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'Carnegie Hall's Opening Night Gala' w/ the Philadelphia Orchestra+Esperanza Spalding Carnegie Hall : 7:00 p.m. October 2
Esperanza Spalding’s progression from a Post-Bop prodigy with strong Afro-Latin Jazz chops and an impeccable vocal phrasing to the electric bass-wielding Neo-Soul-Fusion songstress of 2012’s Radio Music Society might have been unexpected, but it was certainly not a fruitless... More >>
Flatiron	Jazz

Parquet Courts+The Beets+Yuppies+Future Punx Music Hall of Williamsburg : 8:30 p.m. October 2
The debut release from Texas transplants Parquet Courts fell under the radar, due in no small part to its exclusive release on cassette. Luckily, New York-based What's Your Rupture re-released the Light Up Gold LP, a refreshingly brisk album of snotty-n-stoned punk with crisp guitar breaks and... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Twin Peaks The Mercury Lounge : 9:30 p.m. October 2
The way this band captures the reckless and joyful energy of being 19, you could probably guess their age even without looking them on Wiki. Playing a mix of garage rock and dream pop that brims with the scuzzy punk vigor of Iggy and suffers neither from immaturity nor sonic acne scars, the... More >>
Lower East Side	Rock

Claudia Quintet Le Poisson Rouge : 7:00 p.m. October 3
Led by composer-drummer John Hollenbeck, the Claudia Quintet—which also includes Chris Speed (saxophone/clarinet), Matt Moran (vibraphone), Red Wierenga (accordion), and Drew Gress (bass)—plays complex and emotionally resonant music with solar flare energy. Their new September... More >>
Greenwich Village	Rock

Taylor Mac Lincoln Center, David Rubenstein Atrium : 7:30 p.m. October 3
Few music critics are as perceptive as drag performance artist Taylor Mac, and none sports glad rags as colorfully overdetermined as his fabtacular Machine Dazzle creations. Over the past few years, Mac has been workshopping “A 24-Hour History of Popular Music,” an absurdly... More >>
West 60s	Other

'Hyperdub Label Night' w/ Kode9+DJ Spinn+DJ Rashad+Ikonika+Brenmar Output : 10:00 p.m. October 3
A year away from completing their first decade of releasing music, Hyperdub, the London dubstep and electronic label that has put out tunes from artists such as Darkstar, Burial, Laurel Halo, and the Bug, is touring the country with a roster of artists who will all move your brain—and, of... More >>
Brooklyn	DJ

'Fixed' w/ the Field+JDH & Dave P 285 Kent Ave : 12:00 a.m. October 3
For the first of two shows celebrating their ninth anniversary, local promoters Fixed bring over Axel Willner (a/k/a the Field) whose debut album of amniotic loop techno, From Here We Go Sublime, was rapturously received and who has continued the sample-based ethereality with this year's... More >>
Williamsburg	Jazz

Blondie+X Roseland Ballroom : 8:00 p.m. October 4
The punk band who deftly integrated disco, hip-hop, and new wave well before popular music took heed to all of those elements is back with a new album titled Ghosts of Download and a Beth Ditto-featuring single called "A Rose by Any Name." Always up on the modern and never a band to back into... More >>
West 50s	Rock

Christine Salem Symphony Space : 8:00 p.m. October 4
This contralto singer from the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean works a sophisticated version of maloya, a local percussion-powered genre that combines sufferer lyrics with a dense skein of percussion. Her Creole, Malagasy, Comorian, and Swahili lyrics take on an incantatory aspect... More >>
West 90s	Vocal

Oneida The Glasslands Gallery : 8:30 p.m. October 4
As one of Brooklyn's most prolific and resilient units, rock experimentalists Oneida maintain a state of perpetual motion that equals only their own hypnotic rhythms. In the past three years, they've played day-long "Ocropolis" concerts, they've put out albums, singles, and live LPs, and... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog Union Pool : 9:00 p.m. October 4
"Not a 'project': a real band" promises this experimental power trio consisting of Marc Ribot (guitar), Shazad Ismaily (bass, electronics), and Ches Smith (drums). And their fairly recent Your Turn proves it with a lubricious hard-rock frenzy miles beyond their clinkety-clank 2011 debut. It's... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Audra McDonald Kupferberg Center : 8:00 p.m. October 5
Anyone sore at Audra MacDonald for bailing on the now-embalmed Private Practice to focus on her singing career really should experience the electric magic that happens when this five-time Tony Award winner takes the stage and approaches a microphone. Simply put, she inhabits and embodies... More >>
Flushing	R&B

