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Philip Glass & Van Dyke Parks Music Hall of Williamsburg : 8:00 p.m. May 19
Big Sur’s Henry Miller Memorial Library heads east to mark the nine years its writerly namesake lived at 992 Driggs in Williamsburg—“The ideal street for a boy, a lover, a maniac, a drunkard”—with a counterintuitively terrific double bill of Philip Glass and Van... More >>
Brooklyn	Experimental

Liars Brooklyn Masonic Temple : 8:00 p.m. May 19
Rock anarchists Liars' greatest asset is their distractibility. In the years since they jumped on music fans' radar by jumping on the Brooklyn post-punk bandwagon (or did they?), they've experimented with no wave, queasy-sounding art rock, post-Zappa discord and most recently (on last year's... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Angel Olsen+Magmana+Steve Gunn The Glasslands Gallery : 8:30 p.m. May 19
This Chicago-by-way-of-St.Louis folk singer lives up to the pairing in her name, both decidedly heavenly and remarkably plain. Simple as soil, Angel Olsen's songs are distinguished by her possessed, tortured, heavenly voice—at times a tool in her poetess repertoire, most often a force in... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Kevin Dozier Metropolitan Room : 9:30 p.m. May 20
One of the classiest singers on offer these days, Dozier has lifted his once appealingly diffident delivery into a stronger and punchier baritone. The excuse for this appearance is the release of his new Love’s Never Lost CD, on which the man shows good taste by muscularly crooning... More >>
Flatiron	Cabaret

Taylor Mac Joe's Pub : 7:00 p.m. May 21
The joyously flamboyant Brechtian who starred in the Foundry's Good Person of Szechwan (returning to the Public this fall, fwiw) has been workshopping pieces of his forthcoming "24-Hour History of Popular Music," with tonight dedicated to the sounds of the 1780s. Toss your tricorner hat up in... More >>
East Village	Cabaret

Majical Cloudz+Gobby The Glasslands Gallery : 8:30 p.m. May 21
With a name like Majical Cloudz, you go in expecting horizon-leveling psychedelic hijinx, cocks on socks, general mayhem. Then you actually get a whiff of what Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto cook up in Montreal, and it's of a distinctly more intimate nature: high-impact atmospheric minimalism... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

of Montreal+Wild Moccasins Music Hall of Williamsburg : 9:00 p.m. May 22
Once upon a time of Montreal was a psychedelic twee pop band with Beatles-inspired melodies. Over the years, however, frontman Kevin Barnes has repeatedly flipped the script both on the band’s sound—from whimsical vaudeville to coquettish glam funk—and his own... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

Friend Roulette+EULA+Matty Fasano The Mercury Lounge : 9:00 p.m. May 23
This Brooklyn six-piece make orchestral, sweeping compositions sound as simple as lullabies. Chamber pop riddled with baroque elements and unlikely rhythms, their sonics swing from ghostly croons straight into robotic bleeps. Throughout it all—strings, brass, two drummers and two... More >>
Lower East Side	Rock

Medeski, Mali, Mercurio, & Moore Le Poisson Rouge : 10:30 p.m. May 23
Medeski Martin & Wood's sci-fi keyboard traditionalist John Medeski, 7 Walkers' gris-gris growler Papa Mali, and Galactic's rhythm section—Robert Mercurio (bass) and Stanton Moore (drums)—are the M&Ms. The promising New Orleans-oriented supergroup is heralding its debut gigs with the... More >>
Greenwich Village	Jazz

Mariah Carey Central Park, Rumsey Playfield : 7:00 a.m. May 24
Is it that Mariah Carey's abnormally lucky, or that she's got a career mojo that just won't quit? Neither, I'd argue: Her career longevity is directly connected to her collaborative savvy, ability to nimbly surf pop trends, and the best cosmologists and stylists Daydream royalties can buy. Even... More >>
West 70s	R&B

B.A.L.L.+The Upper Crust+Lord Classic+New York Junk Bowery Electric : 7:30 p.m. May 25
As surreal and potentially volatile a reunion as you'll stumble upon this year, B.A.L.L. was the troubled and troubling late '80s slop-rock assemblage of the Velvet Monkey's Don Fleming and Jay Spiegal, Shimmy Disc proprietor-bassist Kramer, and Bongwater drummer David Licht. Original Sonic... More >>
Noho	Rock

Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery : 4:00 p.m. May 26
And you thought Amanda Palmer was ambitious. Guitarists versed in meditation and the Fripp's Guitar Craft technique will pay $1000 for the privilege of training with and performing alongside the King Crimson leader during a few East Coast gigs. The fee includes room, board, transportation, and... More >>
East Village	Rock

The Shins+Man Man Williamsburg Park : 5:30 p.m. May 26
“This song will change your life,” said Natalie Portman's Sam to Zach Braff's Andrew as she played “New Slang” for him in 2004's quintessential indie classic Garden State. A more accurate statement would've been that Sam and Andrew would change the Shins' lives, as a... More >>
Williamsburg	Rock

Laura Marling Roulette Brooklyn : 8:00 p.m. May 28
Laura Marling rose to fame in her teenage years, and after working with indie darlings Noah and the Whale, her debut solo full-length garnered a nomination for England's coveted Mercury Prize. Now, embarking on tour in support of her fourth, Marling is barely 23 but feels like a scion in the... More >>
Park Slope	Singer-Songwriter

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

'The Scratcher Sessions' Scratcher : 7:00 p.m. every Sun.
The Voice staff's home away from home features solid singer-songwriter acts every Sunday. Solo acts and duos only; seek thy massive klezmer dance parties elsewhere. More >>
East Village	Rock, Folk

The Gil Evans Project Jazz Standard : 7:30 p.m. daily until May 19
Ryan Truesdell's disc of previously unrecorded Gil Evans arrangements floored most of those who heard it and was recently named "Record of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association. A scholar whose approach to music has lots of heart, the young conductor breathes new life into classic Gil... More >>
Murray Hill	Jazz

Noah Preminger Jazz Standard : 7:30 p.m. daily from May 21 until May 22
The young tenor titan gigged a lot before hitting the studio to cut the new Haymaker, and that preparation shows: There's an easy balance between Preminger's horn and guitarist Ben Monder's unusually fluid attack strategies, and it gives everything else extra poise and additional punch. On... More >>
Murray Hill	Jazz

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Beacon Theatre : 8:00 p.m. May 20; 8:00 p.m. May 21; 8:00 p.m. May 23; 8:00 p.m. May 25; 8:00 p.m. May 26
You know who Tom Petty is. What you might not know is that he made appearances on both The Simpsons and King of the Hill. Having penned and performed countless breakthrough singles, Petty could have called it quits a long time ago if it weren’t for his dedication to proving rock &... More >>
West 70s	Rock

Wayne Horvitz The Stone : 8:00 p.m. daily from May 22 until May 26
The wise keyboardist is also an inviting composer—the variety of groups he's led in the past three decades have all arrived with hip charts in front of them. This East Coast residency finds him grooming a throng of improvisers from his Seattle stomping ground, the Royal Room Collective... More >>
East Village	Jazz

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The Smoke Big Band Smoke Jazz and Supper Club : 7:00 p.m. every Mon.
The sensuous Smoke Jazz space is enlivened weekly by one of the best in-house acts in town: the Smoke Big Band, a reliable troupe with their own exuberant takes on Basie, Ellington, and more. Dine in with style. More >>
West 100s	Jazz

'Jazz Night' Spike Hill : 8:30 p.m. every Mon.
This weekly jazz jam at the newly expanded Spike Hill bar in Williamsburg is as raucous as anything else on its stretch of Bedford. But the rotating cast of players is solid, the veggie burger is hot, and really, doesn't that newest Beacon's Closet discovery deserve to be aired out somewhere classy? More >>
Brooklyn	Jazz

Chicha Libre Barbes : 9:30 p.m. every Mon.
In addition to being a popular alcoholic beverage, "chicha" also signifies the psychedelic style of cumbia fermented in Peru's Amazonian rainforests during the '70s. This terrific Brooklyn combo features One Ring Zero accordion wizard Josh Camp and members of Las Rubias del Norte. They open a... More >>
Park Slope	Rock

Miguel Zenón Quartet Village Vanguard : 9:00 p.m. daily until May 19
Various projects and various collabos fly by. But when the Puerto Rican McArthur Grant recipient blows the whistle and calls home his decade-old working band, it's an event. Zenón's alto agility is bad ass, period. The way his associates—Luis Perdomo, Henry Cole, and Hans... More >>
West Village	Jazz

'Beatles Brunch' B.B. King Blues Club & Grill : 12:00 p.m. every Sat.
West 40s	Tribute, Rock