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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.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/11/13

These are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/21/12

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

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.

Suburban Blues

Real Estate come to
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Angels and Airwaves

Win A Pair Of Tickets To Chairlift's Show At Webster Hall

This week, Sound of the City is giving away a pair of tickets to the Brooklyn duo Chairlift's May 8 concert at Webster Hall. (Laurel Halo and Ice Choir open.) Check out details on how to enter after the jump as well as the video for "Amanaemonesia," which is from their new album Something.

PARTY HARD

Andrew W.K. gets Webster Hall wet

READY, SET, LOOP

SBTRKT brings the beats to Webster Hall

Live: Cloud Nothings Rage Through The Studio At Webster Hall

Cloud Nothings The Studio at Webster Hall Thursday, January 26 Better than: Whatever sold-out show was going on at Webster Hall proper. It's rare for a band and a venue to be perfectly suited to one another, but last night at The Studio at Webster Hall the pairing was so ideal, the venue effectiv ... More >>

Saigon

GRAND STEPPIN’

A-Trak comes to Girls & Boys

Live: globalFest Takes Webster Hall On A Too-Quick Trip Around The World

globalFest 2012 Webster Hall Sunday, January 8 Better than: A Sunday evening spent preparing for the Monday grind. Starting with the number of stages it commands (three) and moving up from there, globalFest 2012 is the kind of event that could lavish in its stats. In line with its mission to showc ... More >>

Laura Marling

DISCOTRAXX

More females but less screaming

Get Well Soon: Stevie Nicks Is Too Sick To Play At Webster Hall Tomorrow

Tomorrow night's Stevie Nicks gig at Webster Hall, commemorating the release of her seventh solo album In Your Dreams, has been canceled because the legendarily witchy singer is suffering from pneumonia and the flu and has been instructed to "stay and bed and not fly" (quotes from the press release ... More >>

MAGIC HOUR

The No. 1 chick of the ’70s hits a modest stage

Mormon Lined Up For Obie Awards

​Well, someone who plays a Mormon. In, you know, The Book of Mormon. It's Andrew Rannells, who every night brings some interesting ideology to Uganda, thoughtfully pausing to sing the showstopping power ballad "I Believe."

Destroyer Playing Webster Hall In April, Spending More Money On His Videos

​Expect Destroyer's swoony yacht-rock-via-chillwave excursion Kaputt to be the year's first lavishly praised album (along with the whole James Blake thing) -- Dan Bejar is certainly rolling out the full PR detail for it. Record's out at the end of the month; his full tour starts in March, and ... More >>

A Bluffer's Guide to globalFEST 2011

Featuring Afro-Peruvian fusion, Punjabi brass bands, and 11 other sounds you've likely never heard before

Live: Soulja Boy Tears Himself Away From Twitter For A Half Hour At Webster Hall

The hardest-working man in social media. Pics by Puja, more below.​Soulja Boy Webster Hall Thursday, December 2 Better Than: Every rap show I've covered this year. ('Sup, Drake.) There's a lot of nonsense associated with Soulja Boy. Excessive use of the word "swag" aside, the guy's most popu ... More >>

Soulja Boy, Dimitri From Paris, And Mannie Fresh Headline Your Week In Nightlife

​A full range of emotions this week -- get emo tonight, go pantless on Saturday, giggle at the goofy songs of your youth on Tuesday. With Mannie Fresh, you might be able to do all three. In any event, here are your nightly nightlife picks for the next seven days:

CMJ Day Two: Surfer Blood And The Drums Stand Triumphant At Webster Hall

The Drums, willing to pretend they're paying Madison Square Garden themselves. Photos by Nick, more below.​The Drums/Surfer Blood/The Young Friends/The Dewars Webster Hall Wednesday, October 20 Better Than: There were how many performances yesterday? It had to be better than the vast majority ... More >>

Live: James Achieve Jubilant Transcendence At Webster Hall

Tim Booth, a/k/a Skeletor the Barista. Pics by Sarah Sellars, more below.​James Webster Hall Tuesday, September 28 Better Than: Pretty much any other band from the '90s the general public would regard as a One-Hit Wonder. Tim Booth began his band's Tuesday-night show at Webster Hall in the b ... More >>

Watch Titus Andronicus Perform "Four Score and Seven" at Glasslands Last Night

Well, it's probably time to admit to ourselves that it was a mistake to skip this one. Though they'll headline Webster Hall a month from now (after doing the same thing at the Bowery Ballroom back in March), last night brought the rousing sight of Jersey punk heroes Titus Andronicus playing the hu ... More >>

Tonight's Drums Show At Webster Hall Will Be Streaming Live At MTV.com

​Brooklyn's own Drums are the most (somewhat winsomely) flamboyant of bands to emerge from our young century's ongoing Let's Go to the Beach surf-synth-pop craze, their tunes eerily precise bursts of '80s-blockbuster melodrama, their live shows very enthusiastic (and very confounding) affairs ... More >>

Live: Bidding Isis A Fond Farewell At Webster Hall, Alongside The Ever-Unflappable Melvins

Isis earlier this month, letting it all go. Isis/Melvins/Totimoshi Webster Hall Friday, June 18 Farewell tours are weird, the celebratory nature of live rock being counteracted by the knowledge that this will never happen again; the listener can frequently walk away feeling weirdly hollow, as tho ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Solange, Peanut Butter Wolf, And The Martinez Brothers

