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October 2009


58 N 3rd St
(btw Wythe & Kent) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Subway: L Train
(Bedford stop) 718.384.1369
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Thursday
Friday
Saturday
     

 



 

1
Monkey Town's 4th Anniversary Party
4 DOLLAR drinks and food ALL NIGHT + DJ PreSkool + Semiennial #5 screening
(6pm - Midnight)
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2/3
FRIDAY

Spun 2
art light noise new video art rebecca gaffney and most beloved michael mahalchick

(8:30 and 10:30pm)
$5, $10 minimum
more info


SATURDAY
EARLY
Mathematical Park and Hooray For Earth present: Celebration Of Eventfulness!
Mathematical Park debut tons of new videos, including premier of new single Surrounded By Your Friends by Hooray For Earth (performing live)

(8pm)
$5, $10 minimum
more info

LATE
DREAMERS by pitchouguina
Mixture of fashion by Anna Pitchouguina, music by amazing
Hank&Cupcakes, art, DJ Lady Lane, food and drinks
(10:30pm) $5, $10 minimum
more info

4
Centennial + Nightmare Cats + The Goddamn Team-Players
A night of minimalist, melodic, American songwriting followed by underwater sub-bass grooves

(8:30pm)
Free
$10 minimum
more info


5
EARLY
PowerPoint Karaoke
Imagine this: You have to deliver a PowerPoint presentation about an unfamiliar topic, with slides you’you've never seen, to an audience eager to heckle and laugh at you. It's no nightmare, it's PowerPoint Karaoke
(8pm)
Free, $10 minimum
more info

LATE
Blood Simple MONDAYS
EVERY Monday in October we play the first Coen Brothers movie with Carter Burwell's breakthrough soundtrack that sounds ridiculous on our new, improved, reparied sound system
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info




6
A Cocktail of Glamor & Anarchy (Film Screening)
An evening of Queer Cinema hosted by original Cockette Rumi Missabu
(8 and 10pm)
Free
$10 minimum
more info




7
EARLY
Speck Mountain + Spider + Fall of Another Year
Chicago's Speck Mountain bring their brand of gritty ambient soul
+ Fall of Another Year, an instrument swapping trio of vintage electronic tinged rock both heavy and delicate
(8pm) $7
$10 minimum
more info


LATE
Blood Simple WEDNESDAYS
EVERY Wednesday in October we play the first Coen Brothers movie with Carter Burwell's breakthrough soundtrack that sounds ridiculous on our new, improved, reparied sound system
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info


8
EARLY
EQUESTRIAN
+ The Clouds Are Ghosts

Brooklyn Psychedelic-Noise-Poppers (Equestrian) welcome Austin, Texas dreamers (The Clouds are Ghosts) for evening of music set to F. W. Murnau's "Faust"
(8pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Runar + Embryoroom
Icelandic musician Runar Magnusson with Edward Poul Quist. Live Performance by Embryoroom
(11pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info





9/10
EARLY
Vibrant Futures: EPISODE TWO
The second installment of this five part miniseries
(7:30pm) $8, $10 minimum
more info

LATE

Ghost Society + ApSci
The response was too good, and the food was outrageous. ApSci returns to Monkey Town for purely indulgent reasons
(10:30pm) $8, $10 minimum
more info


SATURDAY

CLOSED for Private Event

11
Motherlodge
Sunday: Sound and Vision

Music / film / theater by Less the Band, The Lisps, filmmaker Ian Waugh, playwright/ musician Molly Rice, and Louisville songwriter Tyrone Cotton, plus artist discussions led by playwright Adam Rapp and poet Ronnie Dorsey.
(7pm)
$10
$10 minimum
more info


12
EARLY
Among Themselves Presents a Screening of “The Blues Brothers
Comedy Troupe presents screening
The Blues Brothers. Plus, skits and cartoons
(8pm) Free
$5 minimum

more info

LATE

Blood Simple
MONDAYS

EVERY Monday in October we play the first Coen Brothers movie with Carter Burwell's breakthrough soundtrack that sounds ridiculous on our new, improved, reparied sound system
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info




13
Former Ghost + Silk Flowers
Project led by Freddy Ruppert (This Song Is A Mess But So Am I) with Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Nika Roza (Zola Jesus)
(8pm) $12
$10 minimum
more info






 

14
EARLY
Kotorino
Brooklyn's own ramshackle octet play a melange of xenophilic flavors,
with specially tailored abstracto/dramatic visuals by Travis Hale

(8:30pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Blood Simple WEDNESDAYS
EVERY Wednesday in October we play the first Coen Brothers movie with Carter Burwell's breakthrough soundtrack that sounds ridiculous on our new, improved, reparied sound system
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info







15
EARLY
Brent Arnold & Guests
Cellist & vocalist using live electronics to create vivid sonic worlds
(8pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
The Gay Beach Presents:
High Tide II with DJ's Tedward and M. Carter

Live frozen drink station, Live artmakin' by Momo, Palm Trees, Sand, Crazy gorilla photo opportunity, frozen drinks, Weekend at Bernie's 1 and 2!
(10:30pm - Late)
Free of Charge
more info

16/17
FRIDAY
EARLY
Amelia Saul + Trenzinfizting + Japanese Video Artists
Brooklyn based artist and musician collaborate with Japanese video
artists!

