Celebrating Community
Here’s something great I can almost guarantee you haven’t heard. Anti-folk busking band Slack Mallard are a brilliant bunch of “lazy ducks” from deep southwestern England. They pick up phonetically and musically where their former group Phat Bollard left off. These rag tag lads first met in Calstock, a town by the Tamar River in the lush and wild region […]
Girls On Grass is a four-piece rock band based in Brooklyn, NY. They have a 50/50 male-female lineup, a radio-friendly, garage-rock sound with jangly guitars, pop hooks, and smart songwriting. The group recently recorded an 11-song LP titled “Dirty Power” at Cowboy Technical Services in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I spoke to lead singer-songwriter-guitarist Barbara Endes and drummer Nancy Polstein about their […]
Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound to Play Hank’s March 29 Legendary garage rocker Greg Cartwright of The Reigning Sound will be playing a solo set on Friday, March 29 at the new Hank‘s Saloon in downtown Brooklyn. Cartwright got his start in Memphis, Tennessee as a founding member of The Oblivions. He has also worked with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, Jack […]
Now in its 11th year, the Brooklyn Folk Festival brings three days of music, workshops, film screenings, contests, and jam sessions to the beautiful, historic St. Ann’s Church located at 157 Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights April 5-7th. Presented by the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, the Festival is produced by Eli Smith, a banjo picker and passionate aficionado […]
Donald O’Finn: Artist, Rebel, and Proprietor of Freddy’s Bar The original Freddy’s Bar is one of the great, lost places in Brooklyn. Once a rumored to be a speakeasy during prohibition, it later became a key, cultural hub and ground zero for the resistance to the assault on Brooklyn by real estate developers. The dark front room featured an outstanding wooden bar, red […]
Hanks Saloon is best known by Brooklynites as a somewhat grimy looking dive bar adorned by flames of hellfire on the corner of 3rd and Atlantic. Walk through its doors, covered with stickers of every group that’s ever played there, and you’ll find a gritty, urban juke-joint where you can see real country bands, drink cheap PBR, and shoot digital […]