The Battering Room

Frauke @ The Charleston - This Sat - June 18

Classy.

Come celebrate Bloomsday and the joy of gelatinous desert treats with Frauke this Saturday, June 16 th, as we play garage rock musics and read absolutely nothing from Joyce's Ulysses.

This go round we will be shredding at the Charleston in Williamsburg, a mysterious venue that after next Saturday will be one of the most famous locations in the entire world.

We can't predict exactly what will happen during our set, but it will be one of these four historic moments: a) Earth's balance of power will shift, b) water will be discovered on Mars, c) the entire population of a small mountain village will develop stigmata or d) a watermelon will be smashed with a giant mallet

Please join us.

PERTINENT INFORMATION:
Frauke @ The Charleston
Saturday, 6/16
10pm
The Charleston
174 Bedford Av
Btwn N 7th St and N 8th St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Subway: L to Bedford

Previously

Hot Rocks - Reminder - This Fri - July 20

Get pumped with a new Frauke song:

Canadian Girlfriend - mp3

Here's a review of the song via the USSR music magazine, Approved Entertainment for Soviet Comrade Listening, which was reprinted in the June 1973 issue of Rolling Stone:

Let's put it simply: Frauke's newly recorded song, "Canadian Girlfriend," is set to be a summer classic. It tells the tale of a glorious summer romance that happened on the beach…OR DOES IT?!? Maybe it's all just a lie fabricated by a nerdy, friendless loser, who's such a cad that even his own fantasy rejects him.

Let's take a deeper, in-depth look at this absolutely amazing song that has all the critics and kids and highly intelligent animals talking:

-boy
-girl
-beach
-Canada
-giant crabs
-Arctic tundra
-identity
-Pop Rocks

Gustav Mahler and the Rolling Stones once sang, "It's over now, it's a summer romance, and it's through." So it seems to be the case for the narrator of this song. Except sadder still, the romance may have never even existed and he is no doubt in for a long life of existential self-doubt and habitual masturbation.

And yet for all the heartbreak and woe, Frauke – the mysterious band who hails from Brooklyn – has managed to create one of the most uplifting, and definitely one of the catchiest songs of the moment. Actually, that is an understatement, for it is perhaps the catchiest song in the history of all time forever infinite eternity .

Don't forget - > Poodle skirts

Hot Rocks @ The Delancey - Fri July 20

I'm told that all members of Frauke will be wearing poodle skirts. That alone is worth the price of admission.

FRI, JULY 20 at The Delancey
Doors 7:30pm

FRAUKE (8pm)
AMERICANS UK (9pm)
THE ART OF SHOOTING (10pm)
GOLD STREETS (11pm)

'50s/'60s garage / oldies / British Invasion dance party from midnight-LATE! DRINK SPECIALS: 7:30-8:30pm 2-for-1 well drinks; midnight-1am FREE PBR! $5 at the door; FREE admission after 1am!

Hot Rocks!

Frauke @ Trash - Wed May 9

Frauke is at it again. Show #2. You've been forewarned.

Previously

Frauke

Fucking hate you.

I really don't know what to make of Frauke. Kind of sound like The Go! Team meets Mclusky and The Pixies. Very infectious.

You can stream their EP here. There's also some neat stuff here. And here's their Myspace.

Meant to throw up a heads up re: their first show ever at Fat Baby this past Monday, but didn't get a chance to. Shucks. Well they do have another show on their calander. Wed May 9 at Trash.

Brooklynbretta Music Festival - Sat Sept 22

The Brooklynbretta Music Festival is an annual event started in 2006 by White Shoe Records, a Brooklyn-based independent music collective, and Brooklynbretta, New York City’s beloved scooter shop.

Set against the industrial backdrop of Park Slope, Brooklyn’s Sackett Street (between 4th and 5th Avenues) this free music festival showcases the independent music collective of White Shoe Records, as well as other like-minded and emerging artists. The Brooklynbretta Music Festival brings together Brooklynbretta’s motor-scooter enthusiasts with the independent music loving community of New York City.

Please join us for our second year in Park Slope on Saturday, September 22, 2007

2007 Brooklynbretta Music Fest Schedule:

1:00 Modern Major Generals
2:00 Brian Wilson Shock Treatment
3:00 El Jezel
4:00 The City and Horses
5:00 Breakup Breakdown
6:00 Frauke
7:00 Twice As Bright
8:00 The Exeter Popes
plus a special pre-show performance by The Snails at noon