Bruar Falls
245 Grand St. between Driggs & Robeling Sts.
Thursday, July 28, $10, 8:00
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For nearly two years, Amy Grimm, creator of the intellectual and rebellious Whatever . . . blog, has been hosting monthly parties in Brooklyn clubs, featuring some of the best up-and-coming bands from across the country. “You know you’re at the right show if indie music princess Amy Grimm is there,” we wrote last year in our introduction to our twi-ny talk with the charming and enthusiastic music lover. Amy has put together another great Whatever . . . Blog Party for July 28 at Bruar Falls, featuring Rumanian Buck (7:00), Libel (8:00), the Nico Blues (9:00), Wojcik (10:00), and the Diamond Center (11:00). The sparkling Diamond Center, which consists of Brandi Price, Kyle Harris, and an ever-changing roster of drummers and other accompanists, blew us away with their 2009 sophomore release, My Only Companion, and have recently put out an awesome limited-edition seven-inch of “Caraway” backed with “20Twin,” fifteen minutes of haunting experimental wanderings; the former would have sounded great over the closing credits of Cowboys & Aliens. The Diamond Center are actual wanderers; they’ve moved from Athens, Georgia, to Lubbock, Texas, and now to Richmond, Virginia, during their four-year history. Brooklyn-based duo Wojcik, featuring Geoff Lewitt on drums and the multitalented Hailey Wojcik on guitar and vocals, mix in elements of 1970s and ’80s girl-group power pop and punk, melding Ike and Tina Turner’s “River Deep, Mountain High” with Kim Gordon from Dirty/Goo–era Sonic Youth filtered through Joan Jett, as evidenced on The [VOY-chek] EP and their recent cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “I Can Change.” Wojcik is the group’s fearless leader; “But have I got plans when it’s my turn / I’ll be warming my hands on the bridges I burn,” she declares on “Tiny Mussels.” New Jersey’s the Nico Blues go from loud and aggressive (“Unprofessional”) to bouncy (“Exit 6”) to melodic (“Adjust Accordingly”) on its latest album, Blame the Boredom, Blame the Basements. The Brooklyn trio Libel, made up of Julie Rozansky, Jonathan Hanson, and Gavin Dunaway, delve into fear on their most recent disc, No Regrets for Our Youth, with such high points as “TLO” and “A Fatality.” On “Wasp Lane” they proclaim, “Resist, resist / all augmentation / Insist, insist / on assimilation.” And Greenpoint’s Aaron Lazar of the Giraffes is resurrecting his essentially one-man band, Rumanian Buck, responsible for such well-titled tracks as “Tineretze” and “Slippercrumble,” as a trio for this reunion show. Once again Grimm has curated what should be a great night of indie rock from bands you probably haven’t heard of but will be glad you now do.