Being a people person: It’s not for everyone! (photo by Maria Gotay for Bushwick Daily)

Premier Bushwick DIY venue Silent Barn is looking for some goodwill-capable community-minded souls to assist with a couple of projects they have in the works, and if you like the local music scene and have experience being pleasant with strangers, that could mean YOU!

Here’s the email that we received from the Barn Folk. Contact info is at the bottom. Drop them a line and make this stuff happen!

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Last Saturday, aka the  Bushwick day to end all Bushwick days (Bushwick Immersion Day, Roberta’s Block Party), Deliquency also partied hard, hosting an awesome line-up of bands curated by Aputumpu, BirdDog Promo, and The Dust Engineers . Though the venue is brand spanking new and not officially open for business, they are hosting occasional BYOB shows, including one upcoming awesome lineup with Starlight Girls and Tiny Victories (both bands we love, and have posted about) on August 24th.

We’ve all heard of BirdDog, who throw the raddest parties in Bushwick, but what is Apumptu, you ask? According to their website, the organization “Is a new archive that tracks and profiles rising bands in Brooklyn and beyond. The Aputumpu blog/events/showcases/festivals will feature and celebrate the work of rising bands who are on the verge of greatness.” Pretty apt description; their website acts as a straightforward blog and music shoveler, bringing hot new bands based in Brooklyn and beyond to the surface of the sometimes unreadable, overhyped music-blog scene.  They host occasional showcases around the city and  at venues like Shea Stadium Bushwick. They also did a very impressive 5-day festival in March spanning across different venues, featuring the likes of band Japanther, Radical Dads, and the So So Glos. Awesome! Founder Osekre (below) was onhand and very enthusiastic.

This Aputumpu was a Breakout Session and featured an all day slew of awesome under-the-radar bands, featuring Grand Rapids, The Yellow Dogs, Dust Engineers,Lost Boy?, Murals, Roadside Graves, Bambara, Gunfight!, Osekre & The Lucky Bastards, Red Bedlam. And Delinquency hosted it all in great style, proving to be just as special a space as we thought it would be. It was absolutely packed, full of happy and friendly people, cohabitating happily with great music and the good energy of the space.

We’ll catch you at Aputumpu’s next showcase at Cheap Storage in Bushwick August 25th with an open bar. We’ll keep you posted with details!

By Maria Gotay

First of all, let me say Delinquency is BALLIN’. Yes, it may technically challenge Bushwick borders a (just east of Grand Street at Morgan Ave) but its industrial placement, smokestack-ed exterior, and ecclectic and artful interior will make it the perfect bike distance from our pigeon town. In the same industrial clump as successful DIY venues like Shea Stadium and House of Yes, Delinquency is a high-quality reinvention of the DIY space. Mid to late August is the projected opening time- and we’re waiting anxiously!

Funded by partners and best buds Julian Vigouroux, Stephen Saverence (smiling above) and Landon Webb (who all previously worked at Pianos on LES), the space was a brain project bringing together the music and drinks in an undeniably unique atmosphere. Exposed brick lines the main room, once a rectangle, now filled out by a hand-built wooden bar, a music venue in the back, two twin skylights, and a hundred pieces of found and collected furniture and furnishings. From murals to an enormous (10 feet tall) moon suspended from the ceiling and gumball machines, from polynesian-style woven chairs to 50s-style retro bar stools, Delinquency is a feast for your eyes.

The music venue area in the back was designed and built to be multi-purpose- for more intimate shows, a curving set of doors closes the area off from the bar.  For larger shows, the doors swing away to invite the entire bar space to enjoy the show.

BirdDog Promo‘s Dave Teller (who we are quite fond of, by the way) is the booker at the space and we can only expect the highest quality shows to go on here. A whole lot to look forward to, for foodies, musicians, music-lovers and people who just love cool new places.

Bonus! If you want to see BEFORE pics of the space, which was cool even when it was an empty warehouse, check out this article we wrote on a show there almost a year ago! How the times have changed.

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