Market Hotel

The Top Ten DIY Venues In New York City

In New York's chaotic do-it-yourself music ecosystem, nothing is a given. A venue might combust as suddenly as easily a new one might spring up, making this list obsolete—yet that volatility is part of the venues' inherent uncivilized appeal. Who's to say where the next bunch of longhairs migh ... More >>

No Age Play Death By Audio Tonight

They will play your House of Vans, serenade your New Museums, climb around your Bowery Ballrooms. But LA-based dream-punk brothers No Age always find time for the little people, headlining your skate shops, your auto-parts-store attics, your Market Hotel opening ceremonies (RIP). They will do so aga ... More >>

New York's Crackdown on Brooklyn DIY Spaces

Todd P Celebrates A Decade

The DIY promoter looks back on 10 years of hosting shows

Live: Prince Rama Start Their Own Cult At Issue Project Room

"Wave goodbye to your former selves."​Prince Rama Issue Project Room Sunday, February 20 The Hare Krishna-bred, Animal Collective-produced crew Prince Rama are the Brooklyn-based band you previously might've seen performing alongside a homemade vacuum-cleaner-powered organ during Body Actuali ... More >>

Ridgewood Masonic Temple Has Gone Dry

2010 was not a particularly pleasant year for venue/police relations -- see Market Hotel or Santos Party House -- and 2011 unfortunately got off on the wrong foot immediately. Ridgewood Masonic Temple, the pretty great Bushwick spot that hosted shows last year by Sleigh Bells, Das Racist, Lightni ... More >>

Five Reasons You Should Attend Quiet Color's Destined-To-Be-Bonkers "Anti-CMJ" Loftspace Blowout With Sisters and Special Guests Tonight

1. Last year, the Quiet Color show at the Market Hotel had the two major breakout bands from CMJ 2009--Surfer Blood and Sleigh Bells. "We do pride ourselves as being slightly ahead of the curve," says Quiet Color founder/editor-in-chief Alex Pellerano. "Not to be pretentious about it, but it was ... More >>

Someone Finally Cleaned the Silent Barn Bathroom

Would you use this bathroom? Photo via Viceland Today​After CBGB's unspeakably vile bathroom went the way of the rest of the erstwhile punk venue, the truly immortally foul New York rock bathrooms mostly moved east, across the river, taking up unfortunate new residence in Williamsburg's myriad ... More >>

Download: The So So Glos, "Lindy Hop"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Scruffy Brooklyn four-piece So So Glos are best known for their DIY sound (they're always the quickest to play a pop-up acoustic show in a subway station) and their DIY attitudes (dudes used to lite ... More >>

Live From the Not Quite Rainout of Todd P's Acoustic BBQ

This is something that happened within city limits. All photos by Georgia Kral​Todd P's 2010 Unamplified Acoustic BBQ Raptor Point Sunday, September 12 Better Than: Being dry. When two shirtless men playing bongos tell you to clap, you clap--even when the sky is pouring rain, even when you'r ... More >>

Getting to Know Live at the Pyramids, the New Williamsburg Venue that Hosted Eternal Summers, Family Trees, and Reading Rainbow Last Night

Not the bathroom, though we obviously have a picture of that too. All photos by Georgia Kral.​Bathrooms at DIY clubs are notoriously nasty--as they should be. The Market Hotel? There's rarely any toilet paper, the stall doors don't close, and the stench of urine is enough to make you forget yo ... More >>

Tonight! Holy Fuck, Adam Green, Nickel Eye, Vivian Girls, Reading Rainbow, Harlem, Gang Gang Dance, Hot Chip, Titus Andronicus, Das Racist, Boy Crisis, TOBACCO, Real Estate, HEALTH, Andrew WK, Cold Cave, 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q, And Charlotte Gainsbourg

Norman Wong​Take a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>

The Market Hotel Is Going Non-Profit, Looking for Volunteers

photo by Rebecca SmeyneScene from the Yummy Fur show at the Market Hotel this past January The NYPD stopped by the Market Hotel earlier this month, much to our dismay, causing the venerable DIY venue to go dark and to relocate its already-scheduled programming to like-minded spaces like Monster Isl ... More >>

Week in Review: Listen to Them Goddamn Drums

​In the week SOTC blood kin Christopher R. Weingarten swore up an absolute storm in defense of music criticism, we memorialized his cascades of profanity in a very special video edit, then rode out on the battlefield once more to sort out the critical scrum that broke out in the speech's wake. ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Rob Swift And Total Eclipse, Just Blaze, And Louie Vega

