Thursday!

Retard Strength @ The Flat 

308 Hooper Street, BK

Price: Free

 

Three Heads Brewing Launch Party @ Barcade

388 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Price: Fee

 

Night Manager @ Cameo Gallery 

93 N. 6th Street, BK

Price: $5

NIGHT MANAGER: https://www.facebook.com/nightmanagerbk

HEAVEN’S GATE: http://heavensgate.bandcamp.com/
YVETTE: www.yvetteyvetteyvette.com/
MALA STRANA: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mala-Strana/145859735431160

 

Thirstdayz @ Chloe 81

81 Ludlow Street, LES

Price: Free

 

Thursday Basement Party @ Hotel Chantelle

92 Ludlow, at Delancey, LES

Price: Free

 

Friday!

So So Glos @ 285 Kent 

285 Kent Ave, BK

Price: $10

THE SO SO GLOS: http://www.facebook.com/sosoglos
LOST BOY: http://www.myspace.com/lostboy
LIFE SIZE MAPS: http://www.facebook.com/LifeSizeMaps
BIG UPS: http://www.facebook.com/wearebigups

 

FINGER LICKIN’ FRIDAY @ THE GRAND VICTORY 

245 Grand St., Brooklyn

Price: Free

 

 NY Night Train SHAKIN’ w/JONATHAN TOUBIN & friends @ Home Sweet Home 

131 Chrystie St, LES

Price: $5

 

Rock Bottom gets xXx Rated for Johnny’s Birthday!! @ Rock Bottom 

175 Stockholm Street, BK

Price: $5

Mikey Likes Itt: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8833034
Brooklyn Wildlife: http://www.facebook.com/brooklynwildlife
Argotec: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Argotec/104876073866
Le Sphinxx: http://www.facebook.com/LeSphinxx
DJ Kahncept: soundcloud.com/djkahncept

If you’ve never been to Rock Bottom/NXT LVL you should, there’s a great family vibe, the hosts are the sweetest and the roof’s always available for rendezvous and scandal.

 

MISHKA X DAS RACIST SNAPBACK RELEASE JAM @ The Knitting Factory 

361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn

Price: $10

BIG BABY GANDHI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNmbmQJhZlg
LAKUTIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCtPhBX49NA

Saturday!

Saturdazed @ Tender Trap

245 S. 1st Street, BK

Price: Free

It’s the best–full stop.

 

Freshkills, Unstoppable Death Machines, Violent Bullshit + More @ The Grand Victory

245 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY

Price: $8

Unstoppable Death Machines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQUR5e8i5uc

Violent Bullshit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSV5DZhYRsQ

Filthy Savage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhnVdN7L-

Jah and Maxwell 57 are dj-ing.

 

Friday Night Blights :: JUGGERNUT @ the Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery, New York

Price: ??

 

Secret House Episode V @ The Secret House

Stockton St, right off the Myrtle-Broadway stop

Price: Free

Moisture: http://www.facebook.com/MoistureSounds?ref=ts

Harasssarah: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HARASSSARAH/174406602641072

 

Personality Crisis @ Shea Stadium

20 Meadow Street

Price: $8

Told Slant: http://toldslant.bandcamp.com/ http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/track/algae-bloom
The Bennys: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bennys/127025594041642
Beast Make Bomb: http://beastmakebomb.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/BeastMakeBomb
The Static Jacks: http://www.thestaticjacks.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thestaticjacks

THE BENNY’S ARE THE SHIT.

Best way to wash children I suppose.

Everybody is making a big deal about this saying “oh thats not cool at all BRO” or “What if he got hurt”  well he didn’t so fuck it, let em’ spin.

OH and FUCK THE RACISTS on the video comments, they only saw this video because the media is trying to say they are bad parents and blowing this shit up.

 

Play this one for sound dummy!

While you were out this weekend (YOLO), there was some kind of eclipse that happened all over the world and made the sun look like a fire demon swallowing the world. If you’re lucky, you were on drugs somewhere and saw it by chance, and not because you heard about it online.  Here’s some info from The Big Picture, where you can find a couple more photos of it.

