Evan Shinners will lead the SUITS! at RocketHub record release party for Brian & Silbin at the Living Room tonight
The Living Room
154 Ludlow St. at Stanton St.
Saturday, January 29, free, 10:00
212-673-5179
www.evanshinners.com
www.livingroomny.com
The last time we saw Evan Shinners, he was inside a piano, blasting away at Beethoven backward as he moved the instrument-on-wheels across MoMA’s second-floor atrium as part of Allora & Calzadilla’s “Stop, Repair, Prepare” performance installation. Tonight Shinners and the SUITS!, a band of five Juilliard graduates, will be melding Bach, Liszt, Dylan, MIA, Eminem, and the blues at the Living Room in what Shinners calls the future of classical music. The gig is part of the first RocketHub showcase at the Lower East Side venue, celebrating the release of the crowdfunding label’s first album, by the music collective Brian & Silbin and Friends, who are also on the bill, along with Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jeannine Hebb, all of whom financed their latest recordings via RocketHub.