August West + The Institute of Flyer Learning + Damian Quinones @ The Way Station

8pm- August West
Genre: Grateful Dead tribute

Weekly acoustic music gatherings at guitarist Rip Westmoreland’s house usually focused on bluegrass and the great American songbook. After five years of the Thursday night acoustic sessions, the thought of plugging in some amps took off. “Next thing you know we had something real. We’d been playing together; so we had the foundation, trust, vocal blend, musical respect and awareness of space that a band needs. Plus we were friends, so it was fun and easy to relate it to these tunes...”

https://soundcloud.com/august-west-band

10pm- The Institute of Flyer Learning
Genre: Hip-Hop, Neo-Soul, Electronic
For fans of: Little Dragon, Janelle Monae, Theophilus London, Outkast, The Flaming Lips

The Institute of Flyer Learning is a Brooklyn based hip-hop/neo-soul band composed of a singer, a rapper, and a rhythm section. Human vocals mesh with electronic beats, pulsing bass lines, and guitar arpeggios pouring out like sunshine. Flyer Learning performs original songs drawing upon eclectic influences ranging from old school hip-hop and electronic music to art-rock and funk. For good measure, they also perform some retro-future/re-mixed covers of classic hip-hop/soul songs, paying homage to the grand masters that came before, rocked the mic, dropped the mic, and inspired them to get up and write.

www.flyerlearning.com
soundcloud.com/flyerlearning
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_pKBR6Q2b6CYgKaRtrVlMw

11pm- Damian Quinones
Genre: Rock and Roll
For fans of: Funkadelic, WAR, Os Mutantes, Bood, Sweat, and Tears, Willie Colon, Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Akin to a mix tape made from his uncle’s old vinyl collection, Damian Quiñones is sonically funky, expansive and colorful. Quiñones songwriting is a heady stew of 60’s rock and roll, Nuyorican funk, with a nice helping of Tropicalia, and Afro-Caribbean sounds to boot.

“Damian Quiñones y Su Conjunto’s new album Gumball Ma-Jumbo - streaming in its entirety online - is a masterpiece of tunesmithing, an intricate mix of oldschool late 60s style psychedelic soul, rock and pop spiced with salsa, luscious horn charts, bubbling keys and nasty guitars.” - Lucid Culture

http://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/tag/damian-quinones-gumball-ma-ju...
http://damianquinones.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5UVSkxVbc&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I9Dee5_c5s