EVERY SUNDAY
EVERY MONDAY
Ben Seretan (of Brooklyn/California) sings and plays the electric guitar. Please, do not call him a singer/songwriter. He likes to play around with tenderness, sweet melodies, repetition, improvisation, and drones. He's in a two-guitar ambient band called Blushing and a psych/glam rock band called Jane Eyre. He loves Prince, Madonna, Alice Coltrane, and Black Flag. His new album is called NEW SPACE.
Merrily and the Poison Orchard is a band with heart and soul. Drawing influences from many genres, this is a talented four-piece whose accolades include being named one of Deli Magazine's top emerging bands of NYC in 2011.
TUE 5/1
"Howdy Yall, last time I was over at Pete's they were stirrin' my drinks with lollipops. I'll have some candy and lollipops for everyone so lets fricken' chill."
Merrily and the Poison Orchard is a band with heart and soul. Drawing influences from many genres, this is a talented four-piece whose accolades include being named one of Deli Magazine's top emerging bands of NYC in 2011.
FAHEY is will graefe (electric guitar) and jeremy gustin (drums)----- a duo exploring the lyricism of acoustic guitarist John Fahey in an improvisational, electrified setting. gently fucking fahey.
WED 5/2
Emily and Ben started playing together 2008, off and on different projects until 2011, 2012 when they formally named their projects, Seafire being one! Taking inspiration from a wide set of influences including Tom Petty and Noah and the Whale, Seafire released their dream-pop/folk ep Yebo Gogo February 2012.
Two-piece girl indie/garage rock group originally from SF!
THU 5/3
extremely good and incredibly cute
Bridget Davis and the Viking Kings is a four piece, Brooklyn-based folk band. The Kings are Sam Petitti (guitar), Dag Markus (drums) and Kells Nollenberger (upright bass), and together they create melodies and stories warm enough for the chill of early spring, or the loneliest cabin in Norway.
FRI 5/4
Billy Libby combines elements of indie, folk, and pop to craft ethereal, yet captivating music. Hailing from Portland, Maine, Billy Libby took the long winter to record a solo ep, Pitter Patter. The record is a subdued, yet deliberate collection of music with instrumentation ranging from lap-steel, to kalimba, accordion and circuit bent keyboards.
An acoustic set from the duo whose "sound is brimming with ideas that keep obvious categorizations at bay. The music of Andrew Kalleen and Kristin Stokes seems to reinvent itself after every listen." -The Deli Magazine
Delicate Ladies! Stalwart Men! What is that bright perfume in the air? What is this glorious tonic in my blood? Is the sky really the color of bluebells? It can only mean one thing: That the most glorious day of the year is once more upon us!
Yes, friends: IT'S KENTUCKY DERBY DAY! Being that most perspicacious of days, when the colts—and the occasional liberated filly—race for the roses! Come join us at PETE'S CANDY STORE for our 6th Annual Kentucky Derby Festivities. The diversions are as ample as a debutante's creamed bosom, all offered in tribute to the 90 second eternity that is the Derby itself, and include:
* The Ladies Millinery Competition, in which finely be-hatted women compete for the reward of a Bar Tab, as determined by our celebrity judge, Rabbi Moishe O'Malley!
* The ever popular Bluegrass Blue-Plate Special, featuring home-made Bourbon Ribs, Louisville Potato Salad, and Derby Pie (with whipped cream), for a civilized price!
* Pete's Paddock, being a riotous fount of horse-sense where even the most uncivil might yet improve themselves, as regards the vagaries of equine competition
The Hooker's Handicapp, a useless trove of opinionated poetic nonsense
The Idiot Stakes, in which a dollar buys the chance to win, should you lose...
* ...and, of course, Parimutuel Distractions, to uplift us from quotidian miseries and help ease the burden of this mortal coil...
The festivities get underway SATURDAY, MAY 5 at 3pm, and will last until the last horse crosses the finish line.
BRING YOUR GUMPTION AND GREENBACKS!
