The Knitting Factory Announces Their Upcoming Shows

The Knitting Factory was founded in 1987 and over the years has grown into Knitting Factory Entertainment, which encompasses four clubs - in Brooklyn, Hollywood, Boise, and Spokane - several record labels and other ventures.

Tuesday, February 23rd
The Shat Ball - Captain Kirk's Birthday Party Event starring
Start Trekkin', the RaspBerry Brothers, Fall on Your Sword plus Kirk-aoke battle - A Cap'n Kirk impersonation contest!
9:00 PM, $5

Thursday, February 25th
Scion Presents the Dirtbombs, Davilla 666
9:00 PM, Free

Sunday, February 28th
Video Juice Box
3:00 PM, kids $10; parents free

Tuesday, March 2nd
Sky White Tiger, Beasts of Eden, Wu Li, Holistic
7:00 PM, $8

Wednesday, March 3rd
What's Wrong With Us, PC Worship,Up Died Sound
8:00 PM, $8

Thursday, March 4th
Outpost, Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, 9999999999
8:00 PM, $8

Friday, March 5th
Leatherface, Yesterdays Ring, Bridge and Tunnel, Cerebral Ballzy
8:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show

Saturday, March 6th
Bob Marley Birthday Celebration starring NY Ska-Jazz Ensemble, the Blue Beats, Hey Stranger, Freddy Loco
7:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show

Monday, March 8th
Danielson, Ortolan, Ben + Vesper
7:00 PM, $8

Thursday, March 11th
Iran, Arboretum, War of Northern Aggression
8:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show

Friday, March 12th
Foreign Born, Free Energy, Clovers
8:00 PM, $12

Sunday, March 14th
And So I Watch You From Afar
7:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show

Tuesday, March 16th
Peculiar Gentlemen, Low Water, the Gang Violets
7:00 PM, $7

Tuesday, February 23rd
The Shat Ball - Captain Kirk's Birthday Party Event starring
Start Trekkin', the RaspBerry Brothers, Fall on Your Sword plus Kirk-aoke battle - A Cap'n Kirk impersonation contest!
An event almost too surreal to believe, we shat you not. It's free to anyone in a Star Trek costume (don't you have one in your closet?); there will be Star Trek logo cookies, and a Shatner impersonation contest (singing or speaking?-does it matter??). Sci-fi music (including the Star Trek theme) will be supplied by Fall on Your Sword, plus Klingon/Romulan drink specials and so much more.

Thursday, February 25th
Scion Presents the Dirtbombs, Davilla 666
Yes, this show is free, but you have to RSVP at www.scion.com/garageshow
From the Detroit Metro Times: "It's been nearly three decades since Dirtbombs leader Mick Collins first picked up a guitar with the sole intention of ‘murdering the Eagles.' The Dirtbombs (are) a genre-defying rock 'n' roll band that seizes everything - from glam rock to soul - for its explosive ouvre."

Sunday, February 28th
Video Juice Box
A variety show for kids featuring songs, videos, and interactive fun...also prizes. This week's theme: Animals. Kids are invited to come dressed as their favorite animal. We'll be watching animals on the big screen, walking like animals, talking like animals, and dancing like animals.

Tuesday, March 2nd
Sky White Tiger, Beasts of Eden, Wu Li, Holistic
Blending catchy, hook-laden rock with dreamy melodies, hard hitting rhythms and punchy guitars, Sky White have enjoyed success worldwide with tours across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the U.K. Their debut EP has scored radio airtime on national stations at both at home and abroad. Their track "End Times" was featured in a national Ford/Microsoft Sync commercial, and they've spent the past year recording their first full length LP entitled Quiet Storm.

Wednesday, March 3rd
Starring, What's Wrong With Us?, PC Worship,Up Died Sound
Starring is a band that recombines players from Information Night, Cara, Jacqueee!!!, Pterodactyl, and they may just be the most psychedelic thing you'll hear this month, unless you have Roky Erickson over for cake.

What's Wrong With Us? hail from the Genevan underground. The members of this atypical group confess a love of bold sound collages and unexpected rhythmic interweaving. They consider music as being above all a vast laboratory where any experiment is worth trying - especially if it leads to an explosive and daring result! What's Wrong With Us? mix such diverse music as punk, jazz, electronic music and cabaret.

Thursday, March 4th
Outpost, Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, 999999999
Guitarist Mark C has a history that includes infamous NY band Live Skull, plus Spoiler, the remainder of his trio have at times called Death Comet Crew, Holy Ghost and Land of No home.

