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Peel it Back
2008-05-27 16:00:00
Gotta hand it to those Dark Room folks.. most places are barren on a Tuesday night but they seem to always have a decent crowd of rowdy LES folks. Maybe its the free mid-week booze, or maybe its the DJ sets from the likes of Toddlerone, DJ Rabi, and special guest Monica Sharp. Whatever it is, if your looking to get down with a bunch of strangers tonight then this is the spot. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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205 Tuesdays
2008-05-27 16:00:00
DFA?s Justin Miller and Runaway?s Jacques Renault, along with the occasional Grade-A guest, spin a disreputable array of down-and-dirty beats in 205?s reliably fun basement. Tonight?s edition sees the Paris-based DJ and producer Cosmo Vitelli (from the fun I?m A Cliché label) spinning a set of oddball house and disco. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Rebel Rebel
2008-05-27 16:00:00
"Glam Rock decadence in the rock n roll capital of New York City...the East Village! This weekly Tuesday night glam party kicks off upstairs with BowieOpenBar from 11pm til midnite. That's one full hour of free vodka while DJ .dZGRa spins the music of David Bowie! Downstairs, at 11pm you have the option to see a different band each week ($6), hand-picked by the Rebel Rebel team! At midnight, both floors are open to everyone, and the glam revolution begins!" Old Flyer 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Today Show Concert Series: B-52s
2008-05-26 16:00:00
The B-52s show up on the FreeNYC listings at least once a year with a free show. This morning they bring their party vibe to the early risers in midtown. All Ages. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Deepa Del Playa
2008-05-26 16:00:00
"A day on the sand is the sole suitable way to kick off the summer season, and this beachside bash is the prime opportunity to start the sun soaking. DJs Soul2Soul and Steven Retas spin disco and funk to begin the afternoon, followed by Nef Nunez, Brian Coxx and Brian Burnside bringing the beats. Don't be afraid to sweat a little, there's always the East River?" 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Beats & BBQ
2008-05-26 16:00:00
The Deep Dance crew come together for their annual Memorial Day Beats & BBQ. Soulful dance music all day and some free grub. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Blue Monday
2008-05-26 16:00:00
Blue Monday is a classic southern take on easing in your work week. A bourbon open bar can be dangerous, luckily there's some tasty BBQ available (not free) and live blues to keep you sedated if you can get out of work fast enough to hit the slope. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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4th Annual Tour de Brooklyn
2008-05-25 16:00:00
Dust off your bikes for the summer time and take a little ride in the Tour de Brooklyn . The Tour de Brooklyn is an exciting free fun family bike tour through 18 miles of Brooklyn. Each year the route changes to highlight the diverse neighborhoods of the borough. This year's tour will ride by Brooklyn's waterfronts, Atlantic Yards, Eastern Parkway with a brief rest stop at Maria Hernandez Park, continuing towards East Williamsburg and into the exclusive Brooklyn Navy Yards. The ride will wrap up at Walt Whitman Park around 1 pm. Register here. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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NYC Zombie Crawl 2008 (#1)
2008-05-25 16:00:00
What better way to scare all those McCarren Park sun-bathers (who will still be in tight black jeans) then by dressing up like a zombie in the middle of spring, imbibing some mid-day booze, and tromping through the neighborhood. The NYC Zombie Crawl is a predecessor to this fall's larger national event. Meet at Duff's early to get your face painted, start drinking shots, and then travel over to Passout Records where the MC Chris Show will entertain you. At 8:30 the zombies (now really walking like zombies from all their drinking) head to Supreme Trading. Be forewarned that there is a (most likely) well-worth it $12 slideshow - and other stuff - here in the back room but if your still on the no-cover route then you can rock out to tunes in the front and keep on drinkin'. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Off the Atlas
2008-05-25 16:00:00
Takeover Theory bring their signature - so much going on you can't miss this - style to Hope Lounge tonight. You have free BBQ from 8-10 (with $3 beers), Free giveaways for the first 100 rsvps, free Bacardi from 1 to 2, and DJ sets from Demize, King Cut, and Morsy... With no work on Monday you've got no excuses. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Hot Summer
2008-05-25 16:00:00
The Bah Humbug crew presents A Hot Holiday Dance Party with DJs Captain Heartlock (Real Gone!) spinning Garage, Mod and Soul and DJ XEROX (Copycat) spinning Rock , Indie and Electro. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
2008-05-23 16:00:00
"Droves of independent artists, arts organizations, dance companies, filmmakers and various other art-loving kids will unite this weekend for the 13th Annual LES Festival of the Arts . This year's theme, "Art Into Action, Action Into Art" serves to represent the culturally diverse artistic movements that have spread like rapid fire through downtown New York, and will feature performances by The Wendy Osserman Dance Company, Penny Arcade, Jazz legend David Amram and new works by rising playwrights Barbara Kahn, Lissa Moira and Larry Myers." [via the awesome people at Paper Mag] Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Whitney Radio: Subatomic Sound System Live
