Quit, Banned Books, Eidetic Seeing & Mike Bruno @ The Alamo (2013)

It's been a while since I posted again, I seem to forget band names as quickly as I film them, but here's an easy one. January 31, 2013 at the Alamo, a night of the still living:


Quit:


Banned Books (NJ/PA):


Eidetic Seeing (Brooklyn):


Mike Bruno & The Black Magic Family Band (NJ/PA):



Also, thanks to Mad Dog for helping me set this show up and Sean from the Black Magic Family Band for filming Quit. 

Sprites, Mike Bruno, & Bad Braids @ The Wormhole (2012)

I want to say this show was on 5 May 2012, but I can't remember for sure... Probably wrong so nevermind. May was a long month. Anyway, let's get right to it.


Sprites:






Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band:






Bad Braids:






10/10, would time travel to this show again.

Mike Bruno, Daniel Bachmann, Wise Blood, & Quilt @ Dreamcastle (2012)

Again, my apologies for taking so long to get these up. These were all recorded at Dreamcastle in South Philly on 3 March, 2012, and all really damn good. There were more people there than I'd seen in a long time. Let's get started.


Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band:



then we move upstairs for
Daniel Bachman:



and back downstairs to the crowded basement for
Wise Blood:



and to finish us off (at least until my battery died),
Quilt:

Human Adult Band record release show!

Again, this took too long to get posted. It's a bit lacking, but Mike will post the rest of the videos when the time is right.

I might as well tell y'all the date of this show. Friday the 13th. As in, Friday, January 13, 2012. First show of the last year. All of this is from The Marvelous!

First up, a shaky (read: hungover as balls) recording of most of the Mike Bruno & The Black Magic Family Band set:



Next up, Wendy and Kyler rule lots of balls as Suicide Magnets:




Well... what can I say?.. fuckin' Dick Neff:



and of course, Human Adult Band (full set coming soon...)

New Year's Eve Eve @ Dreamcastle

Damn, I've been lazy. Should've posted these 2 weeks ago, but hell, better late than never. I'll do the (mostly) full sets first.

Here's a New Brunswick alum, now a Philly resident,
Slow Tongued Beauty:




Next up, we've got 
Jesse Sparhawk:




And to soften the mood a little,
Procrastihontas:




Now for a shredder,
Daniel Bachman:




And the last set of the night,
Bad Braids:




and, why the hell not? one song by Mike Bruno:

Wailord, Sprites, & Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band (2011)

Again, I don't know what took me so long to get this one up. From December 15, 2011 at the Mini Wormhole...

Wailord:

Sprites:

Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band:

The Winners & Mike Bruno (2011)

I had planned on recording the whole show, but my drunk ass had the resolution on my camera too damn high, killing my battery... Speaking of killing things, here are The Winners, killing it on September 14, 2011 in New Brunswick:




And now, everybody's favorite, Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band:

(more photos coming soon... check back later)

Michael Chapman, Darves, Bruno, & Crystal Mountain Music & Tumulty's (2011)

Opening the show was the Crystal Mountain Music Collective (blog here) performing a singer/songwriter-style indie set:




Next up was New Brunswick ex-pat Mike Bruno and his Black Magic Family Band, bringing the creepiness (bandcamp here):

Next we had another New Brunswick ex-pat, King Darves (record here):

...and finally, the reason everybody came out, Michael Chapman, UK folk legend, live, in the flesh ():

Mike Bruno & Mattress @ The Raconteur (2011)

March 31, Metuchen, NJ... first off, a stripped down version of Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band:



Also playing that night was Mattress, from New Brunswick:

Halloween Fun

Here we have some videos from this past Halloween at Dreamcastle in Philadelphia. It was a spooky evening filled with dark/folk/psych music, ghosts, ghouls, and a sexy robot.

It wouldn't be a Halloween show without Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band. Their eerily dark folkish songs are akin to listening to lullabies f0r demons



Snowbaby lightened up the mood with some mostly acoustic tunes that would be fitting to listen to whilst dancing with sprites through the woods





Haunted Houses played their brand of loosely structured melancholy folk-rockesqe jams




Lastly, Good Weather this is their first filmed set since 2005




More footage for viewing at http://www.youtube.com/basementsetcetera

Mike Bruno and the Black Magic Family Band (2010)

After playing New Brunswick basements solo for years singing about whiskey and Halloween, this past year saw the addition of a backing band and more intricate songwriting styles... Recorded at the Basement Gallery on October 16, 2010, here's Mike Bruno & th' Black Magic Family Band





(Thanks to Russ for the videos.)