Theo Katzman+Joey Dosik Studio at Webster Hall : 8:00 p.m. October 5
Brooklyn singer-songwriter Theo Katzman is one to watch, soulfully crooning and writing funky and sweet songs that balance the romance of indie with the fun of pop. Between starring in some infectious music videos for his singles (including the dance break-featuring clip for "Brooklyn") and... More >>
East Village	Rock

Living Colour+Tamar-kali Ginny's Supper Club : 8:30 p.m. October 5
Even after guitarist Vernon Reid's forward-thinking metal band Living Colour achieved double-platinum status for their 1988 breakthrough debut Vivid, the Black Rock Coalition founder continues raising awareness about other musicians. His latest endeavor, the Stark, Raving, Sane Music Series at... More >>
Harlem	Rock

'Sun Ra Turns 100' Jazz at Lincoln Center, Allen Room : 9:30 p.m. October 5
Yep, the great one arrived in Alabama a century or so ago, and though he left the planet in ’93, his spectacular music is still getting much play from his feisty lieutenant, Marshall Allen, and the revolving door of musicians who populate the Arkestra on any given night. They know all... More >>
West 50s	Jazz

Allen Toussaint Joe's Pub : 12:00 p.m. October 6
Allen Toussaint’s songs were once defined by the kind of slippery funk that could only be found in New Orleans—50 variations of backbeat girding hits by Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, and other regional heroes. On the new Songbook album and DVD, he gives us a one-man career retrospective... More >>
East Village	R&B

Spencer Day Joe's Pub : 7:30 p.m. October 6
He’s a lapsed Mormon back in the city that he visits far too infrequently, he’s calling this musical return “Spencer Day’s One-Man Show: Day Trippin’.” Bright and good-looking, he’s drawn his influences from all over the place and gives some hints... More >>
East Village	Cabaret

Goblin+Secret Chiefs 3 Music Hall of Williamsburg : 8:00 p.m. October 6
The Italian progressive rockers formerly known as the Cherry Five entered horror-movie history in 1975 when, Pink Floyd being unavailable, Goblin stepped in at the last minute to score Dario Argento’s ultraviolent giallo classic Profondo Rosso. Combining the technical smarts of bands like... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Julieta Venegas Irving Plaza : 7:00 p.m. October 7
If you take 2003’s Sí, 2006’s Limón y Sal, and 2010’s Otra Cosa out of view, one gets a very different impression of Julieta Venegas. Gone, for the most part, would be the pop chanteuse of that trilogy of albums, whose effervescent tunes catapulted her into the... More >>
East Village	Singer-Songwriter

Earl Sweatshirt+Domo Genesis+Vince Staples Bowery Ballroom : 9:00 p.m. October 7
When we first met Earl Sweatshirt, he was but a 16-year-old kid, sitting in a hair salon, blending and drinking the foulest-looking beverage imaginable and rapping impossibly dense bars. Three years later, the kid still might not be grown, but he remains wise beyond his years, spending the time... More >>
Lower East Side	Rap

Panic! At the Disco McKittrick Hotel : 7:00 p.m. October 8
With the exclamation point safely placed back in their name, Panic! At the Disco have returned to their noir-esque, weird selves as they prepare to release their latest album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, also complete with an exclamation point. The title, a reference to Hunter S.... More >>
Garment District	Rock

Watain+In Solitude+Tribulation Irving Plaza : 7:00 p.m. October 8
For all the hoo-ha about how scary and threatening Scandinavian black metal is, few bands actually cover themselves in animal blood and worship Satan, and even fewer make it to the States to tour. One of the lucky ones—if you want to call them that—is Watain, a Swedish group who have... More >>
East Village	Metal

Sara Bareilles Radio City Music Hall : 8:00 p.m. October 9
Yeah, you might still play kickball, collect comic books (sorry, “graphic novels”), and walk around Billyburg wearing a T-shirt repping your favorite band from high school, but deep down, you are an adult. So don’t sleep on Sara Bareilles just because her music is labeled... More >>
West 40s	Pop

Brandon Seabrook & Mary Halvorson Roulette Brooklyn : 8:00 p.m. October 11
Gonna be a big one. Two of town’s most inspired guitarists bring their leftie POVs to a room that breeds experimentation. Seabrook can be high-flying, with a fearless blitzkrieg approach. Halvorson is as sneaky as they come, twirling her lines in a way that lassos you before even realize... More >>
Park Slope	Jazz

Zevious+Sonar ShapeShifter Lab : 8:00 p.m. October 11
Brooklyn’s Shapeshifter has already established itself as a haven for jazz-metal, but now NYC forward-thinkers Zevious enter into the fray: The trio’s deconstruction of the Minutemen's jazz-damaged punk, Nels Cline avant-guitar godliness, and Behold The Arctopus-like tech-metal... More >>
Brooklyn	Metal