​As hard as she tries to claim that she's not a hipster, Solange has been pretty consistent about proving otherwise. Never mind the palling around with the Dirty Projectors on- and offstage, or recording with Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes -- now the budding starlet has taken to DJing. Yes, DJing. ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

Tonight! Cave, Penguin Prison, And High Places

Caves pic by Laura Coleman​This could be another day of cursing the gods, considering that both Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Webster Hall show and Midlake's gig at the Bowery Ballroom are sold out, but hey, there are plenty of excellent consolatory shows. You could start a therapeutic sing-al ... More >>

Tonight! Abe Vigoda, the xx, and Dappled Cities

​Behold: fresh from the Los Angeles DIY scene, Abe Vigoda (the band, not the actor, to your left) mauls instruments with punk ferocity while dabbling in steel drums and syncopated rhythms at the Mercury Lounge. Then, the xx play another gig at Webster Hall...and you might not want to miss thei ... More >>

Tonight! Lemonade, Foxy Shazam, And She & Him

​Lemonade (to your left) quench your thirst at Mercury Lounge with an irresistible concoction of boy-band vocals and punchy electronic dancehall. Then, get buckwild at Webster Hall, where Foxy Shazam's sex-charged, '70s-rock stage antics are reason enough to stop by. Or join doting She & Him f ... More >>

This Weekend! Toro Y Moi, Ruby Suns, Holy Ghost!, Bear Hands, Gil Scott-Heron, Talib Kweli, Spoon, Deerhunter, Basseko Kouyate, Miike Snow, Crystal Stilts, Love Is All, Lymbyc System, Glass Ghost, And The Big Pink

Making up for last week's paucity of shows thanks to SXSW and MtyMx, the city has an overstuffed dance card this weekend. First, chilllwave maestro Toro Y Moi will be playing with Tropicalia breakbeat-borrowers the Ruby Suns at Brooklyn Bowl. To quote one of the latter's tunes, "Kenya dig it?" Hol ... More >>

Spring Guide: Londoners the xx and More

Enjoying American top-10 lists with the hit Brits

Tonight! La Roux, Royal Bangs, and Phantogram

​If you're desperate for La Roux's sensuous electro-pop, you're not alone: Good luck cracking tonight's sold-out Webster Hall show. The Internet can always find a way. But if it can't, whip out your killer dance moves at Brooklyn Bowl, where Black Keys-endorsed crew Royal Bangs (to your left) ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend in NYC Nightlife: Switch at Webster Hall, Dutty Artz Tropical Relief for Haiti, Body & Soul

​Friday: Switch at Webster Hall Switch, the not-Diplo half of Major Lazer, has remained--comparatively, anyway--out of the spotlight this year. Tonight, GBH brings the DJ out of hiding to rock the grime off Webster Hall's walls alongside Trouble & Bass's Star Eyes. Don't expect to hear a ton ... More >>

Tonight! Hope! Kylie! Lenny! Doug!

I loved Built to Spill in college -- most of my mixtapes might as well have been "Kicked It in the Sun" on a loop for 90 minutes -- but drifted a bit upon my initial stumble into "adulthood," finding the band's gruff, hirsute, meat-and-potatoes-and-then-more-meat indie-guitar jams a bit staid and ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Nine Inch Nails, Warp Records, Rock-Star Lit, Whit Stillman, The September Issue, and More

Tina ChouTrent Reznor says hi​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla is live from Nine Inch Nails' retirement party at Webster Hall: "And then, our stick-figure arms raised ironically heavenward, our fingers clenched into tight, bone-snapping balls of cartoonish fury, we all scream, 'FIST ... More >>

This Weekend! Trombones at the Guggenheim, Black Metal, and Classical With and Without Class

Every year, 327 cities around the world arrange to simultaneously celebrate the first day of summer. So on Sunday, Make Music New York sponsors 800 free performances spanning all five boroughs. The most appropriately superlative event is at the Guggenheim, where 80 trombonists will line the museum' ... More >>

Tonight! Dave Brubeck, the Dead Science, Theodore Bikel, and the Low Anthem

In the 1950's, the Dave Brubeck Quartet began experimenting with time, particularly odd-meters and polyrhythms. The resulting compositions, which would have sunk lesser musicians, are Brubeck's most enduring works-- the wonky "Raggy Waltz," the luscious "Blue Rondo A La Turk," and "Take Five," wh ... More >>

Tonight! Amadou & Mariam, Busdriver, and the Beginning of the Week-Long Hold Steady Onslaught

Amadou & Mariam are superstars everywhere else on the planet -- in 2006, the blind Malian couple co-wrote the official World Cup anthem. But transplant the pair to Manhattan and they can't even fill up Webster Hall... yet. Let's make it happen. The Hold Steady, however, have already sold out ever ... More >>

DANCE FEVER

Catch these Brooklyn gals before they hit the road

GlobalFest Surges On

A worldly showcase flourishes, recession notwithstanding

Brief Guide to All the Wacky Shit You Missed This Weekend, Ponce

Sensuous Synchronized Mindmelt: Cornelius at Webster Hall

Monday-Morn Cred Sheet: Grammys, PLUG Awards, Michael Stipe sighting

Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Live Shows of 2006

Rhyme Schemes

The 46th Annual Obie Awards

Whipper Snappers

photos by Sandra-Lee Phipps