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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	Music

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	Music

Funky Dope Maneuvers Site109 : 8:00 p.m. October 9
Wish you could have been in NYC for the rise of hip-hip in the ’80s? Tonight, let photographer Ricky Powell (a/k/a the Fourth Beastie Boy) educate you at “Funky Dope Maneuvers,” an exhibition and slideshow of New York and its legendary characters, including Run–D.M.C.,... More >>
East Village	Photography, Arts, Art - Galleries

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	Music

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	Music

Simone Felice Rockwood Music Hall : 7:00 p.m. October 12
The novelist, former Felice Brother, and Duke and the King co-founder is working on (and crowd-funding) his second solo album and latest rhapsodically chilling dispatch from the Catskills. The angelic-voiced Felice's intimate emotional geography defies you to distrust its blatant attachments to... More >>
Lower East Side	Music

Meat Puppets Brooklyn Bowl : 8:00 p.m. October 12
The Meat Puppets are one of those bands whose omnipresence and influence within alternative music can't be missed: From Nirvana to Pavement, this cowpunk band and early SST Records signee, fronted by Phoenix’s Kirkwood brothers, have been unapologetically themselves since the early '80s.... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Fuzz The Mercury Lounge : 10:30 p.m. October 12
This aptly monikered young California trio—consisting of Roland Cosio (bass), Charlie Moothart (guitar), and prolific garage-psych overachiever Ty Segall (drums, vocals)—revives the meth-fueled blast furnace of early Blue Cheer. Moothart has Leigh Stephens's overdriven,... More >>
Lower East Side	Music

Nine Inch Nails+Godspeed You! Black Emperor Barclays Center : 8:00 p.m. October 14
Back in gear after a several year absence, the visceral nature of early Nine Inch Nails has given way to something more rewardingly cerebral. Reunion album Hesitation Marks plays like the sonic equivalent of a long, winding tour through fossilized wormwood. Life may not have frontman Trent... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Vanessa Carlton Highline Ballroom : 8:00 p.m. October 15
It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since the release of Carlton's riveting debut, Be Not Nobody, a record that set the bar high for singer-songwriters in the new millennium. Since then, she's continued to float around pop music both as an artist herself and as an influence on the... More >>
Chelsea	Music

Savages Terminal 5 : 7:00 p.m. October 16
Savages are an all-female English foursome who approach post-punk with a ferocious feminism that rivals the wildness of the riot grrrl movement. Fairly new on the scene, they only formed at the end of 2011 but have already won plenty of accolades from both fans and press. Expect ceaseless... More >>
West 50s	Music

Charli XCX+Kitten Irving Plaza : 8:00 p.m. November 13
Charli XCX is on her way to synthpop stardom, and she has only recently turned 21. With a guest spot on one of this year's biggest and most infectious singles, Icona Pops "I Love It," and her own well-received major label debut album True Romance, Charli has found the right time and place to... More >>
East Village	Music

Blek le Rat Jonathan LeVine Gallery : 11:00 a.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 5
Born in Paris in 1951, Blek le Rat first discovered graffiti in New York in the early ’70s and, a decade later, became one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. He is also credited as the first to use life-size stencils—his signature stencil being a rat silhouette. As critic Carlo... More >>
Chelsea	Arts, Art - Galleries

Fun Home Public Theater : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until November 3
Not long after Alison Bechdel wrote a letter to her parents telling them she was a lesbian, her father, Bruce, was struck and killed by a Sunbeam Bread truck. But, she wonders in her bestselling 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, could it have been a suicide? Returning to her childhood, she tells... More >>
Greenwich Village	Theater, Off-Broadway: Opening

PRELUDE. 13 The CUNY Graduate Center : Daily until October 4
You don't have to be an insider to know what's new in the performing arts. PRELUDE. 13 gives you a sneak peek with tickets to work-in-progress presentations, open rehearsals, and conversations with the artists. The best part? It's all free. The incredible lineup of performers includes Taylor... More >>
Murray Hill	Off-Off-Broadway: Opening, Theater, Festivals

