @ The Diamond
• TBD’s Oktoberfest
  • Enjoy the huge beer garden, get a sausage, and drink a Wurzburger Festbier!

Tonight October 2nd:

• Thomas Function @ Bruar Falls!
• The Boss @ Giants Stadium
• Andrew W.K. @ Joe’s Pub
• Micachu & The Shapes, Julianna Barwick @ Littlefield
• Future Islands @ Market Hotel
• Pissed Jeans, TV Ghost, VEE DEE, Guinea Worms @ MHOW
• Cheap Time, Fluffy Lumbers, White Diamonds, Beachniks @ Silent BArn

Saturday October 3rd

• Oktoberfest @ Brouwerij Lane
• Freaktoberfest on Coney Island!
• Micachu & The Shapes @ le poisson rouge
• My Teenage Stride @ Cake Shop
• The Boss @ Giants Stadium
• Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Sightings, Drunkdriver, Talk Normal @ MHOW
• Cheap Time, Sediment Club, Guinea Worms, Uzi Rash @ Silent Barn
• Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Websterhall

Sunday October 4th

• Sufjan Stevens @ Bowery Ballroom
• Chain and the Gang, Silk Flowers, Julianna Barwick, Screens @ Mercury Lounge

Monday October 5th

• Sufjan Stevens @ Bowery Ballroom

Tuesday October 6th

• Sufjan Stevens @ MHOW
• White Hills @ Bell House
• Tune-Yards @ Union Hall

Wednesday October 7th

• The Rural Alberta Advantage @ Bowery Ballroom
• Kurt Vile @ Mercury Lounge
• Sufjan Stevens @ MHOW
• Golden City @ Public Assembly
• Alphabar: H is for HiFi
  • Alphabar is a drinking club…good peeps…click through for more info.

Thursday October 8th

• The Boss @ Giants Stadium
• The Oh Sees, Fresh & Onlys @ Mercury Lounge
• Human Hearts (Franklin Fucking Bruno!) @ Lit Lounge
• PC Worship @ Silent BArn

Photo via MACSURAK’s flickr.

as always more to be added as I find it.

Oktoberfest may seem to be this weekend, but remember…Roth-toberfest is next weekend!