Thursday Oct 29th, Friday Oct 30th

Thursday, Oct 29th
@The Stone (Ave C and 2nd St), 10pm, $10 
Newspeak , an experimental classical ensemble featuring multi-talented-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans, who you can see in this neato video from the NYTimes:  Breaking In: Caleb Burhans.


Friday, Oct 30th
@The Hall of Music Williamsburg, 9pm, $12
THE FUTURE OF THE LEFT

the amazing band that came out of the dearly departed best band in the world, Mclusky. Featuring the same sparkling wit, cynicism and snarl of singer Andy Falkous (some of my fav lyrics from the new album: "only the good die young, except for when then don't, it's not exactly fair" and "yea, sure, Satan rules but that doesn't mean I can't be practical"). This show is only $12

Opening acts: Freshkills and Dinowalrus

Tonight, Friday, Halloween, and Nov 3rd

haven't been updating because i'm too busy to go to any shows.
But here's what I have planned

Thursday, Oct 29th
@The Stone (Ave C and 2nd St), 10pm, $10 
Newspeak , an experimental classical ensemble featuring multi-talented-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans, who you can see in this neato video from the NYTimes:  Breaking In: Caleb Burhans.


Friday, Oct 30th
@The Hall of Music Williamsburg, 9pm, $12
THE FUTURE OF THE LEFT

the amazing band that came out of the dearly departed best band in the world, Mclusky. Featuring the same sparkling wit, cynicism and snarl of singer Andy Falkous (some of my fav lyrics from the new album: "only the good die young, except for when then don't, it's not exactly fair" and "yea, sure, Satan rules but that doesn't mean I can't be practical"). This show is only $12

Opening acts: Freshkills and Dinowalrus

!!!!!!HALLOWEEN!!!!!

To start with, of course, is
@The Royal Oak in Williamsburg 
THE MOON Extra Special Halloween Show, 7pm, FREE like halloween candy.
The Moon dresses up and performs as their version of The Muppet Show! It's like a dream come true. I unfortunately probably won't be there because of work.

Come dressed as your fav Muppet character, or as anything at all, because it makes it more fun that way.
Following the show is the Royal Oak dance party.


Afterwards, I'm thinking of attending any of the following things:

Gemini & Scorpio Masquerade Macabre Party
This is going to be pretty wild if you ask me. 
A marvelous and mysterious event...a Halloween celebration of the extravagant and the grotesque...a 12-hour spectacle of atmosphere, costumery and diverse entertainments...an explosion of live music, dancing, circus arts, fire and late-night revelry, snake-charmed into an absinthe-fueled early-morning speakeasy.

With:
- A demonic dance floor by Brooklyn Wonderland with DJ Stylus, DJ Dirtyfinger and Reaganomics, plus live percussion by Blood Drums
- Hand-cranked phonograph music by WFMU's DJ Michael Cumella
- Exotic Balkan rhythms by Raya Brass Band
- Victorian music box mix, toy piano mayhem and circus techno by Sxip Shirey
- An explosive fire experience by Dan Glass
- Remixed vintage beats and frightfully sexy dance grooves by DJ Shakey
- A pineal-tingling sunrise blend of live flute over world electronica by SuKhush
- Vintage soul + funk remix breakfast set by Cloud

Plus:
- Fantastical face & body painting by Painteresse Elyzabeth
- Frighteningly accurate fortunes told by practitioners of the occult arts
- Mystifying silver film likenesses produced in front your very eyes by Tsirkus Fotografika
- Delectable treats served all night, and breakfast at 7am

And for the daring few:
- Absinthe and other mind-altering potions by The House of St Eve (yes, t.h.o.s.e. cocktails...)

Costume inspiration:
Dark Victoriana, macabre carnival, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Georges Melies & Brothers Quay films, Edward Gorey, cabinet of curiosities. Costumes required.

Halloween, Saturday, Oct 31, 9pm-9am, 21+
Two private lofts & a steampunk bar in Prospect Heights, BK
RSVP for full location details
$15 before 12am, $20 after


RSVP: http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
while you're at it, sign up for their mailing list of off beat art and music lists and secret parties.

