The Breeders at Webster Hall (06/10/08)

Photo: forklift

While you may have heard that The Breeders are playing a big gig on Sunday at the McCarren Park Pool with Matt and Kim, and ATJ Alums, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, you might not have heard that they are also playing a (sold out) in-store performance tonight at Manhattan’s Other Music.

- Thx to ProductShopNYC for the RMO tip

McCarren Park Pool

Photo: Bryan Bruchman

Unless the city changes its plans, (which it has been known to do from time to time), this year will be the last for concerts at the McCarren Park Pool. The city is planning to restore the pool at the end of the season— which has JellyNYC and other promoters scrambling to find a new space to hold summer events. The Brooklyn Paper has the scoop:

We’re happy the city is going to fix the McCarren Pool - it’s good for the community,” said concert organizer Dan McGinley. “But it would be a huge shame for North Brooklyn if we lost these shows — there is no one else doing these kind of events.”

McGinley is eyeing a former Sanitation depot at the corner of Kent and West streets, which was zoned to become parkland in 2005 and could be demolished as early as August to make room for Bushwick Inlet Park — a long-promised, 28-acre waterfront park that may someday stretch along the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfronts.
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“We’re looking at [the site] as a potential location,” said agency spokesman Phil Abramson. “[But] we won’t know for sure until there is an environmental assessment.”

Contamination could be a problem considering the lot’s past. From 1916 through 1980, the riverfront block housed a power plant. From 1980 until until last year, it was home to garbage trucks. [Ben Muessig for the Brooklyn Paper]

ProductShopNYC tipped us off to the fact that the full 2008 Pool Party lineup has been announced. Here’s what it looks like:

2008 JellyNYC Pool Party Lineup
06/29/08 The Hold Steady, The Loved Ones, J Roddy and the Business
07/06/08 Ronnie Spector, The Rabbit Factory Soul Revue, Featuring: Roscoe Robinson, Ralph ‘Soul’ Jackson, Hermon Hitson and Wiley & The Checkmates
07/13/08 (Headliner TBA), Matt + Kim, The Whip
07/20/08 Liars, Fuck Buttons, Team Robespierre
07/27/08 MGMT, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Ting Tings
08/03/08 Black Lips, Deerhunter, King Khan, Tall Firs
08/10/08 TBA
08/17/08 Aesop Rock, Panther, Special Guests
08/24/08 TBA

The headliner on 07/13 is strongly rumored to be The Breeders. Go here for a listing of all the Summer 2008 concerts at McCarren Park Pool.