Hot Hit single off of BW's new EP "Everything a Weapon", which will be available for purchase (3 bucks) off of that crazy ass bandcamp thing. 08/02/11: it arrives.
Local four piece Maybe the Welders have been rocking Brooklyn and NYC for a few years now. This from their Hot Shot EP realeased in 2010. Go to their website for news on shows and where to download more songs
Mayeb the Welders are a local four piece rock band living and working in Bushwick. They perform regularly in local bars and at parties. this is the title track from their debut EP relaesed in 2010.
I'm looking to collaborate with other musicians (primarily if you play keyboards and various non-guitar instruments like the clarinet! and also can sing).
Also looking to work with directors who want to direct music videos. If any of the songs on the bandcamp give you an idea or two, let me know.
Cave Days is a Brooklyn based rock band. It consists of Jon Murphy on vocals and guitar, Richard Thomas on bass and Robert Corsetti on drums. However, Cave Days was originally incepted as a two-piece band with Erik Leubs on electronic percussion, synthesizers, and background vocals. Erik and Jon wrote, produced and recorded the Cave Days EP (2011) consisting of 6 songs (7 songs if you got a copy at a show). These songs were originally written by Jon between 2007 and 2010.
Hey! We are an acoustic 2 piece that currently reside in Bushwick and Greenpoint. Our Bass player Jon was interviewed by Sejan Yun for a piece on employment in BUSHWICK BK. We'd love to have you review our work. Hope you love the self-produced recording.
Hi Amanda,
Thanks for getting back to me. I would have replied sooner, but I just had my first baby this week...yay!
So I hope you enjoy this track. It's fun, catchy, danceable, and totally homemade by me.
You will find a bio on www.lunchboxriot.com and more tracks at www.soundcloud.com/lunchboxriot
THANK YOU for your support! I couldn't do this without you.
-Mike Salerno
Speaking In Tongues is a DIY indie-rock music project lead by Alex Profera. Started in his hometown of Staten Island, NY in 2007 and refined on the Purchase College & Westchester music scene by playing shows with an array of musicians from the university and local area. Antarctican Apathy is the sophomore follow up EP to the previous "The Pharaoh's Dance", and interesting meld of indie & prog rock. With a more solid direction and cohesive aesthetic Alex has forged an entirely self created indie-rock gem by throwing doo-wop, punk, and pop into the mix. Now involved in the Bushwick/Ridgewood NY DIY scene, the band features a full line up including multi-instrumentalist, producer, writer Kyle Pollard on keys (Bad Credit No Credit, We Are Not Bears), All-state jazz drummer Steve Levine of Captain Hippo fame, and classical guitarist Alex Truitt on bass. The album has been written up in various sources including UK blog Sonic Masala, Kode Magazine, and featured on The Hype Machine.
Neon Dynamite is an original party band based out of Bushwick, Brooklyn that formed in May 2010. They are influenced by funky dance pop and often compared with Prince, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones and James Brown. Their mission is simple: To compel Mother Earth to dance. They get down. You will too.
Upcoming BUSHWICK shows:
July 9th - Goodbye Blue Monday, 9pm
July 29th - Don Pedros, 11pm
Forgive me I sent a download link to the wrong place over the weekend. Anyway sorry about that. We dig the blog and site very much. Hope all is well -:)
amplified hollow body guitar, resonating in constant feedback. the sound is changed through: variation in tuning; slight touches to the strings and body; proximity of the performer; and adjustments to various effects pedals in use (3 total). recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday on 1/10/11
The Rex Complex lives in Bushwick. Just got back from a U.S. tour to SXSW and are putting on some shows in Bushwick this summer. We're playing The Morgan Friday April 29 @11pm with Vesper and TOBY. The Rex Complex is also playing Wednesdays in June at Orwell Cafe with our friends Railbird. You can find more info at www.therexcomplex.com and also our at The Rex Complex facebook page.
Brooklyn Rock with a throwback to backwoods soul.
This song is available for free download, the three track EP is available as well.
Keep your eyes open for the animated music video of "The Way Love Spins" in production right now.
Alec Stephens III is the MC of the Potion Collective open mic, Mondays in Bushwick.
