December 31, 2011
It’s here: the Mayan Apocalypse – plus it’s an election year. So here’s what to do in NYC before the ball drops on the Big Apple, America, & the world:
January ’12
Sunday, 1/8/12: Andrew W.K. & The Calder Quartet @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday, 1/12/12: Jonathan Toubin benefit @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Saturday, 1/14/12: Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven @ Highline Ballroom
Thursday, 1/19/12: Ellie Goulding @ JFK Airport, Terminal 5
Saturday, 1/21/12: ‘Where’s the Band?’ tour at Music Hall of Williamsburg
Tuesday, 1/24/12: Nada Surf @ Bowery Ballroom
Friday, 1/27/12: 120dB @ Fort Useless
Tuesday, 1/31/12: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Irving Plaza
American Songbook Festival @ Lincoln Center Allen Room, 1/11 – 2/12/12
Jonathan Toubin benefit @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, 1/12/12
120dB gallery opening show @ Fort Useless, 1/27/12
| Sunday, 1/8/12 | Andrew W.K. & The Calder Quartet @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Party classical style – Show of the Week | |
| Monday, 1/9/12, | Liam Finn @ Rock Shop |
| Monday, 1/16/12, | Liam Finn @ Rock Shop |
| Monday, 1/23/12 & | Liam Finn @ Rock Shop |
| Monday, 1/30/12 | Liam Finn @ Rock Shop |
| New Zealand transplant’s New York residency | |
| Tuesday, 1/10/12 | Basement Batman, The Courtesy Tier & more @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| 3rd Annual ‘Music Video Film Festival + Band Battle’ | |
| Tuesday, 1/10/12 & | Johnny Winter @ BB King’s |
| Tuesday, 1/24/12 | ‘Roots’ tour |
| Wednesday, 1/11/12 | The Lemonheads @ Knitting Factory |
| Performing ‘It’s a Shame About Ray’ | |
| Kevin Hearn @ Rockwood Music Hall* | |
| Wednesday, 1/11/12, | Lin-Manuel Miranda @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Thursday. 1/12/12, | Chris Thile & Michael Daves @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Friday, 1/13/12 & | JD Souther @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Saturday, 1/14/12 | William Finn @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| American Songbook Festival at Lincoln Center Allen Room, Week 1 | |
| Thursday, 1/12/12 | Chain & The Gang, Eleonor Friedberger, Nicole Atkins & more @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Jonathan Toubin benefit – Show of the Week | |
| Notar, Snow Chase @ Canal Room | |
| The Juan MacLean, Com Truise, Justin Miller @ Public Assembly* | |
| Friday, 1/13/12 | Radical Dads, Backwords, Shark? @ Cameo |
| Saturday, 1/14/12 | Girls, Real Estate, King Krule @ Terminal 5 |
| Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven @ Highline Ballroom | |
| Annual early January ‘Cracker Van Beethoven’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Sunday, 1/15/12 | Nat Baldwin @ Manhattan Inn* |
| Tuesday, 1/17/12 | Taylor Berrett @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2* |
| Tuesday, 1/17/12, | Howler @ Other Music* |
| Wednesday, 1/18/12, | Phone Home, Howler @ Pianos |
| Thursday, 1/19/12, | Howler, Grooms @ Death by Audio |
| Friday, 1/20/12 & | Howler, St. Lucia @ Cameo |
| Saturday, 1/21/12 | Howler, Dear Lions @ Pianos |
| Howler playes everywhere in NYC for ‘America Give Up’ | |
| Wednesday, 1/18/12, | Jonatha Brooke @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Thursday, 1/19/12, | La Chanze @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Friday, 1/20/12 & | Ozomatli @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Saturday, 1/21/12 | Michael Cerveris @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| American Songbook at Lincoln Center Allen Room, Week Two | |
| Thursday, 1/19/12 | Ellie Goulding @ JFK Airport, Terminal 5* |
| Ellie Goulding plays in JFK Airport!?! – Show of the Week | |
| Cults @ Webster Hall | |
| Mission of Burma, EULA, The Static Jacks @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Richard Bruckner @ Symphony Space | |
| ‘Rebels + Reds’ Event | |
| Fujiya & Miyagi, Zambri, Rarechild @ Glasslands | |
| Storm Large @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| ‘Crazy Enough’ autobiography release party, with Q&A | |
| Midnight Magic, The Suzan @ Santos* | |
| Violens, Headless Horseman @ Public Assembly* | |
| Buried Beds @ Rock Shop | |
| Thursday, 1/19/12 to | Jeff Mangum @ Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| Saturday, 1/21/12 | Neutral Milk Hotel frontman comes to BAM |
| Friday, 1/20/12 | Caveman @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Portugal. The Man @ Brooklyn Bowl | |
| Saturday, 1/21/12 | Matt Pryor, Chris Conley & more @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| ‘Where’s the Band?’ tour with frontmen for emo acts The Get Up Kids, Saves the Day, and more – Show of the Week | |
| Blondes @ MoMA | |
| Tuesday, 1/24/12 | Nada Surf, Palomar @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Wednesday, 1/25/12 | Cass McCombs @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Wintersleep, ARMS @ Glasslands | |
| Thursday, 1/26/12 | Stephen Merritt @ American Museum of Natural History |
| Debut of Magnetic Fields’ main man Merritt’s ‘Space Cruiser’ | |
| Antony & The Johnsons @ Radio City Music Hall | |
| Shark?, I’m Turning Into @ Big Snow | |
| Holy Ghost (DJ set), Jacques Renault @ Public Assembly* | |
| Friday, 1/27/12 | 120dB @ Fort Useless |
| Gallery show opening of concert photography from some of NYC’s best photogs – Show of the Week | |
| Aimee Mann, John Roderick @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Saturday, 1/28/12 | Bryan Scary, Conveyor @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Secret Music @ Cameo | |
| The Front Bottoms @ Maxwell’s | |
| John Roderick, Todd Goldstein @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Tuesday, 1/31/12 | Smith Westerns, Bleached, Porcelain Raft @ Webster Hall |
| The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Vacationer @ Irving Plaza – Show of the Week | |
| ‘Out of Frequency’ tour | |
| Jóhan Jóhannsson @ World Financial Center Plaza* | |
| Dan Friel @ Zebulon* | |
| Tuesday, 1/31/12, | Skrillex, AC Slater @ Webster Hall |
| Wednesday, 2/1/12, | Skrillex, Zedd, Sazon Booya @ Pacha |
| Friday, 2/3/12 & | Skrillex, Spank Rock, Zane Lowe @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Saturday, 2/4/12 | Skrillex, Skream & Benga, KOAN Sound, Tokimonsta @ Terminal 5 |
| Four nights of today’s king of dubstep |
February ’12
Friday, 2/3/12: Hospitality @ Glasslands
Tuesday, 2/7/12: Scars On 45, Anya Marina @ Joe’s Pub
Saturday, 2/11/12: The Kills, JEFF: The Brotherhood @ Terminal 5
Friday, 2/17/12: Saul Williams @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Saturday, 2/18/12: Christopher Paul Stelling @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage #2
Thursday, 2/23/12: Zeus, Eight and a Half @ Mercury Lounge
Saturday-Sunday, 2/25-26/12: Sharon Van Etten @ Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, 2/28/12: School of Seven Bells @ Mercury Lounge
American Songbook Festival @ Lincoln Center Allen Room, 1/11 – 2/12/12
Ecstatic Music Festival @ Merkin Concert Hall, 2/1 – 3/28/12
‘An evening with Primus’ benefit concerts, 2/8-9/12
‘A Party & Concert Benefiting Autism Speaks’ @ Bowery Electric, 2/9/12
Tibet House benefit concert @ Carnegie Hall, 2/13/12
HIAS benefit concert @ Rose Theater at Time Warner Center, 2/23/12
| Wednesday, 2/1/12, | Keren Ann @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Thursday, 2/2/12, | Thurston Moore @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Friday, 2/3/12 & | Leslie Kriter @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Saturday, 2/4/12 | Gaven Creel & Stephen Oremus @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| American Songbook at Lincoln Center Allen Room, Week Three | |
| Wednesday, 2/1/12, | Jason Treuting, Angélica Negrón, Jherek Bischoff @ Greene Space |
| Ecstatic Music Festival kick-off | |
| Thursday, 2/2/12, | Thurston Moore @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Friday, 2/3/12 | Thurston Moore @ Maxwells |
| Thursday, 2/2/12, | Snowmine, Spanish Prisoners, Field Mouse @ Pianos |
| Thursday, 2/9/12, | Snowmine, Viao Audio, Sea of Bees @ Pianos |
| Thursday, 2/16/12 & |
Snowmine, Psychobuildings @ Pianos |
| Thursday, 2/23/12 | Snowmine, Tiny Victories @ Pianos |
| Friday, 2/3/12 | Hospitality @ Glasslands |
| ‘Hospitality’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Friday, 2/3/12, | Björk @ New York Hall of Science |
| Monday, 2/6/12, | Björk @ New York Hall of Science |
| Thursday, 2/9/12, | Björk @ New York Hall of Science – canceled due to illness |
| Sunday, 2/12/12, | Björk @ New York Hall of Science |
| Wednesday, 2/15/12 & | Björk @ New York Hall of Science |
| Saturday, 2/18/12 | Björk @ New York Hall of Science |
| Wednesday, 2/22/12, | Björk @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Saturday, 2/25/12, | Björk @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Tuesday, 2/28/12 | Björk @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Friday, 3/2/12 & | Björk @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Monday, 3/5/12 | Björk @ Roseland Ballroom – added make-up date |
| Ten-count ’em-TEN nights of Björk | |
| Saturday, 2/4/12, | Jhrerek Bischoff & The Wordless Music Orchestra @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Tuesday, 2/7/12, | Sxip Shirey, Angélica Negrón @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Wednesday, 2/8/12 & | Richard Reed Parry, Son Lux, yMusic @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Thursday, 2/9/12 | This Will Destroy You, Slow Six, A Far Cry @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Ecstatic Music Festival | |
| Monday, 2/6/12 | Dierks Bentley @ iHeartRadio Theater* |
| Gotye, Sea of Bees @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| ‘Making Mirrors’ tour | |
| Cate Le Bon @ Other Music* | |
| Monday, 2/6/12, | Thieving Irons, Bandana Splits @ Rock Shop |
| Monday, 2/13/12, | Thieving Irons, Kelli Scarr, First Nature @ Rock Shop |
| Monday, 2/20/12 & |
Thieving Irons, The Famous Winters @ Rock Shop |
| Monday, 2/27/12 | Thieving Irons, Sean Bones @ Rock Shop |
| Tuesday, 2/7/12 | Mark Lanegan @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Scars On 45, Anya Marina @ Joe’s Pub – Show of the Week | |
| Tuesday, 2/7/12, | St. Lucia @ Pianos |
| Tuesday, 2/14/12 & | St. Lucia @ Pianos |
| Tuesday, 2/21/12 | St. Lucia @ Pianos |
| Tuesday, 2/7/12 & | Savoir Adore @ Pianos |
| Friday, 2/24/12 | Savoir Adore @ Cameo |
| Wednesday, 2/8/12 & | Primus @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Thursday, 2/9/12 | Primus @ Gramercy Theatre |
| ‘An evening with…’ benefit for Les Claypool’s nephew Matthew | |
| Wednesday, 2/8/12, |
Bill Callahan @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Thursday, 2/9/12, | tUnE-yArDs @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Friday, 2/10/12, | Elaine Paige @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Saturday, 2/11/12 & | Laura Benanti @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| Sunday, 2/12/12 | Elaine Paige @ Lincoln Center Allen Room |
| American Songbook at Lincoln Center Allen Room, Week Four | |
| Thursday, 2/9/12 | Bob Mould @ City Winery |
| Theophilus London @ Webster Hall | |
| Burka Queen & The Very Handsome Terrorists, MiniBoone & more @ Bowery Electric | |
| ‘A Party & Concert Benefiting Autism Speaks’ | |
| JEFF: The Brotherhood @ Maxwell’s | |
| Veronica Falls @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Thursday, 2/9/12 & | Snowden @ Mercury Lounge |
| Friday, 2/10/12 | Snowden @ Glasslands |
| Friday, 2/10/12 | Zambri @ Cameo |
| Friday, 2/10/12, | Guns N’ Roses @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Sunday, 2/12/12 & | Guns N’ Roses @ Terminal 5 |
| Wednesday, 2/15/12 | Guns N’ Roses @ Webster Hall (The Ritz) |
| G N’ F N’ R play club dates, including temporarily back-to-its-old-name ‘The Ritz’ | |
| Friday, 2/10/12 & | Notar @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Thursday, 2/16/12 | Notar @ SOB’s |
| Saturday, 2/11/12 | The Kills, JEFF: The Brotherhood @ Terminal 5 – Show of the Week |
| Die Antwoord @ Irving Plaza | |
| Bleached, Bleeding Rainbow @ Knitting Factory | |
| Beach Fossils @ Tribeca Grand* | |
| Saadi @ Zebulon* | |
| Expensive Looks, Phonetag, TEEN @ Cameo* | |
| Monday, 2/13/12 | Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, James Blake, Das Racist & more @ Carnegie Hall |
| Tibet House Benefit | |
| Thursday, 2/16/12 | Doomtree, F. Stokes @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Friday, 2/17/12 | Sleigh Bells @ Terminal 5 |
| Tayisha Busay @ Glasslands | |
| Liam Bailey, The London Souls, Lindsay Fuller @ Bowery Hotel* | |
| Friday, 2/17/12 & | Saul Williams @ Music Hall of Williamsburg – Show of the Week |
| Monday, 2/20/12 | Saul Williams @ Maxwell’s |
| Saturday, 2/18/12 | Zola Jesus, Liturgy, Talk Normal @ Webster Hall |
| World/Inferno Friendship Socity @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Slow Club @ The Bell House | |
| EULA, Shark? @ Shea Stadium | |
| The Lost Patrol @ The Delancey | |
| Christopher Paul Stelling @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage #2* | |
| ‘Songs of Praise & Scorn’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Sunday, 2/19/12 | DJ Krush @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Robin Bacior @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Monday, 2/20/12 | Barry Adamson @ Other Music* |
| Wednesday, 2/22/12 | Norah Jones, Adam Green, Jesse Malin, Nicole Atkins, and more @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Stones Fest 2012’ | |
| Small Black, Phone Tag @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Sarah Jaffe @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Wednesday, 2/22/12 & |
Twi the Humble Feather @ Manhattan Inn* |
| Wednesday, 2/29/12 | |
| Thursday, 2/23/12 | Regina Spektor @ Rose Theater at Time Warner Center |
| HIAS benefit concert | |
| Au Revoir Simone @ The Gap* | |
| Thursday, 2/23/12 & | Zeus, Eight and a Half @ Mercury Lounge – Show of the Week |
| Friday, 2/24/12 | Zeus, Eight and a Half @ Glasslands |
| New band from members of Broken Social Scene & The Stills | |
