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June 2009


58 N 3rd St
(btw Wythe & Kent) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Subway: L Train
(Bedford stop) 718.384.1369
Sunday
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Thursday
Friday
Saturday
     

1
Phil Rodriguez' Underbelly + Becca Stevens Band
Trumpeter-composer Rodriguez combines lushly layered melodic textures with jazz, post-rock and minimalist sensibilities. Singer-songwriter Stevens pushes the realms of folk, jazz and pop
(8pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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2
Janus Trio +
Classic trio and j Treuting (percussion)
provide live soundtrack to three films about round objects and obsessionn
(8pm) $7
$10 Minimum
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3
Infernal Devices + Anamanaguchi + Purple Crush
This triple threat of electro infused pop will send you straight to 8-bit heaven
(8pm) $8
$10 Minimum
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4
Tom Carter + Shawn David McMillen + Steve Gunn

Overdriven trajectories of interstellar guitar with visuals by Olde English Spelling Bee
(8:30pm)
$5, $10 Minimum
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5/6
FRIDAY

EARLY
Blondes in the Jungle
NY Premiere of the art-comedy-teen adventure film
(8pm) $8, $10 Minimum
SOLD OUT
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LATE
glasses glasses throws a
[cheesy] party

Four walls of cheesiest clips on film. DJs La Moustache & guten Morgan
(10:30pm - 4am) Free
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SATURDAY

Monkey Town Presents...
Cube Considered

Our cubic configuration provides the creative direction for this program, a diverse collection of video works with the cube as the predominant motif and subject
(7:30 and 10pm) $5, $10 Minimum
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7
EARLY

Monkey Town Presents...
Cube Considered

Our cubic configuration provides the creative direction for this program, a diverse collection of video works with the cube as the predominant motif and subject
(7:30pm) $5
$10 minimum

more info

LATE
Lichens w/
Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)

Spontaneous improvisational composition by form and function, injecting evolution and natural process into the form
(10:30pm) $12
$10 Minimum
more info

8
EARLY

Until There
Laia Cabrera with For Feather
Catalan Video-Artist performs live with Brooklyn indie rock band For Feather and French Illustrator Isabelle Duverger
(7pm) $7
$10 minimum
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LATE
The Diamond Center + Miwagemini (Bklyn)
The Floozies (Bklyn)

Lubbock, Texas, group builds a wall of reverb and noise with an eerie gothic country creeper; locals open
(9:30pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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9
EARLY
An evening of fierce electronics
Radioactive rats, whirrs, drones, whizzes and buzzes, irregular convulsions, cybertermites — with Hans Tammen, Matthew Ostrowski, Dafna Naphtali, Briggan Krauss, Hisao Ihara and others
(8pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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LATE
Food Party on IFC

Premiere of first episode of new Food Party series created for IFC television
(10:30pm) Free
SOLD OUT

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10
Press Color + Menya + Strange Shapes
Michigan's Press Color bring their breed of krautrock and disco-punk to New York with Menya and Strange Shapes
(8:30pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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11
EARLY
L Magazine Northside Fest...

Zachary Oberzan's Flooding With Love For The Kid (Rambo)
An adaptation of  the novel FIRST BLOOD, made entirely by one man in a 220 sq. ft. apartment, with $96
(7:30pm) Free
$10 Minimum
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LATE
Wibutee
(from Norway)

Superb young and skronky Norwegian Jazztronica outfit, featuring Håkon Kornstad on sax
(10:30pm) $8
$10 Minimum
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12/13
FRIDAY
EARLY
L Magazine Northside Fest...

Holly Throsby + Mattison
Beautiful Australian songwriter and singer: quotidian narratives, epigrams against heartbreak, and vivid, otherworldly fragments + 3 piece soft porny 1970's soul/pop sprinkled with acid jazz
(8pm)
$5, $10 Minimum
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LATE
L Magazine Northside Fest...
Lewis Forever: Jungle Fervor!

Family art collective hosts an epic celebratory dance party with guest djs in hyper-saturated video environments
(10:30pm) $5
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SATURDAY
EARLY
L Magazine Northside Fest...
The Loom + Phantogram
Brooklyn sextet brings its rich amalgam of folk and Americana-influenced indie rock + Saratoga Springs, NY duo brings unique street beat rhythms and psychedelic melodies
(8pm) $8, $10 Minimum
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LATE
L Magazine Northside Fest...
RGB - audiovisual environment

Raw Q + special guest: Love On the Run classic disco, techno + drum n bass w/ video mash-ups
(11pm) no cover b4 midnight;
$5 after
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14
L Magazine Northside Fest...

