For The Benefit Of Mr. Kipp


Legendary booker, sound engineer, and all around rock'n'roll bad-ass Kipp Elbaum has hit a bit of a rough patch, so it's time to step up and raise some dough to help him get back on his feet! Heap, Cash Registers, and Live Ones will be playing live'n'loud, and DJs Mr. Lee (Dead Flowers Productions/Going In Style Sound System), Danny 2 Times (Moral Panic) and Nug Luva will be spinning rekkids! Oh, and there will be a raffle as well to raise more funds.

If you've ever had the good fortune to meet or work with Kipp, you know he'd be the first in line to help you out, so please lock this date in your calendar and make the scene!

Saturday, April 27th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $10. 21+ with ID.

Everything I Do Is Wrong


Abdication… For Your Love record release show

Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and Reigning Sound frontman Greg Cartwright, Abdication… For Your Love was originally available solely as a promotional giveaway. This 2019 reissue marks the first wide release of the record.


Cliff Westfall's debut album, Baby You Win, appeared on multiple Best of 2018 lists, and received acclaim in publications including Saving Country Music, No Depression, Magnet, PopMatters, Country Music People (UK), Lonesome Highway (Ireland) and many others. Backed by a crew of some of NYC’s finest musicians, his songs combine clever and insightful lyrics with classic honky tonk hooks. 

Friday, April 26th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $12-$15. 21+ with ID.

Devastate Me


BUBBLE
JESSIE KILLGUSSSOPHIGE BUSKIN

NYC pop band Bubble — formed in 1994 on NYC's Lower East Side, out of the legendary anti-folk movement that spawned everyone from Beck to the Moldy Peaches — are celebrating 25 years of making music. Founding members Dave Foster, Russ Alderson, Tommy DeVito and newer members Rembert Block, Charly Roth and Mike Fornatale, are finishing Bubble’s latest album, recorded with Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu). They will also release a career spanning set of live tracks recorded in the studio at WFMU this year.

Singer/songwriter Jessie Kilguss released her fourth album, The Fastness, in June 2018. In 2015, she sang harmony and played the harmonium with Freddie Stevenson, opening for the Waterboys on the European leg of their Modern Blues tour. Also in 2015, she played a featured show at the Sundance Film Festival. Kilguss is a former actress who made the switch to songwriting after performing with one of her musical heroes, Marianne Faithfull, in London and Sydney in a musical written by Tom Waits and William Burroughs, directed by Robert Wilson. She also acted in the film adaptation of The Crucible, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

Thursday, April 25th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $10. 21+ with ID.

Times Is Tight Like That


The 41 Players was formed by John Deley in 2010 because of his love for the music and cultural heritage of New Orleans. He asked drummer Ethan Eubanks to join him in the band and over several years and many gigs, they became co-leaders of the musical collective that play the music of New Orleans, from Louis Armstrong to Dr. John, and everything else in between. The group got it's name from Pier 41 which is at the end of Dikeman Street in Red Hook where John Deley lives, and where the 41 Players had their first Monday night residency at the now gone and beloved bar Bait and Tackle.

Wednesday, April 24th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 6:30PM. Two sets. No cover. 21+.

Get It From Me


UNCROSSING
MIDNIGHT SLIDERPEELS

Uncrossing was formed in Brooklyn in 2016 by longtime friends Kristin Flammio (vocals) formerly of Forts, Jared Drace (guitar) and Sanal Leejean (drums), both from metallic-hardcore scene veterans Activator. The sound is a metal alternative amalgam with elements of classic-rock, indie-pop and stoner-doom. Scott Meyer (bass) completed the lineup in 2017 for the band's first local performances. They've since gone on to play NYC loud music havens like Saint Vitus, Lucky 13 and Mercury Lounge among others. The band self-released a thee-song EP in February 2018 on digital and cassette that received coverage from Brooklyn Vegan's metal outlet Invisible Oranges as well as horror site Dread Central. The EP was recently picked up by Off The Record in The Netherlands who will release and distribute CDs in Spring 2019. In the meantime Uncrossing is in the studio working on a new batch of songs to release by end of year.

