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January ’09

Friday, 1/2/09 & Modernboys Moderngirls @ Arlene’s Grocery
Saturday, 1/3/09 Modernboys Moderngirls @ Trash Bar
First two U.S. appearances by this Canadian band
Monday, 1/5/09 Glasvegas @ Union Square Virgin Megastore*
Free performance & signing by much-hyped Scots
Tuesday, 1/6/09 Okkervil River @ Bell House
One-off show, night before they appear on Letterman
Friday, 1/9/09 & Camper Van Beethoven @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 1/10/09 25th anniversary tour of seminal act
Saturday, 1/10/09 Takka Takka @ BAMCafé*
Free, but beware of a long line outside…
Sunday, 1/11/09 Vivian Girls @ Living Room
‘Kidrockers’ afternoon show
Wednesday, 1/14/09 Illinois, Drink Up Buttercup, Oceanographer @ Fontana’s
‘The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe, Chapter 3’ EP release party
Los Campesinos! @ Sound Fix Records*
Free in-store before starting ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’ tour, but get their early, as it will fill up fast
Friday, 1/16/09 The Rosebuds @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 1/17/09 Spanish Prisoners, Ghost Front, The Loom @ Highline Ballroom*
Free alt-folk at the rarely-free Highline Ballroom
Chase Pagan, Motel Motel @ Sound Fix Records*
Book release party for ‘Scandalabra’, including readings by Paul G. Maziar
Sunday, 1/18/09 The Forms, Frances, Ford & Fitzroy, Arms @ Bell House
Benefit for The Sports & Arts In School Foundation – comes out to $2.50 per band (or per ‘F’)
Sunday, 1/18/09 & Cursive @ Union Hall
Monday, 1/19/09 Cursive @ Mercury Lounge
Omaha’s biggest name in indie-rock play two small, intimate venues
Tuesday, 1/20/09 A.C. Newman @ Union Square Virgin Megastore*
Free performance & signing by New Pornographers frontman, playing his new solo record, ‘Get Guilty
Tuesday, 1/20/09 & Animal Collective @ Grand Ballroom
Wedneday, 1/21/09 Animal Collective @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ tour
Wedneday, 1/21/09 Colourmusic @ Union Hall
Another strange, wild act from Oklahoma

Previously on Lost @ Bell House
‘Lost’ Season Five Premiere concert/viewing party – “They’ve gotta go back!!!”
Thursday, 1/22/09 Matt & Kim @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Grand’ release party – at home in Brooklyn
Regina Spektor, Ra Ra Riot @ Bowery Ballroom
3rd Annual Roe on the Rocks benefit for Planned Parenthood
Friday, 1/23/09 Freshkills, BM Linx @ Public Assembly
Saturday, 1/24/09 The Picture, Ford & Fitzroy @ Mercury Lounge
‘Bluebirds EP’ release party
Monday, 1/26/09 & Andrew Bird @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Wednesday, 1/28/09 Andrew Bird @ Carnegie Hall
‘Noble Beast’ tour
Tuesday, 1/27/09
The Morning After Girls @ Mercury Lounge
Wednesday, 1/28/09 Annuals @ Bowery Ballroom
More of North Carolina’s finest
Cold War Kids @ Mercury Lounge
Big band in a small place
Thursday, 1/29/09 Kings of Leon, The Whigs @ Madison Square Garden
‘Only By the Night’ tour
Thursday, 1/29/09, Metallica, The Sword @ Nassau Coliseum
Saturday, 1/31/09 & Metallica, The Sword @ Prudential Center
Sunday, 2/1/09 Metallica, The Sword @ Prudential Center
‘Death Magnetic’ tour
Friday, 1/30/09 Joseph Arthur, Harper Simon @ Bell House
All-acoustic show
Neckbeard Telecaster, Maxi Geill, PlayColt @ South Street Seaport*
Inaugural ‘Seaport on Ice’ show, free – if cold…
The Sword @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 1/31/09 They Might Be Giants @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Afternoon kids show
Dan Deacon & more @ The 1896
Brooklyn vs. Baltimore Battle Marathon, brought to you by Todd P (just moved from Danbro Studios)
Loney, Dear, Arms @ Union Hall
‘Dear John’ tour
Loney, Dear @ Sound Fix Records*
Free in-store performance – only a few left before the back room bar closes

