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Underground Horns in a Magazine

Hey bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog, and in between reading those headline news headlines of the day which can sometimes be consuming, I find myself coming across one of those facebook posts in internetland that says Underground Horns is in a magazine. And I know some good friends Underground Horns are in New York Magazine because that Underground Horns facebook post titled something like “Check out this interview/article on the underground horns in New York Magazine! The article also features many other talented underground artists” says so. And so I find myself reading about Underground Gourmet and Welf Dorr’s Underground Horns in this months New York Magazine on this day. And Underground Horns will be playing at Nublu, that cool and beyond club and bar in that seemingly trendy of a neighborhood of the Lower East Side now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe to be found in that city of New York, on Mardi Gras day, March 8th, 11pm if you happen to be in the neighborhood. And Nublu Mardi Gras Rocks. Have a great music and more day.
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A 2011 NYC Winter Jazzfest


And even when it seems as if the world could be going to hell in a hand basket, and the headlines of the day read something like TSA chief: Resisting scanners just means delays, ‘SNL’ takes on TSA: Parody over protest, as in those Transportation Security Administration body scanner things suck at those airports to be found on planet earth for the Thanksgiving day holiday travel and beyond. I still find myself blah blogging away on this blagh for some reason. And that 2011 New York Winter Jazzfest is happening in that city of New York again this year, I mean next year. And I know that 7th annual Winter Jazz Festival is happening again next year because some friends who are playing there says so. And I find myself blogging about music events and more on this blog every so often because hey, it’s less writing sometimes, I think. And according to that facebook event invite that I came across in my facebookaholicness, that festival is taking place at five West Village venues of Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, Kenny’s Castaways, Zinc Bar and the Bitter End, Friday, January 7th & Saturday, January 8th with sixty and more groups showcasing music all night. And some of this years, I mean next years showcasing artists in that jazz and experimental music festival include the Aaron Goldberg Trio,Anat Cohen Quartet with Jason Lindner,Asphalt Orchestra,Carmen Souza,Charles Gayle Trio,Charlie Hunter,Chico Hamilton,Chris Lightcap’s,Chris Speed’s YeahNO,The Curtis Brothers,Don Byron’s New Gospel Quintet,Donny McCaslin Trio with Uri Caine,Eric Legnini featuring Krystle Warren,Igmar Thomas and The Cypher,Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey,James Carney Group,Marcus Strickland Quartet,Matana Roberts,Nels Cline’s Stained Radiance,Nguyen Le,Proverb Trio featuring Dafnis Prieto,Kokayi and Jason Lindner,RedCred featuring John Medeski,Ben Perowsky and Chris Speed,The Respect Sextet,The Robert Glasper Experiment,Sofia Rei Koutsovitis,Steve Coleman and Five Elements,Talibam!,Tia Fuller,Tineke Postma,Underground Horns,Vernon Reid’s Artificial Afrika,VISIONFUGITIVE: JD Allen plus Butch Morris,Water Surgeons and a whole lot more. And this festival winter jazz festival rocks. Have a great music and more day.
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A Host Of Events



And this seems to be another one of those days where I just want to post that Ode To Blogging post in my attempt to get rich internet quick blogaholicness, to where that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job. And yet this post happens to be about a Nublu Jazz Festival and a Hoboken Artists Studio Tour. And again, as blogger usual, I know that Nublu Jazz Festival and that Hoboken Artists Studio tour are happening because those emails I receive, facebook event invites and friends who are playing at one of these events, says so. And what else is there to say about that all music and all art seemingly collective of a bar and club Nublu that is to be found in that yet trendy of a neighborhood of the Lower East Side now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe, that is to be found in that city of New York, except that Nublu Rocks. And what else is there to say about that 30th Annual Hoboken Artists Studio Tour to be found in another one of those trendy of a neighborhoods in that city of Hoboken that is to be found in that state of New Jersey that has not been said thirty times already, I am not sure, except that this Hoboken Artists Studio Tour rocks. And that announcement for that Hoboken Artists Studio Tour reads as follows:

Hoboken Artists Studio Tour

Saturday and Sunday, Movember 6th and 7th, noon to 6pm

A Free City-Wide Self-Guided Walking Tour of Artists’ Studios, Galleries & Community Group Exhibitions

Featuring the work of over 150 artists in over 40 locations

An 8 page Tour Guide with map will be available as an insert in the Hoboken Reporter the week before the tour or can be picked up at City Hall on the day of the tour.

