this week in music

ROCK YARD / BEACH PARTY

The Death Set will be part of JellyNYC show on Sunday afternoon at the Morgan in Brooklyn (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Rockbeach / Rock Yard
The Morgan, 25 Bogart St. between Rock & Varet Sts., free, 2:00
www.rockbeach.us
Beach Party
Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club, South Street Seaport, Pier 17, 89 South St., free, 3:00
www.beekmanbeergarden.com

Not very surprisingly, JellyNYC’s move to the Aviator Complex in the-middle-of-nowhere Brooklyn for their free summer concert series, after several blowout years at the McCarren Park pool and then the Williamsburg Waterfront in East River State Park, proved disastrous, as no one showed up. (Well, the exact numbers are in debate.) So after two Sundays, they’re now a lot closer to home, holding their next event on Sunday, August 7, at the Morgan in East Williamsburg, and they’ve changed the name from Rockbeach to Rock Yard. The lineup includes the Growlers, Japanther, the Death Set, Cerebral Ballzy, the So So Glos, and CSC Funk Band, running from 2:00 to 8:00. Meanwhile, Jelly veterans Mission of Burma, who played the Williamsburg Waterfront back in 2009, will be at the Beekman Beer Garden on the north side of Pier 17 on Sunday afternoon. The Labor Pool opens up at 3:00, with MoB scheduled to go on at 5:00, but doors open at 11:30, so you’re gonna have to get their early to snag a good spot.

FIRST SATURDAYS: CARIBBEAN COUNTDOWN

The Cool and Deadly will play at Brooklyn Museum First Saturday program on August 6

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Saturday, August 6, free, 5:00 – 11:00 (some events require free tickets distributed in advance at the Visitor Center)
212-864-5400
www.brooklynmuseum.org

The Brooklyn Museum is getting its annual Caribbean celebration under way early this year with a full slate of activities as part of its free August First Saturdays program. Things get going at 5:00 with Tribal Legacy leading a funky reggae get-down. At 6:00, visitors have their choice of curator Rich Aste giving a talk on the new acquisition “Free Women of Color With Their Children and Servants in a Landscape” and a screening of Frances-Anne Solomon’s 1995 Trinidad drama What My Mother Told Me. At 6:30, Trinidad native Hazelle Goodman will perform her one-woman show, Don’t Get Me Started, and the Hands-on Art workshop will offer participants the chance to decorate fabrics with Afro-Caribbean designs. At 7:00, NYU associate professor of anthropology Aisha Khan will discuss South Asian and Islamic cultural influences on the museum’s holdings. At 8:00, DJ Spice will get the monthly dance party going, with the Cool and Deadly and DJ Jillionaire highlighting the Afro-Punk Festival at 8:30. As always, the galleries are open until 11:00, giving everyone the chance to see such exhibitions as “Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior,” “reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio,” “Lorna Simpson: Gathered,” “Skylar Fein: Black Lincoln for Dooky Chase,” “Split Second: Indian Paintings,” “Four Bathers by Degas and Bonnard,” and “Sam Taylor-Wood: Ghosts.”

HIP HOP GENERATION NEXT ’11: FROM THE SOUTH BRONX TO EAST ASIA BLOCK PARTY

Simpson St. between 163rd & Barretto Sts.
Saturday, August 6, free, 2:00 – 8:00
www.dancinginthestreets.org
www.casita.us

The three-week, four-event Hip Hop Generation Next ’11 festival comes to a close on August 6 with a blowout block party, following the Ladies of Hip Hop Festival (July 15-17), STEPYAGAMEUP (July 23-24), and Hip Hop Kung Fu (August 2-3). Presented with the Casita Maria Center for Arts in Education, the celebration, which focuses on the burgeoning cultural connections between the Bronx and Korea and Japan, will be hosted by Jorge “Popmaster Fabei” Pabon and Brandon “Peace” Albright and feature such performers as DJ Doc, the Abrazos Orchestra, Emilio “Buddha Stretch” Austin Jr. & the Hip Hop / Kung Fu ensemble, XXL Freshman Fred the Godson, Illstyle & Peace Productions, KR3TS, Full Circle with Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio and Ana “Rokafella” Garcia, the all-woman urban dance collective MAWU, Misnomer(S), SnapShot & WandeePop, GrandWizzard Theodore, and the Ghanaian/Bronx collaboration “hiplife.” There will also be graffiti art projects, Double Dutch, workshops, ciphers, and other activities in what should be one of the hottest street festivals of the summer.

