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

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Five Splendid Pairings For the Adventurous Winter Jazzfest 2013 Attendee

In her autobiography I Put a Spell on You, Nina Simone recalled the Greenwich Village of the '50s and '60s as a scene where beboppers, folkies, blues devotees and bohemians of all stripes would seek out their music in close proximity. Decades later, Winter Jazzfest takes stock of a new historical mo ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/4/13

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

The Ten Best Concerts In New York This Week

These are the 10 best concerts in NYC this week.

Live: The Clean Chimes And Charms At (Le) Poisson Rouge

The Clean w/Times New Viking (le) Poisson Rouge Tuesday, June 5 Better than: Another night watching four or five episodes of The X-Files and snorting whenever Mulder is earnest, yet craving the same impossible widescreen truths. Just got back and my ears are clogged with noise. I'd hate to be som ... More >>

Q&A: The Psychic Paramount's Jeff Conaway On Smoke Machines And Bright Lights, Not Digging Daytime Gigs And Being Really Loud

"It's kind of a blast that comes out of nowhere," is how Jeff Conaway, drums- pulverizing overlord for New York City's brutally loud instro-mental skuzz beasts the Psychic Paramount describes the chaotic scene when the trio erupts into ear-bleeding crusher "Intro/Sp" live in concert. But being rip-f ... More >>

Live: Kindness Shows Its Hand At (Le) Poisson Rouge

Kindness (le) Poisson Rouge Thursday, May 17 Better than: You. Adam Bainbridge, mastermind of UK electro project Kindness, is a cool guy, but he might be just a little too cool for his own good. Last night at (le) Poisson Rouge—where Kindness made its New York City debut—Bainbridge fir ... More >>

TAKE A CHANCE

Not your grandma's bingo

Live: Pop Meets The Avant-Garde In Julia Holter's New York Debut

Julia Holter (le) poisson rouge Tuesday, March 6 Better than: A night at the symphony. In the 1980s, New York icon Laurie Anderson charted the territory between contemporary classical and pop with records made for the art world but in possession of a mainstream sensibility, and performances made ... More >>

Where to Celebrate Fat Tuesday in NYC

Looking for a place to celebrate Fat Tuesday NoLa style? We've got a few suggestions:

ENTER STARMAN

Let all the children boogie

Live: Macaulay Culkin Lets His iPod Do The Talking

​Macaulay Culkin's iPod (le) poisson rouge Thursday, December 8 Better than: I would say Elijah Wood's iPod but I don't think that's true. The giddiness set in about four hours before Macaulay Culkin's party at (le) poisson rouge's gallery bar last night—yes, that Macaulay Culkin. Upon ... More >>

Live: Fucked Up Bring David To Life At (Le) Poisson Rouge

​Fucked Up Presents David Comes to Life (le) poisson rouge Monday, November 14 Better than: That start-to-finish performance of Pocket Full of Kryptonite at Brooklyn Bowl last month. It took all of about 40 minutes—or, considering the context, until the end of Side B—for Damian " ... More >>

Live: Jon Brion Concocts A Slew Of Sounds At (Le) Poisson Rouge

​Jon Brion (le) poisson rouge Tuesday, October 4 Better than: Practicing Universal Interconnectivity. "As you might have noticed already, I'm OK with stupid." Jon Brion—the Grammy nominated film score composer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist—had just teased the crow ... More >>

Resident Advisor, Under Wraps

The website's blowout is about good vibrations, not big names

Neo-Burlesque Can't Be Killed!

Photo by Lynette Astaire for Bust magazine​It's just too irresistible, with its blend of genders and genitals, saucy humor and body parts. Straights get off on the risque entertainment, and gays like it too--in fact, it's the only time they've been known to applaud stripping females. And so, ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: Cinco De Mayo Spectacular

​It's Cinco de Mayo! We're going to go ahead and admit that we have no idea why Americans celebrate the holiday other than to over-indulge in margaritas, tacos, and cervezas. As it turns out, though, tonight's schedule of dance parties is more than willing to accommodate. If you want to get y ... More >>

Battles Announce Tour, Hit Le Poisson Rouge In April

​So Gloss Drop, the eagerly awaited new record from defiantly complex, deliciously weird art-rock trio Battles, is due out in June, which is great news, considering the excellent of 2007's Mirrored, which boasted, in "Atlas," probably the most appealing profoundly disturbing rock anti-single o ... More >>

Panda Bear's Tomboy Listening Party: Like Watching Never Say Never 3D All Over Again, Sort Of

