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The Nine Best Concerts In New York This Week

These are the best concerts in New York this week, in no particular order.

D.C.’s Finest

Get cozy with Maybach Music’s resident poet

The Ten Best Artists at Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival This Weekend

This weekend, the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival will take over Williamsburg for the fifth year running. (So it's technically the Williamsburg Electronic Music Festival, but who's counting when you're drunk and dancing to Nick Catchdubs at 4 a.m.?) Last year's Festival brought Matthew Dear, Beat ... More >>

Live: The Cops Shut Down Fool's Gold Day Off; DJ A-Trak Throws Out More T-Shirts

Check out our slideshow from the party. Fool's Gold Day Off: French Montana, Danny Brown, Brothers Macklovitch, Just Blaze, Flosstradamus, Flatbush Zombies, Nick Catchdubs, Ricky Blaze, Party Supplies, #BEEN #TRILL, Telephoned, and more City Winery Monday, September 3 Better than: Rain. Last yea ... More >>

The Rub Turns 10: Memories From A Decade-Long Party

The Brooklyn collective of DJ Ayres, DJ Eleven, and Cosmo Baker celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their now-legendary rap party The Rub this weekend. While their monthly rager moved from the now-shuttered Park Slope club Southpaw to Gowanus' much larger Bell House, the party remains a house-party ... More >>

Live: Elijah Wood DJs While Bon Iver Stays In His Corner At The Woolworth Building

Diana Levine/Bushmills​ Elijah Wood The Wooly Thursday, February 2 Better Than: Reading about Bon Iver on the internet today. After attending a party called Macaulay Culkin's iPod two months ago, during which I watched the love of my kindergarten days supervise a six-hour playlist and the tw ... More >>

Spotted At CMJ: Asher Roth, Nick Catchdubs, Fat Tony, And King Krule On Their Survival Strategies

Asher Roth. ​ With more than a thousand bands in the city for CMJ, there's a strong chance you'll happen to run into a musician on the streets, hanging out after a show, or taking advantage of an open bar at a blog party. We checked in with artists during the festival to see how they handled t ... More >>

Live: Fool's Gold Day Off Party Turns into a Relay Rave

Fools Gold Day Off City Winery Monday, September 5 Better than: Catching bullets at a parade. New York City empties out on Labor Day weekend, but for the past two years those who've stuck around have been able to see behind the curtain on what's next, on what's nexter-than-next, and the emerging ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: Your Labor Day Weekend Guide To New York's Best Nightlife (And Daytime Parties, Too)

​There are a few things we can expect from Labor Day weekend, and the annual Electric Zoo festival is one of them. The massive three-day rave takes over Randall's Island with twelve-hour days that boast a million DJs over four separate stages; you'll hear trance, techno, deep house, electro, d ... More >>

WILD ANIMALS

Electric Zoo roars into Randall's Island

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 >>

Live: Telephoned, Nick Catchdubs, And Eli Escobar Inaugurate The Ace Hotel's New Switchboard Party

Telephoned, mixing it up. Pics by Peter Steusloff.​Telephoned Ace Hotel Tuesday, February 8 Better Than: That "mash-up" DJ my friend who just discovered that DJs play songs he likes is trying to tell me about as I type this. Ugh. It's been less than a week since our last visit, and we've alr ... More >>

Williamsburg Club Savalas Says Farewell

​Tonight begins the last hurrah for erstwhile Williamsburg club Savalas, whose six year run on Bedford avenue came to an end this week when the venue abruptly announced (on Facebook!) that it'd be closing this weekend. Why they were closing they never quite got around to saying, but there are ... More >>

SOTC Nightlife Awards: The Best One-Offs, the Best Party To Take Anyone To, and More

Farewell, Fat Beats​​Before we sink into holiday hibernation, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on our exploits, and present to you our very own 2010 SOTC Nightlife Awards. Below, our fifth and final installment examines the rest of the best.

