I’ve been to a screening before with BFC, and not only were the videos great, the bands that played after were surprisingly good.

ON THE STREETS:
a series of short films, drinks, and dancing
brought to you by the BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE

Join the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective crew on Friday, April 29 at the Brooklyn Winery as they present BFC ON THE STREETS, a collection of short films. Also featuring the best DJs from the streets: Kev Sugar Shand & Watakula, White Chocolate, and Shadow Lover. The $10 admission tickets comes with one free beer and helps support the ongoing work of the BFC. Doors open at 8 pm.

BROOKLYN WINERY 213 North 8th Street (between Driggs and Roebling) Brooklyn, NY 11211, near the Bedford L train
8 PM DJ KEV SUGAR SHAND & WATAKULA
9 PM FILM SCREENING
10 PM DJ WHITE CHOCOLATE
11 PM DJ SHADOW LOVER (OF AWESOME BROOKLYN EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND OMEGA JARDEN)

Last night we hit up the Noisey.com party at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Check out the video below of them playing “Abducted,” a the leading jam off their forthcoming Columbia Records debut.

I have a perfectly acceptable explanation for why this post is late (and only half-finished for the moment): yesterday I got an excellent deal on a butcher block-top table through CraigsList that I just couldn’t pass up. To celebrate my new furniture addition I drank too much wine, and forgot to finish this post. You understand, right? Now get out your wallets and buy some concert tickets.

ON SALE

On Sale Now: Everyone’s favorite Dubstep singer/songwriter (which is a thing now) James Blake is playing Webster Hall on July 13. To cut down on scalpers or to make your life more difficult, you can only buy 2 tickets at a time which can only be picked up at the Will Call window before the show. Tickets are $30 and, surprisingly, still available.

On Sale Now: Gloomy synth pop composer and friend of Ariel Pink, John Maus, plays Glasslands on May 9 with Holy Shit!, Gary War and a couple DJs.  Tickets are $12.

4/29 @ 12 noon: Indie rapper and NYC resident Theophilus London has just been added to the expanding  Northside Fest as headliner for the opening night (June 16) party at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets are $18.

4/29 @ 12 noon: Bon Iver, the coolest dude for a guest spot on your album, celebrates a bon été at Prospect Park on August 10 with a full band and a “Special Guest”. Tickets are $43.

4/29 @ 12 noon: I got a feeling NJ-native, singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins is finally gonna break soon, so catch her on the cheap while you can. She plays with the Black Sea at Music Hall on July 8^th. Tickets are $19.

4/29 @ 12 noon: Mysterious UK pop-ers Wu Lyf must have impressed at their US debut a few weeks ago, because they’ll be back in the city in July for two shows: July 22 at Mercury Lounge with Bass Drum of Death and July 23 at Knitting Factory Brooklyn.  Tickets are around $15.

THIS WEEK
4/29: Surfer Blood is now selling out every show they play. I know I should have caught that little show at Market Hotel a year and a half ago. Ah well. That’s why there’s CraigsList. They play with …Trail of Dead (still going for it, huh, guys?) at Bowery Ballroom tonight. They also play Music Hall on May 13 with tickets still available, in case CL flakes on you.

4/29: Folks seem to like Free Energy’s garage dance pop (I’m not even sure what that means and I made it up), but I think they’re annoying. To each his own. If you dig on the James Murphy-approved (and produced) band check them at Glasslands with Bronze and Motive. Tickets are $14.

4/29: “The Kills make music that sounds like the stripped-to-the-bone nub of the crux of the sex and death and madness at the heart of the very best rock ‘n’ roll.” Oh good! I’m not the only one completely fabricating musical descriptions. If you’re into death by sexy rockin’, talk to a scalper to get tickets to their show at Terminal 5 with Cold Cave (stripped the wire of the transistor bleep-bloop gloom pop, or whatever).

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c/o Grub Street

Great news for Mexican food lovers: Mole which has two locations in the West Village and the Lower East Side has opened a Williamsburg location. They’ll be serving traditional Mexican fare in addition to queso fundido (melted cheese with jalapeños and tortillas), baja-style fish tacos, and cochinita Pibil (shredded pork cooked in banana leaves). There is also a tequila selection of 80+ choices, and margaritas in crazy flavors like prickly pear.

