Niamh Crowther Releases New EP

Niamh Crowther released her new self-titled EP on May 20.  Check out the single, "I'll Be", below and  the EP, Niamh Crowther, can be picked up HERE.

The new radio edit of 'I’ll Be' was recorded in Westland Studio in Dublin with engineer Colm Finnegan produced by Dermot Lambert (Blink) And mixed by Tim Martin. It comes from Niamh’s eponymous EP which features 'Little by Little', 'Origins' and new track 'Painkillers'.

Rooftop Films Announces 2016 Summer Series

Pictured Film: The Fits - it will be presented on May 31. Photo credit: Paul Yee and Oscilloscope Laboratories

Rooftop Films announced their 2016 summer series.  See below for the schedule and more information.

Rooftop Films

2016 Free Summer Program

www.rooftopfilms.com

Rooftop Films and lululemon athletica 

Various Locations

May 31
Elevated Acre, Financial District, Manhattan
THE FITS (Anna Rose Holmer)
A tomboy's desire for a dance team's acceptance warps when its members fall prey to mysterious spasms.
Presented in Partnership with: Oscilloscope Laboratories. In theaters June 3rd.
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/the-fits

June 25
Solar One, Kips Bay, Manhattan
LIVING STARS (Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat)
Free screening. Free Dance Party! No script, no plot, just music and gyrating bodies. Living Stars is a sixty-minute dance party and everyone’s invited!
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/living-stars

July 30
Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, Financial District, Manhattan
IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE (Patrick Shen)
A meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound, and the impact of noise on our lives.
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/in-pursuit-of-silence

August 13
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
CINEMA RAMBLE AT STORM KING ART CENTER
A special night of short films sited among the sculptures and meadows of the Storm King Art Center. 
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/cinema-ramble-at-storm-king-art-center

Rooftop Films and The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

All Screenings take place at Metrotech Commons, Downtown Brooklyn

June 10
SUNDANCE SHORT FILMS
Highlights from Sundance 2016 include these wild, weird and wonderful short films.
More Info and film list: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/sundance-short-films

June 15
TIES THAT BIND: SHORT FILMS ABOUT FAMILIES
Family, for better and for worse: the protagonists of these films are the people we wish our family would be and sometimes are.
More Info and film list: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/ties-that-bind-short-films-about-families

June 24
DANGEROUS DOCS: SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
Thrilling and unsettling and frighteningly true.
More Info and film list: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/dangerous-docs-1

Rooftop Films and Roosevelt Island

All Screenings take place at Firefighters’ Field, Roosevelt Island, Manhattan

June 11
TERRITORY: SHORT FILMS ABOUT TURF WARS
Stories of the (sometimes) shared (sometimes) human space.
More Info and film list: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/territory-short-films-about-turf-wars

Rooftop Films and the River to River Festival 

All Screenings take place at Liberty Plaza, Manhattan

June 22
RIVER TO RIVER PRESENTS: OLGA BELL’S KRAI
Olga Bell’s Krai is an audio‐visual performance concerned with the rest of the map: the wilderness, the towns, the inhabitants and their stories. 
Presented by: The River to River Festival
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/river-to-river-presents-krai

Rooftop Films and Arts Brookfield

All Screenings take place at Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place, Financial District, Manhattan

July 28
ANIMATION BLOCK PARTY
Experience some of the year's best animated short films at the incomparable Animation Block Party!
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/animation-block-party-3 

July 30
IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE (Patrick Shen)
A meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound, and the impact of noise on our lives.
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/in-pursuit-of-silence

Rooftop Films and Outdoor Cinema at Socrates Sculpture Park

All Screenings take place at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Queens

July 20
SONITA (Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami)
18-year-old rapper Sonita looks for a better life outside Iran in this complex and layered doc. Presented in partnership with Women Make Movies.
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/sonita

August 3
GIRL ASLEEP (Rosemary Meyers)
Greta's bubble of obscure loserdom is burst when her parents throw a surprise 15th birthday party with her whole school! 
Presented in partnership with Oscilloscope Laboratories 
More Info: http://rooftopfilms.com/2016/schedule/girl-asleep

Rooftop Films and Coney Island Flicks on the Beach

All Screenings take place Mondays on the beach at West 10th Street. Dates TBA

JURASSIC WORLD (Colin Trevorrow)

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J.J. Abrams)

INSIDE OUT (Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen)

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon)

LABYRINTH (Jim Henson)

CREED (Ryan Coogler)

More info: http://www.coneyislandfunguide.com/Attraction/Coney-Island-Flicks-on-the-Beach.htm   

About Rooftop Films

Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and inspire the diverse communities of New York City by showcasing the work of emerging filmmakers and musicians. In addition to their annual Summer Series – which takes place in unique outdoor venues every weekend throughout the summer – Rooftop provides grants to filmmakers, teaches media literacy and filmmaking to young people, rents equipment at low-cost to artists and non-profits, and produces new independent films.