​Friday is for hip-hop. First and foremost, the X-Ecutioners' Rob Swift and Total Eclipse headline the appropriately named "Respect the Architect" Full Spectrum party series at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Though Swift and Eclipse are turntablists at their core, expect a dance party easy on the sc ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Traif; Goodbye to Bushwick's Market Hotel

Restaurants, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and taking their leaves this week. The Market Hotel, a music hall in Bushwick, has been shut down for operating without a license. Promoter Todd Patrick hopes to relocate his events to Monster Island, off Kent Avenue. [Brooklyn ... More >>

Week in Review: THIS CAN'T BE GOOD!!

Figured this one deserved an encore.​In the week Aimee Mann heard the phrase "Eat a hot bowl of dicks" for the first time, we made suggestions for her inevitable reconciliation with Ice-T, whose acting she at first did not sufficiently respect. Perhaps it'll involve Key Largo, Jon Brion, "Cop ... More >>

Tonight! Cave, Penguin Prison, And High Places

Caves pic by Laura Coleman​This could be another day of cursing the gods, considering that both Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Webster Hall show and Midlake's gig at the Bowery Ballroom are sold out, but hey, there are plenty of excellent consolatory shows. You could start a therapeutic sing-al ... More >>

Tonight! The Babies, Best Coast, Bitters, Dr. Dog, MiniBoone, Mariachi El Bronx, And Suckers

Marielle Solan Look, it's MiniBoone! And free Monopoly money!​Get past the silly concept of an indie supergroup and go see the Babies (Cassie from the Vivian Girls and some dude from Woods) at the Knitting Factory. Expect uppity Vivian Girls sass, but with discernible lyrics and a healthy lowe ... More >>

Market Hotel Is Shut Down Until Further Notice

Wavves at Market Hotel in happier times (for Market Hotel) "So...Market Hotel got into some police trouble," noted Todd P over the weekend. "What does this mean? Hard to tell." But for now, thanks to a visit from the cops Saturday night, the Bushwick spot is going dark indefinitely, with two and a ... More >>

Oneida+Sightings

875 People Were at the Market Hotel for Surfer Blood on Saturday?!?

Probably should've known that the Surfer Blood bill at the Market Hotel on Saturday night was going to be sold way the hell out, especially when even Luke's Lobster in the East Village was playing Astro-Coast on Friday night. Nevermind the ominous symbolism in a bunch of Brooklyn kids texting back ... More >>

On NYCTaper and the Proud, Obsessive Lineage of Local Audio Hoarders

Photos: Yummy Fur at the Market Hotel, The Beets at St. James Church, Underscore Quarterly Release Party at the Silent Barn

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneLess Artists More Condos show at St. James Church in Chinatown Those of us blessed with a long weekend had plenty to do with it. Like see Julian Casablancas at Terminal 5, take in Vampire Weekend's "emotionally grueling" marathon at the United Palace Theater, watch Gasli ... More >>

'Mister Saturday Night Presents DJ Harvey'

New Year's Eve 2010: New York Shows

Yeah it's Christmas, but it's also the dawn of the first of many, many maddeningly inconclusive conversations you're about to have about your New Year's plans. Let this guide help you. We're out of here for the day, and back on Monday. Enjoy the long weekend. May your holidays look a lot like this. ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 4: Blue October, "Jump Rope"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. As in "Blue October, I want to fucking strangle you with this jump rope right now."

The Wild and Wonderful Story of Under 100, the DIY Show Space in Dame Dash's Basement

Sleigh Bells perform at Under 100 in front of an extremely focused Ryan Schreiber. Photo by Rez Avissar/Pitchfork. Used by permission.​Greg Finch is the 20-year-old Pitchfork.tv intern who, along with Less Artists More Condos' Ariel Panero, runs Under 100, the DIY show space located in former ... More >>

forgetters Are Still Together, Playing New York Next Friday

File under somewhat unwelcome photos of good people​In the primer we wrote a couple weeks ago about forgetters, the sporadically active Blake Schwarzenbach-fronted Brooklyn band, we mused some about whether or not they were even still an ongoing concern. (Thorns of Life, this band's predecesso ... More >>

Prince Rama of Ayodhya

The Vivian Girls/Woods Project the Babies Have A Couple New Songs For You to Get Senselessly Engraged By