SERGEI TCHEREPNIN: GIVING REIN

Audiovisual artist Sergei Tcherepnin will transform Murray Guy gallery with special performance on August 5

Murray Guy
453 West 17th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
Friday, August 5, free, 7:00
212-463-7372
www.murrayguy.com

Inspired by French sociologist Bruno Latour’s 2005 tome Reassembling the Social, Murray Guy’s current exhibition, “A form is simply something which allows something else to be transported from one site to another,” examines uncertainty, association, displacement, and the boundaries of human perception, with contributions from Leonor Antunes, Gregg Bordowitz, Joachim Koester, Ulrike Müller, Hannah Rickards, John Smith, Sergei Tcherepnin, and Emily Wardill. The show closes on Friday, August 5, at 7:00 with a special free performance by Brooklyn-based audiovisual artist Tcherepnin, one of Issue Project Room’s 2012 artists-in-residence. Tcherepnin will play an eighteen-channel musical composition through flexible speakers made of such materials as paper, cardboard, aluminum, and copper that will transform throughout the space during the performance, offering each individual a unique sonic and visual experience.

THE SUMMER BBQ BLOW OUT FESTIVAL

City Winery backyard
155 Varick St. at Vandam St.
Saturday, August 6, $45 (food only), $60 (food and two drinks), 1:00 – 4:00 ($75 early entry at 12 noon)
212-608-0555
www.citywinery.com

The New York City barbecue season continues on Saturday, August 6, with the latest entry in the never-ending quest to bring great ’cue to Gotham. The fine folks at City Winery have teamed up with twin brothers Darin and Greg Bresnitz of Finger on the Pulse to present the first annual Summer BBQ Blow Out Festival, an afternoon block party of food and live music held in the Hudson St. venue’s outdoor backyard. A $60 ticket gets you two free drinks, one each of ten very different kinds of BBQ plates, and three hours of live music and DJs, from 1:00 to 4:00; for an extra fifteen bucks, you can get a head start on everyone else and enter at noon, and for fifteen dollars less you can get food only. The ten dishes, all created specifically for this event by chefs from the Meatball Shop, Mexicue, Craft, Momofuku Milk Bar, and other hot restaurants, include Phillip Kirschen-Clark’s duck leg skewer with pine-nut satay sauce, combava, mustard greens, and red-hot Holland peppers with puffed rice; Sam Mason’s grilled shrimp salad with Empire mayo; Sam Talbot’s charmoula-grilled mahi-mahi with Los Hermanos blue corn tortillas and peach mostarda; Noah Bernamoff’s coriander-smoked beef ribs; Thomas Kelly and David Schillace’s red beans and rice with house-smoked sausage; Tim Sullivan’s BBQ-spice grilled quail with Napa cabbage, scallions, citrus segments, and pecans; Daniel Holzman’s spicy lamb sloppy Joes; Oliver Kremer and Tyler Lohman’s braised pork shoulder with BBQ habanero glaze and sauce tacos; Jenny McCoy’s s’mores with chocolate panna cotta, toasted marshmallow, graham crackers, and smoked salt; and Christina Tosi’s watermelon and basil ice milk and sweet and salty cucumber ice milk. Music will be provided by Midnight Magic, DJ Autobot, Computer Magic, NewVillager, PUNCHES, and Ducky and the Snacky Tunes DJs, with such refreshing alcoholic beverages as vodka lemonade, sangria, and craft beers.

