About Me
What is Dead Flowers?
Dead Flowers got its start as a music-centered online platform for its writers' passions and obsessions. It was a place to read about the classics reconsidered, the obscure brought into the spotlight, the lost re-found, and the marginal made to matter... Those elements animate the new Dead Flowers, an enterprise devoted to managing, booking, and promoting bands and projects that ignite those same passions.
Who is behind Dead Flowers?
Lee Greenfeld, founder of Dead Flowers, was born in the sightline of the East River and within spitting distance of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. His curiosity about the sights, sites, and sounds of Brooklyn got its hooks in early and never loosed its grip; for all of his life lived so far, he has been a proud resident of the County Of Kings. Some small part of his youth was misspent obsessively taking pokes at others and scrawling curious markings on trains, walls, overpasses, and other public spots, but it wasnt long before his energies found a new focus in the world of music. There was time put in at innumerable city club shows, and endless hours spent listening and absorbing records of every variety: Punk and soul. Reggae and Americana. Folk, psych, and bebop. And on and on. And always the Bob Dylan. Perpetually the Dylan. Subsequently, that energy was refocused into close to ten years of publication of the music journal Sound Views, dedicated to exposing the best and brightest artists of every genre and medium within the environs of New York City. He refocused again, putting out a number of albums and compilations on the Sound Views label. Following the retirement of the magazine/label, Lee served as the de facto educator of the city's punk-oriented youth, acting as buyer for the Soapbox record store, formerly on St. Mark's Place. He then became the co-owner of the inestimable Magnetic Field Rock'N'Roll Cocktail Lounge on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, dividing his attentions between the pouring of drinks and the booking of dozens upon dozens upon several dozens more bands and acts to entertain and edify patrons both loyal and new. Currently, Lee maintains his status as co-owner, acts booker, and now -- refocused and refined once more -- is putting a measure of his energies into management (and promotions) via Dead Flowers, working with bands that have stoked or otherwise touched his ever-smoldering inner enthusiasms.
Who have we worked with?
Archie Bell, The A-Bones, The Above, Antietam, Apothecary Hymns, Armitage Shanks, Babe The Blue Ox, Bamboo Kids, Baskervilles, The Black Hollies, Boss Martians, Les Breastfeeders, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, The Brought Low, Candy Snatchers, Greg Cartwright, Chandler And The Chasers, Cinders, The Condo Fucks, Coydogs, The Cynics, The Dansettes, Detachment Kit, Dirty Excuse, Dot Dash Presents, Downbeat 5, Mitch Easter, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves, The Ettes, The Figgs, The Fleshtones, Gabby Glaser, Get Hip Records, The Great Gaylord, The Griefs, Grip Weeds, The Hall Monitors, Hazel Motes, The Hong Kong, Imaginary Icons, The Insomniacs, Johnny Legend, Jonny Chan & The New Dynasty Six, Lenny Kaye, The Little Killers, LiveFastDie, The Lost Crusaders, Lost Sounds, Lyres, The Master Plan, The Mighty Hannibal, Mighty Fine, Mondo Topless, Muck And The Mires, Nashville Ramblers, The New Lou Reeds, Norton Records, Nouvellas, George Pelecanos, The Plimsouls, The Ponys, Prototypes, The Real Kids, Reigning Sound, Les Sans Culottes, The Shalitas, Shaw Nuff, Some Action, The Fabulous Soul Shakers, The Stabilisers, Stalkers, Swingin' Neckbreakers, Tigershark, Teenage Prayers, The Tough And Lovely, Turpentine Brothers, Ugly Beats, The Visitors, Mary Weiss, Alex White, The Woggles, Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3, Young Jessie, and many more!
We're also behind the scenes of the annual Brooklyn Rock'N'Soul Fest (part of the Atlantic Antic street fair), and had the absolute honor to have booked the 'Old School Soul!' concert at the McCarren Park Pool (in-conjunction with our friends at Todd Abramson Presents and JellyNYC). A few of our other prouder moments were booking benefit concerts for victims of the Katrina disaster, Question Mark (of The Mysterians), and the family of Greg Shaw of Bomp! (one of our greatest inspirations).
Contact/Mailing List: DeadFlowers66(at)gmail(dot)com
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