Monday, 1/8, 8pm, frontroom, free
Smut
"It's art that should carry a Parental Advisory label,
with some of New York City's best writers and performers."
--New York Times
Hosted by: Desiree Burch
This Week:
Erin Markey has collaborated with Joseph Keckler and the great people of Craigslist to create "What R U Into?" and with just Joseph in their newest blues opera, "Looking for Limbo." She's appeared in venues from Joe's Pub to The Guggenheim Musuem.
Chelsea Wright, originally from Detroit, is a freelance writer, zine publisher, part-time stripper, and full-time peepshow girl in Times Square."
Little Women is: Ben Greenberg-guitar, Darius Jones- Alto
saxophone, Jason Nazary- Drum set, Travis Laplante- Tenor saxophone.
"I dont know what youre doing, but you need to do it quieter." -Short, bald NYU professor.
"You know you guys are driving everyone crazy. "NYU jazz chair -David S.
"Deranged Psycho music." - Jason's mom .
Monday, 1/8, 930pm, frontroom, $5 
Monday Night Burlesque Presents:
Girls on Film! A Celluloid Tribute
Monday Night Burlesque takes on our
favorite movies of all time, giving them a new twist and shake like you've never seen before! From The Stepford Wives to Mannequin, we've got a line-up of Oscar worthy burlesque tributes that will remind you why you liked these flicks in the first place, or give you a reason to! With leading ladies Nasty Canasta, Peekaboo Pointe, Roja Rouge and Anita Cookie(pictured). And what's a film with out the handsome leading man? Emcee for the evening is the debonair and charming Bastard Keith.
January 9th, 2007
8pm start FREE
CRASHININ.COM and KANINE RECORDS
presents
BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES
A FREE Film Screening for Music Fans and Industry Peeps
PopCorn provided by us! Insightful Discussion provided by you!
"The most important film that a music fan will ever see" - Lee Abrams, XM Satellite Radio
"An exceptionally important, timely and affective film" - Paste Magazine
"Before the Music Dies is an extraordinary documentary and cautionary overview about the state of the music business in America." -Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Is original music drowning in the wake of big label marketing? Will radio ever again be the influential force it once was? Does the "next big thing" in music even have a chance to be heard? Filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country to uncover how American music arrived at this moment of truth. The answers they found - and the promise the future
holds - make Before the Music Dies both riveting and exhilarating.
Revealing interviews with musicians, industry insiders, music writers and fans shed intense light on the issues. Featured performances from artists spanning genres and generations prove that great music is always out there - as long as you know where to look. Before the Music Dies will renew
your passion for great music and inspire you to fight for its future. (Runtime: 93 Minutes)
The Film Features:
Dave Matthews, Erykah Badu, Doyle Bramhall II, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Widespread Panic, Questlove, Eric Clapton, Calexico, My Morning Jacket, Branford Marsalis, North Mississippi Allstars, Les Paul, Hubert Sumlin, Billy Preston, Michael Penn, and Steve Poltz
http://www.beforethemusicdies.com/
http://www.myspace.com/beforethemusicdies
www.crashinin.com/events.html
Wednesday, 1/10, 10pm doors, 10:30pm show, frontroom, free
DJ EASE and DJ SICROC
spinning hiphop and reggae
w/ MC'S RAKS ONE (pictured)
and STIMULI on the mic
Wednesday, 1/10, 7:30pm, backroom, $TBD
SOUNDPAINTING
Soundpainting is the composing/conducting sign language of over 750 gestures created by Walter Thompson for musicians, dancers, actors, poets, and visual artists working in the medium of structure improvisation. See it live tonight!soundpainting.com
Thursday, 1/11, $10, Doors at 7pm, 
First act at 7:30pm
Studio 42 presents
Studio Sessions: Comedy
Laugh ‘till you choke on your beer!
Original monologues, sketches, spoken word, short films and stand-up from our favorite artists.
Featuring work by: Clay McLeod Chapman, Darian Dauchan, Michael Feldman & Adam Laupus, Brandy Crawford, Laura von Holt and more.
Receive a FREE drink with admission!
For more information, please visit www.studio-42.org
Thursday, 1/11, 10pm doors, 10:30pm show, $5
Takeover theory presents: Release Yourself 2
Thursday, 1/11 8pm, back room, $5 
Swinger 8
Swinger Eight - "Brooklyn's Greatest Unsigned Band" - are playing a special show at Galapagos Art Space. The Williamsburg natives are going to put on a multi-media show, blending their psychedelic-pop based sounds with various artists' video projections shown behind the band.
