Crossing Brooklyn Ferry kicks off tonight at BAM, and between enjoying the bands, DJ’s, quartets, ensembles, choirs and films, we’ve arranged for a special Beer & Cheese tasting in the BAM Café (represented visually below) for all in attendance to enjoy.

Check out the heavy-hitting schedule here, and we’ll see you there.

Whether you’re a fan of goth-punk or you have a migraine-induced sensitivity to light, this April 14 event is for you. Right here within the Brewery confines, we’ll be paying homage to the old Hindy warehouse parties of yore, with unlimited taps of some of our darkest beers (Dry Irish Stout and current Brewmaster’s Reserve Mary’s Maple Porter) as well as a midnight tasting of the eternally-dark vintage Black Chocolate Stout. Oh, and if it isn’t clear yet, the theme of this particular get-together is darkness, so come dressed in dark attire and get ready to dance to the seriously dark dance tunes of DJ Seek10. Tickets are $20; you can get yours by clicking on the button below.

The Brooklyn team will be hopping on a plane to Texas in a few short weeks to take part in the South by Southwest music and film festival. If you’re headed to the Lone Star State for the festivities, be sure to enjoy a Brooklyn at any and/or all of the following locations and events:

3/9 Friday
5-7pm
Gingerman
Happy Hour w/ Food Experiment chefs

3/10 Saturday
6-8pm
Central Market
Supermarket Showdown

3/11 Sunday
12pm
ND Venue
The Austin Taco Food Experiment 3/11Sunday
6pm
Cedar Door
Made In NY Start Up

3/13 Tuesday
8pm
Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
Media Temple’s SXSWi
Closing Party

3/14 Wednesday
11am
Whip In
South By Suds Whip In

3/14 Wednesday
1pm
The Highball
PartyEnds

3/14 Wednesday
8pm
Lanai Rooftop
Software/ Mexican Summer

3/14 Wednesday
12pm
Hotel Vegas
Brooklyn Vegan Daytime Showcase

3/15 Thursday
12pm
Clive Bar
Daytime Showcase

3/15 Thursday
12pm
Frontier Bar
Daytime Showcase

3/15 Thursday
6pm
Papi Tino’s
Brooklyn Country Cookout

3/16 Friday
12pm
The Liberty
Mightier Than The Sword

3/16 Friday
12pm
Home Slice
Music by the Slice

3/16 Friday
12pm
Clive Bar
Daytime Showcase

3/17 Saturday
12pm
Club Deville
AV Club Daytime Showcase

3/17 Saturday
12pm
Clive Bar
Daytime Showcase

You’re probably like “What? Did I read that right?”. Don’t worry, you did. Good job! Claire, our extraordinaire Export Coordinator, will explain:

Friday nights at the Brooklyn Brewery are typically full of good times and great people but recently we had some very special visitors. An a’cappella Choir of 24 girls from Iceland called Graduale Nobili (@gradualenobili) who just so happen to be on tour with Bjork, offered to sing us a few songs in exchange for beer and pizza. Harmoniously and flawlessly they sang their National Anthem, their impressive rendition of the Flight of the Bumble Bee, and an upbeat song that translates to a man in red destroying a village with his scythe. They were even kind enough to humor us by singing the anthem of our cask beer club, The Legion of Osiris. It was an honor that they decided to spend their night off from Bjork’s Biophilia tour with us.

Watch as Graduale Nobili graciously supports us on The Anthem of The Legion of Osiris, followed by a performance of “Raudi Riddarinn (The Red Knight)”. Below the video are the song’s upbeat, sunny lyrics.

No one is so solitary that he cannot expect a visitor, a horseman all in red riding a pale steed
A horseman all in red wielding a reeking scythe gallops so the clatter of hooves resounds around the world
Swirling up dust that darkens the world of men and spatters on the windows
The horseman forces his way into the house and his sickle drips with blood 

//////////

And now for something completely different… on Saturday, Feb 25 the band Delta Spirit will incrementally debut its forthcoming at three Williamsburg bars, followed by a live performance at Public Assembly (RSVP and enter to win tickets to the show). On this musical afternoon, Brooklyn beers are just $3 at Manhattan Inn, d.b.a., and Lovin’ Cup during the featured hour, and $4 at Public Assembly.

[I Am The Not The Walrus]

By way of Gothamist, I’ve come across a fascinating Internet page dedicated solely to John Lennon’s cats. Needless to say, I’m not surprised that one of the world’s foremost songwriters drew inspiration from felines, and can only surmise that Yoko was a dog lover. Paul, too. Come to think of it, was this the rift that broke up the Beatles? I’m going to say yes, definitely.