OR:

Flavorpill party: Gods and Heroes
with The Very Best and lots of other shit. Only problem is it's $35. But it goes to a charity.
 

"the party theme is Gods & Heroes, and to make sure you get bang for your do-gooder buck, we're bringing in Pitchfork darlings the Very Best to headline, plus Afrobeat stars Bajah & the Dry Eye Crew, tabla-rockers Sub Swara, underage Detroit house phenom DJ Kyle Hall, old-school NYC hip-hop DJ Stretch Armstrong, crazy vinyl-slinger and Rubulad dude $mall ¢hange, and our favorite Famous Friends, VDRK & Bradley D. Free booze all night comes courtesy of HobNob (who also hook up a photo booth), Dos Equis, and Stoli.

Note:
Buy a ticket early, as this will sell out. The secret location will be revealed the day of the party — don't worry, it's super convenient to all trains, and just over a bridge from Manhattan. Check out pics and vids from past parties"

OR:

@UCB, 8pm, 10pm and Midnite, $15

KILLGORE!

which looks pretty awesome.

 
http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/5162


OR:

$2-Dolla-Holla-Ween Party
262 Taaffe Pl. #114...Easy to get to by train (G-train Classon Ave. stop), and cabs are abundant...look for the orange skull!

$2 entry fee gets you:
3 crazy fresh DJ’s (Gordon Gartrell, DJ Sirak, Uncle Mike)...live nude body painting...live performances by Rev. McFly of Ninjasonik and Midnight Unlimited (Art for Money Records)...Cheap Drinks...T-shirt give-a-ways...beautiful people
No bullshit doormen, no attitude- all fun.

Hip*hop rock electro funk 80’s house soul new*wave dancehall dance b*more music for your dancing feet


and finally, the reason I've been too busy to go to shows

TUESDAY, NOV 3rd
@Ars Nova Theater, 8pm, $10
An Evening with Confidence and Youth.
as part of ANT Fest

Me, Ellis Bahl, Kenny Pickett and Bryan Condon will be performing a half hour show of songs and stories on the loose theme of childhood love, and some such things. It will be silly and fun and interesting. Come see it.

it's a double bill with the sketch comedy of This American Strife. So technically you're only paying $5 to see us dick around, and $5 to see the other group dick around.

***This show is half sold out and tickets are going fast, so if you're truly interested in going and want to make sure you do, BUY ADVANCE TICKETS NOW

Wed Oct 21

@ Le Poisson Rouge , 6:30pm (get there early) $10

Darcy James Agrue

Program: Piano works of David Lang, pianist TBA (Cantaloupe)
NOW Ensemble , works TBA (New Amsterdam)
Julia Wolfe work for bagpipes and tape (Cantaloupe)
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (New Amsterdam)

Clips of the film (Untitled) will be screened between performances.

@ABC RIO  (156 Rivington), 8pm
Chester

- Stand-up comedian CHRISTINE NANGLE (Saturday Night Live)!
- Storyteller SETH LIND (Thank You Robot, Told)!
- Sketch SKINNY BITCH JESUS MEETING (Edinburgh Fringe Festival)!
And of course improv from CHESTER!
Chester is Zack Willis, Caitlin Steitzer, Bridgid Ryan, Sunita Mani, Oliver Lockwood, Bryan Rucker and Adam Jacobson.

$3 - $8 and BYOB (There may also be some FREE BEER for the early folks!)



@UCB. 8pm $5
BoF (Best of Friends) With Mamrie Hart & Steve Soroka and featuring Jonathan Desley, Keith Huang, & Michelle Wolf
A young lady named Mamrie who I just met at the ANT Fest launch party is performing in ANT Fest with her band The Faggettes and told me to come to this show. 


@ UCB.  9:30. $5
Nights of Our Lives (storytelling show)

 @ Le Poisson Rouge 11pm, $15
The Very Best...

along with:
Green Owl CMJ Showcase

Violens , Grandchildren and Ninjasonik
w/ The Side Room Hosted by: Nat Geo Music

Download their song "The Warm Heart of Africa" here 

BONK!

