Where Brooklyn At?

Geographically, Brooklyn, NY is pretty close to philly. It’s a 3 hour drive at most. But musically, it exists in its own universe. It has 2981960000000 bands, and a bunch of them are pretty bangin.
So it’s easy for Brooklynites to forget that there are other cities out there. Sure, they’ll do a big tour twice a year, but come down to philly for a single show? Why would they do that? They’re the ones already paying New York rent.
But you know what? Fuck that. Cause we have 3 of the raddest, loudest and loft livingest bands in Brooklyn coming down just for BBQ.

Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers should never have to leave his house, let alone his borough. Dude lives in an old Warehouse called “Death by Audio.” It’s a practice space, it has shows, and it’s even where he works at his regular job, making custom distortion pedals called, yes, “Death by Audio.”

A Place to Bury Strangers - To Fix the Gash in Your Head


Japanther is pretty much the most Brooklyn thing ever. Hell, they went to Pratt. They’re a noise band. Or rather, everybody calls them a noise band, but they’re not a noise band at all. They’re more of a hyper-cute, dancepartytimeallthetime neon pop band. Pop Punk but, you know, the sort of pop punk that soundtracks musicals about dinosaurs and gets featured at the Whitney Biennial.

Japanther - Challenge

Oxford Collapse, on the other hand, is the least Brooklyn band in Brooklyn. If I had to pick a time and place for them, I’d say maybe Minneapolis in the early 80s or North Carolina in the mid-90s. But where they really exist is the mythological punk rock America, forever in the van drinking lone star or iron city or ballentine ale, rocking out in black and white for 6 people at a VFW in Syracuse, waiting for Michael Azzarad to immortalize them alongside their heroes in Sebadoh and the Minutemen.

Oxford Collapse - Please Visit Your National Parks

Oh, and to answer the original question, where Brooklyn at?
The answer, of course, is Baltimore.

Dave Nada: Where Brooklyn At?