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  • Don’t Miss Saturday’s Jam Packed ‘Brooklyn Comes Alive’

    On October 22, the musical jam spirit in New York will be at its height when the sold-out Brooklyn Comes Alive festival comes to three venues in the heart of Williamsburg. This one-day event features a veritable who’s who spanning the jam band, funk and electronic scenesbrooklyn-comes-alive-2016-featured

    Members of The Disco Biscuits, Medeski, Martin & Wood, The String Cheese Incident, Lettuce, Break Science, Greyboy Allstars, Mike Gordon Band, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Soulive and the Trey Anastasio Band are just a few of the more than 50 artists slated to perform.

    This event promises to feature performances from hand-selected super groups, impromptu jam sessions, and very rare collaborations, kicking off with brunch and running well into the depths of the evening. The venues that will host this monstrosity also happen to be Brooklyn’s most popular venues – Brooklyn Bowl, The Hall at MP, and Music Hall of Williamsburg, which are all conveniently within a 10-minute walking distance from each other.

    With the festivities kicking off at noon at The Hall at MP, brunch will be hosted inside at the MP Taverna, featuring an amazing dining experience from Michelin Star chef Michael Psilakis. For those that are worried about missing out on some of the action while fueling up, live audio will be pumped into the dining room to keep the grooves going.

    Also featured are members from groups such as The Knux, Ne-Yo, Snarky Puppy, RAQ, Nth Power, Stanton Moore Trio, Kung Fu, Primus, Dopapod, Garaj Mahal, Dub Trio, Gov’t Mule, The Black Crowes, The Stepkids, Deep Banana Blackout, Matisyahu, Organ Freeman, and Santana. In addition to the collaboration of band members from different groups, established solo artists will be making an appearance including Samora Pinderhughes, Raul Pineda, Farnell Newton, Chauncey Yearwood, Ian McGuire, Wiley Griffin, Luke Bemand and Dan Lyons.

    Holly Bowling, the solo pianist who takes Phish and Grateful Dead classic jams and transcribes them arranged for piano, will open the festivities just after noon at The Hall MP of Brooklyn. Highlights include the All Brothers Band — featuring Oteil and Kofi Burbridge, and Neal and Alan Evans — Tim Palmieri and Friends, DRKWAV, which features John Medeski, Adam Deitch and Skerik, and Horizon Wireless.

    Reed Mathis and Electric Beethoven is a new group that takes inspiration from Ludwig Van Beethoven, and has arranged some of his classic pieces for a rock group. This is one of the must see acts of the festival. The Rhythmatronix, featuring Jason Hann, Oteil Burbridge and Sting and Garage Mahal guitarist Fareed Haque, are the late-night group at The MP. This is just a small smattering of the incredible lineup put together by Live 4 Live Music.

    A few hours after brunch is concluded, Brooklyn Bowl and Music Hall of Williamsburg will open and will stay open throughout the night.