A rare annular eclipse – a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and sun, blocks most, but not all, of the sun’s disc. It is striking to see. Differing from a total solar eclipse, the moon in an annular eclipse appears too small to cover the sun completely, leaving a ring of fire effect around the moon. The eclipse cast its shallow path crossing the West from west Texas to Oregon then arcing across the northern Pacific Ocean to Tokyo, Japan.

We celebrated the release of this video last Friday at Tender Trap, where everyone enjoyed the song and was entranced by how much fun the video was. On the surface, it’s a fun video for a fun song.

But, there’s more! In the video, normal people doing normal things are bending their back, not in the ass-shaking-almost-demeaning sort of way. There’s a lady petting a dog, and she’s not thinking about you or anyone else. There’s a mailman bending his back, and he’s just trying to do his job. So bending one’s back becomes more than just a dance move, but a way to just do you.  And I support that.

The illustrations are dope too. It’s a great video, congratulations to the homies!

You can listen to this and the rest of the tracks on the New York Club Volume 2 Mixtape on soundcloud, or purchase it here.

Directed by Ace Salisbury, Produced by Looseworld

i like, JUST exhaled weed smoke when that old man stumbled in that ditch and got his fucking arm ripped off and now… now, i’m just goddamn ecstatic.

i havent blinked for like three minutes.

(i almost went back and edited out both times i just wrote “like” and then i was like, fuck it.)

if you like gator-gore, you should “like” this post.

like like like.

Alright ladies and gentlemen, you can officially stop worrying about the guys coming back from all those wars in middle east missing a limb, because people are more determined than ever to have a good time, and missing 5 or 10 fingers is no longer the roadblock of yester-year. (Peeps be making due.)

Go ahead and encourage whoever you think rolls the best blunts out of all of your friends to watch this video, because they should see what its like to have the difficulty ramped up a few notches. This man right here has fucking STUBS for crissakes, and yet still manages to roll a fiiiiiiiiiine-ass blunt. This should be inspiration to anyone who has ever said that rolling a blunt is “waaaaayyyy too hard”, because now there’s no excuse since A MAN WITH NO HANDS can do that shit. Y’all should feel ashamed of yourselves.

(Thanks to The World’s Best Ever for the link.)

Kon Trubkovich is a somewhat mysterious Russian-American multi artist whose work revolves around the paradoxes in the human condition. His paintings come from video source material, imaginably paused, unpaused and paused again.

From the first image, it’s almost impossible to recognize that what you’re looking at is actually a painting, but as you can see in the 6th and 7th images below, they are in fact made of brush strokes.

If you’re reading this on the West Coast, you should most definitely check out the opening of Trubkovich’s Leap Second in Los Angeles tomorrow. Beyond dope.

KON TRUBKOVICH
Leap Second

Opening Reception
Friday, May 18th
7-9pm

OHWOW
937 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069

 

 

Yup, it’s back.  I added two more videos for all you thirsty fucks.  I wouldn’t get use to it though, I’m still a lazy bastard and this job isn’t paying any more than it was (which is nothing by the way).

 

When Stuntin Goes Wrong

Learn how to fucking drive.

 

This is the Craziest Shit Ever

Don’t blink.

 

Brain Damage

It’s a little slow in the beginning but picks up fast and gets really out of control.

Comments were disabled on this one bruh

 

Spaceghostpurrp is my Boy

Good song, good ass video, what more can you ask for?

 

 

Dude is on Some GTA III Shit

CLINK!!!! CLINK!!!!

 

 

Ratchet Clip of the Week: Saudi Arabs Being Ignorantly Reckless

This shit is fucking crazy.  Apparently in countries where you get the death penalty if you’re caught with drugs, the drug of choice is adrenaline.

 

 

Breast Milk is the Best Milk

She squeezes some of her titty juice into people’s coffees and no one really gets pissed off, I don’t get it.  Some people even drink that shit and ask for more, that’s seriously fucked.

 

Hey New York City, the NYPD’s controversial Stop-and-Frisk practice against minorities is finally fixed. What a relief.