Massive Attack Park Avenue Armory : 8:00 p.m. daily until October 3
This unusual collaboration with the award-winning documentary filmmaker has the trip-hop icons performing while the audience is enveloped in videos which turn a suspicious eye toward modern technology. That perspective has always been a central part of their appeal, but this may be the most... More >>
East 60s	Music

Gary Lucas's 'The Edge of Heaven' Brooklyn Academy of Music : 7:30 p.m. October 4; 7:30 p.m. October 5
Among the best of this fine all-over-the-map guitarist's albums is his 2003 tribute to Zhou Xuan and Bai Guang, two of China's so-called Seven Great Singing Stars during the 1930s and '40s. Lucas, who discovered the shidaiqu sound while living in Taiwan, updates their sultry, sentimental, and... More >>
Brooklyn	Music

Regina Carter Birdland : 8:30 p.m. daily until October 5
The reigning queen of jazz violin has carved a niche for herself by blending the traditionalist style of Stephane Grappelli with the avant-garde bravado of Billy Bang and the dazzling technique of Itzhak Perlman. She studied with the latter at one point as a young classical violin student at... More >>
West 40s	Music

Steely Dan Beacon Theatre : 8:00 p.m. October 3; 8:00 p.m. October 4; 8:00 p.m. October 5; 8:00 p.m. October 7
You can usually find these poster boys of jazz-rock right around the intersection of yacht-rock and prog, with grooves worthy of the Doobie Brothers played over far more complex chord sequences. They've released only three new albums in the past 25 years, so their week-long run at the Beacon... More >>
West 70s	Music

Tom Harrell Quintet Village Vanguard : 8:30 p.m. daily from October 8 until October 13
The “dream” reference in the trumpeter’s new Colors Of A Dream harks to his take on Dali’s esthetic, and at its most vivid Harrell’s spin on the hard bop lingo can claim several surreal moments. His working quintet brings a feisty punch to every stage it commands,... More >>
West Village	Music

Christian Joy Secret Project Robot : 12:00 p.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from October 4 until October 13
When not dreaming up wild outfits for Karen O to rock out in (who could forget the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer in her Indian headdress at the Glastonbury festival?), Christian Joy is busy working on her own outlandish art. The talented designer’s latest show at Secret Project Robot is titled... More >>
Williamsburg	Fashion and Style, Arts, Art - Galleries

Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play Playwrights Horizons : 8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 20; 2:30 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until October 20; 7:30 p.m. every Sun. until October 20; 7:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed. until October 20
If our current way of life were to be suddenly wiped out, what traditions from the past would survivors hold on to? Playwright Anne Washburn explores this scenario in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, which imagines that, of all things, Bart Simpson would become a vital part of the new... More >>
West 40s	Theater, Off-Broadway: Now Playing

The Pocket Opera Players Symphony Space : 8:00 p.m. daily from October 10 until October 12
With the New York City Opera shuttered (see you later, David H. Koch Theater), there's no better time to explore New York City opera's small, independent, and intelligent alternatives. Comedy and tragedy share a promising bill in the Pocket Opera Players' world premieres of two one-act operas:... More >>
West 90s	Music

1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered? Church of St. Paul the Apostle : 8:30 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until October 25
If you've never been inside the magnificent Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the artist collective Openings is giving you a fun incentive to drop by. Their new show, 1) All of the Above—The Big Question Answered?, which will be held at the historic church, features the works of 37 artists... More >>
West 50s	Arts, Art - Galleries

Robert Motherwell: Early Collages Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum : 10:00 a.m. every Mon., Tue., Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 5
As one of the revolutionaries in the New York art movement of the 1940s, Robert Motherwell started a gang of sorts that included other abstract or “automatic” artists, as he called them, like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, William Baziotes, and Willem de Kooning. And the leader of... More >>
East 80s	Arts, Art - Museums