Brooklyn Brewery’s new website (featuring my old school staff photo) launched last week, only to be immediately overshadowed by another, significantly more interactive and information-rich and internet page: Procatinator.

Beer is overflowing, papers are piling up, sales are plummeting, and the new brewery site is gathering dust while the work day is spent procatinating. Humans! So easy to please.

At the Brewery there are few things we love more than good beer — great new music is a definite contender. To that end, you’ll be able to find Brooklyn Brewery beer at a handful of shows during the 2011 CMJ Music Marathon:

Monday, October 17
Oh My Rockness @ Cameo Gallery

Friday, October 21
Kanine Records @ Cake Shop

Saturday, October 22
Pitchfork @ Aloft

Tuesday, October 18
Cameo Gallery
93 N. 6th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Celebrate CMJ and the 7th Birthday of Oh My Rockness with $4 Brooklyn Lagers for the first 2 hours, awesome bands, and a chance to win the Oh My Rockness BIG BIRTHDAY PRESENT (which includes a gift certificate to our Brewery Tasting Room).

6:30pm – Dive
7:30pm – Zambri
8:30pm – Wise Blood
9:30pm – Headless Horseman
10:30 – Evan Voytas
11:30pm – Chad Valley
12:30am – Beat Connection

Saturday, October 22, 2-6pm
Aloft Hotel Rooftop
216 Duffield Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Free show w/ RSVP

From Pitchfork:

This Saturday, October 22, Pitchfork will host a day party on the rooftop of the Aloft Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn. The event will feature performances by Dom and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, a DJ set from Neon Indian, and beverages supplied by Brooklyn Brewery and Tito’s Vodka.

The Aloft Hotel is located at 216 Duffield Street. The event is free, and will last from 2pm to 6pm, with complimentary drinks until 4pm. Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP by emailing RSVP@pitchfork.com.

Later that day, Pitchfork will host Altered Zones at the New Museum, featuring Atlas Sound, AraabMuzik, Grimes, Teengirl Fantasy, Trash Talk, Prince Rama, Main Attrakionz, and more. Buy tickets here.

Saturday, August 27 & Sunday, August 28 @ 2pm
Brooklyn FireProof
119 Ingraham Street
New York, NY 11237
(347) 223-4211

This 2-day music festival in Brooklyn features 16 bands and beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery. Stay tuned to Out in the Streets for the lineup.

Bonnaroo 2011 has come and gone, and with it so has another epic excursion to sunny Tennessee in celebration of music, art and beer. We braved the heat — and over 80,000 people — to enjoy the songsmithings of Eminem, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Buffalo Springfield, My Morning Jacket, Lil Wayne, Bassnectar, Girl Talk, Primus, Dr. John & The Meters, Gogol Bordello, Ratatat, Deerhunter, Devotchka, Best Coast, The Sword, Twin Shadow, The Walkmen, Phosphorescent and many, many more.

And of course there was beer. Under the delicious shade of the “Brooer’s Tent” we poured refreshing cups of Brooklyn Summer Ale and Brooklyner Weisse, gave away merch and made new friends from near and afar. Read more to see some photos (and click here for the Flickr set):

[A mobile pub heads south.]

[Walmart shopping carts are bigger than most European cars.]

[Steve Hindy's long lost brother.]

[Our food being cooked by the heat of the sun alone.]

[The hallowed gates of Sonic Village.]

[Mark gets tatted up.]

[A wonderfully uncanny resemblance is illuminated.]

[Dan and his beloved Frisbee enter a mustache competition.]

[Brooklyner Weisse fought the sun, and won.]

Tuesday, June 14, 7:30-9:30pm
The Brooklyn Brewery
79 N 11th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
$15/person | buy tickets here

From Making Books Sing:

Join Making Books Sing for A Summer Night to Support Arts Education, hosted by Emmy award-winner Cat Greenleaf & hip-hop artist and activist Talib Kweli.

Guests will enjoy beer from Brooklyn Brewery, light fare and private tours of the brewery. A handsome portion of all ticket sales will directly support Making Books Sing’s arts education programs for 2011-12 season.

[photo by Eric Schwortz]

And… we’re back! The concert series on the banks of the East River has returned for another year of great bands, beer, wine and food. This unbridled summertime goodness is brought to you by the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA), a not-for-profit who will be using all of the proceeds from the shows to improve North Brooklyn’s parks.

