Night Owl

photos courtesy Dario Sbrana

Last Friday, the leaders of Brooklyn's DIY scene, kings of underground venues, invaded Music Hall of Williamsburg for the release of Ninjasonik's Tight Pants EP.  Oh, you bet your ass I was there.

It was 10:30 AM on a Thursday, and the girls were losing it. The screaming and hollering 12 year olds that filled the auditorium of Agnes Y Humphery School for Leadership,  PS/MS 27 in Red Hook, were completely inconsolable. Was it a particularly hard geometry test? No, it was a special morning assembly--a rap concert starring Young Jinsu. 

photo credit: Andrew Jackson

It's Valentine's Day. She wants to go to the sold out MGMT and Yeasayer show. Even if it wasn't sold out, you don't have any money, anyways. But she's so damn cute and funny you know you'll do whatever it takes to get those damn tickets! After the jump, who or what will save the day?

(photo credit: Landon Von Soest)

Saturday night at “SUPERNATURE,” standing in the corner of Silent Barn's kitchen next to the amp, I felt nervous.

1. I was leaning, slightly, on a card table with a soundboard duct taped to it, which in turn was duct taped to a box fan duct-taped to a folding chair. The fan was nudging the faders up and down, and making the bass louder and louder.

2. The floor was overflowing with an estimated 350 hormonal teenagers who seemed to be blissfully unaware that the fun bouncy-bounce of the floorboards was indefinitely approaching collapse.

3. The song Move Your Hard Shit” has inspired 30-some shirtless dudes to dance fight, then mosh, then crowd surf, then start pushing each other… hard…into me, and thus, into the duct taped castle of electronics…

Radegast Hall & Beer Garden

I'd been avoiding the beer garden since I first heard about it. Nothing about it appealed to me. A beer garden? In Williamsburg? Couldn't I just go to Astoria if I were looking for douche bags?