The Gentlemen Callers play 60s-era country classics, fiddle tunes, Western Swing, originals, and beyond. Captain Al sings and plays fiddle, Kettlecorn (Jeremy Pollett of The Raspberry Brothers) plays bass and tells stories, Chickenwing (Jon Heagle) shreds on the electric guitar, Trig (Heather Wagner) beats on the drums, and Trevor Red (Travis Tench) tickles that sweet acoustic guitar.
Whiskey-soaked and blood-drenched Americana
Band Acoustic Guitar Upright Bass Violin Harmonica Vocals Mesoamericana Bohemian Pre-Jazz Swamp Rock Guttural Serenades Salty Sweet Rusty Dusty Chamber Quartet
SUN 5/6
Special edition of Land of Leland with keyboardist Peter Hatch and percussionist James Shipp. Tunes and singing by Justin Keller, as always.
Inland Traveler is a collective made up of singer/songwriters Gerald Edward, Lucas Madrazo and Katie Locke. The Brooklyn-based trio's refreshing emphasis on melody and good storytelling hearkens back to the vocal-heavy supergroups of the 70's.
Kat Mulvaney is an artist who's eclectic style spans Folk, Jazz and Pop genres. Combining deeply personal lyrics with catchy hooks to create songs that seem familiar, but also edgy and original.
MON 5/7
Ben Seretan (of Brooklyn/California) sings and plays the electric guitar. Please, do not call him a singer/songwriter. He likes to play around with tenderness, sweet melodies, repetition, improvisation, and drones. He's in a two-guitar ambient band called Blushing and a psych/glam rock band called Jane Eyre. He loves Prince, Madonna, Alice Coltrane, and Black Flag. His new album is called NEW SPACE.
With a voice "like butter" and an array of original, bluesy melodies, Juliet Strong touches audiences with her depth of sound, unparalleled musicality, and lilting lyrics. Juliet's high energy fusion of folk and soul, accompanied by rhythmic piano, ukelele, and an eclectic band, provides a unique, and infectiously uplifting musical experience.
TUE 5/8
Merrily and the Poison Orchard is a band with heart and soul. Drawing influences from many genres, this is a talented four-piece whose accolades include being named one of Deli Magazine's top emerging bands of NYC in 2011.
WED 5/9
THU 5/10
The band, having as front woman Miren Iza proved with their previous album "Solo me has rozado" (Subterfuge 2007) how you can extract musical gold from the well of disillusion and discourage. After being nominated to the Grammy awards in 2008 with this album, they came back again to demonstrate it with their new album "Espera la Pálida", and still with a better and bigger eloquence.
They still stick to the American sounds in their more alternative feature, but they move over rock, country and mid west pop, with some honest spanish lyrics.
Graham Lee Smith is a happy dude playing sad songs. His influences span several generations of other sad dudes, including Hank Williams, George Jones, Townes Van Zandt and many more. After years of larger musical efforts, he's whittled things down to one man, an old guitar and song upon song within the righteous tradition of heartbreak, whiskey and women.
FRI 5/11
Brian Sendrowitz has been crafting hazy, literate, heartfelt pop songs as Beat Radio since 2005.
Stop the clocks and calendars so we can save the date.
Great singer songwriter pop!
SAT 5/12
Pete's popular Saturday music series is back. Great shows each Saturday from 3pm to 7pm. Come warm up with Hot Spiced Cider ($6 Special). Beer and drink specials, too. And as always the music at Pete's is FREE. Doors at 3:30, bands at 4:00.
The Red Hook Ramblers are a New Orleans-style hot jazz band based in Brooklyn. With raucous songs of hijinks and hooch, brassy tunes full of swamp and pep, this band is romping, stomping good time.
"ladies and gents... Kira Velella for your old soul and inner child i love her music"
- Tracy Thorne, local NYC singer/songwriter
Former Troubadour turned ethnomusicological researcher with special prejudices in Organology. All this / Vaudeville hopefull.
Singer/songwriter Rob Kendt "recalls veteran tunesmiths like Elvis Costello and Randy Newman." -Hear/Say
Holler, takes you on a drive up North to way down South. With Appalachian influences, they play upbeat songs about love, family, history, the country and the city.
