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Too $hort+Greedy Stage 48 : 6:00 p.m. May 2
When Too $hort, the Oakland legend who started hustling tapes way back in 1983, first performed in New York City, he was almost booed off the stage. Things done changed, of course, and these days $hort classics like “Burn Rubber” and “Blow the Whistle” get play on the... More >>
West 40s	Rap

Johnny Marr and the Healers+Alamar Irving Plaza : 7:00 p.m. May 2
Thursday, May 2 Johnny Marr @ Irving Plaza With the release of Johnny Marr’s first true solo album, The Messenger, the alt-rock guitar icon sounds as though he’s finally rediscovered his interest in the jangly, dynamic passion plays he pioneered with the Smiths. And while the record... More >>
East Village	Rock

Tera Melos+TTNG Knitting Factory Brooklyn : 9:00 p.m. May 2
Math rock with prog overtones is this Sacramento trio's forte, and they succeed where many of their contemporaries don't in part because they figured out that ever-shifting time signatures and sublime dynamics mean nothing if the tunes aren't there. On one release after another, its melodic... More >>
Williamsburg	Rock

Fred Falke+Foals+Chrome Sparks+Jorge Bonjour Output : 10:00 p.m. May 2
The BMF of the “Alan Braxe and Friends” featured in the classic french house album The Upper Cuts, Fred Falke’s most known filter art is with his other half. In addition to original work, the duo are deft remixers, accentuating a song’s strengths and turning them into... More >>
Brooklyn	DJ

Sonia M'barek French Institute Alliance Francaise : 8:00 p.m. May 3
This magnificent Tunisian singer performs the Tunisian court music known as mulaf, Arabic classical music, and songs based on the poetry of Tunisia’s Aboulkacem Chebbi, Spain's Gabriel Garcia Lorca, Turkey's Nâzim Hikmet, and France's Jacques Prévert. Philadelphia's Al-Bustan... More >>
East 40s	World

Kronos Quartet Carnegie Hall : 9:00 p.m. May 3
For the past four decades, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has highlighted works by contemporary classical composers. Tonight, as part of Carnegie Hall’s My Time, My Music program, it’s performing the world premiere of You Know Me From Here, a piece by Brooklyn composer Missy... More >>
Flatiron	Classical

Akufen+Modesty TBA Brooklyn : 10:00 p.m. May 4
Brooklyn positioned themselves as jokesters from the outset, with a venue name that comments directly on independent electronic promoters’ tendency to withhold venue information until the day of show. TBA, meanwhile, remains on an burgeoning stretch of Wythe Avenue, and despite the... More >>
Brooklyn	DJ

'The Bunker' Public Assembly : 10:00 p.m. May 4
Amid the avalanche of shows brought by Red Bull Music Academy and their generous tentacles of corporate sponsorship, the Bunker stands out for programming a night that traverses the electronic music spectrum from severe to whimsical. Andy Stott and Objekt handle the dark stuff without... More >>
Brooklyn	DJ

Krishna Bhatt & Anindo Chatterjee Peter Norton Symphony Space : 7:00 p.m. May 5
A longtime student of the late Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akhbar Khan, sitarist Krishna Bhatt is a brilliant virtuoso of Hindustani music who blends the gayaki (vocal) and tantrakari (instrumental) styles. He has also appeared on crossover albums with saxophonist George Brooks and... More >>
West 90s	World

The Breeders Webster Hall : 8:00 p.m. May 6
Call it the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle that never quite was: Post-Pixies art-rock wrecking crew strikes cultural gold on second try then unravels into relative, willful obscurity. That the original Breeders' lineup is anniversary touring 1993 alt-touchstone Last Splash offers... More >>
East Village	Rock

Peter Murphy+Ours Webster Hall : 7:00 p.m. May 7
Even though goth archetypes Bauhaus officially went the way of Bela Lugosi after a short-lived reunion five years ago, their frontman Peter Murphy is determined to keep the funeral pyre burning. Tonight, he and his solo band are performing a program entitled “Mr. Moonlight: Celebrating 35... More >>
East Village	Rock

Le1f+Laurel Halo+Venus-X+Spank DJs+The Peronists+Crazy Bitch in a Cave The Glasslands Gallery : 9:00 p.m. May 7
Two questions worth posing during the next few weeks, the period when, after 12 years away, the annual Red Bull Music Academy returns to the city: Of all the great upcoming shows and lectures, which ones should I make a point of catching, and what does it mean that so much independent and... More >>
Brooklyn	DJ

