We are beyond excited to share Bushwick Daily’s first ever video short- aptly entitled “A Night in Bushwick.” We take you for a Friday Night tour of our industrial, artistic, eclectic and ultimately unique neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn. The night included Kittens, Art Galleries, Tacos, House Parties, Indie Music, Dancing & Drinking.

We got our art fix at Sardine Gallery and cruised by Storefront Bushwick. We stuffed our faces at Taquera El Fagon. We visited musician & BD contributor Ana Lola Roman for a house party and some palm reading at 95 Knickerbocker Ave. We then flew over to Living Bread Deli to catch Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls and chat with the boss of Bushwick’s DIY scene-Todd P. Finally, we found ourselves dizzily ending the night outside Bushwick Borders, taking shots and seeing The Can’t Tells at Delinquency. What a NIGHT. Watch the video to see full, blissful, Bushwick insanity.

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By Katarina Hybenova

Music show bookers in Bushwick are certainly not taking a summer break. To the contrary, the bands are playing everywhere: on a roof, in a storage, in a backyard, in a loft and more!

This is Eula, a Bushwick band who played on many roofs this summer.

Check out our 6 picks for this week:

 #1 Your Warehouse Experience: Spice Hound Music Co. @ 338 Moffat St (Friday, 8PM-2AM)

Spice Hound Music Co. is releasing a CD! To celebrate this occasion they will play a show at a warehouse at 338 Moffat Street off Wilson L. They invited The Hybrid Movement Company acrobats, The End Men, Cave Days and The Sewing Machine War to help them entertain the crowd!

#2 Your Decadent Experience: Vice Aeriel and Variety Show @ House of Yes (Thursday, 8PM)

Is there anybody cooler than aerialists? Maybe really good magicians… Or decadent dancers. Either way, all of these performers will be providing for your decadent experience this Thursday at The House of Yes. Tix are 10 bucs a piece and are sold exclusively at the door.

#3 Your DIY Venue Experience: Ghost Beach, Starlight Girls, Tiny Victories, Neighbors @ Deliquency (Friday, 9PM)

Yes, you’ve heard it from us, but REALLY… Go to Delinquency. The place is great, the bands are amazing, they have FREE BOOZE all night. Do I have to add anything else? All they are suggesting is a donation of $10.

#4 Your Rooftop Experience: Rooftop Show @ 1085 Willoughby (Saturday, 5PM)

A bunch of folks from 1085 Willoughby are inviting you to another show on their roof. They are starting at 5PM, and will be grilling, chilling, listening to bands (The Initials, Garage Sail) and enjoying some improv (Mike Green, Scott Townsend and Randy Riback, Pushups, Teen Demon). They are saying you should BYOB and BYOM (meat for grill), otherwise the event is free, organized simply for the love of roofs and fun!

#5 Your Storage Experience: Breakout Sessions V @ Cheap Storage (Saturday, 8PM-2AM)

Do you know the Cheap Storage building on Wyckoff Ave right off Jefferson L? Yes, that one. Go there and experience some storage awesomeness with Avan Lavan, Osekre and The Lucky Bastards, Gunfight!, Life Size Maps, Gypsy Wig and DJ Collective Wc Kids. Tix are $7 in advance or $10 at the door. The 60 minutes between 8PM and 9PM is fully dedicated to free beer drinking, so come early!

 #6 Your Industrial View Experience: Peter Murphy @ The Well (Sunday, 5PM)

English rock singer Peter Murphy who used to be in bands such as Bau Haus or Dalis Car is coming to Bushwick. Yes. It is true. Come to The Well on Sunday at 5PM. $25 to let you in.

By Katarina Hybenova

I know that you’ve been waiting for it but hey, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Here are really good things to do this weekend. (Also note, dear reader, that whichever of these events you decide to attend, nothing is better than Bushwick life’s serendipity. Like yesterday, I was biking down St. Nicholas and what did I see? A dude taking out his two dogs and a giant yellow snake. You probably saw the picture on our Facebook page yesterday but it’s hard not to repost, as you can imagine. I am declaring this encounter the craziest event in Bushwick this week!)