The corruption, racial profiling and systemic repression against Blacks and Latinos is finally over. To “increase public confidence,” Ray Kelley has issued a 5-point program sent to City Council speaker Christine Quinn. The program outlines the five steps the NYPD will take to end racial profiling completely.

Last year, more than 630,000 people were stopped without warrant, mostly black and Hispanic men. Only about 10 percent of those stopped were arrested. So what does the commissioner have in mind to fix one of the most prevalent corrupt practices facing the city? (Not the Rikers Island fight club, that’s being addresses by a different memo.)

Here’s Ray Kelley’s program:

• Police brass have republished an NYPD order that specifically prohibits racial profiling and will include that message in their unit-level training sessions conducted in June.
• The executive officer in each precinct, housing police service area and transit district will now be responsible for reviewing the paperwork submitted for each stop in their command.
• The NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Training will also reteach officers — beginning with the 1,500 cops assigned to Operation Impact — how to properly conduct a lawful stop.
• The NYPD is completing a series of five instructional videos that detail the methods officers should use while conducting a stop.
• Cops have expanded an outreach program to teach them computer skills. The course is currently being taught in two crime-ridden precincts: The 32nd Precinct in Harlem and the 77th Precinct in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Colbert had a spot on analysis of the chart above, btw:

Tomorrow, May 18th, we’re coming together with Gold Whistle to celebrate Smurfo of WCKids’ birthday! We’ll also be releasing the video for “Bend Your Back” a track by Cobra Krames and DJ ANS of WCKids featuing Smurfo from the New York Club Volume 2 Mixtape.

Tender Trap is always fun. The party starts at 10 pm and we have DJ A.N.S. and Cobra Krames spinning as well as JLamar. We also have a special performance by Mr. Andersonic and Blud Drums!

Check Blud Drums killing it with DJ Dirtyfinger:

 

 

Tender Trap

245 S. 1st Street, BK

10pm-4am

Free

 

Thursday!

Ground Line: Art Opening @ Grit N Glory

186 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002

Price: Free

 

Ground Line After Party @ Hotel Chantelle 

92 Ludlow Street  New York, NY 10002

Price: Free

Password: Darcy Kent, after midnight just say you know Maxwell

 

Hoodlove @ Project Parlor

742 MYRTLE AVE BTW SANFORD & NOSTRAND

Price: Free

 

Thirstdayz @ Chloe 81 

81 Ludlow Street, LES

Price Free

 

Fiona Silver @ Fat Baby NYC

112 Rivington St, NYC

Price: Free

Fiona Silver: http://www.facebook.com/FionaSilver
Riot in Paris: http://www.vivalariot.com/
Happy Lives: http://happylives.bandcamp.com/
L Train: http://www.facebook.com/LTrainBand

 

Eula @ Death by Audio

49 S. 2nd St @ Kent Ave, Brooklyn

Price: $7

Eula: http://eula.bandcamp.com/
Psychic Feline: http://psychicfelinehh.bandcamp.com/
Lame Drivers: http://lamedrivers.com/
Sloppy Heads: http://sloppyheads.bandcamp.com/

 

Friday!

Superchief and Gold Whistle Present: Smurfo’s Birthday Bash (and Release Party for DJ ANS and Cobra Krames’ vido “Bend Your Back”) @ Tender Trap 

245 S. 1st Street, BK

Price:  Free

This is our party, therefore you should come.

 

Medication @ FreeCandy 

905 Atlantic Ave. (@ St. James), Brooklyn, NY

Price: Free

 

Down and Derby Roller Disco NYC @ Deklab Market

138 Willoughby, Brooklyn

Price: $5 with RSVP

 

Toilet Palooza @ Bohemian Grove

64 Grove Street, BK

Price: ?, but’s a fundraiser

Bohemian Grove needs a toilet, so for three days, they will have really dope musicians play for you, and on Sunday, it’ll be on the roof. Check the facebook for the full list of bands.

