Every Monday
With new tunes in the works and resurrected numbers Alec takes on Pete's for a weekly monday night residency." Blues and country influences intertwined with delicate folk arrangements, Alec weaves a web of history and passionate desires yearning to be fulfilled."
Every Tuesday
Maya Solovéy weaves together an enchanting mix of alternative folk/pop, bossa nova, homemade food, and humor into a scintillating smorgasbord.
Every Wednesday
Emily Long and Zach Jones learned to play, sing and write music 3,000 miles away from each other. Inspired by the punk and grunge of the 90s, Emily spent her teenage years sneaking out to meet boys. Zach, on the other hand, divided his time between playing leading roles in community theater (he remains staunchly heterosexual) and drumming along to his Dad's favorite records. Fast forward to July 2009. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Emily and Zach found themselves gravitating toward the simplicity and honesty of country music. Several months and as many bottles of whiskey later, The Stone Lonesome was born. Their debut album, "Words & Whiskey", reflects the heart and excitement of a record 22 years in the making, and will be available on vinyl at all September shows.
"Jason Anderson is an animal. This New Hampshire native lives on the road. He plays more than just another indie rock show. Jason preaches the gospel of rock James Brown style. He shows us the book of partying Andrew W.K. style. His band rips like Springteen's E Street Band rips. He shows us what it means to be alive. What it means to have music course through our veins. He shows us that none of us are too cool to have fun. This is OUR party! Bring your friends, bring your loved ones! Be ready to sing and dance! Believe in yourself. Believe in US!"
- Joe DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters
WED 9/1
Come on Down! Bring your friends and wrack your brains with mind-blowing rounds of trivia questions. Test your mental mettle in music, movies, visuals, top 10s, and other trivia miscellany. First Prize is a $25 bar tab, second prize is a $15 bar tab, and third prize is a tasty sandwich. The winning team each week also qualifies for the semi-annual trivia championships! Every Wednesday at 7:30pm. Give it a try, smart guy!
Emily Long and Zach Jones learned to play, sing and write music 3,000 miles away from each other. Inspired by the punk and grunge of the 90s, Emily spent her teenage years sneaking out to meet boys. Zach, on the other hand, divided his time between playing leading roles in community theater (he remains staunchly heterosexual) and drumming along to his Dad's favorite records. Fast forward to July 2009. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Emily and Zach found themselves gravitating toward the simplicity and honesty of country music. Several months and as many bottles of whiskey later, The Stone Lonesome was born. Their debut album, "Words & Whiskey", reflects the heart and excitement of a record 22 years in the making, and will be available on vinyl at all September shows.
Brooklyn-based singer songwriter Michelle Amador performs a special birthday concert. Whether performing solo (accompanying herself on keyboard) or with band members Ben Campbell (bass) and Tim Bulkley (drums), the sound created is one that is "bliss with heart" (PopMatters) -- intimate, classic, and relevant.
THU 9/2
Much like the grimmest of fairy tales, Moxie Block and her band casually waltz between sweet vaudevillian fragility and murderous self-ridicule.
"Jason Anderson is an animal. This New Hampshire native lives on the road. He plays more than just another indie rock show. Jason preaches the gospel of rock James Brown style. He shows us the book of partying Andrew W.K. style. His band rips like Springteen's E Street Band rips. He shows us what it means to be alive. What it means to have music course through our veins. He shows us that none of us are too cool to have fun. This is OUR party! Bring your friends, bring your loved ones! Be ready to sing and dance! Believe in yourself. Believe in US!"
- Joe DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters
Bona to Vada is a 4-piece rock ‘n’ roll band from Queens, New York. They have been quietly honing their skills for the past few years and are ready to bring their unique brand of music to a wider audience. Known for the understated lyricism of their up-tempo songs, they bring their stirring sound to venues across the tri-state area. With influences such as Roy Orbison, The Smiths and Elvis Costello, they lead a new group of talented musicians poised to reach the heights of pop music.
