Born Ruffians have just released a Daytrotter session featuring four great tracks. The band will be performing at LPR on Saturday afternoon along side director Andrew Bujalski, and comedians Hannibal Buress, Ali Wong, and Ted Alexandro as a part of Radio Happy Hour. Get your tickets here.
Together John and Molly have written for The Onion, the Huffingtonpost, and have had video sketches featured on The New York Times’ website and CNN. They bring their show to The Gallery at LPR every month with a variety of special guests, and on August 25th they'll be joined by Hannibal Buress, Nick Turner, Liz Miele, Andy Haynes, Matt Goldich, and Leo Allen. Check out Hannibal Buress on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson below.
Linda Simpson and Murray Hill host Le Bingo in The Gallery at LPR every Saturday at 6:30pm. There are food and drink specials throughout the night, plus some of the most fabulous prizes you'll ever have the chance to win. There are also all sorts of special games (Good Neighbor, speed rounds, etc.) and a dazzling array of colorful spokesmodels, such as feisty drag starlet Violet Temper and burlesque babe Lil’ Miss Lixx. Check out some photos from past nights over at their Facebook page.
THE BIG QUIZ THING file under: trivia
The Onion calls The Big Quiz Thing “a live game show that favors the idiosyncratic and strange, offering several immersive hours that add up to something more than a middlebrow excuse to drink beer.” The Big Quiz Thing is New York's ultimate live multimedia trivia experience with unique video and audio puzzles, the Lightning Round, the Three-Way Finale, clever banter, audience smack-talking, prizes (including $250 cash) and much more. Check out some sample questions below.
The Big Quiz Thing returns to LPR on August 30th. Tickets are $7 at the door.
MELODY SWEEETS & THE LADIES OF LA ROGUE COQUETTE file under: burlesque
Rouge Coquette is burlesque nouveau starring The Shimmering Chanteuse of Burlesque Melody Sweets, and featuring The World Famous Pontani Sisters!, Miss Exotic World 2008 Angie Pontani, The Tappin Tornado Helen Pontani,The Mystical Mistress of Tease MsTickle, The Bendable Beauty Harvest Moon,The Nubian Lucille Ball of Burlesque theMAINEattraction, and The Neked Girl Stormy Leather. Penthouse calls Melody Sweets "...a dynamite little package ready to explode in a big way!" Check out a video of her performing below.
RADIO HAPPY HOUR w/ BORN RUFFIANS file under: comedy, indie, alternative
Radio Happy Hour is a live variety show featuring an old-time radio comedy/drama and your favorite guest stars from the worlds of film, music, and letters. Hosted by Sam Osterhout, the show engages its guests in a wildly right-angled conversation that careens between interviews, performances, and trivia. October's show features Toronto's Born Ruffians. Check out their video for "What to Say," a track off of their sophomore release Say It, which was released by Warp Records on April 22nd, 2010.
You can get tickets to Radio Happy Hour with Born Ruffians on October 2nd over here, and while you're at it, pick up your tickets to the Radio Happy Hour on December 4th with Suckers!
Since its birth as a shop and record label in Sheffield in 1989, Warp has become one of the World’s most respected creative organisations. Quickly developing into a platform for innovative and boundary-breaking music talent, Warp became synonymous with such artists as LFO, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and most recently Grizzly Bear, Battles and Maximo Park. Running parallel to the music is an equally strong visual identity, famously established through partnerships with graphic design iconoclasts The Designer’s Republic and video auteur Chris Cunningham, placing Warp alongside legendary labels like Factory in British cultural history.
Warp took a logical but ambitious step in 2001 with the launch of Warp Films, winning a BAFTA for the very first production, Brass Eye satirist Chris Morris’ film debut My Wrongs… Since then high-profile features have come courtesy of Shane Meadows, whose masterpieces Dead Man’s Shoes and This Is England have enjoyed widespread success, the latter winning ‘Best British Film’ at the 2008 BAFTAs. 2009 sees development on more features with directors Chris Morris, Richard Ayoade (IT Crowd) and Paul King (Mighty Boosh).
In 2004, Warp pioneered the sale of unrestricted mp3s via the launch of award-winning download store Bleep.com. Hosting nearly 500 other independent labels, Bleep has sold over 2 million tracks to date.
Over 20 years, Warp has developed into a multifaceted creative company, able to forge a unique path through a rapidly changing and unpredictable landscape. In 2009, Warp will celebrate by bringing together its roster of artists, directors and associates for a series of multi-platform events, new music and film releases.
Find out more about this event and the artists performing click here.
Born Ruffians have just released a Daytrotter session featuring four great tracks. The band will be performing at LPR on Saturday afternoon along side director Andrew Bujalski, and comedians Hannibal Buress, Ali Wong, and Ted Alexandro as a part of Radio Happy Hour. Get your tickets here.
