Thursday Night:

Tonight, Bushwick's Market Hotel is hosting Slim Twig, Dirty Beaches and Eartheater. Slim Twig combines ambient and dissonant guitar and synth sounds, acoustic and looped drums, and Slim's own fucked up version of rockabilly vocals to create a blanket of sounds that leap at the listener from time to time. His live show will almost certainly include other musicians, however he is a one man band hailing from Toronto. Slim will surely put on a memorable show, but don't take my word for it; check out this live clip of his song White Fantaseee.
Dirty Beaches is another Canadian act, this time from Montreal. He too is a one man act and, unlike Slim Twig, will probably be alone on the stage. Dirty Beaches, or Alex Zhang Hungtai, uses his guitar and loop pedal to create minimalist experimental music. Paired with hairy vocals, Hungtai's raunchy guitars contribute to a retro sound that will be appropriate for Slim Twig's opener.
Eartheater combines folk songs and thrash punk in one set. Singer Alex has a beautiful voice which she will no doubt show off before bursting into a guitar and drum duo based punk set. Worth checking out.

Thursday is the new Saturday!

The coolest place to be tonight is probably the Silent Barn. The Barn will be hosting a show-paper benefit with four brooklyn bands covering four monumental 80s punk bands: Grocery Theif (throw-back punk outfit) as Joy Division, Le Rug (post-punk w/ Ray Weiss) as Dead Kennedys, Graffiti Monsters (a lo-fi/punk/experimental project) as Minor Threat, and Rainbow Party (more modern punk) as Gang of Four. All four are going to be awesome. Starts at 8.

Also happening on thursday is Shea Stadium. They have a long night of Brooklyn noise makers including Equestrian, The Binary Marketing, Video Daughters, The Last Nights, Childproof, Touching You and more. Video Daughters highlight the night with low guitar riffs and robot electronics. Their swimmy vocals effect the room like a wash of acid haze. Show starts at 8.

That's all for today, gotta go to work. If you're bored come by Plan B in Prospect Heights for a drink. Mention this blog and it's on me (I'm the tender).