Thursday Weekend Preview: A Music and Art Guide to the Upcoming Weekend

So once gain the cusp of the weekend is upon us. For many Thursday marks the unofficial start of the weekend, even though in NYC it basically starts Tuesday, well, Monday during football season. But I digress. I'm going to make this a weekly piece to inform you of what's poppin this weekend in the music and art world. There's a lot of good acts this weekend, so let's just get right into it:

Music:

FRIDAY 11/13

The Cool Kids @ Webster Hall. The throwback MC's Mickey Rocks & Chuck INglish, best known for their barebones production and light hearted rhymes about bikes and shit come to LES Friday, with XXXchange from Spank Rock. Best part: $1 entrance and drinks with rsvp before midnight through going.com. We up in this.

Bass Nectar @ The Fillmore Irving Plaza. This dude KILLS it. A little pricey for my current financial standing ($25, sad I know), but worth it. Lorin Ashton is a BEAST on the decks, with his 4 foot long main of hair swaying and

thrashing to the music, resembling some sort of oracle out of '300'. He mashes everything from electro to dub-step to Slayer, and make sit all sound good.

SATURDAY 11/14

Crooked Disco @ la Poisson Rouge. Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their monthly party at the gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. Play Date is a unique, free, party featuring the Crooked Disco DJs all night long on the decks sharing their favorite new music, premiering their latest custom tracks and remixes, and digging out rediscovered dancefloor classics. PLUS a portion of Proceeds go to Movember, a Cancer research Charity.

Peaches & Amanda Blank @ Terminal 5. Peaches is a legend. Amanda Blank will be. Both are from the new school trip-hop sexy bitch scene (see: Santigold, MIA), of which Peaches basically started. I'll be in attendance with the other Amanda, more sexy, slightly less lyrically gifted.

Art:

A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet

Now through 1/3/10 @ the Whitney.

In this selection of works drawn principally from the Whitney’s permanent collection, the repetitive image of the proof sheet is the leitmotif in a variety of works spanning the range of the Whitney’s photography collection, including the works of Paul McCarthy, Robert Frank, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol.

Robert Bergman

Now through 1/09 @ Yossi Milo Gallery

This 65 year old photographer is coming out of his shell in a big way. Having never formerly showed at a gallery or exhibition before, Bergman will be debuting his work not only in the Chelsea gallery, but also at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and the National Gallery of Art. Bergman's photos are mostly a result of a decade long road trip across the U.S., taking portraits of social misfits and just generally left of center characters. His work evokes a strong response, often from he haunting eyes and expressions of his subjects. Peep the work.