Saturday, April 20th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $10. 21+ with ID.

What I Say?


Glamorous jazz chanteuses and gutsy blues shouters front New York City's Empire Beats, a five to nine piece show band that explores an expanding book of old-school Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll, Jazz, and Pop music ~ familiar and forgotten hits from the past and funky new originals. Empire Beats' energetic music revue recalls showcases of another era but is firmly rooted in the right now. Since 2011, drummer/band leader Mark Boquist's well dressed gentlemen have been playing behind some of New York City's most talented young singers and presenting their showcase in niteclubs, dive bars, lounges, and halls at festivals, funraisers, private events, and public parties earning themselves a solid reputation as a rocking dance band playing songs from every side of the love equation. 

Friday, April 19th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 9PM. $10-$13. 21+ with ID.

Photograph by Rueben Radding

Do The Chicken!


THE NEW YORK FOWL HARMONIC
VIVA

The New York Fowl Harmonic play old-school noisy garage-rock and merengue. Music for parties, dancing, and revelation.

Thursday April 18th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 9PM. $10. 21+ with ID.

Rock'N'Roll Girlie Show


EYEROLLER
DONUT CITY • NOT ALL HEROES
Ms. Edie Nightcrawler dancing all night!

Benefit show for Pin Ups for Pitbulls.

Saturday, April 13th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 9PM. $10. 21+ with ID.

A Night To Remember


BLOCKHOUSES
JACQUES LE COQUE • HOLY TUNICS

A plan was hatched in a bar in Washington Heights in late 2013. To bring high-energy, catchy, punk-rock and roll tunes to the masses of NYC and beyond was the mission outlined. The inspirations were many. Ramones, The Who; The Replacements, and Husker Du. The Jam, The Rolling Stones; The Velvet Underground, and The Undertones. The Beatles, The Clash; Chuck Berry, and Johnny Cash. Just to name a few. The list goes on...

Guy knew how to rock the stage and studio from his years with The Figgs. Chris had rocked the cities of the USA and Europe doing Kowalskis gigs. Great songs, energy, and coolness: this was the Three Legged Stool of Rock that the endeavor was to be founded on. Blockhouses was born.

During the next few years, the plan came together. Recordings were made and gigs were played. The line-up of this trio was finalized. A joyful noise was raised. A hiatus was taken. Then, in 2018, at long last, the band's first official album was completed. Guy Lyons, Christopher Peifer, and Jim Balga were ready to bring their collective decades of on-stage pop, punk, and rock and roll experience to the stage once again. Gentlemen will raise their fists and bang their heads. Ladies will dance and swoon. Children will shout with joy. The world shall be right again!

Scrappy Connecticut upstarts Jacques Le Coque rattled their way through eight years of fast and loose head-bopping, hip-shaking tunes with a keen pop sensibility and their new record Positively...  Jacques Le Coque shows no signs of slowing down. With a couple of albums, Jacques Le Coque, Hooky, and the Tip of My Tongue 7" under their belt, this expertly home recorded band tightens up and battens the hatches to show a sharp capital-R Rock & Roll band stepping out of the garage and into your hearts. Killer hooks, hyped-up good vibrations and wild eyed smiles both live and on record are a guarantee these gentlemen Positively... deliver in full.

Holy Tunics is a Brooklyn rock'n'roll/power-pop band started in late 2014. In 2017, Holy Tunics opened for Teenage Fanclub and Gin Blossoms locally, recorded their debut full length LP Butter Dish, released April 2018 via Madrid’s Meritorio Records, and split a single with Hamish Kilgour (The Mad Scene, The Clean) via Brooklyn label GP Stripes. In 2018, Holy Tunics went on multiple tours, including one with classic indie act Dumptruck. Covering their debut Hot To Trot EP The Big Takeover Magazine wrote: “Although several tunes date to 2015’s rougher-recorded Notes From Captivity Pt. 2, Holy Tunics have streamlined them with energetic, smoother yet punchy production and playing that reinforces their hooky guitar-pop heroics.” They are currently working on a new album entitled Hit Parade Lemonade Supersonic Spree produced and engineered by Travis Harrison (Guided by Voices / Built to Spill) due out June 2019 via Meritorio Records.