BONK FEST!!!

THURSDAY - Santos Party House

96 Lafayette Street, Manhattan
7pm – 11pm
$5 - $10 Sliding Scale

Full of HONK! fever, kick-off the Post-HONK! brass explosion in NYC with a night of brasstastics that will make you hit the dance floor hard!

7:10 Yellow Hat Band
8:00 Environmental Encroachment
8:40 Pink Puffers
9:20 Rude Mechanical Orchestra
10:10 Veveritse
Hosted by Tanya Z. Solomon, with special guests.

FRIDAY - The Brooklyn Brassacre

Greenpoint, Brooklyn
8pm – 2am

A raucous, ecstatic jaunt between two Greenpoint Avenue venues, with performances by seven brass bands…and a silent parade led by the HMB dancers and friends.

Lulu’s Bar, 113 Franklin Avenue, corner of Greenpoint Avenue

8:15 Stumblebum Brass Band
9:00 Yellow Hat Band
9:45 Environmental Encroachment
Hosted by Sarah Blust and Sully Ross of Rude Mechanical Orchestra.

Coco66, 66 Greenpoint Avenue

10:30 Raya Brass Band
11:30 Pink Puffers
12:30 Hungry March Band
1:30 Circus Amok Band
Hosted by Samantha La Cymbalina of Hungry March Band.

SATURDAY - Rude Mechanical Orchestra plays for the Our Waterfront Coalition

The courtyard between 275 and 265 Cherry Street in Manhattan
Noon to 2pm

Brass & Bowl

Asbury Lanes
209 4th Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey
10pm – 1am
$10 Admission

Find out what happens when three renegade street bands hit the happening Victorian seaside town that Bruce Springsteen made famous! Playing at the inimitable bowling alley/punk club and gallery, Asbury Lanes.

Featuring Hungry March Band, Pink Puffers, Yellow Hat Band.

SUNDAY - Brass Band Potluck Picnic

McCarren Park 
near the corner of Lorimer and Driggs
4pm-8pm

Fri, Oct 16th

@MoMa. 10:30am. Yes, that's as in the morning.
"Looking At Music: Side 2" 

@ISSUE Project Room .  8pm. $10
Larkin Grimm + MV & EE Barn Nova Release




@Madame X. 8pm. $15.
Naked Girls Reading. 

Carson Daly said it's "the best thing to happen to books since they were put on tape."
I would argue it's not the best thing to happen to books, but the worst thing to happen to naked girls. I mean think about it: you're with a girl, and she's naked. Nice. Then she says "wait! first, I'd like to read to you 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'"

This seems like an idea that sounds good in theory, looks even better in picture, but would probably get boring and annoying after 10 minutes. Like girls.

Of course, if it weren't $15, I'd definitely. Now it's knocked down to a maybe.


@ The Stone. 8pm $10
Evan Parker, Tim Berne and Earl Howard
Evan Parker (soprano and tenor saxophones) Tim Berne (alto sax) Earl Howard (electronics)

Evan Parker has a residency here for the whole month, but the month is running out.

@BAM Cafe Live . 9pm. Free.
The Skye Steele Quartet

If there's one word I love to hear in a band name (besides 'Experience' or 'Traveling'), it's 'quartet.' Any 'tet will do, really. Or any number in the name that refers to how many members are in the band. Even if the number isn't accurate at all. The only word I like more is 'Chamber,' and I don't even know what that means. No, wait, the only word I like more is 'Naked.'

Skye Steele Quartet @ Sputnik-- Black is the Color

Skye Steele|MySpace Music Videos
(I love that the video cuts off at "that's the first track off our record, it's called 'Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair', it's actually an ancient...", exactly the place where the audience stops listening.)

@Galapagos . Cabaret Magyar. 10:30PM
(also November 20)
$15.00 at the door

*this looks great, but if you're going to go to one wacky Brooklyn cabaret this weekend, I'd go to the Floating Kabarette on Saturday for free. But only cause it's free. It may be free for a good reason.

