Brooklyn Bowl Family Reunion is taking over Empire Control Room on Friday and Saturday with some heavy hitters: White Denim, Claud, Jackie Venson, Heartless Bastards...They don't have times or days yet so we'll need to keep an eye out when they are announced.
This band is the moniker of Brooklyn-based Mia Berren. They are busy during SXSW: the Paste Party, Stubb's showcase with The Lemonheads, and this stacked lineup. They are coming back on tour April 24th again playing Empire Control Room.
NPR says of their latest album: " I'm sensing two sides to this album: There's the grungier, darker side, and there's the 1950s and '60s, Phil Spector, traditional pop side."
Rolling Stone has a good article on her upbringing in Orlando. About her teenage years:
Berrin says, she was beginning to develop into “an angry kid.” Queer and mixed (she is half-black and half-Puerto Rican), she felt alone in the predominantly white, Christian, heteronormative “semi-South” where she grew up.
“I think when you’re growing up, you learn a little bit about cruelty and the ability to be cruel,” she says. “It was just so hard to believe, and it was hard to understand. I didn’t know what to do with that or how to deal with that.”
Here's their performance on KEXP. Indie rock/punk. The first song on it, "Drunk Voicemail", is good.
This is the title song of the new album.
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