You can see him Easter Sunday Eve at Kenny's Castaway in the E. Village with several of Brooklyn's finest.
www.potioncollective.com
www.iamthethird.com
Bird Courage is the latest arrangement from local artist Erik Meier. Currently in-studio working on the release of their debut full length (May 2011) Here's a sample to check out!
matthew from FRIENDS here. just wanted to drop off our new single to you, that just came out on tuesday. your site waz even kind enuf to do a listing for our tour kick off show back in jan http://bushwickbk.com/2011/01/05/total-slacker-phone-tag-play-benefit-for-friends/
hope you all dig the tune. keeep up the gooood work.
Best,
Matthew/ FRIENDS
Hi guys,
My name is Rebeca and I'm the singer/songwriter in Elastic Summer. We're a pretty new alt-pop band based in Bushwick, and we just released a 5-song EP for free on bandcamp. We have a lot of NYC shows coming up (cake shop, bowery electric, cameo, studio at webster, legion) and would love to be featured on the blog if you like us.
Thank you for your time!
- Rebeca
Bushwick duo TeV95 & Admiral Grey's second release from their upcoming self titled EP. A Deluxe EP including instrumentals and vocals to all four songs will be available April 1.
The Nuclears' self-titled full-length debut on MegaPlatinum Records is available on vinyl and as a digital download April 2, 2011. For album previews, the band's weekly podcast, and more information, visit www.thenuclears.com.
Recommended for fans of the Stooges, the New York Dolls, the MC5, & the Dictators.
Hello There,
I just released my self titled EP Timatim Fitfit for free download, and am sending you the new single called 'All The World Of Carbon.' Because digital media has made it so simple to release new material, I have decided that Timatim Fitfit will remain an Open Album. I will be continuing to add new music to it as I continue recording. The cover art was done by the amazing Bushwick collage artist Vahge and can be seen at http://soundcloud.com/timatimfitfit/sets/timatim-fitfit/. As a side note, part of this song was recorded during that crazy tornado we had back in September and there is a lot of yelling and rushing water hidden in the background.
In Good Faith,
Tim Cluff
"Your Letter" is one of Bushwick trio Crash Robin's new demos. It is emotional, tight, strange and wonderful. Crash Robin is Jim Earl on vocals and guitar, James Michael on drums, and Michael James on bass.
See their website or find them on facebook for more tunes, show info, and more.
Hey, I know you guys are always looking goodies from local Bushwick folk. I'm a huge huge fan of your site because it pretty much updates me on everything (including the fire next to my old apt on Stagg the other day)
For the last few months I've been putting this mashup/mixtape together containing around 100 samples from close to 50 songs.
I became tired of the typical mixtape bringing nothing creative to the table other then a couple transitions and one or two loops.
Think Avalanches 'Since I Left You/Gimix' or eclectic Girl Talk with ADD.
Hope you guys enjoy!
Below are all the songs I took the samples from:
Common-In My Own World (Check The Method)
Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston
The Avalanches - Run DNA
The Avalanches - Under Inspection
The Gladiators - Bellyfull
Supertramp - Lady
La Chatte - Rien (Claude Violante Remix)
Sound Dimension - Iron Side
S.O.S. - Colegiala Dub
The Upsetters - Zion's Blood
Franco Et OK Jazz-Boma - L'Heure
J Star - One Life (Instrumental)
Salsoul Orchestra vs Beenie Man & Ms Thing - Getaway Dude
Chemical Brothers - Lost In The K-Hole
Morgan Geist & Erlend Oye - Lullaby & A Place in My Heart (Acapella)
Manu Chao - Le P'tit Jardin
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Daft Punk - One More Time
40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off feat. Qzen (Brennan Green Mix)
Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
Fort Knox Five - Get This Party Started
The Knocks - Dancing With The DJ
MSTRKRFT - Bounce (feat. N.O.R.E.)