City Hall is located at 94 Washington Street, between First & Newark Streets

Just 3 blocks from all public transportation including PATH, NJ trains & buses, NY Waterway Ferries and Hudson Bergen Lightrail.

And according to that eight page tour guide to be found in that Hudson Reporter, some of those participating artists and performers in this years event include:

Tim Daly, one of the original 13 who helped found this artist studio tour, Adam Saynuk, Frank Hanavan, Roslyn Rose, Kenneh Mueller, Virginia Rolston Parrott, Doug Auld, Chapeau Design, Paterson Arts Council, Lib Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Center, the Friary, Neumann Leather building and many many more.

And then some of those artists, performers and musicians in this years Nublu Jazz Festival November 5th-20th, 2010 include:

Alphabet Soup, Endangered Blood, Lew Soloff, The Fringe, Yeyi, DJ Spun,Brennan Green, Bato The Yugo, Paul Motian, Matt Pavolka, Ilhan Ersahin (Isn’t he the owner and/or founder of Nublu?), Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris, DJ Vladi,Juini Booth, DJ Hardedge, Marianniwith, Jeff Ballard, Ze Luis and Band, DJ Greg Caz, Revive Music Group, DJ Ouga, Sun Ra Arkestra, DJ MKL, Clark Gayton’s Situation, Wazzabi featuring Aaron Johnston, Redux, Underground Horns, Kenny Wollesen Father Figures, Dub N Such,Seamus Blake Quartet, Dodo, Didi Gutman, Anton, Forro In The Dark, Beco Dranoff, DJ Turmix, The Last Army Collective, Alex, Love Trio, Jonathon Haffner Band, Modest P and a whole lot more.

And what else again is there to be said about these events except that these festivals and tours rock. Have a great music, art and more day.
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An NYC Village Halloween Parade

Oh boy, it’s that time of year again that has found itself around again according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall. The end of summer and the beginning of the holy holiday season. And with that holy holiday season finds itself Halloween, All Saints Day, All Hallows Eve, The Day of the Dead,when the dead rise, a great excuse to dress however one wants and not care about it, or whatever one would want to call that scary, spooky, astrological, mystical, occult, witchcraft of a day. If only every day could be Halloween, maybe. And so with that holiday holidaying day seems to come a slew of Halloween events and parties and beyond to go along with it. And I have found myself blah blaghing about that holiday on this blog before in times past. And so some of those events to be found in that city of New York in this year of 2010 A.D. are as follows:

And so that NYC Village Halloween Parade is happening again this year. That seemingly end all to be all of parades to be found in that city of New York with seemingly a bazillion puppets, marching bands, dancers, performers and more. And all, or at least a lot of people, dressed up in those costumes Halloween style. And according to that Village Halloween Parade website, some of this years bands and performers include
Approaching Storm Marching Band, Aztec Marching Band, Baritone Army, Big Nazo, Bizango, Bloco Quimbombo, Caporales de San Simon, Central Park Dance Skaters Association,Chinatown Community Young Lions, Chinelos, Columbia University Marching Band, Dja Ra Ra, EnJ Productions, Escola de Samba BOOM, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Geday Brigade, Giglio Band, Golden Knights Drill Team, Gowanus Wildcats Drill Team, Higher Levin Steel Orchestra,Hungry March Band , Kalunga/Rasin San Bout , Lakou Band, Lubolos Macu, Madagascar Institute, Manhattan Samba, Maracatu New York, Mommy? (+ Klaus Nomi Army),New York Music in Motion Drum and Dance Corps, On the Lam Band, Princeton University Marching Band, Puppeteer’s Cooperative, PURE NYC, Radoes Steel Orchestra, Red Hook Ramblers, Samba New York!, Sugartone Brass Band, The Drunkard’s Wife, Top Hat Marching Orchestra, Tropical Pan Vibe – J’Ouvert, Underground Horns, Xtreme Kre8tionz ColorGuard & DrumLine, Zobop Rara and more.

