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The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/20/13

Need plans? Check out any of these 10 shows around the city this week.

Spellbound

Austra come to Brooklyn

Live: Jackson Browne Relives His Old New York Days At The Beacon Theatre

Jackson Browne w/ Sara Watkins Beacon Theatre Friday, August 3 Better than: Dad rock. On Friday night, Jackson Browne, still looking youthful under his salt-and-pepper shag, took the stage at the Beacon Theatre for a "solo-acoustic performance" that opened a two-night run at the storied New York ... More >>

Glen Hansard

RIDING HIGH

The National play the second of six shows

Fall Arts: Music Picks

Crosby, Stills and Nash

"Weird Al" Yankovic To Class Up The Beacon Theater In October

What better way to cap off MTV's 30th anniversary than with an announcement about master pop parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose AL TV blocks encouraged me to stare wall-eyed at various TVs owned by my family members for very long blocks of time, and also to believe in flying hamsters. He's playing ... More >>

Live: Adele Dispenses Her Own Brand Of Comfort At The Beacon Theatre

Adele Beacon Theatre Thursday, May 19 Better than: Staying with that tosser. It is a special kind of emotional suicide to venture to the Upper West Side, under threat of impending thunderstorm, to hear a tortured British soulstress mourn the loss of a lover who sounds suspiciously like your last, ... More >>

Michael Bolton & Kenny G Just Might Have Brought '90s Nostalgia Full Circle

Many people around your corner of the Internet will be giggling about the seeming waiting-room singularity epitomized by the just-announced Beacon Theatre show pairing Michael Bolton with Kenny G--set to take place on June 19; tickets go on sale next Monday morning and start at $45--but let it be ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Tickets To See Adele Friday Night At The P.C. Richard & Son Theater

​Bazooka-voiced Brit soul singer Adele's second album, 21, is out later this month (NPR is streaming the whole thing right now), and to celebrate, she's doing a free NYC show Friday night at the P.C. Richard & Son Theater, invite-only, courtesy your friends at iheartradio.com. That link puts y ... More >>

Presenting Your 2011 Billboard #1s: Taylor Swift...Cake...the Decemberists?

We defy you not to laugh, really.​This morning, music industry executives awoke with a sigh of relief: the third full sales week of 2011 did not end with historic Soundscan lows. After Taylor Swift set a historical nadir by selling 52,000 copies of three-month-old record during one of the slow ... More >>

Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?

A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.​In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>

Week In Review: Stop Looking At My Moms

​In the week we continued counting down the worst songs of 2010, noting atrocities from Susan Boyle, Liz Phair, Christina Aguilera, Jackyl, and NeverShoutNever, and Die Antwoord, we also began our overall year in review, listing the 10 biggest music stories of 2010, our 10 favorite concerts, t ... More >>

Ray Davies' Beacon Theatre Show Wednesday Night Is Canceled

​Bad news for all you Kinks-obsessive pre-Thanksgiving revelers in the house: Ray Davies has canceled his remaining U.S. tour dates, effectively immediately, given that he was "ordered by his doctors not to fly or travel until his medical condition has stabilized to their satisfaction." That's ... More >>

Week In Review: The Love and the Wizardry

We are all Jay-Z's children,. Photo by Jori Klein.​In the week we told you why you can't hate Kanye West and love My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at the same time, we made similarly bold claims about Girl Talk--ten worst moments on that record, right here--and the Beatles, who along with a c ... More >>

Live: The Hold Steady Try Their Best To Burn Down The Beacon Theatre

Craig Finn, taking the whole Twins thing in stride. Pics by Rob Trucks, more below.​The Hold Steady Beacon Theatre Thursday, October 7 Better than: Cirque de Soleil's Banana Shpeel or whatever usually goes on here. I'm sure some of those Allman Brothers shows get pretty rowdy, but I still ca ... More >>

The Hold Steady Are Playing At the Apple Store In A Few Hours

"Can I get some service on this iPhone, please?" Photo by Rob Trucks.​Local bar-rock heroes and Minnesota Twins fans (sorry about that) the Hold Steady have been playing great shows in New York for so long, and with such regularity, that you occasionally start to take them for granted. Until, ... More >>

Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

'Celebrating Ornette Coleman'

The Ongoing Improvement of Sonny Rollins

Chatting with the Saxophone Colossus, who still insists music can help

The Best Thing Ever Coming to an Animal Palace Near You This Long Weekend

The Best Thing Ever are three musically inclined college friends from Boston University who reunite occasionally for novelty-themed tours. First there was the 2006 Bathroom Tour, in which the trio showed up unannounced to a predetermined set of New England toilets to lead acoustic singalongs--some ... More >>

Ray Kelly: 2009 May Be New York's Lowest Major-Crime Year Since 1963

In remarks prepared for today's graduation exercises for NYPD cadets at the Beacon Theater, Commission Ray Kelly announces that he expects 2009's final stats will show not only a decline in major crime (murder, rape, robbery etc) for the 19th straight year, but possibly New York's lowest major crime ... More >>

Tonight! The Jesus Lizard, Neko Case, And Kinky Friedman

Those of you not cool enough to attend the last upstate New York All Tomorrow's Parties jam or that Vice Halloween party clusterfuck have thus probably been denied the violent, visceral, vitriolic pleasures of the Jesus Lizard reunion, and this is no way to be, going through life without David Yow ... More >>

News Roundup: The Decemberists, Death Row Records, Neko Case, Monty Python

​ --The Decemberists have added a New York date to their "A Short Fazed Hovel" tour. The band hits Terminal 5 on September 19th. Colin Meloy and Co. will take a break from playing the epic Hazards of Love in its entirety, instead planning a "special lottery show." In an e-mail, the band said: ... More >>

Suicide Threats and Midlife Crises at Steely Dan's Beacon Run

Are You There, God? It's Me, Regina Spektor

The downtown ingénue takes on bigger audiences and weightier issues

Live: Snoopy Dancing to the Allman Brothers at the Beacon

Allman Brothers Band Beacon Theatre Thursday, March 26 I felt like this is something I should do at least once, given that many people feel like they should do this, like, hundreds of times. "There's an extra rig onstage," notes a clearly loyal gentleman in the men's bathroom, minutes before sho ... More >>

Live: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel Reunite at the Beacon Theater

Paul Simon Beacon Theater February 13 Consider the slack, orgasmic vagueness that invades Paul Simons face as, down below, his right hand twitches, by reflex alone, into the first four chords of "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"--a song that appears, even when being played by the man who wrot ... More >>

iVoice: Britney Spears and Adnan Ghalib, the IM Chat!

iVoice Team Exclusive: Andrew Bird at Beacon Theater Soundcheck

Live: PJ Harvey at the Beacon Theatre

No Context: Revenge of the Book Eaters, 08.26.07

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Naughty & Nice

Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive

Music for the Masses

Fist-raising rockers tune out the majors and band with independent record labels instead

Playing The Audience

The Rev. revs up, quiets down, chats up, preaches, sings

Hello Dalai

Thousands Of New Yorkers Await The Dalai Lama's First Visit Here Since 1999

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Opening Up

When Who's on First Is What Matters

Coldplay Sizzles

Supplement

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Grrrl, Inturrupted

It’s Ladies First This Season

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In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

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