Bost & Bim feat. Brisa Roché & Lone Ranger - Jamaican Boy
The Binary Cumbia Orchestra - La Inconformable
Pacha Massive - Don't Let Go
Los Rakas - Abrazame (Uproot Andy mix)
Cornelius - Drop (Kings Of Convenience Remix)
? - Salsa Verde
Alborosie - Kingston Town (Uproot Andy Remix)
Aretha Franklin - Save Me
Chinese Man - Searching For The Space
Diplo - Blow Your Head
Roy Docker - Mellow Moonlight
The Fabulous Flames - Holly Holy
Weird Tapes - Party Trash
Zizek - Brooklyn Cumbia
Duke Dumont - Feltham (The Borstal Beat)
Chromeo - You're So Gangsta
Free The Robots - Jazzhole
James Brown - My Thang (Regrooved by DJP)
dZihan & Kamien - After
U.N.K.L.E. - Invasion (Medway vs Eva: Coast to Coast remix)
Phyllis Dillon - We Belong Together
Little Dragon - My Step
Royksopp - Only This Moment (Headman Remix)
Thomas Blondet - Havanna 2am (Omegaman Remix)
The Transatlantics - On Fire
Feist - I Feel It All (Escort Remix)
I love your blog! It helped me relocate to Bushwick awhile back and also helped me get acquainted with the neighborhood. Please take a listen to my music. If you like it, I'd love to hear back from you.
I'm an active musician around NYC and have an upcoming gig at Lucky Jack's in the LES on January 6 at 9pm.
Wailin' Storms is a man of the now who looks to the then. He looks to the raw and primal blues of the 50's. To the time when country music started to swagger and become rock-and-roll. There he sees the urgency in Howlin' Wolf, the conscious oddity in Screaming Jay Hawkins. He learned the teachings of Charlie Feathers and listened to Johnny Paycheck's meditations on murder. He looks to the old and it teaches him. He takes from old and makes his own.
Despite being born the son of a preacher--a Southern Baptist with a no drinking, dancing, gambling, all fun=sin dogma--Wailin' Storms can't help that impulse to do what he wants to do. That bible thump never was music to his ears and it did not take. Maybe it is that older blood in him that makes him this way, the cowboys and wandering backwoodsmen of his descendants that never quite learned to settle down.
He came to the music he makes now through punk. He played in a number of that sorta band in South Texas from the 90s into the oughts. Then he went off on his own in 2005 and began crooning and hollering. He took a slide to his guitar and started playing twangy, gritty sounds. He played around a bit in South Texas and after a performance on a pirate radio station the DJ surmised this was "Texas Doom Country Blues" that he was hearing. That description suited this new thing just fine.
Other's down there in the southern part of Texas had a thing or two to say as well. Richard Guerrero of the Corpus Christi Caller Times once wrote, "while classic influences such as Roy Orbison and the Everly Brothers as well as Nick Cave and Glenn Danzig are obvious, Justin's morose wail is a fresh one in an age of cut-and-paste digitized rock. Storms says it best when he characterizes his sound as... ‘the wind's asthmatic voice howling through (an) empty window view.’ Couldn't have said it better myself."
Shows:
Where: The Trash Bar, Brooklyn, NY
When: Tuesday, December 28, 2010
8:00pm - 21+
10:00 - MIKE FERRARO AND THE YOUNG REPUBLICANS
9:00 - WAILIN' STORMS
8:00 - CHRIS MCFARLAND
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Where: Arlene's Grocery, New York, NY
When: Thursday, December 30, 2010
9:00pm
10:00 - Wailin' Storms
9:00 - Sons of an Illustrious Father
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Where: Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY
When: Monday, Jan 3rd, 2011
9:00pm
10:00 - Wailin' Storms
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Where: Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
When: Monday, Jan 15th, 2011
9:00pm
Sat Jan 15 08:00 PM
• Nico Soffiato
• Wailin' Storms
• cyclical silver sick sunshine
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Where: Otto's Shrunken Head, Brooklyn, NY
When: Monday, Jan 29th, 2011
7:00pm
Saturday Jan 29
• Wailin' Storms 7pm
We are an electronic pop duo making noise and doing our record DIY style on St. Nicholas in Bushwick! You can often find us garnering inspiration at Bodega Wine Bar after practice. We hope you like this! xo
Evers, Partners in Stars
No How is the first release from Timatim Fitfit's forthcoming album, set for release in January, 2011. No How tells the story of Tim's struggle with a corrupt Brooklyn slumlord and a leaky apartment building that is slowly filling with water. During one particularly soggy evening, a house guest made recordings of these leaks. These recordings are sampled throughout the song along with field recordings of a heavy rainstorm.
