CLUSTERFUNK!

April Clusterfunk Is Around The Corner!

2010-04-19T12:49:00.000-07:00

Supporting Turkuaz will be our good friends Ikebe Shakedown (totally sweet afrobeat band) and Lyle Divinsky and the Sunshine Express (kickass soul band). Come at 9pm for the sweet crooning of Lyle Divinsky and the Sunshine Express, get your groove on with Ikebe Shakedown at 10pm, and funk the f*@% out to Turkuaz at 11. THE CZECH will be spinning the best disco/funk/motown between and after the sets as well!

Cover is $10 and it's 21+. As usual, $5 will get you a shot of bourbon and a Miller High Life.

Come testify with Lyle Divinsky, groove out with Ikebe Shakedown, and get down with Turkuaz this Saturday night!

CLUSTERFUNK This Friday 2/26!

2010-02-23T14:12:00.000-08:00

Greetings, Funk Lovers! Your favorite monthly funk freakout returns to Cameo (back of Lovin Cup, 93 N 6th btw Berry and Wythe, Bedford L) this Friday, 2/26! The classic soul band Milkfat starts the night off right at 10pm. Throwing some afro-beat into the mix will be the formidable Ikebe Shakedown at 11. We've thrown down with these guys before, and let me tell you, it gets messy. In a good way! Turkuaz is set to destroy at midnight, with our favorite DJ THE CZECH spinning the best discofunksoulmotown all night long! And as usual, $5 will get you a shot of bourbon and a High Life (Cameo Special). So come early, stay late, and bring your dancing shoes, 'cause this is gonna be ridiculous.

See you Friday!

CLUSTERFUNK IS BACK, BABY!!

2010-01-20T13:39:00.000-08:00

Greetings to all! If one of your New Years resolutions was to have more funk and soul in your life, I'm here to help you! On Friday, January 29th, CLUSTERFUNK returns to everyone's favorite big little venue, Cameo. As usual, Turkuaz will be funking your funking faces off with furious funk. As usual, our favorite DJ friend THE CZECH will be spinning the best discofunkmotownsoul records before, in-between, and after the bands. As usual, presenting a $5 bill (or any other combination of legal U.S. tender equalling $5) to the bartender will get you a shot of bourbon and a Miller High Life. Joining us for the first time, however, is Lyle Divinsky and the Sunshine Express. Our pal Lyle is an exceptional soul singer, and his new band the Sunshine Express will have you soul-clappin' and foot stampin' and many other things that sound and look cool when you take off the 'g.'

Tickets are $10 at the door or $8 online at revtone.com/clusterfunk. Buy them in advance before they sell out!

The night starts at 9pm and goes until the last of you is dancing long into the wee hours of the morning. So dust of your dancing shoes and bust out your dancing moves. It's on.

I'd like to thanks...

2009-09-30T23:32:00.000-07:00

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I cannot put into words our gratitude for all those who took the walk down that hall last Friday, took a free shot of bourbon from a lanky guy in a pink coat (or not if you came too late!) and got down during the night of awesome afrobeat and funk. Thanks to you, Clusterfunk packed Cameo (and The Lovin Cup) and we all enjoyed a raucous night of hard grooves and smooth moves. Good friends toasted their shots of bourbon and chased them with matching PBR's and I ate a grilled cheese that tasted good to me and all were merry like mischievous forest sprites.

Ikebe Shakedown absolutely destroyed it! It's always an honor to share the stage with such a tight horn section, and all of Turkuaz was thoroughly impressed with their grooves. The air is filled with the smell of future collaborations (as in, "do I smell future collaborations?" If not framed in that context, the previous statement might have come off a bit odd). You have not seen the last of these guys.

Thanks also to James Lucius Gray and EVZEE. Props also to Evan for controlling the dope visual flows up on the wall. You also haven't seen the last of him.

When will CLUSTERFUNK return?! What madness will be conjured up next time?! What about the children?!?!?

Answers, in time, will be revealed. For now, I leave you with a video of Mr. Bootsy Collins teaching all of us the basic funk formula.

Bootsy's Basic Funk Formula

Love,

That Lanky Guy In A Pink Coat

EARLY BIRD GETS THE FREE BOOZE!!

2009-09-23T12:56:00.000-07:00

There will be a free shot of whatever the hell booze we feel like buying for the first X amount of people that arrive to the show. The value of X is dependent on how generous our pouring hand decides to be. I know my pouring hand usually feels pretty generous, so X might start to dwindle, meaning COME AT 9!! DJ EVZEE will start on time...

Will you?

Facebook Event

2009-09-15T14:19:00.000-07:00

Show your support by RSVP-ing on our Facebook event!

IKEBE SHAKEDOWN!

2009-09-15T13:06:00.000-07:00

We are totally super-pumped (that's the most pumped you can be) to groove out to the sweet sounds of Ikebe Shakedown. First off, their name is awesome. Pronounced 'ee-KAY-bay' Shakedown, this band puts on a great show filled with all the soulful afro-beat funky goodness you could want. Every single tune on their myspace page makes you move, the tight-as-hell horn section punching out strong melodies over the solid rhythm section's grooves. If you like Budos Band, you're gonna love these guys. If you don't know who Budos Band is, you're still gonna love these guys.

