Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg brings back Peterpalooza for its 6th consecutive year, this time bringing together headliners A$AP Ferg & Dave East, along with Jay IDK, Nyck @ Knight, Westside Gunn and Conway. Presented in association with Move Forward Music.
Jacob Daal
Estiee
Charlie Mumbles (DJ)
Poppa Perk
Soul Ipsum returns to NYC after a two year hiatus, following a busy year so far for the solo producer out of Portland, Or. with a solo release and collaborative follow up to the acclaimed Zirconia series. For this 7/7/17 special, they’ve asked local house heavy-weight Person of Interest to headline, with live sets by Yaeji and Mallory and the free wheeling selectors Sweet & Lo (Piñero & DiMaggio) to provide vibe for the evening.
Soul Ipsum told us this is the latest glimpse of their new sound…
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Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm had an early introduction to music, learning the piano throughout his childhood. It was through this that Nils began to immerse himself in the styles of classical pianists from previous generations as well as the music of contemporary composers, before forging his own musical path through composition.
Today Nils Frahm continues to work as an accomplished composer, producer and celebrated performer from his Berlin-based studio at the renowned Funkhaus. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, and on a mesmerising scale through his vast stage shows, has won him many fans around the world. Nils has gained global notoriety for his highly developed sense of control and restraint in his work, as well as a breath-taking level of emotion and personality.
After spending much of 2017 in hibernation in preparation for a busy period ahead, Nils will commence 2018 with his first live performances since 2015, and will embark on the beginning of a long worldwide tour entitled All Melody.
A Concert to Benefit Make The Road NY
This Fourth of July, We Resist! and LPR proudly present: THE REAL FIREWORKS, with performances by M.A.K.U. Soundsystem and a new project Songs of Resistance by Marc Ribot and many special guests TBA.
This outdoor concert brings together artists who will rise together to make their own Declaration of Independence from the current White House administration’s racism, sexism, homophobia, and destruction of the environment, joining forces to celebrate diversity through music and protest.
We also invite you to participate in “MY WALL: A Collaborative Art Installation.”
We hope you will share your immigration stories by contributing personal experiences through writing and drawing, using an interactive voting booth installed in our lobby. These contributions will be included in the upcoming exhibition. “MY WALL,” an art installation coming to Knockdown Center in October 2017, produced by immigrant children and families in collaboration with Coalition for Hispanic Family Services’ Arts and Literacy Program and AED/artist Laura Paris and team.
Celebrate your Fourth of July with this benefit concert, food and drink, and the chance to share your story!
$15 advance / $18 DOS / $5 children under 15 (pay at the door)
Under 21 welcome with parent or guardian
About Make the Road
Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.
Our model integrates multi-issue, multi-generational organizing – on workers’ rights, tenant rights, LGBTQ justice, youth power and policing, public schools and education justice, immigration justice, and climate – with an array of wraparound services that create a space of safety and support for entire families. Our storefront community centers are decorated with murals and made visible with colorful awnings; families pour in to sign up for English-as-a-second-language classes, and stay to enroll their kids in our after-school Youth Power program. They come seeking help fighting an illegal eviction, and stay to fight for better laws protecting tenants.
ABOUT M.A.K.U. SOUNDSYSTEM:
M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, a powerhouse 8-piece band, are innovators of immigrant beat. Born out of the diverse borough of Queens, NY and and incubated in the tiny Colombian owned venue Terraza Cafe, M.A.K.U was able to build their explosive sound and unshakable grooves. Afropop Worldwide praised the “frantic terrain” the band explores. NPR raved about the “driving and gritty energy…this raw-edged, punk-tinged band explodes with the propulsive force of traditional rhythms and urban restlessness.” M.A.K.U put out The Mix (Peace & Rhythm, 2017) their 5th album in January and have already begun writing new and original music for their 6th album.
M.A.K.U’s music derives from their immigrant experience, which is an opportunity to create, to find a voice that speaks loud and proud, to connect past and future. A chance to make history. The party continues…
https://www.makusoundsystem.com/
ABOUT ANI CORDERO
Ani Cordero is a passionate Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, drummer, guitarist, and activist, living in NYC. In 2014, Ani released an album entitled Recordar (Remember), which re-imagined songs by influential Latin American songwriters of the turbulent “Nueva Cancion” era, including Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Chavela Vargas, and Atahualpa Yupanqui. The critically-
acclaimed album received accolades from NPR’s All Things Considered, Alt-Latino, and Soundcheck, as well as, Billboard, USA Today, PRI’s The World, Brooklyn Vegan, BUST, Remezcla, and more.
ABOUT MARC RIBOT — Songs of Resistance Project:
In search of a way respond to the racist, sexist, Islamophobic, anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic attitudes and actions of Donald Trump and his administration and followers, Marc draws on the deep currents in the history of resistance music for inspiration. Featuring a collection of Civil Rights, WWII European partisan resistance songs, plus a few original tunes, Marc will be joined in this special 4th of July presentation by vocalist Fay Victor and guest musicians to create something that encourages people to engage in resistance NOW.
