Mercury Lounge

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Please note: All events are 21+ unless otherwise noted.

Wed 8/27

$10 adv / $12 dos

http://www.myspace.com/caithlindemarrais
Turns out de Marrais actually got a jump on her ex-bandmates in the singles realm, having released a free* track entitled "The Fire" via End Up back in February. The tune will appear on de Marrais's forthcoming solo debut, My Magic City, due later this year. Catch her live June 6 at New York's Bowery Ballroom, and keep your eyes peeled for a special, limited edition three-song EP de Marrais hopes to have for sale at the gig.

-Pitchfork Media

http://www.myspace.com/balthropalabama
http://balthropalabama.com
Balthrop, Alabama is an expansive local folk-rock collective led by the singer, songwriter, and guitarist Pascal Balthrop and his sister Lauren, a vocalist and keyboardist. They grew up singing gospel and pop tunes with their family in Mobile, Alabama, and now the pair and their band play paeans to the lovelorn and the droll. The group, whose name is meant to conjure a fictional town in the heart of Dixie (the band members go by aliases), released an impressive dÃ©but double album, â€œYour Big Plans & Our Little Town.â€-The New Yorker

http://www.myspace.com/benjicossa
http://benjicossa.com
Benji Cossa began writing and recording songs in 1995. Since then heâ€™s amassed a treasure trove of undiscovered lo-fi AM gold, the latest of which is Between the Blue and Green, a wonder of home-made pop crafted in 2005-2006 and his debut for Serious Business Records.
People will listen to Benji's music for their whole lives.

http://www.myspace.com/321rocketshippark
http://rocketshippark.com
Taking a tuneful nod from 1960's folk and rock, Brooklyn's Rocketship Park entices musically literate ears. This 5-piece outfit, lead by Josh Kaufman, crafts a range of tactfully entwined styles that weave between back porch ballads and basement tape stomps. Rocketship Park features Kaufman on vocals/guitar, Eric Jackson on guitar, Brian Kantor on drums, Michael Phillips on pedal steel, and Kevin Fish on bass. Onstage is where their songs really shine, in an amalgamated beacon of past and present. While walking the line between tension and liberation, Rocketship Park coaxes volumes from their modest songs.