• Connan Mockasin preps 'Jassbusters,' screening "absurdist" film on fall tour

    "Based on comics and short films Mockasin made 20 years ago, ’Bostyn ’n Dobsyn’ is a five-part film about a music teacher, Bostyn, his student Dobsyn, and Bostyn's band, Jassbusters." After the screening, Connan and his band will appear in character as Jassbusters, which is also the name of Connan's new album that's due out this fall on Mexican Summer.
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  • The Blow share new video, announce "Energetic Strategies" tour

    The Blow(Melissa Dyne and Khaela Maricich) have announced a fall tour they're calling "ENERGETIC STRATEGIES (For Right Now)." If you've seen them live the last few years, you know they play with a bank of self-designed analog / modular synths...
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  • Tour South Brooklyn by ferry, with pit stops for lobster rolls and beer

    Just one of the perks of taking the South Brooklyn ferry: views like these of the NYC skyline. Photo: Anne Szustek
    To anyone in the greater Park Slope-Sunset Park-Bay Ridge metropole, a mention of the R train is an instant ice-breaker. Nary a subterranean morning commute passes through the caverns below Fourth Avenue without a screech ending in the dulcet canard “there is train traffic ahead of us.” It’s the wheezing piece of aging transit infrastructure that binds.
    Fortunately
  • Ride the South Brooklyn Ferry like a tourist this summer

    Just one of the perks of taking the South Brooklyn ferry: views like these of the NYC skyline. Photo: Anne Szustek
    To anyone in the greater Park Slope-Sunset Park-Bay Ridge metropole, a mention of the R train is an instant ice-breaker. Nary a subterranean morning commute passes through the caverns below Fourth Avenue without a screech ending in the dulcet canard “there is train traffic ahead of us.” It’s the wheezing piece of aging transit infrastructure that binds.
    Fortunately
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