​ Panda Bear Listening Party for Tomboy Le Poisson Rouge Wednesday, Feb 16 Better than: Billy Ray Cyrus discovering that Hannah Montana was just a figment of his imagination. Panda Bear fans are the Justin Bieber fans of the indie universe. While "Beliebers" attended the star's movie Never ... More >>

Live: The Stretch Armstrong And Bobbito Reunion Waxes Nostalgic At Le Poisson Rouge

Stretch, presiding. Pics by Puja.​The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Reunion Show Le Poisson Rouge Thursday, February 10 Better Than: Standing around and listening to rap with a couple hundred ex-backpackers in any other setting. "We would go up to the station to hang out with our friends," s ... More >>

Stretch and Bobbito, Back on the Air

A hugely influential hip-hop radio show reunites onstage

The Week In Nightlife, Starring GHE20 G0TH1K, Optimo, And The Go Go Gangster Cumbia Party

​It's the first week of the new year! This also means it's the first week to break your resolutions to drink less and sleep more. Enablers that we are, behold your week in nightlife, featuring the return of our favorite Lower East Side fete, a music festival, a lot of disco, and so much more.

Live: Lykke Li Soundtracks Your Personal Makeout Session at Le Poisson Rouge

Lykke Li (Le) Poisson Rouge December 1, 2010 Better Than: Your standard overpraised Swedish pop starlet. The Swedish ingénue-cum-big-deal Lykke Li is a little bit of a thing. No more than five feet tall, she fills a space like someone twice that size. At Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday night she ... More >>

No Way Back, Lunice, Fixed, and Defcon Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​Behold, your hand-picked guide for what to do this weekend... organized by neighborhood! FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Neighborhood: Williamsburg Party: No Way Back DJs: The Hardy Boyz, Kimyon Huggins Highlights: The "boyz", better known as Turntable Lab affiliates and warriors of the night Lloydski, ... More >>

Live: Shout Out Out Out Out Do High Kicks In Tight Pants At Le Poisson Rouge

Please don't fuck them up. Pics by JW Byer, more below.​Shout Out Out Out Out Le Poisson Rouge Tuesday, November 2 Better Than: Again, watching the election results. (Sorry, but it's true.) It's taking everything in me not to make a joke about the gratuitous use of Outs in Shout Out Out Out ... More >>

The 2011 NYC Winter Jazzfest Announces Dates, Venues, Several Dozen Artists

Robert Glasper, bringing along his continuing Experiment​As we have previously opined, January's annual two-day Winter Jazzfest is one of the season's signature live-music events, packing an ever-expanding number of downtown clubs (five this year) with an ever-expanding cabal of folks inexplic ... More >>

The Freedom Party, One Step Beyond, Jackpot, And Love Tempo Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​Start your Friday off with a little Happy Hour. The Lower East Side's Panda hosts the appropriately named Pregame to ease you into your night out (or, in our case, ease you back home to a backlog of Boardwalk Empire) with a mix of disco, hip-hop, and funk. DJs Project Matt and Jimmy 2 Times h ... More >>

The Hip-Hop/Jazz Crossover Strategy Guide

Revive Da Live brings in both crowds . . . very, very carefully

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 >>

This Weekend! Sleigh Bells, Broken Social Scene, Death Set, Ava Luna, Beauty Feast, Dinosaur Feathers, Jonsi w/ Nico Muhly, And Much Much More

Unless you regard yourself as a ticket-scalping monger, you must accept that a Friday roundup begins with four sadly inaccessible sold-out shows: Caribou, Sleigh Bells, Local Natives, and Broken Social Scene. Fortunately, this gives you the opportunity to revel in some well-earned "I'm on a Boat" ... More >>

Week in Review: May Day

Salute. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we finally got to unleash the initial Siren Festival details on the world (July 17! 10th anniversary! Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem! Totally free!), we celebrated Cinco De Mayo like Anna Wintour, Pharrell, a ... More >>

Tonight! Hot Hot Heat, Washed Out, Midnight Masses, ArpLine, And 5 de Gall HyperMex Dance Party

Washed Out: "Gary Low ain't got shit on me."​Tonight, Hot Hot Heat begin their month-long residency at Public Assembly, an attempt to shed their image as radio-rock backwash that ends up on the John Tucker Must Die soundtrack. Over at the Bell House, Washed Out unleash the chill, much to the c ... More >>

