Together In The Ground


I'LL BE JOHN BROWN
THE GRAND PROSPECT • DIRT FLOOR REVIEW

I’ll Be John Brown is a five-piece locomotive mixing bluegrass, outlaw country, and good ole fashioned rock'n'roll to create their own driving sound built on airtight rhythms and layered vocal harmony. Established in Brooklyn in 2005, their flare for performance has elevated them within the Brooklyn country scene as well as up and down the east coast. With influences ranging from Waylon, Hank, Dylan, and the Allmans, they turn up the volume and tempo on traditional Americana. IBJB's high powered honky-tonk can turn any party into a barn burner.

Friday, March 7th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Wild Ways


UNCLE LEON & THE ALIBIS
THE RAMBLIN' KINDTHE IDIOT BRIGADE

Fueled by a boozy mix of classic honky-tonk, high-energy garage-punk, and good old-fashioned filthy talk, Uncle Leon & The Alibis seem determined to drag modern "roots' music, kicking and screaming, back to the gritty back roads it grew up on.

Saturday, March 1st at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Low Fidelity Living


ESCAPE FROM OSTRICH • EMBER SCHRAG BAND
FRANKLIN BRUNO & THE HUMAN HEARTS

"If Mofungo's idiosyncratic smarts sounded out-of-time in the post-Minutemen/pre-alt '80s despite Nelson's bona fides as the dude who (probably) coined the term "No wave" via his NO Zine, Klein's songs [in Escape By Ostrich] actually do sound a bit closer to the zeitgeist now, his avant-splatterings and voice-cracks passing through a territory not terribly far from the Dirty Projectors." -Village Voice

"[Ember Schrag's] songs are poetic, complex and deep, and may have you wondering why you hadn't heard of her sooner. Some of us at WFMU have the same question!" -Jeffrey Davison, WFMU

"Franklin Bruno is one of the great power-pop songwriters of the past few decades. His work with Nothing Painted Blue was often classic, and his records with John Darnielle are lessons in great lyricism and melody… Twenty-odd years into his career, Bruno is as sharp as ever, and Another [with his new band The Human Hearts] is just his latest excellent, confident exploration of the most fruitful outposts of pop and rock music." -Popmatters

Thursday, February 27th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Glory Days


BUNNIE ENGLAND AND THE NEW ORIGINALS

Bunnie England And The New Originals are NYC's hardest-working and hardest-partying live rock'n'roll karaoke band, and were the house band at Magnetic Field (R.I.P.). From The Replacements to The Ramones, from Cheap Trick to The Cure, from the Stooges to the Stones, they've got over 175 songs in their catalog for you to sing and turn yourself into a rockstar!

Saturday, February 22nd at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Shake Your Hips


Modern Needs is listening and dance party with special guest DJs and monthly musical themes, held the third Friday of every month at the great Last Exit bar in scenic Brooklyn U.S.A. The January edition features special guest DJ ANNA ANABOLIC (Party Lights/The Recordettes). Anna, and your Modern Needs host and boss DJ, MR. LEE (Going In Style Sound System), will be spinning scorching, strictly vinyl sounds until the wee small hours.

Friday, January 21st at Last Exit
136 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Kicks off at 10PM... No cover!

You Talkin' To Me?


DENNIS MOST & THE INSTIGATORS
SKUM CITY • FELONY BEBOP CLUB
CITIZEN BLAST KANEDELETE

Dennis Most & The Instigators was formed in 1979 basically a fun vehicle for the Most brothers doing classic '60s garage-rock, sporting hyped-up arrangements with edge and attitude. (This was after the demise of Dennis' earlier bands Punk in '72 and Dennis Most & AudioLove in '76.) The band's first single "Excuse My Spunk" b/w "Destructive Love" was released in 1979, and shortly afterward this version of the band ceased to exist.

In 1998 "Excuse My Spunk" turned up on a volume of the highly regarded Killed By Death compilation series, and a resurgence of interest in Most’s work began. In late 2001, the Excuse My Spunk album appeared in Italy consisting of singles and unreleased studio tracks, followed in 2002 by a mini-tour of Italy. 2003 brought brand new Instigators recordings with the Wire My Jaw EP (a CD version of Wire My Jaw with additional early tracks was released in 2004). Dennis Most continues to perform and record, so be prepared for some destructive love at Hank's!

Friday, February 21st at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $5 cover. 21+ with ID.

Pataphysical Graffiti


LES SANS CULOTTES
THE SPLIT SIGNALS • BIG HUGE

The "seven-headed beast from the hard-scrabble streets of Menilmontant" and "those frilly Parisian underthings," Les Sans Culottes borrowed their name from the ill-clad (i.e., long-trousered) citizen-soldiers of the French Revolution. The band's sound is a melange of Francophone '60s girl group and the Kinks… "We are the masters of the French rock'n'roll; all others are but the slave!"

The Split Signals combine the talents of drummer Mike Sin (ex-Insomniacs,) guitarist Stu Rutherford (ex-Creatures of the Golden Dawn and Brimstones) and bassist Michael Lynch (ex-Brimstones and The Anything People) for a sound that's both hard-rockin' and melodic. Their set includes choice covers and finely-crafted originals.

Saturday, February 15th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. 21+ with ID.

Valentine Satisfaction


AVOTHE AMPUTEES
THE ROOFERS UNION

Friday, February 14th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Hellions And Heartbreakers


THE GORGEOUS LADIES OF BLOOD WRESTLING
MILF & DILF • LICEBABY ERECTION

Thursday, February 13th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.