this week in music

CONEY ISLAND BREWING COMPANY OPENING DAY

Coney Island Brewing Company
3008 West 12th St. at Surf Ave.
Wednesday, August 10, free with RSVP, 5:30 – 8:30
www.coneyisland.com

While some are trying to turn Coney Island into a kind of hipster Disneyland, there are still those out there fighting to preserve its low-budget charm and uniqueness as one of the last bastions of good old-fashioned fun, albeit with many a strange twist. So on Wednesday, August 10, Coney Island Sideshow founder Dick Zigun, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce president Carl Hum, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! head Michael Hirsch, and ubiquitous Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz will be on hand for what is being billed as “the World’s Smallest Ribbon Cutting Ceremony” for “the World’s Smallest Brewery,” the brand-new Coney Island Brewing Company. The opening celebration, which is free and open to the public with advance RSVP, will include live performance by Justin Mullins and the Neptunes, appearances by various sideshow freaks, samplings of food and drink courtesy of the brewery (cheesecake ale!), specially priced commemorative T-shirts, a small gift bag, and more.

BOY & BEAR

Boy & Bear will celebrate release of debut album with two area shows

Tuesday, August 9, Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston St., $12, 6:30
Wednesday, August 10, Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan Ave., $10-$12, 8:30
www.myspace.com/boyandbearmusic

Let’s face it: A lot of the indie folk roots rock movement is overrated and boring. There, we said it. Both on record and onstage, many of these acts are about as thrilling as watching paint dry, only less colorful. So hyping Sydney five-piece Boy & Bear by linking them with the Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Laura Marling, and even CSNY didn’t exactly sell us on them, nor did their overpraised cover of Crowded House’s “Fall at Your Feet.” (However, the Mumford & Sons comparison helped.) What sold us on them was listening to their stellar debut album, Moonfire. Produced with Joe Chiccarelli (My Morning Jacket, the Strokes) at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, the eleven-track disc has a big, epic feel and a sharp, pristine sound. From the opening drums of “Lord May” through the propulsive “Feeding Line,” the rollicking “Golden Jubilee,” and the downright Springsteen-esque “Big Man” (no, it’s not a tribute to the late Clarence Clemons), Moonfire blasts out of the speakers, occasionally getting caught up in twee harmonies but primarily thriving on high-quality songwriting by lead vocalist Dave Hosking and inventive instrumentation courtesy of Jon Hart on keyboards and mandolin. (The band also features Tim Hart on drums, Jake Tarasenko on bass, and Killian Gavin on guitar.) Formed in 2009, Boy & Bear quickly gained a following in Australia based on their exciting live shows, which brought them to SXSW earlier this year and now to New York City, where they’ll be celebrating the release of Moonfire on August 9 with Country Mice at Mercury Lounge and on August 10 with Yellowbirds and Dear Lions at Knitting Factory Brooklyn.

THE KILLS / THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART / A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS

The Kills lead excellent indie triple bill at Terminal 5

Terminal 5
610 West 56th St. between 11th & 12th Aves.
Monday, August 8, and Tuesday, August 9, $36.20, 7:00
www.terminal5nyc.com

There aren’t many shows that can lure us into the cavernous Terminal 5, but this week’s triple play is sure doing a good job of it. Today and tomorrow, the Kills duo of Alison Mosshart and Mr. Kate Moss — er, Jamie Hince, who recently got hitched to the British supermodel — will be highlighting tunes from their latest, Blood Pressures (Domino, April 2011), which features such diverse tracks as “Satellite,” “Baby Says,” and “The Last Goodbye.” The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have proved themselves one of the most consistent indie bands of the last handful of years in their live shows and on their first two discs, 2009’s eponymously titled debut and March’s follow-up, Belong (Slumberland), which continues their dreamy, well-crafted indie pop. Kicking things off is the loud, feedback-crazed a Place to Bury Strangers, who have been making an impact on such records as 2009’s Exploding Head and their sizzling live performances. Like we said, great lineup, less-than-ideal club, but this one promises a whole lot of heart.

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.