It’s summer. It’s Friday. It’s a Summer Friday, which means you can leave work early, soak up the sun early and pass out early — OR break your routine and hit up DUMBO Summer Friday, courtesy of DUMBO Improvement District, O Music Awards Unboxed, L Magazine and Northside.

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Rather unwittingly, the O Music Awards Unboxed has booked the DUMBO Summer Friday event to be a family affair — there’s Prince Rama (a band composed of two sisters), Javelin (two dudes who are cousins), father/daughter hack duo the Lameres, and, finally, Zambri, which is made up of sisters Jessica and Cristi Jo.

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The Backbeater Tempo Monitoring System is the result of a recurring fight between members of James Flynn’s band. The guitarist was a perfectionist when it came to tempo and James boasted machine-like precision behind the drumkit (or so he says). Yet the pair disagreed every time they took to the stage, Joe accusing James of speeding up the chorus when his nerves got the better of him.

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Music Hack Day is an international 24-hour event where programmers, designers and artists come together to conceptualize, build and demo the future of music. Software, hardware, mobile, web, instruments, art — anything goes as long as it’s music related. At a Music Hack Day, you have 24 hours to build something cool and then show it off to your peers. It is a fun way to learn about something new, to be immersed in music technology for a weekend, and to hang out with lots of really smart, interesting people who love music and building things.

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Not only are Thomas Van Buskirk and George Langford the talented multi-instrumentalists behind the Brooklyn band Javelin, they’re also our headliners tomorrow at Unboxed/DUMBO Summer Friday. Find out more about the duo after the jump.

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