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Roseland Ballroom

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 1, 2012

    Björk Gets Pedagogical

    The class act returns to New York

  • Voice Choices

    December 28, 2011

    INTERNATIONAL LOVE

    Pitbull thinks locally and raps globally 
at Roseland Ballroom

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Live: Radiohead Brings The Chattering Class To Roseland

    Radiohead Roseland Ballroom Thursday, September 29 Better than: Groceries for the next six weeks. When Radiohead took the stage at 10:07 p.m. on Thursday night, people were talking. When the amusingly Cobain-coiffed frontman Thom Yorke acknowledged the sold-out crowd of 3,500 with a one-word salut ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 28, 2011

    MORE SURPRISES

    Radiohead returns on short notice

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Live: Beyoncé Wants To Make You (And You, And You) Happy

    Myrna Suarez​ Beyoncé Roseland Ballroom Sunday, August 14 Better than: Feeling lousy about yourself. While waiting for Beyoncé to take the stage at Roseland on Sunday night, the audience at Roseland was treated to a video on loop; among its tableaus was a video of Beyoncé, in a convertib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Live: Bright Eyes Give The People What They Want At Radio City

    Bright Eyes/Superchunk/WILD FLAG Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, March 8 Better Than: Oh, come on. I'm not making a Roseland Ballroom joke. We need to talk about Nate Walcott. You long ago made up your mind about Conor Oberst, and if you've never found in-house producer/utility man Mike Mogis' wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    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:

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    December 15, 2010

    New Year's Eve: Dance

    What the hell happened last night?

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2010

    Spring Guide: Londoners the xx and More

    Enjoying American top-10 lists with the hit Brits

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    "You're All So Hammered You Don't Give A Fuck What I Say": Live From The Woodies

    Girls not having much fun. Pic by Connar Walik, more below.​Once a year, mtvU hosts the Woodies, an event that's a lot like the Teen Choice Awards, except that it caters to college kids and music-industry people who can say stuff like, "I started listening to that band, like, two years ago." T ... More >>

  • Music

    October 20, 2009

    Our First Date With Them Crooked Vultures

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

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2009

    DANCEHALL NIGHT

    Jamaicans and Trinidadians battle it out on the mic

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2009

    HAMMERED OUT

    There is metal, and then there is Motörhead

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Tor Hamer is now 2-0

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Photos: Of Montreal at the Roseland Ballroom

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

    Motörhead at the Roseland Ballroom

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 3, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2008

    Live Nation's 'Skip the Line' Ballyhoo

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 25, 2008

    Saturday 3:29

    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 >>

  • Music

    April 3, 2007

    Buoyant British Everymen Get All Doom-and-Gloom

    Kaiser Chiefs's Yours Truly, Angry Mob

  • NYC Life

    August 29, 2006

    Hip-Hop's New No Wave

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

  • NYC Life

    November 25, 2003

    Listings

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

  • NYC Life

    October 28, 2003

    Cool Like That

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

  • NYC Life

    April 15, 2003

    Listings

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

  • News

    September 24, 2002

    Jammed for All Time

    The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore

  • NYC Life

    March 5, 2002

    Show Me Your Undies

    Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

  • NYC Life

    September 4, 2001

    Parlez-Vous Français?

    French Tries, by Romanian Eugene Ionesco, Come Alive

  • NYC Life

    March 27, 2001

    Listings

    French Tries, by Romanian Eugene Ionesco, Come Alive

  • News

    October 17, 2000

    Why Blacks Shouldn't Vote for Hillary

    An African American Reporter Comes to Terms With a Taboo Subject

  • Dance

    May 18, 1999

    Lucky Lindy

    An African American Reporter Comes to Terms With a Taboo Subject

  • News

    June 30, 1998

    Future Schlock

    An African American Reporter Comes to Terms With a Taboo Subject

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