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myopenbar.com for booze
artcards.cc for openings
Theskint.com not all free, but mostly



Recommended art stuff
Most, but not all galleries are closed Sunday and Monday and usually open 11-6
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Check with artcards.cc for openings, chelseaartgalleries.com for shows...
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ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION
@ FRONT SPACE
EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR YOUR OWN GOOD
Curated by Fan-en Zoe Chiu
Artist by Hai-hsin Huang
February 4 – February 26, 2011
FRONT SPACE IS LOCATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR IN THE LOBBY SPACE OF 555 BROADWAY
ISE Cultural Foundation
555 Broadway, New York, NY 10012





Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Copycat, a night of cover songs presents
A Tribute to Dusty Springfield
Dj Xerox spins crazy covers and rocking remixes of all the
hits (rock, indie, old wave and new)
PLUS Live music acts in the back room. Some
of your favorite artists play cover versions of their favorite songs.
Tonights bands
Amour Obscur
The Vondells
$5 Live it up Cocktails all night!
NO COVER
Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday!
at Ottos Shrunken Head, 538 East 14 Street, Near avenue B
10 pm to 4 am
L Train to First Avenue
Copycatnyc.com


Thursday, February 24, 2011
WANDA JACKSON, the queen of rockabilly at The Bowery Ballroom

Friday, February 25, 2011
Friday, February 25 at 9:00pm
Fontana's Bar
105 Eldridge St
New York, NY
12:45am Pure Hell
11:45pm Victims
11:00pm The Dirty Shames
10:15pm The Rats
9:30pm The Dead Tricks
21+
$10
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at the bell house
FRI 2/25: 8 p.m. / $15
LOS STRAITJACKETS ROCK'N'BURLESQUE SPECTACULAR at the bellhouse
STARRING THE WORLD FAMOUS PONTANI SISTERS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS MISS SATURN & RUBY VALENTINE
Boston's Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents bring updated girl group sounds to the stage to round out a fantastic evening!