And then there is also the Theater for the New City Village Halloween Costume Ball. And hey, didn’t that theater start or help found that NYC Village Halloween Parade years and decades ago somehow, I thought I heard someone say?

And then according to those emails, there’s also The Danger List, Your Halloween Weekend with:
You are invited to:
Within the Land of Ash : Saturday, October 30th
Details: WithinTheLandofAsh.com and
The Horror Show
Details: horror.

And this blah blaghers list is not even including those Jeff Stark nonsensenyc weekly events lists, or those millions of facebook event invites one can receive each day, or those Time Out New York Magazine events one can read.
And the halloween party event list is endless, maybe. And these Halloween events rock. Have a great Halloween day, night and more day.
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A HONK! Festival 2010 Van Ride

And so it could have been a scene straight out out National Lampoon’s Vacation, that funny travel vacation movie that maybe isn’t so funny when it finds itself in real life, as I found myself with The Himalayas, that marching band group marching its way to the HONK! Festival 2010, that fifth annual festival of activist street bands that converged in Harvard and Davis Square in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston on October 8-10, 2010 the other day. And so again I found myself with the Himalayas at one of those All Car Rent A Car Brooklyn Car Rental places somewhere in the middle of Brooklyn to be found in that city of New York that is to be found in that country of America that is to be found in this world somewhere, waiting to take that rent a van to the HONK! Festival. And so I found myself waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting and waiting, and waiting, at that rent a van place that took an hour to open that took another hour for that van to be cleaned out, that took all of that rent a van payers money to fill up that empty tank of gas it came with that gave no discount or acknowledgement of the inconvenience of leaving two hours later than planned. And I guess it’s a good thing there were no planes to catch and only a gig to possibly miss from that rent a van that had some of those door latches missing and one of its wheels misaligned to where it became a shaking vibrationmobile whenever its wheels went over 60 miles per hour giving one images of ones life flashing before their very eyes the whole trip there and back, maybe. And I heard it said all because some other NYC car rental place was overbooked for the holidays. And so back to that Honk festival. And some of this years marching bands from around the country included AfroBrazil, AMP Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Veveritse, and What Cheer? Brigade and more. And that Honk Festival with the Himalayas and more rocked as in that YouTube video above. Have a great HONK Festival day.
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A Facebook Event

Hey bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog. And that website called spacebook, myspace, myplace, faceplace, spaceplace, I mean facebook seems to be full of events. And unless one has been stuck in one of those caves in the stone age, one must have heard of that social media website in this social media web 2.0 user generated content era. And I know facebook is full of events because that facebook page I signed up for in my facebookaholicness says it’s full of events. And it seems to be full of events from other friends who are also signed up on that website. And it also seems as if there can be a million facebook events and more posted on that facebook page from facebook friends each day, as those number of facebook event invitations of you have such and such an amount of invitations to click on you will attend this event, you will not attend this event or you maybe will attend this event can go from 57 to 570 invitations in a matter of seemingly minutes, maybe. And so some of those events to be found on that facebook page in that city of New York are as follows:

Panic: A Dance Party at Gallery Bar
Dance With:..Dirty Finger, DJ Dimitry, Spanky!,Gamora and Dan2600
Hosted By: Feral Children, Kimberly Nies, Brenndon Knox, Aaron Gibbs, Carolyn Brennan and Distroy Allorchs

Vox Illuminati: The Party That Never Was – Welcome to Paradise and
Castle Vox Presents: The Experience with your favorite DJ’s Atomic, Hiro Tha Jap, Joro Boro, Drty Fnga, Anton Glamm, Morphous Shizaru and more.

Rally and garden party with Time’s Up, Reverend Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping Choir with tribute to Michael Shenker. At the El Jardin del Paraiso! Community Garden.