​ This past fourth of July saw the live debut of the Babies, a new band featuring Woods bassist Kevin Morby, Vivian Girls guitarist Cassie Ramone, and Bossy's Justin Sullivan on drums. Their abbreviated set at a Market Hotel afterparty was duly YouTubed and scrutinized for clues, despite the m ... More >>

Underwater Peoples Announce Summer Showcase

​ If one were to make minute, hairsplitting distinctions between watery, gazey, lo-fi pop labels, we might cop to envying D.C. for having Underwater Peoples, the slightly more melodic, surf-centered sonic counterpart to local labels Woodsist and Captured Tracks. The overlap is so heavy it's ... More >>

Road Trip to Austin With Todd P

Scenes from the new doc starring NYC's premier DIY promoters

Hear/Read Along As Oneida Tear Things Down at the Market Hotel

Santiago Felipe​ Perhaps you might be interested in hearing the audio to last Friday's Oneida show Rob Harvilla describes so ably in this week's Voice? Did 2009 jam-of-the-moment "Ghost in the Room" in fact induce "a sort of fist-pumping nirvana in which everyone is too mesmerized to actually ... More >>

On the Exhausting Exhilaration of Oneida

Catching up with our finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies

If You Missed a Band at Siren, Have No Fear, They Just Might Be Coming Back

Nate "Igor" SmithJapandroids Now that Siren Festival is over, the sundry bands who played the Voice's Coney Island hotdogging extravaganza can announce their next New York shows without worrying about your proscratinated attendance. So if you did, perchance, miss an act you meant to see--either beca ... More >>

New York Mount Eerie Show to Be By Far the Most Metal

 So the tourdates are up, and it's official: New York is getting the most metal Mount Eerie show by far. Where most of Phil Elverum's dates are with some combination of likeminded old souls No Kids, Karl Blau, and Tara Jane O'Neil, New York will get--in honor of Wind's Poem, the new not-really- ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download the Beets' "Don't Fit In My Head"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Last time, we gave you the exclusive video of Motel Motel's "Coffee." The Beets and some wrestler guy The Beets are one of the most underappreciated bands in New York, especially since they should be rid ... More >>

Vivian Girls Side Project Babies Already Enraging People

At the Saturday night Market Hotel afterparty to the two day Woodist/Captured Tracks Festival, Babies--a new band featuring members of Vivian Girls and Woods--played a set, to the delight of the one guy standing in front of the YouTube cameraman and the utter distain of the BV comments section, wh ... More >>

Beauty Bar Brooklyn Grand Opening: Jon Spencer Pounces on a Car, Cops Have Better Things to Do in Bushwick Than Care

Nate "Igor" Smith Heavy Trash Beauty Bar Brooklyn Thursday, May 28 The Beauty Bar Brooklyn, opening to the public this weekend, is a soccer-goalie's kick away from the Myrtle J/M/Z stop, about a block from everybody's favorite loft-show space Market Hotel. The place's awning still currently reads ... More >>

Photos from USAISAMONSTER's "Last Show Ever" Featuring Awesome Color, a Shirtless Juiceboxxx, and A Sweaty Mass of Spectators

Justin F. Farrar gushed his respects last week to Brooklyn prog-noise stalwarts USAISAMONSTER, who after 10 years, four full-lengths, two EPs, a stack of CD-Rs, and a zillion cold floors around the globe, are ending their long-revered band. Last Saturday at the Market Hotel was billed as their "La ... More >>

A Brief History of the Times' Valiant Attempts to Give Fucked Up Press Without Mentioning Them by Name

Santiago FelipeAs a huge fan of the paper of record's oft-awkward attempts to cover profane bands/albums/songs without actually naming them, so as to avoid offending anybody -- my all-time favorite is still their refusal to cite Final Fantasy's He Poos Clouds by name -- you have to admire how often ... More >>

High Places Relocate to Los Angeles, Join the Smell Club

This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

Celebrating the Tentative Dawn of a Brave New Era with Fucked Up

It's morning in America, and midnight in Bushwick

Krallice at Todd P's Back To School Party

Updated: Black Lips Tonight at the Market Hotel

A Fierce Night in Brooklyn

Honoring a somewhat fatigued Project Runway victor at a South Slope house party

Photos: Ponytail at Market Hotel [03.01.08]

Updated Market Hotel Show Info: High Places at the Silent Barn, Gengis Tron at Market Hotel