2008-05-23 16:00:00
Here's a little mishmashed happy suprise of music and art for ya. Your favorite dubwise beat pioneers, the Subatomic Sound System will be recording a live performance at the Whitney Radio station while Water & Light project some crazy video. Plus, the museum is free on Friday afternoons. All Ages. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Summer of Love
2008-05-23 16:00:00
What better way to kick off your Memorial Day weekend than with Summer of Love at Hope Lounge! Nick Catchdubs, Tommy Mas and Stretch Armstrong take over the turntables. And free BBQ on the other tables from 9:00pm to 10:00pm. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Robot Rock w/ Discobelle, Dopplehertz
2008-05-23 16:00:00
Holly hipster batman... get ready to blog this... Those Swedish bloghouse debutants cross the pond to throw down with the weekly electro madness at Robot Rock (okay, only one of them but she's gonna kill it with secret MP3s you're gonna be jockin' Hypem for in the mornin.) Joining the fun will be Toronto's Dopplehertz and FreeNYC favorite Marc Alan Grey along with Alex English and High Voltage's Dimitry!!! Expect wobbly distorted bass. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

Super Family with Roy Davis Jr.
2008-05-23 16:00:00
Super Family , dispensers of slowed-down house, techno, disco and offshoots thereof, is back in APT?s basement. Tonight the crew is joined by a pretty special guest, with Chicago doyen Roy Davis Jr.?the guy behind soulful house hits who started off in the ?80s producing seminal acid cuts and jack tracks?hitting the decks, including my favorite, below. 21+ All I Do - Roy Davis Jr. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert - The Children?s Music Campaign NYC
2008-05-22 16:00:00
"Claire Bryant, Carol McGonnell, and Elizabeth Joy Roe, bring together the 4th-6th grade classrooms in which they serve as mentors for a concert on May 22 in Zankel Hall , in which the student musicians will make their Carnegie Hall debuts performing newly commissioned music by composers Nico Muhly and James Blachly. These three musicians hope to raise awareness of the crucial role that music education provides in a child?s development while also celebrating the public school students of New York City." Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Flosstradamus, Tigercity, Dopplehertz
2008-05-22 16:00:00
Flosstradamus... Tigercity... Dopplehertz... Three seemingly-disconnected but talented acts come together tonight at Studio B for free. They're all worth it, let's see if they can come together and make a great night of it. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Get Familiar
2008-05-22 16:00:00
Tonight is the "Get Familiar" launch party, the first release from Name Ribbon Clothing's new music imprint, NR Music. Performances by M.I.A. protégé and Get Familiar host, Rye-Rye and DJs Cobra Krames, Kap10Kurt, Leif, Cousin Cole, Rok One, Marc-Alan Gray and Maggie Horn. Plus giveaways from XLR8R Magazine and NAME Ribbon. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit

People Don't Dance No More: Cosmo Vitelli
2008-05-22 16:00:00
In case you missed Cosmo Vitelli earlier this week at 205, here's your chance to endulge in some of the finer outskirts of modern disco. "From straight up disco dancefloor bangers to deep, epic remixes (including a few for Daft Punk), his mastery in the studio blending live instrumentation with sublime electronics is almost unparalleled. Cosmo keeps his ear to the New York underground and has wisely snapped up Brooklyn-based young gun production duo RUNAWAY [also performing tonight] for releases on his label. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Word for Word
2008-05-21 16:00:00
Today is the kick off of Word for Word 2008, which brings the country?s most celebrated authors and celebrities to speak about their recent successes and their thoughts on being a writer. This summer marks their fifth anniversary. This afternoon they welcome Augusten Burroughs who will read from A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father. Rain location is Barnes & Noble at Fifth Avenue and 46th Street. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Wonderful Wednesday
2008-05-21 16:00:00
By now you all know my love for Blue Owl... Its nice to have a not so pretentious cocktail lounge downtown that you can grab a drink after work without too much fuss. And while I can no longer imbibe my love of gin at this weekly gathering, at least I can still enjoy a fine vodka cocktail in one of the finer downtown cocktail spots still free of midtown cheese. (not that there is anything wrong with midtown, my inner New Jersey love's me a stint at Johnny Utahs here and there.) 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Chelsea Mind Games
2008-05-21 16:00:00
Its another edition of Chelsea Mind Games , everyone's favorite shipping market variety show! Hosted by Jennifer Dziura, tonight's edition features music by Adira Amram, a vocabulary tournament, and Dorothy Von Irony's Hour of Literary Comedy and Comic Literature. All ages. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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What's New Copycat?