RED BARAAT 2nd Anniversary Party at Southpaw
Come party with Red Baraat and celebrate their 2nd anniversary!
DJ – Chances with Wolves

1ST THURSDAY – DUMBO GALLERY WALK Dumbo’s Monthly Gallery Walk! With this month’s highlights including: Giacobetti Paul Gallery’s “Choreographies.” A performance by… Larry Krone as part of Smack Mellon’s “Press Play” Concert Series; and much more!

and

St. Ann’s Warehouse presents
FELA! ­­FREE CONCERT IN BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK
THE MUSIC OF FELA KUTI
Aaron Johnson, Music Director
St. Ann’s Warehouse presents The Music of Fela Kuti, a free concert. Sahr Ngaujah and the live band from FELA! on Broadway, will perform music by the towering Nigerian figure who invented Afrobeat.

And those facebook events seem to go on and on and on and on in facebookland. Have a great facebook event and beyond day.

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A Dumbo Arts Festival 2010

Hey again bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog. And that 14th Annual Dumbo Arts Festival 2010 and Two Trees sponsored event is happening again in this year, September 24th-26th, in that neighborhood of downtown under the Manhattan bridge overpass in Dumbo, Brooklyn, to be found in that city of New York, in that country of North America. And I know that Dumbo Arts Festival is happening again this year because some friends who are playing music as part of this event and that Dumbo Arts Festival website says so. And I have found myself blogging about this event on this blog before in times past, as this event seems to roll around each year much like those holidays to be found on that Gregorian calendar. And so this year that festival seems to be bigger and better than ever with seemingly an endless schedule of what seems like a bazillion performers, artists, musicians, galleries and more. And according to their website, the DUMBO Arts Festival is pleased to announce many participating artists for their expanded festival. And this event art festival rocks as follows.

Musicians Tom Verlaine, Rob Schwimmer, Shahzad Ishmaily, Kenny Wollesen & The Himalayas; Artists Barnaby Furnas, Marc Dennis & Alexi Worth; Author Jonathan Lethem, Performance Artists including Sarah Small’s ‘Tableau Vivant Series’; and Steampunk Salon Saloon among the many artists, musicians, dancers, performers and writers participating…Family Programs, Street Performers Galore.

The DUMBO Arts Festival is pleased to announce a partial artists line-up for its new, expanded festivities, which will be held on September 24th, 25th and 26th. The DUMBO Arts Festival will take over the waterfront community of DUMBO – its galleries, storefronts, performance venues, studios, and parks. More exciting names are expected to be announced over coming weeks.

The Festival will be an action and activity-packed extravaganza with something for everyone, including world-class visual and performance art, live music, street performers, music workshops, drum circles, dance, walking tours, as well as, for the first time ever, family programming.

Visual artists including Barnaby Furnas, Marc Dennis, Sean Capone, Jennifer Williams, Bernardo Siciliano, Ed Purver and Alexi Worth will display their work along with many other artists; musicians Tom Verlaine and Billy Ficca will perform with Patrick Derivaz and The Himalayas will march their music around the streets as just a few of the many musical offerings and performances during the three-day festival; author Jonathan Lethem will be reading and signing Chronic City at this exclusive paperback launch party; Sarah Small’s ‘Tableau Vivant Series’, Steampunk Salon Saloon’s neo-Victorian Punk soiree, and Marc Dennis’ Cricket Cuisine are among the art and spectacle available to festival-goers. Children’s programming, including kite flying, The Acrobuffos, Yogi Beans, Jane’s Carousel, Marquis Studios’ workshop, storytelling as well as music workshops and performances for kids will also be a part of the DUMBO Arts Festival.

Music (Performances, Workshops, &/or Demos)

Avram Pengas, Bill Hamptom, Brad Farberman, David Gate, Dean Bowman, Dolphy Hazel, Duncan Emck, Gregory Grene, Jan Bell and the Maybelles, Jesse Lenat, Knox Chandler, No Surrender, North Sky Cello Ensemble, NYC Subway Girl, Rob Schwimmer, Rubn Kodhel, Sadowsky Guitars, Sei Koizumi, Shahzad Ishmaily, Soh Daiko, Strung Out String Band, Sam Zygmuntowicz and more.

Visual Arts (installations & open studios)

Miya Ando, Alex Aparzev, David Baskin, Allison Berkoy, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Suzanne Broughel, Davide Cantoni, Nana Deleplanque, Barnaby Furnas, Marty Greenbaum, Dolphy Hazel, Vitaly Komar, Pevel Kraus, Mary Mattingly, Eileen Mislove, Chris Mottalini, Ed Purver, Carol Salmanson, Vadim Schaeffler, Bernado Siciliano, Leonard Ursachi, Seth Wulsin and more.

