Friday Night Secret Show Series in Dumbo!

Hidden Target is hosting a FREE Friday Night Secret Show Series in Dumbo in preparation for the Oxygen Ponies UK Festival trip.

The Oxygen Ponies will be playing every Friday with two or three other special acts!! So you have plenty of time to say goodbye... and a good reason to check out Jaques Torres new ice cream shop. They make the best chocolate shakes ever!

Seating is extremely limited.

BYOB!

WHEN: Friday Nights - starting at 8 pm - June 26th, July 3rd, 10th, 17th

WHERE: DUMBO, Brooklyn. Due to limited seating, location + other details will be given upon request. Please send an email to oxygenpony[at]gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

The line-up is as follows:

June 26th: Matt Hawkes | The Oxygen Ponies

July 3rd: Lenny Molotov | The Oxygen Ponies | David LK Murphy

July 10th: Don Piper | The Oxygen Ponies | Randi Russo

July 17th: Ed Rogers + Amanda Thorpe | Dave Doobinin | The Oxygen Ponies | Brandon Wilde

Hope to see you there!
- the Hidden Target Team

Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Genius

This is definitely worth a look and listen.

Tara Angell 'Freedom to Love'

Wow! Two weeks and no blog posts. Things have been pretty hectic around here to say the least. Hidden Target has been swamped with the unveiling of the new website and preparations for our first release 'Harmony Handgrenade' by the Oxygen Ponies. May 19th, 2009. You heard it here first!!

We've been listening to a bunch of new stuff lately. Some has grabbed me, some hasn't.

Check out The Wave Pictures latest "Instant Coffee Baby' if you want to hear a new band with heavy Violent Femmes, Jonathan Richman, and Hefner influences.
We dig it!!

I have a ton of video from the Bullseye Secret Birthday Bash which I'll probably milk and be unveiling to you throughout the year.

Here's the lovely Tara Angell, blessing us with an unannounced performance of her new song "Freedom to Love" with Kat Hayman, Randi Russo and an invisible Paul Megna from the Oxygen Ponies on backing vocals. We hope you love it as much as we do!!

Best local NYC records of 2008!

Happy New Year!

Before I list my favorite local NYC indie records of 2008, I wanted to give everybody something to think about for the new year.

Listen to your ears and your heart, not the opinions of others. If you like something and it moves you - then it's good. And if it doesn't, that's okay too. There is no right and wrong. But don't let yourself be swayed by public opinion and mediocrity. Let's shake things up a little.

Right now there are two kinds of people. Those that love MGMT and those that love VAMPIRE WEEKEND. Which are you?? I definitely fall into one of those categories, but not both. Those of you that are insisting 'both' need to get your heads examined. There is no both, there is only one or the other.

THE BEST LOCAL NYC INDIE RECORDS OF 2008!!
I'm sure I missed quite a few but these six records are certainly worth a purchase and should stay on your radar!

Black Bunny - S/T (x Thisway)
Kat - Oh, the Humanity
Dave Doobinin - The Birth of Wonder
Lowry - Love is Dead
Bedsit Poets - Rendezvous
Arizona - Glowing Bird (technically they've relocated to the Carolinas but they're all Brooklyn at heart!)

The Best Records of 2008

Here's my list. It was a long hard fought battle and I'm sure many records fell through the cracks. But in all honesty, these are the records I personally found myself listening to the most this past year.

So without further ado...
10. Other People by American Princes (Yep Rock)

9. You & Me by The Walkmen (Gigantic)

8. For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver (Jagjaguar)

7. When the Haar Rolls In by James Yorkston (Domino)

6. Oracular Spetacular by MGMT (Sony)

5. Lost Wisdom by Mount Eerie (Southern Records)

4. A Hundred Million Suns by Snow Patrol (Geffen)

3. Chimney's Afire by Josh Pyke (Ivy League)

2. Some Are Lakes by Land of Talk (Saddle Creek)

1. The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit (Fat Cat)

Honorable Mention....
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (Illegal Art), Mystery Jets - Twenty One (Phantom Sound and Vision), Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking into Heart (Warner Bros.), TV on the Radio - Dear Science (DGC- Interscope), Glasvegas by Glasvegas (BMG/Arista)

The mystical week between Christmas and New Years...

Hey all!
Thanks for stopping by. In the next few days we'll be kicking off BULLSEYE with our best of 2008 list.
Thanks for listening
P