If You Wanna Dance With Me

THE SAVAGE YOUNG BEATLES
THE HIGH STRIDE and DJ MR. LEE

Liverpool, UK's Savage Young Beatles recreate the raw, rough, wise-cracking, hard-rocking shows the Pre-Fab Four were infamous for performing at the height of their amphetamine fueled Hamburg, DE and Liverpool, UK residencies. Imagine the Kaisers meet the Ramones in a head on collision!

Born under a bar in the heart of Brooklyn, The High Stride fuse the soulful sounds of the '60s and '70s with hard-hitting guitars and a driving bass that cultivates a sound that is best described as no bullshit maximum rock'n'soul.

Plus: DJ Mr. Lee (Going In Style Sound System) spinning strictly top-flight, ass-shakin' '60s rock'n'soul 45s.

Saturday, February 10th at Berlin Under A

25 Avenue A (entrance on 2nd Street under 2A bar), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $15 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Pleasures Unknowable

MY FAVORITE
VEDA RAYS and MONOGRAMS

New York cult indie pop artists My Favorite returned in 2022 with Tender Is the Nightshift: Part 1, their first extended play release in nearly 20 years. Full of imperious new wave and plastic soul, the group scavenges the digital debris of the 20th century to fashion a pre-apocalyptic soundtrack for a new millennium’s malaise. Founder and singer/songwriter Michael Grace Jr is joined by long time collaborators Kurt Brondo & Gil Abad along with new members Michael Avishay and Emilyn Brodsky. Together they loot a junk shop full of tragic totems to explore love and loss— remaking/remodeling dim corridors of memory into bright passages forward.

Barely out of their teens in 1994 when their debut single “Go Kid Go” was spun by John Peel, My Favorite was formed in the archetypal suburbia of Long Island. Among the strip malls and subdivisions, five kids formed a half-band/half-art project during their freshman year at state college in Stony Brook. Raised on new wave via the legendary WLIR, while encircled by the local hardcore scene, the band tried to merge ‘80s high-concept pop with the DIY energy of punk and indiepop. Two full-length LPs followed in 1999 & 2003, with the latter record The Happiest Days Of Our Lives named best of decade in Pitchfork's P2K guest editors edition. They return now in what Grace calles his 'Xeroxy Music' period — songs full of lush, glitchy ambience like an Orphean glance back at paradises lost.

Saturday, February 3rd at Berlin Under A

25 Avenue A (entrance on 2nd Street under 2A bar), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $10 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Alana Amram And Friends Residency

AFTER THE FALL PRESENTS
ALANA AMRAM AND FRIENDS

After The Fall Records Presents: Alana Amram and Friends. In celebration of her new Movies EP, Alana has curated a weekly series of performances; this January residency focuses on traditional and contemporary revues of song and cinema with Patton McGee (The Nude Party), Howlin’ Hurd (Daddy Long Legs), ZzzWalk, Amanda Khiri, Jeff Clarke (Black Lips/Demon Claw), Jairito Y La Onda, Bobbie Love Song, Dropper, Josephine, SUO, and the Adam Amram Family Band, witg films by Hannah Fallon & Scott Walker. 

Tickets on sale now:

Tuesday, January 9th | Tuesday, January 16th

Tuesday, January 23rd  | Tuesday, January 30th

January Tuesdays at Berlin Under A

25 Avenue A (entrance on 2nd Street under 2A bar), NYC

Doors at 7pm. All shows $15 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Kleztronica: One Year Anniversary Party

Kleztronica is a radical Jewish-electronica performance and rave space. Over the past year, we've brought thousands of Jews and non-Jews from across New York City together to dance and celebrate. We bring together archival recordings, Yiddish dance, drag, and, of course, our wonderful queer and multifaceted community. Come celebrate our one-year anniversary, featuring drag sensation Sir Cum Sized, Jewish burlesque artist Brenda Roses, electro-trumpeter Frank London, DJ Shney, DJ Diva Nigun, sampling artist Chaia, and brass band menace Tusl & The Muscle. See you on the dance floor!

This show is sponsored by Borscht Beat Records, and presented as the official afterparty for the Yiddish New York Festival.

Saturday, December 28th at Berlin Under A

25 Avenue A (entrance on 2nd Street under 2A bar), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $20 in advance. 21+ with ID.