| Thursday, 2/23/12, | Nick Zammuto, Jason Treuting, Daisy Press, Grey McMurray @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Saturday, 2/25/12 & | Glasser, Roomful of Teeth @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Thursday, 3/1/12 | Mariam Wallentin, Mikael Karlsson, ACME @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Ecstatic Music Festival | |
| Friday, 2/24/12 | Heartless Bastards @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Arrow’ tour | |
| Parts & Labor @ 285 Kent Avenue | |
| 10 year anniversary/goodbye for Parts & Labor | |
| Caspian @ Studio at Webster Hall | |
| Friday, 2/24/12, | Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Saturday, 2/25/12 & | Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Sunday, 2/26/12 | Sharon Van Etten, Carter Tanton, Glass Ghost @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Tramp’ release parties – Show of the Week | |
| Saturday, 2/25/12 | Galactic @ Terminal 5 |
| The Twilight Sad @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| ‘No One Will Ever Know’ tour | |
| Islands @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| Sunday, 2/26/12 | YACHT @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Monday, 2/27/12 | Matt Pryor, The Front Bottoms @ Studio at Webster Hall |
| Tuesday, 2/28/12 | Lyle Lovett @ Concert Hall |
| ‘Rescue Me’ acoustic tour | |
| Fort Lean, Stepdad @ Santos | |
| ARMS @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Tuesday, 2/28/12 & | School of Seven Bells @ Mercury Lounge |
| Thursday, 3/1/12 | ‘Ghostory’ tour – Show of the Week |
March ’12
Saturday, 3/3/12: Bombay Bicycle Club, The Darcys @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Tuesday, 3/6/12: Fanfarlo @ Webster Hall
Wednesday, 3/7/12: Neon Indian @ Museum of Modern Art
Monday, 3/12/12: Django Django @ Santos
Friday & Saturday, 3/16-17/12: Justice @ Terminal 5
Wednesday, 3/21/12: Oberhofer @ Bowery Ballroom
Sunday, 3/25/12: L’Arc-en-Sein @ Madison Square Garden
Monday, 3/26/12: Tribes @ Mercury Lounge
Saturday, 3/31/12: Nero @ Roseland Ballroom
Ecstatic Music Festival @ Merkin Concert Hall, 2/1 – 3/28/12
Secret Policeman’s Ball’ benefit for Amnesty International @ Radio City Music Hall, 3/4/12
Sound City conference/festival, 3/12/12
| Friday, 3/2/12 | Cults, Mrs. Magician @ Maxwell’s |
| Saturday, 3/3/12 | Mike Doughty @ City Winery |
| Robbers On Hight Street @ Union Hall | |
| Versus @ Cake Shop | |
| Black Taxi, Courtesy Tier, The Wicked Tomorrow @ Bowery Electric | |
| Saturday, 3/3/12, | Bombay Bicycle Club, The Darcys @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Monday, 3/5/12 & | Bombay Bicycle Club, The Darcys @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Thursday, 3/9/12 | Bombay Bicycle Club, The Darcys @ Maxwell’s |
| ‘A Different Kind of Fix’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Sunday, 3/4/12 | Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, and many more @ Radio City Music Hall |
| ‘Secret Policeman’s Ball’ benefit for Amnesty International | |
| Jesse Elliott (of These United States) @ Public Assembly | |
| The Shivers @ Manhattan Inn* | |
| Sunday, 3/4/12 & | Jane’s Addiction, Black Box Revelation @ Paramount Theatre |
| Tuesday, 3/6/12 | Jane’s Addiction, Black Box Revelation @ Wellmont Theatre |
| Monday, 3/5/12 | Jozéf Wissem & Jim Jarmusch @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Tuesday, 3/6/12 | Fanfarlo @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Rooms Filled With Light’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| The So So Glos, Dinowalrus @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Oneontrix Point Never @ Studio at Webster Hall* | |
| Red Bull Music Academy Session | |
| Wednesday, 3/7/12 | The Kooks @ Terminal 5 |
| Neon Indian @ Museum of Modern Art – Show of the Week | |
| Matthew Good @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Rubbing Alcohol @ Glasslands | |
| Val Lopez from Bear Hands | |
| Thursday, 3/8/12 | Kaiser Chiefs, Transfer @ Roseland Ballroom |
| ‘Start the Revolution Without Me’ tour | |
| Theresa Anderson @ Joe’s Pub | |
| Wormburner @ Mercury Lounge | |
| I’m Turning Into @ The Delancey | |
| Friday, 3/9/12 | Young the Giant, Grouplove @ Terminal 5 |
| Freshkills @ Pianos | |
| ‘Raise Up the Sheets’ tour | |
| Saturday, 3/10/12 | They Might Be Giants, Jonathan Coulton @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 3/10/12 & | Django Django @ Glasslands |
| Monday, 3/12/12 | Django Django @ Santos – Show of the Week |
| Sunday, 3/11/12 | Dropkick Murphys @ The Paramount Theatre |
| Earthquake Party! @ Cake Shop | |
| Monday, 3/12/12 | The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys @ Madison Square Garden |
| Dutch Uncles @ Studio at Webster Hall | |
| ‘Sound City’ conference/festival heads from Liverpool to NYC | |
| Monday, 3/12/12 & | The Lemonheads @ Maxwell’s |
| Tuesday, 3/13/12 | Performing ‘It’s a Shame About Ray’ |
| Tuesday, 3/13/12 & | New Build @ Mercury Lounge |
| Wednesday, 3/14/12 | New band with members of Hot Chip & LCD Soundsystem |
| Wednesday, 3/14/12 | Jay Farrar, Anders Parker, Yim Yames & Bobby Bare Jr. @ Webster Hall |
| ‘The New Multitudes’ tribute to Woody Guthrie | |
| Lemonade @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Friday, 3/16/12 & | Justice @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 3/17/12 | ‘Audio, Video, Disco’ tour by electro-dance kings – Show of the Week |
| Saturday, 3/17/12, | Oneida, Rhys Chatham @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Tuesday, 3/20/12, | Dan Deacon with NOW Ensemble, The Calder Quartet @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Saturday, 3/24/12 & | The Mountain Goats, Anonymous 4 @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Wednesday, 3/28/12 | Music From China, Music From Copland House @ Merkin Concert Hall |
| Ecstatic Music Festival | |
| Sunday, 3/18/12 | EULA, I’m Turning Into @ Cake Shop |
| Tuesday, 3/20/12 | Odd Future @ Hammerstein Ballroom |
| ‘Odd Future Tape 2’ tour | |
| Lee Renaldo @ Other Music* | |
| Wednesday, 3/21/12 | Oberhofer @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Time Capsules II’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Wednesday, 3/21/12 & | The Wedding Present @ Bell House |
| Thursday, 3/22/12 | The Wedding Present @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Friday, 3/23/12 & | Fiona Apple @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Monday, 3/26/12 | Fiona Apple @ Bowery Ballroom |
| BrooklynVegan presents the return of Fiona Apple | |
| Saturday, 3/24/12 | Ben Kweller, Sleeper Agent, The Dig @ Irving Plaza |
| ‘Go Fly a Kite’ tour | |
| Sunday, 3/25/12 | L’Arc-en-Sein @ Madison Square Garden – Show of the Week |
| Big Scary, Bonfire Nights & many more @ Bell House | |
| The Aussie BBQ New York | |
| Geographer, Miniature Tigers, The Chain Gang of 1974 @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Psychedelic Furs @ Maxwell’s | |
| Sunday, 3/25/12 & | Gotye, Kimbra @ Terminal 5 |
| Tuesday, 3/27/12 | Gotye, Kimbra @ Webster Hall |
| Monday, 3/26/12 | Tribes @ Mercury Lounge |
| ‘Tribes’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Tuesday, 3/27/12 | Youth Lagoon @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Wednesday, 3/28/12 | The Joy Formidable, A Place To Bury Strangers @ Terminal 5 |
| First Aid Kit @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘The Lion’s Roar’ tour | |
| Simone Felice @ Mercury lounge | |
| ‘Simone Felice’ tour | |
| Wednesday, 3/28/12, | The Temper Trap @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Thursday, 3/29/12 & | The Temper Trap @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 3/30/12 | The Temper Trap @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Thursday, 3/29/12 | Delta Spirit, WATERS @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Delta Spirit’ tour | |
| The Courtesy Tier @ Knitting Factory | |
| Thursday, 3/29/12 & | Metronomy, Friends @ Irving Plaza |
| Friday, 3/30/12 | |
| Friday, 3/30/12 | Chuck Ragan, Dan Andriano, Tommy Gabel & Cory Brannan @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Revival Tour’ | |
| Friday, 3/30/12 & | of Montreal, Computer Magic, Hard Nipsi @ Webster Hall |
| Saturday, 3/31/12 | of Montreal, Loney Dear, Kishi Bashi @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Paralytic Stalks’ tour | |
| Saturday, 3/31/12 | NERO @ Roseland Ballroom |
| ‘Second Reality’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Neckbeard Telecaster, Grooms, Tim Harrington @ Death by Audio | |
| 5th anniversary of Death by Audio |
April ’12
Tuesday-Wednesday, 4/3-4/12: Magnetic Fields, DeVotchKa @ Beacon Theatre
Saturday, 4/7/12: Jones Street Station, The Girls @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday-Tuesday, 4/10-17/12: Kraftwerk @ Museum of Modern Art
Thursday, 4/12/12: White Rabbits @ Webster Hall
Wednesday, 4/18/12: Bad Brains, GZA @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Wednesday, 4/25/12: We Are Scientists @ Brooklyn Bowl
Friday-Sunday, 4/27-29/12: Death Cab for Cutie @ Beacon Theatre
Brain-Cave Festival @ Bell House, 4/5 & 7/12
Chickfactor Festival @ Bell House, 4/10-12/12
Planned Parenthood Benefit @ Highline Ballroom, 4/16/12
Record Store Day, 4/21/12
WBAR-B-Q @ Barnard College, 4/28/12
Benefit for Lucinda’s Kids @ Bowery Electric, 4/29-30/12
| Sunday, 4/1/12 | Wild Flag, Hospitality @ Webster Hall |
| Monday, 4/2/12 | Andrew W.K. @ Webster Hall |
| Playing ‘I Get Wet’ in its entirety | |
| Friends @ Le Baron* | |
| Tuesday, 4/3/12 | Now, Now @ Cameo |
| ‘Threads’ tour | |
| Tuesday, 4/3/12 & | Magnetic Fields, DeVotchKa @ Beacon Theatre |
| Wednesday, 4/4/12 | ‘Love At the Bottom of the Sea’ tour – Show of the Week |
| Wednesday, 4/4/12 | The Naked & Famous, Vacationer, Now, Now @ Terminal 5 |
| Arthur’s Landing, The Forms, First Nature & more @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| Walk the Moon, We Barbarians @ Santos Party House | |
| Thursday, 4/5/12 | Yuksek @ Santos Party House |
| Thursday, 4/5/12 & | Of Monsters and Men @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 4/6/12 | Of Monsters and Men @ Webster Hall |
| Thursday, 4/5/12 & | Screaming Females @ Maxwell’s |
| Friday, 4/6/12 | Screaming Females @ Bell House |
| Thursday, 4/5/12 & | Shilpa Ray, She Keeps Bees, EULA & more @ Bell House |
| Saturday, 4/7/12 | Monogold, Caged Animals, Quiet Loudly & more @ Bell House |
| Brain-Cave Festival | |
| Friday, 4/6/12 | Bush Tetras @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Friday, 4/6/12 & |
The Rapture @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 4/7/12 | The Rapture @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 4/6/12 & | The War On Drugs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Sunday, 4/8/12 | The War On Drugs @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 4/7/12 | Jones Street Station, The Girls @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| ‘The Girls’ includes Alison Brie of NBC’s ‘Community’ – JSS have gone so Hollywood… – Show of the Week | |
| Grant Hart, Freshkills @ Union Pool | |
| Saturday, 4/7/12 & | Nada Surf, An Horse @ Webster Hall |
| Sunday, 4/8/12 | Nada Surf, An Horse @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| ‘The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy’ tour | |
| Tuesday, 4/10/12 & | Pulp @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Wednesday, 4/11/12 | |
| Tuesday, 4/10/12, | Black Tambourine, Versus & more @ Bell House |
| Wednesday, 4/11/12 & | The Aisler Set, Pipas & more @ Bell House |
| Thursday, 4/12/12 | Stevie Jackson, Honey Bunch & more @ Bell House |
| Chickfactor Festival | |
| Tuesday, 4/10/12 to | Kraftwerk @ Museum of Modern Art |
| Tuesday, 4/17/12 | Iconic inventors of electronic music play an album each night – so mach schnell, as you must get back to MoMA in time to see Kraftwerk – Show of the Week |
| Wednesday, 4/11/12 | Mastodon, Opeth @ Roseland Ballroom |
| The Ting Tings @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘Sound From Nowheresville’ tour | |
| Javelin, Psychobuildings @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Thursday, 4/12/12 | White Rabbits @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Milk Famous’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Tanlines @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Friday, 4/13/12 | Doveman w/ Aaron & Bryce Dessner @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| ‘The Burgundy Stain Sessions’ | |
| The Cribs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Grouper, Julianna Barwick @ Guggenheim Museum | |
| DOM, Zambri @ Glasslands | |
| Friday, 4/13/12 & | Snow Patrol, Ed Sheeran, Jonquil @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 4/14/12 | Snow Patrol, Ed Sheeran @ Terminal 5 |
| ‘Fallen Empires’ tour | |
| Saturday, 4/14/12 | Dawn Landes, Cheyenne Marie Mize, Donora @ Cameo |
| White Mystery, EULA @ Public Assembly | |
| Erika Spring @ Shea Stadium | |
| Jonquil, Xylos, Darlings @ Union Pool* | |
| Monday, 4/16/12 | Asobi Seksu @ Highline Ballroom |
| Benefit for Planned Parenthood | |
| Tuesday, 4/17/12 | These United States, Trampled By Turtles @ Webster Hall |
| White Mystery, EULA, Wojcik @ Public Assembly | |
| Whatever blog party | |
| Tuesday, 4/17/12 & | Bad Brains, H20 @ Irving Plaza |
| Wednesday, 4/18/12 | Bad Brains, GZA @ Music Hall of Williamsburg – Show of the Week |
| Wednesday, 4/18/12 | Eleanor Friedberger, Hospitality @ Bell House |
| The Yes Way, Beast Make Bomb @ Knitting Factory | |
| Thursday. 4/19/12 | Tobacco @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 4/20/12 | Rodrigo y Gabriela @ Radio City Music Hall |
| ‘Area 52’ tour | |
| Lucero @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘Women & Work’ tour | |
| Portugal. The Man, The Lonely Forest @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Friday, 4/20/12 & | Chilly Gonzales @ Bell House |
| Saturday, 4/21/12 | Chilly Gonzales @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| ‘Piano talk’ shows | |
| Saturday, 4/21/12 | Wild Nothing, The Men, Psychic Ills & more @ Other Music* |
| Mike Doughty, Yann Tiersen, Everest @ J&R Music World* | |
| The Paul Collins Beat, Supertouch, Night Birds, Joyce Manor @ Generation Records* | |
| Memoryhouse, Mattison @ Permanent Records* | |
| Woodsman, Mike Wexler @ Kim’s Video & Music* | |
| Portugal. The Man @ Vintage Vinyl* | |
| Mates of State @ Sound Fix Records* | |