I recorded this EP in my bedroom over the past couple months or so. If you like it you can download it for free at http://themagicofmultiples.bandcamp.com/album/your-heart-is-an-autumn-garage
We're new in town. This is a track off our upcoming LP, due out in December. If you like it, join our FB group and share it with your friends. Drop us a line if you want to do a show!
Ductape Halo Ensemble resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC. They play fast, tight songs that brings together sounds from Blues, Punk, Gospel and straight up Rock n' Roll to create a genre know as Country Punk. It is the live performance though, that sets Ductape Halo apart from other bands. The severe intensity gets people moving and wanting to drink some cold beverages down!
Hello fellow Bushwickites, we've got another three songs posted and ready for YOU to download fo' FREE!
10/22 Bushwick v. CMJ at The Mckibbin Lofts; 10/29 Gutterpop party at Bushwick Project for the Arts; 11/5 The Canal Room NYC (lookout!); 11/12 Good Friend Electric at The Mckibbin Lofts; 11/17 showcase showdown at Spike Hill
Jangula's EP is four tracks (Gengi Glove, We
Both Like Me, Less Than Masks and
Pachinko) that capture what the band is all
about: great melodies, catchy riffs, beats
that make you dance and fun, smart lyrics
to scream along to. Their high-energy
music and attitude is infectious and hard to
resist.
WE GOT SAZON THE VIDEO.. this video was shot all over Bushwick.. Troutman st. , Bushwick Park (Maria Hernandez PK) Knickerbocker ave. Grove & Mrtle ave. etc..
Here is a song called "Oh Oh Oh" by our band, Shiv Hurrah. We live in Bushwick and are playing at Northeast Kingdom Friday, 8/27 with Rescue Birth and Adam Balbo. Hope you like it!
Y/Y is a Brooklyn-based band consisting of Jason Meeks and Conrad Burnham, formerly of the Binary Marketing Show. The two began writing songs in the spring of 2010. They take an experimental approach to pop music, with an emphasis on driving percussion. Mixing electronics with guitar and drums, the two create a dense sonic atmosphere.
Michelle's new EP, "Sweet Clarity", is out now and available on Amazon, iTunes, and CDBaby.com. We're working on an exciting new project that is sure to stir up some conversation so stay tuned...
Hey. This is the first single off our upcoming full-length. We released it just over a week ago on Soundcloud and between their site and myspace we've already had near 600 plays. We're hoping to gain some cyberspace support before our midwest tour in early September. Thanks for listening. -NBP
Lyrics:
Oh, when you kiss me
I think of the human race
And all the shitty things that people do to each other
And oh, when you hold me
I think of motherhood
And wonder why any woman would ever usher in another
But when you dance with me
Things become so clear
We're all just dancing here
A celebration absurd
Love is blonde!
Well if it's '99 or 2011
We can ascend on the dance floor
And if it's '99 or 2011, we can still ask for more!
New Brooklyn band, David E Beats x The White House Band present their first single "We On-The bond Song" off their upcoming EP "The Method".
Upcoming Shows
Public Assembly, July 4th,10pm
Crash Mansion, July8th, 11pm
Fat Baby,July 14th, 8pm
M1-5, July 15th, 10pm
National Underground July 20th, 9pm
This song is inspired by Manchester United Defender Rio Ferdinand who was assaulted in Spain for being a soccer player that is black. Rio is a soldier on the battlefield standing against racism in futbol!
I play along with Potion Collective Group at Little Skip's in Bushwick. I started back in 2008 along with Emerick who was the owner of Potion Cafe. My name is Shamari Rockca and I have gigs booked for July.
I play along with Potion Collective Group at Little Skip's in Bushwick. I started back in 2008 along with Emerick who was the owner of Potion Cafe. My name is Shamari Rockca and I have gigs booked for July.
Hello.I took this vocal from this great tune and threw a bunch of nonsense around it. The People who own the rights asked me to put this bit at the bottom whenever I post this song->
Mouhamadou Bamba (Attisso/Seck)
Published by World Circuit Music/Copyright Control
After working together at a radio station in New York, Joanna Katcher and Maia Macdonald quickly realized their mutual appreciation for unique, percussive, melodically unpredictable music. Within a year, they had begun to email song ideas back and forth, and shortly after began creating music together under the name Mitten.