A Very Honky Tonk Holiday

Thursday, December 21st at The Bowery Electric

327 Bowery (between East 2nd & 3rd streets), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $10 in advance. 21+ with ID.

The Songs Of John Lennon

Friday, December 15th at Berlin Under A

25 Avenue A (entrance on 2nd Street under 2A bar), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $15 in advance. 21+ with ID.

It's Only Right And Natural

Saturday, December 9th at Berlin Under A

25 Avenue A (entrance on 2nd Street under 2A bar), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $20 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Jump This Jive

The tried and true band The Figgs,  has a worldwide fan base, a hearty discography, and celebrates more than 25 years together. Members (Mike Gent, Pete Donnelly and Pete Hayes) have been playing since the trio was in high school in Saratoga Springs, NY.

The Figgs' tunes are stuffed with Kinks-inspired power and melodies, vibrant harmonies and sonic experimentation a la The Beatles and the The Band, the reach of NRBQ’s eclecticism, and a grit and youthfulness akin to the best rock bands from The Who to the Ramones. There’s no question the Figgs are one of America’s most enduring rock'n'roll bands. Their catalog is a testament to their sheer love of music, as well as their drive, energy and power as one of America’s greatest rock bands of the past 25 years.

Thursday, December 9th at The Bowery Electric

327 Bowery (between East 2nd & 3rd streets), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $10 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Punk Avenue Revisited

The recently departed Philippe Marcade was a true NYC rock 'n'roll legend, and a hell of a nice guy, so it's apt to see so many joining together to pay him tribute.

Thursday, November 30th at The Bowery Electric

327 Bowery (between East 2nd & 3rd streets), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $15 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Glamdammit!

19 years of Glamdammit!

Wednesday, November 22nd at The Bowery Electric

327 Bowery (between East 2nd & 3rd streets), NYC

Doors at 8pm. $10 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Consumed

For the Guttersnipes, Glamourpusses, Gigolos, Giantesses and Gimps... Remember when Downtown was a concept, not a real estate pitch? When there were no boundaries, no matter what you did for a living, who you fucked, where you were born, how famous you were, what the color of your skin was? Welcome home, baby!

A sultry, succulent, surreptitious evening for it-girls, boys and thems of the past, present and future, cultural sugar daddies and mommies and the hangers-on who love them, the talented, beautiful ones, the not-so-talented, but beautiful ones and the spectacularly mediocre. We’ll find a place for you, no matter who you are.

Indulge in the bizarre but transcendent variety show. We promise some serious ringers, from the nubile to the notorious, including Penny Arcade, Seth Herzog, Rob Paravonian, Jimmy Raskin, Anna Copacabanna, Heather Litteer, Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown, Sara MacDonnell and Jann Klose. To be followed by an unhinged dance party where all preconceptions and hang-ups must, and will, be left at the door, and all desires must, and will, be indulged.

Twig the Wonderkid (Glamdammit) spinning prickly, gritty paeans to desire and debauchery  on the ones and twos — punky, funky, from shimmering anthems to corrosive dirges—foxy, fierce, globetrotting dominatrix and Mistress of the Animals Holly DeRito, fashion victim/visionary and uncontainable multi-hyphenate Michael Wiener and elusive rock and roll siren Erin Sullivan co-hosting, and various legendary guests waiting in the wings to dazzle you, and tease out dreams you never knew you had.

Monday, November 20th at The Bowery Electric

327 Bowery (between East 2nd & 3rd streets), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $10 in advance. * 21+ with ID.

* Proceeds benefit Waggytailrescue.org

I'll Be Here For You

 

A seriously boss night of rock-action on Avenue A with Norway's Cocktail Slippers, our old friend Palmyra with The Doppel Gang, and the mega-talented Amanda Cross.

Saturday, November 18th at Heaven Can Wait

169 Avenue A (between East 10th and 11th streets), NYC

Doors at 7pm. $15 in advance. 21+ with ID.

Running Down The Back Streets

'Zine release party witth DJ Pickabar on the wheels of steel.

Thursday, November 9th at 96 Tears

110 Avenue A (between East 6th & 7th streets), NYC

Doors at 6pm. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Dead Flowers In Bloom Once Again

Dead Flowers is excited to announce that we have joined the team booking shows and events at Berlin, The Bowery Electric and Heaven Can Wait. We are truly looking forward to putting on loads of boss shows as well as DJ parties and other happenings.

Get in touch here.