ABOUT WE RESIST!:
With the social momentum and widespread unrest in our country right now, it is undeniable there is a movement of musicians explicitly responding to injustice through music and art. We Resist! is pleased to spotlight and support meaningful music and inspire a progressive strong inclusive community.
ABOUT LPR PRESENTS AND (LE) POISSON ROUGE:
(Le) Poisson Rouge is a multimedia art cabaret founded by musicians on the site of the historic Village Gate. Dedicated to the fusion of popular and art cultures in music, film, theater, dance, and fine art, the venue’s mission is to revive the symbiotic relationship between art and revelry; to establish a creative asylum for both artists and audiences. LPR is a source you can trust for exposure to visionary work, people of character, and a consistently dynamic environment, at its home of 158 Bleecker Street and beyond.
Sontag Shogun
Ari Finkel
Lea Bertucci
Causings
Brooklyn alternative hip-hop artist billy woods celebrates the release of his new ablum, Known Unknowns.
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Known Unknowns is billy woods’ new album, a follow-up to 2013’s Blockhead collaboration Dour Candy. Blockhead is still behind the boards here but there are also a couple beats from his longtime collaborator Aesop Rock. But the center of the whirlwind is still woods, who re-emerges from a two-year hiatus after releasing the avant-garde Today, I Wrote Nothing in early 2015. Known Unknowns finds the artist on more melodic ground, but still his esoteric, acerbic self, spinning verses equal parts joy and terror, wry wit and blind rage. There are guest appearances from ELUCID (Armand Hammer), as well as Aesop Rock, Homeboy Sandman, Googie, singer Barrie McLain and DJ Mo Niklz. Since Dour Candy, Blockhead has worked with Aesop, Sandman and MarQ Spekt but Known Unknowns shows that he and woods have developed their own unique chemistry. – Backwoodz Studio
billy woods
ELUCID
Denmark Vessey
Quelle Chris
Googie
Career Crooks (Zilla Rocca and Small Pro)
Hosted by PremRock
bvdub is Brock Van Wey, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devoting his life to the SF rave scene in the late ’80s, he began to DJ and promote his own deep house and ambient events in 1991, rising 10 years before a self-imposed exile to China in 2001 to escape the state of a scene he could no longer accept. He began to produce his own music in 2006, with his overtly emotional and hypnotic sound quickly spreading to Styrax, Millions of Moments, Southern Outpost, and Meanwhile, before a natural and gradual shift to his trademark ambient onslaughts saw him call n5MD, Glacial Movements, AY, Darla, echospace [detroit], Kompakt, and many more home. Now returned to his native Bay Area, he has continued his prolific output, with a string of self-released CD and digital-only releases, a monolithic rework of Vortexual [element seven] for echospace [detroit], and his newest, most wistful, and hypnotic work yet – his return to Glacial Movements, with Epilogues for the End of the Sky, with numerous upcoming projects already in production for late 2017 and well into 2018.
Brock has also released numerous ambient projects under his given name, deep house as Earth House Hold, and drum & bass as East of Oceans. He has released remixes and collaboration tracks on Ghostly, Kompakt, Oktaf, OWSLA, Soma Recordings, Air Textures, A Strangely Isolated Place and many more, and to date his vast catalog contains well over 25 full-length albums, over a dozen singles, and more than fifteen guest appearances and remixes. He has been featured in interviews and in-depth pieces in Resident Advisor, A Strangely Isolated Place, Headphone Commute, Organic, Spectrum Culture, Kana Broadcasting, and more.
Fairly reclusive in his performance schedule to-date, he chose to perform only one to two times a year, and has performed at festivals such as Decibel (US), Up to Date (PL), Salon Ambientu (PL), Ambientfestival (DE), Off-Tone (JP), Sub Strata (US), Festival Spectaculare (CZ), Music Infinity (CZ), Fields (RU), and individual shows in the US, Poland, Russia, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and more, performing with artists such as Rafael Anton Irisarri, Bruno Sanfilippo, Marsen Jules, Fennesz, Robert Henke, Matthias Grassow, and port-royal, along with a host of solo shows. As his ever-prolific output continues to grow, it would seem his quest to test the emotional limits of electronic music is only just beginning…
OVERTIME continues! Our summer-long Saturday party in the Ruins returns with a party brought to you THE ORACLE. Come kick back in the sunshine, grab a frozen drink, and enjoy!
Quay Dash
Prince Harvey
Night Doll
HD
Vermilion Bird
Hosted by Pauli Cakes and Nicky Ottav
Outdoor Visual Artwork by:
Phil Buehler
Martha Hipley
More TBA
About OVERTIME
This summer, we’re teaming up with the best promoters, hosts, and DJs to bring you an outdoor party every weekend! Come get down in the Ruins and kick back with a frozen drink and your favorite acts.
EVERY SATURDAY ALL SUMMER LONG
Tickets Start At $15
Radeberger is the official sponsor of OVERTIME
OVERTIME continues! Our summer-long Saturday party in the Ruins returns with a party brought to you by Kiss & Tell and Lost Soul Enterprises. Come kick back in the sunshine, grab a frozen drink, and enjoy!
