2.8 A wknd w/ Sue Your Landlord
The band on smoked fish, holed pastries and their show TONIGHT at Our Wicked Lady
YEEHAW! Happy Fri—
THURSDAY! HappyThursday.
Because a five-day work week is for fools (what — do you have a family to feed?!), we are once again encouraging you via email to START THAT WEEKEND EARLY, baby! To defy social conventions, shun responsibilities, banish obligations. To trade your coffee for tequila, your work smock for your party pants. To get weird, get loose and get a little… litigious?
YES! Litigious!
Because today’s featured band is both a collective of country-ish rockers and a call to legal action — a group of guitar-wielding tenants, the music equivalent of a Cellino and Barnes* billboard, whose existence is a reminder that, hey, maybe you should have a flushable toilet and a functional refrigerator… maybe leaky pipes should be replaced and locked doors should be respected… maybe a working smoke detector would actually be pretty sick and asbestos, really, ain’t. that. chilllll. mannnn.
Or maybe we’re just reading too much into the band name. (But, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, would a band, by any other name, sound as sweet?! We digress.)
ANYWAY! For the sake of this intro—and this evening—let’s focus less on legality and more on sweet, sweet tunes, because for this SETLIST, we are beyond stoked to have the lads of SUE YOUR LANDLORD in the (internet) house!
As is often the case with BdBK/band meet-cutes, we booked Sue Your Landlord at Arlene’s Grocery, became instantly obsessed with their music (and their personalities), premiered a song (in this case, two… plus a zine) and then embarked on a quest to book them as much as we possibly could—-
The next instance being TONIGHT at OUR WICKED LADY!
…Where you’ll actually hear them sing a song about a very special slumlord.
Because it is already Thursday afternoon and time is of the essence (plus we’re a lil busy browsing on lawyers.com), we are now handing the baton off to our comrades in weekending, who have planned a glorious weekend packed with smoked fish, holed pastries and the very important activity that is screaming into various microphones—especially for you.
And with that, WE’LL SEE YOU IN COURT!!!!
By which we mean OWL, tonight. Have a good one y’all <3
[*Not sure what kind of law C&B actually practice(d), but it sounds good, so go with it!]
[BUT FIRST: PRESS PLAY]
THURSDAY
Personally, I count Thursday as the weekend. There is absolutely no just universe in which human beings work more days out of the week than we’re having fun. To start the day off right, I head on down to my neighborhood bagel joint, Bakers Dozen Bagels in Ridgewood. I give a good morning to the owner, Rico, and grab a poppyseed bagel with whitefish (You’ll notice that much of the weekend revolves around smoked fish and baked goods of some kind). After I lie to my boss about being sick, I leave work early around 2 and head over to Octopus Records in Bushwick. I love a record store with DEALS, and last week I found Minute By Minute by the Doobie Brothers for $2. Please do your part in keeping yacht rock alive. At night, there’s only one option: the Sue Your Landlord show at Our Wicked Lady!!
FRIDAY
Friday morning is a big deal: Fish Fridays at Acme Smoked Fish! Stop in at the glorious Greenpoint warehouse of the smoked fish retailer and grab a pound of lox, then hightail it over to our drummer Matt’s apartment in Sunnyside for some homemade bagels.
(If the weather’s nice, bike East on Greenpoint Avenue into Queens.) Or head south down the Williamsburg waterfront. Fun fact; you can walk from Marsha P. Johnson park all the way down to Domino Park in Williamsburg. You might have to hop a fence or two but it’s fine. The Friday traditions continue into the evening with late night Karaoke at Cobra Club in Bushwick. It’s a great place to drink too much and yell too loud into a microphone. I have a real good time every time.
SATURDAY
New York is a baseball town, and I’ve recently become indoctrinated by the NYC baseball community. We gather on Saturday (the Sabbath) and field some grounders at McCarren Park (our holy grounds). By the end I feel totally enlightened and oddly patriotic. What’s great about McCarren Park is that it’s located just a few blocks from Moe’s Dough’s, which has some of the best donuts in the whole city (their danishes and apple fritters are also top notch). One cuisine that I don’t think gets enough love is Polish food. If you’re going to be in Greenpoint anyway, you should stop by Christina’s Polish Restaurant for dinner. Not only is the food great, but I always find the window ads for polish comedy nights pretty entertaining. I don’t know what they’re saying but it looks like it would be a good time if I did.
SUNDAY
Sunday Sunday Sunday…. Can’t believe we are here already. Every other week, good friend of the band Emily Stamboulian hosts the Purely Circumstantial radio show on Newtown Radio. It’s a great way to discover new tunes and just a wonderful start to the laziest day of the week. Usually during the middle of day on Sunday, I get a massive anxiety attack about work and stare up at my ceiling from, like, 1-3 pm. This is the one part of the weekend I would not recommend. When I finally come to I’ll head over to Pete’s Candy Store. They host an open mic on Sunday evenings and, if you haven’t been, it’s beautiful room and it always feels good to be part of the music community.
Itinerary above written + submitted by Sue Your Landlord. Follow the band at @sueyourlandlord and add their songs to your Spotify playlists!
Feature images provided by the band.
MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
V-Day plans? Once again, Jonathan Toubin has got you covered with an “ANTI-VALENTINES tradition”: the Valentines Village of Love Show and Dance 2/14 at TV Eye ft. just about a jagillion artists—with all proceeds benefitting Planned Parenthood. Grab your tix here.
HUGE shoutout to everyone who tuned in or came out to STRONG LITTLE SONGS last night and to monarch., Little Slugger, Cam Field and Arlo Indigo for playing! Between IRL donations, BdBK matching and the (ongoing!) IG fundraiser, we’ve raised more than $550 for Doctors Without Borders. Hearts are very full. Thanks to all <3
RELEASE RADAR
New(ish) stuff from local (+ occasionally, once-local) artists we love, listed in no particular order whatsoever:
“Deer Post Headlights” // Marinara
The Thing Is // The Thing
LIFE: as if i know it // Pan Arcadia
IT’S HAPPENIN’
BANDS DO BK does OUR WICKED LADY
2.8 Marinara, Kristin Flammio & The Pretty Bitchin, The Plebs, War Violet, Sue Your Landlord - tix here
2.15 SKORTS, Debbie Dopamine, Go Home, Sandile - tix here
2.22 Little Slugger, gobbinjr, Fair Visions, Otracami - tix here
2.29 Obleek, The Resonaters, Real Burn, Short Porch, samkae - tix here
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