June 24th MeanRed Productions’re presenting a Crush mini-fest as a part of L Magazine’s annual Northside Festival!!  They’re packing 2 rooms with bands we’re crushin on…

Crush is a monthly party showcasing “Dance Bands We Love” – bands who’s music makes us feel like we’re bathing in champagne and skipping through meadows. They don’t make us dance like say, the cabbage patch or running man, but they move us all the same.

Yes Giantess
Yes Giantess is an indie pop quartet based out of Boston Massachusetts. With Ratatat-sized synths and huge pop choruses, Yes Giantess is pretty much the sonic equivalent of flying down the yellow brick road while its raining ecstasy and skittles. Their music sounds like they put Passion Pit, MGMT, Friendly Fires, and a synthesizer in a blender, mixed it up and came up with their own individual sound. Yes Giantess will definitely have you up and moving to the sounds of their synths.

Fang Island
Fang Island describes its sound as “everyone high-fiving everyone.” And, the Brooklyn quintet’s anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description. Its finger-tapping guitar lines, chanted vocals, triumphant harmonies and overall perky songs hearken to the sort of “Total Music” of the Fucking Champs, Jay Reatard, Ponytail, Kraftwerk, Marnie Stern, Thin Lizzy, et al. But, perhaps more so, its songs are like the music in your head at that moment when everything feels just right: that first kiss, that high score on the video game, buying your first small nation in cash… you know, good stuff.

Bounce with Big Freedia, Rusty Lazer, and New Orleans Bounce Dancers
Big Freedia, the self-titled queen diva, is one of Bounce music superstars. Bounce – derrier-focused beats with call & response lyrics music — started exploding out of New Orleans a few years ago, powered by the queer rap community. Don’t want to dance? It’s not up to you. Bounce will bring the NOLA heat until you lean over and shake it. Big Freedia will be joined by DJ Rusty Lazer and a posse of New Orleans Bounce Dancers.

Iran
Part TV on the Radio, part Until the Light Takes Us- Iran is indie rock buried in fuzz and hiss. Iran take ultra catchy pop, and drag it through the detritus of lo-fi noise rock, picking up an ungodly assortment of buzz and blur and scuzz. Imagine a Pavement record on Siltbreeze. Or Sebadoh, if Lou Barlow was a jaded fuck instead of a sappy romantic. Or old Smog covering Skullflower. Or Harry Pussy playing Built To Spill. A beautifully cacophonous mess. Iran play damaged folk music, bombarded on all sides by a wild assortment of squeals and shrieks, static and hiss, and speaker clogging grit. Huge and slowly shifting, dronescapes that evolve into perfect little pop songs and then explode into jagged shards of high end skree. Iran are psychedelic and textural and noisey and totally catchy.

MillionYoung
This one-man dream pop band follows in the footsteps Toro Y Moi and Washed Out, with hypnotic, loping synth loops and floating vocals. Thank you, Mike Diaz, for these beautifully chilly soundscapes. We can’t wait to share you with everyone else.

Dinosaur Feathers
“With tribal drum patterns and intricate dance rhythms at their forefront, Dinosaur Feathers manage to take a sound typically tagged “experimental” and turn it into something warm and accessible.” – the L Magazine
“With little more than a drum machine, acoustic guitar, and keys, this duo spins a skewed funhouse of pop music…” – Earfarm

No Surrender
Brooklyn Based Electro crew innovators on the scene who have recorded with Radioclit, TV on the Radio, Crunc Tesla, Evil Nine, FreQ Nasty, Mike Ladd, Badawi, and Dub Gabriel.They have shared the stage with the likes of Ninjasonik, The Very Best, The Last Poets, and shared the screen with Ice Cube, Jason Lee, Trace Adkins…and now they’re ready to crawl out of the underground.

Anton Glamb
Anton Glamb is the DJ, producer, composer, rapper,performer, vocalist, song-writer, artist and skateboarder hailing from Hawaii but transplanted perfectly in Bushwick. His first internationally released track was on Ursula 1000’s 2009 release ‘Mystics’ on ESL Records.

Tayisha Busay
When they aren’t rolling around in piles of glitter and beaming out ridiculous lyrics, they are cuddling their keyboards and grinding up on their synthesizers in front of adoring fans. But it’s their crazy outfits and choreographed dance moves that makes us adore them so….

with DJs:

Denny Le Nimh
This NY native is well known for his amazing dj skills and fucking incredible off the hook parties of NY past including Ruff Club & Germs. He’s got some new things cookin up his sleeve so come check out him and his crew!

LE1F, Jason Pants & Chaz Requina (Palms Out Sounds)
We’ve been following these boys for years and have been in love since day one. They run the ever so awesome blog Palms Out Sounds and represent with some of the best booty shakin parties in NYC.

WHEN: Thursday, June 24th
WHERE: Public Assembly // 70 North 6th St, Brooklyn NYC
DOOR: 9pm – 4am
TICKETS: $15 advanced tix available HERE