THE TWEES RESIDENCY AT ARLENE’S GROCERY

Arlene’s Grocery
95 Stanton St. between Orchard & Ludlow Sts.
Thursday, August 4, 11, 25, $8, 9:00
212-358-1663
www.arlenesgrocery.net
www.myspace.com/thetwees

We’re sick of twee bands. We’re liable to go all John Belushi over the next whiny-ass group that offers their love another cherry. So it’s a good thing for us — and them —that the Twees are anything but. Instead, the New York City four-piece plays guitar-and-drum-drenched decidedly nonwimpy garage rock that evokes early Strokes and Velvet Underground-era Lou Reed. On their latest EP, the five-track These Girls, guitarist Jon Zuckerman, drummer Daniel Edwards, singer-bassist David Kaplan, and vocalist-guitarist Jason Abrishami focus on relationships gone wrong, but they’re not crying in their beer. “You got it all twisted up / I try to let it go, but you, you don’t give up / Can you take one more hint / That I’m through with you / And you, you’re stuck with him,” Abrishami sings on “Give It Up.” On “On the Spot” he adds, “Oh you know that I don’t care / This city is a playing field / I don’t think I can / Descend to this anymore.” And on the pure pop gem “Wishful Thinking Youth,” he really lets loose: “She said I don’t see what you see in me / Sure, we’re young, but we don’t have dignity / You got what I want, but not what I need . . . anymore!” The Twees, who were voted by the fans to play last month’s Vans Warped Tour at the doomed Nassau Coliseum, will bring their high-energy postpunk attitude and sound to Arlene’s Grocery for a three-show Thursday-night 9:00 residency that begins August 4 with Gaz Ellis (7:00), Breaking Laces (8:00), Atomic Square (10:00), Crush of Empires (11:00), and the Barettas (12 midnight) and continues August 11 with Lindsay Bloom (7:00), the Dalliance (8:00), Dirty Pollyanna (10:00), Crush of Empires (11:00), and Hearts and Parts (12 midnight) and August 25 with Sheng Sway (10:00) and, once again, Crush of Empires (11:00).

SHERLOCK’S DAUGHTER RESIDENCY AT PIANO’S

Piano’s
158 Ludlow St.
Wednesday, August 3, 10, 17, 24, $8, 10:00 or 11:00
212-505-3733
wwwww.myspace.com/sherlocksdaughter
www.pianosnyc.com

We’ve been waiting nearly two years for Sherlock’s Daughter’s full-length debut, and it appears that we’re finally in luck. The Brooklyn-based band, originally from Australia, has put the finishing touches on the still-untitled LP, and they’ll be highlighting the new songs at their Wednesday-night August residency at Piano’s, which gets under way August 3. Featuring New Zealand vocalist Tanya Horo on guitar and keyboards, Will Russell on drums, Graeme Pillemer on bass, and Timothy Maybury on drums, Sherlock’s Daughter specializes in ethereal, haunting songs that wind their way through your body and mind as they twist and turn around the central melody, then veer off into the stratosphere. Their self-titled debut EP blew us away with such fine musical forays as “Sons and Daughters,” “Kids,” and “In the End,” which concludes with an intoxicating rainstorm. The new album was produced by John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, the Kills) in Hoboken and Williamsburg, and if three of the early tracks, the epic “Reprise,” the slowly building “Out in the Cold” (which ends in a barrage of noise), and the sweet “Giordano Bruno,” with Horo on xylophone, are any indication of the rest of the album, we should be in for quite a treat. Sherlock’s Daughter will be playing Piano’s on August 3 at 10:00 with Lavalier (8:00) and Exitmusic (9:00), August 10 at 11:00 with Marra Barr (8:00), Rarechild (9:00), and Chllngr (10:00), August 17 at 10:00 with White Life (8:00), Ravens and Chimes (9:00), and Fan-Tan (11:00), and August 24 at 10:00 with Our Mountain (8:00), My Best Fiend (9:00), and Zaza (11:00).