1
Lince + Ezekiel Honig + Queens + The Present + Joshue Ott
Electro acoustic ambient and live visuals
(8:30pm) $10
$10 minimum
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2
EARLY
Parias Ensemble + Man Bird Lion
Contemporary Latin sextet consisting of: Cello, Accordion, Clarinet, Guitars & Percussion. Opener Man Bird Lion performs elegiac ballads that drape dark narratives drawn from dream imagery in sublime arrangements
(7:30pm) $10
$10 minimum
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LATE
I am the Heat Video Release Party
I am the Heat debut much anticipated Ghost Bear video and perform live alongside Brooklyn heartthrobs Hype of the States
(10:30pm) Free
$10 minimum
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3/4
FRIDAY
Dinner and a Movie
Cassavetes' Husbands (1970)
Go to a funeral, play sports, divorce your wife. A weekend bender with Peter Falk, Ben Gazarra and Cassavetes himself - not available on DVD
(7:30pm) Free, $10 minimum
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SATURDAY
Closed for Independence

5
Tones Intimate Tumult and Shige Moriya + Jeremy D. Slater ( ) and WvS + Nick Lesley
Three multi media groups conflate field recordings and electro acoustic improvisation with video to create a hypnotic evening of liminal environments
(8:30pm) $5
$10 minimum
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6
EARLY
Fundraiser for El Regreso de Lencho
Come support the film! El Regreso de Lencho is about a character, Lencho, who uses street art to organize youth to express social justice and human rights concerns in an increasingly corrupt and violent Guatemala
(6:30 - 10pm) $20, $10 minimum; Open PBR bar from 6:30-7:30
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LATE
Monday Movies: Cassavetes'
Shadows (1959)
Primitive Cassavetes, The real new American Cinema which influenced everyone from Godard to Scorsese
(11pm) Free, $5 minimum
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8
EARLY
WILDGGGOTHAM with Leah Coloff and GODDESS
A video about mystical encounters with garden snails and other urban wildlife: introduced by performances by cellist/singer Leah Coloff and ghost folk band GODDESS
(8pm) Free
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Hump Day Movies: Cassavetes'
Shadows (1959)
Primitive Cassavetes, The real new American Cinema which influenced everyone from Godard to Scorsese
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info

9
Megafaun +
special guests
Hometapes Records threesome hop off the bus from their Bowerbirds tour to play songs from their remarkable coming release, Gather, Form & Fly
(8:30pm) $5
$10 minimum
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10/11
FRIDAY
EARLY
Anduin + Jasper TX
Solo and collaborative sets of ambient electronics from Virginia's Anduin and Sweden's Jasper TX
(8pm) $8, $10 minimum
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LATE
CALLmeKAT + Erik Ino
An evening of bittersweet vocals, casio-samples and visuals
(10:30pm) $7, $10 minimum
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SATURDAY
EARLY
Knee Deep in the Sound:
A Listening Room
Musicians Eleanor Dubinsky, Tripp Dudley and Kevin Nathaniel come together with invited guests to create a resonant evening of sounds, story telling and experimentation. Instrumentation includes voice, mbira, tabla, cajón, cello, kora, guitar, and bass
(8pm) $7, $10 minimum
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LATE
RGB - audiovisual environment
Raw Q + special guests
(11pm) Free
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12
Sparse Paisley
Northampton duo, Indie/Folk with an edgy twist. Jack Sparse & Marisol Paisley.
(8pm) $7
$10 minimum
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13
EARLY
Holy Oak
Artist Jim Holyoak provides expressionist ink body-print animals and environments in multimedia visuals for Holy Oak's dark Canadian indie-folk outfit. The line up features accordion, trumpet, banjo-mandolin, drums.
(8pm) Free
$10 minimum
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LATE
Hump Day Movies: Cassavetes'
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum

14
Lou Rossi + Carlos' Red Shoes + Glass Bees + Frogwell
This four-band bill mixes electric ambience with organic improv to provide a diverse sonic feast. Featuring everthing from crystaline guitar trails to laptop bubblebaths, sineous tuba melodes and the iPhone-as-instrument to tickle your ears
(8pm) $5
$10 minimum
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15
EARLY
Vimeo Offline: Everything Animated
A night of animated excitement from the infamous Everything Animated channel on Vimeo. Experience the cream of 3D, 2D, Pixelation, and Photomotion animation that can only be found on Vimeo
(8pm) Free
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Hump Day Movies: Cassavetes'
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum

16
Speck Mountain + Sharon Van Etten
Chicago's Speck Mountain bring their divine marriage of melody and drone + the angelic neo-folk thrills of Brooklyn's sparrow with a guitar
(8pm)
$5, $10 minimum
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17/18
FRIDAY
EARLY
Fun For Hire
Mascots. They're undervalued. They're unappreciated. But hey, they love it. (Documentary, 91 min.)
(8pm) Free, $10 minimum
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LATE
DJ Jumpy
Spinning only '60s 45s, soul and garage
(10:30pm - late) Free

SATURDAY
EARLY
Jenn Gooch + Nina Katchadourian
Two artist/ musicians present both their visual art and their music and explore how these worlds collide (or are forced apart) in this unusual artist-talk-meets-music-gig evening
(8pm) $5, $10 minimum
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LATE
Modal Kombat + 350 Duo + Pico Fermi
Guitarists control video game characters with real guitars in a hybrid concert/public video game battle
(10:30pm) Free, $10 minimum
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20
EARLY
Great Republic of the Rough and Ready + Otto Hauser (of Vetiver and Espers)
Recustructed, lonesome, haunted American folk like Ma Rainey wanted
(8pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Monday Movies:
Cassavetes' Husbands (1970)
Go to a funeral, play sports, divorce your wife. A weekend bender with Peter Falk, Ben Gazarra and Cassavetes himself - not available on DVD
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info

21
{R}ake
A performance series of alternative and collaborative electro-acoustic music
and video
(8pm) $7, $10 minimum
more info

 

22
EARLY
Marques Toliver & The Sometimes Band
Marques Toliver & The Sometimes Band Musician Marques Toliver is a new talent infecting the ears within the music scene
(8:30pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Hump Day Movies: Cassavetes' Husbands (1970)
Go to a funeral, play sports, divorce your wife. A weekend bender with Peter Falk, Ben Gazarra and Cassavetes himself - not available on DVD
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info

23
Hymn for Her + Alison Lewis Band
Stompgrass soulmates acoustic instruments, beautiful harmonies, one mic, one bass drum + Americana twilight songstress with inspiring highway voice accompanied by sweet rockin band
(8:30pm) $7
$10 minimum
more info

24/25
FRIDAY
EARLY
Escoffier Dinner
6-course meal of classic French cuisine with screening of classic/rarely seen French film Last Year at Marienbad with live DJ mixing original soundtrack and her own selections
(7:30pm) $40, $65 with Wine Pairing
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LATE
The Tryptics
An electronic/rock cruise through the cosmos in our projector-simulated spacecraft
(10:30pm) $5, $10 minimum
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SATURDAY
EARLY
Escoffier Dinner
6-course meal of classic French cuisine with screening of classic/rarely seen French film Last Year at Marienbad with live DJ mixing original soundtrack and her own selections
(7:30pm) $40, $65 with Wine Pairing
more info

LATE
Aman Amun
A visually interactive electroacoustic performance
(10:30pm) $5, $10 minimum
more info

26
Escoffier Dinner
6-course meal of classic French cuisine with screening of classic/rarely seen French film Last Year at Marienbad with live DJ mixing original soundtrack and her own selections
(7:30pm) $40, $65 with Wine Pairing
more info

27
EARLY
Benjamin Lear + Genevieve Labean
Benjamin Lear plays songs from his forthcoming indie musical, underwater adventure about the great pacific garbage patch!
(8:30pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Monday Movies: Cassavetes'
Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Brutal emotional drama with the wonderful Gena Rowlands spiraling out of control before your eyes
(11pm) Free
$5 Minimum

29
EARLY
Kotorino
Brooklyn's own ramshackle octet play a melange of xenophilic flavors,
with specially tailored abstracto/dramatic visuals by Travis Hale
(8pm) $5
$10 Minimum
more info

LATE
Hump Day Movies: Cassavetes'
Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Brutal emotional drama with the wonderful Gena Rowlands spiraling out of control before your eyes
(11pm) Free
$5 Minimum

30
The Limitation of Being (Vol. III)
New chamber works by Jay Vilnai, Nick Nelson & Whitney George
(7:30pm) $5 Students/$8 General
$10 Minimum
more info

31/1
FRIDAY
EARLY
Middle of Man...
screening: process and performance
Justine Lynch and the rest gather for an alchemical round-up of the events that led to, and the "treatment" that ensued, last April at The Kitchen
(7pm) $7, $10 minimum
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LATE
Cumbia Night
A night of NYC's finest Cumbia DJs. Mexican beats til very late
(11pm) Free

SATURDAY
DARK COMEDY AUGUST:
Barking Dogs Never Bite
From the director of The Host, Bong Joon-ho's first film. The best comedy we've seen all year. Watch the Trailer. Not available on DVD, we have an excellent copy with English subtitles
(8pm) Free, $10 minimum
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