The second annual Great Googa Mooga starts tonight in Prospect Park with a paid concert by The Darkness, The Flaming Lips and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, who were supposed to headline Sunday’s show, are being replaced by Kool and the Gang due to “an urgent family matter.” I’m sure that will be a disappointment for both concertgoers and Sharon Jones alike, who last played to a rapturous crowd of 20,000 strong at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Free tickets for both Saturday and Sunday are sold out, but if you hang out at the gate or keep checking in with the folks at myfreeconcert, you can probably score yourself a pair.

Full Googa Mooga Saturday and Sunday music lineup after the jump.

Saturday, May 18
Matt & Kim
Jovanotti
Father John Misty
Sharon Van Etten
Lee Fields & The Expressions
Red Baraat
Pearl and the Beard
Jonathan Batiste and Stay Human
Banda De Los Muertos
Lady Rizo

Sunday, May 19
Kool and the Gang
De La Soul
Cults
The Soul Rebels
Delicate Steve
M.A.K.U. Sound System
The Hot Sardines
Marcelle Davies Lashley
James Murphy

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Photo: Geoff Green

Malian musical duo Amadou & Mariam, tend to make their annual journey to the US during the summer to play a number of festival dates and some club gigs. Having played Summerstage in year, this year A&M are crossing the river to play a show on June 21 at Celebrate Brooklyn!. They are still touring in support their 2012 full length, Folila, but they also just released a new EP in April entitled Mali meets Latin America Remix EP.

Video for “Africa mon Afrique,” more “lost” photos of last year’s Central Park Summerstage gig and 2013 Amadou & Mariam tour dates after the jump.

Amadou and Mariam 2013 Tour Dates
05/16 LE TRIDENT Cherbourg Octeville, France
05/18 Espace 33 Clichy Sous Bois, France
05/24 L’Hectare Vendôme, France
05/25 ESPACE LINO VENTURA Garges Les Gonesse, France
05/31 MAWAZINE Rabat, Morocco
06/07 Espai Ribes del Ter Girona, Spain
06/13 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN
06/18 9:30 Club Washington, DC
06/20 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
06/21 Prospect Park Brooklyn, NY
06/22 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
06/26 Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
06/28 Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
07/10 The Fonda Theatre Hollywood, FL

Amadou & Mariam by Geoff Green

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“There’s always money in the banana stand.” – George Bluth

The Bluth Frozen Banana stand*, long time fixture of the Bluth Company, will be at Yankee Stadium today from 3:30 – 8PM. Stop by before the game for a photo and a frozen banana. In conjunction with the banana stand, the Yankees are running a half price ticket offer for tonight’s matchup against the Mariners (May 15).

* The Bluth company has also owned and run a frozen banana stand started by George in 1953 on the Newport Beach boardwalk on Balboa Island. The stand was a popular meeting place for the buying and selling of marijuana in the 1970s. As the stand itself was built to resemble a large yellow banana, it was commonly known as “the big yellow joint”, and became the topic of a hit song by the same name. [arresteddevelopment.wikia.com]

The banana stand, is of course, an ingenious promotion for the highly anticipated premiere of Season 4 of Arrested Development on May 26 on Netflix.

Watch the trailer for Season 4 of @arresteddev after the jump.

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Music Geeks Presales (Password: MusicGeeks)
07/27 – Texas Hippie Coalition plus Eve to Adam @ Gramercy Theatre *Presale runs from 10am to 10pm on 5/16*
09/13 – Pinback plus Deathfix @ Irving Plaza*Presale runs from 10am to 10pm on 5/16*
09/19 – FLAG @ Irving Plaza *Presale runs from 10am on 5/15 to 10pm on 5/16*

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Are comedies your thing? Were Beerfest and Super Troopers two of your favorite movies? If you answered “yes” to both of those questions, then you’ll probably be pleased to hear that I’m giving away a copy of Freeloaders on DVD. For those of you who may be a little more unfamiliar with the film, here’s what it’s all about:

A group of slackers living for free in a rock star’s mansion suddenly find their lives on easy street threatened when the musician decides to sell his pad. To stop the sale the gang comes up with a series of ludicrous and hilarious schemes to insure the house never sells. From the producers of Beerfest and Super Troopers, another hysterically funny comedy starring Olivia Munn, Dave Foley, Jane Seymour, Nat Faxon, Denise Richards, Josh Lawson, Zoe Boyle, Clifton Collins Jr., Kevin Sussman, Warren Hutchinson, Brit Morgan and featuring music by Adam Duritz (Counting Crows).

If you’d like a chance to win a copy of Freeloaders on DVD, please fill out the contest entry form after the jump. Contest ends on Wednesday, May 15 at midnight ET. One entry per person, US residents only.

