Too Much Of Eveything

SHEER TERROR

THE BROUGHT LOW • VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN

MAKE WAR • SPIRIT HOUSES • PROSPECTOR

EVAN VON DOOMSTEIN • JON MOOR

DJs Mr. Lee, Michael Stewart,

Drew Redmond, and Mick Royale

Plus: John Lupiani's Awesome Barbecue from 4-7PM!

Sunday, August 9th at The Grand Victory

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 4PM. $10 cover. 21+ with ID.

Come On You Irons!

Watch West Ham United's first match of the 2015/16 BPL season as they take on Arsenal. Hosted by the NYC Hammers.

Sunday, August 9th at Smithfield Hall

138 West 25th Street, New York City

Kick-off at 8:30AM. No cover.

Pick Up The Change

BUTCHERS BLIND

DRINA SEAY • KAREN & THE SORROWS

With so many fantastic alt-country bands in New York City, it only seems right to get this local talent together for an alt-country themed night in Brooklyn! Come hang out, have a drink, and enjoy three fantastic, up and coming alt-country bands, based right here in NYC. It's bound to be a great night!

Saturday, August 8th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Twine Time!

THE MOTO-GATORS • HEAP

New York's The Moto-Gators are a swingin' instrumental combo, playing guitarist Ron Kellum's Stax/Link Wray-inspired tunes and a choice assortment of Moto-Gating covers. The band includes former and current members of the Piggies, the Underthings, the Sea Monkeys, the Dirt Cheap, and Wig!

"Heap bring the best, most shining example of The Replacements inspired rock'n roll that I can recall. Really. There's lots of the rootsy, bar charm that The Plimsouls brought to the party, too (think first Plimsouls album) — as well as the post-'Mats band, Bash And Pop and a bit of Love Nut. Rocking and almost criminally hooky... the thick sound ties in with the tight arrangements to ratchet up the fervour that much more. If Heap doesn't make your soul bubble open with joy, then are you already dead. This is real hook-ridden rock 'n roll that pop lovers are going to dig!" -Not Lame Recordings

Friday, August 7th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

C'mon Get Happy!

GARDEN STATE SOCIAL CLUB

EDISON ROCKET TRAIN • WIRE TROOP

Get ready to get crazy with the Garden State Social Club, Wire Troop, and a special appearance by the Edison Rocket Train! We're celebrating Sharky's Second Annual 50th Birthday (you do the math) and he is promising to bring out the big guns — the go go gospel of the Rocket Train and a special dance'n'roll rocktacular set from the Garden Staters! All this plus Wire Troop who bring the best roadhouse blues this side of Kalamazoo! Expect snacks, surprises, and special guests! All for no cover! Be there!

Saturday, August 1st at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Take Me For A Little While

MIRIAM & NOBODY'S BABIES

SUZETTE SUNDAE & THE LOVELIFES

Miriam. That’s right, just one name, like Cher or Madonna. Or Winger, for that matter. Nobody’s Baby is Miriam’s first solo album, and it’s a gem. If you’re expecting the same high-intensity, raucous'n'roll you find with The A-Bones, you won’t get it on Nobody’s Baby. Instead, this album reminds of two previous records, classy efforts both, in the Norton Records catalog: Dangerous Game, the 2007 "comeback" album by Mary Weiss, lead singer of The Shangri-Las, and All Or Nothing by La La Brooks, who used to sing with The Crystals. Like those older albums, Nobody’s Baby is a contemporary take on the classic early- to mid-'60s girl-group sound — an adult update on the teen yearning and, yes, angst of that golden period.

Thursday, July 30th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Photography by Roberta Bayley

Music For All Occasions

SIMON & THE BAR SINISTERS

HEAP • THE DAN MONTGOMERY 3+2

Led by guitar virtuoso Simon Chardiet, Simon & The Bar Sinisters make music that is truly unclassifiable. Chardiet shifts effortlessly, both in terms of guitar and vocal style, from rockabilly to Big Star-type pop to snarling British punk, and then onto ZZ Top-ish riffing. Listening to Simon could be a shortcut to a more complete musical education. Seeing him live is more like receiving a guitar lesson. Throw some NYC bad attitude ("I'd Be Grateful if You Were Dead") into the mix, then stir, and you have some serious gumbo.