February ’09

Monday, 2/2/09 Frightened Rabbit @ (le) Poisson Rouge
All-acoustic, all-request show
Lady Sovereign @ Piano’s
‘Jigsaw’ preview show
Tuesday, 2/3/09 Philip Glass, The National, Patti Smith, Vampire Weekend, @ Carnegie Hall
Tibet House benefit concert
Wednesday, 2/4/09 Illinois @ Fontana’s
‘The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe, Chapter 4’ EP release party
Passion Pit, The Paper Route @ Bowery Ballroom
Beirut @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Thursday, 2/5/09 The Five Deadly Venoms, The Jones Street Station @ Housing Works Used Bookstore*
The Jones Street Station (formerly J.S. Boys) start their monthly curated & opened free shows at Housing Works
Friday, 2/6/09 Murder By Death @ Bowery Ballroom
Playing ‘Red of Tooth and Claw’ and ‘Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them’ in sequence & in their entirety
Theresa Anderson @ Joe’s Pub
Sweden + New Orleans = one woman orchestra
Project Jenny, Project Jan @ South Street Seaport*
‘Seaport on Ice’
Andrew W.K., Cheeseburger @ Santos Party House*
NY Comic-Con free after party, presented by Adult Swim
Friday, 2/6/09 & These United States, Rural Alberta Advantage @ Union Hall
Saturday, 2/7/09 Rural Alberta Advantage, Alaska In Winter @ 92YTribeca
Who’s next for RAA?  Look Mexico?  Sam Goldberg’s (of Broken Social Scene) Hawaii?  Cracker playing ‘Greenland’ in its entirety?…
The Black Keys, Heartless Bastards @ Terminal 5
Cat Power @ Apollo Theatre
Beirut @ BAM Howard Gillman Opera House
Final Fantasy @ The Kitchen
Four big-name acts that draw from the past playing four big venues two nights in a row
                             Brooklyn Academy of Music’s ‘Sounds Like Brooklyn’ series:
Friday, 2/6/09 & Beirut @ BAM Howard Gillman Opera House
Saturday, 2/7/09
Saturday, 2/7/09 Bear In Heaven, Analogue Transit @ BAMCafé*
Always free at BAMCafé, but there’s also always a line…
Thursday, 2/12/09 Action Painters, Mussels, Aa, Fiasco @ Southpaw
Tally Hall, Wheat, Seth Kalen @ Union Hall
Tracy Bonham, The Loom, Smokey’s Roundup @ Bell House
ME, Sharon Von Etten @ Monkeytown
Friday, 2/13/09 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Chairlift @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Quite possibly the last show ever by the hiatus (or more) bound CYHSY
The Randy Bandits, The Isles @ Bell House
The Canon Logic, Motel Motel, Holly Miranda (of The Jealous Girlfriends), Ro Agents @ Southpaw
Scary Mansion @ Monkeytown
Injoy @ BAMCafé*
Mattison, A Last Town Chorus @ Pete’s Candy Store
Saturday, 2/14/09 Harlem Shakes, Phil & The Osophers @ Southpaw
‘Technicolor Health’ preview – and first Shakes NYC show since 2007!
Japanther, Ninjasonik @ BAMCafé*
Will BAM’s heavy-handed security be able to control the bands’ crazy fans at the free, all-ages show?…
Mia Riddle & Her Band, Frances @ Union Hall
A Locomotive, Kaiser Cartel @ Pete’s Candy Store
Saturday, 2/28/09 Grizzly Bear, Final Fantasy @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Sunday, 2/8/09 Jeffrey Lewis, Drink Up Buttercup @ Living Room
‘Kidrockers’ afternoon show
Tuesday, 2/10/09 Lily Allen, Matt & Kim, Trouble Andrew @ Bowery Ballroom*
‘MySpace Secret Show’ – first-come, first-served, all ages, sure to be a massive line
Eugene Mirman, John Oliver, Kristen Schaal @ Bell House 
‘The Will To Whatev’ book release party
Trouble Andrew @ Burton Snowboards Flagship Store*
Trouble Andrew @ Santos*
Two more free album release parties – you think he’s appearing enough?
