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Slope, etc. Music Venues — Brooklynian

Slope, etc. Music Venues

thetonic
thetonic
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Please contribute any venues, restaurants, coffee shops, etc. where you have seen live music on The Slope or surrounding neighborhoods (Carroll Gardens, Prospect Heights, etc.). Just moved to town and looking for venues to perform as a solo guitarist/ singer. Can be jazz or songwriting. I am aware of Tea Lounge, Union Hall and Bar 4. Thanks!

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  • karl the druid
    karl the druid
    tension mounts

    1. someone will call the a poster lazy reporter, then war will break out over favorite haunts

    2. a link will magically surface with similar entertainment topics, then war will break out over favorite haunts

    3. war will break out over favorite haunts
  • rockergirl77
    rockergirl77
    The Bell House opens next week on 7th Street & 3rd Ave.
    http://thebellhouseny.com/
  • witch-king
    witch-king
    Barbes

    http://barbesbrooklyn.com/
  • cabaki
    cabaki
    Bar 4
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    RockerGirl77 wrote: The Bell House opens next week on 7th Street & 3rd Ave.
    http://thebellhouseny.com/
    I wonder if that's the one someone was telling me about...Apparently the owners of Union Hall are opening a music venue somewhere around here...
  • raw
    raw
    We need more live music venues BADLY!!!
  • drummachines
    drummachines
    Littlefield?

    It's in the Gowanus, but close enough...

    http://nymag.com/daily/food/2008/09/littlefield_brings_courtyard_p.html
  • rockergirl77
    rockergirl77
    caaahyoko wrote: [quote=RockerGirl77]The Bell House opens next week on 7th Street & 3rd Ave.
    http://thebellhouseny.com/
    I wonder if that's the one someone was telling me about...Apparently the owners of Union Hall are opening a music venue somewhere around here...

    It is: http://www.bumpershine.com/2008/09/04/the-bell-house-exclusive-opening-night-details-matt-pond-pa-and-lilys.html
  • caaahyoko
    caaahyoko
    RockerGirl77 wrote:

    It is: http://www.bumpershine.com/2008/09/04/the-bell-house-exclusive-opening-night-details-matt-pond-pa-and-lilys.html
    Thanks for the clarification ;)
  • natstar
    natstar
    southpaw!
  • opossumqueen
    opossumqueen
    Union Hall
  • yankeefan
    yankeefan
    In my teen years growing up in Brooklyn if I wanted to see live rock music, I pretty much always had to go to Manhattan. To me that just made more sense - as Brooklyn was a place to live and Manhattan was a place to go for entertainment…. When I read a thread like this about all the new music venues in the Park Slope area plus all the ones coming soon, it just makes me say “Brooklyn is really changing, and I don’t like it.”
  • drummachines
    drummachines
    Well, Yankee fan, a lot of venues are dissapearing from Manhattan....
  • agitpunkt
    agitpunkt
    YankeeFan wrote: In my teen years growing up in Brooklyn if I wanted to see live rock music, I pretty much always had to go to Manhattan. To me that just made more sense - as Brooklyn was a place to live and Manhattan was a place to go for entertainment…. When I read a thread like this about all the new music venues in the Park Slope area plus all the ones coming soon, it just makes me say “Brooklyn is really changing, and I don’t like it.”
    Growing up here, I had the same issue as a kid. Now as an adult, I'm happier that my entertainment dollars are going to my borough instead of Manhattan.
  • rockergirl77
    rockergirl77
    Agitpunkt wrote: Growing up here, I had the same issue as a kid. Now as an adult, I'm happier that my entertainment dollars are going to my borough instead of Manhattan.
    I didn't grow up here, but I agree. I would much rather keep my money local and support my neighbor's businesses here in Brooklyn.

    Everyone who enjoys going to Manhattan to see a band is more than welcome to, however. Meanwhile I will enjoy the fact that I can see the same band for a lower ticket price and in a much more intimate room without having to take a taxi or a train anywhere.
  • yankeefan
    yankeefan
    Drummachines, you’re right. It’s not just Brooklyn that’s changed - it’s all of New York City.

    Agitpunkt, I think most of the people you’re giving your entertainment money to have not lived in Brooklyn very long. They’d much rather be in Manhattan, and they only came to Brooklyn as "the next best thing" because the rent is cheaper. To me, that hardly seems like your entertainment money is going to real “local business.”

    RockerGirl77, if you haven’t been here very long then I doubt you can really understand how Brooklyn and NYC have changed in recent years.
  • rockergirl77
    rockergirl77
    YankeeFan wrote: Agitpunkt, I think most of the people you’re giving your entertainment money to have not lived in Brooklyn very long. They’d much rather be in Manhattan, and they only came to Brooklyn as "the next best thing" because the rent is cheaper. To me, that hardly seems like your entertainment money is going to real “local business.”
    That's an overgeneralization (and who are you talking about?). I completely disagree - the people who run (and own?) Southpaw were born and raised down the street if I'm not mistaken, and the people who run (and own) Union Hall are happy long-time local homeowners.

    I'm sure it's easy to say just because I wasn't born and raised here I couldn't possibly understand - and maybe true to an extent. But by saying that you're also assuming I'm just some chump who has no respect for and/or hasn't studied very much New York culture or history, which is completely untrue. But whatever, you know what they say about arguing on the internet. I'm not going down that road again - too busy out supporting local businesses.
  • agitpunkt
    agitpunkt
    YankeeFan wrote:
    Agitpunkt, I think most of the people you’re giving your entertainment money to have not lived in Brooklyn very long. They’d much rather be in Manhattan, and they only came to Brooklyn as "the next best thing" because the rent is cheaper. To me, that hardly seems like your entertainment money is going to real “local business.”
    I actually don't mind that they "haven't been here long." If they're here to open a business that provides the neighborhood with food/drink/entertainment I enjoy, and they employ other Brooklyn locals (the bartenders and waitstaff that will be getting much of my disposable cash) then I'm happy to spend my money there.

    I get the backlash against transplants; I just don't see it the same way. I love my borough, always have, but I don't romanticize the old Brooklyn in the same way a lot of other people do. I still see diversity everywhere, the parts I grew up in are absolutely untouched by gentrification, and now I live in an area where I can live my life on a quiet block and walk for about 20 minutes to find some great music, food, art, whatever.
  • smitty
    smitty
    That new Ellis bar has Bluegrass on mondays.
  • yankeefan
    yankeefan
    Agitpunk, I don’t know what part of Brooklyn you grew up in, but I grew up in the Windsor Terrace / Park Slope area. And I watched that as Park Slope became more of a hip place, a lot of long time residents and local businesses got priced out. How would you feel if that happened to the area you grew up in?
  • agitpunkt
    agitpunkt
    YankeeFan wrote: Agitpunk, I don’t know what part of Brooklyn you grew up in, but I grew up in the Windsor Terrace / Park Slope area. And I watched that as Park Slope became more of a hip place, a lot of long time residents and local businesses got priced out. How would you feel if that happened to the area you grew up in?
    Well, the areas I grew up in were kind of a wasteland. Pretty much cultureless. I was actually born in Windsor terrace but left for Midwood when I was three. (Well, my family left, I don't mean to imply that I was a three year old with a bindle and hobo dog)

    Yes, I do agree that the price out is fucking awful, and I am sorry that it's happening.
  • santa
    santa
    hey back on topic...

    went to the bell house the other night. Great space and a good stage and sound.
  • the chipster
    the chipster
    Southpaw, Barbes, Bar 4.
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