Trailer and contest entry form after the jump.

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It’s official! See the full Celebrate Brooklyn! 2013 lineup after the jump.

Celebrate Brooklyn! 2013 Official Lineup

Opening Night Concert with Patty Griffin
June 5, 2013 – 8:15 PM

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (for Kids) with Wynton Marsalis
June 8, 2013 – 4:00 PM

Grouplove / Alpine
June 13, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Mavis Staples / Cody ChesnuTT
June 14, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Calexico / Susana Baca / Radio Jarocho & Akoko Nante Ensemble
June 15, 2013 – 7:00 PM

The Roots & Jim James Benefit Concert at Celebrate Brooklyn!
June 18, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Big Boi / Phony Ppl / D-Nice
June 20, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Amadou & Mariam / Bombino
June 21, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
June 27, 2013 – 8:00 PM

Ladysmith Black Mambazo / Aurelio Martinez
June 28, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Os Mutantes / Javelin / Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang
June 29, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Theophilus London / Les Nubians / Aabaraki
July 6, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Belle and Sebastian Benefit Concert at Celebrate Brooklyn!
July 11, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich & Fussible / Mexican Institute of Sound / Mariachi Flor de Toloache
July 12, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Dracula with the Philip Glass Ensemble / Kishi Bashi
July 13, 2013 – 7:30 PM

The Tiger Lillies: Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Cynthia Hopkins
July 18, 2013 – 7:30 PM

The Waterboys / Alasdair Roberts
July 19, 2013 – 7:30 PM

The Lone Bellow / The Low Anthem / Joe Purdy
July 20, 2013 – 7:00 PM

BeBe Winans / Alicia Olatuja
July 25, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Trampled by Turtles / The Devil Makes Three / Brown Bird
July 26, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Benefit Concert: Robert Plant presents The Sensational Space Shifters
July 27, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Barenaked Ladies/Ben Folds Five/Guster Benefit Concert at Celebrate Brooklyn!
July 30, 2013 – 6:30 PM

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
August 1, 2013 – 8:00 PM

Jamie Lidell / Dan Deacon / The Stepkids
August 2, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra / Banda Magda
August 3, 2013 – 7:30 PM

Beck Benefit Concert at Celebrate Brooklyn!
August 4, 2013 – 7:00 PM

Live score to BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin, & The Wordless Music Orchestra / Slavic Soul Party
August 8, 2013 – 8:00 PM

Shaggy / TK Wonder
August 9, 2013 – 7:30 PM

They Might Be Giants / Moon Hooch
August 10, 2013 – 7:30 PM

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In case you hadn’t heard, MTV is holding the 2013 Video Music Awards (VMAs) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on August 25. While tickets aren’t available to the general public yet, follow 1iota on Twitter and Facebook for more info on how to score a free seats. (I’ll probably post about it too, when I find out.)

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Beck is playing a full band electric show at Celebrate Brooklyn! on Aug 4, 2013. Tickets for that show go on sale on Fri, May 10. Beck will also be appearing at Bob Dylan’s Americanarama Festival on Jul 27 at Jones Beach with Wilco and Ryan Bingham.

According to their Facebook and Twitter feeds, Celebrate Brooklyn! will announce their 2013 full season schedule some time on Wed, May 8.

Like they did last year, Celebrate Brooklyn! is also planning a series of Dance Parties at Pier 1 at the Brooklyn Bridge Park starting this Thursday (May 9). (If I recall correctly, they announced the lineup at the first dance party last year, but it looks like they are doing it a day early this year.)

Thursday, May 9 the dance party brings on New Orleans funk band, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, led by the electronic trombone-wielding Big Sam Williams. The Freedom Party NYC DJs Cosi, Herbert Holler, and Marc Smooth–whose Friday night dance party, now at Le Poisson Rouge, is the longest-running weekly dance party in New York–will warm things up with a mix of classic hip-hop, R&B, reggae, 80s, rock, house, soul and funk hits.

The Afro-Cuban dance party on May 16, pairs Havana-born, congas master Pedrito Martinez and DJ Nickodemus of Turntables on the Hudson fame. If you want to master the moves of Cuban and African dance, get there early for lessons from Yesenia Selier of Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance.

The last party on May 23 will be a blow-out old-school night of funk and hip-hop with Zapp and D-Nice. Zapp goes way back—Parliament-Funkadelic discovered them in 1979 and their hits, like “More Bounce to the Ounce” and “Computer Love” have been sampled by everyone from 2Pac to Jay-Z. D-Nice is a familiar face at Santos Party House and the White House—he DJed at Obama’s second inaugural ball. Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie (of Broadway Dance Center, Peridance, and Joffrey Ballet School) will be on hand early for hip-hop dance lessons.

