Bowery Ballroom

Live: Bowerbirds Light Up Bowery Ballroom

Bowerbirds w/ Dry The River Bowery Ballroom Friday, March 23 Better than: A Pink Floyd laser show. When I walked into Bowery Ballroom late Friday night, I did not expect to be stepping into an iTunes visualizer. Alas, Bowerbirds have incorporated a verifiable light show—complete with Merriwe ... More >>

Live: Buraka Som Sistema Impart Sweaty Joy At The Bowery Ballroom

Buraka Som Sistema Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, January 11 Better Than: A Tae-Bo workout. Confetti shooting party-poppers, mega-blasting Super Soakers, sexually charged underagers, and plenty of ass-shaking set the tone for Buraka Som Sistema's New York tour stop at Bowery Ballroom last night. The P ... More >>

HOMECOMING KINGS

Holy Ghost! finish their tour in Brooklyn

Frank Ocean Will Be At The Bowery Ballroom Next Month

​The Odd Future associate/Jay and Kanye co-signed R&B singer is bringing his emo and blues to the Bowery Ballroom on November 6. Tickets are on sale now although they might not be for much longer now that word's out, so, if this is your thing, get clicking. UPDATE (5:42 p.m.): All gone! But do ... More >>

Music Venue With the Most Foursquare Check-Ins in 2010? Terminal 5. (Mercury Lounge's Third.)

pic by Rob HarvillaFlorence, trying to unlock the Crunked badge with her mind at Terminal 5. Somewhat interesting: the music venue with the most Foursquare check-ins for 2010 was NY-concert airplane hanger Terminal 5, announced on the Foursquare blog earlier this week. This is a global ranking too, ... More >>

This Weekend! Oneida, Judas Priestess, Kill The Alarm, Psychedelic Horseshit, And The Bellmer Dolls

​If there's any chance your reckless behavior will be rewarded with a shiner this weekend, it's gotta be tonight. Oneida (to your left), with (thoughtfully) abrasive rock and destructive, amped-up guitars, will make all gentle souls within a 100-foot radius of the Knitting Factory shake in th ... More >>

Live: Owl City (And Taylor Swift!!!!!!!) Hold Dance Party At Bowery Ballroom

​Owl City Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, September 16 Yep, America's Kanye-Addled Sweetheart herself, holding court in the balcony as the giggly teenage masses below fired up their digital cameras and Death Cab for Cutie blared over the PA, which is fairly brazen, considering that Owl City, a/k/ ... More >>

White Rabbits on Recording With Spoon's Britt Daniel, Opening for the Pogues, and Playing Basketball With the Walkmen

"I just like seeing our press releases verbatim on blogs. That's just my favorite." Think they'll play inside this rig tonight at the Bowery Ballroom? Brooklyn's White Rabbits were known for two things when they first emerged in 2007: the ska/soul affectations of their sure-footed debut, Fort Nigh ... More >>

Week in Review: Swine Flu False Alarm Total Panic Edition

In the week that we thought maybe we had swine flu, ran frightened from our offices, wandered the East Village for hours looking for wireless or a good doctor, and eventually received an email with the subject line "It's NOT Swine Flu," we sheepishly came back to our desks, only to find an army of c ... More >>

Southern Culture on the Skids

Live: Los Campesinos! Break Post-Valentine's Day Hearts at Bowery Ballroom

Amanda M Hatfield Los Campesinos Bowery Ballroom February 15 On Sunday, the second of their two-night, sold-out stand at the Bowery Ballroom, Los Campesinos! played their parts. The Welsh seven-piece, who look like they just walked off the cover of Dear Catastrophe Waitress, sing songs about girls ... More >>

Live: Glasvegas Take America, or at Least Blind It

Gaahhhhhhh. (CREDIT.) Glasvegas Bowery Ballroom Tuesday, January 6 First show I've ever been to where my eyes rang afterward. Glasvegas have arrived from Scotland with four 10-foot-tall lighting fixtures powerful enough to illuminate an airport runway. They are playing the Bowery Ballroom, which, ... More >>

CMJ: Shugo Tokumaru at the Bowery Ballroom

Foals Don't Play Their Best Song, Spread Goodwill Anyway

Tonight: Foals at the Bowery Ballroom

The Evolution Starts Now

Steve Earle saunters into town; hopefully, Oakley Hall can teach him some new tricks

Live: Panda Bear at the Bowery Ballroom, 06.18.07

The Song Remains the Same

Panda Bear's hard road to optimism, and winding path to pleasing repetition

Live: The National at the Bowery Ballroom, 05.28.07

The National's Anthems

If Springsteen is right, the glory days for Brooklyn's best rock band may lie just ahead

Weekend Bender: Sunset Rubdown, Moby, Beirut

It's 4.20. Do You Know Where Your Panda Bear Tickets Are?

Live: Grizzly Bear's Intimate Club Music

Week in Shows: Grizzly Bear, The Blow, and Dan Deacon

Weekend Bender: 2 (Bright Eyes), Fucked Up, The Thermals

Splendour in the Crass

Spring load with punk psychopaths and cheerleader cherrybombs

Week in Shows: The Bird & The Bee, Pagoda, Sparklehorse, Thunderbirds Are Now!

The Afrofuture of Rock

Earl Greyhound kicks some blipster ass with the Good Foot

Rebirth of the Cool

Dean and Britta get a little sexier (and nervier) on their first round of post-Luna duets

Put a Cork in It

Bottle service corrupts the soul of New York City nightlife.

CMJ Music Marathon Highlights

Monday+Tuesday 7/31 & 8/1

Sweet Naive Emotion

The dangers of using Matthew Sweet as a guide to picking up chicks

Air to the Throne

At the '06 air guitar nationals, the thrill is real, though the axes are not

CMJ Music Marathon

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Your Guide to CMJ 2004

Music for the Masses

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

Join the Party: A Politically Charged Bash Ignites the Movement

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CMJ Musicfest 2003

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CMJ Musicfest 2002

Opening Up

When Who's on First Is What Matters

Show Me Your Undies

Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

A Scene Grows in Brooklyn

Live Rock Finds a New Home Across the Williamsburg Bridge

The Anti-Bling Kings

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