Saturday, July 25th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Full Circle

ROUND EYE

MR. CLIT & THE PINK CIGARETTES

KLUB URANUS • BORTIS MINORTS

Round Eye, the experimental freak-punk outfit have accrued quite a loud and controversial name for themselves since forming in 2012. The Shanghai based group have shown no mercy nor fatigue in sound development or work ethic and have as of late been a crucial force in bridging a wide gap between the eastern and western hemispheres of punk-rock. Along with blazing a gnarly trail all over the globe (USA, Mexico, S. Korea, Japan) they’ve toured the mainland of China a number of times and have played host to visiting western groups and some legends as well.

They’ve shared stages with western groups such as D.O.A., The FUs, Paul Collins Beat, M.O.T.O., Ceremony, and Iceage, eastern groups such as P.K.14,SMZB and Misandao and have been banned from performing on the mainland by the Ministry of Culture during a tour with UK punk legends The Boys (as a result the tour was forced to literally go underground where they held the secret gigs in bomb shelters around the country). The ban lasted only the duration of the tour and was assigned due to "crowd control issues" following the tragic Shanghai band stampede, a controversial tour poster, and reports of Round Eye’s lewd stage antics.

They’ve won the "Best Local Band" title from Shanghai’s City Weekend magazine two years in a row. They’ve released two music videos (one starring famed Chinese actress Wang Lin) and honed their unconventional blend of '50s r&b and punk with a critically acclaimed EP Full Circle on Ripping/Genjing Records which featured Greg Ginn (Black Flag), and have drawn comparisons to the Stooges, Dr. Feelgood, and The Fall. Currently, they are set to drop their eponymous LP in June, which features saxophonist Steve Mackay (The Stooges/Violent Femmes) and R. Stevie Moore.

Friday, July 24th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. $7 cover. 21+ with ID.

Do What You Wanna Do

THE ABOVE

THE NUCLEARS • THE SHADES • GORILLA CHIEF

The Above are a rock'n'roll group hailing from Brooklyn, New York. Some folks might call them a garage band... others might describe their sound as rhythm and blues... but regardless of how they are categorized, it is undeniable that their music compels some serious dancing. With tube amps screamin', drum kits stompin', and vocal harmonies wailin', these ambassadors of freakbeat are making good in the city where rock'n'roll will never die.

Saturday, July 18th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. $8 cover. 21+ with ID.

Photograph by John Blout‎

Grown Up Wrong

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 July edition features special guest DJ DANNY 2 TIMES * MARK YOSHITOMI. Mark and your Modern Needs host and boss DJ, MR. LEE (Going In Style Sound System/Dead Flowers Productions) will be spinning top-flight vinyl sounds until the wee small hours!

Friday, July 17th at Banter

132 Havemeyer, Brooklyn U.S.A.

Kicks off at 10PM... No cover!

* Danny had to cancel due to illness.

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!

Friday, July 17th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Machine Gun Eyes

THE TRACYS

LEAGUE OF PITY • LAST CONSPIRATORS

Saturday, July 11th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

No Gods, No Monsters

FROM BELOW • INROD

PISTOL SHOT GYPSY • RYAN PEARSON

Friday, July 10th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Do The Stroll

BRIAN BONZ

ABSTRACT ARTIMUS • TOYS IN TROUBLE

After The Stroll's first successful show at Taking Back Queens they wanted to throw together another live show with some close friends, and fellow alumni of the podcast. Expect a night of great music, drinks, and fun.

Thursday, July 9th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

JITTERY JACK • THE MILLWINDERS

Jittery Jack brings his East Coast bang to the world of Rockabilly and '50s inspired rock'n'roll. He has headlined at the Viva Las Vegas festival numerous times, and has toured internationally headlining many festivals including UK's the Rockabilly Rave and Australia's Camperdown Cruise. Jack has also recorded for both Wild Records in Hollywood, CA and Rhythm Bomb Records in Germany who released his 2014 full length, Gonna Have A Time.

The four members of Toronto's Millwinders are no strangers to the Rockabilly scene, having played previously in bands such as The Royal Crowns, Real Gone, The Tin Eddies, and Cool Jerk. Together since 2009, this quartet has been making a name for themselves, entertaining crowds with their traditional rockabilly, and r&b-infused sound. Their strong debut album Ladies and Gentlemen, The Millwinders, has sent them performing around the continent at major rockabilly and blues festivals including the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender twice. With all four members handling vocal duties, the strength of The Millwinders truly is in the sum of it's parts.

Thursday, July 2nd at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. $8 cover. 21+ with ID.