Performance Art, Tableau Vivant, Steampunk & Spectacle

Acrobuffos, Floating Kabarette, The Himalayas, Olek, Steampunk Salon, Stephanie Bok and more.

Gallery Exhibitions

A.I.R. Gallery, Amos Eno, BAC Gallery, Central Booking, Dumbo Arts Center, Henry Gregg, Klompching Gallery, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Rabbithole Studio, Smack Melon, Umbrage Gallery and more.

Dance

White Wave Dance Festival & more

Literary Events

Amir Parsa, Cave Canem poetry reading, Joshua Wolfe and company, Melville House, Powerhouse Arena presents, Jonathan Lethem and more.

Family Programming (Music, Arts & Crafts, Storytelling & more)

The Acrobuffos, Christine Norrie’s storytelling, face painting, Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre , Great Small Works, Kite flying with Galapagos, Louis Miranda’s music, Powerhouse Arena and Makedo crafts event, White Wave Dance, Yogi’ Beans Yoga,
and many, many, many more. Have a great music, art and more day.

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A Surreal Estate NYC Dance Party & Friday the 13th NYPD Affair




Hey Bloggers, or whoever could be reading this blog. And it is not so often every so often that I find myself blah blogging about polizei on this blagh, yet this is one of those posts where I find my self blaghing about the polizei in that neighborhood of Bushwick or is it Williamsburg, in that city of New York, to be found in that country of America. And so I found myself at this Surreal Estate 3D-13 Dimensional Dance Party & Friday the 13th Affair that I had blaghed about on this blog a few days before. And for some reason or another, this Surreal Estate 3D-13 Dimensional Dance Party & Friday the 13th Affair actually turned into a Surreal Estate NYC 3D-13 Dimensional Dance Party & Friday the 13th Affair, NYPD pepper spray, tear gas raid. And those photos that I posted above seem to speak for themselves. And that performance schedule on that day that I posted below seems to speak for itself. Have a great music and more day. And what if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State?

3D-13
Dimensional Dance Party & Friday the 13th Affair
(Not for those with a Superstition Condition)

Friday, August 13th, 2011
10pm-5am
$10

Complimentary Sangria Served Before Midnight!
Free 3D Glasses!

Some may say, “Don’t go out on Friday the 13th!”,
Wear a Pair of 3D glasses and you’ll see things a different way…

Surreal Estate proudly presents an inventive evening of sonic seduction amongst the optically peculiar.
Enjoy perplexing perspectives, original outlooks, and focus yourself on fun.

We’ve arranged the ultimate in groovy, funky, deep, & dirty to hypnotize us head to feet…
A night for wriggling, waving, and misbehaving to irresistible tasty beats.

***Located in the Chill Underground***
The Hookah Lounge – Back by Popular Demand!
Dazzling UV Décor compliments of Ocular Delight
Mystifying VJ sets from digital eye candy master Levitation Theory

DJ Sets:
Sal P (of Liquid Liquid and Ectomorph)
“Truly Transcendent Futuristic Disco”

DJ Ivan Yamazaki (Dance Classics and Acid House)

The Russian (D.O.D. Crew, Worcester MA)
Liquid D&B Set

***Rowdy Rooftop***
Opt to become part of the spectacle with our body-painter’s glowing handywork!
Mesmerizing Fire & Dance by Victor (Psybotik, Dream Catchers) NYC

Underground Horns
“A cooking audio gumbo”
Funk, jazz, and hip hop mixed with brass band traditions,
and spiced with African and other world rhythms…
Music for the People!

