Dressing up
For their next First Saturday event, the Brooklyn Museum encourages museum-goers to come dressed as their favorite rock star, in keeping with their current exhibit, "Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present."
With Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts, The Beets and Grass Widow on the bill, we thought we'd see who they would choose to emulate.
The Crystal Stilts founders both picked rock and rollers with a more tailored sense of style, from a rock and roll guitarist to a punk rocker.
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The Beets, a rock band based out of Jackson Heights in Queens (and one of the L Magazine's bands you need to hear now) were a bit creative with their answers. Says Jose Luis Garcia: "We at The Beets feel being a rock star is a state of mind. I mean come on, who is more rocking then a Dracula? Kids are eating that up these days with the 'True Blood' and those fancy teen vamp movies. It's like the eighties all over again." As far as The Beets' music goes, they're more into an earlier decade, with their 60s garage rock vibe.
And thus, their picks:
San Francisco's all female surf rockers Grass Widow also went with the rock and roll as a state of mind opinion, and are more comfortable being themselves. Explains drummer Lillian Maring:
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You heard from the bands. Let's hear from you. What rock star would you go as? Or would you channel your inner rock star and just be yourself?
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