Little Boots Music Hall of Williamsburg : 9:00 p.m. May 7
Though the music of Little Boots easily sits alongside the likes of Kylie Minogue and Katy Perry, her '80s jams are also delivered both a bit more earnestly and with a bit more complexity. In other words, she's the dancefloor version of the girl-next-door, hashing out her heartbreaks and... More >>
Brooklyn	Dance

Ebe Oke+Annie Gosfield The Kitchen : 8:00 p.m. May 9
Laurie Anderson curates the third edition of "Synthesizer Nights," which this evening pairs Georgia-born, London-based Ebe Oke with New Yorker Annie Gosfield. Oke, a romantic experimentalist, performs selections from his new Valor, adding cello, violin, and laptop to his own vocals, piano, and... More >>
Chelsea	Experimental

Mudhoney+Pissed Jeans Music Hall of Williamsburg : 9:00 p.m. May 11
This October marks the 25th anniversary of the release of one of grunge’s benchmark releases, Mudhoney’s guitar-damaged declaration of disgust, Touch Me I’m Sick, but rather than celebrate the past, the Seattle iconoclasts are touring in support of their excellent new... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Gold Panda Knitting Factory Brooklyn : 11:55 p.m. May 11
The London-based electronic musician has taken the old saw about sophomore albums being inspired by life on the road literally. Half of Where You Live consists of fluttery, haunted, dystopic, yet often lovely portraits of cities in Brazil, China, England, and Japan. The voice of a weary local... More >>
Williamsburg	DJ

Huey Lewis and the News Irving Plaza : 8:00 p.m. May 13
Three decades ago, Huey Lewis and the News were as ubiquitous as Cabbage Patch Kids, thanks to upbeat, no-frills-rock singles like “Heart and Soul,” “I Want a New Drug,” and “If This Is It.” They had a sort of family-friendly optimism and their big sax solos... More >>
East Village	Rock

Marissa Nadler Saint Vitus : 8:00 p.m. May 13
Although Marissa Nadler’s sparse acoustic folk doesn’t seem like a natural fit for the confines of Brooklyn’s bona-fide metal lair Saint Vitus, she espouses a sort of dark, nightmarish quality, teleported from the backroom some Black Lodge in David Lynch’s imagination,... More >>
Brooklyn	Singer-Songwriter

Matthew E. White Bowery Ballroom : 9:00 p.m. May 13
The guitarist-founder of Richmond, Virginia, slipstream jazz combo Fight the Big Bull has morphed into a '70s channeling blue-eyed soul singer—a bearish, white Barry White, if you will. His solo debut was one of last year's best, and his nine-piece group stirs together gospel, reggae, and... More >>
Lower East Side	Rock

Nico Muhly Le Poisson Rouge : 9:30 p.m. May 14
The Social Network meets Carmen in “Two Boys,” composer Nico Muhly's Metropolitan Opera debut, which premieres in October 2013 following a several year development process. A true crime story set against a minimalist backdrop in the tradition of Einstein on the Beach, the plot... More >>
Greenwich Village	Classical

Iron & Wine Beacon Theatre : 8:00 p.m. May 14
Sam Beam has long lingered in the current folk landscape as an example of an artist who is doing it right, drawing on the rich legacy of the genre's past while using softly sung poetics to explore his own subconscious and fight his own demons. On his past two albums, Beam has expanded his... More >>
West 70s	Rock

The Killers Madison Square Garden : 8:00 p.m. May 14
From Hot Fuss on, the Killers have explored sounds in massively unique waves more than most bands dare to. The dance-y electropop of their debut somehow bled into the Americana vibe of Sam’s Town before traversing the Bowie space fantasy of Day & Age. In their 2012, appropriately titled... More >>
Chelsea	Rock

'Remembering Mabel & Bobby' Town Hall : 8:00 p.m. May 16
Not that long ago they’d have needed no introduction. Perhaps they do now: She’s Mabel Mercer and he’s Bobby Short; together and separately they presided over Manhattan cabaret let it be known with their joint appearance in this room 45 years back. Pay tribute, Mercer-Short... More >>
West 40s	Tribute

The Killers Barclays Center : 8:00 p.m. May 18
From Hot Fuss on, the Killers have explored sounds in massively unique waves more than most bands dare to. The dance-y electropop of their debut somehow bled into the Americana vibe of Sam’s Town before traversing the Bowie space fantasy of Day & Age. In their 2012, appropriately titled... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Fleetwood Mac Nikon at Jones Beach Theater : 8:00 p.m. June 22
Sure, Fleetwood Mac recently reissued their 1977 mega-hit album Rumours in hundred-dollar deluxe configurations with T-shirts and posters and a couple droplets of the witch juju Stevie Nicks used to withstand the rise of punk. And sure, the Big Mac has served up over 100 million LPs in sales... More >>
Allerton	Rock