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March 18, 2013Here are the10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.
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January 24, 2012Smoke DZA/SPACEGHOSTPURRP
Highline Ballroom
Monday, January 23
Better than: Emphysema, among many other things.
Monday night's show was originally Smoke DZA's: the poster for the Highline Ballroom said so, even. He walked across the stage with hands extended, resplendent in his bubbly yellow Polo ... More >>
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December 21, 2011Action Bronson and
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire team up
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November 13, 2011
A Fleshlight looks sort of like a flashlight, except it unscrews to reveal a simulated vagina that you ... well, as Joan Crawford said to Christina, "You figure it out!"
And since Fleshlights sponsored the Fleshbot awards for sexy pop culture, held at the Highline Ballroom on Friday night, ... More >>
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September 28, 2011A festival where less is more
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May 5, 2011The annual Night of 1000 Stevies is tomorrow night, so pull out your shawls, your feathers, and your white-winged dove, and twirl your way over to the Highline Ballroom.
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February 2, 2011Parties for lovers and the lonely hearts club
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January 26, 2011White Lies are a gloomy British alt-rock band in the time-honored stylishly dour Interpol/Killers vein, the toast of NME and surrounding critical environs; they just put out their second album, Ritual, and are playing a sold-out show at Highline Ballroom Thursday night with Asobi Seksu. We ar ... More >>
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January 14, 2011One thousand based gods at last night's Highline Ballroom. Twitpic via Debby LONDON"I'm the first rapper ever to write a book in email and text message form," Lil B says from a Highline Ballroom stage, surveying the sold-out room. "At 19! And they had the nerve to call me stupid." Lil B is no ... More >>
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December 22, 2010The 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 >>
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December 8, 2010There’s magic in that hair
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December 1, 2010Despite all sorts of curmudgeonly laws about transporting 10-year-olds across state lines, we are happy to report that the one and only Willow Smith will be in town next Saturday, performing at the Highline Ballroom as part of Power 105.1's Power Live Holiday Party. This and the fact that she ... More >>
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October 20, 2010A witch's brew of music, dance, art, fashion, and food
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October 12, 2010Hearing the crowd's complex mixture of excitement, bewilderment, and trepidation when Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch announces "This is a Grateful Dead song" is a wonderful thing, but longtime fans of the spectacularly bearded, voluminously noodle-y indie-guitar giants will hardly be su ... More >>
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September 16, 2010So NYC disco non-revivalists Escort -- recall their Muppet-assisted clip for 2007's "All Through the Night" -- have returned with their own tense, swaggering version of "Cocaine Blues," putting their own spin on the long-mutating track by "making the groove harder, adding more hooks, fleshing ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Literally!
See, the exotic performer generally employs two fire-eaters in his stage show.
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June 30, 2010
Possibly more people onstage than in the crowd here.
Joell Ortiz/Jay Electronica
Highline Ballroom
Tuesday, June 30
After basically booing both CyHi Da Prynce (who I--and I guess only I--actually like) and Big Krit off the stage, an extra hard NYC crowd made it clear that they weren't going to ma ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
Lest you forget, the best house band in Late Night by orders of magnitude (I mean, did you see this?) put out records, too. And so How I Got Over, the first Roots release since they took the Jimmy Fallon job -- "an album of doubts, parables and pep talks," sez the Times -- is out tomorrow (stream ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Tonight, find Mr. Johnny Rotten aged to post-punk perfection with Public Image Ltd. at Terminal 5, where you'll catch the ex-Sex Pistols frontman wailing about "Death Disco," songs that aren't love songs, and the like. At Mercury Lounge, discover a couple of Christopher R. Weingarten-approved acts ... More >>
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May 18, 2010Yes, I have held forth on Ms. Monae at some length already, but This Is the Day: Her profoundly daffy debut full-length, The Archandroid, is in stores today. And it's pretty great! May take a while to absorb (the overtures! The Roman numerals! The Of Montreal hijack! The general space-cadet l ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Having learned about Pusha T's badass grandma (not to mention that Rambo-themed pizza joint) yesterday, you can better appreciate NYC tour guides/coke rap extraordinaires Clipse tonight at Highline Ballroom. For obvious moral support, Ninjasonik will also be there, "squeezing into tight pants and ... More >>
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February 18, 2010Fool's Gold, rocking the West SideArguably more significant than Valentine's Day, the third-annual Dre Day will commence at the Music Hall of Williamsburg: Let us gather, celebrate the life and times of Mr. Andre Young, and pray Detox into existence. Instead of mourning your inability to snea ... More >>
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February 16, 2010Tinariwen rock it desert-style
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February 3, 2010Bradford Cox a/k/a Atlas Sound (that's him to the left) could've been a hypnotist in a prior life—if in doubt, stop by the Bell House, where he'll put the audience in a trance with subdued fluorescent vocals layered over tamed, fraying guitars and electronic noise that bubbles to the su ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Still the jam, right
It seems ludicrous that Evanescence has not yet appeared on a Twilight soundtrack, but there's two sequels to go, and Amy Lee's grandiosely maudlin goth-pop monolith seems to be revving up again after several lifetimes' worth of intra-band calamity. They're at the Grand Ballro ... More >>
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October 21, 2009
Tearing it down at Hiro--CMJ old hat at this point, maybe, but it's not like there are all that many things you can see this week better than these two guys. They're playing again tonight at the Highline Ballroom, for those who can figure out how to infiltrate what's supposed to be a private event ... More >>
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October 14, 2009Daniel Johnston, somewhat unwitting source of the sweetest iPhone app ever made, heads to Highline Ballroom tonight to sing his wobbly songs of vaguely menacing and often unbearably sad whimsy. Do him a favor and don't be fucking with your phone the whole entire time.
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October 2, 2009Felix Renicks/flickrThe competitive cooking craze continues this Sunday with the Lamb Takedown, the latest incarnation of Matt Timms's four-year-old amateur cook-off extravaganza. Twenty competitors will face off at the Highline Ballroom for a $100 grand prize and unquantifiable glory. The $1 ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Next week, Regina Spektor will release her first new album in three years. What we've heard of Far is more cinematic than her often bare 2006 breakthrough, Begin to Hope, which may or may not be a good thing. Take a peek at the Beacon tonight.
Loudon Wainwright III, patriarch of the venerated Wai ... More >>
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May 13, 2009Damon Albarn lends this "blind couple from Mali" a dash of Britpop
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May 11, 2009We attended the Tofu Takedown this past Sunday, held at Highline Ballroom and hosted by Matt Timms of Chili (as well as Bacon, Fondue and Cookie) Takedown fame. This one was for the herbivores, of which we decidedly are not, but we went with an open mind and empty belly in the hopes of being dazzled ... More >>
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April 10, 2009Ward SuttonIn the week we reached for the shotgun, but hesitated, we also swallowed sadness.
Jadakiss went in at the Highline Ballroom and at Good Day New York. Chris Cornell took requests at Webster Hall. David Byrne sang in some castle basement. James and the Giant Peach got the Bushwick Book Clu ... More >>
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March 18, 2008Paying tribute to Leonard Cohen and the BeeGees
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January 29, 2008On the delightful menagerie of brazen Rocks Off promoter Jake Szufnarowski
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