Last Night

Live: Dustin Wong And CSC Funk Band Let It Unfold At Shea Stadium

By Jesse Jarnow Thu., Aug. 25 2011 at 8:00 AM
Categories: CSC Funk Band, Dustin Wong, Jesse Jarnow, Last Night, Live, Zs

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Alias Pail, Zs: Black Crown Ceremony, CSC Funk Band, Dustin Wong
Shea Stadium
Wednesday, August 24

Better than: The Mets' season.

The residents of the Brooklyn DIY outpost known as Shea Stadium, located on a blessedly unreconstructed stretch in the East Williamsburg Industrial Park, are having a far better go at it these days than the residents of Citi Field. On this particular Wednesday night, one of the Lebanese furniture makers across the street sits with the door open to the shop, languidly smoking a hookah. Everything else is deserted as far as the eye can see, an increasingly rare sight anywhere near a stop on the L train.


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Upcoming Shows

Rock Beach Is Dead; Please Welcome Rock Yard, Featuring YIMBY Favorites Cerebral Ballzy And CSC Funk Band

By Maura Johnston Wed., Aug. 3 2011 at 3:30 PM
Categories: CSC Funk Band, Cerebral Ballzy, Happy Endings, Rock Beach, Upcoming Shows

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These guys will be at Rock Yard this Sunday.
After chaos and snippines and a downed website and lots of Brooklyn Vegan comment-section speculation and what their official newsletter is calling "a few casual decisions" (hmm), JellyNYC has abandoned the deep-Brooklyn concert series Rock Beach for—wait for it—Rock Yard, which will hold its first installment at The Morgan. Which just happens to be located in closer-to-home-for-the-demographic Bushwick. As of now, the inaugural show is set for Sunday at 2 p.m., and its lineup is pretty solid; among the bands on the bill are Cerebral Ballzy and CSC Funk Band. Flyer below.

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Yes In My Backyard

Download: CSC Funk Band's Clattering Party Anthem "Caneca"

By Christopher Weingarten Tue., Jul. 26 2011 at 8:00 AM
Categories: CSC Funk Band, Christopher R. Weingarten, Featured, MP3, Yes In My Backyard

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It's been two years since YIMBY first peeked in on CSC Funk Band, the rollicking, hard-hitting, long-jamming, unapologetically funktacular boogie monster tapped to finally "bring booty-moving, head-nodding grooves to the Todd P universe." In that time they've blossomed from eight members to 11, turned countless lofts into sweatboxes, and tightened their jamcentric trance-outs into taut acid-washed Funkadelia. Most importantly, they've secured a deal with hip-hop staple Fat Beats for the release of their debut album Things Are Getting Too Casual (due August 23). Frontman Colin Langenus describes the band's inner workings as, "the joy of getting these dudes together and creating something from all of our disparate musical pasts." Those pasts include Langenus's stint leading noise-prog colossus USAISAMONSTER, drummer Jimmy Thompson laying down some blood-thick grooves as the drummer from Gwar, and the other nine members working with everyone from Anthony Braxton to Akron/Family to ska brats Bad Manners. The clattering percussion of album opener "Caneca" is like Remain In Light Talking Heads if they weren't afraid to play ripping guitar solos, and like its party-anthem forbear "Tequila," the lyric sheet consists of one celebratory, inebriated word. Shout along.

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Christopher R. Weingarten

Yes In My Backyard: Download CSC Funk Band's "Bad Banana Bread"

By Christopher Weingarten Thu., Oct. 22 2009 at 9:00 AM
Categories: CSC Funk Band, Christopher R. Weingarten, Featured, MP3, Yes In My Backyard

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.

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"Funk" has long been a four-letter word in Brooklyn's noise-punk loft scene. To survive, hyper-aware BK dance bands either adopted stiff no wave personas, used aggro-synth terrorism, squelched out deconstructed stumblebump, or just signed to DFA, where disco gets a pass. But funk? Shit, better think about bringing that veggie-oil van back down to Bonnaroo, hippie. The brand-spanking new CSC Funk Band--the brainchild of former Usaisamonster mega-riffer Colin Langenus and Talibam! keyboard splatter-artist Matt Mottel--is unapologetically funk (it says so right in the name), and the band is set to bring booty-moving, head-nodding grooves to the Todd P universe. Boasting a nine(!)-piece lineup, the CSC features members from a variety of bands obscure and otherwise (drummer Jimmy Thomson once did duty as GWAR's Hans Orifice) and a sound that's tight, lively, and sharp. Langenus likes to draw the connection between funk and minimalist composition (i.e., repetition, repetition, repetition). But don't be surprised if dudes just devolve into a regular ol' awesome party band within a few weeks. "Bad Banana Bread" is definitely (and defiantly) more James Brown then James Murphy, and more acid-fried Funkadelic than either, given Langenus's ripping leads and Dave Kadden's completely bonkers, Ethiopiques-tinged oboe solo.

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