If you’re not heading out to New Jersey for All Points West, there’s another free Pool Party again this Sunday. Here’s the line-up:
Dan Deacon | Deerhunter | No Age
(also, a special round robin set including Ed Schrader, White Rainbow, Infinite Body)
More information at http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/h2oshows/.

Dan Deacon, “Crystal Cat”

Leonard Cohen recently announced that he’s extending his 2009 world tour and will be returning this fall to play 15 more U.S. dates. He’ll be in New York City at MSG on October 23rd, and tickets will go on sale August 10. Fans will tell you that seeing the acclaimed singer/songwriter/poet perform is an unforgettable experience – but it also takes a toll on your wallet (tickets usually cost about $100 or more a piece).
Fortunately, AEG Live and FREEwilliamsburg are giving away a pair of the highly coveted tickets to one of our lucky Twitter followers (if you aren’t part of our crew yet, follow @freedubya here). Just send us a tweet or a RT with the hashtag #FreedubyaLC. We’ll randomly select a winner a week from today, on August 7. Good luck!

Jona Bechtolt of YACHT just tweeted that they need some audience members for a Pitchfork TV shoot at 6 in Brooklyn. Interested? Email him for the location.
Yacht’s new album See Mystery Lights just dropped on Tuesday (review), so we imagine this is for that.

Brooklyn kiddos collectively filmed, cut and produced a film about smaller Brooklyn kiddos:

In New York City’s changing Lower East Side, a group of older Puerto Rican women are brought together with a group of inner city youths to create an original play from the stories of their lives. Over a twenty-week period, the participants confront stereotypes and examine their own histories, exploring themes of immigration, relationships, coming of age and growing older. Woven together, their stories take on new meaning, first as they are spoken across generations, and later when they are performed in a sold-out show.

I am impressed 12 filmmakers with 12 visions can come together to produce one film and am ready to have my heart melt all over the place by the finished product. Last showing during the Latino Film Festival is tomorrow and tickets are here.

Simian Mobile Disco, you make me wanna stop being producitve and have a dance party on my bed. As if the video and Chris Keating’s (of Yeasayer fame) lyrics weren’t enough to get you moving, there’s always the reeeeeeeeemix. Yeah, that’s right I’m Funk Master Flex-ing it.
The new album, Temporary Pleasure, drops on August 18th and you should be excited. With special contributions from The Gossip’s magnetic Beth Ditto and Hot Chip’s fellow dance master Alexis Taylor, there’s a simple way to make your Pleasure a little more permanent– just press repeat.
Download “Audacity of Huge” (Naum Gabo Remix) here (you’re just a right click away) and get the fever.

Noisevox on Noisemakers, our newest platform to watch John Norris wax poetic on music, has been keeping us up with some of our current favorites on the scene. With the likes of Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, this week’s sit down with Brooklyn based Here We Go Magic explores touring with Grizzly Bear, becoming an actual band, and what to expect on the next record.

Check out the South Street Seaport rendition of breakout hit “Fangela” after the jump. And catch up on past and future interviews on Noisevox here.

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I’m just kinda speechless.

From the Times:

The Hoveys’ loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has no windows, which means more wall space for deer heads.

Ah, this is just a lovely room of death, isn’t it Ace?

Interesting side note. One of the sisters, Porter Hovey, is currently in what looks like first place for the Mad Men casting call contest. Go vote, we guess. Better a neighbor than that guy from Houston.
Photo by Michael Weschler c/o The New York Times

Time published “A Brief History of Hipsters” today, because we all need that, and captioned the above Getty photo of people tossing water balloons in McCarren with, “Hipsters participate in a water balloon toss as they try and beat the heat at Tom Stofka Garden park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City.” Oops! What’s that about?
In fact, Tom Stofka Garden is the beautiful memorial garden at the park’s Driggs Avenue entrance, named for the deceased former Director of Brooklyn Forestry, Tom Stofka. He helped get the city’s first tree census off the ground, among many other wonderful things.
Anyways, they talk about this whole problem everyone’s having with moniez and how it affects everyone in W’burg…

The hip have been hit with a double whammy of economic reality ‚Äî more are struggling to pay the rent as parental support dries up, and their carefully gentrified neighborhood is gradually being infiltrated by squatters inhabiting Williamsburg’s stalled building projects. Hipsterdom’s largest natural habitat, it seems, is under threat.

TIME
Update: They fixed it to read, “New York hipsters participate in a water-balloon toss at Tom Stofka Garden in McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” which is STILL wrong. They aren’t in the freakin’ garden. Sheesh.
Update 2: TimeHipsterGate is over. Everybody go home. It now correctly reads, “New York hipsters participate in a water-balloon toss at McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.”