 

TROUBLE & BASS VS. BODY HIGH @ Glasslands 

289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, Brooklyn

Price: $10

SAMO SOUNDBOY: http://soundcloud.com/bodyhigh

SLIINK: http://soundcloud.com/djsliinkbbc

NADUS: http://soundcloud.com/nadus

STAR EYES: http://www.facebook.com/stareyezzz

THE CAPTAIN: http://www.facebook.com/thecaptain666

 

dU : Heart/Booze Cruize/Earmilk Presents: TALK SH!T @ The Morgan 

250 Varet Street, BK

Price: $10, $12 after midnight

CURL UP: https://www.facebook.com/curlupcurlup

DIRTYFINGER: http://dirtyfinger.tumblr.com/
RPEG: http://www.soundcloud.com/r-peg
ALT BEAST: http://soundcloud.com/ii07

 

Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire // Neighbors (Seattle) // Diatone // @ 13 Thames

13 Thames Street, Bk

Price; suggested donation of $5

Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire: https://www.facebook.com/ballofflameshootfire
Neighbors (Seattle): http://neighbors.bandcamp.com/
Diatone: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Diatone/300447543321678

 

Saturday!

Saturdazed @ Tender Trap 

245 S. 1st Street, Brooklyn

Price: Free

Roofeo: http://soundcloud.com/roofeeo

DJ Dirtyfinger: http://dirtyfinger.tumblr.com/

We love Roofeo and we’re stoked to have him back in town.

 

Time Travellers @ Broomies

921 Broadway, BK

Price: Free

Jah Jah is djing and performing with Unstoppable Death Machines. How could you not go?

 

New Brooklyn After Hours 

RSVP at buriedinbrooklyn@gmail.com for address

Price: $20

For you night owls.

 

Do or Dine: Saturdays @ Do or Dine

1108 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Price: Free

Music by JLamar

 

Cat Face @ Glasslands 

289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Price: $5 with cat face, $20 without cat face.

MESS KID: http://soundcloud.com/messkid
DIRTYFINGER: http://dirtyfinger.tumblr.com/
MISCHIEF: www.soundcloud.com/mischief-music
RPEG: http://soundcloud.com/r-peg

 

Get Bent Presents: Japanther, X-Ray Eyeballs, Numerators & Hector’s Pets

20 Meadow Street, Brooklyn

Price: $8

Japanther:

X-Ray Eyeballs:

Hector’s Pets: http://soundcloud.com/hectors-pets

Numerators: http://www.myspace.com/thenumerators

 

One Step Beyond  @ American Museum of Natural History 

200 Central Park West (at 79th Street), New York

Price: $25

Spank Rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLMJccb1YU

Zebra Katz: http://soundcloud.com/zebrakatz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Baldessari has had a crazy life, exhibiting thousands of works in many galleries, winning tons of awards, and generally just being a bad ass dude. In this retrospective from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, Baldessari’s 60 year career is shown in a lightning fast 6 minutes that is also easy to follow (yes, even you can follow it you high bastard.) The only thing that could make it better (and anything involving a voiceover, for that matter) is the whiskey soaked, I-just-smoked-five-thousand-packs-of-cigarettes voice of the absolute fuckin’ MAN, Tom Waits. He sounds just like the kind of guy you’d find in a bar at 4pm telling stories about how his first three wives left him, and he makes this documentary very entertaining to watch. Smoke some of that good shit, and get fucking INSPIRED by the life of John Baldessari. He has some great advice (if you can call it that) for young artists, and seems like a really cool dude you could hang out and smoke a bowl with.

And again, to have Tom Waits tell you about all about it in a smart ass tone is like watching the world’s older brother break some shit down for you in the chillest way possible.

Here’s a little creative ‘artspiration’ for you. These guys coordinated a large amount of paint being spilled in an intersection in Sao Paulo for a ‘civil occupation’ art festival. Cars splashed through the puddles and spread paint all over the place, making this beautiful mess.

This would be amazing to do in New York, but they would probably put you away for ‘terrorism’ or ‘faggotry.’ So with that in mind, if you’re going to do subversive art in New York, do it right. It would be way cooler to plan it in secret and use oil-based paint so the city couldn’t powerwash it off the pavement at the end of the day. Keep dumping paint in different intersections day after day until the NYPD infiltrates your art terrorism organization and pretends you were planning to buy a bomb.

