Searching for the New Punk Rock...

This Thursday Night at Niagara, The Antagonist Movement and Theory Events search for the New Punk Rock with a free night of outsider art and music, featuring performances by rising stars The High Class Elite, DC rockers Ra Ra Rasputin, guitar hero Tom Devaney as well as late night avant-garde DJ sets by East Village innovators It's Overture, 100 dBs and MC Ryan O'Neil. In the Antagonist's Ignite Gallery, Seth Joseph, Justin Sanz and Russ Spitkovsky will be showing an eyeball-shredding assortment of transgressive prints and engravings.

Niagara is at 7th Street and Avenue A. The action is downstairs and starts at 9pm. The New Punk Rock is free to the 21+ public.



also:
check out 100 dBs' Myspace to hear the first leaked track from him and Ryan O'Neil's Album, dropping late August. 100% fire.

ArtCrime2

Thank you all for coming out Saturday, it was a great night! The music was dope, the art was amazing and everyone we met was having a great time. Thanks for continuing to keep these nights live!

Cheers,

Ashir

ps- keep an eye out for more pictures



photo by Meg Rorison

Punk Rock is not Punk Rock Anymore.

from Encyclopaedia Britannica:
PUNK also known as punk rock aggressive form of rock music that coalesced into an international (though predominantly Anglo-American) movement in 1975–80. Often politicized and full of vital energy beneath a sarcastic, hostile facade, punk spread as an ideology and an aesthetic approach, becoming an archetype of teen rebellion and alienation.

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Punk Rock is not Punk Rock anymore.

Punk ideology has been co-opted and defanged by mass media.

Punk rock has become conventionalized and commercialized, and therefore is not actually punk rock.

All that's left of Punk are three powerchords and battalions of hot-topic attired idiots aspiring to a commodified and obsolete image without any actual rebellion left in it.

Punk Rock is not Punk Rock anymore.
We need the New Punk Rock to remind us how it used to be.

This Thursday Night at Niagara, The Antagonist Movement and Theory Events search for the New Punk Rock with a free night of outsider art and music, featuring performances by rising stars The High Class Elite, DC rockers Ra Ra Rasputin, guitar hero Tom Devaney as well as late night avant-garde DJ sets by East Village innovators It's Overture, 100 dBs and MC Ryan O'Neil. In the Antagonist's Ignite Gallery, Seth Joseph, Justin Sanz and Russ Spitkovsky will be showing an eyeball-shredding assortment of transgressive prints and engravings.

Niagara is at 7th Street and Avenue A. The action is downstairs and starts at 9pm. The New Punk Rock is free to the 21+ public.

and by the way...

High Class Elite is doing 2 shows this August: This Thursday with us and This Saturday at Lollapalooza. Lollapalooza is in Chicago and costs a kidney. We're here in NYC and free. Do the math.

Info: Artcrime2, Saturday July 28 at Antique

danger:


Theory Presents Artcrime2, The latest in our series of scandalous mixed media parties at Antique (downstairs from China1) This Month: Artcrime is felony ballllin' with an all hip-hop and west indies DJ roster in celebration of Rock The Bells, earlier the same day.

Saturday July 28th
9pm-4am
Free Entry
Cheap Drinks
50 Avenue B Between 3rd and 4th Streets

DJ sets by Theory Residents It's Overture and 100 dBs
plus special guest DJ
One Wacked Mug

With MC Ryan O'Neil plus special guests

scads of brilliant new artwork on display in the galleryless gallery
plus dancefloor visuals generated on-the-fly by Voidstar Runner

Audio Samples:
100dbs.com/mixes/artcrime1/
www.myspace.com/itsoverture

Pics from Past Parties

At Antique: 1, 2

Elsewhere: 1, 2

Q: What's the best part of a theory party? Part 4 of 4.

The People. Hands down.

Theory is building a community of awesome creative people here in NYC, and they're really what make our parties great. Come meet some of them...



Theory Photog Meg Rorison and MC Ryan O'Neil, cheesin' in front of art by Chantal Smith and Maria Besedin, (both of whom will be showing in the Galleryless Gallery, Incidentally...)





(How people get down when Ryan's on the Mic)



L-R: Theory Artists Koche/Grey, Yarrow Maurer, Professor Meat, 100 dBs, Carla and Voidstar Runner, 3:30am outside of ArtCrime last month.




A couple of the lovely Antique/China1 staff, who are all pretty great people.



L-R: Macabee and Verse (from It's Overture), Sly, Ashley, Sly's Friend, Voidstar, dBs, Sam and playerhater of the year Eric George, at Theory's Big Shanty rooftop party last month.

So to review: Great music, awesome art, cheap drinks and amazing people.

Come party with us Saturday night!




email: theoryeventsnyc@gmail.com

Artcrime 2 galleryless gallery submissions deadline: 8pm Sharp!

get your submissions in to theoryeventsnyc@gmail.com quick!

full info here

cheers,
sc

Q: What's the best part of a theory party? Part 3 of 4.

The Drink Specials: Theory went to the table with the management of Antique and locked down a schedule of drink specials to keep you in your cups on the cheap all night long.

Here's the breakdown:

9:00-11:00: $5 Antique signature cocktails
(Lychee Martinis, Cucumber Saketinis and more, all delicious)
11:00-1:00: $6 for a can of pbr and a shot of whiskey
1:00-2:00: $5 signature cocktails again!
2:00-4:00: $6 pbr and shot again!