Friday, April 12th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 9PM. $10. 21+ with ID.

Aint Got A Lot


GREG FARLEY (ex-Felice Brothers)
PATSY HANK LOVECHILD

Greg Farley was born in Highland, NY, a small town on the Hudson River. His dad was a teamster who drove tractor trailers and his mom worked at the A&P.  In 2006 he began touring out of his car playing house shows, small bars, and on the street, burning CDs, wrapping them in road maps, stamping GF on the front. From the east coast to California and back, he saw landscapes and cities that most of the people he grew up with never got the chance to see.  Upon returning he was lent a fiddle by a good friend, took up learning some old time, and joined The Felice Brothers. He played with them for the next ten years, working other jobs in his down time: He mucked stalls on a horse farm, waited tables at a vegetarian restaurant, worked as a carpenter, tree care, woodworker, and sawmill operator.

Through it all, his music was the only constant. Now, striking out on his own with his debut LP Taker Easy, recorded in Stanfordville, NY with producer/engineer Nick Kinsey, he mines his own history for stories of class struggle, nature, love, pain, work, and family, all set against the backdrop of the northeast. 

Thursday, April 11th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $10. 21+ with ID.

Diggin' For Gold


FREDDY DeBOE

Known for his soulful blues rock&roll saxophone sound, Freddy DeBoe has traveled the world with many acts and musicians, including Daptone Recording artists Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones, and The James Hunter Six, as well as soul singers Lee Fields, Nicole Wray, Binky Griptite, Mark Ronson and many others. He continues to perform and record as a bandleader, tour around the world as a sideman for the world’s best.

This show is part of Dead Flowers Productions new free Wednesday Happy Hour series of shows at Hank's Saloon, this event is co-presented by SlamJunk.

Wednesday April 10th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 6:30PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Maybe Tomorrow



Phil Gammage is an American musician, composer, and recording artist best known for his eight solo album releases and his work as a songwriter, singer, harmonica player, and guitarist. His recordings are used in film and television projects. His latest album Used Man For Sale features ten of Phil’s song compositions and has received great reviews and radio airplay internationally. This follows his critically acclaimed album Adventures in Bluesland in 2014. He currently performs his roots and blues based music as a solo performer (2018 European solo tour) or with his full band The Phil Gammage Quartet. He has performed recently at such noted concerts as the Lancaster Roots and Blues Festival, CBGB Festival, and BluesCraft Summer Festival. Phil Gammage is the consummate live performer, who brings a unique depth and drama to his music.

Butch Phelps is a songwriter, vocalist, guitar player, music teacher and music lover who lives in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Soaking up a variety of musical influences as a kid, Butch began playing guitar and writing songs at an early age. Having lived in most regions of the USA at one time or another, his appreciation for writers and performers reached new heights in Portland, Oregon. Upon arriving in NYC he became immersed in the thriving music of the East Village while cofounding the band The New Heathens. In addition to his solo work, Butch has created bands The Elevaters and The Buck Ups. Butch continues to write and perform with his bands and rowdy friends all over NYC.

From their haunt high atop the Palisades in Jersey City, Hudson City Rats serve up a healthy dose of primitive, infectious rock'n'roll. From rhythm and blues to 70’s glam; if it’s got a good groove, the Rats are sure to put their own spin on it with their raw, stripped down style.  With the infamous Patrick Lally at the helm, Fred Jenkins and Jeff Feinberg provide a big beat behind Robert Boudreau's blues-tinged guitar. Their live show is a house rockin' party, so come on out and get ready to move!

Saturday, April 6th at Hank's
345 Adams Street, Brooklyn U.S.A.
Doors at 8PM. $10. 21+ with ID.