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The Ten Best Concerts in NYC This Week, 4/29/13

Kim Gordon, ?uestlove, Andrew Bird and Andrew W.K. walk into a Masonic Temple ... these are the 10 best shows in NYC this week.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/29/13

Please get out and do something. Your roommates are worried about you.

Lisa Loeb on What It's Like To "Stay" Lisa Loeb (Hint: "It's Awesome!")

Last night, Lisa Loeb stepped out of a cab in front of Highline Ballroom with an orange guitar case slung across her shoulder, her hair pulled into a low ponytail, and her eyes hidden behind her iconic black-framed glasses. She is petite with a somewhat soft voice, and speaks thoughtfully and intell ... More >>

OFF THE WALL

It’s Michael Jackson vs. Prince

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 1/21/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/18/13

Here are the ten best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Shawn Randall of Symphonics Live on What Makes Their Show Unique and the Oprah Network

For 10 years, Shawn Randall's Symphonics Live has developed a reputation as one of the most consistent and beloved music showcases in New York City. Originating in 2003 out of the now-recently deceased Bowery Poetry Club, Symphonics has grown to the point where the cross-genre events now pack ballro ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/28/12

We're gettin' an early jump on the weekend because you've probably already checked out anyway. So here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Countr ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/21/12

Here are the ten best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

The Five Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 11/9/12

Here, in no particular order, are five shows this weekend you should make it out to.

Live: Robert Glasper Brings His Glow To The Highline Ballroom

Robert Glasper Experiment Highline Ballroom Tuesday, February 28 Better than: Sitting at home with the radio. "About what time does ?uestlove finish up at the Fallon show? It couldn't have been that long ago, right?" That query, overheard amid the big beats pumping from the Highline Ballroom's s ... More >>

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs of 2011

More reasons to turn off the radio

Live: Robin Thicke Is For Lovers At The Highline Ballroom

Robin Thicke Highline Ballroom Friday, December 9 Better than: Dinner and a movie. Not to make Robin Thicke's sold-out show at Highline Ballroom a race thing, but no one got to make the joke about a white R&B singer with a smoking biracial wife singing to a largely black audience before he did. ... More >>

GROWING PAINS

Robin Thicke premieres his newest record

Seven More Sets You Should Catch During CMJ Week, Including Hull, Coasting, And The Fabulous En Vogue

Hull. ​ Sound of the City's staff has opinions about which bands to see at the CMJ festival, happening around the city this week. In our final installment of recommendations, music editor Maura Johnston offers her picks. (Check out Nick Murray's and Martika Finch's selections, too.) Hull Fa ... More >>

Glammy Nominees Announced! Last Year's Winners Tickled Pink!

​The Glammy Awards are Cherry Jubilee's gala tribute to promoters, comics, drag queens, bartenders, gogo boys, and bloggers. But the Glammys deserves an award of their own for the annual Aaron Cobbett shot of the previous year's winners decked out in a zingy color theme as only the club crowd ... More >>

Live: Kreayshawn Lets V-Nasty Steal Her Show At The Highline Ballroom

Kreayshawn Highline Ballroom Thursday, August 18 Better than: no other concert I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot. Maybe Kreayshawn is hip-hop's Andy Kaufman, a high-concept satirist pulling an elaborate cultural prank with her sister V-Nasty acting as the crowd-baiting Tony Clifton. Maybe ... More >>

Q&A: Big K.R.I.T. On Making People React To His Lyrics, Crate-Digging And Crafting Playstation Beats

​ It's been a big year or so for Big K.R.I.T. Shortly after signing with Def Jam last June, he was booed off the stage at the Highline Ballroom; later in 2010 the Mississipi-bred MC hit the road on the Smoker's Club Tour (with Curren$y and Mac Miller) and the Wake And Bake Tour (with Wiz Khali ... More >>

Live: Kelly Clarkson Shows Those Whippersnapper Idol Finalists How It's Done

Bryan Horowitz​ Kelly Clarkson Highline Ballroom Wednesday, May 25 Better than: Watching the American Idol finale in real time. I'll be honest: There was something pretty delicious about spending last night, during which a super-frustrating American Idol season came to an end by crowning a ... More >>

Q&A: Musiq Soulchild On Love, Marriage, And Growing In The Music Industry

​There's a moment after the bridge to Musiq Soulchild's "So Beautiful" that the 33-year-old artist descends, in one phrase, from his effortless, flighty falsetto back into the baritone that made him famous more than 10 years ago. Last Tuesday night at the Highline Ballroom, he took a few steps ... More >>

Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Munchi, Matt & Kim, The Skins Premiere Party, And Blitz The Ambassador

​Start your week off with some nu-disco and new wave. Tonight, Hercules and the Love Affair DJ sweetheart Kim Ann Foxman takes on the East Village's free Bassment Party. We couldn't be happier that this party is hidden away in the tiny Kings Cross bar either -- seeing Foxman in small, unexpect ... More >>

Brandon Flowers's Tentative Bloom

The Killers frontman makes a decidedly unflamboyant Grammy-bait solo album

Miss the Old New York? Head to Highline Ballroom Where Fireeaters Have Sex On Stage

