It is with great sadness that we announce that we will be shutting down the Bushwick Social Club.  In the short year that we lived in Bushwick we were lucky enough to watch it transform into what is becoming an increasingly vibrant neighborhood.  

We started the Bushwick Social Club as a way to help stimulate culture and activity our here in our neck of the woods.  Now, only a few months later, we are closing our doors.

Life has a lot of ins-and-outs and what-have-you’s.  Due to some of these unforeseen circumstances, we are moving out of Bushwick.  Believe me, we are very sad to leave and we have enjoyed our time here.  

I hope you have enjoyed reading our little blog.  We enjoyed writing it.

I leave you now with a happy little song:  The 9th Wonder remix of the Roy Ayers classic “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” from the Verve Remixed 4 album.  Enjoy the summer Bushwick, we’ll be back to check in.

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D-Block has just released this new promo track, “My Nigga,” from their new album Prepare for Glory, in stores Aug 19th.

I heard a lot of buzz on Bodega but I have yet to check it out.  It just opened up in April.  From my understanding you actually walk through a bodega to enter the spot.  Chief Magazine seems to have something to do with the establishment.  It’s right down the street from Goodbye Blue Monday.

Anyone interested in checking this out tonight?

Brooklyn Represent.  Weather your from Brooklyn Heights or Brownsville, you had better make it out to this show.  

Saturday, June 28 at 7pm

Prospect Park Bandshell

Bud Light Music Series
Celebrate Brooklyn & Lyricist Lounge present

CROOKLYN DODGERS REUNION with O.C. / JERU THE DAMAJA / CHUBB ROCK / EMC featuring MASTA ACE / DJ PREMIER / ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD / hosted by BUCKSHOT of BLACK MOON and SPECIAL ED

If you have a hankering for some art and you want to support the Artist community in Bushwick this is the place you want to be this Saturday.  Half of the loot from art sold will go to the artist, and the other half will go to Arts in Bushwick.  If you’re poor like me you can go to check out the art for free or to hang out with cute art girls.

Small Works Fundraiser
Benefit for Arts In Bushwick and the Artists of Bushwick

Opening:
Friday, June 27th
6pm - 9pm

Works on view Saturday 6/28 and Sunday 6/29, 12pm - 4pm

Spread Visual & Performance Art
104 Meserole St
Brooklyn, NY 11206
347-526-2737

Friday, June 27th at Spread Gallery for a small works fundraiser for Arts In Bushwick.

Artists Exhibiting include:

Anula Maiberg, Avoid Pi, Bonnie Whitfield, Daryl-Ann Saunders, David Victor Rose, Deborah Brown, Mel Smothers, Jaclyn Conley, Jennifer Harris, Kendra McCarthy, Luc Georges, Manolo M, Marni Kotak, Thomas Bell

Directions:

L Train: MONTROSE AVENUE - Walk down Montrose Ave heading west for three blocks, (towards the city), Turn right on Manhattan Ave., and left on Meserole Street. We are on the left side of the street next to Mojito Loco.

JMZ Train: LORIMER AVENUE - Walk north (3 blocks) on Lorimer to Meserole Ave. Turn right. We are two blocks away on the right hand side of the street.

B60 BUS: drops you off on either Meserole av. or Montrose ave. btwn Manhattan and Leonard.

Contact: info@spreadgallery.com

Being that Pac Div is a West Coast group, we were slower to pick up on the buzz they were creating out in la la land, but eventually, we’d caught wind. And from all of my initial impressions, I liked what I saw… until now. McDonald’s is doing this thing called the Big Mac chant to commemorate the Big Mac’s 20 years of existence. So they are asking for artists to submit videos of their own version of the Big Mac song. Pac Div stepped to the plate as part of the early crowd of artists. They might’ve even got paid or this was a free promo type deal for them.  Anyway, you can peep the Pac Div Big Mac Chant ’sesh’ above complete with McDonald’s meals scattered around the studio.

Little late on this but getting ready for a move has slowed things down a bit.  Willie Randolph was the only good thing about the Mets… in my humble opinion.  And getting rid of him ain’t gonna fix things.

The web players’ college party.  Hilarious.

According to the New York Post: 

“A man who told cops he was the president of the United States went on a rampage in Bushwick, hurling a brick at a car, spraying a fire extinguisher into traffic and scrapping with officers, authorities said yesterday.”

Bush has already caused enough problems in the US and worldwide.  Now he’s got the gall to come to Bushwick and spray a fire extinguisher into traffic?  Fuck that.