| Grace Reed, The Lumineers & more @ Looney Tunes Records* | |
| Record Store Day | |
| Esperanza Spalding @ Webster Hall | |
| Dirty Beaches, Widowspeak & more @ Shea Stadium | |
| NewtownRadio.com launch party | |
| Mike Doughty @ City Winery | |
| Robbers On High Street, Diamond Doves @ Mercury Lounge | |
| EULA @ Fontana’s | |
| Via Audio @ Rockwood Music Hall* | |
| Saturday, 4/21/12, | Memoryhouse @ Public Assembly |
| Memoryhouse, Mattison @ Permanent Records* | |
| ‘The Slideshow Effect’ tour | |
| Sunday, 4/22/12 & | Washed Out, Memoryhouse @ Highline Ballroom |
| Monday, 4/23/12 | Washed Out @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Sunday, 4/22/12 | The Drums @ Webster Hall |
| Monday, 4/23/12 & | fun. @ iHeartRadio Theater* |
| Wednesday, 4/25/12 | Daughtry @ iHeartRadio Theater* |
| Tuesday, 4/24/12 to | Miike Snow, Penguin Prison @ Terminal 5 |
| Thursday, 4/26/12 | ‘Happy To You’ tour |
| Wednesday, 4/25/12 | We Are Scientists @ Brooklyn Bowl* – Show of the Week |
| Wednesday, 4/25/12 & | Suzanne Vega, Duncan Sheik @ Highline Ballroom |
| Thursday, 4/26/12 | |
| Thursday, 4/26/12 | The Hives @ Studio at Webster Hall |
| The Wombats @ Webster Hall | |
| Twin Shadow @ Glasslands | |
| Friday, 4/27/12 | Jack White @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Blunderbuss’ release party that sold out before it was announced… | |
| The Boxer Rebellion, Canon Blue @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| WU LYF @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Cold Cave @ Guggenheim Museum | |
| Friday, 4/27/12 to | Death Cab for Cutie, Youth Lagoon @ Beacon Theatre |
| Sunday, 4/29/12 | Indie big-shots go orchestral – Show of the Week |
| Saturday, 4/28/12 | Squeeze, English Beat @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Dâm-FunK, Bush Tetras, Widowspeak & more @ Barnard College* | |
| WBAR-B-Q | |
| The Features @ Knitting Factory | |
| The Lost Patrol @ Uncle Mike’s | |
| Sunday. 4/29/12 | Tall Tall Trees @ Manhattan Inn* |
| Sunday, 4/29/12 & | Marah, Jesse Malin & more @ Bowery Electric |
| Monday, 4/30/12 | HR, Tommy Stinson & more @ Bowery Electric |
| Benefit for the children of the recently departed Lucinda Gallagher | |
| Sunday, 4/29/12 to | The Shins @ Terminal 5 |
| Tuesday, 5/1/12 | ‘Port of Morrow’ tour |
May ‘12
Friday, 5/4/12: Andrew Bird, Patrick Watson @ Beacon Theatre
Saturday, 5/5/12: School of Seven Bells, EXITMUSIC @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday-Wednesday, 5/8-9/12: Bear In Heaven @ Bowery Ballroom & Music Hall of Williamsburg
Thursday, 5/10/12: Zola Jesus @ Guggenheim
Tuesday, 5/15/12: Beach House @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, 5/16/12: Violens @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Monday, 5/21/12: El-P @ Santos Party House
Wednesday, 5/23/12: The Afghan Whigs @ Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, 5/29-30/12: Foster the People, The Kooks, Kimbra @ Central Park SummerStage
‘Occupy Guitarmy’ @ Union Square Park, 5/1/12
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry @ Brooklyn Academy of Music. 5/3-5/12
NYC Popfest, 5/17-20/12
Electric Daisy New York @ MetLife Stadium, 5/18-20/12
Great Googa Mooga @ Prospect Park Bandshell, 5/19-20/12
The 78 Project benefit for The Music Makes Relief Foundation @ City Winery, 5/20/12
Deli Fest, 5/23-26/12
DylandFest @ Irving Plaza, 5/24-25/12
| Tuesday, 5/1/12 | Dan Deacon, Das Racist & more @ Union Square Park* |
| ‘Occupy Guitarmy’ | |
| Tuesday, 5/1/12 & | Carrie Underwood @ iHeartRadio Theater* |
| Thursday, 5/3/12 | B.o.B. @ iHeartRadio Theater* |
| Tuesday, 5/1/12, | Doe Paoro, Rewards @ Cameo |
| Tuesday, 5/8/12 & | Doe Paoro @ Cameo |
| Tuesday, 5/15/12 | Doe Paoro @ Cameo |
| Wednesday, 5/2/12 | Marilyn Manson, The Pretty Recekless @ Wellmont Theatre |
| ‘Born Villain’ tour | |
| Electric Guest @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Mike Watt w/ J Mascis & Murph @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| special concert & reading by iconic bassman – backed up by 2/3 of Dinosaur Jr. | |
| Emanuel & The Fear @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Thursday, 5/3/12 | Light Asylum @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Little Dragon @ Le Baron* | |
| Dinosaur Features, I’m Turning Into, The Hairs @ Shea Stadium | |
| Thursday, 5/3/12 & | We Were Promised Jetpacks, Breton, Fort Lean @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Wednesday, 5/4/12 | We Were Promised Jetpacks, Breton, Fort Lean @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Thursday, 5/3/12 to | Crossing Brooklyn Ferry |
| Saturday, 5/5/12 | St. Vincent, Beirut, The Walkmen, My Brightest Diamond, Sharon Van Etten, Buke and Gase & many more @ Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| Thursday, 5/3/12, | The Spinto Band, Via Audio @ The Rock Shop |
| Thursday, 5/10/12, | The Spinto Band, backwords @ The Rock Shop |
| Thursday, 5/17/12 & | The Spinto Band, Sea of Bees @ The Rock Shop |
| Thursday, 5/24/12 | The Spinto Band @ The Rock Shop |
| ‘Shy Pursuit’ residency | |
| Friday, 5/4/12 | Xiu Xiu @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Always’ tour | |
| Spectrals @ Glasslands | |
| Friday, 5/4/12 & | Andrew Bird, Patrick Watson @ Beacon Theatre |
| Saturday, 5/5/12 | Andrew Bird, Tift Merritt @ Beacon Theatre |
| ‘Break It Yourself’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Friday, 5/4/12 & | Andrew Bird, Patrick Watson @ Beacon Theatre |
| Saturday, 5/5/12 | Patrick Watson @ Manhattan Inn* |
| ‘Adventures In Your Own Backyard’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Saturday, 5/5/12 | Feist, Timber Timbre @ Radio City Music Hall |
| School of Seven Bells, EXITMUSIC @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
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| ‘Ghostory’ & ‘Passage’ tours – Show of the Week | |
| K-Holes, Kid Congo Powers & more @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| ‘Welcome Back Toubin’ | |
| Sunday, 5/6/12 | Scissor Sisters @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Magic Hour’ tour | |
| Shearwater, Dawn Landes, Ray Rizzo @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| ‘Animal Joy’ tour | |
| Monday, 5/7/12 | Spiritualized, Nikki Lane @ Terminal 5 |
| Tuesday, 5/8/12 | Florence & The Machine, Blood Orange @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Sean Bones @ Rock Shop | |
| ‘Buzzards Boy’ release party | |
| Amelia Gray, Hospitality @ Public Assembly* | |
| Tuesday, 5/8/12 & | Edward Sharpe @ The Magnetic Zeros @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Wednesday, 5/9/12 | ‘Here’ tour |
| Tuesday, 5/8/12 & | Bear In Heaven @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Wednesday, 5/9/12 | Bear In Heaven @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| ‘I Love You, It’s Cool’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Wednesday, 5/9/12 | Rufus Wainwright @ Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| ‘Out of the Game’ tour | |
| The Avett Brothers @ Terminal 5 | |
| Wednesday, 5/9/12 & | We Are Serenades @ Mercury Lounge |
| Friday, 5/11/12 | We Are Serenades @ Knitting Factory |
| ‘Criminal Heaven’ tour by side-project of Adam Olenius of Shout Out Louds | |
| Thursday, 5/10/12 | M83, I Break Horses @ Terminal 5 |
| First of three massive, sold-out NYC shows this summer by blowin’ up M83 | |
| Mark Lanegan @ Webster Hall | |
| Zola Jesus @ Guggenheim |
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| special show at Guggenheim – Show of the Week | |
| Zambri, Computer Magic @ Public Assembly | |
| ‘House of Baasa’ tour | |
| American Royalty, Rubbing Alcohol @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Friday, 5/11/12 | M. Ward, Lee Renaldo @ Webster Hall |
| ‘A Wasteland Companion’ tour | |
| Norah Jones @ Bell House | |
| Saturday, 5/12/12 | Neon Indian @ Terminal 5 |
| Sunday, 5/13/12 | Patti Smith, Lucy Wainwright Roche @ City Winery |
| special acoustic Mother’s Day show | |
| Rusko @ Terminal 5 | |
| Tuesday, 5/15/12 | Beach House @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Bloom’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Hundred In the Hands, Erika Spring @ Glasslands | |
| CHAPPO @ Dominion | |
| ‘Moonwater’ release party | |
| Wednesday, 5/16/12 | The Gaslight Anthem @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Violens @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
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| ‘True’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Wednesday, 5/16/12 & | Willie Nelson & Family @ The Wellmont Theatre |
| Thursday, 5/17/12 | ‘Heroes’ tour |
| Thursday, 5/17/12 | Ingrid Michaelson, Scars on 45 @ Terminal 5 |
| Caveman, NewVillager @ Brooklyn Museum | |
| ‘AudioPhile’ | |
| VHS or Beta @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| NYC Popfest | |
| Thursday, 5/17/12, | The Marshmallows, Heaven’s Gate & more @ Cake Shop |
| Friday, 5/18/12, | Saturday Looks Good To Me, The Wild Moccasins @ Knitting Factory |
| Saturday, 5/19/12 & | Habibi, Pale Lights & more @ Spike Hill* |
| Comet Gain, Seapony & more @ Public Assembly | |
| Sunday, 5/20/12 | Allo Darlin, Ladybug Transistor, The Wave Picture & more @ Littlefield |
| Friday, 5/18/12 & | Paul Weller @ Best Buy Theater |
| Saturday, 5/19/12 | ‘Sonic Kicks’ tour |
| Friday, 5/18/12 to | Electric Daisy New York |
| Sunday, 5/20/12 | Armin van Buuren, Avicii, Afrojack, Bassnectar, Calvin Harris & many more @ MetLife Stadium |
| Friday, 5/18/12 & | Mike Doughty @ Maxwell’s |
| Friday, 5/25/12 | Mike Doughty @ City Winery |
| reading & concert | |
| Saturday, 5/19/12 | Primus @ The Paramount |
| Saturday, 5/19/12 | Great Googa Mooga |
| Sunday, 5/20/12 | Hall & Oates, The Roots, Fitz & The Tantrums, Holy Ghost! & many more @ Prospect Park Bandshell* – see more in our preview here |
| Saturday, 5/19/12 & | Maps & Atlases @ Glasslands |
| Monday, 5/21/12 | Maps & Atlaes, The Big Sleep @ Studio at Webster Hall |
| ‘Beware and Be Grateful’ tour | |
| Sunday, 5/20/12 | David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti tribute @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Dawn Landes, Vandaveer & more @ City Winery | |
| The 78 Project benefit for The Music Maker Relief Foundation | |
| Monday, 5/21/12 | El-P @ Santos Party House |
| ‘Cancer4Cure’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Dry the River @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Monday, 5/21/12 & | Jack White, Alabama Shakes @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Tuesday, 5/22/12 | ‘Blunderbuss’ tour |
| Tuesday, 5/22/12 | Gossip @ Terminal 5 |
| ‘A Joyful Noise’ tour | |
| Garbage @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘Not Your Kind of People’ tour | |
| Santigold @ Museum of Modern Art | |
| MoMA Garden Party | |
| Wednesday, 5/23/12 | The Polyphonic Spree @ Webster Hall |
| Crystal Fighters, Is Tropical @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| The Afghan Whigs @ Bowery Ballroom |
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| First show in thirteen years by The Afghan Whigs – Show of the Week | |
| Deli Fest | |
| Wednesday, 5/23/12, | Zambri, Caged Animals & more @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Grace Weber, Robin Bacio & more @ Spike Hill | |
| Thursday, 5/24/12, | Steel Phantoms, Futurist & more @ Public Assembly (front room) |
| Wazu, Ohnomoon & more @ Public Assembly (back room) | |
| Tall Tall Trees, Hurrah! A Bolt of Light! & more @ Spike Hill | |
| Friday, 5/25/12 & | The Can’t Tells, The Denzels & more @ Spike Hill |
| Saturday, 5/26/12 | Lucius, ARMS & more @ Cameo |
| Saturday, 5/26/12 | Apollo Run, Hurrah! A Bolt of Light! & more @ Spike Hill |
| Thursday, 5/24/12 | Hooray For Earth @ Glasslands |
| Thursday, 5/24/12 & | Adam Green, Fabrizio Moretti, Nicole Atkins & more @ Irving Plaza |
| Friday, 5/25/12 | DylanFest |
| Thursday, 5/24/12 & | that dog., Fred Armisen @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 5/25/12 | that dog., Kurt Braunohler @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 5/25/12 | Simian Mobile Disco, Lindstrøm @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Unpatterns’ tour | |
| The Dig @ Glasslands | |
| ‘Midnight Flowers’ release party | |
| The Static Jacks, Beast Make Bomb & more @ Shea Stadium | |
| Friday, 5/25/12 & | P.S. I Love You @ Mercury Lounge |
| Saturday, 5/26/12 | P.S. I Love You @ Glasslands |
| ‘Death Dreams’ tour | |
| Tuesday, 5/29/12 & | Foster the People, The Kooks, Kimbra @ Central Park SummerStage |
| Wednesday, 5/30/12 | Two sold-out dates of highly-anticipated tour – Show of the Week |
| Wednesday, 5/30/12 | Great Lake Swimmers @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘New Wild Everywhere’ tour | |
| OFF!, The Bronx @ Bell House* | |
| I Break Horses @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Thursday, 5/31/12 | Regina Spektor @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Special show streamed by NPR | |
| Amanda Palmer @ 55 9th St.* | |
| Mrs. Neil Gaiman celebrates record-breaking Kickstarter campaign | |
| Thurston Moore @ Roulette | |
| Apparat @ Gramercy Theatre | |
| Thursday, 5/31/12 & | Radiohead, Caribou @ Prudential Center |
| Friday, 6/1/12 |
June ’12
Saturday, 6/2/12: Gogol Bordello, Two Gallants @ The Wellmont Theatre
Friday, 6/8/12: The Cult, Against Me! @ Terminal 5
Satuday, 6/9/12: Thieving Irons @ Mercury Lounge
Wednesday, 6/13/12: Metric @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Thursday-Friday, 6/14-15/12: Mogwai @ Webster Hall
Thursday-Friday, 6/28-29/12: Tenavious D @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Saturday, 6/30/12: White Rabbits, We Barbarians @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Hot 97 Summer Jam @ MetLife Stadiu, 6/3/12
Black Music Month @ Apple Stores, 6/5-30/12
Celebrate Brooklyn! @ Prospect Park Bandshell, 6/5 – 8/11/12
SummerStage, 6/5 – 8/30/12
Gowanus Canal Conservancy fundraiser @ Green Building, 6/6/12
Zombie Prom @ Irving Plaza, 6/9/12
Madison Square BBQ @ Madison Square Park, 6/9-10/12
Northside Festival, 6/14-17/12
River-to-River Festival, 6/17 – 7/15/12
Vans House Parties @ House of Vans, 6/20 – 8/29/12
Hillstock Festival, 6/22-24/12
Governors Ball @ Randall’s Island, 6/23-24/12
Punk Island @ Governors Island, 6/24/12
Spy Music Festival, 6/29 – 7/15/12
