An amazing audience showed up for a fun and lively book launch event featuring author Sam Sumpter and her book, ‘Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone’. The event featured host Rich Weiss and a special music performance by Atlas Engine. An amazing, lively conversation about the Brooklyn music community from the unique perspective of the bands who live and love Brooklyn.
Read MoreFeatured Episode: A Very Special Episode. Following the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.
Read MoreIn Bands do BK, Sam Sumpter explores Brooklyn from the unique perspective of the bands who live it and love it. Equal parts oral history, guidebook, and music-fan memoir, Sumpter shares behind-the-scenes stories, sound bites, and recommendations on places to visit from hundreds of featured interviewed bands—a hot slice of New York City indie chronicling the people and places that define it.
Read MoreFeatured Episode: Tea Eater. Following the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.
Read MoreFollowing the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.
Read MoreIn Bands do BK, Sam Sumpter explores Brooklyn from the unique perspective of the bands who live it and love it. Equal parts oral history, guidebook, and music-fan memoir, Sumpter shares behind-the-scenes stories, sound bites, and recommendations on places to visit from hundreds of featured interviewed bands—a hot slice of New York City indie chronicling the people and places that define it.
Read MoreListen to the 'Bands do BK Book Cover Album' curated by Sam Sumpter and Bands do BK. As a guidebook, oral history, and music-fan memoir, Bands do BK is about the artists, bands, and places that define it. Listen to the soundtrack, explore the gallery, and get to know some of the artists and bands on—and in—the BDBK book. Links to Spotify and Instagram for each of the featured artists and bands.
Read MoreArtists and Bands featured in the Bands do BK Book. The bands behind the names, the names behind the bands. For your cross-referencing convenience, here’s a full list of the artists and groups who are quoted and referenced as contributors throughout the book, ‘Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone’.
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