FRI 9/3
SAT 9/4
Visual Artists are Brittanie Bond and Kelly Jackson
Artists Include: Zach Chase, Michael Cicetti, Phiilip Deyesso, James "SoSoon" Gantt, Amber Harris, Natalie Hegg, Clory Jackson, David Jacobs, Nikiya Mathis, Shad Olsen,Tyrell, Sophia Holman, Haas Regen, Chris Tocco
jug band sans jug
The Hollows are a five-piece indie roots band dedicated to recreating classic, freewheeling Americana while bringing the sound to new plateaus by incorporating a wide variety of fresh influences. The result is a brand of contemporary rock music with flavors of country blues, rockabilly and homespun folk. All members write and arrange original songs, creating a unique blend of sounds and styles as banjo, mandolin, guitars, basses, keyboards, harmonicas and accordions get traded and swapped in a live show that is both refreshingly original and distinctly classic. "Astonishingly unique... The Hollows gracefully manage the daunting task of modernizing folk music." - HipFolkInc.com
SUN 9/5
Yoni Gordon has never played a show where he did not win at least one person over and make them into a fan. He just works too damn hard and puts so much energy into performing that it's impossible not to be swept up in the almost religious fervor that he brings to rock and roll. Yoni is that most rare breed of performer who delivers a packaged deal of great songs, carefully written and keenly observed; a confidence and charisma onstage; powerful vocal chords and clear, chimming, powerfull guitar playing. He melds humor, heart and songs born for sing-alongs.
MON 9/6
With new tunes in the works and resurrected numbers Alec takes on Pete's for a weekly monday night residency." Blues and country influences intertwined with delicate folk arrangements, Alec weaves a web of history and passionate desires yearning to be fulfilled."
NY based art rock. HDSE
TUE 9/7
Music that sounds like drinking a cool capri sun on a hot humid day.
Maya Solovéy weaves together an enchanting mix of alternative folk/pop, bossa nova, homemade food, and humor into a scintillating smorgasbord.
Join Wolf van Elfmand for a night of Songs. Driven by old American Genres, Wolf explores the joy of music from all angles. Conversational lyrics about modern topics with a dash of folklore. An evening of splendor for all.
WED 9/8
Come on Down! Bring your friends and wrack your brains with mind-blowing rounds of trivia questions. Test your mental mettle in music, movies, visuals, top 10s, and other trivia miscellany. First Prize is a $25 bar tab, second prize is a $15 bar tab, and third prize is a tasty sandwich. The winning team each week also qualifies for the semi-annual trivia championships! Every Wednesday at 7:30pm. Give it a try, smart guy!
Emily Long and Zach Jones learned to play, sing and write music 3,000 miles away from each other. Inspired by the punk and grunge of the 90s, Emily spent her teenage years sneaking out to meet boys. Zach, on the other hand, divided his time between playing leading roles in community theater (he remains staunchly heterosexual) and drumming along to his Dad's favorite records. Fast forward to July 2009. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Emily and Zach found themselves gravitating toward the simplicity and honesty of country music. Several months and as many bottles of whiskey later, The Stone Lonesome was born. Their debut album, "Words & Whiskey", reflects the heart and excitement of a record 22 years in the making, and will be available on vinyl at all September shows.
Urban Soul Pop
THU 9/9
Sisters Erin, Anna, & Katie Rauch-Sasseen combine musical forces to create songs that are quirky, sentimental, and even sometimes danceable.
"Jason Anderson is an animal. This New Hampshire native lives on the road. He plays more than just another indie rock show. Jason preaches the gospel of rock James Brown style. He shows us the book of partying Andrew W.K. style. His band rips like Springteen's E Street Band rips. He shows us what it means to be alive. What it means to have music course through our veins. He shows us that none of us are too cool to have fun. This is OUR party! Bring your friends, bring your loved ones! Be ready to sing and dance! Believe in yourself. Believe in US!"
- Joe DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters
Singer-songwriter from Dublin /Ireland
Rockabilly rollers! -- Country spoonfullers! -- Standards & songbooksters! -- female vocalist, rained on by Jazz cats & Blues hounds; the whole pack pacing round a steel Magnolia tree, finding the pocket of a Waltz.
FRI 9/10
Two brothers who are close on separate coasts-playing original songs by Max Galesi.
Do the math: Folk + pop + a little country x rock and some other stuff = good-time music.
4 brooklyn ladies blend quirky, folky fun with piano ballads and lovely harmonies. composed of multiple instrumentation, including autoharp, cello, accordion, piano, and lots of percussive things!
"lovely riffs on bluegrass, country and folk music" - The New York Times
SAT 9/11
An itinerant preacher of Western americana, singer/songwriter James Apollo is thrilled to be back at Pete's for another night of forlorn melodies and anthemic choruses. Tonight, Apollo will focus on tracks from his forthcoming release 'til your Feet Bleed which offer "dark delights with a ghoulish sense of danger and charming fragility" (MOJO Magazine, UK, 4 out of 5 stars).
