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March 29, 2013Please get out and do something. Your roommates are worried about you.
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January 11, 2013These are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
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January 9, 2013Two great ways to help
a great station
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December 26, 2012CHERYL will make you sweat
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April 25, 2012The Rub welcome you to
their house party, party
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April 13, 2012Two nights this week I trucked out to the Bell House to attend the Chickfactor 20th-anniversary shows, which honored the two-decade-old indiepop fanzine with performances by the likes of Versus, the Softies, and Small Factory. Pinned to some of the Bell House's walls was a sign asking the people in ... More >>
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April 1, 2012The calm before the storm: first session attendees line up outside Bell House around 1pm.
Saturday, Bell House hosted the second annual Beer for Beasts, a charity event jointly sponsored by Brooklyn's Sixpoint Brewery and Boston's Beer Advocate. The event benefited The Humane Society of New York. ... More >>
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January 12, 2012via ChickfactorChickfactor #5, starring Lois Maffeo and Rebecca Gates. The resurgence of the concept of "twee" (for better and for worse), and the fact that 2012 serves as the 20th anniversary of the seminal indiepop fanzine Chickfactor, probably made the three-night Bell House birthday blowo ... More >>
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November 8, 2011While it goes without saying that the main attraction of this weekend's Norton Records 25th Anniversary All-Star Spectacular is the fine garage/punk/R&B sounds that will be blaring from The Bell House, the chance to see the mind-blowing music industry subversive Kim Fowley playing master of c ... More >>
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October 19, 2011Jonathan Richman returns to the Bell House
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October 17, 2011Sarah Luisa Garay
Those Darlins w/The Beets
The Bell House
Friday, October 14
Better than: Minding your ps and qs.
The Tennessee country-punk foursome Those Darlins is quite darling, but they aren't entirely prim and proper; on Friday at the Bell House, they hollered anthems of lust from t ... More >>
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October 4, 2011Shellac w/Helen Money
The Bell House
Monday, October 3
Better than: Bawling indie-rock wuss tears as Jeff Mangum sings a Neutral Milk Hotel weeper.
For the second year in a row, Chicago post-punk veteran goliaths Shellac graced The Bell House stage for two post-All Tomorrow's Parties hangover show ... More >>
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September 28, 2011Antoine Pratt
Boubacar Traore w/Zongo Junction
The Bell House
Tuesday, September 27
Better than: Eric Clapton's probably inevitable African blues record.
Sly Stone offers one possible method for dealing with celebrity: get famous, sell your royalties and squander your money, drop out of sig ... More >>
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September 14, 2011Voice Choices
March 30, 2011Break us off a piece of that
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March 27, 2011The festival featured 20 unique beers created for the occasion, plus a slew of Sixpoint standards.
Saturday, Boston's BeerAdvocate and Brooklyn's Sixpoint Brewery collaborated to stage a benefit for the Human Society of New York. There were over 600 attendees in each of two sessions, one aft ... More >>
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February 23, 2011Alcoholic dishes compete in this boozy cook-off
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February 16, 2011If you desire relentlessly goofy, profoundly surreal live entertainment this fine Wednesday evening, might I suggest you follow your nose to the banks of the Gowanus Canal and avail yourself of, yes, the Bell House's Flight of the Conchords Sing-Along, which will focus on season one (no "Caro ... More >>
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February 15, 2011In March, glass bottles and shameless hussies will collide.Before Nick Suarez and Theo Peck take their show on the road, they'll raise a glass - or a few hundred - to the Food Experiment's upcoming national tour with the Brooklyn Booze Experiment.
