Verboten finds a home on N11

March 11, 2014 By Comments

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EDM fans rejoice! Verboten, the host of late night underground dance parties in “secret” locations around Brooklyn for years, is now hanging a permanent disco ball in a 10,000 square foot space at 54 North 11th. The grand opening takes place this weekend, with a Rebel Rave party featuring Damian Lazarus, Francesca Lombardo, Fur Coat, Ida Engberg and Pattern Drama. Saturday continues the festivities with Wasabassco’s monthly burlesque show.

 

Here’s a little more about the space from the website:

The Control Room has been designed from the ground up to be a true home for dance music events, concerts and private events, featuring a cutting edge Martin Audio sound system [including line arrays for live music], acoustic ceiling panels, panoramic video walls, raised seating areas and a sprung wood dance floor [reclaimed from a warehouse once belonging to Thomas Edison].

 

The adjacent Cabaret Bar is a warmer, more intimate space with its own sound system, designed to function along with the Control Room or completely independently. Featuring overstuffed leather banquettes, sound absorbent curtains, neon chandeliers, and a burned concrete bar, it plays host to day parties, smaller weeknight events, art shows, cabaret and [eventually] a small plates restaurant.

 

Tickets for Friday are $30 at the door. RSVP here for the free show on Saturday.

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Americans drinking more PBR than ever, study shows

March 11, 2014 By Comments
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credit: egotripland

The hipster cachet of Pabst Blue Ribbon is spreading far and wide beyond the borders of Milwaukee, where it’s brewed by Miller, and Williamsburg, where it’s usually the cheapest beer at any given bar at $5 a can or so.

According to data collected by Quartz, PBR consumption has grown by 97.49% since 2008, making it the second-fastest growing beer brand in the U.S. The fastest growing beer is Blue Moon, likely owing to the fact that it’s “indie” enough to win approving nods from bartenders at Applebee’s, but “drinkable” enough to be on tap at Applebee’s in the first place.

Rounding out the top five are Yuengling, Stella, and Modelo.

[via Quartz]

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The Department of Homeland Security raided an East Williamsburg apartment building this weekend

March 11, 2014 By 2 Comments
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credit: Gothamist

Early Sunday morning, agents of the NYPD and the Department of Homeland Security conducted a raid on the apartment building located at 221 Devoe Street in East Williamsburg, Gothamist reports.

The DHS arrived in a heavily-armored MRAP (“mine-resistant/ambush-protected“) vehicle emblazoned with “HSI SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM.” HSI stands for Homeland Security Investigations, which is a subdivision of DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division. According to its website, “HSI investigates immigration crime, human rights violations and human smuggling, smuggling of narcotics, weapons and other types of contraband, financial crimes, cybercrime and export enforcement issues.”

Serious shit!

According to one resident of the block, an NYPD officer claimed that the raid turned up “kilos of heroin.” The DHS told Gothamist that the raid was part of “an ongoing investigation.”

Moral: don’t run a heroin smuggling operation out of your Williamsburg apartment, because the DHS will come wake up your whole block on Sunday night and your neighbors will not like you very much.

[via Gothamist]

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CHVRCHES covered Lorde’s ‘Team’

March 11, 2014 By Comments

chvrchesAfter their recent take on Arctic Monkey’s Do I Wanna Know?, CHVRCHES appeared on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to perform Lorde’s hit Team. Watch [Read more...]

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Rough Trade is hosting the world’s largest Moog installation

March 11, 2014 By Comments

moogWhile Rough Trade is working out their concert situation, they are celebrating all things Moog with an installation that runs to the end of March. From MoogMusic:

For 25 days in March, Rough Trade NY is housing the world’s largest modern Moog installation as a mile-marker on the road to Moogfest, and Moog invites all artists in the area to stop by and utilize the space for experimentation and discovery. The residency serves as a physical manifestation of the intersection of music, art and technology,and it is meant to be used as an artist’s resource. Although it is free to the public, this is no museum exhibit- visitors are encouraged to interact, engage and experiment with the analog electronics. All are welcome to craft sound as well as bring a recording device to sample the instruments.

The installation is the world’s largest Moog installation and leads up to Moogfest in Asheville, NC (April 23-27). They will also be giving away a free Moogfest ticket on each day of the installation.

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HBO Go crashed during the season finale of True Detective

March 10, 2014 By Comments

 

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Credit: dorkshelf

At 10:50 on Sunday night, so many viewers tuned in to watch the season finale of True Detective that HBO Go, HBO’s direct-streaming service, crashed. Typically, episodes are only available on HBO Go after they have aired on TV. Last night, however, HBO let subscribers stream the episode through HBO Go as it was being broadcast live.

The Internet Phenomena Blog posted a graph that depicts HBO’s massive traffic spike:

As you can see, the spike occurred at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, the exact time True Detective started. Despite a flurry of furious tweets, the service remained offline until approximately 12:30 a.m., at which point viewership spiked for another hour and everyone went to bed angry. We were all in Carcosa, then.

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A baby seal washed up in Greenpoint on Sunday (don’t worry, it’s fine).

March 10, 2014 By 3 Comments
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credit: NY Daily News

A baby seal was spotted sunning itself beside the Newtown Creek at around 2 p.m. on Sunday, the Daily News reports. Unlike the dolphin that got stuck in the Gowanus Canal last year, the seal was totally fine. It was just chilling and catching some rays.

The seal was discovered by “a group of teens skating nearby.” According to one of the teens, the seal was “the size of a dog, a fat dog.” Despite fatshaming the seal, the teens did the responsible thing and called the NYPD, who called the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation in Long Island, who sent an expert, who said the seal looked OK.

The seal swam away when the tide came back in at around 4 o’clock.

[via NY Daily News]

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Vampillia played The Silent Barn

March 9, 2014 By Comments

Boredoms and Ruins related Japanese Art-Rockers Vampillia are in town for a series of shows. Last night they annihilated The Silent Barn in Bushwick. Full video is below. They will do it again tonight at Pianos in Manhattan and tomorrow at Death by Audio in Williamsburg.

 

 

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