Each party is free and takes place on the massive lawn of Pier 1, starting at 7pm, rain or shine. The bike valet is also free, though arriving by East River Ferry is a pretty sweet way to go, too. [BrooklynBased.net]

More Beck tour dates after the jump.

Beck Tour Dates
05/19/13 Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theatre
05/20/13 San Francisco, CA Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
07/02/13 Paris, France Cite De La Musique
07/27/13 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
07/28/13 Newport, RI Fort Adams State Park
07/30/13 Portland, ME State Theatre
08/01/13 Portland, ME State Theatre
08/02/13 Boston, MA Bank Of America Pavilion
08/04/13 Brooklyn, NY Prospect Park Bandshell

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Music Geeks Presales (Password: MusicGeeks)
06/07 – Official Governors Ball After Party with Dinosaur Jr. @ Irving Plaza *Presale runs from 10am to 10pm on 5/9*
08/03 – The Psychedelic Furs @ Irving Plaza *Presale runs from 10am on 5/8 to 10pm on 5/9*
08/15 – The All Stars Tour w/ Every Time I Die, Chelsea Grin & More @ Irving Plaza *Presale runs from 10am to 10pm on 5/9*

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Heads up folks, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus is putting on its annual gala tonight (Tuesday, May 7) at Roulette. The BYC will be performing with the renowned Kronos Quartet and presenting commissioned works by such indie darlings as: Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Bryce Dessner (The National) and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), just to name a few. Read the full press release below.

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS (BYC) JOINED BY THE KRONOS QUARTET IN CONCERT FEATURING BYC-COMMISSIONED WORKS, MAY 7 AT ROULETTE

Including a Composition for BYC and Kronos by Julia Wolfe (World Premiere), and BYC Commissions by Aleksandra Vrebalov (New York Premiere), Richard Reed Parry (New York Premiere), Bryce Dessner and Shara Worden

Two pioneering, GRAMMY-winning new music organizations will unite when the Kronos Quartet performs with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ (BYC) Concert Chorus and Young Men’s Ensemble, May 7 at Roulette in Brooklyn. The program will feature music the Chorus commissioned from a range of celebrated composers: the world premiere of a piece Julia Wolfe wrote for BYC and Kronos; the New York premieres of BYC / BAM co-commissions by Aleksandra Vrebalov, Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) and Bryce Dessner (The National, Clogs); and music for the Chorus by Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond). The concert illustrates the Chorus’ growing role as a collaborative commissioner, producer and presenter of music showcasing its singers’ range, versatility and unique sound.

The concert at Roulette (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn) begins at 8:00 P.M. Tickets for the concert only are $45 and can be purchased at www.brooklynyouthchorus.org. Tickets for the gala, which includes cocktails and dinner at the Green Building (452 Union Street, Brooklyn) at 5:30 P.M., begin at $375. All tickets can be purchased at www.brooklynyouthchorus.org or call 718-243-9447 x226. All proceeds will benefit the Chorus’ programming.

Press release continued after the jump.

The Kronos Quartet’s performance with BYC builds upon a relationship that began when the Chorus performed with the Quartet in Awakening, part of BAM’s 2011 Next Wave Festival. More broadly, the concert—and the gala beforehand, which honors the Quartet, along with BYC supporter Hillary Richard— celebrates Kronos as a longtime role model for BYC and its Artistic Director and Founder, Dianne Berkun-Menaker. Just as the Kronos Quartet has developed a unique identity by pushing the boundaries of string quartet repertoire, BYC is changing the perception of what a youth chorus can do by generating a daring range of original music in collaboration with some of the world’s foremost living composers.

Kronos Quartet Artistic Director David Harrington said, “When Kronos first performed with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, I quickly realized that we were in the presence of an amazing vision for the future. Not only were all the singers perfectly rehearsed, beautifully in tune and wonderfully synchronized, but the aura of the entire group was incredibly positive, the collective feeling was so nurtured and the strength of our diverse society was bound together in an intricate microcosm. I felt that the next generation was well served, that the adults surrounding the BYC had risen to the challenge of caring for these young voices. Dianne Berkun-Menaker and her team had created a perfect environment to encourage excellence and instill the value of patient, diligent work.”

After a recent rehearsal with the Chorus, Aleksandra Vrebalov said, “Working with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus is inspiring. The atmosphere is creative and relaxed, yet these kids are extraordinarily disciplined, competent musicians who are able to figure out the music and react on the spot to my direction. They have incredible energy as a group. I am impressed by how high and clearly they can sing, and by the shimmery, brilliant sound they can make as a group. It was this quality I wanted to capture in the piece [Bubbles, which will have its New York premiere on May 7] so they can shine.”