Follow OSA on Facebook here, Consult Ticketmaster for admittance to the non-free shows, and check back with the Brooklyn Brewery Blog for your chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to each show. Read on to view the full schedule.

June 11 | free show
+ Coheed and Cambria
+ Adrian Belew Power Trio
+ Tigers Jaw

June 24
Thievery Corporation

July 6
+ Kid Cudi
+ Chip Tha Ripper

July 22
+ Death From Above 1979

July 25
+ Stone Temple Pilots

July 29 | free show
+ They Might Be Giants
+ Pretty Good Friends w/ Eugene Mirman
+ Kristen Schaal
+ Patton Oswalt

August 2
+ Death Cab for Cutie
+ Frightened Rabbit

August 12
+ Sonic Youth
+ Wild Flag
+ Kurt Vile

August 31
+ Bright Eyes

September 8
+ TV On The Radio

September 17
+ Widespread Panic

September 24
+ Fleet Foxes
+ The Walkmen

Friday, June 10-Sunday, June 12

Jalopy Theater
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 395-3214

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
499 Van Brunt Street
NY 11231-1048
(718) 596-2507

$20/day or $55/3 days; purchase tickets here.

The Brooklyn Brewery is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Folk Festival:

“Come down to The Brooklyn Folk Festival in Redhook Brooklyn over the weekend to hear Brooklyn’s best traditional Folk musicians and song writers. You will hear banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars, people blowing on jugs and harmonicas, a world champion whistler as well as great original songs. If you want to learn how to play, come down to the afternoon instrumental workshops… The music featured will include traditional styles such as old-time string band music, blues, jug band music, traditional music of Mexico, the Balkans and West Africa, local songwriters and more!  There will be concerts throughout the day as well as workshops on various musical styles, film screenings and a Sunday afternoon square dance!  This year will also inaugurate the Brooklyn Folk Festival “Banjo Toss.”  The person who throws a banjo the farthest will win a free banjo!”

Read more to view the full lineup:

Friday, June 10 @ Jalopy Theatre

6:00 PM Winston Fleary and the Big Drum Nation Dance Company
7:00 PM Jay Gandhi
8:00 pm Major Contay & The Canebrake Rattlers (spelling change)
8:45 PM Uncle Monk
9:30 PM Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob
10:15 PM Feral Foster
11:00 PM Jake Sanders Sextet

Saturday, June 11 @ the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition

2:30 PM Jake Sanders performs Mexican folk tunes
3:15 PM Larry Hanks & Deborah Robbins
4:15 PM The Americans
5:00 PM Hubby Jenkins
5:45 PM Lankandia Cissoko
6:30 PM Walker, Jay & Steve from Baltimore
7:15 PM Black Sea Hotel
8:00 PM Roulette Sisters
9:00 PM Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton
9:45 PM The Dust Busters
10:30 PM Radio Jarocho
11:15 PM Clifton Hicks
12:00 AM Whiskey Spitters

Saturday, June 11th @ Screening Room, BWAC

1 pm – Hazel Dickens Singing Workshop
2 pm – The Films of John Cohen
* Roscoe Holcomb From Daisy Kentucky (2010)
* The High Lonesome Sound
* Sara and Maybelle (The Carter Family) included in ticket price
3 pm – The Films of Alan Lomax
4 pm – Beginning Jam Workshop (not confirmed)
5 pm –Fiddle: Tunings & Styles in Old Time Music, taught by Craig Judelman

Sunday, June 12 @ the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition

2:00 PM Tamevale Kapelye (The Foolish Band)
2:45 PM Alan Friend
3:30 PM Willy Gantrim
4:15 PM Jackson Lynch
5:00 PM Elizabeth Butters
5:45 PM The Pearly Snaps
6:30 PM Boom Chick
7:15 PM Brotherhood of the Jugband Blues
8:00 PM Little Brothers
8:45 PM The Tillers
9:30 PM The Whistling Wolves
10:15 PM The Newton Gang
11:00 PM Kerri Lowe

Sunday, June 12 @ Downstairs Stage, BWAC

3:00 PM Banjo Toss & Banjorama
4:00 PM Square Dance
5:00 PM Veveritse

Sunday, June 12th @ Screening Room, BWAC

1 pm Intermediate Jamming Workshop
2 pm Banjo:Tunings & Styles in Old Time Music, taught by Eli Smith
3 pm A Film By Mike Seeger
*Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance of the Appalachian, Piedmont and Blue Ridge Mountain Regions included with price of admission.