Saturday, February 26, 2011
at the bell house in gowanus
SAT 2/26: 8 p.m. / $15 adv./$20 d.o.s.
THE JOHNNY CASH 80TH BIRTHDAY BASH FEATURING
ALEX BATTLES & THE WHISKY REBELLION
PLUS CLASSIC CASH FILMS FROM ARCHIVIST CLINTON MCLUNG
Sold out every year since 2005, The Johnny Cash Birthday Bash is New York City's annual celebration of the Man in Black. The show stars Brooklyn songwriter Alex Battles and his band The Whisky Rebellion playing a barn-raising set of Cash hits and rarities. Each year archivist Clinton McClung contributes a new selection of rare Cash television and film performances. The show opens with a set of Battles' original tunes. "Brilliant. Lowbrow. Country crooner Alex Battles' Johnny Cash Birthday Bash." - New York Magazine Alex Battles grew up listening to the music of Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in Ohio. He started writing songs in the classic style of his idols after moving to New York City. In 2004, he founded both the Brooklyn Country Music Festival to showcase local songwriters and the CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree to keep the music of country music's golden age burning brightly. Battles also teaches songwriting at The Jalopy School of Music
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SLIDELUCK Bushwick
Saturday, February 26, 2011
7:30 pm Chili & Beers // 9 pm Slideshow
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
$10 at the Door includes Chili, Beer & Slideshow
Mix together food, people, ideas, friends, industries and cultures, and what do you get?
Slideluck Potshow is a unique and magical night that has toured over 40 cities around the world. This session, Slideluck is coming to our turf with an old-fashioned Chili cook-off and beers from Brooklyn Brewery.
Come break bread and spark an unexpected conversation. The evening begins with mingling and dining, then the lights dim, the crowd is hushed, and a spectacular and surprising slideshow commences.
RSVP at www.3rdward.com/RSVP
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Dig Deeper with Willie West and the Sweet Divines!
Saturday, February 26 at 9:00pm
Location Southpaw
125 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
DJ Honky & Mr. Robinson present: Dig Deeper @ Southpaw with Willie West! First Ever NYC Show!
Tickets available on Ticketweb: http://tinyurl.com/west-digdeeper
$10 adv / $15 doors
...PLEASE NOTE EARLY START TIME! Willie West will be on stage at 10:30pm!
Willie West is why we started Dig Deeper. An artist who - back in the 1960s and 1970s recorded a stack of incredible records - but had the misfortune to be released on labels which couldn't or didn't promote them, in Willie's case because they all ended up folding. Only with the passage of time can we rewrite the history of soul music and find those records which were great musically - not those which happened to have the most marketing dollars behind them.
February 26's Dig Deeper at Southpaw will be New Orleans soul legend Willie West's very first show ever in NYC performing his own music. His first should have been some 40 years ago at the Apollo Theatre - but somehow, Lee Dorsey stayed on stage (with Willie's band!) a little too long, and New York never got to hear a note. Willie was back in New York in the late 1970s lending vocals to the Meters, playing some of their classic material at an outdoor festival - but not a note of his own.
Willie West has given us an incredible legacy of soul - from the blazing R&B of "Willie knows how", to a seemingly endless list of aching deep soul ballads like "Don't be ashamed to cry", to the Allen Toussaint-arranged & produced acoustic funk bomb "Fairchild" which fairly drips with the echoes of New Orleans (and likely features the Meters as the uncredited session musicians).
Dig Deeper is ecstatic to present Willie West's first show in NYC, backed by the Sweet Divines, who will also be opening the night with their own set.
Rough schedule:
- 9pm Doors
- 9:30pm Sweet Divines
- DJ Honky, Mr. Robinson spin 45s
- 10:30pm Willie West!
- rest of the night - DJ Honky, Mr. Robinson DJ for the dancefloor!
Southpaw
125 Fifth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
2, 3 to Bergen
B, Q to 7th Ave.See More
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Free at Ottos
THEE MIDNITE MONSTER HOP-Last Sat. of every month
MIKE MORTICIAN spins the rockabilly voodoo & rhythm'n'ooze from 10pm to oblivion! With some of the most incredible, Psycho-Rock-a-Billy bands performing from all over the world!
It's THEE MIDNITE MONSTER HOP at Otto's Shrunken Head! Featuring...
THE ARKHAMS (rockabilly)
www.myspace.com/thearkhams
TRI-STATE CONSPIRACY (punk swing, ska, rockabilly, and blues)
www.myspace.com/tristateconspiracy
www.ottosshrunkenhead.com
Free@ Ottos!!!!!!!
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rare that I have a listing for secacus
ART & SOUL (Feast Your Eyes & Shake Your Ass)
Saturday, February 26 at 8:00pm - February 27 at 1:00am
BARDOT HEIGHTS
201 Secaucus Road
Secaucus, NJ
COME ON OUT FOR AN EVENING OF ART, MUSIC, DRINKS AND DANCING!!
4 ARTISTS!
rLoARt - Paintings/Mixed Media (http://www.rLoArt.com/)
Todd S. Carpenter - Paintings and Drawings (http://artbytsc.com/)
RETEP - Paintings/Mixed Media (http://petermoscaritolo.webs.com/)
Kyle Lewthwaite - Photography (http://lewkyle.zenfolio.com/)
Live Performance by Nouvellas! (http://www.nouvellas.com/)
Sensational sounds also Provided by Jaime and Leah of the Nouvellas, who will be DJing the whole affair!
$10 at the Door
$7 with a copy of the Flier
$5 if you RSVP "ATTENDING" BEFORE 2/18!!! (your name goes on the VIP list)on the facebook page
SEE YOU THERE!!!
21 AND OVER ONLY!!! (WITH ID OF COURSE)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195851567094060




Sunday, February 27, 2011
at brooklyn bowl
DJ Uncle Mike and Brooklyn Bowl Present::
Collect-I-Bowl Record Show
The Return of Vinyl
Brooklyn Bowl
Sun, February 27, 2011
Doors: 12:00 PM / Show: 12:00 PM
FREE
This event is All Ages