Tuesday, 2/10/09 The Morning Benders, The Submarines, Dawn Landes @ Mercury Lounge
Wednesday, 2/11/09 The Morning Benders, The Submarines, Dawn Landes @ Bell House
Tuesday, 2/10/09 Gary Lucas @ World Financial Center*
Wednesday, 2/11/09 The BQE Project @ World Financial Center*
Thursday, 2/12/09 The Cinematic Orchestra @ World Financial Center*
Classic silent films with live scores
Tuesday, 2/10/09 Family Time @ Union Hall
Tuesday, 2/17/09 Family Time @ Union Hall
Tuesday, 2/24/09 Family Time @ Union Hall
From the folks who brought you Previously On Lost comes Family Time – based on the even more-confusing, less-believable musings of Carl Sagan
Friday, 2/13/09 The Virgins @ Union Square Virgin Megastore*
It was only a matter of time before the over-hyped Virgins played their namesake
The Kiss Off @ South Street Seaport*
Friday, 2/13/09 & Paul Simon @ Beacon Theatre
Saturday, 2/14/09 Legendary singer/songwriter opens the renovated Beacon Theatre
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings @ Nokia Theatre
Saturday, 2/14/09 & Los Campesinos!, Titus Andronicus @ Bowery Ballroom
Sunday, 2/15/09 Los Campesinos!, Titus Andronicus @ Bowery Ballroom
‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’ tour
Sunday, 2/15/09 Chairlift, The Bloodsugars @ 92YTribeca
‘Kidrockers’ afternoon show
Iran, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson @ Death By Audio
‘Dissolver’ release party
Titus Andronicus (solo sets) @ Sound Fix Records*
Monday, 2/16/09 These Are Powers @ Other Music*
Tuesday, 2/17/09 Tony Scherr @ Living Room*
Wednesday, 2/18/09 The Dig @ Piano’s*
The Dig free at midnight
Wednesday, 2/18/09 & White Rabbits, Holly Miranda (of Jealous Girlfriends) @ Mercury Lounge
Thursday, 2/19/09 White Rabbits @ Mercury Lounge
First return of the Shakes, then return of the Rabbits…
Thursday, 2/19/09 M. Ward, Vivian Girls @ Apollo Theatre
Friday, 2/20/09 Heloise & The Savoir Faire @ South Street Seaport*
The Forms @ Sound Fix Records*
Semi Precious Weapons @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
Saturday, 2/21/09 Matisyahu & Friends @ Bell House
All ages so-called ‘evening of improvisation’
Matt Keating @ Living Room*
Monday, 2/23/09 Jimmy Eat World @ Terminal 5
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of ‘Clarity’ by playing the entire record, start-to-finish
Wednesday, 2/25/09 Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians, Harlem Shakes @ Webster Hall
Expect the kids to be out for TPC – but get early for the Shakes!
Semi Precious Weapons, The Cringe, The Orion Experience @ Santos
After previously holding a surprisingly successful SXSW party, Rachael Ray – yes, that Oprah spin-off – holds a ‘prelude’ to this year’s SXSW party
Ben Kweller, The Watson Twins, Jones Street Station @ Town Hall
Wednesday, 2/25/09 Tapes ‘n Tapes, Wild Light, The Subjects @ Bowery Ballroom
& Gringo Star @ Piano’s
Thursday, 2/26/09 Tapes ‘n Tapes, Wild Light, The Subjects @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Gringo Star @ Death By Audio
Fountains of Wayne (acoustic) @ Joe’s Pub
Thievery Corporation @ Terminal 5
Thursday, 2/26/09 Peelander-Z, Noah Chermin (of Sam Champion) @ Piano’s*
Friday, 2/27/09 Blitzen Trapper, Plants and Animals @ Bowery Ballroom
& …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Saturday, 2/28/09 Blitzen Trapper, Plants and Animals @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead @ Bowery Ballroom
David Byrne @ Madison Square Garden
Saturday, 2/28/09 Marissa Nadler @ Sound Fix Records*
Final show at the free Sound Fix Lounge

