Besides the core of guitar-bass-drums the band also incorporates the alto sax and vibraphone. Combine all that together and you’ve got some pretty unique sounds. Fans of the instrumental and rhythmic experimentation of bands like Rhyton and Horse Lords should look no further for their new favorite up-and-coming Brooklyn band. The band has been playing together for a couple years now with an intimate, blistering set full of songs off their new Castle Face Records LP (released late 2015). (The above is adapted from Eric PH's post on NYCTaper.com)

Wes Buckley is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from New England. He's got some love songs, some songs about the meaning of life, questing songs, couple tunes about the economy. He likes to finger-pick, he likes to strum, he likes to create down trodden characters that need a hug. A sort of mid-range breathy tenor voice.Yeah, it sounds 70's songwriter-esque and it sounds a little English too. By the time Wes Buckley was 17 years he'd been playing music for 10 years, he was a card carrying member of The Church of the Subgenius, had quit his first band to start a new one that would allow fog machines and had had a vision of a giant turquoise eagle that descended from space into his front yard to ask him, what is it?. Large birds continued to be a thread through adulthood and the songwriter's latest record Eggs, contains many meditations on relationships that use metaphors of flight and bird of prey advice. The full group Wes Buckley & The Chums perform with a great energy always trying to answer through music, what is it? Practice and a deep love of the unknown have brought one conclusion: write more songs. Scottish balladeer Lorkin O’Reilly plays an intriguing mix of folk music on a six string guitar, complemented with deft lyrics and dreamy rhythms. Lorkin has made a name for himself around the Hudson Valley, headlining his own shows and sharing bills with established artists including Charlie Parr, Simi Stone, and the Stacks.

Volume is back for more! We're excited for the March installment of the Volume Music & Reading Series. Volume happens on the second Saturday of every month, featuring readings by prose and poetry writers. We have a short DJ set after the reading for your mingling and dancing enjoyment. As always, Volume is free! Save your cash for books and drinks! Cara Benson is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Literature and taught poetry in a New York State prison for eight years. Andrea Kleine is a five-time MacDowell Colony fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, and a critically acclaimed performance artist and choreographer. Publishers Weekly called her debut novel, Calf, "unsettling, scary, and often brilliant," and named it a Best Fiction Book of 2015. Jim McDermott is a nationally recognized business litigation attorney who lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two daughters. His first novel, Bitter Is the Wind, opens a window on the American working class and its aching desire for financial security, recognition, and respect. Rebecca Keith’s poetry and prose have appeared in Narrative, Joyland, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, BOMBlog, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, hosts the MIXER Reading & Music Series, and sings/plays with her bands, Little Hustle and the Roulettes. Followed by a DJ set by Julian Nagy, aka DJ Salinger

The Spotty Dog couldn't be more excited to have Robert Burke Warren reading from and playing original songs from his debut novel, Perfectly Broken. Perfectly Broken follows former rock star, now stay-at-home dad Grant Kelly, whose life is getting more interesting by the day. It's the beginning of the post 9/11 era, and he and his wife and four-year-old son have traded a New York City apartment for a Catskills farmhouse, where ghosts from the past, worries for the future, and temptations in the present converge to bring about drastic changes in their marriage, their friendships, and their family. A gorgeously nuanced novel with unforgettable characters, PERFECTLY BROKEN is a story of human frailty, the endurance of the heart, and the power and possibility of forgiveness. Check out his webpage, www.RobertBurkeWarren.com, where you can download original songs created for the novel and become addicted to them in advance of his appearance. “Robert Burke Warren's sensory acumen and keen eye for detail – emotional and physical – make Perfectly Broken a wonderful ride. Fantastic, sharp dialogue and vivid characters, all in a distinctive, captivating voice. A stunning debut novel. (Rosanne Cash, multi-Grammy winner, author of New York Times Bestseller Composed) Robert Burke Warren is a writer whose work has appeared in Paste, Salon, The Bitter Southerner, The Good Men Project, The Rumpus, The Woodstock Times, Texas Music, Brooklyn Parent, Chronogram, The Weeklings, and the Da Capo anthology, The Show I'll Never Forget. He lives in the Catskill Mountains with his family. This is his first novel. He is also a musician who has played bass in The Fleshtones, played guitar in the London Production of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, and played to enthusiastic audiences of 2-to-8-year-olds (and their adoring parents) as Uncle Rock.