With drink specials like that, no cover to get in, great music and awesome art, you'd be hard pressed to find a better place to party this Saturday. Lucky for you that you don't have to!

A quick pause for station identification:

Q: What's the best part of a theory party? Part 2 of 4.

Answer 2 of 4: The Art. Theory's goal is to create spaces where our artistic community can connect, learn from one another and enjoy one anothers' work, and our Galleryless Gallery art installations at Antique are making our dreams come true at Artcrime 2. Check out a few works that you'll see at the show, just to give a sense of the range that will be present in the hundreds of brilliant artworks on display:



color photo by Irene Kaoru


Sepia Print by Damian Henry



Mixed Media Collage by Yarrow Maurer


Pencil and Ink by Kenan Rubenstein


Painting on skateboard by Chantal Smith (Contact Information Upon Request)

Great Art, Great Music, and two more reasons still to come... do you really have something better to do this Saturday night?

In case you forgot:

Q: What's the best part of a theory party? Part 1 of 4.

Answer 1 of 4: The Music. We're lucky to have some of the best DJ's in New York city working with us to soundtrack your evening. I've been going to a bunch of bars and clubs to spread the word for this Saturday, and I've been amazed by just how shitty most of the DJ's in NYC are. Technical ability can be faked with a laptop, but taste cannot. If you've never been to a Theory party, you might not know just how important a DJ can be to an evening.

It's Overture and 100 dBs bring it with style, finesse and taste, and they're going to be playing hits mixed in with gems you never heard before. The focus will be on hip-hop, but dBs has threatened to bring out his reggae and dancehall crates too, for that full range soundclash murderation that makes Jamaicans get live.

There's an amazing sort of friendly rivalry between dBs and Overture, with each mix by one of them pushing the others to step their games up even harder. Expect great things Saturday night.

Ryan O'Neil is a brilliant, witty and charismatic MC, and you should catch him now before he gets too big to get close to.

One Wacked Mug is a man of mystery, but from what we've heard he's gonna kill it on Saturday.

be here:

Are Theory Events Family Friendly?

I can't say this enough: Theory Events are family-friendly, so long as your family are all over 21, and like to get drunk on the cheap and dance to great music for free. If they like to look at cool new works by brilliant rising stars of the art world, we've got them covered for that too.


Oh yeah, and we're going way later than rock the bells- last time we were really live straight until the cops told us to shut it down at 4am. If you're not coming because you'll be at rock the bells before we kick off, you're just cutting off your Saturday night in time to catch the last of prime time. This is your summer, and if you want to spend it with CBS nighttime soaps, that's the way to go. If you want to have stories to tell on Monday, party with us.


Have you seen the pictures? Do you understand the sexy? It's going to be sick.


Checkit:

Call For Art Submissions for the Digital Gallery At Artcrime2, 7/28/07

It's submissions time for this month's Galleryless Gallery at Artcrime2,
Theory's scandalous mixed media mixer Saturday July 28 at Antique,
located at 50 Avenue B between 3rd and 4th Streets.

We're accepting submissions for the show through Thursday July 26 at 8pm, and this is a hard deadline. Seriously, we will finalize the show at 8:15pm on Thursday the 28th. I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd pass the word along to any artists whom you'd like to show with, as well as sending us some of your own pieces.

Submissions should be hi-res image files, preferably jpegs, captioned in-image with artist's name and the work's title. They'll be used for digital display only and for one night only, Saturday June 30, and will not be used by Theory Events or the Venue for any other purposes without explicit artist permission. All submissions should be e-mailed to theoryeventsnyc@gmail.com.

Please specify whether you'd allow us to use your art for promotional purposes in your submission e-mail. If you don't say anything about promotional purposes, then we won't use it. If you let us use your art for promotional purposes, it will be attributed and shown to at least hundreds of people.

I urge any interested artists to submit at least three pieces for the show, and barring a total deluge of submissions, all works within reason and a fairly broad span of taste will be shown. We'll have space at our merch table for zero-commission print sales as well, and any artists interested in bringing down a few pieces for sale should note that in their submission e-mail. Business cards and postcards are also totally welcome. Our merch volunteers are awesome, and we did brisk sales at the last show.

Admission to the show is free, and it'll be going from 9pm to 4am. We're going to have some great music too, focusing on hip-hop to celebrate the Rock the Bells festival going on earlier in the day. The DJs are excited and the early submissions that we've received from some of you have been awesome. Get in on this great opportunity for exposure!

Thank you so much for your time, and I hope to see you at Artcrime2!

Cheers,
Sam Cohen
Theory Events

Artcrime2, Saturday July 28 at Antique

Theory says: "guess who's back?"

more amazing new art, more great music, more awesome people, more artcrime. still free.

join us at a special all hip-hop artcrime after rock the bells

this one is the danger

Pics from ArtCrime

wow, Sam is a really shitty photographer compared to Meg.

Anyway, slideshow from the party is here. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Sam

artcriminals, pt. 1

3:30 am, 7/1/07:


so much thanks to everyone who came out, all the djs, the great people at China 1/Antique- you're all awesome.

as for the rest of you, what's wrong, don't you want to be awesome too? nerds.

;-)
sc