The Brain-Wiping New Reality of Flying Lotus

Omnivorous electronic headphone music for days, but don't try to dance to it

Tonight! LCD Soundsystem, Dorian Wood, El Haru Kuroi, Mi Ami, And Ben Folds

"Yeah, this is English Breakfast tea. No biggie."​James Murphy, a/k/a the Musto-bashing raconteur known as LCD Soundsystem, takes over Webster Hall tonight for yet another "secret show." Should you fail to snag a ticket, head to Le Poisson Rouge for the quivering break-up folk of Dorian Wood ( ... 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! Micachu & the Shapes, Tanlines, She & Him, jj, And The Big Pink

With homemade stringed instruments, atonal computer blips, and a name inspired by the third-cutest Pokemon, Micachu & the Shapes will perform tonight at Le Poisson Rouge. Joining them are Tanlines, a group of YouTube enthusiasts who compose physically impossible Latin grooves bathed in batches of ... More >>

Tonight! Lucky Chops, Cecilia Brauer, Mr. North, And Kindergarten

​Considering it's Saint Patrick's Day and you've already had a few hours' head start on the drinking festivities, show some support at the Knitting Factory's fundraiser for the not-for-profit City Reliquary Museum, which houses otherwise overlooked artifacts from subway tokens to L-train paint ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Shackleton, Frankie Knuckles, And Other People You May Know

​Tonight, creepy dubstep producer Shackleton headlines Dub War at Love -- the genre gets even darker thanks to his unexpected silences and evil whisperings in between all that bass wobble. WARP's Eskmo and Eprom are also scheduled to play, along with Dubwar residents Joe Nice and Dave Q, among ... More >>

Tonight! Previously On Lost, Das Racist, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, and Skeleton$

​There's only one lyric you need to know for Tuesday night: "So like a pimp I'm pimpin'/I got a boat to eat shrimp in." Yes, "Shake Your Rump," among other Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys classics, will be performed by esteemed essayists and rap aficionados Das Racist at Cameo. Continuing this t ... More >>

A VIBE CULLED ?UEST

?uestlove dedicates this warehouse party to MLK

Is the Baby Loves Disco Party Finished In New York City?

​I was bummed to hear that Baby Loves Disco, the infant-friendly dance-party empire run by Heather Murphy and Andy Hurwitz, will be slowing down considerably. I myself don't have a baby, but these toddler-themed events have gone so far beyond your typical hipster-parent cliches that you can't ... More >>

Week in Review: Like a Sexy Swedish Chick in a Natural Mineral Sauna

Yup, this photo was taken in 2009, by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week Chuck Schumer became a bike-riding, Williamsburg Pool Party-saving hipster man of the people, we roamed far and wide over his most precious borough, from an Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to the very likely defunct N8 to the ... 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: Buraka Som Sistema Wild Out at Le Poisson Rouge

Buraka Som Sistema, from their last time at LPR​Buraka Som Sistema Le Poisson Rouge Wednesday, November 5 Last night, Buraka Som Sistema proved that no one gives a shit about what you're saying if you do it with a smile on your face and a sassy female MC on stage with you. The Portuguese pro ... More >>

CMJ Live: Sleepwalking With Broadcast And The Atlas Sound

Fuquan7777Broadcast get all shy. CREDIT​Broadcast/The Atlas Sound (Le) Poisson Rouge Tuesday, October 20 Two trippy, languid, insular headphone bands -- best appreciated in private, while wearing a Snuggie and high on mushrooms -- offered back to back at a crowded CMJ show, with pristine soun ... More >>

Melvins/Neurosis/Sleep Hybrid Shrinebuilder Are Coming to New York

​Big news: Shrinebuilder, the impossibly well-credentialed metal-world supergroup--the band features Dale Crover from the Melvins, Saint Vitus/Hidden Hand/Spirit Caravan's Wino, Om/Sleep's Al Cisneros, and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly, with an assist from "the godhead"--have announced an albu ... More >>

Melvins/Neurosis/Sleep Hybrid Shrinebuilder Are Coming to New York

​Big news: Shrinebuilder, the impossibly well-credentialed metal-world supergroup--the band features Dale Crover from the Melvins, Saint Vitus/Hidden Hand/Spirit Caravan's Wino, Om/Sleep's Al Cisneros, and Neurosis frontman Scott Kelly, with an assist from "the godhead"--have announced an albu ... More >>

The Queer Issue: A Nightlife Guide for Dykes

IN WITH THE NEW

Two downtown musicians open a downtown club