DJ TV Party (Oldies & Doo Wop Dance Party)

Late Night Open Jam & Drum Circle
With special guest “Big Tasty” of Big Tasty’s Funk Party

***Third Floor 3D Lair***
The third floor of the Estate opens at midnight for an electrifying afterhours and psytrance rendezvous!
Sound Engineering provided by Industrial Bass & Boom (NYC)

KnoB (Full On Psy)
NYC psyheadz are no stranger to this wizard : )

Third Ear Syndrome (Puerto Rico/NYC)
Electronica/Psychedelic Electro

And More TBA!
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A Surreal Estate NYC Dance Party

Hey Bloggers, or whoever may be reading this blog, and so when I find myself encountering that blah bloggers block for lack of things to blagh about on this blog in that attempt to maintain content for this blog whenever possible, I sometimes find myself posting events, events, and more events, usually in that city of New York to be found in that country of North America because hey, it’s less writing sometimes. And so here is yet another one of those NYC events that I found myself coming across from one of those event invites in my facebookaholicness. And this event seems as if it NYC music event rocks. Have a great music and more day.

3D-13
Dimensional Dance Party & Friday the 13th Affair
(Not for those with a Superstition Condition)

Friday, August 13th, 2011
10pm-5am
$10

Complimentary Sangria Served Before Midnight!
Free 3D Glasses!

Some may say, “Don’t go out on Friday the 13th!”,
Wear a Pair of 3D glasses and you’ll see things a different way…

Surreal Estate proudly presents an inventive evening of sonic seduction amongst the optically peculiar.
Enjoy perplexing perspectives, original outlooks, and focus yourself on fun.

We’ve arranged the ultimate in groovy, funky, deep, & dirty to hypnotize us head to feet…
A night for wriggling, waving, and misbehaving to irresistible tasty beats.

***Located in the Chill Underground***
The Hookah Lounge – Back by Popular Demand!
Dazzling UV Décor compliments of Ocular Delight
Mystifying VJ sets from digital eye candy master Levitation Theory

DJ Sets:
Sal P (of Liquid Liquid and Ectomorph)
“Truly Transcendent Futuristic Disco”

DJ Ivan Yamazaki (Dance Classics and Acid House)

The Russian (D.O.D. Crew, Worcester MA)
Liquid D&B Set

***Rowdy Rooftop***
Opt to become part of the spectacle with our body-painter’s glowing handywork!
Mesmerizing Fire & Dance by Victor (Psybotik, Dream Catchers) NYC

Underground Horns
“A cooking audio gumbo”
Funk, jazz, and hip hop mixed with brass band traditions,
and spiced with African and other world rhythms…
Music for the People!

DJ TV Party (Oldies & Doo Wop Dance Party)

Late Night Open Jam & Drum Circle
With special guest “Big Tasty” of Big Tasty’s Funk Party

***Third Floor 3D Lair***
The third floor of the Estate opens at midnight for an electrifying afterhours and psytrance rendezvous!
Sound Engineering provided by Industrial Bass & Boom (NYC)

KnoB (Full On Psy)
NYC psyheadz are no stranger to this wizard : )

Third Ear Syndrome (Puerto Rico/NYC)
Electronica/Psychedelic Electro

And More TBA!
And this event seems as if it NYC music event rocks. Have a great music and more day.
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July 4th Again

Hey again bloggers. And on this day I find myself blah blogging again about whatever topic comes to mind for the sake of maintaining content for this blog whenever possible. And so that holiday of July 4th has made its way around again this year. So much, that I now find myself reposting those events from Facebook and this blogs former blagh entries from the previous years over and over as follows, and also because hey, it’s less writing sometimes…:

Sci Fi Fourth of July, July 4, 2010,8pm
Live Music, B-Boy vs. B-Girl Battle, Dance-tastic DJs, BBQ, and BlackLight Decoration!

Surreal Estate, Brooklyn’s largest and most diverse collective space
invites you to a veggie friendly BBQ and three-floor party on the 4th of July.

$10 at the door
8pm Rooftop opens with BBQ
4am We’re out with a Bang!

MC Jaze Art Remote hosting
B-Boy vs B-Girl Breakdancing Battle for $300 prize money
(10pm sign ups, 11pm battle kicks off)

Hank and Cupcakes (Israeli Drum & Bass Pop Duo),DJ Geko Jones (Worldbeat Rooftop Set),Navegante (Latin Experimental),DJ Poodle Cannon (Gypsy Rock, Global Dance),Spirit Child (Hip Hop Freedom Singer),Bobby the Greek (Greek Rembetika),Bangladeafy (Berzerker Drum & Bass Duo),The Homeless People (Rooftop Acoustic Set with Accordion, Violin, and Washboard).

