NYNT SXSW EXCITEMENT!
by Jonathan
AUSTIN, TX
Thurs, Mar 13, New York Night Train Official SXSW Showcase, Maggie Mae’s Gibson Room (323 E. Sixth St), 11pm - 2am, free w/wristband: New York Night Train presents three of NYCs finest. Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds (THE legendary Kid Congo Powers, Danny Hole, and Kiki Solas) play their first show in nearly a year. Stalkers are back from Europe, major British rock festivals, NME’s Single of the Week, and lots of other recent excitement. And the quirky excitement of the S-S-S-Spectres makes its very first Texas appearance.
NEW YORK, NY
Thurs, Mar 13, Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down!, Beauty Bar (231 E. 14th, East Village, Manhattan), 11pm, FREE: Ms. Melissa Fanni Tutti turns dance music platters centered smack dab in the center of popular music’s greatest and most diverse decade. Making a go at channeling the variety inherent in the playlists of the discotheques and radio of the era plus much of the stuff that was too underground at the time to get there, we attempt to cover soul, garage, freakbeat, boogaloo, AM radio pop, British Invasion, electric blues, girl groups, bubblegum, frat rock, late r&b, early funk, early psychedelics, discotheque schmaltz, boogaloos, tropicalia, yé-yé, latin delights, etc.
AUSTIN, TX
Sat, Mar 15, New York Night Train, Social Registry, and Cake Shop present 16 Bands from Brooklyn, Spider House (2908 Fruth St), FREE:
12:30 Minetta
1:00 Inoculist
1:30 Crystal Stilts
2::00 Tall Firs
2:30 Mike Bones
3:00 Doug Armor
3:30 Hopewell
4:00 Fresh Kills
4:30 Services
5:00 Pterodactyl
5:30 SSSSpectres
6:00 Knyfe Hits
6:30 Shellshag
7:00 Bandit Teeth
7:30 Puddin’ Tang
8:00 Stalkers
Upon the Night Train’s return, look forward to the eight-week Store Wars series, in which the owners/managers/clerks of NYC’s finest underground record stores represent Wednesdays at Motor City (Earwax, Other Music, Academy, Eat, Cake Shop, Pass-Out, Williamsburg Flea Market, Crypt (Cool and Crazy), etc.), more 60s dancing at Beauty Bar, Ants In Yr Pants all over town including one with James Chance at Enid’s, yet another Soul Clap and Dance-Off, Excepter’s Record Release Party, and the Cheap and Plastique Magazine Release w/Golden Triangle, S-S-S-Spectres, Daniel Francis Doyle, and more.