That or move to Sao Paulo.

BaixoCentro is a movement of civil occupation that wants to crack, hack and play in the streets, conducted by an open network of producers. The first edition of the Festival happened in 23th march to 1st april, 10 days of a production where artists, producers and audience had the same goal to achieve together: make a whole festival using the interchange of services, infrastructural materials and arts to make it possible. There was more than 100 activities from workshops, performances, street interventions, between others.

The opening was in march 23, 2012, when 200 liters of water solved paint were thrown on one of the main downtown São Paulo avenue: Av São João. The action was made in the morning. By noon, the city council had already washed the painting, even though they were water solved.

The intervention was based on dutch artist Iepe, Painting Reality, made in 2011 in Berlin, at Rosenthaler Platz ( painting.iepe.net/)

Thanks Matt for the link!

The Snake is a website that releases and features music from DIY artists from all over. They support musicians who are “lost in an obsession of creative spirit” as opposed to the assholes who are only in it for money.

This Friday, they will have their first showcase! Performing are four very talented bands that I have been featured on The Snake. Bosco, Shapes, Il Abanico and the Canoes will all be providing the sounds for your entertainment and it’s completely free at FreeCandy.

Tomorrow night, May 18th

905 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

Doors at 9, First band at 10.

It’s Free, but it’s 21+

(for Vogue China February 2012)

 

More of Karolina Kurkova (Uh yeah, she’s a Victoria’s Secret Angel)

 

 

 

 

More from Willy Vanderperre

 

 

Yeah, I know I’m late with this shit, but you’re just gonna have to deal with it. We’ve compensated for the delay by putting together a fucking awesome video.

Also, shout out to Ladder Devils for solidifying my assessment. What hardcore band gets their panties in a bunch over some shit bloggers say? Furthermore, what hardcore band has a twitter and uses that twitter to post how hurt their feelings are. Anyway, We appreciate the award, “worst live band photography”, it really means a lot.

In A Crisis Situation: Phonographic Arts Presents Liberty Fest 2012 from Jacob Zack Block on Vimeo.

In case you wanted to see photo coverage:

Day 1

Day 2 & 3

 

Jayson Scott Musson, otherwise known as Hennessey Youngman has been able to generate a vast fan base through his series of videos called ART THOUGHTZ on Youtube.  Musson presents comic commentary on art, linking it with today’s culture; ranging from the inclusion of racial stereotypes and his use of hip-hop vernacular as a method of expressing his idea that art is colloquial and anyone can produce a work of art. Even Musson’s pseudonym Hennessey Youngman stems from the name of the comedian Henny Youngman; famous for one-liners and cognac, both which are deeply rooted in the hip-hop world.  Musson also combats idioms of hip hop language with those of the art world to convey his ideas about the commercialization of art, poststructuralism, and critiques.

BTW, OUR SUPERCHIEF COUCH WAS IN YOUNGMAN’S ART SHOW IN CHELSEA’S FAMILY BUSINESS GALLERY 

The Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) will be presenting a screening and conversation with Jayson Scott Musson tonight at 6:30 p.m. at their location on 535 West 2^nd Street.  This will be Musson’s first time speaking about his work in New York discussing his series ART THOUGHTZ, and presenting two new episodes titled The Studio Visit (2012) and Grad School (2012), Youngman will also be presenting some of his earlier videos as well.  After the screening Musson will be engaging in conversation with Josh Kline of EAI about how the character and critical voice of Hennessey Youngman came to evolve, how creating rap music influenced Musson as an artist, and how Musson used the internet to as a way to initiate a video performance directly targeted at the art world.

For those of you who haven’t seen any videos from the ART THOUGHTZ series here’s one to get you started:

Anyone who has got any free time and five or seven bucks to spare tonight should definitely check this dude out he is HILARIOUS and super smart and interesting.  Learning about art from a humble perspective should be refreshing and fun! Here’s the info:

REMEMBER IT IS TONIGHT!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
6:30 pm

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
www.eai.org

Admission $ 7.00 / Students $ 5.00
Free for EAI Members
RSVP: rsvp@eai.org