Songs About Brooklyn


ARON BLUE & THE BOOTLEGGERS
GIRLS ON GRASS • PAISLEY FIELDS

Aron Blue writes honkytonk songs about what she knows best — carousing and avoiding arrest. Alone and with the Bootleggers, she has performed at NYC venues like The Bell House, The Stone, Jalopy Tavern, The Way Station, Tonic, and many more. She’s also performed at Montreal’s L’escalier. Aron has had her songs featured on Democracy Now, WIEC, and the online music festivals Couch By Couchwest (Best Couch 2014) and Live In Your Living Room.

Visionary drummer Dee Pop leads The Bootleggers. Best known as being one of the founding members of The Bush Tetras, Pop has also played with a variety of other musicians, including The Clash, Richard Lloyd, Michael Karoli from Can, The Gun Club, and Jayne County.

Saturday, March 5th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $7 cover. 21+ with ID.

Photograph by William Gedney

Here's To Regret


ROBERT "FIREBALL" MITCHELL
THE BAKERSFIELD BAKERS
FLYING FINGERS JUG BAND

In a word full of fakers, RFM is the real deal. Whiskey-soaked tales of love, lust, and redemption. Every song is a snap shot in time, seen through the eyes of a world worn and driven man.

Thursday, March 3rd at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Holy Silence


HOT GLUE & THE GUNANACOUSTIC MINDJMI
LAUREN O'BRIENKEYKEBURNING BUDDHA

Saturday, February 27th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 7PM. $8 cover. 21+ with ID.

Bastards Of Young


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!

Friday, February 26th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Destructive Love


DENNIS MOST & THE INSTIGATORS
WWIXSKUM CITY • JONES KINGS

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!

Saturday, February 20th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $5 cover. 21+ with ID.

Got This Happy Feeling


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 Banter bar, located in scenic Brooklyn U.S.A.

The February edition features special guest DJ JONNY QUEST (SPQR). Jonny and your Modern Needs host and boss DJ, MR. LEE (Going In Style Sound System/Dead Flowers Productions) will be spinning scorching and eclectic vinyl sounds until the wee small hours!

Friday,  February 19th at Banter
132 Havemeyer, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Kicks off at 10PM... No cover!

Do The Shake


MUCK AND THE MIRES
LES SANS CULOTTES

"Taking their cue from that mythological Nuggets moment in 1966 when bands like The Remains, The Barbarians, and The Sonics spied the charts, Muck And The Mires turn simplicity into a virtue. Each song on their third long-player rants, raves, and gets out of town in about two minutes, leaving a swirl of hooks and guitar wreckage in its wake." -Uncut

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!"

Saturday, February 13th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $8 cover. 21+ with ID.