If you haven't already gotten the point of this, CHECK OUT IKEBE SHAKEDOWN NOW!!

CLUSTERFUNK IS BACK, BABY!!

2009-09-10T14:49:00.000-07:00

Greetings, fellow funk fanatics, soul steppers, Motown maniacs, and other assorted lovers of smooth grooves and bomb-ass beats! Just when you thought CLUSTERFUNK was dead and gone, I bring you the fantastic news that in fact there is new life being breathed into our beloved funk circus! Yes, as you probably read in the poster above, CLUSTERFUNK is being reincarnated at a new, kickass venue called Cameo. The reason why many of you may be wondering why you haven't heard of such a place is that Cameo is Williamsburg's best-kept secret... there's not even a sign out front! No, the cool kids know to walk into Lovin' Cup Cafe, rest a few minutes to enjoy the best grilled cheese you'll ever have (it's made with fucking truffle oil), then walk to the back past the newly renovated bathrooms, through a dark and winding hall, to finally arrive at this hip spot.

Yes, September the 25th will mark a triumphant return of CLUSTERFUNK with two awesome DJ's (James Lucius Gray of Team Animal Riot and DJ EVZEE), opening and closing the night; sandwiched in between the record-spinnin' will be Turkuaz (no duh) and our new friends Ikebe Shakedown, a great afro-beat band that should certainly tickle your fancy if you enjoyed Budos Band at the last CLUSTERFUNK.

There are a few key (and by key I mean totally sweet) features of this new CLUSTERFUNK that are worth noting:

1) Hand the lovely bartender a crisp, clean $5 bill and you bill be handed in exchange a shot of whiskey and a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon's finest offerings. Before enjoying the aforementioned cheap potables, hand said bartender an extra dollar or two. Be cheap, not stingy! This shot-beer combo is called a Cameo. Get it?

2) This time the party is on a Friday night! That means no excuses to not stay til the wee hours of the morn dancing your ass off to James Lucius Gray's exquisite DJ set. Getting hungry amidst all your dancing? Walk back into Lovin Cup and get a goddamn grilled cheese like I already mentioned! Then come back to the party, get another Cameo...

3) Cameo is considerably smaller and more intimate than Europa, where the first CLUSTERFUNK was held. This means fewer sweaty bodies can fit in the room, meaning if your lazy, always-running-late ass doesn't show up until halfway through the party, the room might be at capacity! I recommend getting there at 8, filling up your belly with proteins and carbohydrates in Lovin' Cup to soak up the impending onslaught of booze, then hitting Cameo at 9 to hear DJ EVZEE's set.

I'll keep you posted on any other updates that may arise. In the mean time, spread the word! This CLUSTERFUNK is shaping up to be way more kickass than the last one, but this can only happen if you help! Let's pack this joint. I know we can.

Love,

Josh from Turkuaz

P.S. Check out DJ EVZEE's latest mix here.

DEBUT PARTY April 30th feat. BUDOS BAND!

2009-04-05T11:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.myspace.com/budosband

BUDOS BAND IS BACK!

OK everyone, you remember a few weeks ago when we tried to go see Budos Band at Union Pool for Voodoo Funk? Unfortunately, chances are you were among the same ranks as my friends and me. We were but a few of hundreds of people who were turned away when Daptone Records' reigning champs of afro-beat-infused funk, The Budos Band, oversold the small club before the show even started!

Well, now's our chance to right this incredulous wrong. Budos Band have joined forces with CLUSTERFUNK to give the fair people of Brooklyn what they clearly asked for: a giant funk party with the Budos, and plenty of room to dance!

CLUSTERFUNK's debut party will commence at 9pm on Thursday, April 30th.

Buy your tickets here:

"With it's twenty-two legs, three horns, and hallucinogenic venom, The Budos Band, the un-heralded emperors of Instrumental Staten Island Afro-Soul, continue to rule. The band commands their listeners to follow them on their second journey into the depths of their poisonous vision. While their debut album was itself heralded as a groundbreaking exploration of funk, afro-beat and soul music, few could predict that their second effort would not only match but surpass the realm of mind-expansion embodied on their first sessions. Through ten exciting new instrumentals recorded live at Daptone's House of Soul in Bushwick, Brookyln, The Budos Band pours themes at once resonant and ethereal over Herculean rhythms."

-Daptone Records

CLUSTERFUNK: Brooklyn's Only Funk Circus is Born!

2009-04-05T09:27:00.000-07:00

It's the age-old story, former tour manager and former venue manager re-meet in the same Brooklyn watering hole that they last said crossed paths in three years prior, both realize that they are looking to throw the biggest and best funk party the borough has ever seen, and how circuses would be so much cooler if they just played Sly & The Family Stone and Parliament instead of the traditional big-top fare. Likewise, they both agreed that while a good stinky groove is something that the whole family can enjoy, the visuals are usually not quite as funky...and this party can't get down without both crazy sights and crazy sounds.

Galaxy Smith, Inc. and Brooklyn Love have partnered to bring some much needed energy and fun back to North Brooklyn. Together, they will be throwing a monthly party entitled, CLUSTERFUNK!, at Greenpoint's Club Europa.