 

March ’09

Monday, 3/2/09 Limbs, The Interiors @ Cake Shop
Limbs record release show
Tuesday, 3/3/09 Pela @ Mercury Lounge
Tuesday, 3/10/09 Pela, Holly Miranda (of Jealous Girlfriends) @ Mercury Lounge
Pela’s Mercury Lounge residency
Wednesday, 3/4/09 Young Galaxy @ Pianos
Friday, 3/6/09 Young Galaxy @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Preview of ‘Invisible Republic’
Thursday, 3/5/09 Ra Ra Riot, A Place To Bury Strangers @ NYU Kimmel Center
One of those shows where it’s impossible to get tickets if you’re not a student…
Jones Street Station, Tall Pines @ Housing Works Used Book Café*
Monthly series of free shows at charity bookstore, curated by Jones Street Station
The Picture, The Kiss Off @ Bowery Ballroom
Friday, 3/6/09 Handsome Furs, Iran @ Mercury Lounge
The side-projects/other bands of members of Wolf Parade & TV On the Radio
Your Nature (formerly Frankpollis) @ Cake Shop 
After non-Frank, non-Pollis Macolm joined, it was just a matter of time before they changed their often-misspelled name
Sunday, 3/8/09 Phil & The Osophers @ Goodbye Blue Monday*
Monday, 3/9/09 Cursive @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
& Black Lips @ Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, 3/10/09 Cursive, Bear Hands @ Bowery Ballroom
Black Lips @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Tuesday, 3/10/09 Bishop Allen @ Other Music*
Tony Scherr @ Living Room*
Wednesday, 3/11/09 Bob Mould, Patti Smith, The Apples in Stereo & more @ Carnegie Hall
‘The Music of R.E.M.’
Friday, 3/13/09 & The Pogues @ Roseland Ballroom
Saturday, 3/14/09 The Pogues @ Roseland Ballroom
Saturday, 3/14/09 Bell X1, Harlem Shakes @ Highline Ballroom
Come for the Shakes, stay for the much-improved Bell X1
Violens @ 92YTribeca*
Sunday, 3/15/09 Charles Spearin’s ‘Happiness Project’ @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Experience one of 2009’s most fascinating releases, from Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene & Do Make Say Think
Modest Mouse @ Terminal 5
Sunday, 3/15/09 &
The Ting Tings @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Monday, 3/16/09 The Ting Tings @ Terminal 5
Monday, 3/16/09 Motley Crüe @ Madison Square Garden
Monday, 3/16/09, Morrissey @ Wellmont Theatre
Saturday, 3/21/09, Morrissey @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, 3/25/09 & Morrissey @ Webster Hall
Thursday, 3/26/09 Morrissey @ Carnegie Hall
Because you can’t get enough of the ever-emotional Morrissey…
Saturday, 3/21/09 Cut Copy, Matt & Kim @ Terminal 5
Don’t you just wanna know how Matt & Kim will handle the massive Terminal 5 – and how will their fans handle being so far away from the band?…
Tuesday, 3/24/09 & Camera Obscura @ Bell House
Wednesday, 3/25/09 Camera Obscura @ Mercury Lounge
Bloc Party, Longwave @ Terminal 5
Thursday, 3/26/09 The Proclaimers @ Joe’s Pub
Prodigy @ Roseland Ballroom
Two British ‘pro’s attempting a comeback – who have nothing else at all in common…
Harlem Shakes @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Technicolor Health’ release party
Thursday, 3/26/09 & Friendly Fires, White Lies @ Bowery Ballroom
Friday, 3/27/09 White Lies, Friendly Fires @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 3/28/09 & Say Hi, Telekinesis @ Bell House
Sunday, 3/29/09 Say Hi, Telekinesis, Phil & The Osophers @ Mercury Lounge

 