The Brooklyn Summer Ale can has arrived, and we are ready to celebrate. On Thursday, May 19 from 6-10pm, take your pick from three great venues selling cans of Summer Ale all night long for just $3, and giving away Free Stuff. Life is good. The weather may suck but we’re still going to pretend like it’s the best.

[Check out some photos of the Summer can in action. Have your own? Tag them "CANibalization" on Flickr and we'll add them to our set.]

Good Company
10 Hope St (b/w Roebling St & Havemeyer St)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 218-7191
+$3 Summer Ale cans
+ Free hot dogs from the Meat Hook
+ Self Portrait Project
+ DJ Fernando Martinez

The Hill
416 3rd Ave
New York, NY 10016
(212) 481-1712
+ $3 Summer Ale cans
+ Free Swag

Pub One
5 Front Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(347) 844-9149
+ $3 Summer Ale cans
+ Free Swag

Sunday, May 22, 8pm
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave b/w N11 & N12
Brooklyn, NY 11211
FREE

From Brooklyn Bowl:

Local X Local :: Celebrating The Best In Locally Brewed Music, Arts, Media… And Beer!

Celebrate the release of Cheeseburger’s album, ANOTHER NIGHT DOWN THE DRAIN and catch an all-new episode of Adult Swim’s Superjail! with cast & crew members, plus other special guests, following the show.

Total mayhem”…”complete chaos”…”goofy”…”real-deal rock,” these are all ways Cheeseburger’s music and live shows have been described and they are all spot on. This isn’t a band concerned with rules or expectations they just want to rock and rock is what they do. Another Big Night Down The Drain is their second studio recording and first release on Williams Street Records. The new album has a bigger sound, but the same riff-heavy garage punk vibe that channels the likes and fervor of The Stooges and The Dickies with a dash of a tripped-out comedic GG Allin. Music from this release will be featured in Season 2 of Superjail! – on the air April 3rd.

“Rather than copy some Mötley Crüe cliché and wind up sounding like Jet or Lous XIV, Cheeseburger toy with rock archetypes the way a big cat teases its prey.”
- Pitchfork Media

Wednesday, May 18, 7pm
Ruvo
105 Wynn Lane
Port Jefferson, NY 11777
(631) 476-3800
$65pp + Tax + Gratuity

From Ruvo:

Learn How to Make 5 Regional BBQ Sauces & Enjoy A Night Filled With Barbequed Meats, Summer Salads, Brooklyn Brewery Beers, Ruvo Wines & Live Blues Band.

Sunday, April 17, 8pm
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
FREE

From Brooklyn Bowl:

Local X Local, presented by Brooklyn Brewery, is Brooklyn Bowl’s free monthly show series that celebrates Brooklyn’s best music, food, beer, art, and media.

The mighty WORKOUT return to Brooklyn Bowl for April’s Local X Local. The winter is over and it is time to sweat.

UPDATE Monday, March 21 :: SXSW 2011 has come and gone, and what a time it was. We had a blast at the Pitchork #Offline showcases on Thursday and Friday at East Side Drive In, and TV on The Radio, Okkervil River, The Dodos and OFF! were just a few of the great performances we witnessed across in Austin (not to mention a surprise appearance by LL Cool J); musicians from around the world played dozens of genres from venues including bars, clubs, alleyways, parking lots, backyards, fields and the city’s sidewalks. We ate deep fried bacon wrapped pickles, pulled pork sliders with fried onions, Canadian bacon jalapeño-jelly donuts, and frightening amounts of smoked meat off the bone. We drank and shared a great slew of Brooklyn Lager and EIPA, and were introduced to some fantastic local breweries including the (512) Brewing Company and Real Ale Brewing Company. All of this is to say SxSW 2011 was a great success.

Speaking of winning, Austinite Elizabeth Meador was the winner of a brand new, beautifully crafted Brooklyn Brewery skateboard by Bustin Boards at the Friday Pitchfork #Offline show. Cheers, Liz!

[photo by Dwayne Barnes]

Check out a video of the Friday night madness on East 6th Street here. The crowd at Mohawk for the TV on The Radio show here. And some old fashioned still pics of our logo placed in various Austin locations here:

After the jump is a list, written in English, of all of our SxSW events.

Thursday, March 10
5-7pm: Gingerman Happy Hour w/ Nick & Theo of The Food Experiments

Friday, March 11
7-9pm: Whole Foods – Tech Munch

Sunday, March 13
12pm: Club Deville –Brooklyn Brewery Presents The Food Experiments
8pm: Club Deville – Found Footage Festival “Computer Blip Bloop Bullshit 2″ (see flyer below!)

