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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/6/13

Here's your carefully crafted guide to blowing your paycheck this week.

Lisa Loeb

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/22/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/15/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/4/13

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

The Best Metal Concerts in NYC This Month

These are the best metal shows in NYC this month. See also: The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/25/13

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

RAPPER’S DELIGHT

A Turkey Day show 
to be thankful for

Scott Weiland

Here's Your List of Sandy-Related Concert Cancellations

Frankenstorm Sandy is throwing salt in everyone's concert game. Here's a list so far of everything that's been postponed or canceled. Check back for updates throughout the day. And stay safe.

Live: Concha Buika Plays With Pronouns... And You

Concha Buika Highline Ballroom Sunday, June 24 Better than: Dreaming of her. A 2009 performance by Concha Buika is on YouTube showing the Spanish singer in Lincoln Center's Damroch Park backed by solo piano and performing a smoldering version of "Tu Volverás." Even then, with minimal accompanime ... More >>

Download: Homeboy Sandman's Interstellar Voyage "The Miracle"

Homeboy Sandman is a spiraling autumn of light from Queens, a rapper whose flow at once sounds like a metaphysical brain drain and a physically fit slice of verbal gymnastics. With a career built on battle competitions, hosting nights at the Nuyorican Poets Café and some guerilla F train flyering, ... More >>

Live: Common Keeps The Intensity High At Highline Ballroom

​Common Highline Ballroom Monday, December 19 Better than: Holiday store displays involving snow globes and marionettes. On "The Sixth Sense," a DJ Premier banger and one of the greatest cuts to come out of the second golden age of hip hop, Common chided that "this industry will make you lo ... More >>

Live: Wale Brings Lots And Lots Of Friends To The Highline Ballroom

Wale Highline Ballroom Wednesday, November 2 Better than: watching next week, when the show will air on MySpace. The line had packed itself six-deep, turning the long sidewalk from the Highline Ballroom to Ninth Avenue into a traffic jam of Wale fans. Or maybe just fans of events. Or maybe sheep. ... More >>

New York's Finest '90s Rock Tribute Acts Get Their Halloween Costumes Ready

Grunge days, revisited

Get A Load Of Glamorous Monique

​Sort of the West Coast version of Amanda Lepore, Glamorous Monique was recently spotted at Amanda's Highline Ballroom concert, pursing her pillow lips and posing (for I'm not sure whom) all throughout it. She's really something. And she'll gladly show you her pendulous bosoms and maybe even ... More >>

Win Tickets To See Kreayshawn At A To-Be-Disclosed Location This Thursday

​The much-blogged about Bay Area rapper Kreayshawn, whose track "Gucci Gucci" sent her to the top of the trending-topics charts earlier this summer, will play a concert in New York City this Thursday. And we are giving away three pairs of tickets to the show, thus allowing you to check her out ... More >>

Five Geeky Prince Questions For Meshell Ndegeocello

​ The Topic Prince: pop titan, funk master, scary multi-instrumentalist ("You've got to learn your part," New Power Generation bassist Levi Seacer Jr. told Spin in 1991; "Prince can always come over and play your part"), master songwriter, greatest pop star of the '80s, unending inspiration to ... More >>

Live: N.E.R.D. Brings Highline Ballroom To A Standstill

N.E.R.D. Highline Ballroom Tuesday, May 31 Better than: Sweating in the heat outdoors, but only barely. Jumping into the event-planning space normally afforded to Heineken and other higher-end brands, Coors Light tried to put on a show last night. Vinyl banners, hanging from the VIP section, gave ... More >>

BLUE NOTE BLISS

This festival means business

The Church Are Bringing A Deranged Three-Full-Records-In-One-Night Tour To Highline Ballroom, B.B. Kings In February

​Any old band (My Morning Jacket, Weezer) can do multiple shows here and play one full "classic" record a night, but cult Australian college-rock lifers the Church (they of "Under the Milky Way Tonight," see) have hit upon a novel innovation to celebrate their 30th anniversary: three full reco ... More >>

Vitalic, Escort, DâM-FunK, And DJ Eli And Lloydski Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife, September 24-26

​It's officially fall, y'all. And while that means, unfortunately, that Pavement Week has come to a close, we have a full schedule of dance-y affairs to keep you busy through the weekend. For the most part, we'll recommend you stay city-side. That is, unless seeing Zach Baron play black metal ... More >>

Brandon Flowers Sang "Bette Davis Eyes" (And, OK, A Lot Of His New Solo Songs) At Highline Ballroom

Brandon Flowers Highline Ballroom Thursday, August 26 But seriously, "Bette Davis Eyes"! Is that not a perfect fit for this guy? Blatantly nostalgic, a little serious, a little corny, a little, uh, smokey? You like it just a little more than you're willing to publicly admit? A perfect cover tune ... More >>

Week in Review: You Rejected the Youth

Goodbye to all that. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week one of our team successfully transitioned into the "expert" phase of her juggalo fascination, the rest of us just kind of got silly. Hence: the top ten songs named "Fuck You" or the immediate equivalent; Jay-Z's ten most shameful rock and r ... More >>

Download Playboy Tre's "Work," Featuring Joell Ortiz

YYYYYOOOOOOOO!​Fresh from a triumphant Highline Ballroom show Tuesday night, avowed Brooklyn gentrification adversary Joell Ortiz teams up with Atlanta rapper Playboy Tre, whose Liquor Store Mascot was one of the best mixtapes of 2009, and who is better at saying the word MAAAAAAAN than anyone ... More >>

