[photo by Seze Devres]
Local experimental photographers Seze Devres and Julian Sherida-McKenna will be showing their work this Friday, August 1st from 8pm to midnight at the home of art patron and filmmaker Charles Merritt, located at 240 Richardson Street in Brooklyn. You may know Seze already as the hostess and resident photographer of two of […]

[Photo via lickyoats]
The Habitat in Greenpoint is holding its first annual chicken wing eating contest dubbed Habitual Chicken Ritual on August 26th at 9:30PM. Twelve contestants will gorge themselves with as many wings as possible in 10 minutes all for a night of free booze and nausea.
(via New York Shitty)
Flyer Below…

[Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five by Kehinde Wiley, 2005]
Kehinde Wiley, one of our favorite painters, will be showing some pieces at The Studio Museum in Harlem through October 26, 2008.
From The Studio Museum Harlem’s website:
Kehinde Wiley is known for his stylized paintings of young, urban African-American men in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and […]

Dear Deer by Alan Weber
Drinking outdoors and watching weird movies is not a bad way to spend a Friday night. We checked out the Rural Route-curated Rooftop Films last Friday on the lawn of the Automotive High School in Brooklyn. One of the crowd favorites was Dear Dear set to the music of […]

Our good friends at minitek are in the middle of a second 24-hour presale, this time at $60 per ticket. If you slept on the earlier $40 24-hour presale, now’s the time.
Head on over to Resident Advisor to pick up your tickets only until noon tomorrow!
Also, there have been some new additions since the last […]

Just a quick heads up, tickets are now available at Soundfix, Other Music and Brownpapertickets.com for the 88 drummer performance organized by Boredoms in Brooklyn.
From Pitchfork:
Japanese psych-noise-crazy-genius-types Boredoms will once again bring the clattering of oh-so-many drums to the States this summer, in a bi-coastal sequel to last year’s wildly successful 77BoaDrum event. This […]

Nas played a private show at Alife on Monday.

N.E.R.D. played a Paper Magazine party at Santos’ on Tuesday.

After their set at South Street Seaport on Friday, No Age played Death by Audio

And Abe Vigoda played Matthew Schnipper’s apartment

[Eric Cloutier spinning at Resolute Detroit]

ObsceneNYC family friend Eric Cloutier will be starting DOWN, his new monthly which will focus on the deeper side of minimal, techno, and house. The first DOWN takes place on Thursday, July 17th 2008 at Oulu Lounge in Williamsburg.
MP3: Eric Cloutier - Bar 13 Roof set (3 hours/284.6M)
May God have […]

Bunny Attack
Tod Seelie aka Sucka Pants aka One of Our Favorite Local Photographers is opening his first ever solo show at Cinders Gallery on Thursday. Opening reception is 7-10PM and the show entitled Slowdancing to Slayer will be on display until August 9th.
Tons of other stuff going on Thursday night as well including a […]

Plan of attack
Siren Fest is this Saturday at Coney Island, who’s going? It’s pretty enjoyable early on with the crowds get progressively worse throughout the day. We posted a muxtape with some of our favorite bands playing.
A Place to Bury Strangers, Apes & Androids and Marnie Stern are playing the afterparty at Music […]

Every Thursday from now until September 25th you’ll be able to see djs such as Dave 1 from Chromeo, The Rapture DJs, Matthew Dear, Alan Braxe, Ed Banger, and Micheal Mayer spin at ÉTÉ D’AMOUR (which translates to “summer of love”) at Santos’ Party House.
Check out Rhythmism’s interview with Jerome Viger-Kohler of Ete D’Amour. […]