Thursday, March 17
12-7pm: Hotel Vegas – Brooklyn BBQ
12-7pm: Clive Bar
12-4pm: Highball
12-7pm: East Side Drive In – Pitchfork showcase
12-11pm: Home Slice – Music by the Slice

Friday, March 18
12-7pm: East Side Drive In – Pitchfork showcase
12-11pm: Home Slice – Music by the Slice
12-3pm: Mohawk – MOG

Saturday, March 19
12-11pm: Home Slice – Music by the Slice
12-3pm: Mohawk – MOG
12-3pm: Gingerman – Industry of Music
12-7pm: Clive Bar
12-6pm: Brooklyn Country Cookout
The Grackel

All Week Specials
The Liberty
Shangri La

Saturday, April 23, 2:30-8:30pm
Turner Pavillion
228 S. Liberty St.
Harrisonburg VA 22802
$30 at the gate, $23 pre-order here

Join us at the Rocktown Beer and Music Festival in VA for 32 true American Micro Breweries showing off their art. Music by Yarn, the Hackensaw Boys, Larry Keel & the Natural Bridge, and Snarky Puppy.

Friday, February 25, 10pm-1:30am
The Otter House
1005 Princess Anne St
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
$5

Join us next Friday at The Otter House in Fredericksburg, VA for live music featuring the band ‘Yarn’ and a chance to enhance your glassware collection. Buy your first Brooklyn beer for $6 and the pint glass comes with it. Refills after that are only $4.

Sunday, Feb 27, 8pm
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave b/w N11 & N12
Brooklyn, NY 11211
FREE

From Brooklyn Bowl:

Local x Local is Brooklyn Bowl’s free monthly show series that celebrates the best in Brooklyn’s local art & music community.

In August 2006, Dylan Rau (vocals/guitar) brought together Ted Feldman (guitar), Val Loper (bass) and TJ Orscher (drums) in a small NYC practice space. The original plan was to flesh out some demos Rau had been working on but each quickly saw and heard the potential for a band; a band that would be unique sounding yet widely accessible.
Focusing on the rhythm and percussion that Orscher and Loper bring, they strive to bring the driving beat to the foreground and to marry it with the contemplative lyrics of Rau and inventive guitar lines of Feldman. This musical creativity combines and combats ideas set forth by pioneers of the rock genre.

Press has been off the hook for their debut 4 song ep “Golden” which was produced by Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Pelican) and for their live shows. During their many gigs on the East Coast Bear Hands have been fortunate enough to share the stage with bands such as MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Ra Ra Riot, Ambulance Ltd, The Honorary Title etc.

$4 Brooklyn Brewery Lagers from 7PM-11PM!

With lots of local treats by:
Brooklyn Charm
Brooklyn Salsa
bkbooth!
She Hit Pause Studios

Saturday, January 29, 5pm-4am
Party XPO
929 Broadway Ave
(Under the JMZ line, Myrtle Broadway stop)
Brooklyn, NY
$10, 21+

Brooklyn Psychfest #2 is set to take off at Party XPO in Bushwick, Brooklyn this Saturday. Participants will enjoy FREE beer lovingly provided by The Brooklyn Brewery from 8:30-9pm, $1 “psyched out jello shots” and an assortment of other treats, including an awesome lineup of bands:

5:30pm > Brooklyn Raga Association
6:30pm > Weird Owl
7:30pm > The Runaway Suns
8:30pm > 28 Degrees Taurus (Boston)
9:30pm > Bipolaroid (New Orleans)
10:30pm > The High Dials (Montreal)
11:30pm > Plastic Crimewave Sound (Chicago)
12:30am > DeVries

Not to mention DJs Captain Heartlock and LT Prins spinning between bands, Go Go Dancing by Sparklemagic & Miss Heidi, and Visual Projections by White Light Prism, Beacon Projects, Ava K Lamb, and Joseph Jagos.

Sunday, Dec 19th, 7pm
Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave b/w N11 & N12
Brooklyn, NY 11211
FREE

As proof that all we want is for you to be happy, The Brooklyn Brewery’s free live music series continues at Brooklyn Bowl on December 19. This is the last LOCAL x LOCAL of 2010, featuring music from Real Estate, chips and artisanal salsa from The Brooklyn Salsa Company, and $4 Brooklyn Lager. So come on by. Your ears and mouth will be thanking you for days.