Maia grew up in Ridgewood, NJ and has spent her life writing and performing music. She is a prolific singer-songwriter, and has been playing live solo shows throughout New York for the past four years. Her distinctive vocal and musical style was heavily influenced by her passion for Haitian drumming and a trip to Haiti in 2003.
Joanna started playing piano at age three and followed her love of music composition through college and graduate school at NYU. As a native Oregonian, she was heavily influenced by the independent rock scene in the Pacific Northwest. Now a post-production audio engineer and composer in New York, her technical experience and obsession with new wave and 80s music has informed her electronic production style.
After working together at a radio station in New York, Joanna Katcher and Maia Macdonald quickly realized their mutual appreciation for unique, percussive, melodically unpredictable music. Within a year, they had begun to email song ideas back and forth, and shortly after began creating music together under the name Mitten.
Maia grew up in Ridgewood, NJ and has spent her life writing and performing music. She is a prolific singer-songwriter, and has been playing live solo shows throughout New York for the past four years. Her distinctive vocal and musical style was heavily influenced by her passion for Haitian drumming and a trip to Haiti in 2003.
Joanna started playing piano at age three and followed her love of music composition through college and graduate school at NYU. As a native Oregonian, she was heavily influenced by the independent rock scene in the Pacific Northwest. Now a post-production audio engineer and composer in New York, her technical experience and obsession with new wave and 80s music has informed her electronic production style.
Ok, I am not technically a Bushwick local but I live just next door in Greenpoint and I am playing a show at 'The Northeast Kingdom' on Wednesday 2/24 with the wonderful "Wylie Toms" and I would love you to come!
My name is Anna K. Jarosz and I am from Scotland, having moved to Brooklyn in June 08 to pursue my music in the big apple! With a new album on the way and a bunch of shows coming up in February and beyond, I am feeling quite lucky really! I hope you like my music. See you on the 24th!
This song is based on Miranda July's short story by the same name. It was written for the Bushwick Book Club's night of songs inspired by Miranda July's book of short stories, "No One Belongs Here More Than You." Dibson Hoffweiler is playing drums and singing background vocals. Matt Colbourne, trumpet. Recorded and mixed by Brian Speaker.
"In the borders of this world that is where I want to remain singing songs about the ones that cross, it is their courage that haunts my soul"
The little girl in this song is Jessica, I met her on the border after being deported with her dad, she was hoping to see her mom in L.A.
Natalia Currently lives in Bushwick and loves to collaborate with nice people.
We are Jasmine Dreame Wagner and Alex Wilson of Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. We're currently living in Bushwick/Ridgewood and are hoping you're into the music we make. Nice to meet you!
Brooklyn Instrument Museum is a loose collective of (mostly) Bushwickians, Williamsburgers and Greenpointrons, who get together on the 3rd, 13th and 23rd of each month to jam.
We start with a nice collection of vintage and unusual musical instruments, add some mild intoxicants to the mix and let the instruments do the talking.
We only have 2 rules for our jams - No Songs, and No Spectators!
We hope you enjoy "Ghosts," and let us know if you'd like to hear more, or join us for a jam sometime!
love like deloreans is the electronic collective conciousness of band members lorna krier, derek muro, and peter pearson. the band was born of synthesizer dreams and drum machine wishes. drawing from the heady krautrock of bands like cluster to the infectious wish-i-could-stop-dancing grooves of 80s new wave, bubblegum, and disco, love like deloreans creates a sound world that is somewhere between a submarine ride on europa and the best prom night ever.
"a fantastic set of earthen, full-bodied float, nestled halfway between the maciunas ensemble’s rubber-band / motor experiments & the more structural chime of remko scha et.al" - mimaroglu music
"Focusing in on the tension between a charged post-punk drum-and-synth-bass rhythm section (Alex Smith and Nathan Tompkins respectively) and the combined vocal talents of manic frontman Carlos Hernandez and a trio of startlingly gospel-voiced backup singers, the combination is fresh and invigorating and, live, posesses a magnetic appeal."- Impose Magazine
the B38 is a fictional bus that runs on a fictional street called "DeKalb Ave." It runs through fictional neighborhoods called "Ridgewood, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill, Fort Green and Downtown Brooklyn".
Music from artists located in and around Bushwick. Anyone can add music of any genre and recording quality. If you have any problems or suggestions please email mike@bushwickbk.com
