
photos by Jason House ...lo and behold, to my amazement, after Saturday's show, I've now seen The Gories do their thing threefold. And each time has been better than the last, as if they've picked up where they left off to become meaner and leaner. This time, they started with the obvious ("Hey, Hey We're The Gories"), but as they announced, tonight's performance delved into lesser known cuts from singles and comps. As such, we heard their wooly version of The Keggs' "To Find [...]

May 2003 flyer... Less than a month before Park Slope club Southpaw is gone forever , and Southpaw mainstay DJ team The Rub has announced that after their final party at Southpaw this Saturday (2/4), they're moving to the bigger Bell House down the street (relatively speaking). Read the trio's entire long goodbye to Southpaw, and check out their final Southpaw flyer, below... Continue reading "The Rub moving to the Bell House, eulogize Southpaw (where they'll play [...]

Pat Kiernan Demtetri Martin has added a third show at NYU which is on sale now . It doesn't appear to also be a taping (just a rehearsal), and happens towards the end of his tour and three days before his other two NYC shows which are tapings . That same week, astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson returns to the Bell House along with Eugene Mirman for another edition of Star Talk Live ! [...]
As a tiny present from me to you, here's a video I shot at the annual Atlas Sound Christmas show @ The Bell House in Brooklyn last Saturday. Probably one of the most dark Christmas song i've heard in awhile. I wouldn't expect anything less from Mr. Bradford Cox. Merry Non-Denominational Holiday Of Your Choice y'all! Bookmark [...]

Recommended Show: MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS & ABSTRACT ARTIMUS @ THE BELL HOUSE 149 7th St Brooklyn, NY 11215 $15, 8PM It's probably not a stretch to say that opening for Rocket from the Tombs is a big fucking deal for Abstract Artimus . The two acts perform at The Bell House tonight. !!! @ Maxwell's Wyclef Jean @ City Winery Rev Vince Anderson @ Union Pool The Futurebirds & Grass Giraffes @ Brooklyn [...]

Heads up, New Yorkers! It's the giving season, and the gentlemen of Locksley are throwing a holiday shindig at The Bell House in Brooklyn to benefit P.S. 142. To put it simply, we think you should be there. For the low, low price of $15 (with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the kids), you'll get a stellar show featuring Locksley, with special guests Lily and the Parlour Tricks, Nat Brower & the Power, The Jonnies, Raccoon Fighter, and Little Racer, just to name a few. [...]

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin "Last night i got to see one of my favorite bands re-unite. I thought i had seen the last of HOT SNAKES back on June 1st 2005 when i saw them at their last ever London UK gig. Then i really thought I'd never see them again at their final NYC show on August 9th 2005 at the Bowery Ballroom. I was teased last year when OBITS and NIGHT MARCHERS played a [...]
Atlas Sound, the ever-expansive solo project from Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, is pleased to announce several US tour dates. Atlas Sound's third album, Parallax, is out now via 4AD.

Like he did in years past , Bradford Cox aka Atlas Sound will play a winter show in NYC, or more specifically at the Bell House in Brooklyn (on December 17th). Balkans open this year's show and tickets are on sale. This year Atlas Sound will be supporting his great new album, Parallax , which was released by 4AD on November 8th. Listen on Spotify Continue reading "Atlas Sound released Parallax, keeping annual Brooklyn [...]

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2011 O'DEATH @ THE BELL HOUSE 149 7th St Brooklyn, NY 11215 $10, 8PM There was a time when it seemed like O'Death would be no more, but a surprise show at Brooklyn Bowl brought them back, and it seems now the band have regained their traction. Tonight, they play at The Bell House. The Mekons @ City Winery Gordon Voidwell @ Brooklyn Bowl Bear Hands & Grandchildren @ Maxwell's Trans [...]

Say Anything vocalist Max Bemis have announced a small solo acoustic tour with Eisley vocalist (who happens to be his wife) Sherri DuPree.

Recommended Show: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 !!! @ THE BELL HOUSE 149 7th St Brooklyn, NY 11215 $18, 8PM It's good to see that !!! (aka Chk Chk Chk ) are still around--it's hard to remember the last time we've heard from them. They're playing tonight in Brooklyn at The Bell House. Arch Enemy @ Best Buy Theater Kyle Andrews @ Public Assembly Umphrey's McGee @ Brooklyn Bowl Trouble Andrew @ The Studio at Webster [...]
Before the storm, I was given the opportunity by fellow 'FMU DJ's Terre T and Joe Belock to engineer 2 sessions. Check the blog posting here for the FMA tracks of Ivan Julian's live set from the Cherry Blossom Clinic ! A mere 5 days later, Deniz Tek and the Golden Breed occupied the very same room and blasted out a set of 5 killers for Joe's Three Chord Monte program, which are posted below for your ingestion -check out the interview as well in the archive! Both guitar [...]
Brett Detar, vocalist for the defunct group The Juliana Theory, has announced that he will be supporting Tiger Army vocalist Nick 13 on his current solo tour.

Rival Schools have announced dates for their upcoming tour with Hostage Calm .

NY punk band Latterman have announced two reunion shows in the area.

[Photos courtesy of Jill of fortheloveofbrooklyn photoblog] Our friends Real Estate have spent the past few years doing it "the right way" - garnering critical attention for the debut LP and building off of that with varied, exciting and packed live shows. Their hard work has paid off in the form of an exciting new deal that finds them leaving one of our absolute favorite boutique labels - Woodsist - for one of the best-curated international indie labels, Domino Records . Per Domino's press release , a new [...]

[Photo by Jill of fortheloveofbrooklyn photoblog] We last caught Julian Lynch at Music Hall on a freezing cold January night, where he showed off some new songs from his then-forthcoming record, Terra . Since then, Terra has been released and proven another unqualified success, and Julian has had more time to develop the material in the live setting. This show found him opening for fellow Ridgewood, NJ natives Real Estate at the Bell House , a somewhat more cavernous space than the tight-sounding Music Hall. The [...]

[Low-quality photos by acidjack] The Charleston, South Carolina musicians Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent recently teamed up to combine several disparate recording ideas into a collaboration they call " Shovels & Rope ", which resulted in a record by the same name and a nationwide tour that included a number of dates with The Felice Brothers. This show at the Bell House was one of such opening sets (you can get the Felice Brothers set here ), but Shovels & Rope were given a headliner-length set, and deservedly so. [...]

[Video screenshots courtesy of D.F. Yonkman of Dead Elm ] From busking in NYC subway stations six years ago to selling out the Bell House two nights in a row this week, life for The Felice Brothers keeps evolving in a positive direction. Although they effectively got their start here in New York City, their sound and their approach are more informed by their hometown of Palenville, in the Catskill Mountains upstate. Their country-inflected rock is full of grit, with primary vocalist Ian Felice drawling out his lines in whiskey-drenched full throat, reminiscent [...]