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Blogs
September 13, 2013
The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 9/13/13
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.
Voice Choices
August 21, 2013
SOUL MACHINE
Cee-Lo and crew get the band back together
Voice Choices
August 14, 2013
HANG UP
Madonna makes the  people come together
Blogs
May 29, 2013
Elbee Thrie, the Least Phony Phony Ppl
Be careful what you say around Elbee Thrie. He might be recording you. "Let's say I have somewhere to go," he says. "I'll just record the audio of my trip from point A to point B." You won't know he's recording. "It alters if people are conscious that they're being recorded." See also: Video Pre ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2013
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.
Voice Choices
April 24, 2013
HAPPY HUNTING
Vintage clothes always go well with cocktails
Blogs
March 15, 2013
The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/15/13
Here are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
Blogs
January 11, 2013
The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/11/13
These are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
Voice Choices
January 9, 2013
BEACH FOSSILS
Warm your winter with Diiv
Voice Choices
December 26, 2012
STUDY HALL
Class is in Session with professor Questlove
Blogs
December 18, 2012
Immortal Technique, Pharoahe Monch, Jean Grae, and Others Play a Sandy Benefit Tuesday Night
A week after the 12-12-12 Concert raised tens of millions of dollars for Hurricane Sandy relief while causing aging white baby-boomers across the country to spontaneously come in their pants, now comes a Sandy relief benefit for a different musical demographic. Tuesday night, politically-oriented h ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2012
Live: Akron/Family Make A Free Show Even Freer
Akron/Family w/Stagnant Pools Brooklyn Bowl Friday, June 29 Better than: Fancy pants. There's more than one way for a band to work a room, of course, but not all of those apply to playing in a bowling alley, and even fewer to the jeweled pleasure palace of Brooklyn Bowl, glowing proudly on the W ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Live: Howlin Rain Roll Through Brooklyn Bowl
Howlin Rain Brooklyn Bowl Wednesday, February 8 Better than: Any California jamband since Garcia died. A great rock guitarist needs a signature affectation. Ethan Miller's happens to be an abrupt upstrum that, combined with a backward stagger, probably makes him something of an onstage hazard to ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 28, 2011
CO-ED NAKED DANCING
A festival where less is more
Voice Choices
August 31, 2011
SONIC SNACK
PB&J feed your head
Blogs
May 17, 2011
If Only We'd Been A Confused Metro-North Commuter During The Taping Of Cibo Matto's Reunion Announcement
Now this is what you call using New York City to your advantage. Who needs fancy sets for the backdrop of your viral video when you've got Grand Central's more-impressive-than-pretty-much-anything-else architecture at your (free) disposal? (Oh, and the Cibo Matto reunion tour hits Brooklyn Bowl on ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
Live: Delorean Celebrate Summertime In April
Mark WiseDelorean Brooklyn Bowl Thursday, April 21 Better than: Watching a 3D Delorean music video with paper glasses. (Pitchfork couldn't spring for the cool plastic ones?!) Delorean's Subiza isn't a challenging album--the most challenging thing about it is the way it won't let someone lis ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2011
Live: Araabmuzik Harasses His MPC at Brooklyn Bowl
Araabmuzik Brooklyn Bowl Tuesday, April 5 Better than: Bowling. In the past few months, I've read a handful of articles and reviews suggesting that watching a DJ is boring. In one sense this is true, as watching the moves a DJ is making is almost always secondary to dancing to the records that D ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 30, 2011
TROPIC THUNDER
Blues alchemist comes to BK Bowl
Blogs
February 16, 2011
Q&A: Questlove on Winning Three Grammys, the Glory of Esperanza Spalding, and Having His Parties Closed Out By Bill Murray
Grammy fresh. Photo via @questloveYou'd think between the tapings of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, being shuttled from to gig to gig, and freaking out at Prince concerts, it'd be hard to pin down Questlove for 15 minutes, but it was surprising painless. We caught up with the Roots' drummer an ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2010
Nicki Minaj, Louie Vega, Talib Kweli, And Bollywood Disco Headline Your (Christmas!) Week In Nightlife
The holidays tend to bring a mass exodus from the city, but not everyone is leaving. In fact, some of our favorite DJs (and rappers) have chosen to come for a visit, giving us a full week of dance parties and awesome shows. We recommend that you take a night off from your holiday daze, grab a ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 22, 2010
RING IN THE ROOTS
New Year’s concerts don’t get any better
Voice Choices
November 17, 2010
BOWLING FOR DUB
Religion meets world rock
Blogs
October 24, 2010
Live: Kanye West! The GZA! Brooklyn Bowl! Offline! CMJ!