From Brooklyn Bowl:

Real Estate were born in the depths of one New Jersey summer. Frontman Martin Courtney had just returned home to his native Ridgewood from college in Washington State, a few fresh songs in his pockets. He’d been playing music with bassist Alex Bleeker and guitarist Matthew Mondanile since high school in various forms, even covering Weezer and the Strokes records from tip to tail. But during the summer of 2008, Real Estate didn’t get nostalgic for just their specific suburban nights, crushes, or favorite bands as teens– they fashioned a tin can-and-string to memories more universal. Their self-titled debut LP is a collection of those first underwater pop songs and onward, 7″ cuts and mpfrees that have been backstroking their way across the Web and into lo-fi nerdpiles. Over the past year, many of these songs have soundtracked a time when it feels like every kid in or just out of college seems to be handcrafting/clamoring for music that shuttles us back to a time before career choices, adult responsibility, and this recession.

Boy oh boy, there sure does seem to be a lot of music scheduled for this weekend. For example, Pitchfork is taking over The Brooklyn Bowl and we’ll be there as beer sponsor, pouring $4 pints of Brooklyn P4K Pilsner Thurs through Saturday. Pitchfork and The Bowl put together an awesome lineup of new talent to knock your socks off. We’re going to try hard to not have our arms folded tight. Just kidding. It won’t be that hard.

To get things started on Friday, we’re throwing an invite-only free pre-Happy Hour party from 3pm-6pm at The Brewery. For your chance to win a pair of tickets email info@brooklynbrewery.com.

To see that graphic bigger go here.

Sunday, Oct 17th, 7pm
Brooklyn Bowl
FREE

Brooklyn Brewery presents then next installment of our all-Brooklyn-all-the-time monthly music series at Brooklyn Bowl. This Sunday we’re bringing the buzzy lo-fi garage poppers Beach Fossils to the stage for free and $4 pints of Brooklyn. You should come.

From BrooklynBowl.com

Beach Fossils, a band whose reverb-slicked indie pop compares favorably to acts like Surfer Blood, Best Coast and the Drums, formed in 2009 as a vehicle for the solo recordings of Dustin Payseur. Bassist John Pena and guitarist Christopher Burke were brought into Beach Fossils’ lineup later that year, after Payseur had single-handedly put together the recordings that would comprise the group’s first album. Beach Fossils’ debut 7″ single, Daydream/Desert Sand, was released on Captured Tracks in February 2010; their self-titled album was released on the same label later that year.

As always, Local X Local promises local music, beer and food. And bowling too.

BROOKLYN BOWL, 61 WYTHE AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11211   (718)963-3369

Special thanks to Eric Schwortz for the photos.

Brooklyn Brewery Presents: Local X Local celebrates the Best In locally-brewed Music, Arts, Media… And Beer, of course. Once a month for the rest of the year we’ll be presenting a free show at our next door neighbor’s, Brooklyn Bowl.

Maluca is the latest addition to the New York dance scene. Maluca, which means “crazy girl” in Portuguese, is the moniker for 27 year-old Natalie Yepez, born and raised in New York City. Yepez, who was discovered by Diplo while performing karaokee, is the latest addition to the famed DJ’s label Mad Decent, where she joins the ranks of fellow genre-benders M.I.A. and Santigold. What distinguishes Maluca, though, is her own latin-influenced “ghettotech” and fashion flare.

Blue Ribbon MS Charity Bike Benefit

Riding on the coattails of September’s LXL is a worthy cause — the Blue Ribbon MS Charity Bike Benefit. Bromberg Brothers’ Blue Ribbon Restaurants, a restaurant group headquartered in New York City, will donate to its employees 160 new Cannondale Quick recreational bicycles on September 19, 2010. The new bikes will be ridden by Blue Ribbon employees as part of the company’s 200 plus member “Blue Ribbon Restaurants/Naked Nuggets Charity Bike Team” participating as a “Top-Tier Team” in the upcoming National MS Society’s “Bike MS NYC” Event on October 3rd, 2010. The new bikes are part of the company’s efforts to encourage health and wellness, greener business practices, and raise money for charity at the same time.
The bike donation event will include helmets and associated gear, safety instructions, helmet fittings and other assistance to Blue Ribbon employees provided by various sponsors including Cannondale, the NYC DOT, Bike New York, NYC Transportation Alternatives, the NYC – Southern Chapter of the National MS Society, Cycling Sports Group and The Bike Express/52 Division. The bike distribution will be followed by a fundraiser party at Brooklyn Bowl, NYC’s top Zagat-rated music venue, at 7-11 PM on September 19, 2010, at Brooklyn Bowl, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, including Local x Local, a Brooklyn based business organization.

