Rock In The New Year (Shows Tonight)

• X-Ray Eyeballs, Food Stamps, Reading Rainbow & more @ Cake Shop, $12.
• The Detroit Cobras @ Maxwells, $25
• The Butthole Surfers @ Music Hall, $55
• Sounds Of Kaleidoscope, Rifle Recoil & more @ Party Xpo, $10
• Stalkers, Kid Congo, K-Holes & more @ Home Sweet Home, $10

Personality Crisis 2-Year Anniversary w/ Team Robespierre, SHAPES & More.

Personality Crisis is a rad DIY party that our friend Fanelli of SHAPES throws once a month at Shea Stadium. PC is celebrating 2 years of raging on Jan. 29th. We kinda sorta helped out with the anniversary party and as such Brooklyn Ski Club is the presenting sponsor for the party! The always awesome Team Robespierre will be headlining the show. Check out the flyer for the rest of the lineup.

New Suckers Video, "It Gets Your Body Movin"

SUCKERS - It Gets Your Body Movin´ from Amberley Productions on Vimeo.


Team Robespierre Played Bruar Falls

Last night King Kog, the bike shop, threw a holiday party at Bruar Falls. Team Robespierre headlined the show. The crowd was a little lazy the first couple of songs, which is really weird for a TR show. The mic kept cutting out early on so that probably had something to do with it. But after a couple of tunes and with the sound sorted out shit went into high gear and stayed that way for a the rest of the show. As always Team Robespierre was awesome and we had a little mini-riot going in Bruar Falls.



Tonight: Shark? + Bottle Up & Go @ Glasslands

Whatever Blog put together a show tonight at Glasslands.



Chairlift Playing Free Show Tomorrow.

If you haven't split town for turkey and presents yet then you're in luck. Chairlift is playing a free show at the Knitting Factory tomorrow night and all you have to do to get in is RSVP.

Details & RSVP:

Chairlift Free Show

Tonight: Team Robespierre @ Bruar Falls (Free Show)

The bike shop, King Kog, is throwing a holiday party at Bruar Falls tonight. There will be bands, burlesque, raffles and a photobooth. Team Robespierre will be headlining the party and it's all totally free...except for the beer, you'll have to pay for that.



Metal Boxes by: Team Robespierre by Sleeping On Wheelwatch

SHAPES & Jangula Played Shea Stadium

Once a month the band SHAPES throws a party called Personality Crisis at Shea Stadium, which is a DIY venue hidden away in the Williamsburg Industrial Park. Fanelli, who is the singer for SHAPES and the promoter of the party, invited us to out. We love SHAPES and I've been wanting to see Jangula (also on the bill) so we made a point to stop by. Plus Fanelli cooked up a batch of homemade Four Loko and there was no way I was missing out on that (Fanelli's Four Loko recipe coming soon to BSC).

Shea Stadium is in my neighborhood so we all met up at Lady Jay's, the best bar in Brooklyn, for a few drinks before the show. After a couple of cans we hiked up Grand and through the desolate blocks of the industrial park to Shea.

When we got to the show some band called Night Eyes (I think) were about to go on. We went over to the home brew table and Fanelli hooked us up with a sample. It wasn't so bad but I'm pretty sure it was at least semi-poisonous, I guess all booze is to some extent. Night Eyes got started while I was sippin' on my bathtub Loko. They played some sort of dark techno synth music. Not my cup of tea but the kids were dancing around like crazy so hey, that's cool.

Did I mention the kids? Personality Crisis brings in an extremely young crowd. If you're over 25 they probably think you're a

Tonight: SHAPES & Jangula @ Shea Stadium

Our homies SHAPES are throwing their monthly party, Personality Crisis, at Shea Stadium. They also have Jangula playing who are an awesome Brooklyn band. We told you about those guys back in August but haven't had the chance to see them live yet. Let's party!



RIP Captain Beefheart



Captain Beefheart died yesterday from multiple sclerosis, he was 69. The world just got a whole lot more normal.

Link:

Captain Beefheart Is Dead



Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes, I Do. Captain Beefheart. by JudasHannibal

Tonight: Wild Yaks, Bottle Up & Go, Steel Phantoms @ The Studio



The Dirtbombs Covering Detroit Techno



I don't know shit about Detroit techno but The Dirtbombs cover techno tracks in general is pretty interesting. A whole album of this stuff comes out in February, more below.

The Dirtbombs - Sharevari by forcefieldpr



Nearly ten years after their acclaimed Ultraglide in Black helped kick-start a renewed interest in all things Detroit and rock-and-roll, The Dirtbombs are releasing the de facto companion piece, Party Store.

Ultraglide was a covers collection of 60's and 70's soul gems centred on the ideas of African-American identity and politics of the era (see Curtis Mayfield's "Kung Fu" and Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City"). All of the songs made an impression on a young, pre-musical Mick Collins as he listened to them on 45's in the family basement.

Party Store is an assortment of live band interpretations of classic Detroit techno music of the 80's and early 90's. These are songs Collins digested when they were originally released - at a time where he was already making waves with garage-punk legends The Gories. Songs that run the gamut of subject matter from materialistic future-disco braggadocio "Sharevari" (originally by A Number of Names) to cold, post-industrial isolation of "Alleys of Your Mind" originally by Cybotron) through the instrumental optimism of a worldwide house classic, "Strings of Life" (originally by Derrick May)... ALL these themes encapsulate the climate of Detroit both now and at the time of their initial release. Let it be said clearly...this is a record that addresses, at the same time, both the past and the future of Detroit.