Benefit for South Street Seaport, 6/30/12
| Friday, 6/1/12 | tUnE-yArDs, Micachu & The Shapes, Delicate Steve @ Terminal 5 |
| The Mystery Lights @ Skipper’s Bar* | |
| Saturday, 6/2/12 | Gogol Bordello, Two Gallants @ The Wellmont Theatre – Show of the Week |
| Sunday, 6/3/12 | Hot 97 Summer Jam |
| Nicki Minaj, Nas, Lauryn Hill, Rick Ross and more at MetLife Stadium | |
| Azealia Banks @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Monday, 6/4/12 | Kendrick Lamar @ Santos Party House* |
| Dionysos @ (le) Poisson Rouge* | |
| Micachu & The Shapes, Zambri @ Glasslands | |
| Tuesday, 6/5/12 | Jimmy Cliff @ Prospect Park Bandshell* |
| Kick-off of Celebrate Brooklyn! concert season at Prospect Park Bandshell | |
| Wyclef Jean, Karl Denson, G. Love & Special Sauce & many more @ Central Park SummerStage | |
| Kickoff benefit for SummerStage – honoring the music of Jimi Hendrix | |
| The Temper Trap, School of Seven Bells @ Terminal 5 | |
| ‘The Temper Trap’ tour | |
| Man Man, Diamond Doves @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Blind Pilot, Dan Mangan @ Webster Hall | |
| Tuesday, 6/5/12 & | The Dandy Warhols @ Irving Plaza |
| Wednesday, 6/6/12 | The Dandy Warhols @ The Bell House |
| ‘This Machine’ tour | |
| Tuesday, 6/5/12, | Apollo the Great, Freeway, Sean Price @ Apple Store SoHo* |
| Thursday, 6/7/12, | Big K.R.I.T. @ Apple Store West 14th Street* |
| Monday, 6/11/12, | Harry Belafonte @ Apple Store Upper West Side* |
| Monday, 6/18/12, | Ryan Show @ Apple Store SoHo* |
| Ziggy Marley @ Apple Store Upper West Side* | |
| Tuesday, 6/19/12, | Beanie Sigel @ Apple Store SoHo* |
| Trip Lee @ Apple Store West 14th Street* | |
| Thursday, 6/21/12, | Robert Glasper @ Apple Store West 14th Street* |
| Tuesday, 6/26/12 & | Jesse Boykins III @ Apple Store West 14th Street* |
| Sautrday, 6/30/12 | Slaughterhouse @ Apple Store West 14th Street* |
| ‘Black Music Month’ at Apple Stores around the country | |
| Wednesday, 6/6/12 | Dawn Landes, Diamond Doves @ Green Building |
| Gowanus Canal Conservacy fundraiser | |
| The Walkmen @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| ‘Heaven’ release party | |
| The Cribs @ Santos Party House | |
| ‘Belly of the Beast’ tour – note: just moved to Santos | |
| Dada Life @ secret location* | |
| Thursday, 6/7/12 | ESG, Ava Luna @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Thursday, 6/7/12, | Jayne County & The Electric Chairs and more @ Bowery Electric |
| Friday, 6/8/12, | Billy Rath’s Street Pirates and more @ Bowery Electric |
| Saturday, 6/9/12 | The Nihilistics and more @ Bowery Electric |
| & | Band of Outsiders and more @ Arlene’s Grocery |
| Sunday, 6/10/12 | Eddie Clendening & The Blue Ribbon Boys and more @ Bowery Electric |
| Alumni Reunion for legendary club Max’s Kansas City | |
| Friday, 6/8/12 | The Cult, Against Me!, The Icarus Line @ Terminal 5 |
| ‘Choice of Weapon’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Saturday, 6/9/12 | GWAR @ Irving Plaza |
| ‘Zombie Prom’ | |
| Thieving Irons @ Mercury Lounge |
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| ‘Behold, the Dreamer’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Rain Machine, Eric Copeland @ Union Pool* | |
| Saturday, 6/9/12 & | Southern Cultura On the Skids, JC Brooks & more @ Madison Square Park* |
| Sunday, 6/10/12 | Alejandro Escovedo, The Revelations & more @ Madison Square Park* |
| Madison Square BBQ party | |
| Sunday, 6/10/12 | Idle Warship @ Herbert Von King Park* |
| Bad Girlfriend @ Manhattan Inn* | |
| Sunday, 6/10/12 & | Tokyo Police Club, Hollerado @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Monday, 6/11/12 | Foster the People, Tokyo Police Club, Kimbra @ Central Park SummerStage |
| Third helping of FTP for NYC at CSS | |
| Monday, 6/11/12 & | Mystery Jets @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Friday, 6/15/12 | Keane, Mystery Jets @ Beacon Theatre |
| ‘Strangeland’ & ‘Radland’ tours | |
| Tuesday. 6/12/12 | New York Pops with Ozomatli @ Central Park SummerStage* |
| Jonathan Richman @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Tuesday, 6/12/12 & | Dave Matthews Band, Fitz & The Tantrums @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater |
| Wednesday, 6/13/12 | |
| Wednesday, 6/13/12 | Metric @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Special fans-only ‘Synthetica’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| The Maccabees, Wild Belle @ Webster Hall | |
| Wavves @ Bowery Hotel* | |
| 1800 Tequila launch party | |
| Alkaline Trio @ The Bell House | |
| EULA, Beast Make Bomb @ Public Assembly (back room) | |
| Thursday, 6/14/12 | Laura Marling, Michael Kiwanuka, Willy Mason @ Prospect Park Bandshell* |
| Lisa Marie Presley @ Irving Plaza | |
| Langhorne Slim @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Theresa Andersson, Lucius @ The Bell House | |
| ‘Street Parade’ tour | |
| With Lions, Via Audio @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| Thursday, 6/14/12 & | Mogwai, Balam Acab @ Webster Hall |
| Friday, 6/15/12 | Thrice-delayed East Coast tour – Show of the Week |
| Thursday, 6/14/12 & | Lisa Hannigan @ Highline Ballroom |
| Friday, 6/15/12 | |
| Thursday, 6/14/12 to | Northside Festival |
| Sunday, 6/17/12 | L Magazine’s festival at venues across Williamsburg & Greenpoint – QRO preview |
| Friday, 6/15/12 | Niki & The Dove @ Tribeca Grand* |
| Saturday, 6/16/12 | Dawes, Kurt Vile & The Violators @ Central Perk SummerStage* |
| Balkan Beat Box @ Prospect Park Bandshell* | |
| Saturday, 6/16/12 & | fun., Now, Now @ Terminal 5 |
| Sunday, 6/17/12 | ‘Some Nights’ tour |
| Sunday, 6/17/12 | Bang On a Can Marathon @ World Financial Center Plaza* |
| Thurston Moore, David Longstreeth, Steve Reich, Kaki King & many more at annual twelve-hour kick-off to River-to-River Festival | |
| Blue Note Jazz Festival @ Central Park SummerStage* | |
| Monday, 6/18/12 & | Future of the Left @ Saint Vitus |
| Tuesday, 6/19/12 | Future of the Left @ Generation Records* |
| Tuesday, 6/19/12 | Smashing Pumpkins @ iHeartRadio Theater* |
| Intimate release party for ‘Oceania’ – Show of the Week | |
| Ani DiFranco @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Wintersleep @ Knitting Factory | |
| Walk the Moon @ Mercury Lounge | |
| AraabMUSIK, Das Racist @ Red Hook Park* | |
| Hooray For Earth @ Tammany Hall | |
| Tuesday, 6/19/12 & | The Tallest Man On Earth @ Town Hall |
| Wednesday, 6/20/12 | |
| Wednesday, 6/20/12 | The Rapture, Tanlines @ House of Vans* |
| Kick off of second Vans House Parties summer season – Show of the Week | |
| Comedy Central in the Park @ Central Park SummerStage* | |
| Liars @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘WIXIW’ tour | |
| Wednesday, 6/20/12 & | Bonnie Raitt @ Beacon Theatre |
| Thursday, 6/21/12 | ‘Slipstream’ tour |
| Thursday, 6/21/12 | Deer Tick, Johnny Corndawg @ Red Hook Park* |
| Lemonade, Small Black @ Brooklyn Museum | |
| Thursday, 6/21/12 & | Like Pioneers, Future of What @ Cameo |
| Friday, 6/22/12 | Like Pioneers @ Pianos |
| ‘Oh, Magic’ tour by ex-Bound Stems | |
| Thursday, 6/21/12, | Los Campesinos!, Yellow Ostrich @ Maxwell’s |
| Friday, 6/22/12 & | Los Campesinos!, Yellow Ostrich @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Saturday, 6/23/12 | Los Campesinos!, Yellow Ostrich @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Three nights of Los Camp! – it’s never enough! | |
| Friday, 6/22/12 | Hot Chelle Rae @ PNC Bank Arts Center |
| The Hives @ Terminal 5 | |
| ‘Lex Hives’ tour | |
| Keb’ Mo’ @ Prospect Park Bandshell* | |
| The Miracles Club @ South Street Seaport* | |
| Kick-off to Seaport Music season | |
| Slowdance, Weeknight @ Skipper’s* | |
| Seaport after-party | |
| Hillstock Festival | |
| Friday, 6/22/12, | Math the Band, Ava Luna & many more @ Free Candy |
| Saturday, 6/23/12 & | The Suzan, The Honey Dos & many more @ 106 Emerson Place* |
| Sunday, 6/24/12 | Archipelago, Emilyn Brodsky & many more @ 402 Park Avenue* |
| Saturday, 6/23/12 | Ministry @ Best Buy Theatre |
| Ghostface Killah @ Prospect Park Bandshell* | |
| Doveman, Alexi Murdoch @ Bryant Park* | |
| Turing Machine, Midnight Magic, Violent Bullshit @ Union Pool* | |
| Saturday, 6/23/12 & | Governors Ball |
| Sunday, 6/24/12 | Beck, Passion Pit, Fiona Apple & many more on Randall’s Island – QRO preview |
| Saturday, 6/23/12 & | Nobody Beats the Drum, Cubic Zirconia @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Sunday, 6/24/12 | Penguin Prison, Art Vs. Science @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Official Governors Ball after-parties | |
| Sunday, 6/24/12 | ‘Punk Island’ @ Governors Island* |
| Alabama Shakes, Diamond Rugs, Robert Ellis @ Central Park SummerStage* | |
| Body Language @ South Street Seaport* | |
| Tuesday, 6/26/12 | Childish Gambino @ Prospect Park Bandshell |
| Portland Cello Project @ City Winery* | |
| Wednesday, 6/27/12 & | Japandroids, Cadence Weapon @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Thursday, 6/28/12 | ‘Celebration Rock’ tour |
| Thursday, 6/28/12 | Fishbone @ Metrotech Commons* |
| Ra Ra Riot, Lissy Trullie @ The Box | |
| Launch party for ThrillCall mobile app | |
| EXITMUSIC @ Mercury Lounge | |
| The Lost Patrol @ Tammany Hall | |
| Sam Prekop @ BAMcafé* | |
| Thursday, 6/28/12 & | Tenacious D, The Sights @ Hammerstein Ballroom |
| Friday, 6/29/12 | ‘Rise of the Fenix’ tour – Show of the Week |
| Friday, 6/29/12 | Veronica Falls, The People’s Temple @ South Street Seaport* |
| Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue @ Prospect Park Bandshell* | |
| Akron/Family @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Snowden @ Glasslands | |
| Saturday, 6/30/12 | White Rabbits, We Barbarians @ Music Hall of Williamsburg* |
| ‘Converse Rubber Tracks Live’ – Show of the Week | |
| Amanda Palmer @ South Street Seaport | |
| Benefit for South Street Seaport | |
| Ecstatic Summer @ World Financial Center Plaza* | |
| The Big Sleep @ Mercury Lounge |
| Friday, 6/29/12 to |
Spy Music Festival |
| Sunday, 7/15/12 | Rhys Chatham, Eugene Chadbourne & more @ venues across the city |
July ’12
Friday, 7/6/12: Patrick Watson, Loney, Dear @ South Street Seaport
Saturday, 7/7/12: Scissor Sisters, Rye Rye @ Terminal 5
Thursday, 7/12/12: George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic @ South Street Seaport
Friday, 7/13/12: El-P @ Irving Plaza
Thursday, 7/19/12: OK Go, Eugene Mirman & Friends @ Williamsburg Park
Saturday, 7/21/12: Sleigh Bells @ Pier 63
Monday, 7/23/12: The Dirty Heads, Matisyahu @ The Paramount
Thursday, 7/26/12: Oberhofer, The Soft Pack @ Pier 84 – cancelled
Tuesday, 7/31/12: Sigur Rós, Perfume Genius @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Celebrate Brooklyn! @ Prospect Park Bandshell, 6/5 – 8/11/12
SummerStage, 6/5 – 8/30/12
River-to-River Festival, 6/17 – 7/15/12
Vans House Parties @ House of Vans, 6/20 – 8/29/12
Spy Music Festival, 6/29 – 7/15/12
CBGB Festival, 7/5-8/12
Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, 7/9-14/12
Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival @ World Financial Center Plaza, 7/11-12/12
RiverRocks @ Pier 84, 7/12 – 8/9/12
Bushwick Walkabout @ Brooklyn Fireproof, 7/13-14/12
4knots Festival @ South Street Seaport, 7/14/12
Cake Shop benefit shows @ Cake Shop, 7/14 & 19/12
Benefit for ‘More Than Me’ Foundation @ Brooklyn Bowl, 7/15/12
Converse Rubber Tracks, 7/21 – 8/23/12
Catalpa Festival @ Randall’s Island, 7/28-29/12
| Tuesday, 7/3/12 | Norah Jones @ Central Park SummerStage |
| Wednesday, 7/4/12 | Lil Jon, Wyclef Jean & more @ Times Square* |
| Wednesday, 7/4/12, | Railbird @ Pete’s Candy Store* |
| Wednesday, 7/11/12, | Railbird @ Pete’s Candy Store* |
| Wednesday, 7/18/12 & | Railbird @ Pete’s Candy Store* |
| Wednesday, 7/25/12 | Railbird @ Pete’s Candy Store* |
| Thursday, 7/5/12 | Beat Connection, White Arrows @ Webster Hall |
| Thursday, 7/5/12 to | CBGB Festival |
| Sunday, 7/8/12 | Guided by Voices, Cro-Mags, Glen Matlock and more play venues across the Big Apple to celebrate the classic one that ain’t there any more – QRO preview |
| Friday, 7/6/12 | Roger Waters’ The Wall @ Yankee Stadium |
| Patrick Watson, Loney, Dear @ South Street Seaport – Show of the Week | |
| Friday, 7/6/12 & | Scissor Sisters, Rye Rye @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 7/7/12 | ‘Magic Hour’ tour – Show of the Week |
| Saturday, 7/7/12 | Plastiq Passion, Mon Khmer @ Brooklyn Museum* |
| Sunday, 7/8/12 | House of Blondes @ Spike Hill |
| Monday, 7/9/12 & | Dirty Projectors @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Tuesday, 7/10/12 | Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak, Purity Ring @ Prospect Park Bandshell |
| ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ release parties | |
| Monday, 7/9/12 to | Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival |
| Saturday, 7/14/12 | Busta Rhymes & Friends, Freeway, and more celebrate hip hop from… Brooklyn! |
| Tuesday, 7/10/12 | Marco Benevento @ City Winery* |
| Tuesday, 7/10/12 & | Kate Miller-Heidke @ Rockwood Music Hall* |
| Tuesday, 7/17/12 | Kate Miller-Heidke @ Rockwood Music Hall* |
| Wednesday, 7/11/12 | Allies For Everyone @ Le Baron* |
| Scavenger EP release party | |
| Wednesday, 7/11/12 & | Buddy Guy, Quinn Sullivan, John Mayall @ World Financial Center Plaza* |
| Thursday, 7/12/12 | Neko Case, Charles Bradley, He’s My Brother/She’s My Sister @ World Financial Center Plaza* |
| Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival @ World Financial Center Plaza | |
| Thursday, 7/12/12 | George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic @ Rockefeller Park* |
| Make my funk the P-Funk – but shouldn’t this River-to-River show be at Castle Clinton?… – Show of the Week | |
| Dan Deacon, John Maus @ Pier 84* | |
| Hudson RiverRocks season kicks off at new pier | |
| Gloria Gaynor, The Village People @ Coney Island* | |
| Tribute to Donna Summer | |
| H2O, 7 Seconds @ House of Vans* | |
| Erika Spring @ Ivana Helsinki Space | |
| EP release party | |
| The English Beat @ Bell House | |
| Rachel Brown @ Chelsea Market* | |
| Friday, 7/13/12 | El-P @ Irving Plaza |
| ‘Cancer4Cure’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Eleanor Friedberger, Ex Cops, Zambri @ South Street Seaport* | |
| Ladies rule at South Street Seaport | |
| Doveman @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| ‘The Burgundy Stain Sessions’ | |
