More upcoming shows at Union Hall… home stretch!
December 13: Cheap Date Comedy
Hosted by Tyler Fischer and Sharron Paul. Featuring Jordan Carlos (MTV, MTV2, VH1), Chris Gethard (The Other Guys), Joe Pera (Excellent dancer) and more special guests. Plus! Free snacks, sketches, amazing prizes, and much more!
December 15: Cuddle Magic + The Milkman’s Union + Lady Lamb the Beekeper
Cuddle Magic is a band and songwriting collective from Brooklyn and Philadelphia that performs lush, whimsical songs with wide-ranging instrumentation including strings, percussion, vibraphone, trumpet, clarinet, keyboards, guitars, and many voices. Cuddle Magic balances folk timbres with surprising atonal harmonies, pop song-craft with Steve Reich-inspired rhythmic complexity, and direct emotional lyrics with dense wordplay.
The Milkman’s Union is an enigmatic three-piece based in Portland, Maine. While their sound can most easily be characterized as indie-rock, idiosyncrasies abound. Drawing from classical, jazz, folk, electronic, and various non-western musics, the band infuses rock grooves with deft melodic hooks and rhythmic flourishes that combine for a unique sound. Gabe Birnbaum of Ampeater.com writes “the music conjures up its own cloud of mood the moment it comes on.” Seven Days writes that the band is “startlingly gifted” and “hyper-literate.” The Bangor Daily News writes, “If Radiohead was more influenced by country and folk music than by electronic and jazz, they’d probably sound like The Milkman’s Union.”
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper is the musical moniker of Aly Spaltro. Aly grew up primarily in the south west (Arizona, California & Nevada) where she spent most of her early childhood years, never more content than when she was making oldies mix tapes with a boom box and flashlight in her closet. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper writes sprawling lyric and melody-based songs about lost, true & unrequited love; nostalgia, nectarine meat & wolf maulings; plum crumb cake & mustard colors; death & Guatemala; airplane rides & airplane crashes; lusting & pining; aubergine & almond colored bed sheets; balance beams hidden in the woods; desert mountain ranges & european bluffs; dreams & nightmares, and fawns & fawning.
December 16: Dinosaur Feathers + Roadside Graves + Dolfish + Melaena Cadiz
“Brooklyn’s Dinosaur Feathers are plenty fun to listen to, but even more fun to watch. Between the mohawked drummer, left-handed bassist rocking a Hofner (just like Beatle Paul McCartney), and bespectacled Stewart Copeland look-alike on keyboards, they offer up a spectrum-ranging study in visual contrasts…. Their songs bounced back and forth between ambling groove and jittery sprint…” — Spin
“My Son’s Home is well-stocked with stirring narratives and sketches that just happen to be almost unremittingly obsessed with the crypt. Yet what’s really remarkable about the record is the band’s ability to treat death from so many different perspectives and with such a widely divergent range of moods and sympathies.There are moments of haunting, fragile stillness here…Perhaps most admirably of all, the Roadside Graves excel at the brave and difficult paradox of suffusing death with life, injecting vivacity and humor into their reflections on mortality.” -Pitchfork
Dolfish is the handle of Max Sollisch, a 22 year-old Cleveland-born country songwriter currently residing in Columbus, OH.
December 17: Wasabassco Burlesque Celebrates 5 Years @ Union Hall
Brooklyn’s best burlesque show, Wasabassco Burlesque, celebrates 5 titillating years at Union Hall! With Sapphire Jones, Evelyn Vinyl, Gal Friday, Nasty Canasta, Mala Morrigan, Doc Wasabassco, and more!
December 26: Bare: True Stories About Sex, Desire and Romance
This month’s theme is “Resolve.” Hosted and curated by Jefferson. Featuring storytellers Rachel Cole, Andy Christie, Mollena Williams and more special guests! Raffle prize courtesy of Babeland and your chance to tell a story!
