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10 Bands To Break Big at SXSW 2014

10 Bands To Break Big at SXSW 2014

By Loren Diblasi, Samantha Smerconish, and Maria Gotay

Friday First: Meet Me Incognito by The Bottom Dollars

Friday First: Meet Me Incognito by The Bottom Dollars

This week’s Friday First features the full-length album Meet Me In Cognito from co-presenters of our own The Holy Smokes Festival, the Bushwick-based bluesy rockers The Bottom Dollars

Bushwick Food Coop Hosts TEDxManhattan Viewing Party This Saturday!

Bushwick Food Coop Hosts TEDxManhattan Viewing Party This Saturday!

Bushwick Food Coop, as we’ve raved about on many occasions, is Bushwick’s definitive place to get fresh and high-quality produce, dry goods, meats and more

How To Do SXSW 2014 [For FREE]

How To Do SXSW 2014 [For FREE]

Before you get tripped up on the clashing consonants above, get in the know: SXSW stands for South By South West, America’s most diverse and innovative multimedia festival, and a Bushwick Daily favorite

JUST FABULOUS!!!!!: Top Ten Music Shows This Weekend

JUST FABULOUS!!!!!: Top Ten Music Shows This Weekend

Get ready, because this weekend is about to get fabulous! We have 10 ass-kicking shows for you to choose from for an enhanced musical weekend experience

Our “Fishnets & Bowties” Party Kicked Ass [NSFW Photos]

Our “Fishnets & Bowties” Party Kicked Ass [NSFW Photos]

Last Thursday- despite icy rain, thundershowers, and lightning- Bushwick Daily brought the party to Bizarre for an epic pre-Valentine’e extravaganza, Fishnets & Bowties! As someone behind me proclaimed, “The Best Band in Brooklyn,” aka The Love Supreme completely rocked the evening with their 12-piece soul goodness, covering classics like “Be My Little Baby” (The Ronettes) as well as their rip-roaring single “I Want You (Don’t Wanna Talk About It)

Friday First: Total Slacker Full Length “Slip Away”

Friday First: Total Slacker Full Length “Slip Away”

This week’s Friday First features the full-length album Slip Away from Bushwick babes gone big, Total Slacker. Friday First is a weekly column premiering brand spanking new releases from local, national, and international bands. Total Slacker’s second album hit the airwaves earlier this week on Black Bell/ADA Records, following 2011’s lo-fi debut Thrashin’. The band is known for their quirky sense of […]

10 Bushwick Power Couples: Makin’ Love & Bushwick Happen

10 Bushwick Power Couples: Makin’ Love & Bushwick Happen

We at Bushwick Daily are total romantics and proudly celebrate Valentine’s Day

Listening Party: Dream Pop Drippers, The Stargazer Lillies

Listening Party: Dream Pop Drippers, The Stargazer Lillies

This week’s Listening Party features dream pop drippers The Stargazer Lillies

Wafflato, Likely the Next Cronut, is About to Take Over Bushwick

Wafflato, Likely the Next Cronut, is About to Take Over Bushwick

Palates Cafe opened in Bushwick back in November to the delight of many living off Knickerbocker M train

Friday First: “Change Course” by NZ-based Claypipe

Friday First: “Change Course” by NZ-based Claypipe

This week’s Friday First features an exclusive track from the New Zealand-based noise/drone/pop duo of Antony Milton and Clayton Noone, aka Claypipe. Drone and Pop aren’t two genres we normally see listed next to each other, but listening  further into A Daylight Blessing, which will be released on March 3rd on MIE Records, you’ll hear why. Friday First is […]

Pig Ears, Live Music & Good Company: 1 Knickerbocker Opened

Pig Ears, Live Music & Good Company: 1 Knickerbocker Opened

Last Friday night, new restaurant 1 Knickerbocker celebrated its official opening night with a party

Arrow to Your Heart! Fishnets & Bowties, Our Pre-V Day Party at Bizarre feat. The Love Supreme!

Arrow to Your Heart! Fishnets & Bowties, Our Pre-V Day Party at Bizarre feat. The Love Supreme!

A little birdy (our art editor, 

Grab your Brokelyn Beer Books now!

Grab your Brokelyn Beer Books now!

Our friends over at Brokelyn have just surprised us with a late-January Christmas gift: Brokelyn Beer Books 5 and 6- FINALLY! But, they’re selling fast, so if you’re planning on getting your hands on these treasured coupons, head over to their website ASAP

Friday First: How To Be Topp’s EP Offshore Accounts

Friday First: How To Be Topp’s EP Offshore Accounts

This week’s Friday First column features an exclusive stream of BK newcomers How To Be Topp‘s EP, Offshore Accounts. The 4-song album came out last night and was celebrated with a rocking show at Shea Stadium with headliners (and BD faves) Zula. Friday First is a weekly column premiering brand spanking new releases from local […]

Noise, Avant Composition and Artistic Rock at New Ridgewoood Venue, Trans-Pecos

Noise, Avant Composition and Artistic Rock at New Ridgewoood Venue, Trans-Pecos

You may have heard the buzz about new venue, Trans-Pecos, to the neighborhood! The venue is in Ridgewood, located just off the Halsey L train at 915 Wyckoff Avenue, we welcome it with open arms (and ears!)

