Our July 6th Pool Party line-up will be announced very soon…LIKE RIGHT NOW:

Rock and roll legend Ronnie Spector has been added to our already diverse summer lineup. Joining Ronnie will be The Rabbit Factory Soul Revue with Southern Soul icons Ralph “Soul” Jackson & Roscoe Robinson, Herman Hitson and Wiley and the Checkmates. You certainly do not want to miss this Rock and Soul Dance Party, and sure-to-be-historic moment at JellyNYC’s Pool Parties!

Let’s announce July 13th, too - OK!? Matt + Kim and The Whip will perform with another special guest TBA. Go watch super-fun videos of Matt + Kim at SXSW on their website!

We’ve already announced Black Lips and Deerhunter for August 3rd, but then we went ahead and just added King Khan + His Shrines and Tall Firs to the bill!

While we’re at it, Aesop Rock and Panther have just been added to our August 17th show! Watch Aesop Rock’s video for ‘Pigs’ here, featuring the artwork of Jeremy Fish.

And remember, tickets for the July 31st Apples in Stereo and Earlimart show at Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple are available at this TicketWeb link: http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/EventListings.action?orgId=22163

We’ve also announced MGMT for the July 27th Pool Party, but we just got our hands on the video from their recent Conan O’Brien appearance, and we would love to share it with you. For your viewing pleasure:

Yesterday I was a bit of a tease, and I’m sorry about that. You people want announcements, and I’m here to provide you with them. Hopefully I can make it up to you today by announcing TWO POOL PARTY LINE-UPS!!

Sun July 20th Pool Party Line-up ANNOUNCED: Liars, Fuck Buttons, and Team Robespierre!

Sun August 3rd Pool Party Line-up ANNOUNCED: Black Lips, Deerhunter, and special guest TBA!

Here’s lots of band-related stuff worth checking out: 

Liars love Radiohead, and will be back on tour with them in August. They also love Nirvana, or at least an occasional ‘Territorial Pissings’ cover. 

Fuck Buttons make videos way more interesting that your iTunes visualizer. 

Team Robespierre is playing in Greenpoint on Saturday, will be in London for a good bit of June, but will be back in Brooklyn in plenty of time for the July 20th Pool Party!

The Vice Records website has some Black Lips mp3s for download, and if you haven’t seen the ‘Veni Vidi Vici’ video yet, you should probably get on that.

Deerhunter has a really great blog that they keep very updated. More bands should do that! Good job, Deerhunter. 

I’d say that was a pretty good announcement for today. And as much as I hate being a tease (I love being a tease), I have a feeling we might have ANOTHER announcement tomorrow!

OH, SNAP. Don’t you hate that!? Would it have been better to have not said anything, than to have left you gnawing at your fingernails in anticipation for tomorrow’s big pool schedule announcement?

It’s like when we used to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons, something AWESOME was about to happen, then BLAM:

BUT SERIOUSLY, STAY TUNED! The Hold Steady is coming in June. We just announced MGMT, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and The Ting Tings for July. So who’s next? We know John Denver’s not a possibility - we keep leaving messages with his people, but they just will not get back to us! Aesop Rock? Deerhunter? Fuck Buttons? The Black Lips? Oh, the possibilities…

We’ll make the announcement tomorrow, we promise!

We did. Kind of. OK not really. But like, almost. Anyway, can someone answer a question please? Can anyone out there guess what Summer-long music festival happens every Sunday in Brooklyn, and has the following folks on it’s roster:

MGMT, Aesop Rock, Hold Steady, Team Robespierre, Liars, The Breeders, Matt + Kim, Fuck Buttons, The Black Lips, Deerhunter, and much much more?

What’s more… can anyone mention how much said festival costs? What’s with the kid in this picture? Is he a pervert or just some kid with good timing? I think he’s a pervert. Totes. He’s totally a pervert!

While we sit around and ponder the above questions (kid is a pervert) we encourage you to keep sleuthing away with Encyclopedia Brown and friends at the Brooklyn BBQ Blog. Mmmm BBQ. Summer is coming! And with it, free shows in Brooklyn! Expensive ones too… really expensive ones… but we don’t know anything about those!