While I am in Chicago this weekend for the Pitchfork Music Festival I’ll be missing plenty great shows in NYC:
Friday
Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las @ South Street Seaport (free)
Matmos @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Deerhoof @ Prospect Park Bandshell (free)
Dizzee Rascal @ Highline Ballroom
Chris Garneau @ Joe’s Pub
Saturday
Village Voice Siren Music Festival with Broken Social Scene, the […]
Blog-darlings Black Kids will be playing a free in-store at Virgin Megastore in Union Square on July 22 at 7 p.m. Buy their debut album Partie Traumatic beginning that day at 9 a.m. and receive a wristband for the performance and signing.
Do they live up to the hype? Only you can decide.
Tags: Black Kids, free, […]
The rest of the summer and fall concerts are starting to come through en masse now, and many shows are going on sale this week. Those include:
Metric and Mates of State, August 7 @ Highline Ballroom. Tickets on sale Friday at noon.
Willie Nelson and Jakob Dylan, September 25 @ Radio City Music Hall. On presale […]
Ah summer. Another weekend, another long list of free shows. Here’s this weekend’s schedule:
Friday:
Brazilian Girls @ Prospect Park Band Shell
No Age @ South Street Seaport
The Breeders @ Other Music (must have tickets)
Rennie Harris Puremovement (hip-hop dance) @ Central Park Summerstage
Saturday:
Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival @ the Bodega
Afro-Punk Festival @ Ft. Greene Park
Beth Orton @ Prospect Park Band […]
Sub Pop darlings the Fleet Foxes played at Bowery Ballroom last night and tonight they play a sold out show at Union Hall. If you don’t have tickets to that one, they just added a late show at midnight, also at Union Hall. Tickets go on sale for that one at noon.
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Deadmau5, an electronica DJ from Toronto, will be playing at Irving Plaza on July 18. He’s worked with everyone from Armin van Buren to Tommy Lee and has done remixes for Daft Punk, Crystal Method, and others. Tickets are $15 and you can get them here.
Photo Permission: Live Nation NYC
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Bluegrassy folk rock band the Avett Brothers are playing a free show tonight at Rockefeller Park in Battery Park at 7 p.m. Also tonight is Olabelle Rootsy at Madison Square Park at 7 p.m. At Stuyvesant Town Slavic Soul party will be playing at 6 p.m. and eighties hip-hop group Brand Nubian will be at […]
A new band called Paper Route releases their debut EP today, Are We All Forgotten.
They are head out on tour today and will be at Mercury Lounge on August 18 and Summerstage with the Final Riot Tour, along with Phantom Planet, Jack’s Mannequin, and Paramore on August 28. See below for all dates. Also, […]
The latest blog-buzz band Crystal Antlers will be playing a free show at Other Music tonight at 8:30 p.m. for their first ever show in NYC. Then they will be at Mercury Lounge tomorrow (Tuesday) night with Chair Lift and Religious Knives. They will also be at the big Todd P show on July 12 […]
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Photo by: Hisham Baroocha
Photo Permission: Paco Barba, Thrill Jockey Records
Serendipitously, a few days after I did my post on the best albums of the year that have come out so far, Pitchfork has done a list on what to look forward to in the rest of 2008, and boy is it all-inclusive. I’m […]
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