Meredith - "How Could You Believe That" + Upcoming Album

Today we have for you "How Could You Believe That" from Meredith. The track is from her upcoming EP Nostalgia which is scheduled to be released on June 17. Check it out below.

If I Dropped By…with Haley Bowery of The Manimals + Show Details

Today, we dropped in on Haley Bowery of The Manimals.

The Manimals are taking part in Spring Fling 98 at the Knitting Factory this Sunday, May 29. Doors are at 6:30PM and it will cost you $10…more details after our visit.

Here's what we found out when we dropped by.

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Quirky NY Chick (QNYC): ... and brought a friend who didn't know your music, what song of yours would you play for them and why?

Haley Bowery (HB): “Teeth” from our new album, SEVEN. It’s a concept album and it veers into a few different styles that are new for us, but “Teeth” still feels like classic Manimals. It’s a glam-rock stomper with tons of attitude that belies its emotional core. 

Ingrid Michaelson To Play The Beacon, 11/16 + Video

Ingrid Michaelson

Wednesday, November 16

Beacon Theatre

2124 Broadway @ 74th Street

New York, NY

Doors: 8PM

Tickets: $39.50 - $59.50

Ingrid Michaelson released "Hell No" in April 2016. You can pick up the single HERE.

Gypsy & The Cat Release New Video

Photo credit: Charles Lanceplaine

Check out "I Just Wanna Be Somebody Else" from Gypsy & The Cat. The clip was directed by Thom Lawrence. You can pick up the single HERE.

Gypsy & The Cat's Xavier Bacash explains the video concept was created by the duo's director and friend Thom Lawrence, who was ultimately conducted by the song itself. "The video highlights escapism in all of our quotidian days. We all at some point want someone else’s car or house or hair or job or life; it’s a very normal mental process in the everyday," he says. 

"At the golf range, we felt it was important to show how people are so close to each other and out for the same thing, but at the same time they are like islands that won’t ever touch or speak."

Augustines To Play Rough Trade NYC, 6/30 + New Album

Augustines

Thursday, June 30

Rough Trade NYC

64 N 9th Street

Brooklyn, NY

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM

Tickets: $18 adv / $20 dos

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The Augustines are set to release their new album, This Is Your Life on June 10. You can pre-order it HERE.

Their third album sees Augustines experimenting and traveling down new roads. Drummer Rob Allen elaborates: “we wanted to spread our wings a little bit on this record. We had in the past flirted with samples and what-not, but never really on the percussive side. We had great fun messing and experimenting with older analog instruments like 808’s and 909’s as well as more modern instrumentation, like the Roland Spd-SX and Maschine. For me it’s clear. This record shows we’ve tried to grow as musicians and not stay in our comfort zone. To grow as people. To improve”

Tour Dates

• June 30th - Rough Trade NYC - New York
• July 27th - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles
• July 28th - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco
• July 30th - The Crocodile - Seattle

Becca Stevens Band To Play Rockwood Music Hall, 6/13

Becca Stevens Band

Monday, June 13

 Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2  

196 Allen Street

New York, NY

Doors: 6:30PM / Show: 7PM

Tickets: $12

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The Becca Stevens Band released Perfect Animal in April 2015.  You can pick it up HERE.

Emily Jane White To Release New Album In July

Emily Jane White is scheduled to release her fifth album, They Moved In Shadow All Together on July 8. You can pre-order it HERE. Check out the beautifully bewitching "Frozen Garden" below.

The 11 songs on They Moved in Shadow All Together focus conceptually upon the symptomatology of trauma, a pattern of experiences marked by a fragmentation of the self. These songs contend with the impact of trauma on individual and collective identity – the shattered pieces within the psyche left to cope after tragedy, and the dissociative co-habitance of belief and disbelief that results. White wrote “The Black Dove” in support of the anti-racist struggle against police violence. In “Womankind,” she mourns the continuing epidemic of violence against women, and the silences that suppress the truths of survivors. 

White’s new body of work recounts for us the terrain of her empathic inner world. The breadth and depth of her maturing voice are evident. Her layered vocals effect a sense of camaraderie, a space populated with voices, angelic perhaps, definitively ethereal. She studied classical singing while working on this album, which enabled her to broaden her vocal range.

Fieu Releases New Single

Photo credit: Danny McShane

Fieu released her new single, "Impossible". The track is a seductive bit of pop that pulls you in and refuses to let you go. Check it out below. You can pick up "Impossible" HERE.