EVERY TUESDAY
Burette and Gabrielle Douglas, the Husband-Wife duo, and masterminds of psychedelic indie-rock music group, The Cush bring a sound all their own.
THU 5/1
It's got a Syd Barrett thing going on, but it's American. Very American.
Two sets of original and traditional songs featuring Reid Burgess on mandolin, Steve Lewis on guitar and Jay Foote on bass.
FRI 5/2
Andy Dixon's music billows with a concentration of thick pop, live instrumentation, and multi-cultural musical references. It runs the gamut of emotion from bittersweet hooks to murky, claustrophobic dirges. His voice, guitar playing and songwriting burst with a fresh vibrant energy.
Sarah White (Charlottesville VA) is a tremendous songwriter who might resemble some kind of Hazel Dickens/Patti Smith/Cat Power love child. She's released records on Jagjaguwar and Antenna Farm and recently won Best Song at the 2007 Mountain Stage NewSong Contest. She just finished a self released EP called Sweetheart and is currently touring in an electric duo with King Wilkie guitarist, Ted Pitney.
SAT 5/3
Ladies! Gentlemen! Let us Come Together for the World's Most Joyful Spectacle!
The Kentucky Derby, Being a Race for the Roses, held each year during the tumult of Spring!
Come join us at Pete's Candy Emporium, a pleasure-garden made pregnant with flourishes including: A Do-it-yourself Millnery, for Belles of all fashion! Live musical accompaniment in the charming Bluegrass idiom! Down Home BBQ! Homemade Derby Pie! Mint Juleps! And of course the hazarding joy of parimutuel diversions in the living theatre!
The festivities shall commence at 3:30. Post Time at 6.
Dirt Road Sweetheart is a father-daughter group that has been 22 years in the making. Jane and Al Struthers deliver that good old family harmony, performing forgotten brother duets, old-time music, gospel tunes, traditional bluegrass, and even the occasional polka. With impeccable taste, spot-on harmonies, and an ever sunny demeanor, Dirt Road Sweetheart will get you tapping your feet and leave you smiling.
4 piece string band kills it with mean, raw, lean and hungry folk tunes and originals.
Alec Gross' recent work has shown a growing focus on identifying and utilizing those elements of popular music, which are both ageless and immediate. His fluency in folk and traditional idioms is unmistakable as he injects modern themes, storylines, and sensibilities into honest and timeless melodies and song structures.
SUN 5/4
Revolution Church with Jay Bakker 4
MON 5/5
featuring Cody Hess, Sean Donnelly, Shawn Pearlman, former Miss America contestant Scout Durwood, and touring (from MA) heavy metal spoken word artist Duncan Wilder Johnson.
Cosmic cowboy music at its best!!! Texas and Nashville meets the Lower East Side.
Acoustic indie pop with a country twang.
TUE 5/6
Intimate and playful, placid and serene. Melancholy and dark, with occasional hints of passing sadness.
Burette and Gabrielle Douglas, the Husband-Wife duo, and masterminds of psychedelic indie-rock music group, The Cush bring a sound all their own.
If Lucky Wreck had a dollar, they would run around McCarren Park waving that dollar in the air. Then they’d take that dollar to Pete’s and make it into a little flag that Mark Evces would wear poking up from the back of his hat while strumming his gi-tar and playing tunes with Ada Limón. It’d probably be her dollar anyway. And no one writes a better song about funerals or Burt Reynolds' tumultuous love life.
Dating back to his days in the California garage rock group Playboy Millionaires, Joe writes pointed, poignant and good-natured rock songs. His influences are equal parts Jonathan Richman and Paul Westerberg. He performs live with an acoustic guitar, a tambourine strapped to his foot, and Kenny McGrath accompanying on violin.
WED 5/7
Cozy folk songs. Mostly about weather.
Tim Noyes is an indie folk musician based out of New York City. With an original sound and honest, thoughtful songwriting, he has emerged onto the local music scene playing solo sets at some of NYC's most famous small venues. With a self-titled EP behind him and a debut album soon to come, Tim Noyes is a musician to watch for in 2008.
THU 5/8
Weekend getaways, the East river piers, starlit rooftop parties with friends. Escapism, as any New Yorker will tell you, is essential to life in the city. This might explain the sound of Dandelion Wine. Conjuring images of life outside the city, lyricist/vocalist Danny Musengo has that rare gift of painting a picture to which anyone can relate.
Danny has been singing in front of audiences since the age of 14. A natural songsmith, he considers Dandelion Wine his most straightforward work to date. Guitarist Tom Hopke already had a reputation as one of the next great blues guitarists before committing to DW. His effortless style is best appreciated live. Nathan MacCormack, bassist/cellist, has performed with various artists and orchestras over the years.
