Kensington-Based Band 'The Brooklyn What' Releases Second Album

I'm a musician who grew up in Kensington and I'm lucky enough to live in the neighborhood as an adult. I have been playing music in the neighborhood for over ten years and I wanted to tell you about my band, The Brooklyn What, five guys born and raised in NYC. Most of us actually live in the neighborhood now and on the right day you can still hear us practicing. We just released "Hot Wine", our second full length album, on digital and vinyl and I wanted to tell the community about it:

Recorded over the course of 2012 at Continental Recording Studios in Long Island City with Mike and Matt Gevaza, this is fifteen tracks of manic genre-shifting rock, from raging punk and experimental art-rock to doo-wop and soul. eMusic calls it "Roughed up and rollicking blue collar punk rock, this combines the heart-on-sleeve passion of early Springsteen with the loose-and-messy aesthetic of contemporary groups like The Men. Solid songcraft with enough loose edges to keep things interesting."

Born out of a group of friends that grew up playing music together, The Brooklyn What formed in 2006. Inspired by the perfect three minute pop of Guided By Voices, underdog poetry of The Replacements and New York guitar grit of Sonic Youth, they have been bringing their visceral and irreverent clubs, bars and DIY basements, inspiring people to give up the cool and dance. They’ve shared bills with bands ranging from Japanther and Laura Stevenson and The Cans to Joe Jack Talcum from The Dead Milkmen and H.R. from Bad Brains.

“Hot Wine” is an epic journey through the lives of a group of young urban musicians, from the frustrated bombast of “The Basement” to the late night  rave-up of “I Want You (On Saturday Night)."  Jamie Frey’s soulful punk expressionism is propelled by the twin guitars of John Severin and Evan O’Donnell (whose inspired weaving lies somewhere between Keith and Brian, and Thurston and Lee) and mounted by the heavy and dynamic rhythm section of bassist Douglas Carey and drummer Jesse Katz (the group’s sole Manhattanite.) The dream-like narrative of the titular track, “Hot Wine” was penned by Billy Cohen, the band’s founding guitarist/composer who was tragically lost to cancer in 2010. 

Released on Jan 15, 2013, “Hot Wine” is available on digital, CD and Vinyl (made possible by a Kickstarter campaign, in which the Brooklyn community responded excitedly.) It is available on Soundcloud here:

http://soundcloud.com/the-brooklyn-what/sets/hot-wine

and on Bandcamp here:

http://thebrooklynwhat.bandcamp.com/album/hot-wine

We’d like to invite you to the "Hot Wine"  record release party, this Saturday, January 19 at Public Assembly, 70 North 6, Brooklyn, NY

WITH:

 9:00 BUTTER THE CHILDREN
BK shoegaze/post-punk feat. members of Le Rug, Sweet Bulbs, Night Managers
https://www.facebook.com/ButterTheChildren

9:45 OSEKRE AND THE LUCKY BASTARDS
Brooklyn afropop party punk 
https://www.facebook.com/osekreandtheluckybastards

10:30 THE YELLOW DOGS
Psychadelic Post-Punk from Brooklyn via Tehran, Iran 
https://www.facebook.com/Theyellowdogs

11:15 THE BROOKLYN WHAT
born and raised rock n' roll by urban wildmen, yr boyzzz
https://www.facebook.com/thebrooklynwhat?fref=ts

12:15 WILD INTERNATIONAL
Long Island experimental indie rawk
https://www.facebook.com/wildinational/

1:00 DJ ROB REVERB
Host of "Queer Not Cool" and singer of the awesome Black On Brown will be spinning tunes til 4 a.m.!!!
http://blackonbrownband.bandcamp.com/

P.S. Check out a full length Live-in-The Studio and Interview web episode of New York Sessions by Arcadian Vanguard Entertainment to see the band in action and hear what they have to say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mh-K3Yx6gs

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