Friday First: The Nuclears’ This Is How We Party [Stream]

Friday First: The Nuclears’ This Is How We Party [Stream]

This week’s Friday First is an exclusive stream of Bushwick rock’n’roll ragers The Nuclears‘ brand new LP, This is How We Party, hitting stands January 28th. The Nuclears are referred to as “New York City’s primo beer-chugging, sci-fi-referencing, leather-jacket-wearing rock & roll band” for good reason; their long-awaited new album is a joyous rollercoaster of a […]

Winter Music Series at Radio Bushwick Kicks off Saturday

Winter Music Series at Radio Bushwick Kicks off Saturday

In a heartfelt introduction to the series, promoters My Socialist and Supercrush Studios expressed their feelings about the arctic blast that’s defined this season: “this Winter is harshing my vibe in a serious way

OH MY GOD: Top 10 Concerts This Weekend

OH MY GOD: Top 10 Concerts This Weekend

The weeks go by and the music stays great

Love Supreme’s Cheap Storage Show Busted, But Venue Not Closing

Love Supreme’s Cheap Storage Show Busted, But Venue Not Closing

Saturday evening local DIY venue Cheap Storage hosted their 5th annual “New Years Do Over Party” with promoter Glad Tidings from NY

Listening Party: The Hood Internet

Listening Party: The Hood Internet

This week’s Listening Party features mashup geniuses The Hood Internet who are playing next Thursday for free! Listening Party is a curated weekly column promoting music discovery and encouraging concert-going

Upstairs Invite with Ponyhof

Upstairs Invite with Ponyhof

By Loren DiBlasi & Maria Gotay

Listening Party: Napoleon

Listening Party: Napoleon

This week’s Listening Party features Bushwick band Napoleon! Listening Party is a curated weekly column promoting music discovery and encouraging concert-going

Friday First: The Echo Friendly’s “Panic”

Friday First: The Echo Friendly’s “Panic”

This week’s Friday First features local band The Echo Friendly, who just put out their heartwrenching single, “Panic

Listening party: Eternal Summers

Listening party: Eternal Summers

This week’s Listening Party features band Eternal Summers! Listening Party is a curated weekly column promoting music discovery and encouraging concert-going

Listening Party: Stars of The Lid

Listening Party: Stars of The Lid

This week’s Listening Party focuses on orchestral drone band Stars of The Lid, who will be performing their first concert in five years next week in a Brooklyn Basilica

Presenting Bushwick Daily’s Best of 2013 Playlist!

Presenting Bushwick Daily’s Best of 2013 Playlist!

Best of 2013 Music lists couldn’t be more pretentious, and yet we still scour them looking for top releases we may have somehow missed

7 Holiday Markets to Eat, Drink Shop & Get in the Xmas Spirit!

7 Holiday Markets to Eat, Drink Shop & Get in the Xmas Spirit!

By Maria Gotay, Katarina Hybenova & Emilie Ruscoe

New Coffee Shop Palates Is a Tasty & Affordable Destination Off Knickerbocker M

New Coffee Shop Palates Is a Tasty & Affordable Destination Off Knickerbocker M

The name of the coffee shop has nothing to do with the exercise Pilates; it refers to the taste palate as well as the physical wooden pallets that comprise much of the new coffee shop’s interior

Quit Your Bitching! Top 10 Shows This Weekend

Quit Your Bitching! Top 10 Shows This Weekend

The weather is warm! The weather is rainy! You wore too many layers! Your shoe has a hole! You want to drown your sorrows! You want to smoke on the back patio but it’s not open! WAH

Friday First: “Horse” from Walking Shapes

Friday First: “Horse” from Walking Shapes

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Listening Party: Zula

Listening Party: Zula

This week’s Listening Party focuses on local rockers Zula

What to Eat, Drink & Do in Bushwick This Thanksgiving

What to Eat, Drink & Do in Bushwick This Thanksgiving

Stuck in Bushwick on this year’s

Listening Party: Jagwar Ma

Listening Party: Jagwar Ma

This week’s Listening Party focuses on Australian band Jagwar Ma

New Venue Radio Bushwick Opened on Saturday! (PHOTOS)

New Venue Radio Bushwick Opened on Saturday! (PHOTOS)

Outside the venue