Today Is The Day, Taipan

Club Europa

Warm Up: A Touch of Class (DJ Set), Lee Douglas, Services (Live), Escort (Live), Kudu (Live), Preacher and the Knife (Live), Bubblyfish/Tristan Perich 1-Bit Music (live)

PS1, 3pm, all ages, free

Moist Paula’s Birthday Throwdown: Chin Chin, Moisturizer, David Poh, DJ lil’ shalimar, and visual psychedelica by Yuko Sueta

BPM (137 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg), 10pm, 21+, $10 (suggested)

CAROUSEL/FIREHOUSE PARTY w/Moisturizer, The Trachtenburghs, Anna Copacabana, Go-Go Xylophone, Haunted Pussy

199 Van Brunt St. (between Seabring and Bowne), 9pm-5am, $10 MORE…

Kid Congo Returns from France - To That Same Old Place That He Laughed About

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkeybirds, who just returned this week from a French jaunt that included an appearance at the Nuits Sonores festival alongside the likes of The Raincoats, Violent Femmes, Chicks on Speed, Stereo Total, etc., will play their first New York gig in months, and first Brooklyn gig in years, at Williamsburg’s Glasslands Gallery on June 8, 2007. Since embarking upon an endless trek back and forth across the United States and Europe last Fall in support of his critically acclaimed solo debut, Philosophy and Underwear, and his compilation, Solo Cholo, and moving to Washington, DC around the same time, the underground guitar legend behind classics by The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, etc. rarely makes it to these parts. His band, the Pink Monkeybirds is currently a trio including drummer Danny Hole (Warlocks, Nikki Sudden) and bassist Kiki Solas (Rhythm of Black Lines, Knife in the Water)

This incredible bill also includes Parisian noise rockers Dimi Dero, local paint-peelers Woman, and Awesome Color side project Used to Be Women.

Aloke, General Miggs

GlassLands, 9pm, 21+

THURS, May 31, NYNT presente: a dance party w/a brass party band (Hungry March mem), New Orleans pirates, and Jack Martin after the Hasidic Reggae Rapper

Stagger Back Brass Band, Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship, Dimestore Dance Ensemble
Thursday May 31, 2007 at 10:30 PM
Glasslands Gallery
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Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Dimi Dero (France), Woman, Used to Be Women

Glasslands Gallery, 8pm, 21+, $8 MORE…

Tapes ‘n Tapes, Ladyhawk, The Harlem Shakes

Fillmore at Irving Plaza, 16+, $15/$16

Bucci’s Escape from New York: Golden Triangle, S-S-S-Spectres, Falcon and the Snowman, The Assault

Dear friends,

As many of you may well know, a dear dear friend, very dear in my heaving busom,… Bucci, former leader of Austin noise rockerz Enduro, current member of Falcon and the Snowman, renowned play-write, Brooklyn College professor, and, above all, my roommate, is abandoning us in New York for the mistier pastures of Seattle because he wants to get in on the ground floor of an emerging youth culture phenomenon that he says has been “in bloom” all over the woods of the Pacific Northwest….

He calls it “grunge“…. MORE…