​Are you one of those who believe that New York City has become far too antiseptic? Do you frequent The Box, or did you when it was still hot and sexy? Do you prefer the old Times Square? Do you remember the old Times Square? You might like Kayvon Zand, a performer recently banned from the Hig ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife (Special Patriotic Edition)

​Hey! It's almost the Fourth of July! In the party circuit, this weekend is no different from any other, besides the free fireworks and the overenthusiastic patriotic bros that will be stumbling around the city. At least you have an excuse to look like a hillbilly, though. Don your American fl ... More >>

This Weekend! LCD Soundsystem, Malaikat dan Singa, Fuck Buttons, Starscream, Truman Peyote, Beach Arabs, NY Eye & Ear Fest (w/ Blank Dogs and Effi Briest), Eric Copeland, And Previously On Lost

Since the weekend's LCD Soundsystem ticket shortage has us just as weepy and beat-crazed as Mr. James Murphy himself, we must seek eclectic alternatives: 1) Tuvan throat-singing via punk-rock ranters Malaikat dan Singa at Death by Audio; 2) the Beets, a couple of deadbeat lo-fi dudes that an alt-b ... More >>

Pusha T Presents: A Clipse Guide to New York City

Pusha T at the Highline Ballroom last year. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​The Clipse make coke rap cut straight out of Virginia. But Pharrell's favorite rapping brothers, Malice and Pusha T, have a discernible New York streak running through their rhymes. Which is no surprise given that they were b ... More >>

DO THE TIGHTROPE

Janelle Monáe juggles three nights in NYC

New Year's Eve 2010: New York Shows

Yeah it's Christmas, but it's also the dawn of the first of many, many maddeningly inconclusive conversations you're about to have about your New Year's plans. Let this guide help you. We're out of here for the day, and back on Monday. Enjoy the long weekend. May your holidays look a lot like this. ... More >>

Tonight! Pelican, Queen Ifrica, In C, and Sloan

​It is true that not everyone here in the metaphorical Voice compound is totally in love with wordless, perpetually crescendoing art-metal dudes Pelican. That wordy naysayer will probably not be at their Highline Ballroom show tonight, though, which is a good thing, 'cause he'd have totally ki ... More >>

Pelican's Sketchy Metal

The Chicago band leads a pack of wayward, ambiguous, faux-intellectual faux-headbangers

And Now, A Lovely Tuesday Night Out At Greenhouse, APT, And Highline Ballroom, Featuring The Roots, Of Course

Somebody tell Puja how to do this. Greenhouse is one of those places that make us normal folks nervous. While some revel in the exclusivity of red-roped clubs, the thought of waiting in a felt-carpeted line doesn't exactly thrill me--over-glammed Jersey girls, statuesque Chelsea boys, and men with ... More >>

Tonight! La Roux, Far, and Parts & Labor, If You're Up For Anything At All

​Hardcore CMJ attendees should be advised that the inclination to never ever see live music again will dissipate after a week or two. For those who aren't burnt out entirely, La Roux offers pretty fantastic synth-pop at the Highline Ballroom; singer Eleanor Jackson (that's her on the left) wou ... More >>

Talking With Meshell Ndegeocello

She's partial to the occasional $200 bottle of wine (and Sting)

Are Ewe Kidding? Yet Another Takedown... This Time, Lamb

felixrenicks/flickr​From the man who brought you the Takedowns Chili, Bacon, and Tofu comes his most sheepish amateur cooking competition yet: the Lamb Takedown. On October 4, you're invited to wolf down some 20 lamb recipes from home cooks from around the city at the Highline Ballroom. George ... More >>

Tonight! Monday

A long weekend brings a slow Monday. For the Wallflowers at Irving Plaza, accept Greil Marcus's digestion of God Says Nothing Back, which could describe most any of the band's songs: "With a stoic backbeat and Jakob Dylan's fatalistic way of biting off his words, this is the sound of someone thinki ... More >>

Is It Too Early To Do A Swine Flu Song Post?

Probably. But since swine flu officially murdered Cinco De Mayo, the soddenly drunken, potentially bandito-inspired holiday we all now can't celebrate, we have nothing better to do. Plus, the Streets just released a whole zombie flick/song about this deadly plague--see above. So why not? Mike Skin ... More >>

Live: Jadakiss Goes In at the Highline Ballroom

As Hot97 radio personality Angie Martinez said, in her clear-eyes-full-hearts-can't-lose pre-concert pep talk: "I was gonna go home and get changed, but then I thought, why? This is New York, baby! This is us! This is New York hip-hop. I got my black-hoodie!" She had a point. Nobody wants to break ... More >>

The Roots Take Manhattan

Meet the new kings of late-night, God (and Jimmy Fallon) willing

Interview: Aimee Mann

NYC Wine and Food Fest: Tickets On Sale Monday!

Interview: Jon Langford of the Waco Brothers

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Friday 5.9

José González at the Highline Tonight, Then Brooklyn Masonic Temple

YES WAY, JOSÉ

Señor González at the Brooklyn Masonic Lodge

Performances & Live Music

CMJ Day Three: Making the Most of Shitty Options

Bitchin’ Songs of Faith and Devotion

The Donnas worship rock ’n’ roll, cover Ratt, inspire much wanton fist-pumping

The Octopus Project's Electro Mini-Symphonies

Shaolin Funks

Transcending genres and avoiding landlords with Staten Island's mighty Budos Band