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The B-52s+The Go-Go's Roseland Ballroom : 7:00 p.m. June 19
High camp, New Wave, and rank psychosexuality sushi-rolled into a pop institution, the B-52s persist, working the oldies circuits, teasing new material, and dipping toes into outside projects. Title track aside, 2008 comeback bid Funplex was no great strokes, but that's no excuse to sit this... More >>
West 50s	Rock

Ben Wolfe Quartet Jazz Standard : 7:30 p.m. June 19
The bassist is one of those cats who make everything fit together. Oddball time signatures? He swings it into place. Investment in silence? A crucial part of the soundscape. His new From Here I See concentrates on ballads and their inherent lyricism, putting the romance up front while seizing... More >>
Murray Hill	Jazz

The Great Learning St. Paul's Chapel : 11:00 a.m. June 20
British composer Cornelius Cardew worked alongside Karlheinz Stockhausen during the late ’50s, composed at least two avant-garde masterpieces, co-founded the famous improvising combo AMM, and eventually made an abrupt left turn to concentrate on Maoist ditties for the masses—all... More >>
Financial District	Instrumental

LL Cool J+Ice Cube+Public Enemy Roseland Ballroom : 6:30 p.m. June 20
Overlooking the Hollywood careers of each of tonight’s performers, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, and Public Enemy are indeed the Kings of the Mic. And LL is a fitting headliner, since he emerged from Hollis in 1985 as a boombox-booming, be-Kangoled 18-year-old and just this year reaffirmed his... More >>
West 50s	Rap

Chance the Rapper+Dunson+Add-2+Torae S.O.B.'s : 8:00 p.m. June 20
Chance the Rapper's technicolor dreamcoat mixtape Acid Rap has taken 2013 by storm, pushing the artist from cult adoration in his native Chicago to out and out national fame: Despite its independent release, the album is polished enough to invoke the names of Kanye, Kendrick, and Andre 3000.... More >>
West Village	Rap

Chance the Rapper S.O.B.'s : 9:00 p.m. June 20
Chance the Rapper’s first mixtape, 10 Day, was named for the length of the high school suspension that kickstarted his rap career, the second, Acid Rap, for the twisted beats and revelatory verses that had critics and fans reaching for titles like “album of the year.” Whatever... More >>
West Village	Hip-Hop

Lord Huron Webster Hall : 7:00 p.m. June 21
Proof that folk music isn't just for the backwoods anymore, the LA-based group was built-out by Ben Schneider when his solo project grew too unwieldy for a single musician. In the capable hands of his now expansive band, Schneider and his cohort created a warm and soothing debut entitled... More >>
East Village	Rock

Amadou & Miriam+Bombino Prospect Park Bandshell : 7:30 p.m. June 21
Amadou Bagayoko plays nasty vamping blues beside wife Mariam Doumbia, a pepper-voiced chanteuse. The fact that the blind couple from Mali has the onstage presence of stately Tiresias only adds to their allure. And among the many robed and scarved Tuareg guitarists to boogie their way out of the... More >>
Park Slope	World

ZZ Ward Warsaw : 8:00 p.m. June 21
The bluesy woodworkings of ZZ Ward's voice make it easy to compare her to the female powerhouse soul singers of yore, but there's so much country twang and hip-hop underpinnings to her sound that basic parallels fall away. With her debut Till the Casket Drops, the girl born Zsuszsanna Eva Ward... More >>
Greenpoint	Rock

Rogue Wave+Caveman Music Hall of Williamsburg : 9:00 p.m. June 21
Born out of a “screw it, the economy sucks, let’s start a band” mentality, Rogue Wave generate a blissfully pleasant sound that lands somewhere between Simon & Garfunkel softness and the Shins-type folk pop jangle. Unsurprisingly, the group comes from laidback Oakland, CA and... More >>
Brooklyn	Rock

'The Bunker' w/ Regis+Lee Gamble+Keith Fullerton Whitman+Laurel Halo K&K Super Buffet : 11:00 p.m. June 21
As founder of Birmingham label Downwards and revivified as a member of depressive collective Sandwell District, Regis has left an unremittingly bleak mark on twenty years of electronic music. Tonight, he headlines the most floor-friendly contribution to PAN_ACT, the ongoing festival organized... More >>
Brooklyn	DJ

