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Top 5 shows of the weekend

November 23, 2018 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I still feel full of turchetta, all the sides, and pie… but I’m thankful for that, and all the great shows that have happened this year, are happening this weekend, and will happen in the future. It’s a great time to be in New York with so many […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Beacon Theatre, Berlin, Bob Dylan, Coney Island Baby, Free Time, Fruit and Flowers, Goblin, joe's pub, Michael Shannon, Murmrr Theatre, Pale Lights, REM

Burning Down the Haus book party at Rough Trade

September 10, 2018 By Robert Lanham

Burning Down the Haus book party at Rough Trade

This Monday, be sure to swing by Rough Trade in Williamsburg for the book release party of Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The book chronicles the  East Berlin punk movement of the late 70s and 80s, leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.  In addition […]

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Events, Williamsburg Tagged With: Berlin, Burning Down the Haus, punk rock, Rough Trade, Tim Mohr

Top 5 shows of the weekend

June 1, 2017 By Chris Quartly

Top 5 shows of the weekend

I hope everyone had a good long weekend last time around (thanks to Pete for covering), I’m still in the UK and am looking forward to seeing Slowdive in Oxford and Justin Currie in London this weekend, but if I were here, I’d be hitting some of these up.

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Berlin, Big Bliss, Chocolat, Color Me Bushwick, Governor's Ball, Parquet Courts, The Glove, TOOL, villain

Top 5 shows of the weekend

April 28, 2016 By Chris Quartly

It has been a fairly low-key week, and the gagging need to get out there and see something might be why this time around we’re heavy on the early part of the weekend, but that’s fine, Sunday is supposed to be relaxing, I guess. A bit like a couple of weeks ago, this weekend features […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Berlin, Bob Mould, deerhunter, Fruit and Flowers, Gary Wilson, Gingerlys, James Chance and the Contortions, Market Hotel, new myths, Rough Trade, Ryan Sawyer, Surf Rock is Dead, ted leo, thurston moore, Webster Hall

Top 5 shows of the weekend

April 7, 2016 By Chris Quartly

I’d like to think I’ve got a decent track record of recommending shows or bands that might normally fly under the radar, and that might still be somewhat true this week, but what you are getting are established, tried and tested greats, with a healthy dose of “wow, they’re still playing?”. As proved last week, nostalgia […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Berlin, David Gilmour, Dwight Twilley, Parquet Courts, Radio City Music Hall, Rips, The Avengers, The Bell House, The Grand Victory, Zero Boys

Top 5 shows of the weekend

January 28, 2016 By Chris Quartly

If you’re reading this, congratulations on surviving another week. As a reward, there are some excellent shows to be seen this weekend, free of invented “buzz”, just hands-on DIY venues and bands doing what they love.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Alphaville, B-Boys, Berlin, cake shop, Chomp, Doubting Thomas Cruise Control, Grudges, Hercyn, Horrendous, krallice, Left & Right, Nathan Xander, Pill, Plates of Cake, saint vitus, Sentience, Simon Doom, Soaker, Soda, Yellow Eyes

Top 5 shows of the weekend

January 7, 2016 By Chris Quartly

Happy New Year! Welcome back! You look… well, we all put a bit of weight on over the holidays. Did you have a nice break? Me too. Any resolutions? No, me either. The important thing is we made it through 2015. New year, same drill, here are the top 5 shows of the weekend!

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Acid Dad, Baby's All Right, Berlin, Big Bitch, Cadaveric Spasm, cake shop, Crisis Actors, Dirty Blondes, Dreamcrusher, Future Punx, Gingerlys, Memorial Gore, Outside World, Palisades, Pill, Pyrrhon, Replicant, Sheer Agony, Sister Flowerz, Slavve, Surf Rock is Dead, Talibam!, Tall Juan, The Gateway, Unstoppable Death Machines, Vomit Fist, Vomitface

FREEwilliamsburg reviews CMJ 2015

October 21, 2015 By Peter Rittweger

The 35th annual CMJ Music Marathon – aka everyone’s best chance to burn through their remaining sick days by year’s end – took place last week and as always, the FREEwilliamsburg team was on hand taking in the sights and, more importantly, the sounds of the five day festival. Here’s what we took away from […]

Filed Under: Events, Music Tagged With: Baby's All Right, Berlin, cake shop, Car Seat Headrest, cmj, CMJ 2015, Collect Records, Cool Ghouls, Heaters, Lilys, Mercury Girls, NME, nothing, Palisades, PC Worship, pianos, PopGun, Protomartyr, shopping, The Album Leaf

15 bands to watch at CMJ 2015

October 12, 2015 By Coleman Bentley

Though sometimes buried in an avalanche of free pizza, promo beer, and press releases, CMJ Music Marathon’s guiding principal has always been the discovery of new music. In that spirit, we decided to kick off coverage of the mega-fest’s 35th year with a countdown of 15 must-see bands you may have not heard, but need […]

Filed Under: Bushwick, Events, Greenpoint, Music, News, Ridgewood, Uncategorized, Williamsburg Tagged With: Acid Dad, adhoc, Alphaville, Arlene's Grocery, Berlin, Black Fast, cake shop, cameo gallery, Cheatahs, CMJ 2015, CMJ Music Marathon, Cool Ghouls, Creepoid, Destruction Unit, Evans the Death, free shows, Greys, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Niagra, Our Wicked Lady, Palehound, Protomartyr, Rough Trade, Sheer Mag, Slow Down Molasses, Solids, Studio at Webster Hall, the acheron, The Gotobeds, The Wick, Worriers



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