Ava Luna + Data Dog + Candy Heart
electro/gospel post punk + noisy melodic synth pop + sweet but sophisticated acoustic folk = ratings
(8pm) Free
$10 Minimum
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15
YouTube Open Mic
Our first-ever (monthly), prime-time chance for to share your YouTube memes; hosted by a Fantastic Nobody; plus, Drink Specials all night
(8pm) Free
$10 Minimum

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16
Lisa and Her Bright Ideas present...
an evening of unrest

Lisa Natoli and Kristin Young present a collaborative aerial installation exploring variations of unrest on the vertical and horizontal plane
(8pm) $10
$10 Minimum
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17
EARLY
William F. Gibbs and The Federalists
Acclaimed singer-songwriter from S. Carolina performs Pop-Americana from his heralded debut
(8pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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LATE
Novi_sad

Audio perfomance which will take place in darkness. Experimental-Field recordings-Noise
(10:30pm) $10
$10 Minimum

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18
EARLY

Silver Pines + Silent Land Time Machine
+ Sontag Shogun

Atmospheric slow ride down a canopy-covered backwoods river + gorgeous live piano double-processed and filtered thru electronics, layered and looped with analog tapes creating an ever-shifting wall of sound
(7:30pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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LATE
For Feather CD Release Party
with Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duvergerd

For Feather releases their new CD Firing at Love Field with live video and animation by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
(10:30pm) $7
$10 Minimum
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19/20
FRIDAY
Moonshine! A Variety Bananza
Tribute to 1930s Coney Island with aerialists, clowns, sideshow carnies, a crazy zoo animal, and the "Zigpeeled Lollies" dancers
(8 and 10:30pm) $15, $10 Minimum
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SATURDAY
EARLY
Daniel Iglesia & Pradeep Ratnayake + The Draftmasters (Victor Adan & Jeff Snyder) + Glissando Bin Laden
A/V lawlessness with hacked pen-plotters, a sitar virtuoso, 3D glasses, multi-instrumentalists, and more, celebrating Glissando Bin Laden’s new record release!
(7:30pm) $5, $10 Minimum
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LATE
Gregg Kowalsky + Ben Vida/Koen Holtkamp duo + Ben Bracken
Record release show for Gregg's second Kranky release, Tape Chants.  An evening of pure tones, controlled feedback and vivid imagery
(10:30pm) $7, $10 Minimum
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21
YGO
(St. Petersburg, Russia)

ancient monodic russian chant + experimental guitar technique + video art + improv jam with NY friends (Daniel Carter - flute, sax, trumpet, Dok Gregory - electronics...)
(8pm) $7
$10 Minimum
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22
EARLY
Thunder Power + Patrick Bower + DPony
Omaha indie-pop sextet features catchy boy/girl vocals and lush orchestration + Brooklyn's very own Leonard Cohen on ludes + NYC -Cambridge, MA based experimental noise pop trio
(8:30pm) $5
$10 Minimum
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LATE
Monday Moives:
Sweet Movie

1974 classic that will become your new favorite movie. Sex, Chocolate, Candy, Sailors, German actionists!
(11pm) Free
$5 Minimum
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23
Floriculture Record Release Party
Celebrating the band's Firehouse 12" release with Carl Maguire's compositions accompanied by amplified luminousness
(8pm) $10
$10 Minimum
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24
EARLY
Black Sugar Transmission
BST present their "highly destructive dance-rock" in the round, with high-impact visuals
(8pm) $10
$10 Minimum
more info

LATE
Hump Day Movies:

Sweet Movie
1974 classic that will become your new favorite movie. Sex, Chocolate, Candy, Sailors, German actionists!
(11pm) Free
$5 Minimum
more info


25
Peephole + Cutlery
A night of urban dance and Appalachian ambience
(8pm) Free
$10 Minimum
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26/27
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Flamenco-Tapas Dinner
Jaleo dance group brings together a group of artists to explore the evolution of style through the art of flamenco dance, music and live video design. (3 dancers, 2 musicians, 1 video designer, 1 sound designer) + 6-course Spanish Tapas Menu
(7:30 and 10pm) $50 6-course Prix Fixe, $70 with Wine Pairing

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28
Flamenco-Tapas Dinner
Jaleo dance group brings together a group of artists to explore the evolution of style through the art of flamenco dance, music and live video design. (3 dancers, 2 musicians, 1 video designer, 1 sound designer) + 6-course Spanish Tapas Menu
(8pm) $50
6-course Prix Fixe, $70 with Wine Pairing
more info



29
EARLY
Sad Red + R. Mistri & The Murder
A night of dark and brooding music accompanied by cuisine and visuals
(8pm) Free
$10 Minimum
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LATE
Monday Moives:
Black Moon
Louis Malle's 1975 David Lynch-esque fantasia; rarely screened, not available on DVD
(11pm) Free
$5 Minimum
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30
Cellist
Lori Goldston scores
Joan of Arc
Celiist who has worked with Mirah, Nirvana, Earth, David Byrne, Laura Veirs, Cat Power and many others, collaborates with long-gone Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's masterwork

(8pm) $8
$10 Minimum

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