You’re invited! to a birthday bash at The Broadway celebrating Rohan, Carly and Harley, featuring musical performances by better living., The Big Easy, No Good With Secrets, Wifey and look at the bones.
better living.
Loud sounds for dark days
Brooklyn “punk” band known for their energetic live shows and crushing guitar tones.
The Big Easy
“I want you to HEAR the room... to be SURROUNDED by the song.” So enthuses Stephen Berthomieux of his latest recordings under the moniker The Big Easy. These ten new songs,which will arrive on the new album (It’s No Secret) The Truth As Bad As The View, are living and breathing documents. Deceptively complex and strikingly immediate snapshots of someone coming to terms with their mistakes, facing up to the future, and finally learning to be comfortable. ‘Space’ is at the heart of these new compositions. In comparison to previous Big Easy outings, there is a deliberate embracing of quietness; from small moments of total silence, through hushed strumming, to barely contained simmering frustration. These glimpses between the notes draw the listener into an album that is alive. The attitude and emotions resonating in the spaces. At its heart, the album embodies Berthomieux’s experiences as a black man in a music scene dominated by whiteness, explores the increasing awareness of pain he has been silently carrying, and uncovers underlying mental health issues that he’d always thought were just “things that other people had”. On It’s No Secret, Berthomieux boldly asserts his identity whilst baring previously buried parts of his soul. In his own words, “It’s No Secret is like my journal... a place where I can express thethings that I haven’t been able to say out loud.”
Wifey
Wifey is a Brooklyn power-punk band formed by Teddy Grey & Carly Kerr, two hot dorks who prove that the theater-kid to punk-rocker pipeline is still claiming innocent victims. After working together on an R-rated Garfield musical (don’t ask), the two bonded over a mutual love of bubblegrunge, emo, and DIY, and began crafting the catchiest songs ever written. They were soon joined in marriage by Mickey Blurr on lead guitar, and Chris Canieso on drums, and the rest is history. The honeymoon phase never has to end with Wifey, thanks to their earworm hooks, enticingly questionable lyrics, and lovely harmonies that could only come from the happiest of marriages. Matrimony never looked so good.
Wifey’s debut EP “Just A Tease” is the first taste of their ear-candy, featuring five songs that will remain lodged in your head forever, whether you like it or not. In a scene revolving around confessional songwriting and baring your soul, Wifey has the decency to be tasteless, and are deep enough to be shallow. The hole for loud, dumb pop songs is wide open and Wifey is more than happy to fill it ;) With hooky tunes revolving around timeless subjects such as getting drunk, girls whose names end in Anne, and the addictive substance known only as “Candysauce,” Wifey is a power-pop band with real power. Embodying the “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” ethos, Wifey’s songs are as exciting as a sugar rush, and only slightly less hazardous to your health.
look at the bones.
Midwest emo from Brooklyn