April ’09

Wednesday, 4/1/09 White Hinterland & more @ Bruar Falls
Bruar Falls – new Brooklyn venue from Cake Shop people – ‘soft opening’
Thursday, 4/2/09  Bang On a Can All-Stars, with Lee Renaldo @ Merkin Concert Hall

Friday, 4/3/09 Cold War Kids, Amazing Baby @ Terminal 5
The Presets @ Webster Hall
Saturday, 4/4/09 Chairlift, Acrylics @ Bruar Falls*
Bruar Falls Grand Opening
Ra Ra Riot, Cut Off Your Hands @ Webster Hall
Saturday, 4/5/09 & Bishop Allen @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Sunday, 4/6/09 Bishop Allen @ Bowery Ballroom
Sunday, 4/6/09 & Black Kids, Mates of State @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Monday, 4/7/09 Black Kids, Mates of State @ Webster Hall
Mom & dad tour with the Kids…
Tuesday, 4/7/09, Youth Group @ Piano’s
Tuesday, 4/14/09, Youth Group @ Piano’s
Tuesday, 4/21/09 & Youth Group @ Piano’s
Tuesday, 4/28/09 Youth Group @ Piano’s
Australia’s Youth Group hold down a month-long residency at Piano’s
Wednesday, 4/8/09 & Bob Mould @ Joe’s Pub
Thursday, 4/9/09 Bob Mould @ Joe’s Pub
‘Life & Times’ solo tour
Friday, 4/10/09 & Ladytron, The Faint @ Webster Hall
Saturday, 4/11/09 The Faint, Ladytron @ Webster Hall
Sunday, 4/12/09 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Santos
Monday, 4/13/09 Au Revoir Simone @ Union Pool
Tuesday, 4/14/09 St. Vincent @ 92YTribeca*
Three ‘secret shows’ by some leading ladies of indie
Monday, 4/13/09 & Neko Case, The Crooked Fingers @ Nokia Theatre
Tuesday, 4/14/09 Neko Case, Joan As Policewoman @ Nokia Theatre
‘Middle Cyclone’ tour
Tuesday, 4/14/09 & Flight of the Conchords @ Radio City Music Hall
Wednesday, 4/15/09 Fresh off Season Two finale – but how did Murray get them back in the States?…
Wednesday, 4/15/09 Clogs, Laurie Anderson @ World Financial Center*
Wednesday, 4/15/09, of Montreal @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Thursday, 4/16/09 & of Montreal @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Friday, 4/17/09 of Montreal @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Thursday, 4/16/09 The Walkmen @ Webster Hall
The Rosebuds @ Bell House
The Morning After Girls @ Santos
Friday, 4/17/09 Dead Milkmen @ Warsaw
First NYC show in 15 years
The Felice Brothers @ Webster Hall
‘Yonder Is the Clock’ tour
The Juan MacLean @ (le) Poisson Rouge
‘The Future Will Come’ tour
Saturday, 4/18/09 Bill Callahan @ Other Music*
Record Store Day free performance
Wednesday, 4/22/09 Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, Hooray For Earth @ Bell House
Benefit for the hearing impaired
Thursday, 4/23/09 The Subjects @ Cameo
The Subjects hit up Williamsburg’s brand-new Cameo
Harlem Shakes @ Starr Space
Shakes play a semi-secret show in honor of the artist who gave them the cover art for ‘Technicolor Health’
Thursday, 4/23/09 & The Boxer Rebellion @ Mercury Lounge
Friday, 4/24/09 The Boxer Rebellion @ Mercury Lounge
U.K. unsigned hit visit the States for the first time
Metal Machine Trio @ Gramercy Theatre
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio
Friday, 4/24/09, The Dead @ Nassau Coliseum
Saturday, 4/25/09, The Dead @ Madison Square Garden
Tuesday, 4/28/09 & The Dead @ Izod Center
Wednesday, 4/29/09 The Dead @ Izod Center
The Grateful Dead minus Jerry Garcia are still somehow around…
Saturday, 4/25/09 Crystal Stilts, WAVVES, These Are Powers @ The Shank*
Note: one must go to new über-hipster Topshop in SoHo on Friday to get free tickets – and have to produce college ID
Further note: that’s still too much to pay to see These Are Powers, or pretty much any of the bands but Crystal Stilts, who play NYC every other week…
Sunday, 4/26/09 WBAR-B-Q @ Barnard College Lehman Lawn*
Show up early for free BBQ – probably better than any of the actual bands…
Monday, 4/27/09 to Mogwai, The Twilight Sad @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Wednesday, 4/29/09 What’s with Music Hall & the three-day runs?
Wednesday, 4/29/09 & Peter Bjorn & John @ Webster Hall
Thursday, 4/30/09 Peter Bjorn & John @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Living Thing’ tour

