Brooklyn Museum to become free playground on Saturday, with Crystal Stilts and Purple Rain
It's all free
Crystal Stilts
Here is something you should do on Saturday, Nov. 7: Go to the Brooklyn Museum, hear lots of interesting lectures and talks, and catch a bunch of au courant bands—all for free, courtesy of the benevolent overlords at Target.
This month’s shindig is notable for all the music-related art and programming. “Who Shot Rock ‘N’ Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 To The Present” is a major exhibition of rock photography, and one of the curators will discuss the work with two featured photographers, Bob Gruen and Justin Borucki. These are some quality shots, and most were taken before the recent days of incessant indie-rock photography (and thus with an eye toward quality over quantity).
The powers that be have also tapped indie super-promoter Todd P. to curate a line-up of bands, and he’s selected three good representations of three different musical trends currently pulsing through the Brooklyn underground. The Beets represent the kind of shambolic, poorly recorded garage-rock that fills basements and performance spaces on any given evening in Bushwick. Crystal Stilts are reverb-soaked and brim with nervous energy—think Joy Division, but not quite as dire. Grass Widow has a neat name, and trades in the kind of girl-group-meets-riotgrrrl stylings of bands like Vivian Girls. That means three-part harmonies, plenty of spunk, and questionable musicianship.
And over in the screening room, Purple Rain is on at 7 p.m. Hey, why not?