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February 9, 2011Voice Choices
February 2, 2011Parties for lovers and the lonely hearts club
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January 5, 2011Celebrate all things Colorado
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November 24, 2010Throwing down and dishing up the best holiday cuisine
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November 10, 2010Attacking the chill with chili
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July 6, 2010Best Bar Mitzvah ever.The Hood Internet
Bell House
Friday, July 2
The scene at the Bell House Friday night could've easily been mistaken for a totally rad Bar Mitzvah: A dance floor filled with boys and girls not touching, but rather dancing in circles around each other (some were even shoel ... More >>
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June 17, 2010Rob Hatch Miller's TwitPic
Only love for these guys, but we were admittedly excited about the prospect of the "top secret" video location for Ted Leo's "Bottled in Cork" to be a dingy Bed-Stuy loft, or the Party Expo space (maybe part of that TBA?), or Damon Dash's basement (we know, it's booked), ... More >>
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May 24, 2010"Sayid" (center) was pulled on stage for his eponymous ballad
Previously on Lost
Bell House
Sunday, May 24
This is "the most important night of your life, the most anticipated night of human history" recap-rock band Previously on Lost announces to the sold-out crowd at Bell House. It's around 8pm ... More >>
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May 11, 2010
Tonight is a Nicolas-Cage-circa-National-Treasure wet dream: The Ridgewood Masonic Temple is housing Sleigh Bells, the M.I.A./Jonas Brother-endorsed duo consisting of metallic guitars fused with overdriven, butt-spanking hip-hop beats. Openers include ecstatic lo-fiers Sundelles and mysterious, sp ... More >>
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April 26, 2010As long as it's for a good cause Monday night boozehound dancing doesn't translate into a serious alcohol problem...so celebrate boobs and girl power at the Bell House's Keep A Breast Benefit with electropop divas. First, MNDR, a/k/a Amanda Warner (to your left), dons oversized acid freak gla ... More >>
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March 24, 2010Take a load off once the pounding ends
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February 16, 2010Tinariwen rock it desert-style
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February 3, 2010Bradford Cox a/k/a Atlas Sound (that's him to the left) could've been a hypnotist in a prior life—if in doubt, stop by the Bell House, where he'll put the audience in a trance with subdued fluorescent vocals layered over tamed, fraying guitars and electronic noise that bubbles to the su ... More >>
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January 26, 2010Say hello and goodbye to the island
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January 5, 2010Photo of dudes with beards by Nate "Igor" SmithAccording to Jack "Skippy" McFadden, head talent buyer at Union Hall and the Bell House, as told to the New York Times: "Beards are like the 2009 version of the anti-guitar solo. In the early '90s, indie bands like Pavement and Sonic Youth made g ... More >>
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December 7, 2009The December 2 Bell House sequel to nyctaper's recording of the Mountain Goats' December 1 show at Webster Hall is now up as well--highlights this time around include a Thin Lizzy cover in which Owen Pallett's Final Fantasy somehow makes it into the lyrics. Not the first time Darnielle has do ... More >>
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November 3, 2009The weekend before the aromas of meat, beans, and spices take over the Bell House, the place will be filled with teeth-rotting goodness from amateur chefs competing in The Brooklyn Chocolate Experiment. Theo Peck and Nick Suarez, of Experiments Cheese and Beer, have teamed up with Amanda Hess ... More >>
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October 29, 2009serenejournal/flickr
Following the success of his first Chili Takedown five years ago, Matt Timms dabbled in lamb, toyed with tofu, and is even taking his Takedown show on the road for mac 'n' cheese in Massachusetts. But, come November 22, he's going back to his roots for The Brooklyn Chili ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
"Basically, I think right now, the world's in shit," Scott "Wino" Weinrich told the Voice's own Phil Freeman recently, by way of explaining the decision to revive the finest iteration of doom-metal giants Saint Vitus for a brief tour. "There's a lot of despair, a lot of economic problems. People h ... More >>
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September 18, 2009--Tickets for the October 16-18 New Yorker Festival, which will feature plenty of musicians--Neko Case, Bon Iver, Loudon Wainwright III, Ian Hunter, Jace Clayton, and Melvin Gibbs, to name a few----and a really ace concert at the Bell House with Liturgy and Dirty Projectors, are on sale now. ... More >>
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May 7, 2009Bagless vacuum cleaner inventor James Dyson has filed a US patent application for "cubist" kitchen appliances, designed to take up less space than round, jug-shaped ones.
[New Scientist]
Governor Paterson has signed an executive order to phase out the purchase and use of all bottled water at govern ... More >>
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May 5, 2009
I knew enough from my previous attendance at the Bacon Takedown and Chowder Slam that I'd better get to this event early: Guactacular Invitational 2009 was to be a competition among nine avo ... More >>
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April 22, 2009No, it's a ridiculous-sized hat
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April 15, 2009Blogs
February 2, 2009
"I Let It Go" video via TheExtremer
The Thermals
The Bell House
Saturday, January 31
Portland mid-tempo indie-punx The Thermals would have more fun if we let them be more comfortable in regular-rocker's shoes. At a one-off show at the Bell House, they weren't too cool to dance around like goofuse ... More >>
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January 5, 2009
They scream a lot, but, like, melodically.
Babe the Blue Ox
The Bell House
Saturday, January 3
Love this band. Infectious pop spiked with equal parts blissful soul and dissonant, acerbic noise-rock tomfoolery. Had a major-label go of it in the late '90s to no avail (The Way We Were is the jam, " ... More >>
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September 17, 2008The Union Hall crew opens another spot, and adds to a surprising resurgence
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