Come Up The Years


Modern Needs is listening and dance party with special guest DJs and monthly musical themes, held the third Friday of every month (happening a week late this month) at the great Banter bar, located in scenic Brooklyn U.S.A.

The May edition features special guest DJ LEAH BETH (PMS & The Mood Swings). Leah and your Modern Needs host and boss DJ, MR. LEE (Going In Style Sound System) will be spinning ripping rock'n'soul sounds until the wee small hours!

Friday, May 27th at Banter
132 Havemeyer, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Kicks off at 10PM... No cover!

Pick Up The Change, part 3


BUTCHER'S BLIND • ROGER STREET FRIEDMAN
JIM ALLEN & THE RAMBLIN' KIND

Come for an evening of alt-country with a lineup of Brooklyn's finest!

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

Armageddon's Embrace


CLAM FIGHT • REIGN OF ZAIUS
ETERNAL BLACK • LEEDS POINT

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

Scorpion Style!


Seriously solid times at the Tiki Boys Social Club! Big thanks to all that made the scene a packed house (including the Black N' Blue Bowl after-party), the staff at Otto's, and of course DJ Pickabar who got the room shaking with the reggae fever!

133 Years Of The Brooklyn Bridge


Urban Folk Art Gallery is gearing up for their yearly homage to the bridge with over 30 NY artists confirmed to participate (including Dead Flowers Productions very own Lee Greenfeld). A wide variety of artists from different mediums from photographers, painters, illustrators, comic book artists, printmakers, tattooers, to legendary graffiti artists, are slated to exhibit. "The city tends to celebrate this anniversary in increments of 25 years ( 75th, 100th, 125th), I have lived near the bridge all my life, it is a constant factor in my art, whether it be painting, tattooing, drawing or printmaking, so why not celebrate every year?” says curator and resident artist Adam Suerte. The Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public on May 24th,1883.

Three years ago, when the gallery hosted the 130th anniversary, Suerte had just bought 25 gallons of surplus paint that the DOT was auctioning off to vacate a supply warehouse in DUMBO. He had every artist use that paint in their pieces that year. That won’t be a requirement this year, but there are still five gallons left that Suerte has repackaged and will be on sale at the gallery.

Opening reception - Friday, May 20th at 7PM
Urban Folk Art® Studios, 101 Smith Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.

Show runs until June 20th.
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-9PM and Sundays, 1-8PM

Compulsive Behavior


GALAPAGOS NOW!
PYRAMIDS • PROUDEST EVER • SEVENS

On and off the radar of Brooklyn’s underground since 2007, Galapagos Now! has carved a niche for itself as a group "of truly independent mind, and a totally individual sound," if the hype is to be believed. Galapagos Now! is a power trio that revolves around the collaboration between Joe Dairy and Mark Gurarie. Dairy (aka Jeff Waite), whose eight solo records are a testament to his prolific work as a kind of anti-Americana singer-songwriter, adds a croon or howl to the proceedings, whereas Gurarie sings "ugly," as he likes to put it, while holding down the bass. Elder Merchant, Brooklyn native and former drummer for Gözer, keeps the group in straight time while handling the band’s foreign relations. The band has toured the Midwest and South of the United States, as well as Europe.

Friday, June 10th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $5 cover. 21+ with ID.

Photograph by Bruce Davidson

Tiki Boys Social Club


Mr. Lee steps in as guest DJ at this long-running, legendary party.
Expect only the best in '60s soul, r&b, freakbeat, and British Invasion;
'70s pub and punk-rock; and '80s power-pop and mod revival sounds.

Saturday, May 14h at Otto's Shrunken Head
53 East 14th Street, New York City
Kicks off at 10PM... No cover!

Catch The Wave


LEAGUE OF PITY
NU-SONICSTHE JAMES ROCKET

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

Everything Tears Us Apart


CASH REGISTERS
BEDPAN FIGHT • THE TRACYS

Friday, May 6th at Hank's Saloon
46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $7 cover. 21+ with ID.

May Action!


  • 5/2: LORD BISHOP and AUDIOWOLF
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/3: TURNSPIT, STEVEO, MIKEY ERG, and WEIRD SKIN
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/5: QUEEN WITH A MEGAPHONE,
  • TINGLES, PERP WALK, and KARABAS
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/6: CASH REGISTERS, THE TRACYS, and BEDPAN FIGHT
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/7: LEAGUE OF PITY, THE JAMES ROCKET, and NU-SONICS
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/11: Devour Comedy Hour!
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/13: FAMILY FUN, DINNER, and LAND BAND
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/14: Tiki Boys Social Club
  • w/DJ MR. LEE and special guests
  • Otto's Shrunken Head, New York City

  • 5/14: Brooklyn Guitar School Showcase
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/15: Jazz Sundays with WILD TONIC
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/19: THE GET IT! and WIRE TROOP
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A

  • 5/20: REIGN OF ZAIUS, CLAM FIGHT,
  • ETERNAL BLACK, and LEEDS POINT
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/21: BUTCHERS BLIND
  • JIM ALLEN & THE RAMBLIN' KIND
  • ROGER STREET FRIEDMAN
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A

  • 5/22: Headwreckers Comedy
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/26: SLIM WHISKERS
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/27: Modern Needs
  • w/DJs MR. LEE and LEAH BETH
  • Banter, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/27: MICHELLE MOXIE CANTILLO,
  • SLOPE343, and RIVERCAT
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.

  • 5/28: BLACK WINE, MICKEY ERG,
  • CITY POOL, HATRABBIT, and HICCUP
  • Hank's Saloon, Brooklyn U.S.A.