Line Up:
9pm The Royal Wylds
10pm Brothers of Industry
11pm Swinger Eight
12am Julius C
Friday, 1/12 7:30pm, frontroom, $10
Handsome Public
"Sparks fly between Dr. Rosen Rosen & Vickers Bastard Gringo, whose sound, termed Progressive Rogue Pop, combines catchy beats of teen pop, with subversive lyrics no teenager should ever hear. Take two crooners from a bygone era and infuse it with the gritty underground music scene, give it a backdrop of edgy, original video art and you have just begun to understand The Handsome Public.” -Les Belles Ambivelante
www.thehandsomepublic.com
Friday, 1/12 10pm doors, 10:30 show, front room, $8
Crashin In Presents
Djs: Oil (KanineRecords), Toby Rascal (KanineRecords), and Gerald(OtherMusic)
Brit/Indie/PostPunk/Grime/Nu-wave/Remix Dance Tunes
live performances by:
(1:00am) The Motion Sick www.myspace.com/themotionsick - pictured
(12:00am) The Coast (Aporia Records Canada)
(11:00pm) Chairlift
*new and old school sk8 videos projected on a huge screen all night long!
Friday, 1/12 7pm, back room, $8 
Ambitious Orchestra
The Ambitious Orchestra is Brooklyn's 20-piece symphonic rock group dedicated to bringing virtuosity back to rock and roll. They celebrate their first birthday with a month-long residency at Galapagos, featuring your favorite local musicians backed by original orchestral arrangements, as well as the AO's own signature rock tunes.
http://www.ickies.com
Friday, 1/12 10pm, back room, free
Consignment
Bands:
Tall Days
Ezra Reich
The Sugar Report
with DJ Invisible Kid
Saturday 1/13 $10 with flyer, $15 with flyer
9pm frontroom, doors, 10pm backroom doors, 10:30pm show
Multi Hop
Saturday 1/13 back FREE, 5:30 doors 6pm show
FUSE presents: an evening of poetry/hip hop/classical music
Ft. -MC Dapper D (www.myspace.com/MCDapperD)
-Genuine draft (www.myspace.com/thefusenyc)
-Miz Metro (www.myspace.com/urbangypsycircusnyc)
-The National Debt (www.myspace.com/thenationaldebt)
-and special guests
1/13 back $5, 8pm doors
8:30 show, 9:30 end
Reverend Mofo
The Reverend Mofo prides itself on being at the frontier of live ambient and experimental music. We're excited to share a thrilling set of our "sound management" with Galapagos. As always, all proceedings will be undertaken in the spirit of total improvisation and pure sonic adventure. See you there!
"Ranging from elegant, spiritual, ambient synth mode
to futuristic electronica/techno to full blown guitar drone/noise rock -- the Reverend Mofo sound obliterates standard definitions of what music could or should be -- and has quickly earned an international cyber-following in the process." -GratefulWeb.net
www.reverendmofo.com
www.myspace.com/thereverendmofo
Sunday, 1/14 8pm frontroom $15 
Jenny Rocha Dance
Choreographer Jenny Rocha brings a time-warped fusion of dance and percussion to the stage. You can anticipate lively foot stomping, Vaudevillian/burlesque acts, wild costume designs, body instruments and more. The sextet includes Shevaun Smythe Hiler, Jillian Hollis, Christine Poland, Jenny Rocha, Rieko
Yamanaka, and Jessy Smith with numerous
dances set to music by NYC's Hazmat Modine.
"funny and entertaining...a kind of Vaudevillian burlesque...short and sweet." --Gay City News
"a hilarious trio for manic tootsies."--New York Times
"authoritative work"--New York Times
Sunday, 1/14 6:30 backroom $10 
Dance On Camera Festival 2007
Dance On Camera Festival 2007 returns to Galapagos with a program of
experimental shorts featuring a crop of talented new American dance filmmakers. Eleven films transform and reshape our notions of dance from Leigh Evans and Dave Rogers' "8th Avenue" of a sublime yogini standing on her head in mid-town Manhattan to spectres dancing on gravestones in rural Croatia in Kate Foley's "Angels of Sudjerac". The night will also feature a post-screening discussion with the filmmakers, a festival wrap-up party at 9pm, and live performances by Leigh Evans, Ayelen Liberona, and others t.b.a. $10 admission, $6 for Dance Films Association members.
photo: "8th Avenue" - Leigh Evans
weblink: http://www.dancefilms.org/DanceOnGALAP07.html