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Pay no mind to the fact that the 1994 film Cabin Boy, starring Chris Elliott, received a 46 percent on Rotten Tomatoes because that’s neither here nor there. Fans will agree that you can’t go wrong with a comedy about a snobbish finishing-school graduate (he hails from the Fancy Lad...
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Cycling competitions usually award the rider, not the bike. But the eighth annual Bicycle Fetish Day is a block party at which your trusty two-wheel companion can feel special, too. Picture it: You and your bike happy together, chowing down on barbecue while admiring BMX tricks and chatting it...
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Brooklyn
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One Direction megastars Zayn (the cute one), Liam (the cute one), Harry (the cute one), Louis (the cute one), and Niall (the cutest one) met as competitors, each looking to take home The X Factor Season 7 title, when judge and lead Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger suggested that the dudes might...
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West 70s
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Spring has finally arrived, and if you didn’t have enough shows, DJ nights, and television episodes to cram into your weekend before, Sunday afternoon is now officially fair game for a whole season of dance-party brunches. Today, Justin Cartin and Eamon Harkin of Mr. Saturday Night toast...
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Brooklyn
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Philip Jung and Patrick Bodmer’s Get Physical dominated the past 10 years with releases by heavyweight artists including Booka Shade, DJ T, and themselves, under the pseudonym M.A.N.D.Y. Either way, the Frankfurt-via-Berlin duo knows how to curate a tech-house set: Tom Middleton is...
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South Street Seaport
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The Walking Dead won’t return to TV until the fall, but thankfully for those with a blood-and-guts craving that just won’t quit, they’ll be ambling, slouching, and swaggering their way through Brooklyn this evening. The sixth annual spring edition of the NYC Zombie Crawl...
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East Village
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The Stone :
8:00 p.m. May 27
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Mark Stewart the guitarist (as opposed to Mark Steward the Pop Group vocalist or Mark Steward the Passing Strange composer) plays to the middle-outside as a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, to the middle-inside as Paul Simon's longtime stagehand, and to the lunatic fringe as half...
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East Village
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You know when people ask, “Know of any good parties happening tonight?” This time, you can reply with confidence and say, “Um, hell yeah!” Tonight, Oh! You Pretty Things hosts the New Romantic Ball II, its second all-night rager devoted to “the children of...
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Greenwich Village
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Cielo :
10:00 p.m. May 27
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This weekly party at tiny Vauxhall bar the Eagle is up there with Optimo (Espacio) and Berghain/Panoramabar on the list of internationally renowned good times. For the past eight years Jim Stanton, James Hillard, Filthy Luka and Severino have been throwing Horse Meat Disco, a “queer party...
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West Village
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This might be the strangest Mets-Phillies series in the history of the rivalry: As we write this, the Mets are, improbably, ahead of the defending NL East champion Phillies in the standings, and both are chasing the Washington Nationals. That’s just one reason we love baseball! Another...
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Flushing
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Perhaps you've heard of the Zoo Troop, a corps of adults who entertain children while wearing outsize anthropomorphic animal costumes. While Bergen County MCs Zoo Troop Gang are no relation, they're no less ridiculous, half-serious swag-rap minstrels rocking shades and chin-straps in hi-res...
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East Village
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The Stone :
9:00 p.m. May 28
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Sly Stone may live in a camper in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles and may not be familiar with the Stone in Alphabet City, but that’s not stopping Sex Mob frontman Steven Bernstein and the nine-piece Millennial Territory Orchestra from playing some incredibly inspired covers from...
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East Village
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Birdland :
8:30 p.m. May 29
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Sprung from the loins of giants (Long Island's late John and Alice Coltrane), the tenor saxophonist has constructed a jazz identity more Blue Note cool than Impulse! Records hot. Expect his longtime quartet (Luis Perdomo on piano, Drew Gress on bass, and E.J. Strickland on drums) to delve into...
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West 40s
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“You wanna include me in your plan,” OFF! frontman Keith Morris sneers in one of the minute-long hardcore rants on his band’s new self-titled album. And he’s totally right: Whatever else you do tonight, be sure to save at least three-quarters of an hour for this...
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Lower East Side
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As rap eccentrics from Odd Future to Nicki Minaj have bubbled up to the mainstream (and beyond), it has gotten considerably harder to seem like a true weirdo in hip-hop. Busdriver pulls it off: On this year’s Beaus$Eros—say it aloud—the Los Angeles–based MC layers his...
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Chinatown
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Since 1994, New Orleans jazz-funk collaboration kings Galactic have steadily nailed a rep as in-the-pocket heirs to both the Meters and Neville Brothers. Joined by Living Colour belter Corey Glover and Rebirth Brass Band trombonist Corey Henry, the quintet kicks off a four-night Brooklyn Bowl...
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Brooklyn
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S.O.B.'s :
9:00 p.m. May 30
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Even if you’ve never heard of ratchet music, the rap-production style associated with L.A.’s DJ “Dijon McFarlane” Mustard, you’ve probably heard “Rack City,” the inescapable Tyga single produced by Mustard and originally intended for mutual friend YG....
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West Village
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The Stone :
8:00 p.m. May 31
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Best known as co-founding percussionist of afrotronica band Burkina Electric, the Austria-born drummer makes a rare foray into the jazz zone tonight with a band consisting of Leron Thomas (trumpet), Travis Sullivan (sax), Shoko Nagai (piano), and Evan Lipson (bass). Dig Ligeti's dance of ideas...
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East Village
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The second installment of Soul People Music head honcho Fred P’s occasional party features one of his more interesting collaborators, Aybee. That the Oakland native has released records on Ron Trent’s Prescription and Jus-Ed’s Underground Quality should further attest to the...
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Lower East Side
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Born Gerald Donald, he first adopted the alias Heinrich Mueller in tribute to German proto-techno, then joined the late James Stinson to helm mysterious electro-aquatic under the name Drexciya. These days, as Dopplereffekt, he continues banging out sophisticated minimal electro with real or...
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Chinatown
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Town Hall :
8:00 p.m. June 1
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At first glance, these two singer-songwriters don’t share much beyond a debt to Joni Mitchell: Collins, of course, broke through in 1968 with a cover of “Both Sides Now,” while Peyroux’s albums seem deeply informed by Mitchell’s late-’70s jazz period. Listen...
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West 40s
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His Kanzleramt label has been one of the powerhouses of German minimalism since 1994, releasing records from a stable that includes Johannes Heil, Anthony Rother, Christian Morgenstern, Patrick Lindsey and DJ Slip. His own productions rank alongside those of collaborators like Teo Schulte and...
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Lower East Side
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Twin pillars of the triple-A radio format, DeGraw and Caillat have both outlasted the singles that once seemed sure to consign them to one-hit wonderdom. Artistically speaking, he’s never improved upon “I Don’t Want to Be,” but she’s actually got several tunes...
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West 70s
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The 11 minute title track of this New Orleans guitar demon's new Black Eye Galaxy is something like the "Dark Star" of recovery anthems. Elsewhere, Osborne's emotionally white-hot album features songs like, and in his lacerating live shows he comes off as someone telling stories through his...
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Lower East Side
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Greenwich Village
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