Twitpic via our pal Yancy StricklerKanye West Brooklyn Bowl Saturday, October 23 Better than: Pretty much everything but the Blow. Let us go now to Brooklyn Bowl, where the hour is just past 2 a.m., the enthusiastic but mostly ineffective CyHi Da Prynce is winding up his set, and bounding o ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2010
CMJ Portrait: Make-Up Artist Lisa Howard
photo by Sam Horine Lisa Howard Resides: Toronto Occupation: Make-up artist Most looking forward to during CMJ: Bowling at the Pitchfork #Offline party at Brooklyn Bowl Favorite CMJ band: Neon Indian
Blogs
October 22, 2010
CMJ Day Three: Maximum Balloon Deal With Dance-Music Bias At Pitchfork's #Offline Festival
Electronic musicians are people too. Pic by Puja.Maximum Balloon Brooklyn Bowl Thursday, October 21 Last night, Pitchfork kicked off their #Offline Festival -- a three-day, anti-CMJ stint at Brooklyn Bowl. For many, this is a neatly packaged delivery of the bigger buzz bands of 2010, featuri ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2010
Win Two Tickets To See Tom Tom Club At Brooklyn Bowl Saturday Night
Tom Tom Club is back: the new-wave dance band extraordinaire, featuring ex-Talking Heads rhythm section/actual married couple Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, is doing two shows in NYC to support their new Genius of Live LP, featuring of course their endlessly sampled mega-hit "Genius of Love. ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
Yo La Tengo and Screaming Females Are Playing a Free Show Together Next Week at Brooklyn Bowl
If it worked for M.I.A., why not YLT? The beloved New Jersey outfit will kick off CMJ next week in the best possible way, playing a free show on Tuesday at Brooklyn Bowl opened by none other than SOTC favorites Screaming Females. Doors at 6 p.m., show at 8 p.m., which is slightly more mercifu ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Update: The Protest Outside Tonight's M.I.A. Show At Terminal 5 Has Been Called Off
Crisis averted. Last week we met Mark Mazzye, a local graphic designer who intended to picket M.I.A.'s show at Terminal 5 tonight; she'd promised to do a free concert, you see, after July's HARD Festival calamity, but you're not getting into T5 for less than $40 no matter how many lil dances ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2010
Week in Review: Welcome to the Ultimate Vacation
Last one of these, we swear. Photo by Nate "Igor" SmithIn the week we got real cozy with some our subjects, Camille Dodero spent four days at the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back best friends with Tom Green, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope (who say it's happening again next year), the worl ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
Talking Tiki; Milkshakes for Grownups
FloFab notices the tiki trend, highlighting The Hurricane Club and Lani Kai as two new tropical cocktail bars opening this fall. [NY Times] Boozy milkshakes are all the rage, such as those found at Brooklyn Bowl, Blue Ribbon, and BLT Burger. [NY Times] Late-summer cocktails, pitchers, tik ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
Live: Happy Birthday Go Rolling With The Fader at Brooklyn Bowl
Happy Birthday's Kyle Thomas battles The Matrix. All photos by Georgia Kral.Happy Birthday Brooklyn Bowl Tuesday, September 7 Better than: Actually bowling. Ever seen a show at Brooklyn Bowl? Ever seen a free show at Brooklyn Bowl, when many people are there with no interest in seein ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2010
Ted Leo: Please Play Better Music After My Set
For everyone's sake I hope Ted is being hypothetical here, and not referencing, y'know, the free Jelly show he played last night at Brooklyn Bowl. Cause those guys all know better than that, right? Right? They didn't transition straight from another fantastic live version of "Stove by a Whale ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2010
Week in Review: Bootcut Shorts
May we all look this relaxed in this situation. Photo by Sam Horine.In the week the words "Kanye West" became synonymous with social media, the rapper performed at Facebook while dissing Twitter, performed at Twitter while dissing his mother's old boyfriends, then joined Twitter, a thing he t ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2010
Download: Cap'n Jazz's Full Set Sunday Night At Maxwell's, Courtesy of NYC Taper
Ah, but take heartYes, Sunday's frightful weather conspired to scotch the free Cap'n Jazz show at Williamsburg Waterfront, hastily relocating the trailblazing Chicago crew to Brooklyn Bowl and shutting out plenty of die-hard fans in the process. Much appropriately emo Twitter action did resul ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
The French Horn of Sadness Plays For Thee: A Word About All Those People Who Didn't Get Into the Cap'n Jazz Show Yesterday
Nostalgia was the order of the day in Williamsburg yesterday, as packs of suspiciously old ex-hardcore kids roamed the pastures of Brooklyn to see the iconic '90s indie band Cap'n Jazz reunite at the Williamsburg Waterfront and then, later, to watch the mighty Universal Order of Armageddon reassem ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2010
Michael Jackson Died A Year Ago Today