SUN 5/13
That's right its time again for Wood, Wires, and Whiskey steel guitarist and Taurus Greg McMullen (pedal steel/electric guitar) to put together another birthday bash... featuring his fellow Taurians: Jef Hudgins (alto sax), Brian Karp (bass), Leslie DiNicola (vox), Simone Stevens (vox/guitar/tambourine) all of whom have their birthday within the same week... freaky!!!!
they will be joined during the evening by:
Drummer Bryan Bisordi, Rich Karg (singer/songwriter from Nashville, TN), Neg-Fi (instrumental duo from Brooklyn), Lizzie and the Makers ('nuff said) and other special guests...
C'mon down!!!!!
MON 5/14
Ben Seretan (of Brooklyn/California) sings and plays the electric guitar. Please, do not call him a singer/songwriter. He likes to play around with tenderness, sweet melodies, repetition, improvisation, and drones. He's in a two-guitar ambient band called Blushing and a psych/glam rock band called Jane Eyre. He loves Prince, Madonna, Alice Coltrane, and Black Flag. His new album is called NEW SPACE.
TUE 5/15
Andrea Tomasi is a Singer/Songwriter, located in Hudson, NY. With a calm yet strong presence, Andrea's songs unleash a vulnerable beauty, expressed by her intricate melodies and choice of lyrics. Andrea brings a sense of stillness and attention to voice, as she lightly arranges songs with guitar and a drone instrument called the shruti box. Calling on places of deep reflection, one is inexorably drawn to listen.
Merrily and the Poison Orchard is a band with heart and soul. Drawing influences from many genres, this is a talented four-piece whose accolades include being named one of Deli Magazine's top emerging bands of NYC in 2011.
The Briars of North America is the project of cousins, Gideon Crevoshay and Jeremy Thal, who met in 2006 and soon found that their voices blended as only those of family members do. Their music draws on their experiences in traditional polyphony, experimental sounds, new music, and good old pop. In 2010, Gideon and Jeremy moved to Hudson, NY and started their own label to release their music. All of this was done in a small apartment in Hudson, with one microphone, some friends, and many ideas. This is from whence Orisis, their first album, was born in late 2011. Orisis has been described as "timeless and rooted in tradition", featuring lush harmonies, french horn, and a foundation provided by Gregory Chudzik's masterful bass and Simon Jermyn's other-worldly guitar playing.
WED 5/16
The Gentlemen Callers play 60s-era country classics, fiddle tunes, Western Swing, originals, and beyond. Captain Al sings and plays fiddle, Kettlecorn (Jeremy Pollett of The Raspberry Brothers) plays bass and tells stories, Chickenwing (Jon Heagle) shreds on the electric guitar, Trig (Heather Wagner) beats on the drums, and Trevor Red (Travis Tench) tickles that sweet acoustic guitar.
THU 5/17
Oh Halo blend hypnotic post punk rhythms, intimate vocals and weaving euphonic melodies to pulse with the beat of the times. Both otherworldly and coeval, Oh Halo is a band of obscure nature.
There is a grandeur about unassuming and unprentious folk-tinged indie rock outfit, The Vanderbuilts. Could it be the enchanting Vanderbilt Mansion near lead singer/guitarist Sam Kogon's childhood home after which The Vanderbuilts were named that gives this Syracuse-based group their splendor? Nay - It is something more terrestrial, more tangible – great authentic songs, gifted musicianship, and a pure, familiar sound.
FRI 5/18
Scott and The Tiny Instruments have been seen on such celebrated cable access channel shows as I still live with my parents, looking for the hipster within and I puke on the Uke. They are just back from their basement tour and have opened for such luminarie songwriters as Tom Weights, Daniel Johnson and Leonard cohen-goldblat. They will be playing instruments, breathing, talking and looking out into the audience all night!
SAT 5/19
Pete's popular Saturday music series is back. Great shows each Saturday from 3pm to 7pm. Come warm up with Hot Spiced Cider ($6 Special). Beer and drink specials, too. And as always the music at Pete's is FREE. Doors at 3:30, bands at 4:00.
