$5 suggested donation. Doors at 2pm.  Bring your hungry bellies for Matchless's killer brunch (map here). See ya'll there!

If you missed the show, or loved it so much you can’t wait to relive all of its strange and beautiful moments, browse through our photos here and check out our recordings in The Jukebox, featuring house band The Brooklyn Players Reading Society, readers Barbara Froman and P.K. Harmon, musician Billy Gray and band Berth Control.  Check back later for a peek at Cory McAbee’s new project, Captain Ahab’s Motorcycle Club (pictured left).

Thanks again to our fans, our emcee Jen Werner, our incredibly talented performers, our visual artist Galen Pittman, our venue Bar Matchless, and our sponsors The Literary Review and Serving House Books for an amazing and awe-inspiring afternoon.  Can’t wait till the next one!

For those of you who love bloody mary's and bacon, Matchless serves a killer brunch from 11am - 4pm.  Let's eat, drink, read and sing our way through a sweet and silly Sunday afternoon.

While we aren't charging a formal cover, we do have a $5 suggested donation.  And don't forget, all Readin' N Rhythm events serve as a book drive for local organization ReadThis so please bring those dusty paperbacks along with you!  

HUGE THANKS to our amazing sponsors The Literary Review, Fairleigh Dickinson University's international literary magazine, and Serving House Books.  Bring some extra bucks along with you 'cause copies of Froman and Harmon's novels and TLR's most recent edition, Lives of the Saints, will be for sale.  Check out TLR's website for clips and more info, and sign up for their monthly mailing list "Read More" to have cutting edge literature delivered straight to your inbox.  

Readin' N Rhythm April Fools Matinee Details
When: Sunday, April 1st, 2pm-6pm
Where: Bar Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, 11222 - map)
Who: Barbara Froman, P.K. Harmon, Billy Gray, Berth Control and Cory McAbee with art by Galen Pittman
Why: 'Cause really, who doesn't need a Sunday afternoon filled with food, art and jokes?  You'll be back home in time for Mad Men, we promise.

By: David Fine-Firesheets

Check out Readin' N Rhythm's “Goings On Around Town” calendar for our personal highlights this February.  Multiple CD releases, zombies, demonic possession and quasi-intelligent robots abound.  It may be the springtime of our souls but it’s the long dark teatime of our obsessions.  Our pick of the month is Not Blood, Paint's CD release (pictured here at Spike Hill) at Collapsable Hole on the 25^th.  These guys put on a hell of a show on a regular basis - check them out tonight, Feb 10th, at the Bushwick Empire 1^st Annual Prohibition Party for an example - but they’ll be going all out for their release show.

Our jukebox features new tunes from local up-and-comer guitar virtuoso Ken Beasley and the impossible to label traveling band The Ragbirds.  Click here for more info on the bands, our calendar and our rockin' jukebox featuring other local greats.

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)