Union Hall | Park Slope · Brooklyn · USA

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A beautiful band name, The Twilight Hours. A beautiful band. Two beautiful men, in balance with each other. Savage flowers of masculinity. They are John Munson and Matt Wilson of Minneapolis (formerly of Trip Shakespeare). They are the world's foremost connoisseurs, students and historians of their own music.

After two highly acclaimed albums and four years of touring, Chapel Hill, NC's, The Old Ceremony, has built a large and loyal following. The band has performed with CAKE, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Chuck Berry, Polyphonic Spree, Mountain Goats, and Avett Brothers, and was included in PASTE Magazine's "Top 100 Albums of 2006."

Resplandor are a Peruvian based dream pop quartet based around the star gazing song craft talents of Antonio Zelada and Luis Rodriguez, formed in 1996. Delicately speckled with a pop orientated undercurrent, replete with dizzying eddies of spiralling and swirling ether crests, this cosmic carnival is all at once embracing, uplifting and crushing.

Please join the Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange for our March show on Tuesday, March 16 featuring Annie Keating, Dave Murphy and guest host Jan Bell. The show will be free to attend, as usual. PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW IS ON A TUESDAY, NOT OUR USUAL MONDAY.

Copies of our compilation CD "Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange Volume 1" are available free at all shows this year so be sure to pick one up.

About March's artists: "Comparisons to Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, and Bonnie Raitt all ring true, yet what ultimately impresses is the intimacy and emotion etched in beautiful ballads...” - Performing Songwriter "Murphy is a natural storyteller who uses both image-rich lyrics and compelling melodies to illustrate his tale. With the addition of tight vocal harmonies and creative instrumentation, Murphy's music, at once thought-provoking and an easy listen, graciously rides the fine folk/Americana line." - Fairfield County Weekly "Maybe growing up in Nottinghamshire is what sets Jan Bell apart from the run of local lady folkies. Or maybe its the slide guitars, harmonicas, mandolins and banjos. Dark, old timey spareness......gorgeous." - Village Voice

With time on his hands between tours this spring, Michael Tarbox recorded some new songs. Many are brief, and most have spare, understated melodies. They've just been released on "My Primitive Joy," Tarbox's solo debut. Standouts include the title track, a gorgeous tangle of pedal steel that gains the world by letting it go, the coming of age tale Have You Been To The City? and the dream realms of At Dusk. Elsewhere, the sunniness of Whose Fault But Mine belies its story of apprehension and revelation. Tarbox's singing and vivid lyrics are front and center here, and the album's spacious production gives the listener plenty of room to engage them. Tarbox will hit the road to support "My Primitive Joy" in April.

Hello Nerd Lovers!

I Heart Nerds is returning to Union Hall on Tuesday, March 23! Please RSVP to heartspeeddating@gmail.com ahead of time with your full name and whether you are male or female to reserve your spot!

$4 mystery love potion drink special for liquid courage!

David James Ford (formerly known as Dav Ford, born on 16 May 1978 in Dartford, Kent) is a British singer-songwriter, currently living in Eastbourne, East Sussex. He first achieved prominence with the indie rock group Easyworld, who released an independent mini-album, ...Better Ways to Self Destruct and two full-length albums on Jive Records before disbanding in 2004.

Ford branched into a solo career soon after, and has become known both for the sheer passion he puts into his songs, but also for being a master at the layered/looping effect he brings to many of his songs. He now has a large following having released two albums and toured extensively in the UK and US.

With and more!

We are hosting another night of Chatroulette! With more comedians and audience volunteers to see what happens when we make a normally private forum into a public spectacle.

This time we have guest comedians Sara Schaefer (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) and more to be announced.

"There is a boldness to Simone's writing, the fierceness and fearlessness of complete honesty that pushes into places that simply take the breath away...some of his songs are so perfectly formed they sound like they might have been around forever...the best I have heard in a while, touching the hem of Dylan by way of Gordon Lightfoot...These songs are good enough to be sung by the whole world." - Neil McCormick, The Telegraph

Limited seating available.

David Garza is an Austin-based, American singer-songwriter who infuses rock and pop with a Latin feel and whose vocal style draws comparisons to Freddie Mercury, Jeff Buckley, Donovan and Robert Plant.

Surprise Me Mr. Davis is an electro-folk band consisting of singer-songwriter Nathan Moore (of ThaMuseMeant) and the members of avant-rock band The Slip. They formed in 2003 in Boston while Moore was visiting The Slip at their apartment and the Blizzard of 2003 hit. When they were snowed in, Moore and The Slip spent the time playing with home recording equipment, the result eventually becoming their self-titled album.

Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh, known in music as Dosh, is a musician and multi-instrumentalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As an artist, Dosh is a percussionist who uses various electronics, often with a Fender Rhodes. Dosh has been characterized mostly as experimental and electronic-based due to his use of many samplers and looping machines and the rhythmic feel of much of his music, with songs often relying on Dosh alone on keyboards, marimba, and drums. Dosh is often in collaboration with other musicians during live sets and on recording, both locally and nationally known.

Dosh's most recent release from May 2008 is Wolves and Wishes. The album features appearances from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Andrew Bird, Fog, Odd Nosdam, and long-time contributors, Mike Lewis and Jeremy Ylvisaker.

They say that life begins at 40, but in the case of Jason Collett, that's not just some overly optimistic bumper-sticker slogan. To many indie-rock fans, Jason Collett is the wise, big-brother character in Broken Social Scene: the calm, cool, collected totem of stability in a band defined by drama and chaos "our Tom Petty figure," as BSS figurehead Kevin Drew once (half-jokingly) dubbed him.

Avril Lavigne is a bitch. When she's not gloating about her totally undeserved success or berating and sneering at young mothers, she is attempting to steal men from loving happy relationships.

Do not worry. Everybody Was In The French Resistance....Now have the "Motherfucking Princess" in their reticule.

Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now are correcting the mistakes of pop songs past. So far they have defended the belittled blue collar worker from Kanye West's "Gold Digger," told Gerry and the Pacemakers that in fact it is okay to walk alone, dumped the manipulative Martha Reeves on behalf of poor Jimmy Mack and taken the misguided instructions of a 17th century ballad to its logical conclusion.

THEY ARE FIXING THE CHARTS.