Tuesday Night in Williamsburg: Prince Rama at Brooklyn Bowl

(Video courtesy Dean Keim)

Thursday Night in Williamsburg: Prince Rama at Death By Audio

(Video courtesy Sixdust | NYC Music)

Saturday Night in Long Island City: Showpaper, Trans-Pecos and Printed Matter present The NY Art Book Fair Concert at MoMA PS1

(Videos courtesy unARTigNYC)

Wednesday Night in Williamsburg: SummerScreen presents Prince Rama and Telepathe and "Dirty Dancing"

We love Prince Rama, and we haven't seen them live in over a year, when they appeared at their DVD release party at the sadly-departed Monster Island Basement, so we were thrilled to get to see this incredible duo up close tonight at the McCarren Park ballfields as they opened The L Magazine's SummerScreen presentation of Dirty Dancing.

They were pretty incredible, as usual, and though we first saw them two years ago back when they were a trio at Brooklyn Bridge Park, and we've listened to their music, this was the best we'd ever seen or heard them. The sisters Taraka Larson and Nimai Larson absolutely were in top form early this evening. Later there was a very nice set from Telepathe, Brooklynites Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gangnes

We'd seen Dirty Dancing decades ago, but we also lived it, as the child of parents who were part owners of a hotel in South Fallsburg (the DeVille, previously the Nemerson) and someone who, like Jennifer Grey's character Baby, spent the summer of 1963 in a Borscht Belt hotel (The Raleigh, owned by our parents' good friend George Gilbert, who was, though he'd be surprised to hear it, a role model for a kid who knew he was a little different).

But in the summer of tonight's film, 49 summers ago, we were 12, not 17, and not so interested in dancing or (definitely not) girls as we were in the jokes of our friends' mom, the great comedienne Totie Fields, who also lived at the hotel with her husband George. We, and her fans, have missed her a lot. That's another side of 1963 and the Borscht Belt. But we're very grateful to the amazing Todd P and SummerScreen for allowing us to see tonight's music and movie. It was perfect. Especially Prince Rama!

Wednesday Night in Williamsburg: Prince Rama's UTOPIA = NO PERSON VHS Release Party at Monster Island Basement

We walked down Metropolitan Avenue to the river this evening to drop in at Monster Island Basement

for the release party for Prince Rama's UTOPIA = NO PERSON VHS release party. Fans of Prince Rama since back when they were formerly formally Prince Rama of Ayodhya, we called Michael Collins (who's left the band) and the sisters Taraka Larson and Nimai Larson an "incredibly talented trio" last year.

So now they're a dreamy duo. Rozalia Jovanovic wrote on Flavorpill,

In fulfillment of their residency at Issue Project Room, psychedelic pop band Prince Rama have created a cult known as THE NOW AGE, through which they explore music as ritual and the connection between music and utopia. For UTOPIA = NO PERSON, the first of three installments, Prince Rama designed an "exorcise" regimen and led groups of participants through rituals to shed psychic demons by virtue of physical exhaustion, and multimedia performances.

Prince Rama, "15 Minute Exorcise" VHS preview from Impose on Vimeo.

They now launch the VHS of their first performance, and the eighth installment of the Impose cassette series, which includes an instructional exercise VHS produced by Julian Bozeman of Quiet Hooves. This is a must have for those Prince Rama fans who want to party with NOW AGE cultists and exorcise their demons — with headbands, skulls, and tinsel — in the quiet of their own home.

Also on hand tonight were talented weirdos (and we mean that as a compliment) from Quiet Hooves;

Bubbly Mommy Gun;

the noise-rock duo Mugu Guymen;

and the Japanese psychedelic duo Pikacyu-Makoto: Kawabata Makoto (from Acid Mothers Temple) on guitar and Pikacyu (from Afrirampo and The Cosmic Inferno on drums and vocals).

There were any number of cooler-than-us people there, but we are happy to have the entrancingly trancy Prince Rama (who are heading for Europe for their tour tomorrow)

giving us this VHS exorcise tape to join the old 1990s videos from Classical Stretch, Body Electric, and Priscilla Patrick's Yoga we already work out to.

Sat Nam!