Washed Out, Deer Tick, Bilal And Bill Evans Hit Brooklyn Bowl In December

Brooklyn Bowl — "one of the most incredible places on Earth" according to Rolling Stone — will welcome 2015 with a six night Deer Tick residency and midnight performance on New Year’s Eve by “bedroom synthpop” (Pitchfork) artist Washed Out, as part of their December lineup.  

Bill Evans’ Soulgrass - Thu, Dec 4
Bill Evans is a world-class, Grammy Award winning saxophonist and producer who made his debut on the international music scene in the 1980s with Miles Davis. Nineteen solo albums later, with credits alongside Gregg Allman, Willie Nelson, Herbie Hancock, and Warren Davis, Evans has proven his ability to adapt onstage and in the studio. Now Evans will hit the stage at Brooklyn Bowl with his most recent project - funk, rock, rhythm and groove band, Soulgrass (show: 8:00 pm, admission: $15).

Watch Bill Evans’ Soulgrass perform live here.

Lettuce - Fri-Sat, Dec 5-6
After celebrating their 20th anniversary as modern day rulers of old school funk, the Brooklyn-based funk band Lettuce is not showing any signs of slowing. "We play music that reflects our way of life,” says bassist Erick “E.D.” Coomes, who is joined in the groove by the remaining members of the seven piece band: keyboardist Neal Evans, saxophonist Ryan Zoidis, Eric Bloom on trumpet, guitarists Eric Krasno and Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff, and drummer Adam Deitch. Together they will bring "the Funk of the AGES" to Brooklyn Bowl (shows: 9pm, admission: $20).

Watch Lettuce perform their song “Madison Square live here.

Bilal - Thu, Dec 11
"Jazzy soul rocker" (Billboard) and Philadelphia native Bilal will bring his vocal prowess to the stage at Brooklyn Bowl to perform songs off of his forth album, 'A Love Surreal.'  The classically trained R&B singer is most known for his 2001 single "Soul Sista," which spent 23 weeks on the Billboard R&B/hip-hop charts, and his collaborations with artists like Common, Jay-Z, Robert Glasper, and Erykah Badu (shows: 8:00pm, admission: $15).

Watch the official “Soul Sista” music video here.

Anders Osborne - Fri-Sat, Dec 12-13
Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely soulful vocals, and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ Anders Osborne has been dubbed "the poet laureate of Louisiana's fertile roots music scene" by Guitar World.  Osborne will bring his "fiery anthems and tumultuous confessional songs punctuated with raw, inspired guitar" to the stage at Brooklyn Bowl for two nights to perform songs off of his most recent record, 'Peace.' (shows: 8pm, admission: $20).

Watch Osborne perform live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival here.

PopShop w/ Great Good Fine Ok and VÉRITÉ - Sat, Dec 13
Electronic Brooklyn duo Good Great Fine OK will be joined by Hype Machine #1 artist VÉRITÉ at Brooklyn Bowl.  Good Great Fine OK's whizzing, celestial synths and layered staccato rhythms will be met with VÉRITÉ's colorful alt-pop that blends vulnerable, honest lyrics with huge pop hooks (show: 12am, admission: $10).

Watch Great Good Fine OK’s official “You’re the One for Me” video here.

Marco Benevento - Fri, Dec 19
For more than a decade pianist Marco Benevento has been amassing an extensive resume of composition and collaboration. His albums set forth a vision that connect the dots between MGMT, Tortoise, Brian Eno, and Brad Mehldau. In the live setting, his performances reverberate with pulsating dance rock energy - which he has brought to numerous high profile venues including Carnegue Hall, Bonnaroo, and now Brooklyn Bowl (show: 8pm, admission: $15).

Watch the music video for Marco Benevento’s song “Limbs of a Pine” here.

Badfish, A Tribute to Sublime - Sat, Dec 20
As far as tribute bands go, Badfish is one of the best around.  What separates Badfish from other tribute bands is the way in which they have replicated Sublime’s essence, developing a dedicated following of fans who say that their live performances are “the most fun they’ve ever had at a show."  The key to their success is that they are not obsessed with looking like Sublime or sounding exactly like Sublime, they simply play the music with a lot of heart (show: 8pm, admission: $15).

Watch Badfish perform their rendition of “Smoke Two Joints” live here.

Deer Tick - Fri-Wed, Dec 26-31
“Rowdy Rhode Island rockers” (Rolling Stone) Deer Tick will wrap up 2014 at Brooklyn Bowl with a six night residency, including a special New Year’s Eve celebration where they will perform an all fan chosen set list.  Each night of their residency, Deer Tick will perform one of their favorite bands’ albums from start to finish - NRBQ, ’Tiddlywinks’ (12.26); Lou Reed, ’Transformer’ (12.27); The Beatles, ‘Meet The Beatles’ (12.28); Devo, ‘Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!’ (12.29); Elvis Costello, ‘My Aim Is True’ (12.30) - and close the night with their own set, including songs from their fifth studio album, ‘Negativity’ (12.26-12.30 shows: 8:30pm, admission: $25; 12.31 show: 9pm, admission: $40-50).

Watch the music video for Deer Tick's song “The Dream’s in the Ditch” off of ‘Negativity' here.

Washed Out - Wed, Dec 31
In the words of Pitchfork, "Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Georgia (via South Carolina) who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative, like someone smeared Vaseline all over an early OMD demo tape, then stayed up all night trying to recreate what they heard.”  Fans of the TV series ‘Portlandia’ may recognize his song “Feel It All Around,’ which is featured in the show’s opening sequence. Washed Out, will ring in 2015, following Deer Tick’s set, and play the first show of the year at Brooklyn Bowl (show: 12am, admission: $15-18).

Watch Washed Out perform “Feel It All Around" live in the studio at KEXP here.

About Brooklyn Bowl:
Brooklyn Bowl is the ultimate night out, with its groundbreaking integration of premiere music, 16 lanes of bowling, a bar featuring locally crafted beers, and “epic” (Eater) food by the acclaimed Blue Ribbon restaurant group. Located in the beautiful, 19th-century Hecla Iron Works building, the venue -- aka "rock and roll heaven" (Village Voice) -- boasts a sound system and amenities that "no other local rock club can offer" (The New York Times). Also committed to environmental sustainability, Brooklyn Bowl is the first L.E.E.D.-certified bowling alley in the world.

Brooklyn Bowl recently opened its London outpost at The O2 (a "wonderland of food, drink, music and pins" - London Evening Standard) and Las Vegas in The LINQ, Caesars Entertainment's open air district in the center of the world famous Las Vegas strip.

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