Mole has a nice outdoor patio for the warmer months, and is also open for brunch if you’re a breakfast tacos type of person.

We also hear if you drop by this weekend all the margaritas are on the house for their opening party.

See the full listing here.

Mole. 178 Kent Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211. 347.384.2300

This is what we will look like when we grow up and are still living the same life. In their new video for “Wait and See” Holy Ghost! cast their dads to play themselves. You follow them through band practice, late nights passing out on trains and with pizza in hand, through weirdo hipster bars and generally hanging out. Shouts out to record shopping The Thing in Greenpoint!

Holy Ghost! – Wait & See from DFA Records on Vimeo.

Tonight, Noisey is throwing a free show at Music Hall of Williamsburg to celebrate the recent launch of Noisey.com, Vice’s newest online channel.  If you’ve been living under a digital rock, Noisey.com is a music network that showcases bands and local music scenes across the world through original short videos, curated by VICE with support from Intel and Dell.

The RSVP for this inaugural celebration has been closed since Monday due to overwhelming demand… but your good friends here at FREEwilly scored a pair of VIP tickets into the party — up for grabs to our luckiest reader! Just comment below, and it could be you!

Noisey Presents: The Free Concert Series: NYC
Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 North 6th Street, Brooklyn)
April 28th at 8pm

Featuring performances by:
Cults
Oberhofer
Puro Instinct

As per any FREE show, entrance is limited to capacity so if you RSVP’d we suggest you get there early to guarantee entry!

As for Noisey, here’s what our homies at Vice have to say about it:

Each episode on Noisey includes five segments, including a short documentary introducing viewers to the band and the local music scene, then four segments of uninterrupted performances. We recently shot documentaries on The Vaccines, Oberhofer, Ariel Pink, Das Racist, Bun B, OFF!, and Mogwai to name a few. Currently there are over 45 bands being featured on Noisey. Come check it out, watch your favorite bands and discover new ones too.

So comment it up and try your luck at winning… and then maybe you can tell all your friends about all the fun you had at that party they couldn’t get into (if you’re that kind of asshole-y friend).

Selling boner pills, apparently!

In case you’re too young to remember Mr. G…. here’s a history lesson:

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We’ve been loving the first single from Ganglians’ new record Still Living, out on Lefse August 23rd. Pre-orders now available.

Sacramento’s Ganglians return after a relatively quiet two years since their dual album dropping in 2009. The aptly titled Still Living hits the streets August 23rd stateside via Lefse, and August 29th throughout Europe via Souterrain Transmissions. Ringing in at just under an hour, the double LP stays true to their psychedelic roots established on their self-title debut and immediate follow-up Monster Head Room (both via Woodsist), they step it up a notch both stylistically and sonically by enlisting the help of producer Robby Moncrieff (who also played a crucial role in the shaping of The Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca).

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MP3: Jungle

The popular foreign language courses previously known as Sam Teaches French have taken on a new name, location, and offerings, giving Williamsburg residents no excuse to brush up on or learn another language. FluentBrooklyn is located at the corner of Ainslie St. and Manhattan Ave., and teaches classes in French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and German.

Business is booming after Sam Maher & co. expanded the studio space, increased the number of languages offered, brought on additional instructors and ran a successful promotion on LivingSocial last month. There’s also a location in Manhattan – appropriately named FluentManhattan.

Starting in May and June, FluentBrooklyn will be hosting language and cultural workshops related to each of the languages offered at the studio. Topics ranging from Italian cuisine, to Spanish slang, French beer and Italian-American immigration here in Williamsburg will be covered in these two-hour sessions, for $35 a person.

A group trip to Paris is also scheduled for July.

For more information, visit FluentBrooklyn on Facebook or Twitter, or click here to enroll.

Tonight will be host to the final night of Zambri’s April residency at Pianos and we expect you all there to party with us!

Check out the FREEwilly curated lineup below and start dreaming about those frozen margaritas because there’s no better way to celebrate this muggy weather than with a frozen cocktail and the musical styling of some hot ladies!

8 PM Rarechild
9 PM Beige
10 PM Zambri
11 PM millionyoung
Bear in Heaven DJ set

And if you’re feeling extra lucky, comment below for your chance to win a pair of tickets to tonight’s show… or, just buy the $8 tix here. And grab a free download of Zambri’s EP, On Call — artwork seen left, right over here.