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    Full List of Performers:
    Joe Russo (Joe Russo’s Almost Dead/Furthur/Benevento-Russo Duo)
    Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers/Dead & Company)
    Marc Brownstein (The Disco Biscuits)
    Aron Magner (The Disco Biscuits)
    John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood)
    Borahm Lee (Break Science)
    Natalie Cressman (Trey Anastasio Band)
    James Casey (Trey Anastasio Band)
    Chris Bullock (Snarky Puppy)
    Scott Metzger (Joe Russo’s Almost Dead)
    Kofi Burbridge (Tedeschi Trucks Band)
    Alan Evans (Soulive)
    Neal Evans (Soulive)
    Eric “Benny” Bloom (Lettuce)
    Jesus Coomes (Lettuce)
    Adam Smirnoff (Lettuce)
    Ryan Zoidis (Lettuce)
    Roosevelt Collier
    Michael League (Snarky Puppy)
    Skerik
    Todd Stoops (RAQ)
    Nate Werth (Snarky Puppy)
    Nikki Glaspie (The Nth Power)
    Nick Cassarino (The Nth Power)
    Nate Edgar (The Nth Power)
    Courtney J’Mell Smith (The Nth Power)
    Manic Focus
    Will Bernard (Stanton Moore Trio)
    Tim Palmieri (Kung Fu)
    Jay Lane (Primus/Electric Beethoven)
    Rob Compa (Dopapod)
    Eli Winderman (Dopapod)
    Adrian Tramontano (Kung Fu)
    Holly Bowling
    Rob Marscher (Matisyahu)
    Brasstracks
    Fareed Haque (Garaj Mahal)
    Cochrane McMillan (Tea Leaf Green)
    Andy Hess (Gov’t Mule/The Black Crowes)
    Eric Slick (Dr. Dog)
    Dan Edinburg (The Stepkids)
    Jen Durkin (Deep Banana Blackout)
    Johnny Durkin (Deep Banana Blackout)
    Jason Hann (The String Cheese Incident)
    Adam Deitch (Lettuce/Break Science)
    Robert Walter (Greyboy Allstars/Mike Gordon)
    Reed Mathis (Electric Beethoven)
    Rob Somerville (Kung Fu)
    Benny Rietveld (Santana)
    Jake Sherman
    Raul Pineda
    Farnell Newton
    Danny Sadownick

  • Photo Gallery – Marco Benevento at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

    Marco Benevento returned to his native Brooklyn to celebrate the release of his most recent record, The Story of Fred Short. The Music Hall of Williamsburg offered an intimate and comfortable backdrop for the energetic, smart, and at times quirky tunes that would fill the near two hour set.

    marco benevento Music Hall of WilliamsburgAnyone who has been to a show with Marco in the driver’s seat, or even riding shotgun, can attest that you won’t leave disappointed. Supporting him on this Saturday night was Andy Borger on drums, and Karina Rykman on bass. The trio was joined during the encore by Mikaela Davis on harp and Katie Jacoby on violin, kicking the set up just one more notch. Fortunately for anyone who missed out, there are more shows in the near future for you to soak up all the aforementioned ear candy (line-up subject to change). Till then, enjoy this photo gallery highlighting a few moments from the evening.

  • Slothrust Shreds at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg

    Slothrust shreds. This past Saturday Slothrust (Leah Wellbaum on guitar/vocals, Kyle Bank on bass, and Will Gorin on Drums) played Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg with Diet Cig, the playfully charming pop punk duo from Upstate, New York and YUNG, the killer rock band hailing all the way from Denmark. The show was sold out, the music was powerful, and the whole venue seemed to hum with the undeniably infectious energy of being young and alive in Brooklyn.

    slothrustSlothrust finished up a month long tour at Baby’s that night and closed out the show. Their tour hopped all over the country, including five showcases at SXSW. As I watched them set up I wondered if they were worn out from tour, burnt out from travel, the back to back shows, the van life. I thought maybe their set would be a bit sluggish. I was dead wrong. They were tight. They are always so incredibly tight.

    To start, they hit the crowd with a jam that was heavy like a ton of bricks and by mid set had leveled things out with both “Magnets part 1” and “Magnets part 2”,  dark yet delicate crowd pleasers. The whole performance was a perfect balance; new songs and old favorites that provided a trip through intimate, emotional lyrics that were delivered with captivating, deadpan vocals and guitar riffs that rip right through you. It can’t really be compared to anything else. Slothrust is it’s own kind of strange darkness. Straight up grunge rock that can get you all choked up without a single cliche lyric to be sung.

    slothrustThey closed their set with “Crockpot” which is a spot-on representation of who they are as a band. It’s a sample of the dichotomy the trio has mastered; soft yet strong, gentle but raw and raging. A spellbinding sweetness broken by a build up that makes the blood flow faster through your body. As “Crockpot” rang out, the back lights made perfect silhouettes of the three talented musicians responsible for making the packed house sing along at the top of their lungs. It was then that I truly realized the power of Slothrust. I wholeheartedly believe their future holds something huge- something great. If you haven’t heard Slothrust yet, listen to “Of Course You Do” (their latest album which is an absolute masterpiece), get yourself to their next show, or do both if you know what’s good for you.