David Stone is a computer musician and multi-instrumentalist living in Brooklyn, New York. His work blends the minimalist techniques of employing repetition and massed sonorities with synth-pop form and instrumentation, attempting to find unexpected, emergent effects from the sculpting of distortion or the exaggeration of the natural colors of acoustic sounds (and then framing them with massive backbeats).
Psychedelic synth textures, dub/no-wave/techno rhythms and an ambient doom/industrial sensibility with spectral vocals, oscillating layers, hints of pop, and portions of noise.
Dev Sem recorded their follow-up EP "Fun Haven Alibi" in a studio somewhere in the middle of the woods of upstate New York. Fenio, the main songwriter, describes the process as a somewhat cathartic experience, challenging the band to go above and beyond the normal quest of recording great songs. The songs are faster, more energetic, and the band is sailing the ship together, deep in the seas of indie-rock in 2012.
Her music is a slow leak, running in and out of your consciousness, but sooner or later, you will fall to it's demand.
Featuring her soulful, intricately woven compositions and arrangements, Rachel Brotman is joined by longtime collaborator and bandmate Thomas Eskew (bass), Yago Vazquez (piano) and Anthony Taddeo (drums). "This sultry songstress is undoubtedly one to watch" - neworleans.com
Folding legs combines art with an energetic live performance. A one of a kind band that shouldn't be missed.
SUN 5/20
MON 5/21
The San Francisco based Del Sol String Quartet, two-time winner of the top Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, is breaking the boundaries of classical music in riveting performances of new music with a global pulse. This critically acclaimed group of master musicians explores new ways to interact with audiences, composers and artists across cultures and art forms.
Quartet members Kate Stenberg, Rick Shinozaki, Charlton Lee and Kathryn Bates Williams have performed on prominent concert series nationwide, including the Kennedy Center, Symphony Space in New York and the Other Minds Festival of New Music in San Francisco, and have led residencies at major universities, including Dartmouth, MIT, Brandeis, UC Berkeley and the Manhattan School of Music.
Lisa Kasimow's sonorous voice has serenaded New York since 1998. Over the years she has performed with various talented bands and artists. Pete's Candy Store is one of Lisa's all time favorite places to sing and she is excited to be returning to perform with her country pop rock band Brooklyn's Echo featuring Chris Cantley on harmonica and Jeff Young on Guitar.
You can hear Lisa sing with her former band, Blame it on Lisa, at: http://www.myspace.com/blameitonlisa
Ben Seretan (of Brooklyn/California) sings and plays the electric guitar. Please, do not call him a singer/songwriter. He likes to play around with tenderness, sweet melodies, repetition, improvisation, and drones. He's in a two-guitar ambient band called Blushing and a psych/glam rock band called Jane Eyre. He loves Prince, Madonna, Alice Coltrane, and Black Flag. His new album is called NEW SPACE.
Whitney Lockert's witty songs and nimble guitar playing have endeared him to audiences on both coasts. A truly diverse songwriter, his thoughtful lyrics touch on subjects from politics to relationships, from the idiosyncrasies of the modern Internet age to the seasons of the year, aiming for a poignant balance of seriousness and silliness.. He is currently working on a full-length album to be released later this year.
TUE 5/22
The son of one of California's most respected Portuguese radio hosts, TVS discovered Rock 'n' Roll and LSD at an early age, spending a decade hitchhiking on U.S. highways in search of the New, Weird America. Founding member of both Os Beaches and Family Folk Explosion, He adheres to the philosophy of "Acid Gospel", a branch of Anarcho-Mystic-Discordianism that believes in the use of the Sacred Sacrament of Psychedelics as the primary tool on the golden road of human and social evolution. A wordy wanderer and a rock 'n' roll believer.
Merrily and the Poison Orchard is a band with heart and soul. Drawing influences from many genres, this is a talented four-piece whose accolades include being named one of Deli Magazine's top emerging bands of NYC in 2011.
Blues/country/soul duo featuring the original tunes and glorious harmonies of Jose Moreno and Christine Laskowski on banjo and guitar. (If not short enough then "Blues/country/soul duo featuring original tunes" ought to work.