| Bushwick Walkabout | |
| Friday, 7/13/12 & | Beast Make Bomb, Team Spirit & many more @ Brooklyn Fireproof |
| Saturday, 7/14/12 | Xylos, Ravens & Chimes and many more @ Brooklyn Fireproof |
| ReThinkPopMusic puts on its second annual Bushwick Walkabout, with some of Brooklyn’s best undiscovered acts | |
| Friday, 7/13/12 & | Alex Winston, Mr. Little Jeans @ Santos Party House |
| Saturday, 7/14/12 | Mr. Little Jeans, Foxes @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Saturday, 7/14/12 | 4knots Festival* |
| Archers of Loaf, The Drums, Crocodiles, and more play The Village Voice‘s second 4knots Festival at South Street Seaport | |
| The Black Lips @ Beekman Beer Garden | |
| 4knots afterparty | |
| Cam’ron, Flatbush Zombies @ The Well | |
| Grand opening for new venue in Bushwick | |
| Tycho @ Webster Hall | |
| Pharoahe Monch @ Brooklyn Bowl | |
| Benefit for ‘More Than Me’ Foundation | |
| Ben Kweller, Blitzen Trapper @ Stuveysant Town Oval* | |
| Ecstatic Summer @ World Financial Center Plaza* | |
| Saturday, 7/14/12 & |
Shilpa Ray, The Immaculates @ Cake Shop |
| Thursday, 7/19/12 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Grand Rapids @ Cake Shop |
| Cake Shop benefit shows | |
| Sunday, 7/15/12 | Guthrie Family Reunion @ Central Park SummerStage |
| Monday, 7/16/12 | Best Coast, Those Darlins @ Terminal 5 |
| ‘The Only Place’ tour | |
| Young the Giant @ Central Park SummerStage | |
| Bootsy Collins, SOS Band @ Wingate Field* | |
| Citizen Cope @ Barnes & Noble Union Square* | |
| Tuesday, 7/17/12 | Counting Crows, We Are Augustines, Field Report @ Williamsburg Park |
| Wednesday, 7/18/12 | Refused, OFF! @ Williamsburg Park Europa* |
| Moved to smaller, free venue due to rain | |
| JEFF The Brotherhood @ Santos* | |
| Wednesday, 7/18/12 & | Electric Six @ Maxwell’s |
| Thursday, 7/19/12 | Electric Six @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise (Harbor Lights) |
| Wednesday, 7/18/12 & | Hot Chip, Gang Gang Dance @ Prospect Park Bandshell |
| Friday, 7/20/12 | Hot Chip, Chromatics @ Terminal 5 |
| ‘In Our Heads’ tour | |
| Thursday, 7/19/12 | Death Cab for Cutie, Surfer Blood @ Wellmont Theatre |
| OK Go, Eugene Mirman & Friends @ Williamsburg Park* – Show of the Week | |
| Langhorne Slim @ Bell House | |
| Javelin, MNDR, Delicate Steve aboard The Intrepid* | |
| Moved from Wednesday due to storm | |
| Friday, 7/20/12 | Squeeze, The Romantics @ Coney Island* |
| Modest Mouse @ Wellmont Theatre | |
| Dean Wareham @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| Plays Galaxie 500 | |
| Bear Hands, Fort Lean @ Knitting Factory | |
| ARMS, Port St. Willow, Brazos @ Union Pool | |
| Saturday, 7/21/12 | Sleigh Bells, Jel, Mr. Dream @ Pier 63* – Show of the Week |
| Converse Rubber Tracks | |
| Dum Dum Girls, Widowspeak @ House of Vans* | |
| Belel Gilberto @ Central Park SummerStage* | |
| The War On Drugs, Dean & Britta, Wormburner @ Mulcahy’s Pub | |
| Quiet Loudly, backwords, MiniBoone, EULA @ Big Snow | |
| Saturday, 7/21/12 & |
Shonen Knife, White Mystery, FLOWN @ Bell House |
| Sunday, 7/22/12 | Shonen Knife, White Mystery @ Maxwell’s |
| ‘Pop Tune’ tour | |
| Sunday, 7/22/12 | Chromatics, Blondes @ South Street Seaport* |
| B.o.B. @ Highline Ballroom* | |
| MySpace Secret Show | |
| POP ETC., Delta Rae @ Bowery Hotel* | |
| Monday, 7/23/12 | The Dirty Heads, Matisyahu @ The Paramount |
| ‘Cabin By the Sea’ & ‘Spark Seeker’ co-headline tour – Show of the Week | |
| Beach House @ Central Park SummerStage | |
| ‘Bloom’ tour | |
| The Killers @ Webster Hall | |
| Special intimate show | |
| Ron Carter, Rachel Brown @ Chelsea Market* | |
| Monday, 7/23/12, | Wilco, Lee Fields @ Prospect Park Bandshell |
| Tuesday, 7/24/12 & | Wilco, Lee Renaldo @ Prospect Park Bandshell |
| Wednesday, 7/25/12 | Wilco @ Terminal 5 |
| Wilco loves NYC three times | |
| Tuesday, 7/24/12 | The Gaslight Anthem @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Handwritten’ release party | |
| Shabazz Palaces, THEEsatisfaction @ Fort Green Park* | |
| Snowden, Warm Ghost @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Wednesday, 7/25/12 | Animal Kingdom @ Mercury Lounge |
| ‘The Looking Away’ tour | |
| Shark?, Darlings, Celestial Shore @ 285 Kent Avenue* | |
| Thursday, 7/26/12 | Oberhofer, The Soft Pack @ Pier 84* – Show of the Week |
| Unfortunately cancelled due to storm | |
| King Khan & The Shrines, Nicky Da B, The Everymen @ House of Vans* | |
| Allen Stone @ JFK Airport, Terminal 5* | |
| JetBlue’s ‘Live From T5’ | |
| Soul Asylum, Joseph Arthur @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Scars On 45 @ Studio at Webster Hall | |
| Of Monsters and Men @ undisclosed location* | |
| Intel presents: The Music Experiment | |
| Friday, 7/27/12 | The Head and the Heart, Lost In the Trees @ Prospect Park Bandshell* |
| A Place To Bury Strangers, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hunters @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| ‘Worship’ tour | |
| Saturday, 7/28/12 | Gary Clark Jr., Givers @ Central Park SummerStage* |
| Charli XCX, St. Lucia @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Alejandro Escovedo, Kat Edmondson @ Stuveysant Town Oval* | |
| Caveman @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| The Gay Blades, The Click Clack Boom, Cold Fronts @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Saturday, 7/28/12 & | Catalpa Festival |
| Sunday, 7/29/12 | The Black Keys, Snoop Dogg, TV On the Radio and more play Randall’s Island – QRO preview |
| Sunday, 7/29/12 | Hallways, Zambri @ Ace Hotel* |
| Monday, 7/30/12 | Public Enemy, Salt-n-Pepa @ Wingate Field* |
| Team Spirit, The Static Jacks, Beast Make Bomb @ Studio at Webster Hall | |
| Tuesday, 7/31/12 | Sigur Ros, Perfume Genius @ Prospect Park Bandshell |
| ‘Valtari’ tour – Show of the Week |
August ’12
Friday, 8/3/12: Mission of Burma, Wild Flag, Ted Leo @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Monday, 8/6/12: M83 @ Central Park SummerStage
Saturday, 8/11/12: Lyle Lovett @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Wednesday, 8/15/12: Yeasayer @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Saturday, 8/18/12: The Kills @ Hudson River Park
Wednesday, 8/22/12: The Drums, Chairlift @ Brooklyn Bowl
Thursday, 8/23/12: Action Bronson @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
ednesday, 8/29/12: Turbonegro, Doomriders @ House of Vans
Thursday, 8/30/12: The Heavy @ Irving Plaza
Celebrate Brooklyn! @ Prospect Park Bandshell, 6/5 – 8/11/12
SummerStage, 6/5 – 8/30/12
Vans House Parties @ House of Vans, 6/20 – 8/29/12
RiverRocks @ Pier 84, 7/12 – 8/9/12
Converse Rubber Tracks, 7/21 – 8/23/12
Mad Decent Block Party @ Williamsburg Park, 8/5/12
Colbchella ‘012 aboard The Intrepid, 8/10/12
Lackawanna Festival @ Pier A, 8/18/12
Afro-Punk Festival @ Commodore Barry Park, 8/25-26/12
Electric Zoo @ Randall’s Island, 8/31 – 9/2/12
| Wednesday, 8/1/12 | Mumford & Sons, Dawes @ Pier A Park |
| Thursday, 8/2/12 | The xx @ Terminal 5 |
| ‘Coexist’ tour | |
| Washed Out, Chairlift, Lemonade @ House of Vans* | |
| Toadies, Helmet, Ume @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘PLAY.ROCK.MUSIC’ tour | |
| Dpony, Pegasus Warning @ Cake Shop | |
| The Bad Plus, Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble @ Damrosch Bandshell* | |
| Blitz the Ambassador @ Brooklyn Academy of Music* | |
| Friday, 8/3/12 | Mission of Burma, Wild Flag, Ted Leo @ Prospect Park Bandshell* |
| ‘Unsound’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Zeus, ARMS @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Saturday, 8/4/12 | Amadou & Mariam, Theophilus London @ Central Park SummerStage* |
| Jamie xx, Miguel @ MOMA | |
| Sunday, 8/5/12 | Deftones, System of a Down@ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater |
| Major Lazer, Erol Aikan, Bonde do Role & more @ Williamsburg Park* | |
| Mad Decent Block Party | |
| Sunday, 8/5/12 & | The Zombies @ Highline Ballroom |
| Monday, 8/6/12 | |
| Monday, 8/6/12 | M83 @ Central Park SummerStage – Show of the Week |
| Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant @ Wingate Field* | |
| Tuesday, 8/7/12 | M. Ward, Yo La Tengo @ Prospect Park Bandshell |
| Tame Impala @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Tuesday, 8/7/12 to | Bloc Party, The Drums @ Terminal 5 |
| Thursday, 8/9/12 | ‘Four’ tour |
| Wednesday, 8/8/12 | Bright Light Social Hour, Black Taxi @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Thursday, 8/9/12 | Wild Nothing, Grimes, DIIV @ Pier 84* |
| Joan Jett & The Blackhearts @ Coney Island* | |
| !!!, Lenny Williams @ Damrosch Bandshell* | |
| The B-52s @ Irving Plaza | |
| Friday, 8/10/12 | Colbchella ‘012* |
| The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, Santigold, fun. & more aboard The Intrepid – all thanks to Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA (though tickets were all snapped up in a matter of minutes…) | |
| CAKE @ Williamsburg Park | |
| Little Dragon, Frankie Rose @ Prospect Park Bandshell* | |
| The So So Glos @ Union Hall | |
| Saturday, 8/11/12 | Lyle Lovett @ Prospect Park Bandshell* – Show of the Week |
| Carolina Chocolate Drops, Buckwheat Zydeco @ Central Park SummerStage* | |
| Real Estate, R. Stevie Moore @ Webster Hall | |
| Sunday, 8/12/12 | Yerba Buena @ Marcus Garvey Park* |
| Eternal Summers @ Fulton Stall Market* | |
| Monday, 8/13/12 | Nude Beach @ Other Music* |
| Tuesday, 8/14/12 | Goapele, Yolanda Zama @ Central Park SummerStage* |
| Wednesday, 8/15/12 | Incubus, Linkin Park, MUTEMATH @ Nikon at Jones Beach |
| ‘Incubus HQ Live’ & ‘Living Things’ tour | |
| Yeasayer @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
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| ‘Fragrant World’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Erika Spring @ Mercury Lounge | |
| The Dunnie Bobos, I’m Turning Into @ Glasslands | |
| Wednesday, 8/17/12 | 2NE1 @ Prudential Center |
| K-Pop sensation comes to New Jersey | |
| Thursday, 8/18/12 | Gladys Knight, The Commodores @ Coney Island* |
| Cursive, Titus Andronicus, Love as Laughter @ House of Vans* | |
| Friday, 8/17/12 | Jane’s Addiction, Die Antwoord @ Williamsburg Park |
| Tan Vampires, The Yes Way, Viva Mayday @ Rock Shop | |
| Big Black Delta @ Piano’s | |
| Saturday, 8/18/12 | The Kills, Black Bananas, Viva Viva @ Hudson River Park* |
| Converse Rubber Tracks – Show of the Week | |
| Tokyo Police Club, Vacationer, We Barbarians & more @ Pier A* | |
| Lackawanna Festival in Hoboken | |
| Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Antibalas @ Williamsburg Park* | |
| Airiel @ Cake Shop | |
| Sunday, 8/19/12 | My Morning Jacket, Shabazz Palaces @ Williamsburg Park |
| Boom Said Thunder @ Trash Bar | |
| Monday, 8/20/12 | AraabMUZIK, Flosstradamus, Teengirl Fantasy @ East River Park* |
| Red Bull Music Academy presents | |
| Tuesday, 8/21/12 | Kelly Clarkson, The Fray, Carolina Liar @ Nikon at Jones Beach |
| Toubab Krewe @ City Winery* | |
| Wednesday, 8/22/12 | The Drums, Chairlift @ Brooklyn Bowl* – Show of the Week |
| Sebadoh @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Conveyor @ Glasslands | |
| Thursday, 8/23/12 | Action Bronson, Tanya Morgan @ Music Hall of Williamsburg* |
| Converse Rubber Tracks – Show of the Week | |
| Sierre Leone Refugee All-Stars & more @ Central Park SummerStage* | |
| Two Boots Pizza 25th anniversary | |
| Saturday, 8/25/12 | The Lost Patrol @ Rock Shop |
| Saturday, 8/25/12 & | Afro-Punk Festival |
| Sunday, 8/26/12 | TV On the Radio, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae, Gym Class Heroes, Das Racist @ Commodore Barry Park – for free! |
| Sunday, 8/26/12 | Peter Murphy, Crystal Stilts, Small Black @ The Well |
| Wednesday, 8/29/12 | Beirut @ Central Park SummerStage |
| Turbonegro, Doomriders @ House of Vans* – Show of the Week | |
| Filo & Perri, David Dann, George Garcia @ Arena | |
| Cosmic Opera Management party | |
| Thursday, 8/30/12 | The Heavy @ Irving Plaza |
| ‘The Glorious Dead’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| YACHT, Sneaky Soundsystem @ Beekman Beer Garden | |
| ‘Full Moon’ | |
| The Vaselines @ Bell House | |
| Y La Bamba @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Thieving Irons @ Piano’s | |
| Friday, 8/31/12 | The Meatmen @ Europa |
| “We’re The Meatmen and you suck!” | |
| AM with Shawn Lee @ Knitting Factory | |
| Zambri, The Suzan @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Hospitality, ARMS @ Brooklyn Bowl* |
September ’12
Tuesday, 9/4/12: Bob Dylan @ The Capitol Theatre
Friday, 9/7/12: Bob Mould Band, Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Williamsburg Park
Wednesday, 9/12/12: Yeasayer @ Central Park SummerStage
Friday, 9/14/12: Ben Folds Five, Kate Miller-Heidke @ Central Park SummerStage
Tuesday, 9/18/12: Band of Horses @ House of Vans
Sunday, 9/23/12: Metric, Half Moon Run @ Radio City Music Hall
Monday, 9/24/12: Bon Iver, Frank Ocean @ Angel Orensanz
Thursday, 9/27/12: Gotye, Zammuto @ Williamsburg Park
Electric Zoo @ Randall’s Island, 8/31 – 9/2/12
Fool’s Gold Day Off party @ City Winery, 9/3/12
Fashion’s Night Out, 9/6/12
Riot Fest Brooklyn @ Williamsburg Park, 9/8/12
Tinderbox Music Festival Fall Fundraiser @ The Lounge at WeWork, 9/13/12
Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival @ The Bell House & Union Hall, 9/13-16/12
Six Strings East Festival @ DROM, 9/21/12
All Tomorrow’s Parties New York @ Pier 36, 9/21-23/12
Global Citizen Festival @ Great Lawn at Central Park, 9/29/12
Red Bull Music Academy, 9/30-11/2/12
| Friday, 8/31/12 to | Electric Zoo |
| Sunday, 9/2/12 | David Guetta, Tiësto, Rusko, Dada Life, Skrillex & more @ Randall’s Island |
| Monday, 9/3/12 | Danny Brown, Flosstradamus & many more @ City Winery* |
| Fool’s Gold Day Off party | |
| Tuesday, 9/4/12 | Bob Dylan @ The Capitol Theatre |
| Port Chester’s iconic Capitol Theatre reopens, refurbished, with the ultra-iconic Dylan – Show of the Week | |
| Odd Future @ The Paramount | |
| Wednesday, 9/5/12 | Sondre Lerche @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Bootlegs’ tour | |
| Chromatics, Oneohtrix Point Never @ New Museum* | |
| Cold Fronts @ Cameo | |
| Wednesday, 9/5/12 to | The Rapture @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 9/7/12 | Three nights of The Rapture |
| Thursday, 9/6/12 | Yoko Ono @ Swarovski Crystallized* |
| Cyndi Lauper @ Manolo Blahnik* | |