(7:30pm) Free, $10 minimum
more info

LATE
JFR/Fingered present: Premiere Screening of Excepter's "Black Beach"
DVD/12" release on Paw Tracks Records w/ performances by SETH + New Prosthetics
(10:30pm) $5, $10 minimum
more info

SATURDAY
EARLY
Tsubaki Shiraishi + Japanese Video Artists + Sontag Shogun
Brooklyn based artist and musician collaborate with Japanese video artists!
(7:30pm) Free, $10 minimum
more info

LATE
RGB - audiovisual environment
Raw Q, Jesse Mann + special guest: Reade Truth...minimal techno, house + dnb with visuals
(11pm) no cover b4 midnight $5 after
more info





18
Music and Butoh
An enormous parralax of an evening featuring butoh dance with live sound ritual, brooding pop music, lyrical video and granular time transporting old time folk dirge
(8:30pm) $5
$10 minimum

more info

19
EARLY
Mike Wexler + MANBENU
A night of medieval sonic drone guitar rock
(8:30pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Blood Simple MONDAYS
EVERY Monday in October we play the first Coen Brothers movie with Carter Burwell's breakthrough soundtrack that sounds ridiculous on our new, improved, reparied sound system
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info

20
Chocolate Bobka + Underwater Peoples + Olde English Spelling Bee are Straight Chilling at CMJ
A night of suburban riff raff, intergalactic psych, lucid visuals and mellow merriment

(8pm) $7
$10 minimum
more info



 

21
EARLY
Vimeo
The producers at VIMEO return for another screening
(8pm) Free
$10 Minimum
more info

LATE
Blood Simple WEDNESDAYS
EVERY Wednesday in October we play the first Coen Brothers movie with Carter Burwell's breakthrough soundtrack that sounds ridiculous on our new, improved, reparied sound system
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info



22
Amolvacy + The Brothers Peeesseye (w/ Nate Wooley) + Uncle Woody Sullender/Anything Maria/Aaron Moore
primitive post punk folk smash / freerock improv duo & guests / french female electrock / ritual drone improv
(8:30pm) $7
$10 minimum

more info

23/24
FRIDAY
Monthly Dinner Series:
Hello Lovers + 6-course Mexican Dinner

Austin, Texas small orchestra Hello Lovers performs fancy & romantic rituals with moving images by Oakland's lydia greer

(7:30pm)
$40, 6-course Prix Fixe
more info


SATURDAY
EARLY
Monthly Dinner Series:
Hello Lovers + 6-course Mexican Dinner

Austin, Texas small orchestra Hello Lovers performs fancy & romantic rituals with moving images by Oakland's lydia greer

(7:30pm)
$40, 6-course Prix Fixe
more info


LATE
outpost presents:
the atrocity exhibition

electro/psyche/experimental trio from manhattan interprets the JG Ballard masterpiece in sound and video
(10:30pm) $7, $10 minimum
more info

25
Monthly Dinner Series:
Hello Lovers + special guests

Austin, Texas small orchestra Hello Lovers performs fancy & romantic rituals with moving images by Oakland's lydia greer

(8pm)
$10
$10 minimum
more info

26
CLOSED
for well-deserved
break
Opening Night for the new hallway and bathroom installations has been postponed until December


27
Christy & Emily + Myrmyr [CA] + Kyle Bobby Dunn
Tracing the far reaches of minimalist melodic bliss w/video by Cecilia Elguero
(8pm) $5
$10 minimum

more info

28
EARLY
Smileys Speakeasy + **k + (special guest)
A night of dark psyche and spooky folk
(8pm) $5
$10 minimum
more info

LATE
Blood Simple WEDNESDAYS
EVERY Wednesday in October we play the first Coen Brothers movie with Carter Burwell's breakthrough soundtrack that sounds ridiculous on our new, improved, reparied sound system
(11pm) Free
$5 minimum
more info


29
EARLY
Doctruck Presents: Chantal Akerman's From The East
Akerman's impressionistic, elegiac view of Eastern Europe and its citizens in the transition period following the end of the Cold War
(7:30pm) $9
$10 minimum

more info

LATE
CALLmeKAT loves 'Reconstruction'

Music + Movie (Danish artist; casio-loving CALLmeKAT + one of her fav movies)
(10:30pm) $5 $10 minimum

more info

30/31
FRIDAY
EARLY

Sleeping Beauty
Short experimental film premiere screening including a celebration to honor this momentous occasion
(7:30pm) Free, $10 minimum
more info

LATE
SUPERGOOD REALITY
Combining electronic music and personal video, Supergood brings Reality to Monkeytown
(10:30pm) Free, $10 minimum
more info


SATURDAY
EARLY
Monkey Town Presents: Häxan, Witchcraft Through The Ages
The 1922 classic documentary in six parts with a live score

(8pm)
$8 $10 Minimum
more info

LATE
New Sound Scaryoke: Escape To Bitch Mountain
Your hosts Black Waterfall and Bobby Service celebrate the one-year anniversary of The New Sound Karaoke with a Halloween Scream-a-long bash! Witness the spine-tingling debut of their latest karaoke videos featuring live guest performances!
(10:30pm) $10 ($5 w/ Costume)
$10 minimum
more info