Hillstock Multiple venues : 12:00 p.m. June 22
Yes, another New York City music festival, but no, this one is kind of different: Instead of the same groups and stars that play all the other big festivals around the country, Hillstock brings together a weekend’s worth of indie bands, and instead of walking across a muddy field from the... More >>
East Village	Indie Rock

Femi Kuti and the Positive Force+Sinkane+King Britt Central Park : 7:00 p.m. June 22
Fela Kuti's elder son used to throw down a less politically outspoken and musically more economical version of his late father's Afrobeat, but Femi's more recent lyrics are consistently engaged and enraged, and his best tunes contain nearly as many memorably massive horn riffs and polyrhythmic... More >>
East 70s	Dance

Dawes+Shovels & Rope Terminal 5 : 8:00 p.m. June 22
Emerging from the shambles of former project Simon Dawes, brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith shortened the name and kept on making harmony-heavy, relatable folk rock. Now off the release of their third studio album, they've made themselves an Americana staple with their emotional... More >>
West 50s	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

Ben Vida+Helm Issue Project Room 110 Livingston : 10:00 p.m. June 22
After the caffeinated chatter surrounding the Red Bull Music Academy has subsided, the Goethe Institute and Issue Project Room team up to offer a very different take on forward-thinking music in 2013. PAN_ACT brings together sound and conceptual artists for a series of lectures, performances,... More >>
Brooklyn	DJ

Rush Nikon at Jones Beach Theater : 7:30 p.m. June 23
For the past four decades or so, rock snobs have picked on Rush for their proggy sci-fi lyrics and temperamental, OCD-like syncopations. But as of April, the joke is on them, since the Canadian hard rockers are now members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tonight, with some degree of... More >>
Allerton	Rock

Nellie McKay+Philippe Quint+Michael Bacon+Alyson Greenfield+Mieka Pauley Joe's Pub : 9:30 p.m. June 24
The silver-tongued McKay reprises her role from the 2012 indie film Downtown Express alongside Grammy-nominated classical violinist Philippe Quint and composer Michael Bacon, who plays a mean ukulele while his brother is off catching serial killers on "The Following." A fish out of water... More >>
East Village	Singer-Songwriter

Lita Ford and the Les Paul Trio Iridium : 10:00 p.m. June 24
This party isn't on a Saturday night, but hopefully you'll get more out of this Les Paul Monday than knowing that you like dancing with Lita. After a stint with the Runaways and a successful solo career that solidified her place in not just metal but rock 'n' roll, Ford has remained a... More >>
West 50s	Jazz

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers w/ Edie Brickell Town Hall : 8:00 p.m. June 25
Martin shouldn't quit his day job--who else would you cast for the affable, somewhat awkward father--but he shouldn't quit his night one either. More >>
West 40s	Bluegrass

Courtney Love+Starred Warsaw : 8:00 p.m. June 26
Of all the tongue-in-cheek things Courtney Love has ever done, the most audacious might have been titling her 2004 solo album America’s Sweetheart. Even as a daughter of the irony-addled ’90s, Love is America’s sweetheart in only the kitschiest way, since the musician’s... More >>
Greenpoint	Rock

Machel Montano Luxury Infinity Yacht : 9:00 p.m. June 26
Once the youngest ever winner of the Caribbean Song Festival, the Eurovision of the West Indies, Machel Montano is now 38, the biggest soca star of his lifetime, and as hot as ever: This year, he won the International Groovy Soca Monarch, the Mercury Prize of Trinidad, for his EDM-infused... More >>
Little Italy	EDM

Jimmy Webb The Cutting Room : 8:00 p.m. June 28
The songwriting scuttlebutt is that he wrote his first top 10 click, “Didn’t We?” when he was 17 or 19 or 20. However old he was, he has had the chops to turn out idiosyncratic hits maybe since the cradle: After all, he’s the guy composed “Wichita Lineman”... More >>
Gramercy Park	Cabaret

The Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival South Street Seaport, Pier 17 : 1:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. June 29
Financial District	Rock

David Murray Infinity Quartet Subculture : 10:00 p.m. daily until June 20
"Be my Hannibal Lecter/Take a hot piece out of me," rasps tonight's featured vocalist, a distressed and vampiric Macy Gray, in the Ishmael Reed-penned title track of the tenor titan's debut album with his new Infinity Quartet. Marc Cary (piano), Jaribu Shahid (bass), and Nasheet Waits (drums)... More >>
Soho	Jazz