OUT IN THE STREETS
This weekend, a two-day music-and-arts festival (featuring Doldrums, Pictureplane, Ava Luna, Heliotropes, Heavenly Beat, and plenty more) comes to the oldest Dutch Colonial stone house left standing in New York City.
The original house, located just across the Brooklyn-Queens border in Ridgewood, was built in 1661 on land granted by Peter Stuyvesant. The current structure was built starting in 1709 by a Flatbush resident named Paulus Vander Ende, and in 1820, another man named Adrian Onderdonk erected frame additions to the house. The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House has been maintained by the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society and the National Register of Historic Places over the years, operating as a historical museum, genealogical research library, and host to a plethora of other cultural events…
…including Out in the Streets, which — in addition to the bands mentioned above — will bring food trucks, onsite art installations, and a bar with free Narrangansett Summer Ale from 2-3 p.m. both days. The site offers two acres of “outdoor park land,” during what should be a beautiful weekend. Vander Ende-Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Ave, Ridgewood, Friday & Saturday, starts at 1 p.m., tickets $15/$12.
NEPENTHE
Louisiana-born, Brooklyn-based singer Julianna Barwick makes warm, spellbinding songs by looping and layering her voice. They sound like breathing. Barwick credits her time spent singing in a rural church choir as a kid for her sound, which does have something of the liturgical and reverent shining through its ambiance. Thus, it’s fitting that she’ll celebrate the release of her second full-length, Nepenthe (a “drug of forgetfulness” oft cited in Greek mythology) with a performance at the Judson Memorial Church. It will provide the perfect atmosphere for her ethereal soundscapes to bloom and echo. Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Greenwich Village, Tuesday at 7 p.m., $15.
A DOSE OF MEDICINE
In addition to releasing records by the likes of Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils and DIIV, Brooklyn label Captured Tracks has made a name for itself by reissuing out-of-print indie pop and shoegaze classics by oft overlooked bands like The Cleaners From Venus, Wake, and Should. In May 2012, when the label expressed interest in reissuing two records by long-disbanded L.A. psychedelic-pop group Medicine (who were one of the few American bands on highly-influential U.K. label Creation Records), the original lineup met a vocalist Brad Laner’s house to discuss the particulars of the release. It was their first meeting in 17 years, and it proved fateful: Medicine laid down new tracks at Laner’s home studio, which formed the basis of To the Happy Few, the original trio’s first new record since 1995. They’ll play at the Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight, with lo-fi San Fran shoegazers Weekend serving as openers. Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. 6th Street, Friday at 9 p.m., $20.
ALSO RECOMMENDED
–Chiptune band Anamanaguchi makes music using guitar, bass, drums, and a mid-80s Nintendo Entertainment System. There are few things more uncomplicatedly fun than an Anamanaguchi show. They play Webster Hall tonight as part of Girls & Boys latest electronic dance party. Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th Street, East Village, Friday, doors at 10 p.m., $25.
–Daughn Gibson did time in punk bands, metal bands, and actual literal truck driving across America (not a band), before branching way out and releasing his solo debut, All Hell, last year. He recently followed it up with Me Moan, another weirdly entrancing meld of jaded country/western melodies with tape loops and ambient textures that have more in common with U.K. garage and dubstep. Most notable, though, is Gibson’s voice, a deep, disturbing baritone that he relinquishes with swagger. Durham, N.C. songwriter Hiss Golden Messenger opens. Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg, Saturday, doors at 8 p.m., $12.
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