Music

5/9 — Jessica DelFino; Amanda Brett; Nina & band; In Rainbows; Thirsty Herds
Goodbye Blue Monday. 1087 Broadway.
8pm. Free.
About two years ago, I met Jessica DelFino in a Bushwick basement. I was running the brownie bar at a Pass Kontrol show. She walked up to the bar and said: “You’re me!” I gasped, and replied: OMG, you’re me!” I have never before met someone who is so oddly my doppelganger. It was creepy and cool, and people were freaked out by us all night. Jessica DelFino is a singer, performance artist, and funny funny girl, who, like me, loves a little bathroom humor. Please watch this video about wanting to be famous. Arthur Magazine (in a review by Thurston Moore) and The Onion described her as “Redd Foxx meets Jewel.” Please go to her show at GBM and maybe you will get to hear this song live. Blergh! No time to tirelessly research the other bands just now, but if you know something, share it via comments below. (visit: Jessica DelFino)

Variety Show

5/9 &10 — A Seven Diamond Evening
The Bushwick Starr. 207 Starr Street.
8pm. $10. Reservations sevendiamondevening@gmail.com.
Produced by lovely Bushwick Culture co-conspiratrix Anna D’Agrosa, and staring yours truly in my first stab at acting since high school, “A Seven Diamond Evening” is a night of true variety. Diamonds include (1) a short Gertrude Stein Play, (2) a bloody dating film by Marc Fratello, (3) a black metal scored dance called Cha buk!! (4) 2 poems by “the Nuge”, (5) a running sketch featuring Gustav the large rodent, (6) trapeze with live musical accompaniment and (7) all night dance party. The Bushwick Starr is our hero.

(visit: Bushwick Starr)

Art Opening

5/9 — My Little / Membrane
NURTUREart. 910 Grand Street.
Opening 7-9pm. Free.
Featured artists include Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo, Thomas Doyle, Bethany Jean Fancher, Vlatka Horvat, Yuliya Lanina, Janell Olah, Jihyun Park, Anna Stein, David McQueen, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, and Traci Tullius. Intrigued by man made structures such as biospheres and greenhouses, curator William Heath developed a curatorial narrative, My Little, based on the idea of constructed parallel universes and our innate tendency to imagine ourselves within such worlds. Taking a different approach, curator Zeljka Himbele-Kozul analyzes the same works using the idea of a membrane. Membranes form barriers while simultaneously allowing selective passage. For Zeljka, the works in the show, which she has titled Membrane, similarly involve the dichotomy of separation and connectedness. And here i thought it was literally going to be a show about bite-size cytoplasm casings. (visit: NURTUREart)

Dance/DJ

5/10 — Supernature #3 –- DJ Sega and Dre Skull
Micheline’s. 1124 Broadway
10pm. $6.
Remember Dre Skull (Michael Jackson on speed and distorted ODB)? Well, he’s back for the third installation of a Todd P curated dance party focusing on electronic music, rap, R&B and more. This time he is joined by 21 year old Philly Club producer DJ Sega (as in, Sega Genesis). I’m a fan of his track “Pinky and the Brain.” All ages. (visit: Todd P)