| St. Vincent @ Rag & Bone* | |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Lonely Forest @ Rockefeller Center* | |
| Azealia Banks @ M.A.C.* | |
| Theophilus London @ The Rose Bar* | |
| Chairlift @ Prada* | |
| Albert Hammond, Jr. @ Bloomingdale’s SoHo* | |
| A$AP Rocky @ Adidas Original SoHo* | |
| Three 6 Mafia @ Supreme* | |
| POP ETC @ Morgane Le Fay* | |
| Frankie Rose & Alex Winston @ Theory* | |
| Wild Belle @ Mulberry* | |
| La Sera @ Helmut Lang* | |
| Haim @ TopShop* | |
| Jamie Woon @ Ben Sherman SoHo* | |
| Poolside @ Moods of Norway* | |
| ‘Fashion’s Night Out’ – where SoHo’s packed and everything either has a huge line to get in or turns out to be invite-only… | |
| MiniBoone @ Cake Shop | |
| Thursday, 9/6/12 & | Earthquake Party @ Glasslands |
| Friday, 9/7/12 | Earthquake Party @ Piano’s |
| Friday, 9/7/12 | Bob Mould Band, Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Williamsburg Park* |
| Iconic musician plays Sugar’s seminal ‘Copper Blue’ – Show of the Week | |
| Patrick Watson, Great Lake Swimmers @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Saturday, 9/8/12 | Riot Fest Brooklyn |
| Gogol Bordello, Descendents & more @ Williamsburg Park | |
| Ladyhawke @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Ladyhawke @ Tribeca Grand* | |
| ‘This Is New York’ Fashion Week party | |
| EXITMUSIC, Zambri @ Maxwell’s | |
| Saturday, 9/8/12 & | Hugh Laurie @ The Capitol Theatre |
| Monday, 9/10/12 | Hugh Laurie @ Grand Ballroom |
| Sunday, 9/9/12 | Divine Fits @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| New band from Britt Daniel (Spoon) & Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs) | |
| The Shivers @ Manhattan Inn | |
| Monday, 9/10/12 | Wild Belle @ Le Baron* |
| Monday, 9/10/12 & | The Vaccines @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Tuesday, 9/11/12 | The Vaccines @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| ‘Come of Age’ tour | |
| Tuesday, 9/11/12 | Kaki King @ Rockwood Music Hall |
| Intimate, fans-only preview of ‘GLOW’ | |
| Wednesday, 9/12/12 | Yeasayer, Tanlines @ Central Park SummerStage |
| ‘Fragrant World’ tour– Show of the Week | |
| Dragonette @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘Dragonette’ tour | |
| Brazlian Girls @ Bell House | |
| Icona Pop @ Santos Party House | |
| Dawn Landes @ Rock Shop | |
| Thursday, 9/13/12 | Maxïmo Park, Zambri @ Webster Hall |
| ‘The National Health’ tour | |
| Nellie McKay, Alyson Greenfield, The Bandana Splits @ The Lounge at WeWork | |
| Tinderbox Music Festival Fall Fundraiser | |
| Alberta Cross @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| WHY? @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| ‘Mumps, etc.’ tour | |
| Thursday, 9/13/12 & |
The Jesus and Mary Chain @ Irving Plaza |
| Friday, 9/14/12 | Return of New Wave legends |
| Thursday, 9/13/12, | Win Win @ Pianos |
| Thursday, 9/20/12 & |
Win Win, Slam Donahue @ Pianos |
| Thursday, 9/27/12 | Win Win @ Pianos |
| Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival | |
| Thursday, 9/13/12, | Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry & more @ The Bell House |
| Friday, 9/14/12, | Neil Degrasse Tyson, Sara Silverman & more @ The Bell House |
| Nick Turner, Brent Sullivan & more @ Union Hall | |
| Saturday, 9/15/12 | Kevin Townley, Elna Baker, Eugene Mirman @ The Bell House |
| & | Jared Logan, Jena Friedman & more @ Union Hall |
| Sunday, 9/16/12 | Eugene Mirman, Bobby Tisdale & more @ The Bell House |
| film festival @ Union Hall | |
| Friday, 9/14/12 | Ben Folds Five, Kate Miller-Heidke @ Central Park SummerStage |
| Ben Folds Five reunion tour – Show of the Week | |
| Circa Survive @ Terminal 5 | |
| ‘Violent Waves’ tour | |
| Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘Mature Themes’ tour | |
| Wormburner @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Friday, 9/14/12 | White Hils, Dan Friel & more @ Death by Audio |
| Tortoise, Future Islands & more @ Webster Hall | |
| Thrill Jockey Records 20th anniversary | |
| Saturday, 9/15/12 | Florence & The Machine, The Maccabees @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater |
| Last chance to catch Flo & Mech before Ms. Welch takes a year-long break | |
| Green Day @ Irving Plaza | |
| Pop-punksters playing special intimate show | |
| The Jayhawks, Nicole Atkins & Chris Lee @ Williamsburg Park* | |
| Mark Mallman, Dick Valentine, The Hood Internet, MNDR @ Marathon 4 Van* | |
| The indefatigueable Mark Mallman comes to NYC in his ‘Marathon 4 Van’ – 150 hours of non-stop music | |
| The Spring Standards @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Jody Porter, The Gypsy West @ The Bowery Electric | |
| Monday, 9/17/12 | Ghostface Killah, Sheek Louch, Saigon @ Highline Ballroom |
| Wu-Block Pary | |
| World Party @ City Winery | |
| Deerhoof, Buke and Gase @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| ‘Break Up Song’ tour | |
| Tuesday, 9/18/12 | Slash @ Hammerstein Ballroom |
| The Killers @ Paradise Theater | |
| Band of Horses @ House of Vans |
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| ‘Mirage Rock’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Mike Doughty @ City Winery | |
| Bobby Womack & Damon Albarn @ Apple Store SoHo* | |
| Thieving Irons @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Here We Go Magic, High Highs @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Tuesday, 9/18/12 & | Blood Red Shoes, DZ Deathrays @ Mercury Lounge |
| Wednesday, 9/19/12 | Blood Red Shoes, DZ Deathrays, Freshkills @ Glasslands |
| Wednesday, 9/19/12 | The Offspring, Neon Trees, Dead Sara @ Termnal 5 |
| ‘Days Gone By’ tour | |
| All-American Rejects, Boys Like Girls @ The Paramount | |
| Ben Howard @ Webster Hall | |
| The Whigs @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| ‘Enjoy the Company’ tour | |
| Jason Collett, Bahamas @ The Bell House | |
| Wednesday, 9/19/12, | Bon Iver, Anais Mitchell @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Thursday, 9/20/12, | Bon Iver, Anais Mitchell @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Friday, 9/21/12 & | Bon Iver, Doug Paisley @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Saturday, 9/22/12 | Bon Iver, Poliça @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Four-count-’em-four nights of Justin Verson at Radio City Music Hall – remember when he was just the touring guitarist for The Rosebuds?… | |
| Thursday, 9/20/12 | NoBunny @ Otto’s Shrunken Head |
| Thursday, 9/20/12 & | Patrick Wolf, Woodpigeon @ Joe’s Pub |
| Friday, 9/21/12 | Patrick Wolf @ Joe’s Pub |
| ‘Sundark & Riverlight’ tour | |
| Friday, 9/21/12 | Michael Kiwanuka @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| John Hammond, Jim Campilogo & more @ DROM | |
| Six Strings East Festival | |
| Friday, 9/21/12 & | Purity Ring @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 9/22/12 | Purity Ring @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| ‘Shrines’ tour | |
| Friday, 9/21/12 & | Joe Jackson @ Town Hall |
| Saturday, 9/22/12 | ‘The Duke’ tour |
| Friday, 9/21/12 to | All Tomorrow’s Parties New York |
| Sunday, 9/23/12 | The Afghan Whigs, Frank Ocean & more @ Pier 36 |
| Saturday, 9/22/12 | Efterklang @ Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Special party for new ‘Piramida’, with orchestra, for only U.S. show this year | |
| Stars, California Wives @ Webster Hall | |
| Stars, Savoir Adore @ Mercury Lounge* | |
| ‘North’ tour – with special intimate late-night show through Thrillcall | |
| Saturday, 9/22/12 & | Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, K-Holes @ The Well |
| Monday, 9/24/12 | Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees @ Death By Audio |
| Sunday, 9/23/12 | Metric, Half Moon Run @ Radio City Music Hall |
| ‘Synthetica’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Peter Gabriel, Ane Brun @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater | |
| Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Snowmine, ARMS @ Pianos | |
| EULA @ Shea Stadium | |
| Monday, 9/24/12 | Grizzly Bear, Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ Radio City Music Hall |
| ‘Shields’ tour | |
| The Avett Brothers @ Central Park SummerStage | |
| ‘The Carpenter’ tour – rescheduled from 9/18 due to tornado warning | |
| Bon Iver, Frank Ocean @ Angel Orensanz* |
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| FADER’s Unzipped comes to NYC at converted synogague – Show of the Week | |
| Tuesday, 9/25/12 | Dirty Projectors @ Capitol Theatre |
| Tuesday, 9/25/12 | Gotye, Missy Higgins @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Thursday, 9/27/12 | Gotye, Zammuto @ Williamsburg Park – Show of the Week |
| Tuesday, 9/25/12, | David Byrne & St. Vincent @ Beacon Theater |
| Wednesday, 9/26/12 & | David Byrne & St. Vincent @ Beacon Theater |
| Saturday, 9/29/12 | David Byrne & St. Vincent @ Williamsburg Park |
| ‘Love This Giant’ tour by newest team-up | |
| Wednesday, 9/26/12 | Bell X1, Duke Special @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Widowspeak @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Alberta Cross @ Bowery Hotel* | |
| Wednesday, 9/26/12 & | Avicii @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Thursday, 9/27/12 | |
| Thursday, 9/27/12 | Gossip @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Thursday, 9/27/12 & | Twin Shadow, Niki & The Dove @ Webster Hall |
| Friday, 9/28/12 | Twin Shadow, Niki & The Dove @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Confess’ tour | |
| Thursday, 9/27/12 & | Two Door Cinema Club @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 9/28/12 | Two Door Cinema Club @ Central Park SummerStage |
| ‘Beacon’ tour | |
| Emanuel & The Fear @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Friday, 9/28/12 to | Jay-Z @ Barclays Center |
| Monday, 10/1/12 & | The new home of The (now) Brooklyn Nets opens – |
| Wednesday, 10/3/12 to | With over a week of shows by .15% owner Jay-Z |
| Saturday, 10/6/12 | |
| Saturday, 9/29/12 | Global Citizen Festival* |
| Neil Young, Foo Fighters & more @ Great Lawn at Central Park – for (ticketed) free | |
| Minus the Bear, Cursive, Caspian @ Best Buy Theater | |
| ‘Infinity Overhead’ tour | |
| Mark Kozelek @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Anamanaguchi, Delicate Steve @ Glasslands* | |
| PopGun Booking 4th anniversary party | |
| Pictureplane @ P.S. 1* | |
| New York Art Book Fair | |
| Gold Streets, pow wow!, MiniBoone, Alyson Greenfield @ Muchmore’s | |
| The Whatever Blog & Dingus Music | |
| Saturday, 9/29/12 & | First Aid Kit, Dylan LeBlanc @ Irving Plaza |
| Sunday, 9/30/12 | First Aid Kit, Dylan LeBlanc @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Saturday, 9/29/12 & | Jack White @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Sunday, 9/30/12 | ‘Blunderbuss’ tour |
| Sunday, 9/30/12 | Paper Route @ Maxwell’s |
| Monday, 10/1/12 | Paper Route @ Mercury Lounge |
| ‘The Peace of Wild Things’ tour |
October ’12
Tuesday-Wednesday, 10/2-3/12: M83, Sun Airway @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Wednesday, 10/3/12: ‘Love for Levon: A Benefit To Save the Barn’ @ IZOD Center
Tuesday, 10/9/12: Ben Folds Five, Kate Miller-Heidke @ Capitol Theatre
Friday, 10/12/12: Menomena, PVT @ Music Hall of WIlliamsburg
Tuesday, 10/16/12: ‘Little Kids Rock’ @ Grand Ballroom
Sunday, 10/21/12: Psychedelic Furs, The Lemonheads @ Best Buy Theatre
Wednesday, 10/24/12: ‘Petty Fest’ @ Webster Hall
Saturday, 10/27/12: John McCauley & more @ Carnegie Hall
Wednesday, 10/31/12: Smashing Pumpkins @ Barclays Center
Red Bull Music Academy, 9/30-11/2/12
‘Baracklyn’ Obama fundraiser @ Brooklyn Bowl, 10/1/12
Save the I.S. 171 benefit @ Bell House, 10/2/12
Love for Levon: A Benefit To Save the Barn @ IZOD Center, 10/3/12
Stand Up for 826NYC benefit @ Bell House, 10/2/12
Save the Village benefit @ (le) Poisson Rouge, 10/10/12
Little Kids Rock @ Grand Ballroom, 10/16/12
CMJ Music Marathon, 10/16-20/12
Petty Fest @ Webster Hall, 10/24/12
Wu-Block party @ Highline Ballroom, 10/28/12
‘Freedom To Love Now!’ concert for marriage equality @ Beacon Theatre, 10/30/12
| Monday, 10/1/12 | Steve Earle @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| ‘Baracklyn’ Obama fundraiser | |
| Tuesday, 10/2/12 | Eugene Mirman, Dave Hill @ Bell House |
| ‘Save the I.S. 171 Middle School Band’ benefit | |
| Tuesday, 10/2/12 & | M83, Sun Airway @ Hammerstein Ballroom |
| Wednesday, 10/3/12 | latest massive venue taken by France’s M83 this year – Show of the Week |
| Tuesday, 10/2/12, | Tennis, Wild Belle @ Maxwell’s |
| Wednesday, 10/4/12 | Tennis, Wild Belle @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Thursday, 10/4/12 & | Tennis, Wild Belle @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Friday, 10/5/12 | Wild Belle @ Zebulon* |
| Wednesday, 10/3/12 | John Mayer, My Morning Jacket & more @ IZOD Center |
| ‘Love for Levon: A Benefit To Save the Barn’ – Show of the Week | |
| Crystal Castles, HEALTH @ Roseland Ballroom | |
| Jon Spencer Blues Explosion @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Glen Phillips, Grant-Lee Philips @ City Winery | |
| Caveman @ Ace Hotel* | |
| Thursday. 10/4/12 | Melvins (Lite), Tweak Bird |
| Melvins’ ’51 shows, 51 States, 51 Days’ tour comes to NY | |
| Roomful of Teeth @ Lincoln Center* | |
| Thursday, 10/4/12 & | Family of the Year, White Arrows @ Mercury Lounge |
| Friday, 10/5/12 | White Arrows, Family of the Year, New Cassettes @ Glasslands |
| Friday, 10/5/12 | Animal Collective, Micachu & The Shapes @ Williamsburg Park |
| ‘Centipede Hz’ tour – this date cancelled due to illness | |
| Sleigh Bells, AraabMUZIK @ The Capitol Theatre | |
| The Raveonettes, Melody’s Echo Chamber @ Webster Hall | |
| Friday, 10/5/12 & | The Afghan Whigs, Eagles of Death Metal @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 10/6/12 | The Afghan Whigs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 10/5/12 & |
James Iha, Milagres @ Mercury Lounge |
| Saturday, 10/6/12 | James Iha, Milagres @ Maxwell’s |
| Guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins | |
| Saturday, 10/6/12 | Craig Ferguson @ Radio City Music Hall |
| But will Geoff Peterson or Secretariat be there?… | |
| Dean & Britta @ Museum of Modern Art | |
| ’13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’ | |
| The Dig @ Cameo | |