“The Annual MS NYC charity ride was a major impetus in our decision to provide bikes to our employees,” said Eric Bromberg, chef and co-founder with brother Bruce of Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon. “Last year, many employees told us they could not ride with us in the 2009 MS ride because they did not have bikes. This year, we decided to solve that problem. We are working with Cannondale to provide each employee who needs one, a limited edition Blue Ribbon Cannondale “Quick” allowing them to not only participate in the ride, but keep the bike and commute and ride in comfort and style, and hopefully get outdoors and lead a more active lifestyle after the MS ride.”

Ruth Brenner, president of the NYC – Southern NY Chapter of the National MS Society said, “We’re excited Team Blue Ribbon/Naked Nuggets has joined the movement toward a world free of MS by participating in Bike MS NYC, and is providing this amazing opportunity for their employees. As one of our top fundraising teams, we’re grateful for Blue Ribbon’s commitment to our cause, and are thrilled they’re back for a second year!

Last Friday, the Modest Mouse show at E. River Park was cancelled due to rain. Bummer. But, OSA has been working behind the scenes to come up with a backup plan. Hundreds of thousands of documents regarding these plans have just been released by Wikileaks. Below is an exerpt from OSA.

From Open Space Alliance

Yes!  Modest Mouse just confirmed that they will join us again on September 14th.  If you had tickets to Friday’s show, you are welcome to tickets for the September 14th show, or a refund.

If you are unable to attend the rescheduled date, please contact Ticketmaster before August 27th at 5pm for the refund.
On August 29th, Ticketmaster will reissue all tickets purchased online, and by phone, and send new tickets via the original method of delivery.  Tickets purchased in person at the Nokia Theatre Times Square box office and other official outlets can be exchanged in person for the rescheduled show.

As for drink tickets, you may use them at the upcoming MM show, or mail in for a refund:

Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn
c/o Brooklyn Brewery
79 North 11th St.
Brooklyn NY 11211

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we worked to get the show rescheduled.  And many thanks to Modest Mouse!!!

We’re pouring beer at the Williamsburg Waterfront concerts all summer long. On Friday, July 2nd Faith No More will play their first East Coast show in a long, long time. Also, we got our mitts on some VIP tickets.

Email info@brooklynbrewery.com with “FNM Part 1″ in the subject line for your chance to win a pair to Friday’s 5pm show.

Listen, Band of Horses and Grizzly Bear and a woman are playing a concert in East River Park which is right around the corner from the brewery. It’s the first show of many that will occur during the warm months of the year that we refer to as SUMMER. And Brooklyn Brewery will be pouring beer at all of the shows during the SUMMER. We’ ve also been given tickets to these SUMMER shows that we can do whatever we want with. Right now we want to give some of them to you, dear reader. SUMMER. Email info@brooklynbrewery.com right now with “SUMMER” in the subject line for your chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to Sunday’s SUMMER show.

Do it.

(above) Steve greets a soldier in the Middle East

For years now Brooklyn Brewery has been selling Lager in Israel and Turkey. Even before that, though, the story of Brooklyn Brewery really began in the Middle East, when founder Steve Hindy first picked up home brewing as a foreign correspondent for the AP. The Atlantic now reports that Steve’s success  story of crafting good beer has inspired the Lebanese microbrewery 961.

From TheAtlantic.com

“One of the books (Mazen) Hajjar read, in the summer of 2006, was Beer School, an autobiography by Steve Hindy, the co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. In the early 1980s, Hindy was a correspondent for the AP in Beirut, covering the civil war in Lebanon. (He later moved to Cairo, where he first encountered homebrewing, before graduating to the real thing back in New York.) More than anything, it was Hindy’s improbable tale, Hajjar says, that convinced him to try his hand at a homebrew. When he went to the States for the beer festival, Hajjar also scheduled a stop in Brooklyn, where he met his unwitting mentor.”

Read the whole story here.

SUNDAY, MARCH 28TH

BROOKLYN BREWERY PRESENTS

// LOCAL X LOCAL //

VIVIAN GIRLS

GERMAN MEASLES

Doors 12:00pm :: Show 7:00pm :: 21+

FREE

Celebrating The Best In Locally Brewed Music, Arts, Media… And Beer!Vivian Girls drop sweet girl-group melodies into proto-shoegaze squalls the way the Jesus & Mary Chain used to and the way groups like the Aislers Set have done with female vocalists.

RSVP on FACEBOOK FOR $3 BROOKLYN BREWERY BEER SPECIAL 7-9PM!

