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Thurston Moore at Williamsburg Waterfront. Photo by anonymous Live music in 2011 saw several newer bands consolidate their hold on greatness, while well-established acts from the 90s brought out crowds for reunion shows and, sadly, farewells. For those of us at the site, we were inspired by crowds of people who were, in a lot of cases, younger than we were checking out bands like Archers of Loaf live for the first time, or finally gaining appreciation for the work of artists like Cass McCombs and Bill Callahan. At the same time, favorite new or [...]

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Last Wednesday, Amon Tobin brought his audio visual masterpiece ISAM to the Brooklyn Masonic Temple as one of the three sold-out New York dates on his tour. Berlin based Emika started out the evening with an understated performance of her somber and dub-heavy tracks, often overlain with vocals of a deep and melancholy sort. She performed both "Drop the Other" and "Double Edge Sword," two of her most beloved tracks, to excellent reception from the audience. As the curtain was drawn aside to reveal the immense structure that is ISAM, the crowd commenced on a journey [...]

October 25 and 26, Amon Tobin will be bringing his live show to Brooklyn Masonic Temple, integrating both his music and astounding visual display of 3D animation. "The idea was to integrate myself, quite literally, into an audio and visual presentation of the album," the Brazilian-born Tobin told Wired in an interview. The live show will find Amon Tobin performing from within an intricate geometric hive. Ensconced within the 25-by-14-by-8-foot central cube, Tobin will use real-time projection mapping, generative imagery and audio-reactive elements to produce a brain-teasing electronic music performance with little in the way of [...]

[photo courtesy of Adam B ] Acidjack reports: "After Tuesday's Godspeed You! Black Emperor show at Brooklyn Masonic Temple, I could not imagine the band being able to top itself the following night. But GYBE are far from an ordinary band, and Wednesday's show was the type of extraordinary tour de force that humbled even their awe-inspiring Tuesday show. This show built on all of the elements that made Tuesday special - the hypnotic, narrative visuals, the seamless two-plus hours of music that ebbed and flowed, and twinkled and [...]

[photo courtesy of Adam B ] Acidjack reports: " Godspeed You! Black Emperor returned to New York after a nine-year break from our city. How the world has changed since then. When the band last played here, their music could have been the soundtrack to those times - a soundtrack to an era of real fear - not of something to do with esoteric finance - but a visceral, inescapable apprehension of a decaying world. GYBE are an unabashedly political band, and their music, as well as the [...]

Recommended Show: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011 GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR @ BROOKLYN MASONIC TEMPLE 317 Clermont Ave Brooklyn, NY 11205 $25, 8PM Though Godspeed You! Black Emperor went on a bit of hiatus in 2003--members went on to pursue solo endeavors for a while--and now the band are back in action performing live shows. Tonight they play at Brooklyn Masonic Temple; it should be one memorable performance. Noveller @ The Stone Prussia @ Brooklyn Bowl Steve Martin @ Joe's [...]

Featuring DH (Fixed), Creep (Lauren Flax & Lauren Dillard), Michna (Ghostly), Project Matt (Funtime Party Team), Lorraine Sangre & Fernando Lions (After Midnight) and more!

In the '90s, when no one was listening to Black Sabbath , guitarist Matt Pike, bass player Al Cisneros, and drummer Chris Hakius formed Sleep , a band solely dedicated to the worship of the pioneering metal act. Sharing Sabbath's sludge-y riffs, but played at one-third the speed, as well as their silly lyrics and stony imagery, Sleep carved out a unique variation of heavy music that had only ever been heard in the black light-discolored basements of countless fantasy bands. The trio broke up in 1998, with Pike forming High [...]

BXI released their debut 4-track EP last month (on Southern Lord) and Tuesday night marked the band's first concert performance. While the band played just a twenty minute, their set left me feeling fairly satisfied as the power of the collaboration between Boris and Ian Astbury was clearly in evidence. The band started with "Teeth and Claws" from the new EP which is the most "Cult-ish" song from the new disc but the song is tempered by Wata's textured guitar leads. Following the order of [...]

BXI is the collaboration between Boris and Ian Astbury (The Cult) and Southern Lord just released the debut recordings by this group. This finely-crafted four-song release, simply entitled BXI , was tracked and mixed in Tokyo in late April. Astbury's iconic vocals are a perfect match for Boris' raw and emotive songwriting style. Tomorrow night, BXI is making its first full-length performance at Brooklyn Masonic Temple as part of show with Jesse Sykes, Sunn O))) and Boris. I had the opportunity to talk with Ian Astbury and Atsuo earlier today about tomorrow night's show, the [...]

All Tomorrow's parties and The Blackened Music Series will be bringing the first New York City performance of Sun O))) and Boris present Alter. ALTAR is a collaboration between Sunn 0))) and Boris that is a result of both bands conceptualizing, writing and recording together as one entity. There are elements of each group's trademark [...]

Big Star Brooklyn Masonic Temple Wednesday, November 18 This show seems half-assed in a way that everyone is frankly really pleased with, most of all Alex Chilton, of course, a blithely nonchala... Continue reading "Live: Big Star At Brooklyn Masonic Temple" >

Titus Andronicus warmed up the stage for Fucked Up's full performance of The Chemistry of Common Life. Check out some pictures below of the Jersey hipster punks below.

Toronto's Fucked Up came to Brooklyn's Masonic Temple to perform the future hardcore punk classic The Chemistry of Common Life in it's entirety. The band brought some guests including hipster darlings Vivian Girls on backup vocals and world class pianist/party-rock king Andrew W.K to tickle the ivories (well plastic keys). Despite what sounded [...]

Last night at Fort Greene's Brooklyn Masonic Temple, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite music venues, hosted Fucked Up as they celebrated the one-year anniversary of their landmark album, the Polaris Prize-winning The Chemistry of Common Life, which the band set out to recreate in its entirety. No easy feat. Chemistry is a hardcore album so sprawling you'd think they invented the word (sprawling, not hardcore). With touches of prog rock and shoegaze, multiple backup singers and, reportedly, hundreds of guitar tracks, the album certainly stands alone amongst the others sitting next to it at the record store. [...]

Fucked Up Fucked Up jumped on the recent trend of playing an album from start-to-finish last night in Brooklyn. The group performed their break-through album The Chemistry of Common Life , but of course Fucked Up were not going to just make [...]

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Fucked Up's New York shows always seem to coincide with historic American days: Inauguration Day 2008, the only time in recorded history when Ezra Koenig publicly covered the Descendents, and n... Continue reading "Photos: Fucked Up at the Masonic Temple, with Andrew WK on Keyboards" >

("Golden Seal" & "Days of Last" w/Andrew W.K.) Since releasing The Chemistry of Common Life last year, Fucked Up have been one of the most consistently played bands on my iPod. Their music gets to me and turns me into something of a maniac as soon as the first gut wrenching wail rips through my ears. It has led me to see the band a couple of times already and each time I walk away from their shows knowing I have just witnessed a band that [...]

("My Time Outside the Womb") So apparently Titus Andronicus have changed a lot since the last time I saw them. Before they were a five piece band that had a shit ton of energy to unleash on their fans. The sound was at times flawed, but it was also full with three guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer unleashing the fury of their songs on our heads. This time out they had scaled back to a four piece, with Patrick Stickles still at the head of things, Peter Feigenbaum of [...]