| Sunday. 10/7/12 | Johnny Hallyday @ Beacon Theatre |
| The ‘French Elvis’ comes to NYC | |
| Monday, 10/8/12 | Jens Lekman, Taken By Trees @ Terminal 5 |
| ‘I Know What Love Isn’t’ & ‘Other Worlds’ tour | |
| Eugene Mirman, Sarah Silverman & more @ Bell House | |
| ‘Standup for 826NYC’ benefit | |
| MNDR @ Le Baron* | |
| ‘ENCORE Sessions’ | |
| Flying Lotus, ?uestlove & more @ Boiler Room | |
| Red Bull Music Academy | |
| Tuesday, 10/9/12 | Savoir Adore @ Knitting Factory |
| ‘Our Nature’ release party | |
| Hannah Georgas @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 | |
| Tuesday, 10/9/12 & | Ben Folds Five, Kate Miller-Heidke @ Capitol Theatre – Show of the Week |
| Thursday, 10/11/12 | Ben Folds Five @ IGN Theater |
| BF5 reunion comes to New York Comic-Con | |
| Kate Miller-Heidke @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 | |
| Tuesday, 10/9/12 & | Lord Huron @ Mercury Lounge |
| Friday, 10/12/12 | Lord Huron @ Glasslands |
| Wednesday, 10/10/12 | John Zorn, Thurston Moore & more @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Save The Village benefit | |
| The Gaslamp Killer, Martyn & more @ Villain | |
| Red Bull Music Academy | |
| Jason Collett @ Joe’s Pub | |
| ‘Reckon’ tour | |
| Swans @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| ‘The Seer’ tour | |
| Wednesday, 10/10/12 & |
Martha Wainwright, AroarA @ Littlefield |
| Thursday, 10/11/12 | Martha Wainwright, AroarA @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| ‘Come Home To Mama’ tour | |
| Wednesday, 10/10/12, | Morrissey @ Radio City Music Hall |
| Friday, 10/12/12 & | Morrissey @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 10/13/12 | Morrissey @ Terminal 5 |
| Thursday, 10/11/12 | SBTRKT, kilo kish @ Terminal 5 |
| Red Bull Music Academy | |
| Thursday, 10/11/12 & |
Menomena, PVT @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Friday, 10/12/12 | Menomena, PVT @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| ‘Moms’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Friday, 10/12/12 | The Temper Trap @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Doveman @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| ‘The Burgundy Statin Sessions’ | |
| Mike Doughty @ City Winery | |
| Cold Fronts @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1* | |
| Buke & Gass, Glass Ghost @ Mercury Lounge | |
| ‘Function Falls EP’ tour | |
| Lazy Eyes, The Can’t Tells @ Delinquency BLVD* | |
| Heloise & The Savoir Faire @ BAMCafé* | |
| EULA, Quiet Loudly @ Shea Stadium | |
| Saturday, 10/13/12 | Tilly & The Wall, Nicky da B @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Heavy Mood’ tour – first Tilly & The Wall tour in four years | |
| Sunday, 10/14/12 | Alicia Witt @ Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 |
| Sunday, 10/14/12 & | Silversun Pickups, Cloud Nothings, Atlas Genius @ Terminal 5 |
| Monday, 10/15/12 | |
| Monday, 10/15/12 | Andrew W.K., Savoir Adore & more @ Rebel* |
| Annual pre-CMJ ‘Conflict of Interest’ party at Rebel | |
| MiniBoone, Slothbear @ Delinquency BLVD | |
| King Brit @ The Standard* | |
| Monday, 10/15/12 & | Mika @ Webster Hall |
| Tuesday, 10/16/12 | |
| Tuesday, 10/16/12 | Elvis Costello, Dion, Tom Morello, Darlene Love, Kris Allen & many more @ Grand Ballroom |
| ‘Little Kids Rock’ benefit honoring Steven Van Zandt with ‘Big Man of the Year Award’ – Show of the Week | |
| GWAR @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Tuesday, 10/16/12 & | Fiona Apple, Blake Mills @ Terminal 5 |
| Wednesday, 10/17/12 | Two nights of that jailbird Fiona Apple |
| Tuesday, 10/16 to | CMJ Music Marathon |
| Saturday, 10/20/12 | A million shows at venues across the city – QRO’s big preview |
| Wednesday, 10/17/12 | Rod Zombie, Marilyn Manson @ Hammerstein Ballroom |
| ‘Twins of Evil Tour’ | |
| Friday, 10/19/12 | Miike Snow, Niki & The Dove @ United Palace Theatre |
| Primus @ Hammerstein Ballroom | |
| ‘The 3-D tour’ | |
| Sunday, 10/21/12 | Justice @ Hammerstein Ballroom |
| The Darkness @ Terminal 5 | |
| Divine Fits, Cold Cave @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘A Thing Called Divine Fits’ tour | |
| Psychedelic Furs, The Lemonheads @ Best Buy Theatre |
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| Juliana Hatfield rejoins The Lemonheads! – Show of the Week | |
| WHY? @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| ‘Mumps, etc.’ tour | |
| Ringo Deathstarr @ Shea Stadium | |
| ‘Mauve’ tour | |
| Sunday, 10/21/12 & | The Sea & Cake, Matthew Friedberger @ Littlefield |
| Monday, 10/22/12 | The Sea & Cake, Matthew Friedberger @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| ‘Runner’ tour | |
| Monday, 10/22/12 | Rush @ Barclays Center |
| Alanis Morissette @ Terminal 5 | |
| ‘havoc and bright lights’ tour | |
| Tuesday, 10/23/12 | Cat Power @ Hammerstein Ballroom |
| ‘Sun’ tour | |
| Sinkane @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Tuesday, 10/23/12 & | Father John Misty, La Sera, Jeffertitt’s Nile @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Wednesday, 10/24/12 | Father John Misty, La Sera, Jeffertitt’s Nile @ Bowery Ballroom |
| ‘Fear Fun’ tour | |
| Wednesday, 10/24/12 | Justin Townes Earle, Father John Misty, Devendra Banhart & more @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Petty Fest’ – Show of the Week | |
| Class Actress @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Ultraísta, Zammuto @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| 2:54, Zambri @ Knitting Factory | |
| Thursday, 10/25/12 | Nouvelle Vague @ Irving Plaza |
| Thursday, 10/25/12 & | The Weeknd @ Palace Theater |
| Friday, 10/26/12 | ‘Trilogy’ tour |
| Thursday, 10/25/12, | Grimes @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 10/26/12 , | Grimes @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 10/27/12 & | Grimes @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Sunday, 10/28/12 | Grimes @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| That’s a whole lotta Grimes – but did you see the line at her Pier 84 show?… | |
| Friday, 10/26/12 | Trey Anastasio @ Beacon Theatre |
| Social Distortion @ Roseland Ballroom | |
| Friday, 10/26/12 & |
Electric Six, Little Hurricane @ Mercury Lounge |
| Saturday, 10/27/12 | |
| Friday, 10/26/12 & | Sensation @ Barclays Center |
| Saturday, 10/27/12 | |
| Friday, 10/26/12 & | The xx, Chairlift @ Paradise Theater |
| Sunday, 10/28/12 | ‘Coexist’ tour comes to new venue… in The Bronx? |
| Saturday, 10/27/12 | Grace Jones @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Red Bull Music Academy | |
| John McCauley & more @ Carnegie Hall |
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| Deer Tick frontman plays Carnegie Hall?!? – Show of the Week | |
| Heartless Bastards @ Irving Plaza | |
| Sunday. 10/28/12 | Ghostface Killah & more @ Highline Ballroom |
| Wu-Block Party – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy | |
| Sunday. 10/28/12 & | Brandi Carlile, Blitzen Trapper @ Beacon Theater |
| Monday. 10/29/12 | Cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy |
| Monday. 10/29/12 | Phone Home @ Glasslands |
| Tuesday, 10/30/12 | Doveman, Rufus Wainwright, fun., The National, Beth Orton, TheY Might Be Giants & more @ Beacon Theatre |
| ‘Freedom To Love Now!’ concert for marriage equality – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy | |
| The Deftones @ Terminal 5 | |
| ‘Koi No Yokan’ tour – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy | |
| fun. @ Irving Plaza – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy | |
| Wednesday, 10/31/12 | Smashing Pumpkings, Morning Parade @ Barclays Center – Show of the Week – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy |
| Andrew W.K. @ Autumn Bowl – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy |
November ’12
Friday, 11/2/12: Grouplove @ Terminal 5
Monday, 11/5/12: Benjamin Gibbard @ Town Hall
Wednesday, 11/7/12: Chilly Gonzales @ Lincoln Center
Wednesday, 11/14/12: The Who @ Barclay’s Center
Thursday, 11/15/12: Matt & Kim, Oberhofer @ Terminal 5
Tuesday, 11/20/12: Of Monsters & Men, Sóley @ Terminal 5
Wednesday, 11/21/12: Conor Oberst @ Carnegie Hall
Tuesday, 11/27/12: Delta Spirit, JEFF: The Brotherhood, FIDLAR @ Irving Plaza
Thursday, 11/29/12: Bush Tetras @ (le) Poisson Rouge
‘Rock For Light’ benefit @ Bowery Electric, 11/6/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Brooklyn Bowl, 11/6/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Knitting Factory, 11/8/12
Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, 11/9-10/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Saint Vitus, 11/10/12
Tinderbox Music Festival @ Webster Hall, 11/11/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Bowery Ballroom, 11/12/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Piano’s, 11/12/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Knitting Factory, 11/13/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Cameo, 11/13/12
‘Help Heal New York’ benefit @ Pacha, 11/14/12
‘The People’s Bailout’ benefit @ (le) Poisson Rouge, 11/15/12
‘Occupy Sandy!’ benefit @ St. Ann & The Holy Trinity, 11/17/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Public Assembly, 11/18/12
‘From Brooklyn With Love’ Sandy benefit @ Public Assembly, 11/18/12
‘EDM for Sandy’ benefit @ Gramercy Theatre, 11/19/12
Brooklyn Night Bazaar, 11/23 – 12/22/12
‘A Very Funny “Fuck You” to Sandy’ benefit @ Bell House, 11/25/12
Nick Honachefsky benefit @ The Saint, 11/28/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Pianos, 11/29/12
| Thursday, 11/1/12 | Chilly Gonzales @ Lincoln Center* |
| Two shows: 7:30pm & 9:30pm – for free! – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy | |
| Freelance Whales, Geographer @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘Diluvia’ tour – cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy | |
| Roomrunner, Sleepies, EULA @ Death by Audio | |
| Friday, 11/2/12 | Chris Isaak @ Beacon Theatre |
| Grouplove, MS MR @ Terminal 5 – Show of the Week | |
| Die Antwoord, Azari & II, and more @ Roseland Ballroom | |
| Sonar Festival Tour | |
| Saturday, 11/3/12 | Citizen Cope @ Terminal 5 |
| Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Ava Luna @ Bowery Ballroom | |
| Savoire Adore, Jarana Beat, Slowdance @ Brooklyn Museum* | |
| The Luyas @ Cake Shop* | |
| Pretty & Nice, MiniBoone, Grooms, Earthquake Party! @ Delinquency BLVD* | |
| Landlady @ Pine Box Rock Shop* | |
| Get out of Manhattan and check out great Brooklyn bands like Savoire Adore, MiniBoone, Earthquake Party!, or Landlady for free | |
| Monday, 11/5/12 | Benjamin Gibbard @ Town Hall |
| Death Cab for Cutie frontman goes solo on ‘Former Lives’ tour – Show of the Week | |
| Tuesday, 11/6/12 | Motion City Soundtrack, Jukebox the Ghost, Now, Now @ Irving Plaza |
| Steve Earle, H.R., Kyp Malone, Jesse Malin & more @ Bowery Electric | |
| ‘Rock For Light’ benefit/Bad Brains celebration | |
| Gary Clark Jr. @ Brooklyn Bowl | |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Wednesday, 11/7/12 | fun. @ Irving Plaza |
| Rescheduled post-Sandy date | |
| Chilly Gonzales @ Lincoln Center* |
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| Rescheduled post-Sandy date – now re-rescheduled to 1/11/13 – Show of the Week | |
| Thureday, 11/8/12 | Will Sheff, Jennifer O’Connor, Holly Miranda & more @ Knitting Factory |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Quiet Loudly, pow wow!, MiniBoone @ Big Snow | |
| Thursday, 11/8/12 & | The Joy Formidable @ Bowery Hotel* |
| Sunday, 11/11/12 | The Joy Formidable @ Littlefield |
| Friday, 11/9/12 & | Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival |
| Saturday, 11/10/12 | Nicolas Jaar, Gold Panda & more |
| Friday, 11/9/12 & | Dredg, The Big Sleep @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 11/10/12 | Playing ‘El Cielo’ on 9th, ‘Catch Without Arms’ on 10th |
| Monday, 11/12/12 | The Big Sleep @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Saturday, 11/10/12 | Buke & Gase, Walter Schreifels @ Saint Vitus |
| Hurricane Sandy beneift | |
| Sunday. 11/11/12 | Chris Isaak @ Beacon Theatre |
| CocoRosie, Jean Grae & more @ Webster Hall | |
| Tinderbox Music Festival | |
| The Wallflowers, My Jeruslame @ The Paramount | |
| ‘Glad All Over’ tour | |
| The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, MillionYoung @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Converge, Torche @ Highline Ballroom | |
| Monday, 11/12/12 | Pinback @ Irving Plaza |
| ‘Information Retrieved’ tour | |
| millionyoung, Cameron McGill @ Pianos | |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Monday, 11/12/12 | Chris Cornell @ Bowery Ballroom |
| & | Hurricane Sandy benefit by Soundgarden frontman |
| Tuesday, 11/13/12 | Soundgarden @ Irving Plaza |
| Soundgarden returns with a few intimate shows | |
| Tuesday, 11/13/12 | Paul Banks @ Webster Hall |
| ‘Banks’ tour by Interpol frontman/ex-Julian Plenti – rescheduled to 12/13 | |
| Yeasayer, Sinkane @ Capitol Theatre | |
| The Babies @ Knitting Factory | |
| ‘Our House On the Hill’ release party & Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Moon Hooch, Emil & Friends, Erika Spring @ Cameo | |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Tuesday, 11/13/12 & | Christopher Owens @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Wednesday, 11/14/12 | The guy behind Girls goes solo |
| Wednesday, 11/14/12 | The Who, Vintage Trouble @ Barclay’s Center |
| Playing seminal ‘Quadrephenia’ – Show of the Week | |
| The Sword @ Webster Hall | |
| ‘Apocryphon’ tour | |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars, Zambri @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Afrojack, Erick Morillo & more @ Pacha | |
| ‘Help Heal New York’ benefit | |
| Wednesday, 11/14/12 & | Dan Deacon @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Friday, 11/16/12 | Dan Deacon @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Proceeds to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims | |
| Thursday, 11/15/12 | Sharon Van Etten @ Town Hall |
| Jeff Mangum, Lee Renaldo & more @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| ‘The People’s Bailout’ benefit for Occupy Wall Street | |
| Thursday, 11/15/12 & | Matt & Kim, Oberhofer @ Terminal 5 – Show of the Week |
| Saturday, 11/17/12 | Matt & Kim, Oberhofer @ The Wellmont Theatre |
| ‘Lightning’ tour | |
