wild nothing all over the place.

Jack Tatum, aka Wild Nothing, will be playing Thursday, Friday and Saturday, all in Brooklyn and all with respectable lineups. Thursday's show at Market Hotel will include Blissed Out, Miho Hatori (who I had never heard of before today - she's great), and Fluffy Lumbers (also playing tonight at Monster Island Basement with Dream Diary and others). Friday is Wild Nothing's biggest gig of the three, at Music Hall of Williamsburg with WOODS and Real Estate; and he will finish up at Shea Stadium on Saturday with PC Worship and The House Floor. All are shows worth attending, do some listening to straighten out your priorities.

Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday
Wild Nothing - Chinatown
Wild Nothing - Confirmation
Wild Nothing - Cloudbusting

Woods - I Was Gone

Woods - Echo Lake

Real Estate - Snow Days

Real Estate - Suburban Dogs

Blissed Out - Jain

Fluffy Lumbers - Harry Dolland's

Love,
Jake

P.S. Go to http://www.eardrumnyc.com/blog/ to check out my preview for these shows.

friday night.

If you feel at all inclined to brave the brick ass weather, hit up the Market Hotel.  Four bands will be playing including Oneida, a veteran act that Todd P calls 'brooklyn rock heroes.'  Also playing is 'Zs,' an experimental act who uses all of your mind's dynamic capacity (including the quiet side) and Noveller, recording project of Sarah Lipstate, who I am unfamiliar with however someone had the following to say about them: "The colors and textures Lipstate produces with looped guitar phrases bloom and swirl to generate a robust, moving visual landscape that coincides with her collage-film technique and dream-world photographic manipulations."  Sounds good to me!  Red Dawn II will open the night with some hardcore music for all you ADD types.  Doors at 8pm. $10, all ages. [more info]

Saturday Night: Condom Pocket/New Mother at Trash Bar

Tonight is Condom Pocket's last show and New Mother's first. Yes, Condom Pocket is officially changing their name to New Mother (and you heard it here first). They will be rocking the stage at Trash Bar in Williamsburg this evening at 9 pm sharp. As always, the Trash Bar hosts a $7 show with open bar included from 8-9. Come by and say hi.

Mister Saturday Night is hosting a party at the Market Hotel with DJs and drinks. The night will most likely stretch until 8 in the morning so if you get bored with other plans you know where to go. For the early birds, there will be some sort of open bar from 10-11.

Friday Night: Brooklyn Grange Benefit, Art Brut and Surfer Blood at Brooklyn Bowl

Tonight there is a benefit party for Brooklyn Grange, a 1 acre rooftop farm planned by Roberta's restaurant in Bushwick, at Starr space (110 Starr street). There will be food and drink specials, DJs and 'a stripper pole!?'. Brooklyn Grange is proposed to start planting seeds in April and will be selling fresh produce to restaurants and the public (green market type deal) in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint/Bushwick area. Doors at 8pm, $10.

Also Tonight:
After playing a number of CMJ showcases and signing to Brooklyn indie label Kanine, Surfer Blood returns to NYC. They will be opening for London post-goth group Art Brut, with whom they are currently touring. The show is at Brooklyn Bowl which, if you haven't been, is worth a visit. There is bowling, live music, great local beers from Six Point and Brooklyn Brewery, as well as great food from Blue Ribbon (fried seafood and other grub). Doors at 6, show at 9. 21+ for $14.

At the Market Hotel:
Damn Kakalack Moonshine Party (I don't know what it is but it sounds like it could be cool)

Silent Barn:
Go Ghosts (doesn't suck)
The Wealthy Assholes
Affair D’Coeur
Byrds
Slow Country (sucks)

Liturgy is playing Union Pool with Malkuth, Orphan, and Krallice. This is a heavy fucking show!

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.

Saturday Night: Small Black at the Market Hotel

Come see Brooklyn's own Small Black play at the Market Hotel tonight. Small Black has been blowing up in Brooklyn with their lo-fi loops and effect laden melodies. Also at the Market Hotel will be Picture Plane from the west coast. Starts at 9. Cover $tba.