Bring your grilling favorites and set them sizzling on the hood of the UFO that just made a Surreal Estate rooftop landing! We’re introducing our interstellar guests to the best Brooklyn can offer, especially the otherworldly sounds of our favorite music, including the international rhythms and grooves of DJ Geko Jones, the epic Israeli pop duo Hank and Cupcakes, the gyspy jazz beats of DJ Poodle Cannon, and the electrifying accordion/violin of The Homeless People. Scope out the tricky moves of New York’s best three-legged, four-armed breakdancers at the Breakdancing Battle as they compete for $300 prize money on our new wooden dance floor. After all that dancing, we’ll show our visitors how to cool their green skin in the kiddie pool, and give them some cold spiked ice tea. After all, Surreal Estate has a perfect view of the fireworks from the roof and three floors of the best kind of alien contact! Come and meet our new friends and help us welcome them to the U.S. of A

And this one also….

SLF 4th of July Rooftop Party (BK Heights)
Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 7:00pm

RSVP for Location rsvp@soundliberation.org
Avoid tourist crowds, cheesy parties, and expensive bars: Come spend independence day chilling in SLF Style with BBQ, Mojitos and good tunes on a sweet Brooklyn Heights rooftop.

The SLF Crew and friends will bring the vibe with a blend of House, Hip Hop, Soul, Afrobeat and Reggae. We’ll have a special brass band set from our friends People’s Champs. The rooftop is located one block from the waterfront and has full/unobstructed view of lower Manhattan better than any fireworks. It is truly one of the best place to be in the city!

Hope to see y’all there.

7p-2a | FREE | BYOB + Cash Bar

And these former blog entries from this blog that seem to find themselves repeating themselves over and over each year on this blog…..

It’s July 4th again. Another one of those national American patriotic holidays that is celebrated and observed only in America and nowhere else in the world. And what does the word “Patriotic” mean anyway? And for what reason does the word patriot have the word riot in it. And that “Parens Patriae” government as parent, father of a country sovereign guardianship of property thing, what’s that all about? That could be a whole another blog post of isms of some sort. And it’s that time of year again when the image of the American flag is worshiped and honored for whatever the reason may be and more patriotic songs are sung and more pledging of allegiance to the flags are pledged. Didn’t the flag waving just end last month with Memorial May, the other ultimate patriotic American holiday? And what is being celebrated this time? I can’t remember the meaning of July fourth. Doesn’t it have something to do with freedom or the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia? I am not sure if anyone is free when others are oppressed and civil liberties are disappearing at the speed of light in the name of “Security and terrorism” and now, the latest trend “Plots”. Although the showbusiness of fireworks for pyrotechnics of peace and war for this day can be really cool to look at and the rooftop parties can be fun. Again, I should consult Wikipedia, the ultimate internet bible to understand the meaning of this holiday. Happy July 4th, great travels, fireworks, barbecues, beachgoing and picnics.

And this one also…..

Plastic

Today is July 4th. The fourth of July. It’s a day when there will be lots of events, celebrations, parties, barbeque’s and outdoor activities going on. Have you ever thought about the amount of plastic that will be disposed of today in all of this activity? Have you taken time to think of where that plastic cup or bag goes when you throw it in the garbage. As most of the parties today will most likely not be contributing to the recycling program. There are countries in Europe that impose a plastic bag tax, PlasTax of .5 cents for every plastic bag you receive to discourage the frivolous use of plastic. Ireland has reduced their consumption of plastic bags by 90 percent as a result. As New York City is contemplating a plastic ban, the plastic pimper corporations are not. America is drowning in plastic. As I have mentioned before, the evils of plastic are many. It is a non biodegradable object fueling the petroleum oil industry. The health hazards of plastic are many. Greenhouse gas emissions have run amok. Drains are being clogged and drain flooding is increasing. The birds of the earth are dying and choking from it and people are suffocating from it. For what reason is not a more natural material and product being created to replace plastic? If you are at a party today, consider the environment. Consider reusing your cup or your bag today. Go Green. And what does this have to do with a No Police State? Happy July 4th.
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