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

Holy Smokes! Music & Arts Festival is all said and done, and we can’t express enough thanks to all of you who attended for making this festival a success on so many levels! Holy Smokes! took place last Sunday at the co-op art/music space Silent Barn and featured over 20 outstanding rock/blues/reggae/r&b bands, our favorites being Cosmonaut, Las Rosas, Walking Shapes, Nicky Egan, Sylvana Joyce & The Moment, 6th Degree, The Can’t Tells, Food Will Win The War, Ellis Ashbrook, The Hollows, The Bottom Dollars, and MORE

If you’re one of the 200,000 people to descend upon Austin’s city limits to partake in SXSW (and you know how to do it right now), and you want to see some of your favorite Brooklyn/Bushwick bands, you can do so at one of two places – at an official showcase (where festival badges/wristbands ARE required) or at one of the many free shows they will be playing next week