Anomalous music and amorphous lyrics to rend your worldview by, from singer-songwriter Amos Fisher. Folk, Jazz, Artsong...Imagine a Hermann Hesse novel as a rock opera.
SUN 9/12
Love Eat Sleep is singer songwriter Jeremy Bernstein joined by a roving cast of characters from all over the great state of NY. Jeremy Bernstein is a musician, and artisan born and raised in the heart of the Catskill mountains who writes honest tales of friendship, love, and loss. Bernstein has spent the last decade writing, recording and touring with Stoney Clove Lane and Drugs. Summer 2010 marks the release of his first solo album, which was recorded with long time compadres Joe Magistro on drums (Prophet Omega) and Andrew Shober on bass (Apple Pickers Union). The Record has many Friends from the Hudson Valley strewn throughout its 11 tracks. Live the band is captivating and dynamic with a pocket full of original songs. It would not be surprising to find the trio accompanied with keyboards, harmonicas, banjos, guitars etc...........loveeatsleep.com
Campfire-style songs from Nevada City, California.
"The Great Republic of Rough and Ready reexamine the traditions of country, folk, and blues in a unique style that is at once an offering of respect, an act of conservation, and an insightful critique. Their stripped-down reinterpretations – encompassing the works of artists from Ma Rainy to Skip James to Hank Williams – are steeped in craft, and imbued with a haunting stillness and subtlety."
MON 9/13
With new tunes in the works and resurrected numbers Alec takes on Pete's for a weekly monday night residency." Blues and country influences intertwined with delicate folk arrangements, Alec weaves a web of history and passionate desires yearning to be fulfilled."
TUE 9/14
Maya Solovéy weaves together an enchanting mix of alternative folk/pop, bossa nova, homemade food, and humor into a scintillating smorgasbord.
WED 9/15
Come on Down! Bring your friends and wrack your brains with mind-blowing rounds of trivia questions. Test your mental mettle in music, movies, visuals, top 10s, and other trivia miscellany. First Prize is a $25 bar tab, second prize is a $15 bar tab, and third prize is a tasty sandwich. The winning team each week also qualifies for the semi-annual trivia championships! Every Wednesday at 7:30pm. Give it a try, smart guy!
Emily Long and Zach Jones learned to play, sing and write music 3,000 miles away from each other. Inspired by the punk and grunge of the 90s, Emily spent her teenage years sneaking out to meet boys. Zach, on the other hand, divided his time between playing leading roles in community theater (he remains staunchly heterosexual) and drumming along to his Dad's favorite records. Fast forward to July 2009. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Emily and Zach found themselves gravitating toward the simplicity and honesty of country music. Several months and as many bottles of whiskey later, The Stone Lonesome was born. Their debut album, "Words & Whiskey", reflects the heart and excitement of a record 22 years in the making, and will be available on vinyl at all September shows.
THU 9/16
The Yarrows play melancholy, folk-tinged rock & roll with a deeply submerged artiness. They are admired by stoners, lonelyhearts, and some music nerds.
“...the sound of a world being created.” - Drowned in Sound
“...The Yarrows’ slow-burning songs are couched in a hazy beauty you might find on an album by Wilco or The Flaming Lips.” - PopMatters
"Jason Anderson is an animal. This New Hampshire native lives on the road. He plays more than just another indie rock show. Jason preaches the gospel of rock James Brown style. He shows us the book of partying Andrew W.K. style. His band rips like Springteen's E Street Band rips. He shows us what it means to be alive. What it means to have music course through our veins. He shows us that none of us are too cool to have fun. This is OUR party! Bring your friends, bring your loved ones! Be ready to sing and dance! Believe in yourself. Believe in US!"
- Joe DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters
"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me'. Look what happens with a love like that - it lights up the whole sky."
FRI 9/17
"Complete with the subtle whispers, dying chimes and the type of ambiance that opens the mind up" - Music Under Fire
7- piece indie-folk collective from Albany, NY
" Mia's mighty croon—a mix of Nicks and Neko—has a punky fury all its own."- Village Voice
SAT 9/18
"A cascade of Casio-fingered contortions and whiskey-cheeked brightness." -Treble
Now California based singer-songwriter, drummer and band leader, returns to New York for a solo set.
SUN 9/19
'Originally the brainchild of crooning minstrel Gregory Griffin; a Californian recently transplanted to a giant warehouse in the Manor House area of London, Lofty Heights have since evolved into a band of mid-20’s misfits peddling Colin Meloy influenced indie- pop that spin yarns from lonesome ancient mariners to the perils of sharing the washing-up!'