This Weekend! James Maynard's Blood Into Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Glee Live!, Holy Fuck, Nice Nice, Ninjasonik, So So Glos, Ava Luna, Bushick Rooftop Fest, And Much Much More

Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>

Tonight! Dan Deacon, Jimmy Fallon, Das Racist, Simian Mobile Disco, Reverend Horton Heat, And Dylan Fest

Tonight, Dan Deacon, the life-affirming ("Who wants to live forever!?") king of spazzcore, plays the Cake Shop alongside Ponytail's Dustin Wong, a comparably minimalistic acoustic doodler. Over at Party Expo, the ubiquitous Das Racist celebrate Street Boners' hipster fashion joke book, while Briti ... More >>

Tonight! Muford & Sons, Nas, The Lovin' Spoonful, Daniel Pujol, And Wild Harem

The Lovin' Spoonful: "Believe our fucking magic."​Tonight, you have three options: a) scalp tickets to see raspy, huckleberry emoters Mumford & Sons at the Music Hall of Williamsburg or a surprisingly non-confrontational (as of late) Nas at the Highline Ballroom; b) drop by B.B. King's and ca ... More >>

This Weekend! Kaki King, Jesse Murphy In The Woods, Real Estate, The Hold Steady, Telepathe, Trans Am, Liars, Ho-Ag, And Reverend Billy & The Life After Shopping Gospel Choir

Kaki King all tied up​ It was no small feat when Kaki King became the first woman to make Rolling Stone's "Guitar God" list in 2006 -- so don't pass up a chance to bask in her fret-tapping, slap-bass glory at the Bowery Ballroom. Then, Webster Hall wards off pervs and creeps with Jesse Murphy ... More >>

Live: Janelle Monáe, Cheerfully Confounding At Highline Ballroom

​ Janelle Monáe Highline Ballroom Thursday, April 8 Bad Sign #1: We are greeted in the Highline Ballroom atrium by a cardboard cutout of Janelle, sci-fi r&b heroine extraordinaire, holding a sign informing us that we must listen to The Archandroid (that's her upcoming album) from beginning ... More >>

Week in Review: THIS CAN'T BE GOOD!!

Figured this one deserved an encore.​In the week Aimee Mann heard the phrase "Eat a hot bowl of dicks" for the first time, we made suggestions for her inevitable reconciliation with Ice-T, whose acting she at first did not sufficiently respect. Perhaps it'll involve Key Largo, Jon Brion, "Cop ... More >>

Week In Review: I Feel Like My Whole Life Is Ridiculous

One of Fabolous' 23 victims. (Note: number is approximate.)​Well, we survived another April Fool's Day, a/k/a the worst Internet day of the year, casting aside this year's wan hoaxes and getting to the good stuff: Fucked Up, sued by an energy-drink juggernaut for bad-mouthing SXSW? Hilarious! ... More >>

Tonight! Jay-Z, Little Boots, Body Language, Rogue Wave, Avi Buffalo, and ODDSAC

​Jay-Z, reigning singles champ of the Voice's own Pazz & Jop poll, makes his triumphant return to Madison Square Garden tonight. But for those of who have yet to accept him as the new Frank Sinatra, you and our beloved contest winners can head to the Highline Ballroom for some glossy synth-pop ... More >>

A VIBE CULLED ?UEST

?uestlove dedicates this warehouse party to MLK

CunninLynguists

A Nightlife (And Ice-Skating) Enthusiast's Guide To Thanksgiving Eve

NYC is a town of transplants, a fact that's never more obvious than during the holiday season. While thousands of New Yorkers take off work early and spend hours upon hours in traffic, at the airport, and stuck in train stations, we think those of you who are left in town should make the most of i ... More >>

Week in Review: And All the While, My Peers Dance and Snort Cheap Coke and Photograph Each Other for the Hundreth Time

This is why this man gets work with FOX News. Fucked Up photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week everybody dressed like some version of themselves from 15 years ago--or just said fuck it and went all in and pretended to be a giant bag of cocaine--we killed worthless punk nostalgia dead at that Vic ... More >>

Live: Scream Anything At Say Anything At Highline Ballroom

Last night. Say Anything Highline Ballroom Wednesday, November 4 A partial list of emphatic statements sung in joyous unison by the predominantly teenaged, surprisingly female-centric crowd at tonight's narcissistic mall-punk extravaganza:

Reverend Billy Campaign Update: Recuperates from "Palpitations," As Mayor Will Fire Ray Kelly

Photo by Brennan Cavanaugh We caught up with Reverend Billy, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York we interviewed in April, and asked how the campaign was going. We're in the third act of this drama. The opening act was orientation -- the whole world of politics, a steep learning cur ... More >>

News Roundup: Perez Hilton Sues, Kanye West/Spike Jonze, Jim James, My Morning Jacket

--Perez Hilton is suing Black Eyed Peas manager Polo Molina for battery and "infliction of emotional distress," after, you know, he got punched for calling Will.I.Am something homophobic. Hilton's lawyer said in a statement: "Whether you love Perez or hate him, he is entitled to his freedom of speec ... More >>

Booker T. Jones, Man at Work

The indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star

Pink: Not Dead, Again

Funhouse is the most energetic divorce record probably ever

The Non-Fatal Attractions of Martha Wainwright

Wry tales of ill-advised crushes from a singer-songwriter as blunt as she is funny

Live: Lou Reed at the Highline Ballroom's First Birthday Party

Sunday

Micro-Cosmic Thing

Black Dice remain willfully obtuse, but at least they're more playful now

The Donnas at the Highline Ballroom, 10/10

Live: Art Brut/White Rabbits at Highline Ballroom, 07.09.07