Coming soon to Bushwick Well here is strange and exciting news: Sleater-Kinney have officially announced new tour dates, which include December stops at the Kings Theatre, Terminal 5, Irving Plaza, the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and, improbably, the shuttered-but-reopening Market Hotel in Bushwick. We do not know why or how that last one happened, but we are not complaining. For those who don’t know, Market Hotel was a DIY space at the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border that closed in 2010 after the cops raided the obviously-illegal venue during a Smith Westerns show. Since then they’ve been trying to spruce up the joint and open it on the up-and-up, even throwing a surprise private Ava Luna show in January. Cut to Monday, and a cryptic series of photos on Sleater-Kinney’s Facebook page that included a view of the Myrtle-Broadway stop. Some sly foxes in the comments deduced that it was indeed a photo from inside the Market Hotel: via Facebook “BUT WHAT COULD IT MEAN?” we all wondered for a… Read More
Coming soon to Bushwick Well here is strange and exciting news: Sleater-Kinney have officially announced new tour dates, which include December stops at the Kings Theatre, Terminal 5, Irving Plaza, the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and, improbably, the shuttered-but-reopening Market Hotel in Bushwick. We do not know why or how that last one happened, but we are not complaining. For those who don’t know, Market Hotel was a DIY space at the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border that closed in 2010 after the cops raided the obviously-illegal venue during a Smith Westerns show. Since then they’ve been trying to spruce up the joint and open it on the up-and-up, even throwing a surprise private Ava Luna show in January. Cut to Monday, and a cryptic series of photos on Sleater-Kinney’s Facebook page that included a view of the Myrtle-Broadway stop. Some sly foxes in the comments deduced that it was indeed a photo from inside the Market Hotel: via Facebook “BUT WHAT COULD IT MEAN?” we all wondered for a… Read More