Shakin' Around

MR. AIRPLANE MAN 

PARTY LIGHTS • NEWPORT LUCYS

Mr. Airplane Man is Margaret on guitar and Tara on drums. Their sound is a mishmash of Mississippi hill country blues, Memphis weirdo rock'n'roll, drony VU and Stooges, and Boston garage-beat and pop wonderment.

The band started in the late '90s. Almost immediately, they joined Morphine for a US tour and recorded a self-titled EP with Mark Sandman of Morphine. They went on to tour the US extensively, playing with The Reigning Sound, White Stripes, Detroit Cobras, Holly GoLightly, Hot Snakes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blues Explosion, Dirtbombs and many more.

During the '90s and '00s, Mr. Airplane Man released three albums and an EP on Sympathy for the Record Industry. They successfully toured Europe and played two Peel Sessions on John Peel’s BBC radio show.

Now Mr. Airplane Man is happy to be playing and recording again, after taking a break to have babies, live in the desert, and generally shake up their lives.

Saturday, June 27th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. $10 cover. 21+ with ID.

Swing For The Crime

THE GET IT!

THE ROBIN ELECTRIC • UNICORN SMACK

Friday, June 26th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Stampede!

When you hear the words "classic country music", a few famous faces come to mind—all of them, most likely, white and male. But Kandia Crazy Horse is out to change all that. The NYC-based singer and songwriter is "on a crusade to become the first black woman to be invited to join the Grand Ole Opry."And the way she sings — with a style that's part deep-South traditional country, part soul, and more than a little influenced by the crossover twang-rock of '70s California — she just might pull it off.

Kandia's latest album, Stampede was voted the #2 Country Album of 2014 by The Village Voice. Folks above 110th Street know her as the founder and curator of the Harlem Honky Tonk musician series. Now, we're proud to bring her back out to Brooklyn, as part of Uncle Leon's Honky-Tonk Relapse, a live, monthly, booze-fueled celebration of classic country songs. (Or, as singer/organizer Leon Chase likes to put it: "A country music night for people who hate modern country music.")

The Honky-Tonk Relapse is, by definition, rooted in the past — the band Uncle Leon and the Alibis' repertoire of cover songs spans roughly from '40s Hank Williams to late-'70s Waylon Jennings. But they're proud to preface that party with a decidedly 21st-century act. Kandia Crazy Horse taps into the true legacy of "roots" music, reminding us that — despite what the marketing boys in Nashville might want us to believe — the face of traditional American music has never been just one color, nor was it born from just one sound. Like the best outlaws of her genre, she defies all expectations. And, perhaps most importantly, the woman writes a damn good song.

Thursday, June 25th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Modern Love

THE DeLORIAN SISTERS

KELLY FRAGALE & THE DENIALS • MILF & DILF

Based largely in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, the original Sisters got together in 2011 strictly for giggles. The initial impulse was to play mostly covers of old-timey classics by the Carter Family, Hank Williams, Dock Boggs, and others. But then Clive made a startling (some may say dangerous) discovery: it turns out the songs we were raised on — these coked-out, cheesey, feather-haired tunes of our '80s youths — are actually country songs in disguise. The pathos of "Here Comes the Rain," the exuberance of "Modern Love," the absurd weirdness of "Girlfriend in a Coma": it's all in there, dying for three-part harmonies and, let's face it, a banjo. 

Saturday, June 20th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Celebration Time!

BABY SANDWICHES • THE CUTS • SROs

HIPP PIPPS • DICK JOKES • CHARM SCHOOL

KATELYN RICHARDS • NIÑOS HÉROS

Friday, June 19th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. 21+ with ID.

¡Viva Rock'N'Roll!

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 June edition features special guest DJ STIFF NECK (Fatigue/ex-Sydney Ducks). Mr. Neck and your Modern Needs host and boss DJ, MR. LEE (Going In Style Sound System/Dead Flowers Productions) will be spinning top-flight vinyl sounds until the wee small hours!

Friday, June 19th at Banter

132 Havemeyer, Brooklyn U.S.A.

Kicks off at 10PM... No cover!

Links Are Smashed

KENNY CHAMBERS & THE HIGH BOMBS

THE JAMES ROCKET • NU-SONICS

TERRA NOVUS (debut show)

Kenny Chambers (ex-Moving Targets/Bullet LaVolta) will be bringing songs with his band, The High Bombs all the way from sunny Gloucester, MA.

