Local duo KNTRLR (featuring Mike Henry and Charles Emerson) is wonderfully schizophrenic.  Their songs are like a road trip from your acid dreams, winding and curving through an eerie suburbia that soon gives way to a hushed, melodic forest, its trees swaying their long limbs as if they're waving at you.  It's pleasant and strange and just when you've been lulled, their trunks suddenly open up and engulf your car, swallow it down then spit it out on a grungy, graffitied street with misunderstood children singing on the sidewalks.

Click HERE to read more about KNTRLR and The Bicycle Boys, and to listen to their new tunes! 

PROGRAM FOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH

7:30 pm – Reception with The Literary Review

8:45 pm – Introduction with Emcee Jen Werner, followed by The Brooklyn Players Reading Society (BPRS performance excerpts taken from “Buenas Tardes Amigo” by Ween, “Sibling Fugitives Caught in Colorado” by The Associated Press, House of Breath by William Goyen, Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin and “The Chameleon” by David Grann from The New Yorker)

9:00 pm – A Reading with Rene Steinke

9:45 pm – A Poetry Break with Special Guest Craig Teicher

10:00 pm – Octant (feat. Matt Steinke)

11:00 pm – Gonul and What Army  

7:30 pm – Reception with The Literary Review

8:45 pm – Introduction with Emcee Jen Werner, followed by The Brooklyn Players Reading Society (BPRS performance excerpts taken from “Buenas Tardes Amigo” by Ween, “Sibling Fugitives Caught in Colorado” by The Associated Press, House of Breath by William Goyen, Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin and “The Chameleon” by David Grann from The New Yorker)

9:00 pm – A Reading with Rene Stienke

9:45 pm – A Poetry Break with special guest Craig Teicher

10:00 pm – Octant (feat. Matt Stienke)

11:00 pm – Gonul and What Army  

This is a NO COVER show but please bring a book for ReadThis, a local, volunteer-based organization that raises money and books for schools in need.  And don't forget to switch your clocks!

Pete’s Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Free parking is available on the street or take the L/G to Lorimer/Metropolitan Avenue - map.  FB Event Page here.  More info on this show and the series at http://readinnrhythm.com.

The Literary Review will be gettin' the party goin' with a reception before the show.  Raffles, giveaways and great literature?  Definitely a winning combination.  Join us at 7:30 pm in the front room then move on back for the 8:30 entertainment.  Oh, and if you’re broke after CMJ and Halloween, no biggie – it’s free!  However, every RNR event serves as a book drive for local organization ReadThis, so please bring any gently used books you have for preschoolers through high schoolers.  It may sound cheesy but we need to spread the love of art to our young ones – our government sure as hell isn’t!  Join the party and RSVP on our Facebook Event.  More info on this show and the series can be found on our website.

Details
When: Sunday, November 6th, Reception at 7:30, Show at 8:30 
Where: Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn - map
Who: Rene Stienke, Octant, Gonul and What Army and more
Why: Because we all need a little more literature and music in our lives

Awesome poster designed by Jonathan Walsh.

Opening up the night at the revered and infamous Glasslands Gallery down on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn, we have some fresh sounds for you. A true underground show and bound to be reelin' and rockin'

In One Wind - One of those multi-textual indie sounds, drawing as much inspiration from Arcade Fire as old folk ballads. For a new band, they have been receiving some favorable press from around the spectrum.

Noble Laureate - fresh band in what appears to be their first show. With weathered musicians from around the block, expect nothing short of sensational. (see below for sample) 

Uncles - play sort of a country twang with a punk attitude much like a sadder yet ironic Cake. Judging by their lyrics, seem like they know how to throw a good party.

The Due Diligence - A real party band. Classic rock with a new, raw attitude.

Demon by NOBLE LAUREATE

6:00 Courtesy Tier @ Party expo 

7:00 Wicked Tomorrow @ Littlefields (Free Beer)

8:10 Pujols @ Santos Party House  (Free)

9:00 Kntrlr @ Party expo (?)

9:15 The Yes Way @ Spike Hill ($5)

10:00 Odd Future @ Terminal 5 (Sold Out) 

10:30 King Charles @ Fontana's ($10)

11:00 The Press @ Party expo (?)

11:30 A Place to Bury Strangers @ Union Pool ($12)

12:15 The Wicked Tomorrow @ Spike Hill ($5)

1:00 Japanther @ Cameo Gallery ($8)

#1. The Wicked Tomorrow @ White Noise with sami.the.great, The Courtesy Tier and more. Acoustic sets all around. FREE and open bar at 6:30. Wicked Tomorrow are Black Angels or B.R.M.C. or Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - sleek city rock. Seeing them do an acoustic could be interesting. Here's a brand new single you can download for free or donate however much you'd like to the band.

#2. Black Taxi @ the Studio at Webster Hall - The Taxis play some pretty dance heavy rock, like a young, 1980's Rolling Stones. 

#3. Wild Flag @ Bowery Ballroom - One of the new Pitchfork, NPR indie, girl group sensations. Most popular choice if you're into that sort of thing.

by Sam Houghton

Classic rock is done, over with, washed-up and so over played that its lifeless corpse has been seen gasping for air in the desert like a sucked through raisin. It has become a nostalgic trip destined to plague the cover of the nostalgia tripping Rolling Stone Magazine until Bono finally gets hit by a bus. Unless of course you haven’t listened to new music. In that case, classic rock is fine – music to fill the void… music to get numb and dumb to. There are still plenty of folk out there who have not had the opportunity and still think U2 is inspiring music. And if you are one of those folk, I am jealous for it must take a great skill to be so ignorant and blissful… but if you’re tired with bliss, new music is out there. It makes you feel good and fresh and one with the young folk around you, which is doubly more inspiring than a billionaire in cheesy sunglasses.

For those curious and still stuck in the past, I suggest you check out Left Lane Cruiser and their new albumJunkyard Speedball [Alive Records – 2011]. Their blues inspired, angry hobo rock will help ease you into this realm of new music. Junkyard Speedball is the third from the Cruisers, produced by Jim Diamond. This is an Alive Naturalsound Record’s classic: barebones, backwoodsy, pure bad ass rock and roll.

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Zach Condon's left arm could have a lot to do with Beirut's non-traditional indie-rock sound. 

The band's lead singer, according to an interview with Treble Magazine, had an accident during childhood that caused his left arm to be an inch shorter than his right, making guitar very difficult to play. Naturally, he stopped guitaring and turned instead to less traditional instruments: ukuleles; accordions; trumpets; euphoniums and flugelhorns, mastered them, and thus creating Beirut's unique sound. Accident or not, it works. 

So, is their new album, The Rip Tide [Pompeii Records – ‘11], true to their eclectic, folky sound? Original, unique, fresh sounds often seem to fizzle out after a couple of albums and reluctantly settle into the category of the bland and mundane. But what about Mr. Condon and his short left arm?

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