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Memorial Day Party with Matthew Dear (DJ) Sunday May 27 Beyond...

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:46:29 -0400

Memorial Day Party with Matthew Dear (DJ)

Sunday May 27 Beyond Booking presents Summertime Rolls
Loreley BK
64 Frost Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
21+, 4p-late, $10
featuring DJ sets by:
Matthew Dear - DJ Set (Ghostly | Spectral)
Reade Truth (White Label, Planet E, Nyside Music | Brooklyn)
Ivy Feraco (Brooklyn)

herosquad: Brisketlab (an underground BBQ club!) is coming to...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:28:39 -0400

herosquad:

Brisketlab (an underground BBQ club!) is coming to NYC this Summer…

createthegroup: Animals Ryan McGinley May 2nd – June 2nd...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:10:58 -0400

createthegroup:

Animals
Ryan McGinley
May 2nd – June 2nd 2012
Team Gallery
83 Grand Street

Big Booty Hoes: Asspocalypse Now

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:38:00 -0500

Come hear some of New York’s best female house and techno DJs play a raunchy mix of Ghetto Tech, Juke, and Miami Bass. Lauren Flax, Fischerspooner’s touring DJ and one half of CREEP, will be headlining the night as DJ Clamshackle.

The Loft at 70 N 6th St - NO COVER! - January 11th, 2012 - 10PM-2AM

Tickets just went on sale for Antony and the Johnsons 1/26/12 at...

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:32:00 -0500

Tickets just went on sale for Antony and the Johnsons 1/26/12 at Radio City Music Hall

“The Museum of Modern Art has commissioned Antony and the Johnsons to perform Swanlights, on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Featuring a 60-piece orchestra, the performance piece is conceived as a new commission especially developed for the January 26th performance, and an evolution of the highly acclaimed The Crying Light, which was presented at the Manchester Opera House for the 2009 Manchester International Festival. Envisioned as a meditation on light, nature, and femininity, Swanlights includes songs from all four of Antony and the Johnsons’ albums (self-titled, I am a Bird Now, The Crying Light, and Swanlights), set to symphonic arrangements by Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, and Maxim Moston. It is produced in collaboration with light artist Chris Levine, lighting designer Paul Normandale, and set designer Carl Robertshaw. Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large of The Museum of Modern Art and Director of MoMA PS1, with the assistance of Eliza Ryan, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA PS1. Klaus Biesenbach spoke with The New York Times today about the upcoming event. (via Antony and the Johnsons news)”

Photo by Clive Osborne

BIKE KILL 666 in 2008 Is our favorite event of year BIKE KILL...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:07:54 -0400

BIKE KILL 666 in 2008

Is our favorite event of year BIKE KILL happening this Saturday, 10/29/2011? We’ve heard grumblings…

Free DFA party on Tuesday TOYOTA ANTICS presents Special Disco...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:16:02 -0400

Free DFA party on Tuesday

TOYOTA ANTICS presents Special Disco Version
DJ sets by James Murphy/Pat Mahoney of LCD Soundsystem, Juan Maclean and Midnight Surfer.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
8:00 PM – Midnight

House of Vans
25 Franklin St.
(between Meserole Ave & Quay St)

RSVP: http://uptheantics.com/specialdisco

Photo

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:09:21 -0400

Big Booty Hoes: Booty, Electro, Miami Bass

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:50:00 -0500

Come hear some of the best house and techno DJs of New York City don a moderately perverse alter-ego and play some raunchy, throw down, freakadelic jams.

The Loft at Public Assembly - NO COVER - January 13th, 2010

Think New Dance Show.

Think BOOTY!!

Do the Right Thing Book Signing

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:21:00 -0500

Spike Lee will be in DUMBO at the powerhouse Arena from 7-830pm on Thursday, December 16, 2010. He will be signing copies of his new book on the film Do The Right Thing.

Hennessy Artistry NYC Party 2010 The Roots destroyed last night...

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:55:00 -0400

Hennessy Artistry NYC Party 2010

The Roots destroyed last night at Hennessy’s annual Artistry event. The cover of Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones” and ATCQ’s “Bonita Applebaum” were huuuge highlights. The performance starts at 48:00 in the video above.

Special guests:

Q-Tip
Ron Isley
Mike Posner
Erykah Badu
Eve
Bobby Brown (!)
Mary J. Blige

Disclaimer: We work with Hennessy.

BUSHWICK BLOCK PARTY 9/12 EXTREEMMMEEE VIDEO! THIS IS HOW YOU...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:09:07 -0400

BUSHWICK BLOCK PARTY 9/12

EXTREEMMMEEE VIDEO! THIS IS HOW YOU PROMOTE A PARTY

Roberta’s Pizza and the fish fry / crawfish truck providing food.

Shark?, Team Robespierre and a bunch of bands playing for free.

Free Williamsburg has the flyer with full details.

MP3: Mary Anne Hobbs Final Show on BBC Radio 1

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:55:00 -0400

MP3: Mary Anne Hobbs Final Show on BBC Radio 1:

Last night Mary Anne Hobbs played the final show of her 14-year career with BBC Radio 1. Her last guests? Burial and Kode9.

