Bushwick Daily Radio is expanding!

In April, we began live broatcasting in collaboration with DJ jojoSoul, which has evolved into a weekly broadcast called Live at Five featuring an eclectic mix of obscure tracks and talk.

This month we are launching two new shows: a culture based talk/interview show with Sean Alday called 30 Spokes and Slow Churned, an Indie Music Show hosted by our music editor Maria Gotay. Our radio runs on mixlr, which is an awesome new website making it really easy to broadcast. Also, it allows the listeners to directly interact with the radio hosts via chat, and ask questions or requests songs.  If you miss a show, you can listen to it in the showreel.

BUT our greatest pleasure is to announce that we are crowd sourcing our radio programming. We want to hear your show, your ideas on Bushwick Daily Radio. We want to hear about what interests you, what do you think people need to hear about. Is it local news? Do you want to interact with people about the issues facing the community? Does your venue have live events that should be heard by those who can’t make it? Do you possess an extensive knowledge of the local music scene? Or poetry readings? What about a lullaby hour? Or maybe you’re Bushwick’s answer to Martha Stewart?

Contact us. We want to put the voices of the community on the air.

Anyone can hear it from around the world. Tres Brooklyn!

Learn More. Pitch Your Idea. Create A Show.

Contact us at radio@bushwickdaily.com

Event though Bushwick scruffiness is lovable, sometimes it’s nice to get all fancy. And if it’s for a good cause, than there is even more of a reason. On Monday night, supporters of Norte Maar from Bushwick and elsewhere, all gathered at Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery in Chelsea for a benefit night of this Bushwick-based non-profit organization. The night honored Julie Martin of E.A.T. who was introduced by a noted curator Barbara London. After Julie Martin received an award made by Bushwick sculptor Ben Godward, we enjoyed David Tudor’s Rainforest I performed by Composers Inside Electronics, and a preview of Norte Maar’s upcoming ballet The Brodmann Areas.  The evening was simply lovely, even outside of our beloved pigeon town, and as it is unclear when we will be able to witness Bushwick artists in fancy attire again, here is a little photo documentation of the special occasion….

Jason Andrew, director of Norte Maar in a discussion with Austin Thomas of Pocket Utopia on who looks fancier.

Ryan Ford with his lovely wife-to-be, Kristin Black.

Meg Lipke, co-owner of Bushwick restaurant Northeast Kingdom, all fancy.

Ben Sutton of Art Info, all fancy and shining.

Ballet in action.

From left: Kevin Curran, James Panero and lovely Amy Lincoln.

Beautiful Bushwick artist couple, Kevin Curran and Amy Lincoln.

Meg Lipke, co-owner of Bushwick restaurant Northeast Kingdom, all fancy.

Hrag Vartanian, editor of Hyperallergic, pulling it off.

Men in black.

Cute couple, Jojo Soul of Bushwick Daily and his lovely wife Bliss.

Cool!

Natalie Simon reaching into her purse oh so fashionably.

Veken Gueyikian, Brece Honeycutt and Annelie McGavin

President of Norte Maar, choreographer Julia Gleich.

Ida Josephsson, from Sweden to Bushwick

This week’s mixtape is focused on Emotional Depth.  These 20 tracks are personal favorites that I’ve assembled to share a more intimate scope of my own tastes beyond the dancefloor.  I have cried, reflected, sang along, and sat alone to these tracks, and their impact grows as time goes on.  Some I have heard for years, though didn’t take an interest in until I really discovered their true beauty.

As music is interpreted by the listener, I’ve found myself relating to these emotions and have empathized with their words and sounds beyond their popularity or their assumed audience.  For example, the first track is a song I’ve known for a long time, but only in the past few years did I hear it differently.  It made so much sense to me once I took its message and applied it to myself as the narrative, although the singer in this case is a woman.  That is the essence of my intention here.  I hope to push these songs across our comfortable understandings and into the areas we may keep more guarded, more intimate.  To have a song possess the listener’s deepest emotions transcends any self-identification and provides a glimpse of our souls that doesn’t care whether we are men or women, gay or straight, old or young, etc.  And in seeking these lessons that are hidden in the areas of our minds that we guard and limit due to feelings of inhibition, we open ourselves up to true freedom and emotions that were never supposed to be hidden.

