Roseland Ballroom

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 6/17/13

For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

NEW MOON

Vampire Weekend play more than just the hits

Hot Chip - Roseland Ballroom - 4/9/13

Hot Chip Roseland Ballroom 4/9/13 Better Than: About 90% of whatever's usually going on at Roseland Ballroom. Like, what was the last show you've been to there? I've been to two in four years. In 2013, most people making dance music in the mainstream don't really look like Hot Chip. Avicii's blon ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar - Roseland Ballroom - 2/26/13

Last night at about 5pm in a rainy Midtown, a line -- full of kids and adults alike in oversized hats, fur hoodies, ironic t-shirts, skinny jeans, and any other article of clothing Vice might consider a "do" --stretched down the block from the Roseland Ballroom. The mass amount of people continued, ... More >>

Meshuggah's Mårten Hagström on Performing Sans Vocalist, and Being "Harm-Friendly" Psychedelic

This week, Swedish progressive metal band Meshuggah have been performing alongside a cardboard cutout of their singer, Jens Kidman, whose fearsome voice was completely annihilated by the flu. (Don't worry, he's recovering.) Whether he'll join his bandmates onstage tonight at the Roseland Ballroom re ... More >>

The Raunchy Fiesta Called The Black Party Is Coming Again

THE SAINT AT LARGE® presents RITES XXXIV: THE BLACK PARTY® "Rough Trade At Luna Park" 11PM - Saturday March 23, 2013 until Sunday Afternoon Roseland Ballroom, 239 West 52nd Street Featuring Strange Live Acts Dress: Heavy

Dethklok - Roseland Ballroom - 11/14/12

Better Than: Almost everything. Dude. On Friday night, Dethklok played the Roseland Ballroom, and our brains are still recovering from the awesomeness. Here are the ten best things that happened. See Also: - Exclusive Interview: Dethklok's Skwisgaar Skwigelf Makes Fake Boobs Explode - The Ten Best ... More >>

Exclusive Interview: Dethklok's Skwisgaar Skwigelf Makes Fake Boobs Explode

Devotees of Metalocalypse, the Adult Swim animated series created by Brendon Small, know that death metal band Dethklok--performing at the Roseland Ballroom tonight--are at a pivotal point in their career. Last season, after warring egos nearly dissolved the band, we learned that the Metalocalypse h ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/14/12

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

New Year's Eve Guide: Ignite the Night

Reinvention is the new resolution. Ring in 2013 with eats, drinks, music, and more.

Boys Noize

Weekend Concerts: What's Canceled, What's Still Going On, and What's Been Postponed

We'll be adding to this list as the weekend moves on. On with it...

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 10/26/12

Here's a list, in no particular order, of the ten best concerts to check out this weekend. Follow us @SoundoftheCity, like us on Facebook.

Live: The Summerland Tour Lets A Decades-Old Sun Shine In At Roseland

Summerland Tour: Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Marcy Playground Roseland Ballroom Wednesday, July 18 Better than: Watching Empire Records on basic cable. We make the "remember the '90s" joke around these parts a fair amount, but this week the alt-rock strain of that decade has been stu ... More >>

Live: Jack White Expands His Sound At Roseland

Jack White w/Alabama Shakes Roseland Ballroom Monday, May 21 Better than: Sweating profusely in Wichita. Jack White doesn't seem like the type to reminisce. He's certainly wrapped in more nostalgia than penny candy, and his unflappable rise as the most artful Americana reconstructionist and thorou ... More >>

SHAKE, RATTLE, & ROLL

Jack White returns for two nights

Björk Gets Pedagogical

The class act returns to New York

INTERNATIONAL LOVE

Pitbull thinks locally and raps globally 
at Roseland Ballroom

Win Tickets To The Premiere Screening Of Beyoncé's Live At Roseland: Elements Of 4 DVD

​Beyoncé's Live At Roseland: Elements Of 4 DVD—shot over the course of her four-night residency at the Roseland Ballroom this summer—will have its premiere in New York City this weekend, and we're giving away six pairs of tickets to the big event. If you missed the shows, which we ... More >>

Wild Flag, Method Man, Cyndi Lauper And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

Those Darlins, hangin' out in those giant pipes.​The mouse-headed DJ Deadmau5 finally finished his six-night stand at the Roseland Ballroom earlier this week (in one of the week's strangest press releases, I learned that the event was commemorated by a fancy cake that placed his signature head ... More >>

Live: Deadmau5 Gets The Heads Bobbing At Roseland

Deadmau5 Roseland Ballroom Friday, October 7 Better than: Waiting for people to show up to an empty Turntable.fm room. It's a tricky thing, the dance concert. Do you treat it like a regular show and face the performer in a gesture of celebrity worship, or do you lose yourself in the music, figur ... More >>

Deadmau5, K-Holes, Screaming Females, And More: Your Guide To The Weekend's Biggest Shows

The week brought us Jon Brion and Shellac and Sam Sparro (not to mention a handful of surprise Occupy Wall Street pop-ins), and that wide spectrum of genres is also represented in this weekend's concert listings. Tonight Deadmau5, who Maura has just informed me stands out as the only artist to be n ... More >>

MORE SURPRISES

Radiohead returns on short notice

Radiohead Is Playing Two Shows At Roseland Later This Month

Out standing in their field. ​ Radiohead will be in town for this weekend's Saturday Night Live season premiere (hosted by Alec Baldwin!) and the Internet-beloved Brits will apparently be making New York City their home for more than just this weekend; the band's playing two shows at Roseland ... More >>