Unicorn Power! are a three piece who met in Brighton, UK. They formed last year uniting their love of obscure fuzz pedals, synth twiddling and fabulous dresses! They will be hitting NYC as a slimmed down travel-friendly 2-piece and hope to win you over with their synth/guitar fizzy pop.
MON 9/20
With new tunes in the works and resurrected numbers Alec takes on Pete's for a weekly monday night residency." Blues and country influences intertwined with delicate folk arrangements, Alec weaves a web of history and passionate desires yearning to be fulfilled."
TUE 9/21
Berlin born, London based Singer / Songwriter plays 'Riot Grrl Folk'! Roxanne de Bastion performs with a boldness that is enticing, daring and more Rock than her acoustic guitar would ever suggest. She’s captivated audiences across the globe with her instantly recognizable voice, her stage presence and songs that are distinctly her own.
Maya Solovéy weaves together an enchanting mix of alternative folk/pop, bossa nova, homemade food, and humor into a scintillating smorgasbord.
WED 9/22
Come on Down! Bring your friends and wrack your brains with mind-blowing rounds of trivia questions. Test your mental mettle in music, movies, visuals, top 10s, and other trivia miscellany. First Prize is a $25 bar tab, second prize is a $15 bar tab, and third prize is a tasty sandwich. The winning team each week also qualifies for the semi-annual trivia championships! Every Wednesday at 7:30pm. Give it a try, smart guy!
Emily Long and Zach Jones learned to play, sing and write music 3,000 miles away from each other. Inspired by the punk and grunge of the 90s, Emily spent her teenage years sneaking out to meet boys. Zach, on the other hand, divided his time between playing leading roles in community theater (he remains staunchly heterosexual) and drumming along to his Dad's favorite records. Fast forward to July 2009. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Emily and Zach found themselves gravitating toward the simplicity and honesty of country music. Several months and as many bottles of whiskey later, The Stone Lonesome was born. Their debut album, "Words & Whiskey", reflects the heart and excitement of a record 22 years in the making, and will be available on vinyl at all September shows.
New York City native Harry Zittel grew up in the eclectic heart of Greenwich Village listening to all different kinds of music, from Pop-Rock to Folk to R&B. These genres have affected and influenced Harry's search to create compact, powerful pop songs. His soulful, emotional singing (accompanied by Chris Marcus on guitar) drives home the pain, confusion, and excitement of being young in New York City.
THU 9/23
"Jason Anderson is an animal. This New Hampshire native lives on the road. He plays more than just another indie rock show. Jason preaches the gospel of rock James Brown style. He shows us the book of partying Andrew W.K. style. His band rips like Springteen's E Street Band rips. He shows us what it means to be alive. What it means to have music course through our veins. He shows us that none of us are too cool to have fun. This is OUR party! Bring your friends, bring your loved ones! Be ready to sing and dance! Believe in yourself. Believe in US!"
- Joe DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters
Rockabilly rollers! -- Country spoonfullers! -- Standards & songbooksters! -- female vocalist, rained on by Jazz cats & Blues hounds; the whole pack pacing round a steel Magnolia tree, finding the pocket of a Waltz.
Margaret Glaspy, Brittany Haas and Bridget Kearney put the "fun" back in "funderwear"! Burning through old-timey tunes about bad men, this band provides both comfort and support! Margaret Glaspy is one of New York's newest additions after stunning the Boston folk-scene for the last 4 years. Brittany Haas tours the world with bands like Crooked Still and Darol Anger's Republic of Strings. Bridget Kearney is bassist and songwriter for Lake Street Dive, Cuddle Magic, Joy Kills Sorrow and the Xylopholks.