They say great music comes from combining distinctly different views of music. While each member has been performing for over a decade, their origins are as varied as the city we live in. Isn’t that the beauty of good music? After one listen, you might be transported to your getaway. Say, a place where people don’t lock their doors at night.
Spunky poetic lyrics that range from slow, swelling and mantra like to intricate, fast paced, punchy and urgent, in a style that's down to earth and conversational.
An argument that has been resolved but now makes little sense.
FRI 5/9
Lower East Side regular gives rare acoustic performance. The songs are stories of American life at the turn of this century, in the spirit of the great Jamaican rhythm sections, the country and western story writers, southern mythology, and contemporary urban life.
"A first-rate Cajun and Country band" - The New York Times. The Doc Marshalls are a versatile vehicle for the songs of Nicolas Beaudoing, whose music evokes a humid landscape along the Texas-Louisiana border, a place where the influence of George Jones sits comfortably alongside the storytelling of Townes Van Zandt and the rhythms of Cajun stalwarts such as the Balfa Brothers.
SAT 5/10
Willie Maerathon: Benefit for Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls 8-12
Part of the 2nd Annual Willie Maerathon! A benefit weekend of shows and events, running May 8-11th at venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan. 6 shows over 4 nights plus an afternoon matinee, starring 25 bands (including Vivian Girls, honeychild, Samara Lubelski, Each Other's Mothers, and Slaywhore.) A large portion of the bucket goes to the Willie Mae Rock Camp scholarship fund.
Even though the members of the Lisa Kasimow Trio joined forces only 5 months ago, listeners have sworn that they have played together for years. Each member of the trio (Lisa Kasimow, Eric Eble, and Ryan Murry) come from well established local bands, with the common goal to strip away the loud guitars and drums and create music with a warm acoustic soul that you can tap your foot too. The result is surprisingly familiar, like putting on your favorite old sweatshirt.
Voice/Guitar/Upright Bass playing duo versions of the original music of "The World Collective," our six-piece, Boston-based band.
With a wondrously-textured sound palette (harmonium, mbira, and trippy guitar washes, to name a few) coupled with some lovely melodies taken by co-ed vocals, The Minetta make music for a group-hug, but be sure to keep a cautious lookout over one's shoulder. Think cuddling on the beach with a riptide warning.
Slightly twangy swoony pop. With upright bass and maybe even autoharp!
SUN 5/11
Revolution Church with Jay Bakker 4
Folk rock with banjo, cello and tabla.
A camouflage wristwatch keeps an eye on a whalesong
sandwich in the double negative night. multiple
voices and accompaniment.
MON 5/12
Spelling Bee, a real adult spelling bee, open to all, with a kinder-and-gentler three-strikes-you're-out policy. Winners win bar tab and food.
Sea Hotel, Brookyn's Balkan Vocal Orchestra will bring you a set of colorful, ancient songs from the old world arranged anew.
Harmony- laced Indie pop/garage.
TUE 5/13
Burette and Gabrielle Douglas, the Husband-Wife duo, and masterminds of psychedelic indie-rock music group, The Cush bring a sound all their own.
WED 5/14
Four piece rock band hailing from Hartford, CT.
Perfect imperfection in that Cosmic American (GP, thanks) sort of way. Call it what you will, but the bottom line is honest music. It's a living, breathing form.
THU 5/15
A Kentucky ham from Alabam, an audible vaudeville flim-flam man!
FRI 5/16
At 24, Evan Voytas doesn't know where he is or what he is doing. Raised in rural Pennsylvannia. Lived in Harlem where he went to school for Jazz. Befriended a group of Franciscan friars while immersed in various religious texts and 70's new age paperbacks. Left New York City and settled on an Indian pueblo in northern New Mexico. After months of meandering in the desert, returned to New York City. Toured the world as guitarist for teen-pop phenom Teddy Geiger. Moved into a farmhouse in his native Pennsylvania. Here, at the end of a dirt road, Evan set up a studio and began recording these songs by himself.
With influences ranging from T. Rex to Daft Punk, Evan's music somehow sounds new yet familiar. Evan simultaneously references '70s folk pop (Emmitt Rhodes), indie rock pop (Spoon), singer/songwriter dance pop (Tom Vek) and Baltimore Club music. Evan's debut EP "Introducing Evan Voytas" was released in March 2008.
Jazz trio playing a new, electric version of folk from singer-songwriter Brian Mundy.
Lush indie pop with alt-country persuasions.
SAT 5/17
Theo Aronson and Friends 9
SUN 5/18
Revolution Church with Jay Bakker 4
We are a classically trained stringed trio with influnences in modern indie music and folk.
