MKNG FRNDZ Playing Bushwick Saturday

This Saturday Mkng Frndz are playing a special benefit house party at 315 Seigel in Bushwick. The benefit party is $10 for all you can eat and drink and will feature DJ sets by Jerk Party and Amos Mac. The party is at 315 Seigel St. #101 @ Bogart. Saturday, June 28th, Noon - Midnight. L train to Morgan.


Mkng Frndz is the latest musical incarnation of Tami Hart, who became a hearthrob for queer youth in the early 2000's.

"Influenced musically by Kaia Wilson (Team Dresch, the Butchies) and Kurt Cobain, among others, South Carolina's Tami Hart was just a teenager when she released her debut on Wilson's label, the pro-queer and feminist imprint Mr. Lady (Letigre, The Need). No Light in August is a startling debut, too, with Hart sounding like she has an infinitely older soul than is healthy for any 19 year old. On songs like the opening "Drunken Love Song," "You're No Good," and the eerily Nirvana-like "The Kids That Call Us Clowns," Hart's emotionally raw folk-pop is tragically beautiful and engaging as she tells her broken-hearted tales of love, loss, and loneliness. And while such topics aren't exactly original, these songs are shockingly disarming in their honesty and sincerity. So while her debut has its few moments of influence-on-sleeve songwriting, Hart is already hitting her stride on No Light in August. Surely, as they say, the best is yet to come." -Jimmy Draper, All Music Guide

THE GOSSIP Are the F!@#ing Shit! "Listen Up!"

This relatively softcore selection from THE GOSSIP's latest album shows us, in mild increments, just how sizzling hot BETH DITTO is. This chick is seriously rivaling PJ HARVEY and KAREN O for hottest femme-fatale of the modern age. She exudes fearlessness, struts her inhibitions, and has pipes that blow every frill bitch off the stage.

And she has time to knit!

Loves me some Gossip!

Their recent album "Standing in the Way of Control" is one of 2006's best. For sure.

LO-FI FNK - 'Stepping Out'

I'm a giddy teenager again. Yet another act from Sweden is blowing my mind these days. LO-FI FNK are currently riding the wave of Swedish electro, turning out a sound that conjures a nostalgic dancefloor atmosphere, while maintaining a modern edge at the same time.

These boys are extremely young looking, as evidenced by their catalogue of videos on YouTube. But they conjure a sound so confident and contagious; I can't wait to see where they go in the future.

Be The Riottt! - THE PRESETS

THE PRESETS had a lengthy sound issue, delaying their set by a good 35 minutes or so. Julian Hamilton, the singer/keyboardist half of the Aussie electro duo, was visibly frustrated and it almost started to feel like the show wasn't going to get off the ground. Luckily, the over-stressed soundman in the Polk Room eventually figured out how to get Julian's mic working, because what ensued was the talk of the festival.

A nonstop new wave dance factory, THE PRESETS delivered, slamming through the sinister pop of "Are You the One?", the funked-out electric "Kitty in the Middle", and the electro-nostlagia of "Girl and the Sea". The duo literally had the room jumping with the infectious neo-rave anthem "I Go Hard, I Go Home". For a second I felt like I had been teleported back in time to the hottest underground party in San Francisco circa 1989.


For a duo comprised of a drummer and a keyboardist, I was amazed at the energy and sound these guys created. The crowd was nearly epileptic in it's show of affection, as sweating 20-somethings poured out of the room at set's end, spilling euphorically back into the Civic Center's brightly lit corridors of beer vendors to chat about what just occurred.

To Be Continued...METRIC...

MOBY W/ DEBBIE HARRY - NEW YORK, NEW YORK

This is the best shit ever.

ROCK THE VOTE!

I cannot express enough how vital this election is. There is a real chance for the Democrats to regain control of the Senate and the House, a much needed predecessor for the 2008 Presidential Election. Please make your voice heard, get off the internet (if only for an hour) and GO VOTE!!

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