The mixtape contains:

Sheryl Crow- Strong Enough
John Hiatt- Have a Little Faith In Me
Benny Mardones- Into the Night
The Cars- Drive
Heart- Alone
Bruce Springsteen- I’m On Fire
Lionel Richie- Do It To Me
Bill Withers- Just the Two of Us
Sting- If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
Tina Turner- What’s Love Got to Do With It
Simply Red- Sunrise 2003
Phil Collins- Something Happened On the Way to Heaven
Fleetwood Mac- Everywhere
Talking Heads- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Bonnie Raitt- I Can’t Make You Love Me
Aimee Mann- Wise Up
Mario Spinetti- When You Say My Name
Breathe- Sweet Caress
Eddie Money- Take Me Home Tonight
Magnet & Gemma Hayes- Lay Lady Lay

It seems like the spring has reached our beloved pigeon town prematurely; and even though it might feel confusing at times (“are we reading and baking cookies or are we partying and celebrating spring?”), it doesn’t really feel bad. The events in Bushwick this week are all pretty awesome, and here are the 5 coolest according to Bushwick Daily….

#1 Mushroom Universe (Art Opening + 90s Dance Party) @ 950 Hart //Friday 7-10PM

BushwickGallery.com is our sister project, and the 1st Internet-based art space in Bushwick focusing on endorsing emerging artists, and using the power of the Internet to introduce the art from Bushwick area to the young people all around the world. The December launch of the project featuring four brilliant artists (Julie Torres, Eric Trosko, Nate Anspaugh and Over Under) has been super-successful! We made it to the Top 5 New Brooklyn galleries of 2011 according to The L Magazine, got some praise from ARTINFO, completely sold out Julie Torres pieces, and last but not least had a supercool opening party at Paper Swan Loft that was widely attended and remembered long after. This all gave us a lot of motivation for the second show and for its offline opening! This times BushwickGallery.com has teamed up with 950 Hart Gallery, a new Bushwick art space with a great chill vibe located in a duplex loft right off the Dekalb L stop.

Together, 950 Hart and BushwickGallery.com are bringing you an offline pop up art opening of Mushroom Universe.

‘Mushroom Universe’ takes a tour through the spotty memories, bringing forward the perceptions, images, shapes and colors of the lavish decade of the 90s. Mushroom Universe is a celebration of this subconscious but overt return to the cultural references, symbols, and colors of the 1990′s in the works of Andrea Bergart, Matthew Mahler and Ken Kocses.

On February 10, from 7 to 10pm, you have a unique chance to see the physical art from Mushroom Universe, and to meet the artists, totally offline…Also DJ Jojo Soul will be spinning 90s music, and 90s outfits are totally encouraged.

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#2 Reptar, Fort Lean, Tiny Victories, and Casual Curious @ Shea Stadium //Monday 8-11PM

It hasn’t been too long since we convinced our crush on Bushwick band Fort Lean. With a Bushwick-based duo Tiny Victories we are openly madly in love. Casual Curious are pretty cool as well. This combination of bands doesn’t leave us with anything else that to absolutely recommend stopping by Shea Stadium tonight for a dance! Music will be rad!

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#3 Status Update @ Vaudeville Park //Thursday 7-9PM

Vaudeville Park presents a really interesting social media-related art show on Thursday. Artists Adam Eckstrom, Bonnie Pipkin, Jen Rodewald, Brina Thurston, and Ian Umlauf used their photography to tell diverse stories about their lives, interests and creative spheres on their Facebook pages.  When removed from their original context the images stand on their own as autonomous works of art with strong narrative and emotional content. The arrays of images document their way of thinking and moving through the real world, while playing with the mechanisms of the social media platform.

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#4 Bushwick Movie Night @ Tandem //Tuesday 9PM

A popular bar Tandem is presenting their second of movie night on Tuesday night. They will be screening Bridesmaids! Do we need to say more?

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#5 We Are Cinema: 50 Years of Film-Makers’ Co-op Exhibit & Screenings @ Microscope Gallery //Saturday 7-9PM

We Are Cinema is a month-long exhibit and screening series celebrating 50 years of the Film-Makers’ Co-op in NYC. It was in January of 1962 that filmmaker Jonas Mekas called an urgent meeting of about 20 avant-garde/independent filmmakers including Stan Vanderbeek, Rudy Burckhardt, Jack Smith, Ken Jacobs, and Gregory Markopoulos to discuss taking the means of exhibition and distribution into their own hands. Within months the Film-Makers’ Co-op was born. Under the stewardship of filmmaker MM Serra since 1991, the organization is now the oldest and largest artist-run cooperative in the world and membership continues to be open to anyone with a film or video work.

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