We couldn’t go any longer having ‘Secret Guests’ lingering over in the sidebar to your right. We are not fans of the acronym ‘TBA’. We just do not like holding all this exciting information we have from you!

So here it is! It’s time to announce that The Breeders will be playing the July 13th Pool Party alongside Matt & Kim and The Whip! And we are so very excited to have them right before they leave for their worldwide tour!

We also got Franki Chan, owner of IHEARTCOMIX to DJ the whole party.

And let me say/remind you of this:

Ever since I started running the blog over here at JellyNYC, people have been asking me, “Hey man, can you get me into these shows? Maybe slide me onto the G-list, bro?”

Well guess what fellas and ladies, THESE SHOWS ARE FREE. This is top-notch entertainment for the most toppest notch of prices; ZERO DOLLARS. I’d love to play it cool and act like I could HOOK YOU UP FAT (are the kids saying that these days?), but you’re gonna find out sooner or later: WE ARE COVER CHARGE-LESS AS ALWAYS!

So we at JellyNYC were sitting around thinking. We were thinking that July 20, 2008 was shaping up to be a pretty sweet Sunday. The Liars, Fuck Buttons, and Team Robespierre will most definitely make for a great summer Pool Party.

But what could we add to tie everything together? What is this Pool Party missing?

Wait, did someone say Pool PARTY!?

PPPPAAAARRRRTTTTYYYY!?

Then a big brick hit us in the face!

Why don’t we get the biggest party-pants of them all to DJ throughout the whole shebang?

BRILLIANT IDEA, JELLYNYC!

So that’s what we’re doing.

Enter everyone’s best friend in the whole world, guaranteed to keep you partying ’til you’re puking, ANDREW WK!!! 

If you don’t already know, the $50 million McCarren Park pool renovation is drawing close, which means this is the last summer it will be available for the Pool Parties. But wouldn’t it be sweet if there was concert space planned into the building of the new 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park by the waterfront?? If you think so, PLEASE GET INVOLVED and let’s make this happen.

There is a Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park Meeting you can attend:

Monday, June 9th @ 7pm / Diamond Bar / 43 Franklin St @ Cayler

This will be the first working meeting for the group, and they have some serious goals! Friends of BIP plans on creating a website and forming committees ASAP in order to monitor issues associated with the building of the park as well as holding the City and Parks Department accountable for its creation.

You need absolutely zero experience to attend the meeting and/or join the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park Committee. To stay informed about the issues with the new park, and to learn how to push and assist the City throughout its progress, please come on June 9th!! Make sure your free summer concerts continue!!

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!

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!