For those in the know, Brooklyn restaurant/ art space Monkeytown has some of the most adventurous menu items and booking calendars in the entire city. Outrageously spicy desserts and main entrees rub elbows with experimental videos and the city's finest music-makers performing live. For this installment of My NY, we asked restauranteur and main Monkey man Montgomery Knott to dish out his favorite spots in the city.
Shows of note this week:
Monday
Stereogum Gummy Awards show with Deerhunter, Violens, Bell
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 N. 6th St. 16+ $16 doors at 8pm
EPMD, Folk and Stress
@Santos Party House 100 Lafayette 21+ $15 9pm
Monday
Stereogum Gummy Awards show with Deerhunter, Violens, Bell
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg 66 N. 6th St. 16+ $16 doors at 8pm
EPMD, Folk and Stress
@Santos Party House 100 Lafayette 21+ $15 9pm
We love ourselves some LCD Soundsystem over here, with its affected ennui and silvery-sounding glammy goodness. And we love this billionaire-funded town that we call New York. But we still love Kermit the Frog, so it's nice to have it all in one tidy package. While we're at it, after the jump, some more hand-puppet goodness synched up to that 70's sound, grooves that even the cantankerous Murphy can get with.
Online psych/folk/ weirdo music store Anthology Recordings celebrates the holidays with an evening of rare grooves (spun by no less a dignitary than Finders Keepers labelhead Andy Votel) and a musical performance from the King Khan & BBQ Show. Should those aural pleasures not be heady enough for you, the evening will be lit up by the legendary Joshua Light Show, which powered many a trip back in the days at the Fillmore West.
Wednesday December 3rd @ WIRED Store 15 West 18th Street 6 -10 pm
Wednesday December 3rd @ WIRED Store 15 West 18th Street 6 -10 pm
On the heels of their headswimming new release, St. Dymphna, Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos divulges her secrets to getting by as an artist/ musician in the city. She is the singer/percussionist of Gang Gang Dance and just finished her album The Proper Sex with Sadie Laska of their vocal/ percussion duo, I.U.D. She is also a visual artist who lives in Chinatown, NYC.
After filling up on yams, turkducken, and any and all assortment of pies over the past four days, we're back, ready to work off those holiday calories while siultaneously filling up the calendar with concerts and the like.
It's a slow week for shows, as people fill their bellies with cornbread stuffing and cranberry relish, rather than fill their iCals with night-time events. Even the locals are out of town. The weekly Lee Douglas and Lovefingers disco party finds the hearty vinyl-crating duo being replaced with out-of-towners like Berlin's Hugo Capablanca and Bushwick's (well, that's sorta out of town) Speculator. Regardless, the tunes are dope if wholly obscure and the vibe is as relaxed as post-turkey feasting.
Tonight @ BEast 171 East Broadway @ Essex 10PM
Tonight @ BEast 171 East Broadway @ Essex 10PM
Today's My NY entry comes courtesy of Brooklyn's winsome, Rough Trade-styled scruffy punk enthusiasts caUSE co-MOTION! The quartet's infectious and giddy "It's Time!" release on Slumberland Records compiles a handful of OOP seven inches in one tidy CD package. And tonight, they play at Ash's Place (234 Wythe Ave.) with Cheap Time, Jacques Detergent, and Ashley Epps. When they're not on-stage (or adding exclamation points to anything that moves), the boys might be found here:
Already underway at Film Forum is a retrospective of idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Just a few weeks back, we were fiending for the man's singular take on such non-standard doc subject matter like garlic, gap-toothed women, and American micro-cultures, not to mention his infamous documentary where German director Werner Herzog loses a bet and has to eat his shoe.
Of particular note are the Les Blank documentaries running this week focusing on music and its makers. Tuesday night's double feature of Chulas Fronteras and Del Mero Corazon focuses on Tex-Mex border music cultures intermingling, with performances from conjunto and ranchero icons Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza, as well as a doc about the master of the conga, Francisco Aguabella. Wednesday night's double feature of Always for Pleasure and King of the Cowboy Artists immerses itself in New Orleans and the Wild Tchoupitoulas of Mardi Gras and a singing cowboy. Thursday showcases the sublime polka documentary, In Heaven There is No Beer? The answer to that question goes: "So we must drink it here."
Through Thursday, November 20 @ Film Forum 209 W. Houston
Of particular note are the Les Blank documentaries running this week focusing on music and its makers. Tuesday night's double feature of Chulas Fronteras and Del Mero Corazon focuses on Tex-Mex border music cultures intermingling, with performances from conjunto and ranchero icons Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza, as well as a doc about the master of the conga, Francisco Aguabella. Wednesday night's double feature of Always for Pleasure and King of the Cowboy Artists immerses itself in New Orleans and the Wild Tchoupitoulas of Mardi Gras and a singing cowboy. Thursday showcases the sublime polka documentary, In Heaven There is No Beer? The answer to that question goes: "So we must drink it here."
Through Thursday, November 20 @ Film Forum 209 W. Houston
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