WED 5/23
Charly Bliss sounds like folky good times with rock beats and soulful vocals. A team of four exceptionally attractive individuals who will win your heart with clever lyrics and energetic jams.
Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires combine the spontanaity of jazz, with the gritty bare-bones sensibility of early folk blues, and the vibrancy of New Orleans, to bring original story songs to life.
THU 5/24
Liv Carrow of Hudson, NY has been telling fortunes, fermenting vegetables and singing and writing songs, since 2005. After a three-year stint in the NYC "antifolk" scene, sharing stages and honing her craft with all manner of ambitiously talented comrades, Liv moved upstate to pursue the country life. She has since delved into speedier fingerstyle riffs, cloudier poetry, more bass in the thumb, and explores the shadowy and mountainous terrain of Appalachian melody, crafting lullabies and love songs that invoke American roots music, the British folk revival of the 60s, pop crooners like Nilsson and Fred Neil, with a sprinkling of 90s alt indie earnestness. If Shirley Collins had one too many at the Sebadoh show and made out with Phil Ochs's ghost dressed as Elvis, Liv Carrow might write a song about it in a dream.
Weird one lady band for sad times or laughter times. Sounds like: eves dropping on someone elses tarot reading.
North Of Amarillo
Inspired by the legendary songs and arrangements of Emmylou Harris' Hot Band from the early 70's, Brooklyn guitarist Luca Benedetti is joined by the train-stopping vocals of Margo Valiante and local Tele-master Jason Loughlin on guitar...
Texas-born songwriter, Jarrod Dickenson's slightly spooky melodies and lyrics invoke a mid-Western post-war America, when cars ran on leaded gas, television hadn't yet kidnapped the country's imagination, and men wore hats every day. His reflective lyrics, almost like hand-written letters, remind us that human stories of lost love, sudden fortune, and abiding mystery transcend the decades...and nothing is better or worse right now than it's ever been.
SAT 5/26
Pete's popular Saturday music series is back. Great shows each Saturday from 3pm to 7pm. Come warm up with Hot Spiced Cider ($6 Special). Beer and drink specials, too. And as always the music at Pete's is FREE. Doors at 3:30, bands at 4:00.
Grand Lake Islands is a loose shape, lushly instrumented with several helping hands. The songs can erupt in twangy free-for-alls, but at times stand bare-boned on a thin guitar line and a shaky voice.
Zachary Cale is a songwriter originally hailing from the small town of Enon, Louisiana. His music ranges from lyrical folk balladry and American primitive inspired guitar instrumentals to experiments in popular song forms.
Over the span of 6 years he has released four full length albums, Outlander Sessions (2005), Walking Papers (2008), a full band rock record See-Saw (2008) under the name Illuminations, and most recently his third solo effort, Noise of Welcome (2011). He often performs alone with an acoustic guitar but has been known to include a revolving cast of musicians whom he calls The Rainband.
The Yardbirds, The Band, The Residents, The The, The Offspring, The Vines...and now, The Chokers. Basement indie rock straight out of Newark and New Rochelle. Mark Prindle-approved!
Reltone recording artist Tito "Harlem Slim" Deler plays his harp & resonator with foot accompaniment. This NYC native presents his brand of sacred and secular blues for todays listening audience.
American roots music.
AKA Chicano Dynamite - Juke Blues purveyor from New York City; El Pajaro Marron mixes pre-war blues styles with doo wop, soul and early R&B.
SUN 5/27
Guitar and Vocals, Melodies and Rhyme schemes.
MON 5/28
Ben Seretan (of Brooklyn/California) sings and plays the electric guitar. Please, do not call him a singer/songwriter. He likes to play around with tenderness, sweet melodies, repetition, improvisation, and drones. He's in a two-guitar ambient band called Blushing and a psych/glam rock band called Jane Eyre. He loves Prince, Madonna, Alice Coltrane, and Black Flag. His new album is called NEW SPACE.
TUE 5/29
Merrily and the Poison Orchard is a band with heart and soul. Drawing influences from many genres, this is a talented four-piece whose accolades include being named one of Deli Magazine's top emerging bands of NYC in 2011.
WED 5/30
THU 5/31