Monthly Archive for July, 2009

Mushpot DJ Night #5 + Listening Party for You Can Be a Wesley

Dj Night 5 Sputnik Join the Mushpot ladies on August 4th at 9:30pm! DJ Prom Night, Sheila the Great and Si Vous Playa are glad to have the opportunity to take over Sputnik in Clinton Hill. Get ready to hear dance disaster sets and tracks from You Can Be a Wesley! Our DJ night doubles as GRACE TAN’S BIRTHDAY JAM. Come have a drink with our superstar friend! Awesome burgers served until 1am!

Sputnik
262 Taaffe Place
Brooklyn NY 11205

By Subway:
G train to Classon Ave

By Bus:
38 or 48 busses to De Kalb Ave. and Classon Ave

Catch Magic Magic Live on the East Coast + Check Out French Horn Rebellion’s Remix of “Sleepy Lion”

Our renegade pop consorts, Magic Magic, are playing a couple shows on the East coast! You can find us Mushpot ladies celebrating Liz’s birthday at the Tank show in NYC! The Boston Phoenix also declared Magic Magic the best band in Massachusetts as part of their Independents Day: Best New Bands in America round-up. Read the article here.

July 25, 2009 /// Provincetown Rocks: The Festival Main Stage, Provincetown, MA
July 26, 2009 /// The Tank (with You Can Be a Wesley) // New York, NY
July 27, 2009 /// Pianos // New York, NY
August 7, 2009 /// Harper’s Ferry (with Harvey Danger!) // Allston, MA
August 20, 2009 /// The Sierra Grille // Northhampton, MA
October 10, 2009 /// The Paradise // Allston, MA

This week, we’d like to unveil French Horn Rebellion’s remix of Magic Magic’s “Sleepy Lion”! Feel the goodness drop at 2:14.

You Can Be A Wesley Releases Heard Like Us

Whew, Boston’s finest – You Can Be A Wesley – has a lot going for it. For starters, the band will release Heard Like Us , their first full-length recorded straight to two-inch tape with Jeremy Mendicino of Pretty & Nice, next week. To help celebrate the band will have an album release party at Middle East in Cambridge, MA July 20 (with Casper & the Cookies plus Magic Magic) and at Pianos in New York July 21. Come on out and behold how wonderful these dudes and dudette are live and make sure to pick-up your very own copy of the limited vinyl run of Heard Like Us while you’re at one of the shows. Don’t forget, You Can Be A Wesley will also be at The Tank in New York with Magic Magic on July 26 for a very special Mushpot wonder showzen that you surely don’t want to miss out on.

That’s not all. Just this week CMJ posted a really lovely review of the album which you can read at length here. To see more of these fine people and listen to some tunes check them out on myspace.