Jake Montagnino, a 10th grade BYC member said, “It’s such a great feeling to be part of world premieres. As much as we enjoy singing Mahler’s Eighth, there’s something different about doing something new that is written just for us. It’s amazing to think that someone’s writing for us. Living composers can tell us exactly how to express their vision for the music. Getting their feedback helps us grow as artists.”

Time Out NY has written, “Apart from indicating the ensemble members’ tender ages, the term youth does not denote inexperience, but rather…a tireless hunger for exploration.” The May 7 concert features just some of the fruits of BYC’s nascent and already productive New Voices commissioning program; the Chorus has also sought out Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Paul Moravec and others. Aside from commissioning their own repertoire, the Chorus performs a wide variety of existing material. They Chorus has also been engaged, as guest performers, by the likes of Barbra Streisand and Elton John to Lou Reed and Grizzly Bear, and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony and the Mariinsky Orchestra, to name a few.

On April 14, BYC will world-premiere the pieces by Vrebalov and Parry at the MusicNOW festival in Cincinnati, which is curated by Bryce Dessner, a close collaborator of the Chorus since he performed with them in the world premiere of the BYC-commissioned, evening-length work Tell the Way. (At Roulette, BYC and Kronos will perform Dessner’s piece Tour Eiffel, which Dessner wrote for Tell the Way.)

These upcoming engagements follow BYC’s recent performance with Shara Worden in the Ecstatic Music Festival Kickoff Concert, in which the Chorus unveiled new works commissioned from the My Brightest Diamond singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. Previously, the Chorus performed in work-in-progress concert performances of Paola Prestini’s Aging Magician at PROTOTYPE, HERE’s celebrated new two-week festival of visionary opera-theatre and music-theatre works.

About the Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Now in its twenty-first season, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BYC), under the direction of Founder and Artistic Director Dianne Berkun-Menaker is one of the country’s leading youth choruses and the ensemble of choice for internationally renowned orchestras and artists. The New York Times has called BYC’s members “remarkable young singers,” and recently wrote, “The Brooklyn Youth Chorus has adopted an innovative approach to training young singers, one that preserves classic repertory and absorbs new sounds.The group is as comfortable singing the music of Mahler, Puccini and Tchaikovsky as it is collaborating with a range of contemporary artists that includes the aforementioned Grizzly Bear, the rapper Talib Kweli and the composer John Adams.”

The Chorus studies and performs a vast repertoire of music—classical and contemporary—and has an active commissioning program to develop new works for young voices across a variety of genres. BYC has appeared with acclaimed orchestras and conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Marin Alsop, James Levine, Robert Spano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Reinbert de Leeuw as well as celebrated recording artists such as Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Lou Reed, Grizzly Bear and John Legend. BYC won a GRAMMY® Award for the world premiere live recording of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls with the New York Philharmonic in 2005.

Known for its polished performances, the Chorus frequently appears at such important music festivals as BAM’sNext Wave Festival (with the Kronos Quartet and Wally Cardona), BAM’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival curated by indie-rockers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, the Ecstatic Music Festival and Park Avenue Armory’s Tune-In Festival. BYC has also garnered a strong reputation as an arts presenter with such major collaborative projects as Brooklyn Village, co-produced with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Roulette Theater in 2012 and Tell the Way, co-produced with St. Ann’s Warehouse and featuring composer Nico Muhly in 2011.

The singers receive training from the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy (BYCA)—a performance-based vocal music education program serving more than 400 students annually in six ensembles. Rehearsals occur at BYCA headquarters in Cobble Hill and a newly launched annex in Bedford-Stuyvesant. BYCA choristers, who are seven to 18 years old, hail from 71 different zip codes, reflecting the broad diversity of the Metropolitan area.

About the Kronos Quartet

For nearly 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 45 recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, and commissioning more than 750 new works and arrangements for string quartet.

Integral to Kronos’ work is a series of long-running, in-depth collaborations with many of the world’s foremost composers, including Americans Terry Riley, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich; Azerbaijan’s Franghiz Ali-Zadeh; Poland’s Henryk Górecki; and Argentina’s Osvaldo Golijov. Additional collaborators from around the world have included Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man; the legendary Bollywood “playback singer” Asha Bhosle; Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq; Mexican rockers Café Tacuba; famed Azeri vocalist Alim Qasimov; and iconic American singer-songwriter, Tom Waits.

Kronos’ work has garnered numerous awards, including a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance (2004), the Polar Music Prize (2011), and the Avery Fisher Prize (2011). A non-profit organization based in San Francisco, the Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association is committed to mentoring emerging musicians and composers, and to creating, performing, and recording new works.

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