Tavo Carbone writes songs that are rooted in the eclectic soundings of Michael Hurley, Al Bowly and Tom Waits. According to www.lawrence.com of Kansas: "Carbone makes the type of subtle glockenspiel-laden old-timey pop that simultaneously makes you feel like you are both in the past and the future". After a long national tour promoting the upcoming "Crow Songs" CD, Tavo Carbone will debut a new, more 'orchestral' band this evening.
MON 5/19
Mark Norman, Lucas Held, Giuila Rozzi, and Alex Grubard, hosted by spelling bee co-host Jen Dziura.
It's a night of artists on the Poptank compilation; A collective of musicians who are supportive of each other and play shows together when possible. Richard McGraw, Audrey Ryan, and Siwat are all indie folk/rock singer-songwriters. If you like Lenoard Cohen you'll love Richard McGraw. If you love Joni Mitchell you'll love Audrey Ryan. And if you love pop music the likes of Elliot Smith and Wilco you'll love Siwat. Please come join us for some Monday fun...
TUE 5/20
Intimate and playful, placid and serene. Melancholy and dark, with occasional hints of passing sadness.
Burette and Gabrielle Douglas, the Husband-Wife duo, and masterminds of psychedelic indie-rock music group, The Cush bring a sound all their own.
WED 5/21
Aderbat is a study in contrasts -- shadow and light, bloom and decay, feelings of love and desire coupled with vague sensations of dread.
Phil and the Osophers are a 2-piece band made up of philosophers Philip Radiotes and Kevin Estrada, the duo plays a jangly jungly and artsy form of rock-n-roll with a heavy emphasis on carefully crafted lyrics.
THU 5/22
Francis Friday is a Brooklyn based musician that writes his songs by the slippery waves of the East River. Former band leader of Nerve Generator (best known as purveyors of 4-Track recording and featured numerous times in Tape Op), he now occupies most of his time recording solipsistic songs in his bedroom and storing the finished work under his bed.
Rockin duo performing songs from their original repertoire as well as some classic b-list gems.
FRI 5/23
The Quavers coax a luminous sound out of decayed samplers, walkmans, vibraphonettes, footpedal loopers, tape echo violin and homespun harmonies. Like a space-age Carter Family, they weave low-tech electronics around songs sturdy enough to stand up even if the power goes out. They call it "porch techno".
The UVC Band is a patchwork quilt of ex-pats and immigrants making music while they run from the law. The seven of them do not blend in well and it's hard to run with an organ on your back.
SAT 5/24
Alt/folk ghost music from California.
Award-winning Singer/Songwriter Gretchen Witt uses threads of folk, country, and pop to weave a sound ripe with femininity and edge. Reviewers have quipped; “Whatever she does, she should keep on doing it, because this is acoustic rock magic."
Young Adults play piano/vocal based songs with guitar, bass, and drums in all the right places. Nikki Shapiro writes emotional and thought provoking lyrics with haunting vocals over simple, to the point arrangements. We'll bring you to your knees with gentleness and honesty.
SUN 5/25
Revolution Church with Jay Bakker 4
MON 5/26
Spelling Bee, a real adult spelling bee, open to all, with a kinder-and-gentler three-strikes-you're-out policy. Winners win bar tab and food.
TUE 5/27
Burette and Gabrielle Douglas, the Husband-Wife duo, and masterminds of psychedelic indie-rock music group, The Cush bring a sound all their own.
Foot stomping hand clapping blues folk.
WED 5/28
Alec Gross' recent work has shown a growing focus on identifying and utilizing those elements of popular music, which are both ageless and immediate. His fluency in folk and traditional idioms is unmistakable as he injects modern themes, storylines, and sensibilities into honest and timeless melodies and song structures.
Acoustic Duo with sweet harmonies and a pinch of electronics.
THU 5/29
A high energy multi-media rock show featuring live & virtual Vocals, Drums, Bass, Guitars, Keys & Gizmos. CH takes the audience on a visual and sonic ride as he performs his songs, blurring lines between what is live and what is virtual.
FRI 5/30
SAT 5/31
...And The Wiremen 9
...And The Wiremen perform the songs of former Bee and Flower (current Gachupin, Barnes/Becker/Wright Trio) guitarist Lynn Wright. Their music combines images of a gothic Deep South with the rhythms of South America and the grainier elements of barroom jazz and avant-pop. The band features Paul Watson (Sparklehorse, Vic Chestnut) on cornet, Chris Michael (Coba) on drums and percussion, Eric Eble (Cordero) on bass, Andrew Megginson on vocals, and Jon Petrow (Cloudroom) on guitar.
Neo AM Radio with a hint of car chase and psychedelia.