by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on !!!’s residency at Union Pool: Dancing is the best revenge
Sacramento-born and currently Brooklyn based dance punk band !!! (or also named “chk chk chk”, which helps cause !!! is basically unsearchable on Google 🙂 ) did a three night residency at Union Pool last week. The dates (8th,9th and…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on PizzaFest 3: Code name Pizza Fist
There isn’t a soul on the planet who is going to mistake King Pizza Records annual barnstormer PizzaFest for Coachella, but if you talk to King Pizza founder Greg Hanson you will quickly find that glitz, glamor and money were…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Underground Music Festival Bridging Cross Country Musical Gaps
When most people talk about building a musical community, they are talking about working with bands and fans within a 10 mile to 20 mile radius. When Idio Gallery founder, Montana Simone says it, she’s talking about bridging the gap…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on ‘The Most Dangerous Band in America’ Destroys Brooklyn
There are some bands that are ridiculously loud and then there is DESTRUCTION UNIT. Their set at Brooklyn’s Market Hotel is not the first time I have walked out of a venue with my ears still ringing. But it is…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Le Butcherettes, The Dead Ships and Eureka The Butcher @ Rough Trade
On a Wednesday night I headed from my Harlem apartment to Rough Trade in Brooklyn to check Eureka The Butcher, The Dead Ships and Le Butcherettes. It was my first time in the venue and I was pleasantly surprised.…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Highly Suspect – the band that will rule the music scene in 2016
Our black heart, Camden, London – 8th Feb 2016 Support: Reigning Days If you haven’t heard about Highly Suspect from Brooklyn before, you are not the only one. The three guys originally from Cape Cod, moved to the Big Apple…
by Noreña • • Comments Off on The Legal Aid Society: Second Annual Winter Benefit 01/28/16
The Legal Aid Society is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing legal representation to low-income New Yorkers. With offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn and specializing in Civil, Criminal, and Juvenile Rights Practices, they bear out through works their belief,…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on ‘Nomads Revolt; Mischief Brew Sets Fire to The Night in Brooklyn
Mischief Brew lead singer Erik Petersen definitely had himself a happy birthday weekend capping off the fun with a sold out show at Brooklyn’s newest venue, Sunnyvale in Bushwick on Saturday night. The show was Sunnyvale’s first ever as they…
by Noreña • • Comments Off on Ron Pope + The Nighthawks @ Irving Plaza 01/09/16
Ron Pope is a singer/songwriter who plays an accessible style that meanders between country-pop-ballad, on its softer side, and a markedly southern rhythm and blues, on its edgier. Running through it all is an attention to lyrical and emotional detail…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Grammy-nominated Highly Suspect get ready for UK tour
Highly Suspect is a name, you will have trouble not forgetting. I have to admit the first time I’ve heard the first single “Lydia” of their debut album, I was surprised by fact they haven’t made big just yet. The…