Yep. June 25, 2009. A genuinely shocking and oddly unifying moment, when a couple decades of profound decline and ugliness were washed away instantly, leaving everyone with the powerful urge to hear "Billie Jean" again as soon as possible. (Or "Beat It." For me it was "Beat It.") Around here ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
Tonight! Stereogum's 'Gum Bowl (w/ Woods, Effi Briest, and DJ St. Vincent), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Japanther, Taken By Trees, And Roky Erickson w/ Okkervil River
via Stereogum"I'm-a whoop yo' ass at bowling, Alan Palomo."Tonight, alt.celebrities defend the Eastern wilderness in Stereogum's inaugural bowling tournament, a/k/a the 'Gum Bowl, at Brooklyn Bowl. So after Marnie Stern beats the shit out of Neon Indian, a free (with RSVP) concert shall comme ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 4, 2010
BOWLING IS COOL NOW
Keeping the hipsters indoors, where it’s safe
Blogs
April 19, 2010
Tonight! Snoop Dogg, Darlings, The Sneaks, And Kordan
YouTubeTonight, a dream collaboration (and one we only thought possible on Wii Sports) unfolds: Snoop Dogg and bowling. Yes, Snoop is performing at the Brooklyn Bowl, thereby creating an evening in which gin, juice, and hand-eye coordination can justifiably co-exist. Meanwhile, Darlings deliv ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2010
Tonight! Liars, Das Racist, Darlings, Sisters, John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders, Sondre Lerche, And Beards & Flannel Night
Despite claims that any old fool can slip into his own psyche-soothing "Sisterworld," Liars have sold out the Bowery Ballroom. No "Sisterworld" for you, and just when we thought they were becoming increasingly believable, too. Fortunately, the ubiquitous Das Racist are bringing their taco-pushing, ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
Tonight! The Low Anthem, Monotonix, And Blackbells
The Low Anthem's American folk and roots music does exude "hymnal purity," (well put, Uncut Magazine), but don't worry about being lulled to sleep, as the quartet (to your left) will dynamically shuffle around zithers, pump organs, and clarinets within a single set at the Bowery Ballroom. Or, ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2010
Tonight! The Black Lips, The Clientele, And Sondre Lerche
ATL tough guys the Black Lips (that's them to the left) holler unpolished, unapologetic garage punk at Brooklyn Bowl, and with additional, extra-musical shenanigans involving bodily fluids and nudity, how could you miss it? Or, bask in the afterglow at the Bowery Ballroom as London quartet th ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Tonight! Plastic Ono Band (For Real This Time), Wavves, Lightspeed Champion, and Bear Hands
Today, Yoko Ono is busy assembling the year's most disparate backing group. After yesterday's "dress rehearsal," her reincarnated Plastic Ono Band will be performing at BAM, with guests ranging from Eric Clapton to Sean Lennon to ... the Scissor Sisters? Also included in the lineup are Mark R ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2010
Tonight! We Are Plastic Ono Band, Laura Veirs, and VV Brown
Tonight at BAM, Yoko Ono revives her Plastic Ono Band, after 30-odd years of hibernation, with fresh blood that includes some of her own (her son Sean's got a hand in it.) A gang of adventurous alt-rockers will frame her signature, pre-verbal, sound-speckled poetry at this dress rehearsal for ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2010
Tonight! La Roux, Royal Bangs, and Phantogram
If you're desperate for La Roux's sensuous electro-pop, you're not alone: Good luck cracking tonight's sold-out Webster Hall show. The Internet can always find a way. But if it can't, whip out your killer dance moves at Brooklyn Bowl, where Black Keys-endorsed crew Royal Bangs (to your left) ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 8, 2009
MELLOW GOLD
More hippies to inherit the earth
Blogs
October 27, 2009
Tonight! Vintage Funk And Psychedelic Folk, Or Maybe The Michael Jackson Flick Instead
L.A. space cadet and early-'80s bedroom-electro fetishist Dam-Funk reverently evokes the era when Prince looked like this and your equipment looked like this. Whether his debut full-length, Toeachizown, is mere nostalgia-drenched kitsch or heartfelt innovation is a question best pondered in a ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Brooklyn Bowl Becomes a Bowery Presents Venue
Photo of No Age at Brooklyn Bowl by Sam Horine.Well, that didn't take long. Brooklyn Bowl, the posh Williamsburg entertainment complex that opened in July with an O'Death show and a Fucked Up afterparty, will now be booked under the aegis of Bowery Presents, the NYC concert promoter conglomer ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2009
Live: No Age, Dan Deacon, Deerhunter Round Robin Totally Worth the Wait
Sam Horine, tons more photos from the show over here No Age/Dan Deacon/Deerhunter Brooklyn Bowl Sunday, August 2, early show The story of this past weekend's outdoor festivities was, regrettably, the grumbling skies. No different with Sunday's installment of Jelly NYC's Pool Parties, which for the ... More >>
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