Friday, March 5th
Leatherface, Yesterdays Ring, Bridge & Tunnel, Cerebral Ballzy
Leatherface formed August 1988, and with a penchant for bad horror films, the odd mask made of leather and a novel called Leatherface about a highway robber with romantic inclinations, the band was born. England's Leatherface are a rare treasure in contemporary music -- a good old-fashioned punk rock band who are neither near-sighted nor necrophiles. If you believe that punk can still matter -- that it can be impassioned, intelligent and emotive without just retreading the boards -- you should check out Leatherface immediately.

Saturday, March 6th
Bob Marley Birthday Celebration starring NY Ska-Jazz Ensemble, the Blue Beats, Hey Stranger, Freddy Loco
The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble is exactly what its name suggests: a group of New York ska musicians dedicated to exploring the links between ska and jazz. The membership is all culled from top New York ska acts, making it something of a supergroup: leaders "Rocksteady" Freddie Reiter (saxophone, vocals) and Rick Faulkner (trombone, vocals) hail from the Toasters, as does drummer/lead vocalist Jonathan McCain, guitarist Devon James comes from the legendary Skatalites, and bassist Victor Rice and keyboardist Cary Brown play full-time with the Scofflaws. The group released its self-titled debut in 1995 to excellent reviews, and reconvened in 1997 to record the follow-up, Low Blow. The band had been featured in Downbeat, Reggae Nucleus, The Beat, Ragga and Jazziz magazines. NYSJE s music can be heard regularly on television-- on the Nickelodeon network, MTVs Road Rules, as well as two nationally airing Campbell's Soup Commercials. In Italy, their video, "Properly," airs on MTV.

Monday, March 8th
Danielson, Ortolan, Ben + Vesper
Daniel sings, "My Lord is known by His song." Not by His press releases. The ecstatic vision of the Danielson project is the unnamable part, the impossible to describe part, and this ecstatic vision is cumulative. It's not what Daniel says, though he always says it well, it's the circumstances in which he says it, with family gathered around him, whether related by blood or not; it's the reiteration of the spiritual thematic material, a reiteration that sounds nothing like early 20th century gospel-it's far more poeticized, it's far more elemental-but which has all the seriousness and all the joy of that long-ago music.

Thursday, March 11th
Iran, Arboretum, War of Northern Aggression
Conceived in San Francisco in 1998, Iran began as the four-track bedroom-recording project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Aites. Playing most of the instruments himself and recruiting friends as needed, Aites released Iran's self-titled debut in 2000. The album showcased Aites' talent for balancing pop melodies with noise and tape hiss. The result was a sound like a more approachable Dead C, or like a throwback to the lo-fi early-'90s sound of Pavement, Smog, and Sebadoh.

Friday, March 12th
Foreign Born, Free Energy, Clovers
One can't help but imagine this was the mood of Foreign Born's mid-summer retreat to Sunset Lodge Studios, where bass parts were laid down in the wee hours of morning and the hot tub bubbled late into the night. The result of the session is an album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songsmithing contemporaries like Cass McCombs and James Mercer, as well as greats like Bowie. The band is able to bypass the 'songwriter' label by delivering a much more collective sound. African high-life guitars are countered with New Wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its pallet open to most any influence -- from U2 to the Feelies. If the Walkmen weren't afraid to go out in Bermuda shorts and flip-flops, you may have a sound close to this... like it could be Phil Spector's mid-‘70s 'lost recordings' inspired by the depth of second-line drum bands from New Orleans.

Sunday, March 14th
And So I Watch You From Afar
In 2009, ASIWYFA played a mammoth 170 gigs all over Europe. From extensive tours in the UK to opening Pukkelpop festival in Belgium in front of 4,500 Novarock festival in Austria, gigs in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, this is band that mean business. Their hometown Belfast shows are legendary--from the 1,000 capacity headline Christmas homecoming gig in the Ulster Hall right down to a small secret basement party which was shut down by the police late in the night for being too insane. Their critically-acclaimed, self-titled 2009 debut album is exhibit A. It's everything great rock (never mind just instrumental rock) music should be.

Tuesday, March 16th
Peculiar Gentlemen, Low Water, the Gang Violets
Utilizing clever lyrics, infectious rhythm, old-school soul and an extraordinary sense of humor, Peculiar Gentlemen move through genres with effortless ease. Led by the unlikely duo of folk/rock guitarist "Sweet" Willy Jive and hip hop/electronic keyboardist E-Beats, Peculiar Gentlemen's fresh sound and energy have breathed much needed life into New York's indie scene.