We’ll miss you.

No hurricane is going to stop us. The Bunker is where...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:50:00 -0400

No hurricane is going to stop us. The Bunker is where we’ll be until 6am.

Back - Hello?Repeat Room:
10 - Jan and Daze back to back all night!!!

Front - Clone Room:
10 - Bethany Benzur
1 - Space Dimension Controller
2 - Serge
3:30 - Dexter
4:30 - Serge

Twist (Barry McGee) and Amaze repainted the mural on Houston...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:53:00 -0400

Twist (Barry McGee) and Amaze repainted the mural on Houston formerly occupied by Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, and a Keith Haring memorial. The wall goes full circle from fine art back to straight up graffiti, giving nods and shout outs to a huge roll call of graffiti writers. Twist and Amaze painted a similar shout out wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego earlier this year. The Museum’s staff were out with 30 gallons of paint to buff the tag wall the next day.

The noise and energy Twist and Amaze’s Downtown bombing stirred up during the late ’90s was amazing. We hope to see new street work from them outside of the legal walls.

Photo Credit: The Art Collectors

People tend to tune out what’s going on outside during...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:53:00 -0400

Good Morning!

Not many hookers, hasids, and minivans

SALLY SHITFOOT

Tough Times

Good Night!

People tend to tune out what’s going on outside during their day to day grind. The grime of New York makes me smile. The garbage, tags, and dirt are a necessary byproduct of a city filled with high-strung weirdos constantly husting for happiness, relevance, money, and success.

Art Swamp - Closing Block Party

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:51:43 -0400

(photo via NYC Bridgerunners)

Common Superstitions En Vogue Among Savages, a show at Secret Project Robot featuring art from Conrad Carlson, Greg Henderson, and Ian Helwig will come to a close on Sunday, August 15th.

In this show viewers are invited into a subterranean abyss inhabited by renderings of monsters and mystical creatures. Grown ripely from the artists imagination’s, vines hang low from a dark cave while saturated palates and jungle patterns overwhelm the senses and create feelings of a long forgotten mystical swamp.

To celebrate, they will be throwing a block party on Sunday afternoon. From what we’ve heard it may be a mini Bike Kill-style event.

You missed out if you never had the opportunity to experience Bike Kill. The fun, chaos, and destruction was something we looked forward to every year. Unfortunately there are repercussions associated with turning an unsuspecting Bedstuy block sandwiched between a public school and a Home Depot parking lot into a smoldering crater of hot garbage straight out of Mad Max. We hope things get ironed out in the future.

In the meantime, check out this great documentary on Bike Kill 666 and reminisce with us on Sunday!

140 CHARACTERS OR LESS IS THE NEW BLACK. (via myrushmore)

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:10:26 -0400

140 CHARACTERS OR LESS IS THE NEW BLACK.

(via myrushmore)

Marcel Detmann just dropped Jesus Loves Acid at 6:30am and The...

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:53:00 -0400

Marcel Detmann just dropped Jesus Loves Acid at 6:30am and The Bunker exploded. I’m proud of NYC!

atomly - 7:39 AM Aug 7th, 2010

Williamsburg Yuppies - Face it: you have become your parents

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:00:00 -0400

New York Shitty posted on a party that occurred last weekend in Williamsburg:

My wife and I and our 16 month old daughter have been kept up all night by a quite clearly illegal dance party hosted in a stalled condo project on North 1st, between kent and wythe I called the police a total of 4 times during the night, and 311 as well. Do you know how to get hold of the details of the owners of buildings like this ? Also, is there anything we can do as members of the community ? Community board meetings or similar? It’s 7.30 and it’s still going on. I’m concerned that if they think the cops are powerless, they will carry on for the rest of the summer. If they do, we’re moving out. Any suggestions you could make would be greatly appreciated.

We’ve been to a lot of these types of parties and we’ve definitely been witness to families and neighbors telling us how they’ve been inconvenienced so there really isn’t much groundbreaking news here. What is worth reading appears in the comment below…

I have a suggestion. Move yourself, your wife and your 16-month-old daughter to the Upper East Side. Better yet, head to the nice, quiet, family-oriented communities of Long Island or Jersey.

Instead, you chose to move to Williamsburg: “home of the illegal dance party/all-night indie-rock drug n boozefest.” And now you’re surprised by this?

Not to mention, you chose to raise your daughter in an (only somewhat former) industrial wasteland, a place described as “the most toxic place to live” (see http://gothamist.com/2007/04/11/toxic_williamsb.php). A place that, for example, boasts the city’s only chemical and nuclear storage facility (a block from you, btw) and which boasts the highest childhood asthma rates in the country. Great parenting!

Undoubtedly, this quality decision making results from your advanced degree and tastemaker status. You are a hip “young professional.” Too vain to admit to yourself that you are now a “family man,” that your undergrad keg-stand glory days are behind you, you sit home on Saturday night and sip craft beers with the wifey. Face it: you have become your parents.