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Just Food Altman Building : 6:30 p.m. October 2
There are thousands of amazing restaurants in New York, and it’s almost impossible to try them all, but Just Food, a nonprofit organization that strives to connect local farms with communities in need, is giving you the chance to taste bites from some of the big names in New York’s... More >>
Flatiron	Food and Drink

'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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

Time After Us St. Paul's Chapel : 10:30 a.m. October 3
Students of the arts, next time you’re feeling bored in class, just think about Ernesto Pujol. To further his studies, the site-specific performance artist and social choreographer made the unorthodox decision to take a vow of silence for several years as a cloistered monk. That period of... More >>
Financial District	Arts, Performance Art

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	Music

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	Music

'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	Music

'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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

'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	Music

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	Music

Rookie Magazine's Yearbook 2 launch party The Bell House : 3:00 p.m. October 6
Tavi Gevinson is the ultimate cool girl. In 2008, the 11-year-old started the fashion blog Style Rookie. Three years later, she sported silver hair while chatting up Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld at New York Fashion Week. Now she’s in charge of Rookie, an online magazine written... More >>
Brooklyn	Music, Literary Events, Fashion and Style, Arts

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	Music

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	Music

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	Music

Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film BAM Rose Cinemas : 7:30 p.m. October 7
As one of indie rock and alt-country’s most enigmatic and downright recalcitrant figures, Bill Callahan has always left his fans wanting more. Whether working under the moniker (Smog) (with or without parentheses) or his given name, he has always recorded songs that, through characters,... More >>
Fort Greene	Film - Repertory and Special Screenings

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	Music

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	Music