Saturday, June 13th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Makin' All My Dreams Come True

THE PIGGIES • CASH REGISTERS

PEPPER KINGS • THEE MONEY SHOT

Friday, June 12th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Lost In Translation

THE KURT BAKER BAND

PALMYRA DELRAN • THE ELECTRIC MESS

Kurt Baker is a singer, songwriter and rock n’ roll performer from Portland, Maine who has always gone by the famous saying “Have a Good Time All the Time”. He has released several solo projects with his Power Pop group The Kurt Baker Band, which plays punk rock music inspired by pop music of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Baker was the founding member, bass player, singer, & songwriter of the notable pop/punk outfit The Leftovers, which formed in 2002 and released several records on Rally Records, Insubordination Records and Oglio Records. The group toured extensively and played London, England's celebrated Roundhouse Theater before disbanding in 2010.

Baker's blend of Beach Boys and Beatles-styled melodies has earned him the praise of Larry Livermore (founder of Lookout Records), Ben Weasel (Screeching Weasel) and Jaret Reddick (Bowling For Soup). After the release of The Leftovers' last album, 2009's Eager To Please on Oglio Records, which featured guests ranging from Brett Anderson (The Donnas) to Coz Canler (The Romantics), and an extensive tour of the US and Europe, Baker decided to focus on going solo.

Thursday, June 11th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. $8 cover. 21+ with ID.

#SaveNYC: The Brooklyn Show

THE ROCKSTEADY 7

LES SANS CULOTTES

"When I say they've destroyed New York's old stores, bars, restaurants, hangouts, I'm saying the real estate market has destroyed the sacred watering holes and gathering places

of the 20th century." -author Josh Alan Friedman

#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced D.I.Y. movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores and glossy luxury retail, #SaveNYC is fighting for small businesses and cultural institutions to remain in place. Dead Flowers Productions is very proud to be working in solidarity with #SaveNYC to help raise awareness of the growing movement.  Through live music we hope to exchange ideas and dance the night away.

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The Rocksteady 7 is an influential American ska and jazz band from NYC. Since the early 90's the group has consisted of tenor saxophonist and band leader David Hillyard as well as percussionist Larry McDonald. In live performances, they are supported by a rotating cast of musicians, including drummer Eddie Ocampo and Dave Wake on keys among others. Given reggae's globally reaching influence, the Rocksteady 7 holds true to the genre's roots and the self-described "Jamaican Jazz" sound combines ska, rocksteady and reggae with extended jazz improvisation, intricate melodies, and complex harmonies. The group incorporates many diverse elements of world music with rocksteady rhythms, including ska, jazz, calypso, as well as early African and American jazz influences. 

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, June 6th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Photograph by Adam Nelson © 2015

Don't Grow Out Of It

45 ADAPTERS

GOVERNESS • GUNS DON'T RUN

45 Adapters is five friends who dress well and drink heavily. They describe their music as a truck full of Cock Sparrer records crashing into a truck full of Otis Redding records (aka maximum Oi'N'B), and they don't trust anyone who doesn't dance.

Friday, June 5th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 8PM. $7 cover. 21+ with ID.

Salt Lives!

Friday night's Patrick Salt Ryan Memorial Show was a joyous and debaucherous celebration for our fallen friend. Thanks to Tom Clark, The Brought Low, Heap, and The Virginia Gentlemen for stellar rockin' performances, and everyone who came out. We drank, sang, laughed, cried, and raised a lot of cash for Patrick's widow Jessica.

Photography by Lee Greenfeld © 2015

Get Down!

THE GET IT!

THE SHAKEY TABLES

Friday, May 29th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

Honky-Tonk Relapse!

Uncle Leon And the Alibis return once again to the place their our birth, Hank's Saloon, for a night of classic country cover songs. Join the band as they drunkenly butcher the back-catalogs of such legendary performers as Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson. You won't hear any Luke Bryan or Brooks and Dunn at this party. And none of that Mumford and Sons bullshit either. Just a whole lot of lowdown, gritty, tear-in-your-beer, old-school honky-tonk, the way the good lord (and Hank) intended it.

Thursday, May 28th at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.

R Train Blues

BAND OF OTHERS • JDC BAND

Band of Others is a Brooklyn band playing a carefully curated mix of covers and originals that mines the motherlode of Americana — everything from surf to punk to bluegrass to country to hard-rock, sometimes all in the same song. Get your groove on or cry in your beer — Band of Others covers all the bases!

Saturday, May 23rd at Hank's Saloon

46 Third Avenue (at Atlantic), Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Doors at 9PM. No cover. 21+ with ID.