| Friday, 11/16/12 | …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead @ Irving Plaza |
| ‘Lost Songs’ tour | |
| Friday, 11/16/12 & |
Ash @ Knitting Factory |
| Tuesday, 11/20/12 | Ash @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 11/16/12, | Taking Back Sunday, Bayside @ Starland Ballroom Best Buy Theatre |
| Wednesday, 11/21/12, | Taking Back Sunday, Bayside @ The Paramount |
| Friday, 11/23/12, | Taking Back Sunday, Bayside @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 11/24/12 & | Taking Back Sunday, Bayside @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 11/25/12 | Taking Back Sunday, Bayside @ Starland Ballroom Pine Belt Arena |
| TBS performing ‘Tell All Your Friends’ – moved shows benefits for Hurricane Sandy | |
| Saturday, 11/17/12 | Real Estate, Vampire Weekend, Devendra Banhart, The Walkmen, Cass McCombs & Dirty Projectors @ St. Ann & Holy Trinity |
| ‘Occupy Sandy!’ acoustic benefit | |
| Saturday, 11/17/12 & | Rubblebucket, Reptar @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Sunday, 11/18/12 | Rubblebucket, Reptar @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Sunday, 11/18/12 | A Place To Bury Strangers, Bleeding Rainbow @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Slowdance, Ski Lodge, backwords & many more @ Public Assembly | |
| Hurricane Sandy daytime benefit | |
| Wild Yaks, Free Blood, Field Mouse & more @ Union Pool | |
| ‘From Brooklyn With Love’ Sandy benefit | |
| Monday, 11/19/12 | Tegan & Sara @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Special intimate show | |
| Crystal Method & more @ Gramercy Theatre | |
| ‘EDM for Sandy’ benefit |
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| Tuesday, 11/20/12, | Of Monsters and Men, Sóley @ Terminal 5 – Show of the Week |
| Wednesday, 11/21/12 & |
Icelandic nights at T5 |
| Sóley @ Rockwood Music Hall* | |
| Tuesday, 11/20/12 & | Macklemore @ Irving Plaza |
| Wednesday, 11/21/12 | |
| Wednesday, 11/21/12 | Bob Dylan @ Barclays Center |
| Conor Oberst @ Carnegie Hall – Show of the Week | |
| Friday, 11/23/12 | Duncan Sheik @ Gramercy Theatre |
| Peelander-Z @ Knitting Factory | |
| Final show with Peelander Red band member | |
| Phone Home @ Piano’s | |
| Friday, 11/23/12 & | Kyp Malone, Pictureplane & more @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* |
| Saturday, 11/24/12 | French Horn Rebellion & more @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* |
| Saturday, 11/24/12 | Citizen Cope @ Beacon Theatre |
| Mike Doughty @ City Winery | |
| Sunday, 11/25/12 | Eugene Mirman, Jon Glaser, Wyatt Cenac & more @ Bell House |
| ‘A Very Funny “Fuck You” to Sandy’ benefit | |
| Monday, 11/26/12 | Scott Weiland @ Highline Ballroom |
| Nite Jewel @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Tuesday, 11/27/12 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Madison Square Garden |
| ‘Americana’ tour | |
| Delta Spirit, JEFF: The Brotherhood, FIDLAR @ Irving Plaza – Show of the Week | |
| People’s Champs, Johanna Samuels, Mrs. Adam Schatz @ Bowery Electric | |
| Wednesday, 11/28/12 | Benzos, Happy People, Dinowalrus @ Mercury Lounge |
| Dean Ween @ The Saint | |
| Benefit for Hurricane Sandy victim Nick Honachefsky in Asburg Park | |
| Wednesday, 11/28/12 to | The Gaslight Anthem, Matthew Ryan @ Terminal 5 |
| Friday, 11/30/12 | ‘Handwritten’ tour |
| Thursday, 11/29/12 | Public Enemy @ Irving Plaza |
| Bush Tetras @ (le) Poisson Rouge | |
| ‘Happy’ release party – Show of the Week | |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hooray For Earth, Zambri, Grooms @ Piano’s | |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Friday, 11/30/12 | Jessica 6 @ Webster Hall |
| VHS or Beta @ Mercury Lounge* | |
| Walter Schreifels @ Bar Matchless | |
| James Chance, Household, Midnight Magic @ Barnard College* | |
| Friday, 11/30/12 & | Ashay & more @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* |
| Saturday, 12/1/12 | TBA @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* |
| Friday, 11/30/12 & | X, Reverend Horton Heat, Not In the Face! @ Irving Plaza |
| Saturday, 12/1/12 |
December ’12
Saturday, 12/1/12: Dinosaur Jr. @ Terminal 5
Tuesday-Wednesday, 12/4-5/12: Animal Collective @ Terminal 5
Friday, 12/7/12: Real Estate @ Crest Hardware
Wednesday, 12/12/12: ‘121212’ benefit @ Madison Square Garden
Friday, 12/14/12: ‘4 Artists 1 Cause’ benefit @ Terminal 5
Thursday, 12/20/12: The Roots @ Brooklyn Bowl
Friday-Saturday, 12/21-22/12: Sufjan Stevens @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 12/29/12: They Might Be Giants @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Monday, 12/31/12: Blonde Redhead, Beach Fossils @ Irving Plaza
Brooklyn Night Bazaar, 11/23 – 12/22/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ 285 Kent, 12/1/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Sullivan Hall, 12/3/12
Hamilton College benefit @ Best Buy Theater, 12/5/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Borgata Hotel & Casino, 12/6/12
Sandy Relief benefit @ Bell House, 12/7/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Union Pool, 12/8/12
‘121212’ benefit @ Madison Square Garden, 12/12/12
Impose Magazine Photo Show @ Secret Project Robot, 12/13/12
Occupy Sandy benefit @ Saint Vitus, 12/14/12
‘4 Artists 1 Cause’ benefit @ Terminal 5, 12/14/12
Hurricane Sandy benefit @ Glasslands, 12/17/12
Coalition for the Homeless benefit @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, 12/20/12
| Saturday, 12/1/12 | Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile @ Terminal 5 |
| Playing ‘You’re Living All Over Me’ in its entirety – Show of the Week | |
| Emanuel & The Fear @ Joe’s Pub | |
| A Place To Bury Strangers, Liturgy @ 285 Kent | |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Six Organs of Admittance @ Mercury Lounge | |
| Saturday, 12/1/12 & | Titus Andronicus, Ceremony @ Maxwell’s |
| Sunday, 12/2/12 | Titus Andronicus, Ceremony @ Webster Hall |
| Monday, 12/3/12 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Patti Smith @ Barclays Center |
| Celtic Thunder @ Sullivan Hall | |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Tuesday, 12/4/12 & |
Japandroids, DIIV @ Webster Hall |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12 | ‘Celebration Rock’ tour |
| Tuesday, 12/4/12 & | Animal Collective @ Terminal 5 |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12 | Back-to-back make-up nights for locals on ‘Centipede Hz’ tour – Show of the Week |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12 | Jon Bon Jovi @ Best Buy Theatre |
| Benefit for Hamilton College | |
| Bear In Heaven @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12 & |
Black Moth Super Rainbow @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Thursday, 12/6/12 | Black Moth Super Rainbow @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| ‘Cobra Juicy’ tour | |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12 & | The Who @ Madison Square Garden |
| Thursday, 12/6/12 | The Who @ Prudential Center |
| Special ‘Quadrephenia’ tour | |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12, |
Marina & Diamonds, Icona Pop @ Terminal 5 |
| Thursday, 12/6/12 & | Marina & Diamonds, Icona Pop @ Terminal 5 |
| Friday, 12/7/12 | Marina & Diamonds, Icona Pop @ The Paramount |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12, | Foxygen, Izzy & The Catastrophics @ Etsy Holiday Shop* |
| Thursday, 12/6/12, | Eric Harvey, The Maybelles @ Etsy Holiday Shop* |
| Friday, 12/7/12 & | Way Yes, Gem Club @ Etsy Holiday Shop* |
| Saturday, 12/8/12 | Reggie Watts @ Etsy Holiday Shop* |
| Free shows at Etsy’s holiday pop-up store | |
| Wednesday, 12/5/12, | Deer Tick @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Wednesday, 12/12/12, | Deer Tick @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Wednesday, 12/19/12, | Deer Tick @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Thursday, 12/27/12 & | My Morning Jacket, Deer Tick @ The Capitol Theatre |
| Friday, 12/28/12 | Deer Tick @ Maxwell’s |
| Brooklyn Bowl residency & more | |
| Thursday, 12/6/12 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ Borgata Hotel & Casino |
| ‘Special Evening with Neil Young & Crazy Horse’ Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Brooklyn Bowl | |
| Hospitality @ WIRED Store* | |
| Colin Stetson, Sarah Neufeld, Holly Miranda @ Zebulon* | |
| One of the final shows before Zebulon closes its doors for good | |
| Fort Lean @ Glasslands | |
| ‘Change Your Nature EP’ release party | |
| Friday, 12/7/12 | The Faint, Trust, Icky Blossums @ Terminal 5 |
| Playing ‘Danse Macabre’ | |
| Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert @ Wellmont Theatre | |
| Is it too early to say ‘Indecision 2016’? | |
| Chris Elliot, Andrew W.K., Ted Leo & more @ Bell House | |
| Sandy Relief Benefit | |
| Real Estate @ Crest Hardware* | |
| MINI’s ‘Not Normal’ series of shows comes to NYC – Show of the Week | |
| Emily Wells, Devin @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* | |
| Saturday, 12/8/12 | The Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Union Pool |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit for big band in tiny venue | |
| State Radio @ Webster Hall | |
| Saturday, 12/8/12 & | Os Mutantes, Pedro Moraes @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| Sunday, 12/9/12 | |
| Saturday, 12/8/12, | The Rolling Stones @ Barclays Center |
| Thursday, 12/13/12 & | The Rolling Stones @ Prudential Center |
| Saturday, 12/15/12 | The Rolling Stones @ Prudential Center |
| Yes, The Rollings Stones are on their umpeetnth tour… | |
| Saturday, 12/8/12 to | Yo La Tengo @ Maxwell’s |
| Saturday, 12/15/12 | Annual Hannuakah shows |
| Monday, 12/10/12 | The Smashing Pumpkins @ Barclays Center |
| Rescheduled ‘Oceania’ tour date | |
| Tuesday, 12/11/12 | of Montreal, Foxygen @ Webster Hall |
| Band of Horses @ Hammerstein Ballroom | |
| Band of Horses (acoustic) @ Grand Ballroom | |
| Two shows – electric & acoustic | |
| Tuesday, 12/11/12 & | Thurston Moore & John Moloney @ Union Pool |
| Thursday, 12/17/12 | Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise, Thurston Moore & John Moloney @ Bowery Electric |
| Wednesday, 12/12/12 | Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Kanye West, Billy Joel, Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl & more @ Madison Square Garden |
| ‘121212’ benefit for Hurricane Sandy with an unbelievable line up – Show of the Week |
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| Judah Friedlander & more @ Studio at Webster Hall | |
| Thursday, 12/13/12 | Doveman with Sandra Bernhard, Craig Finn & more @ (le) Poisson Rouge |
| ‘The Burgundy Stain Sessions’ | |
| !!!, Sinkane @ Music Hall of Williamsburg | |
| Bear Hands, Slam Donahue @ Glasslands | |
| Alan Watts @ Secret Project Robot* | |
| Impose Magazine Photo Show | |
| Friday, 12/14/12 | |
| Sleigh Bells, Grizzly Bear, The Antlers, Cults @ Terminal 5 | |
| ‘4 Artists 1 Cause’ benefit for Sandy relief efforts – Show of the Week |
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| Paul Banks, Ex Cops @ Webster Hall | |
| Rescheduled ‘Banks’ tour date | |
| The Men, Widowspeak @ Saint Vitus | |
| Occupy Sandy benefit | |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Brooklyn Bazaar* | |
| Friday, 12/14/12 & | Nada Surf @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 12/15/12 | |
| Saturday, 12/15/12 | Black Dice, Eternal Summers, Bleeding Rainbow @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* |
| Saturday, 12/15/12 & | Matisyahu @ Terminal 5 |
| Sunday, 12/16/12 | Matisyahu (acoustic) @ The Capitol Theatre |
| ‘Festival of Lights’ | |
| Monday, 12/17/12 | Chairlift, Twin Sister @ Glasslands |
| Hurricane Sandy benefit | |
| Blood Orange @ Sony Store* | |
| Ben Taylor, Menahan Street Band @ Bowery Hotel* | |
| Tuesday, 12/18/12 | METZ @ Generation Records* |
| Tuesday, 12/18/12 & |
Leonard Cohen @ Madison Square Garden |
| Thursday, 12/20/12 | Leonard Cohen @ Barclays Center |
| Wednesday, 12/19/12 | King Tuff, METZ, Sean Bones, Devin @ Music Hall of Williamsburg* |
| ‘Converse Rubber Tracks’ | |
| Stephen A. Clark @ WIRED Store* | |
| Don Deligo @ Bowery Electric | |
| ‘Don Deligo’s Extravaganza Extraveganza’ | |
| Thursday, 12/20/12 | Ghost Beach @ Music Hall of Williamsburg |
| Coalition for the Homeless benefit | |
| The Lumineers @ iHeartRadio Theater* | |
| The Roots @ Brooklyn Bowl* | |
| Okayplayer Holiday Jam – Show of the Week | |
| Friday, 12/21/12 | JD Samson & Men @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* |
| Friday, 12/21/12 & |
Sufjan Stevens @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Saturday, 12/22/12 | The Sufjan Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long – Show of the Week |
| Saturday, 12/22/12 | Fucked Up @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar* |
| Thursday, 12/27/12 | Alberta Cross @ Brooklyn Bowl* |
| Thursday, 12/27/12, | My Morning Jacket, Deer Tick @ The Capitol Theatre |
| Friday, 12/28/12, | My Morning Jacket, Antibalas @ The Capitol Theatre |
| Saturday, 12/29/12, | My Morning Jacket, Floating Action @ The Capitol Theatre |
| Thursday, 12/27/12 | David Berkeley @ Lincoln Center* |
| Friday, 12/28/12 | Junior Sanchez aboard The Zephyr |
| Friday, 12/28/12 & | Lucero @ Brooklyn Bowl |
| Saturday, 12/29/12 | |
| Saturday, 12/29/12 | Jane’s Addiction @ Terminal 5 |
| Saturday, 12/29/12 to | They Might Be Giants @ Music Hall of Williamsburg – Show of the Week |
| Monday, 12/31/12 | |
| Saturday, 12/29/12 to | The Punch Brothers @ Bowery Ballroom |
| Monday, 12/31/12 | |
| Sunday, 12/30/12 & | The Felice Brothers @ Maxwell’s |
| Monday, 12/31/12 | The Felice Brothers @ Mercury Lounge |
| Sunday, 12/30/12 & | Coldplay @ Barclays Center |
| Monday, 12/31/12 | Coldplay & Jay-Z @ Barclays Center |
| Sunday, 12/30/12 & | Pretty Lights @ Roseland Ballroom |
| Monday, 12/31/12 | |
| Monday, 12/31/12 | Amanda Palmer @ Terminal 5 |
| Nas @ Radio City Music Hall | |
| Disco Biscuits @ Theater at MSG | |
| The Hold Steady, Lucero @ Wellmont Theatre | |
| Blonde Redhead, Beach Fossils @ Irving Plaza – Show of the Week | |
| RJD2, Com Truise @ Gramercy Theatre | |
| Sander Van Doorn @ Pacha | |
| Onra, Nick Catchdubs, Samo Sound Boy @ Villain | |
| Titus Andronicus @ Glasslands | |
| Holy Ghost! @ Brooklyn Bowl |
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