2008-05-21 16:00:00
"Dj Xerox spins crazy covers and rocking remixes of all the hits (rock, indie, old wave and new) [and] this week he is Jonesing for Tom Jones focusing on covers by and of songs that he made famous." Plus, live sets from Beki and the Bullets and a special Tom Jones tribute with The Thunderballs. $5 pbr and a shot. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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High Voltage
2008-05-21 16:00:00
High Voltage has been killin' it with hipster-infused electro goodness for about as long as FreeNYC's been keepin your nightlife lively. Week after week they light up Orchard street with a bit of glam, a bit of electro, and a whole lot of drunken hump day fun. Tonight is no exception with DJ sets from residents Dimitry and Prince Terrence along with special guests Dances with White Girls and Josh Link, plus free vodka beginning at 11pm. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Nat Janoff Trio
2008-05-20 16:00:00
Guitar Virtuoso Nat Janoff pops over from the Dirty Jerz tonight amaze you with his trio at one of the last great, cheap live music dive's in the city. 55 Bar is a pre-prohibition legend and the room sweats good music so tonight should be no exception for lover's of Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, or guitar fueled jazz in general. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert - The Bar-olk Project
2008-05-20 16:00:00
"Kristoffer Saebo and Arthur Sato collaborated on this interactive, educational concert that will feature music of the Baroque era and of various folk traditions. Seeking to bridge cultures and traditions in a concert format that appeals to young adult audiences, these two musicians and a number of their close musical colleagues will present a lively, informative, and casual program as part of Carnegie Hall ?s Neighborhood Concert Series." Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Danielia Cotton Release Party
2008-05-20 16:00:00
It happens every year about this time, the sun breaks, I wander out of the clubs like some sort of cave creature, and I get back into that good old American Roots music. Nothing seems to say spring more (or spring time car commercial) than some good old guitar-laden singer-songwriter goodness beckenoning me to return to the outdoors. If you have similar musical meanderings then check out Danielia Cotton 's release party tonight. She's a little bit rock, a little soul, and a little blues all wrapped in a nice neat package. Of course, if your into Danielia, be sure to check out Grace Potter and the Nocturnals who's a bit more Janis Joplin and a bit less Lenny Kravitz. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Disco Down
2008-05-20 16:00:00
Happy Ending is always good for a little late night booze-fest and tonight is no exception. Dirty Disco mixes all the sounds the kids are diggin' these days... or in 1987... disco (duh), brit pop, indie, and new wave. While this will never replace the insanely debaucherous Sh!t Hammered weekly where I once saw 4 Hassids shoot tequila while 2 lesbians made out on a bed in the middle of the dance floor - it should still prove to be a good time. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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Peel it Back
2008-05-20 16:00:00
Gotta hand it to those Dark Room folks.. most places are barren on a Tuesday night but they seem to always have a decent crowd of rowdy LES folks. Maybe its the free mid-week booze, or maybe its the DJ sets from the likes of Sam Bell, Toddlerone, and more. Whatever it is, if your looking to get down with a bunch of strangers tonight then this is the spot. 21+ Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
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