'Hard NYC Turkey Soup 2010 Presents A-Trak+Tiga+Flying Lotus'

Live: Club-Hopping From Plunge To Hiro Ballroom To (Briefly) Santos' Party House, At The Behest Of Daily Candy, Ed Banger, And Ninja Tune

​DJ Kentaro and his admirers. Pics by Puja, more below.​The best thing about living in this city is that there's always something to do. If anything, we're constantly torn between options: Should we go to the dance party, the concert, the cocktail hour, or the laid-back DJ night? It's a ... More >>

Greg Nice Is for the Kids

An old-school MC warms himself in slightly trendier clothing

Q&A: A-Trak and Armand Van Helden Talk (and Talk and Talk) Duck Sauce, "Barbra Streisand," and Doing Karaoke With Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig

Duck Sauce, mid-interview. All photos by Chris Klassen.​When A-Trak (Alain Macklovitch) and Armand Van Helden teamed up as Duck Sauce for last year's dance hit, "aNYway", we were surprised, then pleased, then completely addicted. The production duo shares roots in old-school hip-hop and club-f ... More >>

Electric Zoo, Fat Beats, And The Parked Food Truck Festival Headline Your (Long!) Weekend In Nightlife

​Ah, Labor Day weekend. Your last chance to wear white pants and white sandals (though my best friend tells me they're awful all year round). As for your weekend partying, skip the beach -- summer isn't over until the 22nd, so you still have time. Instead, welcome back NYC's nightlife and stay ... More >>

The Martinez Brothers, Animal Collective (DJ-ing), And Afrika Bambaataa (Probably) Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​Friday night in Manhattan, Webster Hall is the place to be. It's the year of dubstep, apparently, and U.K. duo Nero headline an especially solid lineup for tonight's Girls and Boys, along with L.A.'s Gaslamp Killer. The ravetastic Flashing Lights crew kick off the night with electro and glows ... 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 >>

SPACE IS THE PLACE

Explore the galaxy with Animal Collective

A Guide To This Weekend's Holiday-Party Glut

​If there's one thing that people of all faiths can agree on, it's that the best thing about the "Holiday Season" is all the parties. There's nothing quite like sipping on some good ol' rum punch with your co-workers or donning your cheesiest Xmas swag for your apartment-building potlucks. On ... More >>

Live From The Paper Nightlife Awards, Which Honored Quite A Few Sketchy People (Musto Excepted, Of Course)

Puja PatelYou get older, and Amanda Lepore stays the same age.​Last night's Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards joined the dismayingly long list of 2009 award-show travesties. The invite-only event went down at M2 (the old Mansion) to a packed audience of important downtown scenesters (that's the ... More >>

The Flashing Lights Party Turns One

​Nick Catchdubs' Flashing Lights party--which the writer-turned-DJ throws monthly with the Rub's DJ Ayres and Brooklyn bass queen Jubilee--turns one this month, and to celebrate, Sheffield dance champion Toddla T is coming through 88 Palace tomorrow night to help mark the occasion. As always, ... More >>

'Flashing Lights One Year Anniversary'

R.I.P. DJ AM

​Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, was found dead in his home on Friday afternoon. The news first circulated through TMZ and Perez Hilton and--to the dread of his friends, his peers, and thousands of fans--the NYPD confirmed the rumor later that evening, announcing the DJ's death and its ... More >>

Live from the Converse Band of Ballers: Mad Decent Loses, Fool's Gold Wins, and Jim Jones Takes Home A Golden (Spraypainted) Trophy

all photos by Puja PatelThe Brooklyn Crew's aggressive (and we suspect, inebriated) group of fans Converse Band of Ballers Wednesday, August 12 Yesterday's Converse Band of Ballers was as much of a shit-talking contest as it was a three-on-three tournament. The invite-only event went down at the C ... More >>

Your Last Minute New Year's Eve

Sound of the City will resume full-force come Monday. In the meantime, find your last minute arrangements below...

New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued

CMJ Photos: Fool's Gold One-Year Anniversary with Kid Sister, A-Trak, Chromeo's Dave 1

Dirty Blonde: A-Trak's Unibros and the Box's Woes

Plenty of incestuous DJ action to partake in, but enjoy the clubs while you can

Wale's Mixtape About Nothing: Best Seinfeld-Related Mixtape Ever

Tonight: Catchdubs and A-Trak at the Hiro

Harder, Faster, Stronger, More Surprising

Kanye West drops in on the Natural History Museum’s suddenly splendid soiree

Flier of the Week: Project Matt's Saturdazed

The Personals

Falling in love for different reasons

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