#1 Preview Party @ Deliquency (Saturday, 8pm)

We are not hiding that we are very excited about new music venue in Bushwick, Deliquency. But what’s even better is that Deliquency is not officially open, and yet they throw a preview party here and there. This Saturday they are having cool bands performing (Chappo, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, Alaskas, It Is Rain In My Face) and free bourbon and vodka all night long. I mean is there a better deal for $8 suggested to get in?

#2 Slaughterhouse, Freeway, Pharoahe Monch, DJ Soul @ The Well (Friday, 6-10pm)

The fabulous new Bushwick pride music venue The Well is hosting its second show this Saturday. Unlike Deliquency’s show, The Well’s event is not a cheap one, but you’re paying for high-end fun with the best of the best in the music world. Slaughterhouse, Freeway, Pharoahe Monch, DJ Soul and a beautiful view over industrial Bushwick will cost you $25.

#3 Human Relations Bookstore Party (Saturday, noon to 9pm)

Bushwick welcomed Molasses Books, the first bookstore in Bushwick with LOTSA love! Now the celebration continues because the owners of Book Thug Nation in Willyburg are opening a Bushwick outpost at Flushing Ave. And they will be celebrating the whole day on Saturday. Stop by and have fun!

#4 Closing for Cassius Fouler: Four Borough @ Weldon Arts (Saturday, 3-7pm)

Cassius Fouler is a really cool artist, and if you missed his show at Weldon Arts, a new Bushwick gallery on Irving Ave, you should definitely drop by this Saturday. If you didn’t miss it, drop by anyways - they are serving complimentary cocktails!

#5 Closing Brunch for Pressing Matter @ Parallel Art Space (Sunday, 1-6pm)

Pressing Matter is a very nice, small group show featuring Judith Braun, Antonia Perez, and Hilda Shen. As is a very good tradition at Parallel Art Space, they close their shows with a promise of a little food, which is always nice. We’ll be there!

By Katarina Hybenova

The look at the weekly events in Bushwick, Ridgewood and East Williamsburg has to warm one’s heart. There are SO many great events this week! I am glad I can tell you already on Wednesday to save your energy for Saturday because a lucky coincidence has it that there are at least six fantastic events that ought to be attended and enjoyed by all the Bushwickians! We will party in the streets, drink lotsa beer, listen to good music and meet many great people. Who knows, maybe we will even party naked…

#1 Breakout Sessions Music Fest @ DeliquencyNYC (Saturday 3pm-1am)

MANY cases of sleepless nights have been reported in Bushwick since we published our awesome preview of new DIY music venue, Deliquency. Yes, we want to go as badly as you. This Saturday, Deliquency is opening their doors for the first time to the public, already at 3pm with a super-fun line up of bands (Grand Rapids, The Yellow Dogs, Dust Engineers, Lost Boy?, Murals, Roadside Graves, Bambara, Gunfight!, Osekre & The Lucky Bastards, Red Bedlam. Additionally, Brooklyn Brewery sponsored two open bar sessions – at 3-5pm and 9-11pm! The event is donation-based ($10 advance/ $12 door is a suggested donation).

#2 Roberta’s Block Party (Saturday at 3pm)

Of course you can’t miss Roberta’s Block Party. There will be concerts (Your Youth, Iyez, Naam, Soft Spot, Gang Signs, Wild Yaks, MC Todd Experience, Heems from Das Racist, headliner Andrew W.K & more), delicious food,  Tiki Disco, free suspicious mole screenings done by Dr. Bobby Buka AND so much more we had to write a separate article about it.

#3 Bring Yourself @ Small Black Door (Saturday, 5pm)

We haven’t heard from Small Black Door in a couple of months, and yes, we missed it! This cool DIY gallery in Ridgewood has now prepared a gathering of its friends and invited them to …bring themselves. Yes, this luck-of-the-draw cum art-swap invites you to bring in something, preferably hand-made, reminiscent of your practice and spirit and leave with a piece of someone else’s. Our favorite DJ and a Bushwick Daily Radio host jojoSOUL will be spinning some of his summer finest. Don’t miss it!

#4 Bushwick/Ridgewood Flea Market @ Onderdonk House (Saturday, 11-4pm)

Charming, old Dutch farm house, surrealistically located between the warehouses of Flushing Ave, is inviting everyone to their Flea Market. Over 55 vendors, hot food, cool people and live music sound like a lot of fun. Park on the street or on the fence if you come biking.

