Today: The Beets BBQ

The Beets have officially been around for a whole year now and are celebrating with a free BBQ in Brooklyn. Knight School, Air Waves, and Cause Co-Motion are also going to be playing.

Tonight: Everything Good In Life With Pow Wow, Darlings, & More (Free Beer)

Free to get in. Free beer. Free cookies. Free cakes. Free bands. Free cakes. Free art. Umm, fuck yeah!

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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

New BSC writer Kenya took a listen to the new Phoenix album. Here's what she had to say.

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Right now they are probably going by "Hey, it's those French dudes from SNL." And, yeah, they are indeed the French alt rock band featured on the Seth Rogen Saturday Night Live episode that aired way last month. I'm sure peeps were scratching their heads on that one before they started playing; knocking back hairlines and raising a few eyebrows. Bottom line is: these guys are good.

They just released their fourth LP, the awesomely titled Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. And if you were unfortunate enough to miss their prime time television performances of two of the album's singles ("Lisztomania" and "1901") as well as one of their first ever singles ("Too Young") then I humbly suggest you swing by the soon-to-be defunct Virgin Megastore @ Union Sq. and cop it. Along with their entire catalogue, if you can manage it. And you should be able to, considering.

French, but not a hint of it in Thomas Mars' oft soaring, sometimes warbling vocals. This album is a bit of synth pop at its best. Symphonic rock n' roll that highlights epic stretches of romance, youth and life. What you do when you listen to this band's notion of lighthearted realism is that 80s Breakfast Club library-banister-dance Ms. Pretty In Pink does so well in the depths of your adolescent memories. It helps that the ten-track disk is meant to mesh well with that decades' nostalgic imagery, as evidenced in the video representation of their singles. Hard pressed, you just couldn't find much of anything wrong with the album. It's crisp and easily enjoyable, with the one flaw being that - relegated to mere background noise - it's in danger of blending into itself. Most notable, next to "Lisztomania" and "1901", stand disco-funk "Fences"; the strikingly Space Odyssey-esque "Love Like A Sunset Pt. 1" and it's brother, Pt. 2, which dances us back into the atmosphere. Back down to earth with the remaining tracks. It's a great long interlude.

I actually put this thing on repeat and listened to all three tracks all the way through three times. It never got old, and I picked up something new every time. I like when that happens. So yeah, go for a bike ride with this. Go fly a kite. Sit on your roof and watch the trains pass by. Clean your apartment. It's good for dance and relaxation, which is an admirable feat. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix wins points for being one of things you just can't argue with. Makes sense.

Link:
Stream Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Tonight: We're Having A Party! Darlings, Dinowalrus, Bottle Up And Go, The Sundelles (FREE Beer)

The Music Slut & Brooklyn Ski Club Present
Non-Worker Party
w/ Darlings, Dinowalrus, Bottle Up And Go, & The Sundelles
@ Red Star Bar
37 Greenpoint Ave.
Bud Light Open Bar 9-10PM
21+
$5

Soft Focus With Jello Biafra

Darlings Are Playing Our Party

The next installment of the Non-Worker Party is tomorrow night at Red Star - be there or be square. Darlings are playing and were kind enough to send me a video and MP3 to share with you.

As you may recall Darlings were one of the 2009 Bands To Hear in the L Magazine. They were called "the least well-known band on this year's list" but it seems like they've everywhere lately. Tomorrow night you'll be seeing them at Red Star, right?

Darlings formed in the front room of an apartment on Bleecker Street in New York City. Peter Rynsky, Matt Solomon, Maura Lynch and Joe Tirabassi all met while they were killing time in college. They practice a brand of guitar pop that's equal parts sun-soaked '60s melodies and the noise of their hometown.

Link:

Darlings MySpace

MP3:
Teenage Girl - Darlings

Here's a live video from their show at Dead Herring

Tonight: Your Nature & Real Estate @ The Annex

New Phoeniz Album Streaming

The new Phoenix album Wolfgang Amadeus is streaming on Spinner. Take a listen and let us know what you think.

Link:
Phoenix Stream

Non-Worker Party II w/ Darlings, Dinowalrus, Bottle Up And Go, The Sundelles.

The last party we had at Red Star Bar was so awesome that we decided to have another one. So once again Brooklyn Ski Club and The Music Slut are bringing you the Non-Worker Party! Come see awesome bands, get shit-faced, and party hardy for only $5.

Non-Worker Party
@ Red Star Bar
37 Greenpoint Ave.
Bud Light Open Bar 9-10PM
21+
$5

Bands: Darlings, Dinowalrus, Bottle Up And Go, & The Sundelles

Links:
Facebook Invite
Going Invite

Cold War Kids Interactive Music Video

Great idea here, unfortunately the bandwidth at work sucks. All I got was a jerky video with the sound dropping in and out. But I got the gist of it and it's pretty cool so give it a go.

Link:
Cold War Kids Interactive Video

Tonight: Colt 45 Party @ Glasslands w/ These Are Powers & Pterodactyl

Another Colt 45 party in Brooklyn tonight! Drink and see good bands for free. Works for me.

Must RSVP:
Colt 45 Party

2009 Summerscreen Lineups

I've only been to one of these but it's a pretty good time. We snuck in a few 40's and hung out at the pool while Wet Hot American Summer was on the big screen. This year they're moving it to the softball fields, which may be an improvement (plus we can get "to-go" cups from Turkey's Nest!).

The L Magazine’s popular Summerscreen film series returns to Williamsburg this year, despite the loss of the McCarren Park Pool. Instead, we’ll be showing an excellent lineup of movies in another section of McCarren: the ballfields in the Southwest corner of the park.

The films will be shown at dusk on Wednesday nights starting July 8th and area restaurants will be on hand to sell food and beverages. Admittance is absolutely free.

This year’s lineup of films includes:

July 8: Reality Bites

July 15: Evil Dead 2

July 22: 24 Hour Party People

July 29: Wild at Heart

August 5: Fame

August 12: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind