It Came From Brooklyn is a new concert series started by The Guggenheim Museum celebrating the museum’s 50th anniversary. The monthly series launched in August and its aim is to showcase emerging and established talents in music and literature. The first series featured music from The Walkmen, High Places and The Brooklyn Steppers Marching Band. The second It Came From Brooklyn concert will take place this Friday. The concert, hosted by comedian Eugene Mirman, will have performances by Julian Plenti (aka Paul Banks of Interpol) and I’m In You and readings by authors Rivka Galchen and Hampton Fancher. The series is co-produced by Sam Brumbaugh and Bronwyn Keenan. The title of the series references Robert Gordon’s book It Came From Memphis, which details the birth of rock-n-roll in the 1950’s.  The last concert had a good mix of Manhattanites and Brooklynites. In an interview with FreeWilliamsburg, Brumbaugh addressed the borough-centric stigma of the Manhattanite and Brooklynite community, ”One of the purposes of this series was to try to loosen up those “I don’t go there” perceptions–on both sides. A museum on the Upper East is not a big leap from three stops in on the L.” Audience members will get a chance to view “Kandinsky,”  a full scale retrospective of the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky.

Tickets are on sale at www.guggenheim.org/brooklyn. Tickets are $45 for non-members, $40 for members. All proceeds support the series and the Guggenheim’s exhibitions and programs.