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We have been running an All Ages DIY music space, The Glass Door, in Brooklyn since December 2008. Our landlord recently kicked us out of the building in order to build condos and we are now in the process of moving and expanding into a bigger and better space… and we need your help!

We have found a location that used to be a party supply store called Party Expo. The space is amazing and we are all very excited we found it. The new space will have an art gallery, a music venue, practice spaces for bands to rent out on a monthly basis, along with a recording studio, art studios with access to silkscreen setups, woodworking, metal workshops. There will also be a guitar, pedal, and speaker making studio. It will slowly become a massive factory for the creation of art and music.

In the past year we have put on over a hundred shows with various types of music and with bands from all over the world. Some of those bands include:
Japanther, Spankrock, The Deathset, Fiasco, Monotonix, Ninjasonik, I am The Avalanche, The Reveling, Apeshit!, Aquadora, Soft Black, Graffiti Monsters, Bang Bang Eche!, Math the Band, Slingshot Dakota, Anton Glamb, Caspian, DJ Dirty Finger, Rev Mcfly, Bodega Girls, Algernon Cadwallader, Cipher, Aviation Orange, Hank & Cupcakes, Hooray For Earth, Purple Crush, Irepress, Moving Mountains, Thriller, Cerebal Ballzy, Murdertronics, Binary Marketing Show Dangerous Ponies Spires, The Catalyists, 1994… just to name a few.

We will have 2-4 shows a week. We also will have 1-2 art shows a month, do video/movie screenings, and various other events.

We have a bunch of different rewards for all of you who are sick enough to be part of the new space in whatever way you can. We have a bunch of friends who have invested in the space so far, but we are still short of being able to make the full deposit and build the necessary walls/bathrooms/etc to make it work.

We have TWO WEEKS to raise the necessary funds to get into the new space. Please donate and tell all of your friends about it as well. We have a lot of rewards that are great deals for bands and promoters as well. Thank you so much for supporting us so far. We are excited to continue throwing the best shows in the universe and creating a space for musicians/artists to be inspired to make the best art ever.

And just to give you a sense of who we all are, here's a little background info on us.

JOHNNY AQUADORA & STEPHANIE MONFORT ran the house-party venue Retox, which was a constant good time. Then they opened The Glass Door, which sounds like the title of an old porno, but in reality was a venue that just made you feel like you were IN a porno.

ED ZIPCO co-founded Chief Magazine, a monthly online interview publication that covered art, music, writing, comics, photography, parties, and random stuff from Japan. And the Japanese stuff wasn't just animated gifs. He also photographs for Vice Magazine and throws parties til tomorrow's sunrise.

NICK CHATFIELD-TAYLOR has directed music videos for Matt and Kim, Ninjasonik, Japanther, Parts and Labor and Rza. He runs Article, a music/zine/t-shirt/book publisher. He throws some pretty one-of-a-kind parties, too.

Cheers!!!

P.S. This is what our first fundraiser looked like:

http://www.gregrutter.com/graphic/2010/01/24/0024.JPG

That's right, five necked guitar.

Project location: Brooklyn, NY

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