A three-part series of fin-de-siècle cabarets with 21st-century spirit. New York and Hungarian artists, writers, and musicians take on a variety of Hungarian subjects you never knew were Hungarian: from Harry Houdini and Zsa Zsa Gabor to Cicciolina, Transylvania, and Ex-Lax. Foot juggling, mustache animations, Communist-era Hungarian commercials—everything you crave in a cabaret!

Featuring performances by:
Marianna Falusi
Sweet Soubrette
Adira Amram
Bekah Brunstetter
Julie Atlas Muz
Tanya Gagne
animation by Nina Frenkel & Stefany Anne Golberg

And your host Nick Jones!

http://extremelyhungary.org/cabaret.php

@BAM cinemas. "Gigante" 7pm*

Part of the BAMcinématek series ¡Go Uruguay!

*Q&A with director Adrián Biniez and producer Fernando Epstein

Directed by Adrián Biniez. (2009) 84min

 

Sat, Oct 17th

@issue project room  8pm – Glenn Branca Ensemble – THE ASCENSION: THE SEQUEL
 The new Glenn Branca Ensemble will be performing the entirety of the soon to be recorded album ”The Ascension: The Sequel” at Issue Project Room. Buy Tickets | Admission: $15 door, $12 advance online




@Galapagos. Floating Kabarette
Doors: 10pm/Show: 10:30pm
FREE

" This weeks Floating Kabarette features performances by:
Trixie & Monkey: sexy trapeze and aerial hijinks
Dirty Martini: international burlesque sensation
Jenny Rocha & Her Painted Ladies: deliciously bawdy dancers
Gay Marshall: heart melting chanteuse
Tanya Gagne: titillating trapeze star
The Maine Attraction: exotic burlesque beauty

And featuring your hosts for the evening: Olga & Bjorn!

*Free Haircuts all night by Lynsey!
*2-4-1 drinks from 12am-1am"

@Glasslands. 10 pm $5
Lagos Disco Inferno (Nigerian Disco Dance Party)

@The Stone. Badal Roy Trio. 8 pm. $10.
Badal Roy (tabla, percussion) Kenny Wessel (guitar) Dave Ambrosio (bass)

@ The Public Assembly. 10pm. "Uh Yeah Dude" Live.
View event page.

Sun Oct 18th

@Le Poisson Rouge.  6pm. FREE

A CD release party and listening event for Alarm Will Sound's 2009 Nonesuch Records debut recording "a/rhythmia," with music of Nancarrow, Ligeti, Birtwistle, Benedict Mason, Michael Gordon, Josquin, Autechre, and Mochipet.

Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music. The versatility of Alarm Will Sound allows it to take on music from a wide variety of styles. Its repertoire ranges from European to American works, from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced. The group fosters close relationships with contemporary composers and has commissioned and premiered pieces by Steve Reich, David Lang, Anthony Gatto, Cenk Ergün, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Stefan Freund, Wolfgang Rihm, Payton MacDonald, Gavin Chuck, and Dennis DeSantis. 




@Glasslands.  8pm. $7 
Tom Mulligan & Ben Owen, Elodie Lauten, Che Chen & Robbie Lee, Jozef Van Wissem 

"Composer-lute player Jozef Van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the Renaissance and Baroque lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordingsmade at airport lounges and train stations. The unusual wedlock of composition and improvisation creates an unheard amalgam of contemporary folk and late Renaissance music."

"Robbie Lee/Che Chen use a constellation of instruments that includes bass clarinets, baroque recorders, flutes, reed and pipe organs, renaissance keyboard instruments, bowed and plucked strings, bells, shakers, rattles, drums, blocks and the occasional electrical device,  make (mostly) acoustic, improvised music that unfolds slowly, guided principally by a sense of listening in the moment and by placing precedence in attention over technique."

Janel and Anthony 10 Janel and Anthony are an experimental cello and guitar duo. Their intuitive compositions leave room for improvisation while staying grounded in their cumulative musical backgrounds. Combining their knowledge of rock, classical, surf, jazz, Japanese traditional music and free improvisation, the duo work together to create something beautiful every performance.