THIS MONTH’S LOCAL FOOD SPECIAL:

We’ll be serving Fish Tacos with Local Cod, red cabbage, pickled peppers and roasted tomato salsa, served on local tortillas made by the famous Tortilleria Mexicana los Hermanos in Bushwick

LOCAL LOUNGE FEATURING

MAST BROTHER CHOCOLATE

With New York’s only bean to bar chocolate maker from Williamsburg, Mast Brothers Chocolate, serving the freshest and tastiest in the devil’s food

AD HOC ART

Live screen printing by Ad Hoc Arts/Peripheral Media Projects

It was great to catch up with old friend, Austin AV Club Editor Sean O’Neal down at the extravaganza that is SxSW. Click here for his recap of our music, beer, coffee and pancake filled day party at The Mohawk.

Big news! Brooklyn Brewery  is co-hosting “Computer Blip Bloop Bullshit!” at Club DeVille in Austin along with our pals Found Footage Festival and Busted Tees. FFF is celebrating the success of the new website and tour. Brooklyn Brewery is celebrating its now-availability in Austin. And Busted Tees, another year as the tits of funny T-shirts.

This is an official SXSW Interactive party, but good news: NO badges or wristbands required. So yeah. Come and bring your friends. Monday night, March 15. It’s a free party. Everyone is invited, but you must be 21+ to attend.

To entertain you:

The Black And White Years (rock)

The Laughing (rock)

Mike & The Moonpies (honky-tonk).

Found Footage Fest VHS Favorites

DJ Jester The Filipino Fist

To wet your whistle: Brooklyn Brewery beer, of course.

Sponsored by the Found Footage Festival, Busted Tees, Brooklyn Brewery, A.V. Club, Maria the Date Coach, and The Onion.

From The AV Club Austin

Every day, the human race places more of its trust in computers, and where exactly does that get us? Identity theft, fapping creeps behind every turn of the Chatroulette wheel, and a tangle of government-sponsored wires waiting for the day they can finally unleash the nuclear weapons. Before artificial intelligence can revolt, the VHS revivalists of the Found Footage Film Festival fire a shot at their would-be cybernetic oppressors, hosting a pre-SXSW party with the analog-friendly likes of synth-heads The Black And White Years, red-blooded honky-tonkers Mike And The Moonpies, and The Laughing, whose techno-tribalist triumph Fever has enough future-fret to kill all your iLust. DJ Jester The Filipino Fist makes musical juxtapositions the old fashioned way—on turntables—completing the sense that neither computers nor the Internet have done a lick of good for the evening’s acts. To win tickets to this event, e-mailrsvpaustin@theonion.com.

From The New York Times

The first summer concert at the Williamsburg waterfront this season will be epic, in at least one sense of the word: the reunited Faith No More will perform its first East Coast show in more than a decade on July 5 at North Eighth Street and Kent Avenue on the East River in Brooklyn, the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn said on Wednesday.

Faith No More, the San Francisco rock band whose hits included “Epic” and “A Small Victory,” broke up in the late 1990s but regrouped last year. In a statement, the band said it hoped “the experience of playing together again will yield results erratic and unpredictable enough to live up to the legacy of Faith No More.” (And yes, the front man Mike Patton is slated to be there.)

Tickets for the concert, which is being held as a benefit for the Open Space Alliance, will go on sale at noon on March 19 at ticketmaster.com and the Nokia Theater Times Square box office.

This Sunday, February 21st marks the first Local X Local, a monthly event presented by us & Brooklyn Bowl which celebrates Brooklyn’s local art & music community. This edition of Local X Local features The Phenomenal Handclap Band. The Brewery & The Bowl invite you to a special night of music, art, and food.

7pm – 10pm :: $2 Brewery Draft Special with RSVP on Facebook here :: http://bit.ly/BBLxL1
Brooklyn’s finest graphic design and live t-shirt printing team, Peripheral Media Projects, will be on-hand screening and selling custom shirts. Check them out here: www.peripheralmediaprojects.com

Join Greenhorn’s director Severine v T Fleming + Greenpoint’s own farmer Annie Novak of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm to plot, plan+ prepare for your summer garden on rooftop, fire escape, backyard or scrap of lot. They’ll bring seed catalogs, minipaks, garden planning materials and supplies– and will be available for free consultations and pep talks. Get your green on!

Information on greenhorns www.thegreenhorns.net/ www.thegreenhorns.wordpress.com Info on food education with growing chefs www.GrowingChefs.org