#5 Brooklyn Based Pub Crawl – The Total Bushwick Immersion

One of our favorite Brooklyn blogs, Brooklyn Based is organizing a self-guided pub crawl in our lovely pigeon town. The fellow bloggers are promising rivers of FREE Brooklyn Summer Ale and some Instagram fun! But! The trick is to come out at noon, which let’s face it, might be a problem on a Saturday Than grab a lucky drinking card (quickly, because they only have 500 of them) at Tradesman or Pine Box Rock Shop. With a card like that you can drink at selected Bushwick bars until the supply lasts. At 4pm everyone is invited to Tandem for an afterparty with $3 beers. Thank you Brooklyn Based for keeping us nice and mellow (aka drunk on Brooklyn Summer Ale) since early morning

#6 OS Mutantes @ The Well is CANCELLED
The second show at a gigantic awesome music venue The Well has been cancelled due to the illness of the artist. We hope that the Brazillian rock legends will get better soon, but also we’re kinda thankful we can go see them some other day.

By Maria Gotay

New venues are popping up all over Bushwick with the influx of people the quickly-flourishing art and music scene. These new hot spots fall (for the most part) into two predictable catagories: fleeting-but-trendy DIY spots and highly-anticipated big, sleek, well-funded spots. There are the legendary DIY venues that live in creaky, old dingy apartment/mansions like the ever-ellusive Market Hotel (scheduled to re-open one of these days…) and Fort Useless. Then there are new refurbished spaces that hook a DIY approach onto their belt-clip when hosting shows, from Chinese Buffets (KK’s Super Buffet) and Storage Units (Cheap Storage) to Party Stores (Party Xpo / Expo 929), but have yet to make a name for themselves with multiple hit shows or permits that allow them to operate on a regular scedule.

It’s a unique market to be opening a new venue into, and the rumors about sleek, new additions are flying. The Morgan is an example of one of the talked-about, fancy new spots whose music scene was promising (especially when Jelly moved their summertime concerts to their ‘Rock Yard’) but ended up falling on its face. I mean, really, when was the last good show at The Morgan? We’ve all heard about The Wick, an enormous factory-turned-venue-and-beer-garden that is still a mystery in the works but is said to have an indoor capacity of over 700. They haven’t spilled the booker(s) they will employ but you can be assured this is going to host big name shows. Then there will be a beautiful warehouse space called Delinquency on Grand and Morgan where booking will be done by hard-working and promotional guru David Teller of Birddog Promo (stay tuned for exclusive details on this spot!).

But, these fancy newer additions and dinky one-hit-wonder DIY spaces are not all this article is about! We’re here to list the 5 most classic tried-and-true Bushwick Venues- some of them still new, some with a new facelift, others the same gaudy storefronts since the day they opened. One thing all concert-goers can agree on (despite what they might have to say about Bushick’s newer venue options)- they feature great music, and that’s what a venue is all about.

5. Don Pedro’s- 90 Manhattan Ave.

Don Pedro, the “Casa of Rock” tends to be overlooked because it is primarily a restaurant that converts one of its (very large!) rooms into a venue for concerts on occasion. But, those occasions are good ones for music of all genres! They host feel good music on a spacious elevated stage that could easily start hosting big names again (they once hosted Vivian Girls!) once they get their act together. Performing here is a joy for musicians with the great PA system and stage. Plus the shows here are always affordable or free, so you can spend those extra bucks on savory Mexican food.

4. Goodbye Blue Monday - 1087 Broadway

This intimate coffee-shop-by-day takes on a whole different ambience by night. You’ll always recognize a photo taken inside this space because of the intricate and colorful stage set up or the cluttered outdoor performance space, which is jammed with vintage toys and other weird memorabilia. GBM is the kind of place where you’ll see your friend’s band play an enjoyable and memorable set to a quaint and attentive crowd. Classic.

3. Big Snow Buffalo Lodge - 78 Varet St

Ok, yes, this is very much a new DIY space, but it’s made a name for itself as one of the best venues to open in Bushwick, EVER. With almost nightly shows, really impressive line-ups, and a unqiue art interior, Big Snow has filled a gap in the Brooklyn music scene. That gap overfloweth with Big Snow’s good qualities- affordable, unpretentious, laid back, friendly, and on top of that a fantastic sound system.

2. Brooklyn Fire Proof - 119 Ingraham St