Athletes Peddle New Double Triple Oreos; Bobo Shuttered Due to Mice and Flies

​Beyoncé took a page out of Lady Gaga's book and sent pizza to her fans standing in line at Roseland Ballroom on Tuesday. It probably wasn't from her beloved Lucali's. [NY Pizza] The salmonella outbreak of 2008-9 that killed nine, sickened hundreds, and was traced back to peanuts was deconst ... More >>

Beyoncé To Play Four Shows At Roseland Later This Month; Tickets Go On Sale Wednesday

Ellen von Unwerth​This morning Beyoncé's people announced that the singer would headline four nights at the Roseland Ballroom later this month—August 14, 16, 18, and 19—for a miniseries entitled "4 Intimate Nights With Beyoncé." During each show she'll apparently perform her stel ... More >>

Culturefix's Ari Stern Talks Art in Bars and the Trouble with NIMBYism

Cole Schaffer (left) and Ari Stern​About a year ago, two guys opened a bar on the Lower East Side. Sound like a familiar story? What makes this one a little different is that the bar is also an art gallery. And, despite having no kitchen to speak of, it also offers pretty great food at awesome ... More >>

The Five Best Places To Have Gay Sex in NYC

​Yes, there are still some places, even in the wake of crackdowns and internet hookups. Here they are, in all their grubby desperation and/or fascinating appeal:

The Official Sound of the City 2010 New Year's Eve Guide

​New Year's Eve is upon us, and after a week of reminiscing on the year in nightlife we're ready for one last after-hours evening of dancing, drinking, and general chaos to close out 2010. As it turns out, some of our favorite parties, promoters, and DJs of the past year have provided us with ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Dance

What the hell happened last night?

Week In Review: We Also Accept Your Future Apology In Advance

Everybody just stop yelling, OK? Photo by Daniel Snyder.​In the week we talked about Odd Future, kidnapping and murder, and why we sometimes like the things that repel us, we also saw the group live--alongside every other music critic in the city. They struck a weird balance to the other big r ... More >>

Live: Katy Perry Explodes Out of A Cake at Roseland Ballroom

Katy Perry, making bad jokes about big guitars. Photos by Lauren Duffy.​Katy Perry Roseland Ballroom Monday, November 8 Better Than: Pretty much anything else you could do on a Monday night in NYC, give or take the Odd Future show. Last night, brazenly over-sexed singer Katy Perry--just back ... More >>

The Gaslight Anthem And My Chemical Romance, Together At Last, At Roseland

Not My Chemical Romance​'Tis the season for super-goofy, radio-station-helmed holiday shows that corral together often wildly disparate acts in the name of yuletide cheer and forced promotion, and while Z100's Jingle Ball is the mother of them all (could a preview of the Dream/Kardashian music ... More >>

Live: Deadmau5 Lights Up An Already Lit-Up Crowd At Roseland

Clearly reaching for Daft Punk-ian heights. Pics by Chris, more below.​Deadmau5/Erol Alkan/Afrojack Roseland Ballroom Friday, October 29 In the 1920s, the Roseland Ballroom was known as "the home of refined dancing," playing host to the likes of Louis Armstrong and Count Basie. These days, De ... More >>

Weezer's Pinkerton/Blue Album Tour Is Coming To Roseland In December

​The concept: Weezer spend two nights in each city, two sets per night, the second set both times consisting of "greatest hits" (I'm quoting here, not scare-quoting) and tunes from their new Hurley, which is evidently not disastrous, and begins with the song "Memories," as in "Memories/Make me ... More >>

Live: Rye Rye And Ke$ha Elate And Confuse (Respectively) At Roseland Ballroom

It makes total sense to her, probably. Photo by Palika.​Honestly, I'm not quite sure where to begin with last night's Paper magazine event at the Roseland Ballroom, featuring Rye Rye and Ke$ha -- before I get into how immeasurably pissed off I get about having to substitute the "s" in Ke$ha wi ... More >>

Week in Review: Jugga-luh-oh

Run Tila, run! Photo by Nate "Igor" Smith.​In the week one of us went to the Gathering of the Juggalos and came back with what is increasingly looking like Stockholm Syndrome, we witnessed Tila Tequila (and Method Man) battle a pack of angry ICP fans and--shortly after she took her top off--lo ... More >>

Our First Date With Them Crooked Vultures

Getting to know a deliciously indulgent, only slightly exhausting hard-rock supergroup

DANCEHALL NIGHT

Jamaicans and Trinidadians battle it out on the mic

Live: The Prodigy Wear White and Keep Moving at Roseland

The Prodigy Roseland Ballroom Thursday, March 26 None of the nu-rave hipster cachet of opener Busy P, a solid decade since an MTV spin, the half-decent new Invaders Must Die LP that couldn't crack Billboard's Top 50--just who exactly is Prodigy's American audience? A quick glance around the total ... More >>

Live: The Pogues (and The Wire's David Simon) at the Roseland

The Pogues Roseland Ballroom March 14 Minutes before the Pogues' Saturday set, one ponytailed concertgoer, sporting fuchsia sunglasses and the only suit in a horde of green rugby shirts, cut the queued skinheads in a bid for his will call ticket. His audacity provoked intervention from David Sim ... More >>

Tor Hamer is now 2-0

Photos: Of Montreal at the Roseland Ballroom

Motörhead at the Roseland Ballroom

Fall Preview: My Bloody Valentine Reunite, Tour, Liquify Eardrums

Saturday 3:29

Buoyant British Everymen Get All Doom-and-Gloom

Kaiser Chiefs's Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Hip-Hop's New No Wave

Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

Show Me Your Undies

Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

Lucky Lindy