FRI 9/24
Led by Brooklyn-native songwriter Tavo Carbone (voice, guitar), Horse's Mouth is comprised of Heather Sommerlad (violin, voice), Michael Chinworth (voice, accordion, wurlitzer), JJ Beck (drums, keys, glockenspiel) and Matthew Scott (voice, bass). Having had their premier NYC performance at Pete's in 2008, Horse's Mouth returns to the Pete's stage this evening with special guest John Eagle (French horn) to premier new songs and backdraft old ones. In March 2010, the band independently released its debut recording, the self-titled full-length Horse's Mouth. "All Horse’s Mouth songs feel odd in precisely the same way, the product of Carbone’s unique and unified vision, impossible to pin down completely but evocative and pleasurably strange, like a fairytale landscape (not one of the neutered ones where everyone is nice and boring, but the Hans Christian Andersen kind, where little girls get their feet cut off with axes)" - AmpEater Review
SAT 9/25
Set to be digitally released September 25th of 2010, Bird Call’s new EP is the work of Brooklyn musician, Chiara Angelicola and famed producer Joel Hamilton, who previously produced Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and The Black Keys. With a couple years’ worth of musing influences and a new town, Chiara, a California native, has chosen to put out an exploratory effort that is the singer and songwriter at her most intimate, sophisticated, and sincere. Born in a small, hippie suburb of San Francisco, Chiara grew up listening in on her mother’s bossa nova band rehearsals and taking the stage in front of the fireplace to entertain her parents’ guests through her plastic microphone. Up until her venture to New York in 2009, Chiara stirred the music scene of the Bay Area with her haunting and nostalgic vocal performances. Amoeba Records titled her as an “Artist of the Month” while also placing #16 out of hundreds for MTV2’s Bay Area Break Out Artist and showcasing at the International Folk Alliance in Memphis.
For more info and updates on Bird Call videos, shows, and music please visit www.birdcallmusic.com.
SUN 9/26
Fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Casillas, Ursa Minor has become a mainstay in NYC’s indie rock scene. The band delivers a timeless mix of vocal driven pop/rock with a primal rhythmic undercurrent; sharp and urban, broad and free. Ursa Minor’s debut LP “Silent Moving Picture” was released by Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, on Smells like Records. Michelle's singing is startling and sexy; effortlessly rhythmic, with soulful vulnerability and a bold attitude. The band features Robert DiPietro on drums (Josh Rouse, Norah Jones, Jesse Harris), Rob Jost on bass (Imogen Heap, Saturday Night Live band), and Tony Scherr on electric guitar (Sexmob, Bill Frisell, Lounge Lizards, Feist).
MON 9/27
With new tunes in the works and resurrected numbers Alec takes on Pete's for a weekly monday night residency." Blues and country influences intertwined with delicate folk arrangements, Alec weaves a web of history and passionate desires yearning to be fulfilled."
TUE 9/28
Sounds like maple sugar on snow.
Maya Solovéy weaves together an enchanting mix of alternative folk/pop, bossa nova, homemade food, and humor into a scintillating smorgasbord.
Equal parts ambient and virtuosic, melancholic and playful, CJ Boyd’s bass playing creates a sea of low, flowing rhythms, while also supplying melodies that soar over the ocean to dizzy the sun in its path. Waves of bass loops are garnished with harmonica drones and constant improvisational exploration. Deep-sea-diving for the hungry and alone.
WED 9/29
Come on Down! Bring your friends and wrack your brains with mind-blowing rounds of trivia questions. Test your mental mettle in music, movies, visuals, top 10s, and other trivia miscellany. First Prize is a $25 bar tab, second prize is a $15 bar tab, and third prize is a tasty sandwich. The winning team each week also qualifies for the semi-annual trivia championships! Every Wednesday at 7:30pm. Give it a try, smart guy!
Emily Long and Zach Jones learned to play, sing and write music 3,000 miles away from each other. Inspired by the punk and grunge of the 90s, Emily spent her teenage years sneaking out to meet boys. Zach, on the other hand, divided his time between playing leading roles in community theater (he remains staunchly heterosexual) and drumming along to his Dad's favorite records. Fast forward to July 2009. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Emily and Zach found themselves gravitating toward the simplicity and honesty of country music. Several months and as many bottles of whiskey later, The Stone Lonesome was born. Their debut album, "Words & Whiskey", reflects the heart and excitement of a record 22 years in the making, and will be available on vinyl at all September shows.
THU 9/30
"Jason Anderson is an animal. This New Hampshire native lives on the road. He plays more than just another indie rock show. Jason preaches the gospel of rock James Brown style. He shows us the book of partying Andrew W.K. style. His band rips like Springteen's E Street Band rips. He shows us what it means to be alive. What it means to have music course through our veins. He shows us that none of us are too cool to have fun. This is OUR party! Bring your friends, bring your loved ones! Be ready to sing and dance! Believe in yourself. Believe in US!"
- Joe DeGeorge, Harry and the Potters
"Her music has always combined the minimalist effects of lo-fi with instantly memorable melodies, yet when her and sidekick Daniel perform with nothing more than dueling keyboards it highlights that oh, so delicate voice and gives an onlooker chills." -- I Guess I'm Floating