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IN BED-STUY: DJ QuestLove, Chrisette Michele, Maya Azucena to perform & Leon to host The 7th annual Restoration Rocks! music festival in Bed-Stuy this Saturday, October 12 — 10am – 5pm.
The festival is free and open to the community, presented by the Center for Arts & Culture (CAC) at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC) and is a part of the Bed-Stuy Alive! week-long event.
Tonight at 7:30, join a conversation with downtown army god Glenn Branca in celebration of his 65th birthday.
Presented by The Bedford + Bowery Newsroom on Grand Street.
All Photographs by Victoria Stillwell
Cayucas brought California vibes and sun-pop to Brooklyn, and to a jam-packed Knitting Factory, on August 29. I sat down before the show with lead singer Zach Yudin and his bandmates Ben Yudin, Casey Wojtalewicz, and Russell Henon, to talk about surfing, music, and Michael Jordan.
V: Zach, before Cayucas you had a band called Oregon Bike Trails. What started Cayucas, how was the band “born”?
Zach: Well, the guy who runs the label made me come up with a different band name to suit the sound a little better. And we had a song called Cayucos, so he threw out the idea of making that song title the band name. It just makes more sense. Oregon Bike Trails was just a name that I came up with before there was even a song. So once there was actually an album created, Cayucas made more sense.
Chris Carr, Brooklyn Wildlife producer (right) and friend Tyquan Sounds. Photo by Ventiko
By Gloria Fox
Alongside a massage table, crafts and t-shirt vendors, as well as immersive dance troupes, including Sans Limites Dance, there was the music… excellent music coming from independent bands and singers, all part of a music scene that is cresting with powerful energy and talent in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Someday I expect to say about a few of these bands: “I saw them back when….”
“When you die, and then open your eyes, if there isn’t music, something like this playing in the distance, you’re probably on your way to the wrong place.”
In old British legend, if you can hear the sound of the bluebell’s knoll, then death is upon you. Those of us who are still alive may gather on Wythe Avenue at Output’s Panther Room on Sunday, September 8, for the
Classic Album Sunday play of The Cocteau Twins’ 1988 pressing of Bluebell Knoll.