Kiss & Tell and Lost Soul Enterprises present:
DJ Minx [Women On Wax] Mike Simonetti [2MR, Pale Blue, Kiss & Tell] Scott Murakami [Lost Soul Enterprises]
Kiss & Tell Party and Lost Soul Enterprises are collaborating on a series of two outdoor events in the beautiful and lush garden at Knockdown Center. For the spring edition we have invited Detroiter and Women on Wax label owner DJ Minx, along with our respective residents Mike Simonetti and Scott Murakami . Come early and enjoy the beautiful garden. Cocktails and food will be available.
Hosted by R. Gamble and Seze
DJ Minx was inspired to spin by the famed Music Institute in Detroit. Her style is described as funky, powerful house, with a splash of grace. For two years, Minx engineered and hosted “Deep Space Radio,” an electronic music show on Detroit’s WGPR radio station, on which she conducted interviews and played mixes by DJs and Producers from around the world. The show was heralded by the innovators of techno music (“Magic” Juan Atkins, Kevin “Reese” Saunderson, Eddie Fowlkes, and Derrick May). Minx also voluntarily did a weekly radio program at the University of Canada on CJAM 91.5 FM called “Steamy Windows,” which featured house music by local and international artists.
As a resident of world-renowned Club Motor, Minx opened for artists such as Basement Jaxx, Doc Martin, Cajmere, and Afrika Bambatta. In December 1996, Minx founded Women on Wax, a collective of female DJs from the Metro Detroit area. From then on, she began working with promoters and DJs across the country, and helped to solidify the career of several top female DJs and songstresses.
Being a featured performer during the first Detroit Electronic Music Festival (D.E.M.F.) in May 2000 had an incredible impact on Minx’s career. Since then, she’s played at Tresor in Berlin, Output in New York, Toronto’s Film Lounge, Club Ohm in Portland, Deep Sugar in Baltimore, and Club Air in Japan, and for with massive crowds in Paris, Cancun, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and numerous other domestic and international locales.
In 2001, Minx established her own record label called Women On Wax Recordings, which has served as a vehicle to present many talented artists and producers to the world including Diamondancer, Pirahnahead, and Diviniti. Minx has also expanded her musical majesty by creating a sub-imprint of the label called W.O.W. B.A.M. (Women On Wax Bangin’ Ass Music). Besides releases on her own labels, she has produced and remixed tracks for Minus (Berlin), Trisomie 21 (Paris), Soiree Records (Detroit), West End Records (New York), Code Red (Baltimore), United Music (Paris), Whasdat Music (Detroit), Liberate (Chicago), and Fast Forward (Atlanta), among others.
Currently on the Connect Bookings roster, Detroit’s “First Lady of Wax” is going strong after nearly three decades of DJing. Minx recently moved her “Queen Beats Radio” weekly show to the new deepspaceradio, and she continues to host parties, specifically during Movement in Detroit. She was named one of the “20 Women Who Shaped the History of Dance Music” by Mixmag and one of the “Best house music DJs of all time” by TimeOut New York.
Mike Simonetti [ 2MR, Pale Blue, Kiss & Tell ]
At the forefront of a relatively underground movement for over two decades, few artists have had a history matching that of veteran-producer Mike Simonetti’s. But it’s this 20- year backstory that reveals the interminable role he’s played in the world of dance music. His first introduction came in 1988, at the tender age of 17, when he landed a job handing out flyers at the legendary NYC nightclub Mars. He was just a kid at the time, but it left an impression on him that would manifest itself years later. His record collecting habit got him his first few gigs as a club promoter in the early 90s, and it was then he got his first taste of DJing—hitting the lawless basements and warehouses of New York City. He quickly made a name for himself in the local club scene as a resident at the legendary parties Rubulad and Motherfucker. It was during this time that his tiny record label Troubleman Unlimited started gaining momentum as well, and by the end of its ten-year run would yield seminal releases by The Walkmen, Zola Jesus, Titus Andronicus, Prurient, Unwound, Glass Candy, Chromatics and many more.
Nearly a decade after its inception, Simonetti put Troubleman to rest and teamed up with Johnny Jewel to launch the dance music label Italians Do It Better. Its first release —a hard-hitting synthpop compilation called After Dark—was a game changer. Eventually, Mike released his first EP of original material, Capricorn Rising, after a slew of re-edits and remixes. The EP laid the groundwork for what was to come, yielding a range of influences from techno, krautrock and ambient music to soundtracks.
While Simonetti was in the middle of writing his debut solo work, he was asked to remix tracks from the West Coast twosome Silver Hands. Immediately taken by the incredible range of lead-vocalist Elizabeth Wight, he reached out to collaborate. The result of the bi-coastal email exchange would eventually become Pale Blue.
Most recently, Simonetti has decided to split from Italians Do It Better to focus on Pale Blue, as well as a totally new venture: the freshly minted label 2MR (Two Mikes Records). A collaboration between Simonetti and Captured Tracks founder Mike Sniper (whose own band Blank Dogs was released on Troubleman in 2008), 2MR is an opportunity for Simonetti to start from a blank slate and release music he believes in.
Scott Murakami [Lost Soul Enterprises, Bentwave Radio]