 

May ’09

Friday, 5/1/09 White Rabbits, Motel Motel @ Washington Square Park*
NYU Spring Fling ‘Strawberry Festival’
The Beets, Wild Yaks, The Subjects, pow wow! @ Red Star Bar
Some sort of ‘communist party’ at a sports bar in Greenpoint, but only $4 for fresh-hyped bands, and free Colt .45 9-10 PM
Friday, 5/1/09 & The Dears, Great Northern, Eulogies @ Bell House
Monday, 5/4/09 The Dears, Great Northern, Eulogies @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 5/2/09 Fires of Rome, Alex English Danzie @ 92YTribeca*
Sunday, 5/3/09 Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder & more @ Madison Square Garden
Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration
David Byrne, Feist, The National, Bon Iver, & more @ Radio City Music Hall
‘Dark Was the Night’ benefit show
The Wild Yaks, Pterodactyl & more @ 3rd Ward*
Free afternoon show at bike store – with free beer…
Monday, 5/4/09 Patrick Watson @ City Winery
Monday, 5/4/09 & Electric Six @ Maxwell’s
Tuesday, 5/5/09 Electric Six @ Bowery Ballroom
Monday, 5/4/09, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ Nassau Coliseum
Thursday, 5/21/09 & Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ Izod Center
Saturday, 5/23/09 While The Boss is always at his peak in Jersey, he won’t disappoint Long Island, either
Monday, 5/4/09, Jason Anderson, Alden Barton @ Cake Shop*
Monday, 5/11/09, Jason Anderson, Alden Barton @ Cake Shop*
Monday, 5/18/09 & Jason Anderson, Alden Barton @ Cake Shop*
Monday, 5/25/09 Jason Anderson, Alden Barton @ Cake Shop*
Jason Anderson’s four-week Monday residency at Cake Shop – and all free
Tuesday, 5/5/09 Illinois, Holly Miranda, Kenan Bell @ Mercury Lounge
‘The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe (Deluxe Edition)’ release party
St. Vincent @ Union Square Virgin Megastore*
‘Actor’ record release free in-store performance
Tuesday, 5/5/09 & Lady Sovereign @ Highline Ballroom
Wednesday, 5/6/09 Lady Sovereign @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Jigsaw’ tour
Wednesday, 5/6/09 Harlem Shakes, The Cringe, Sean Bones @ Piano’s*
Free Rachael Ray party – but get their early to get in, and to see Sean Bones (Sean Sullivan of Sam Champion)
Wednesday, 5/6/09, Your Nature @ The Annex
Wednesday, 5/13/09, Your Nature @ The Annex
Wednesday, 5/20/09 & Your Nature @ The Annex
Wednesday, 5/27/09 Your Nature @ The Annex
Your Nature (formerly Frankpollis) have a four-Wednesday residency at The Annex – with open bar, nine-’til nine-thirty
Thursday, 5/7/09 Franz Ferdinand @ Roseland Ballroom
‘Tonight: Franz Ferdinand’ tour
Thursday, 5/7/09 & Jones Street Station, Salt & Samovar @ Housing Works Used Bookstore*
Friday, 5/8/09 Björk, Dirty Projectors, Ólöf Arnalds @ Housing Works Used Bookstore
Free Jones Street Station show one night, $100+ Björk show the next…
Friday, 5/8/09, The Thermals, The Shaky Hands @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 5/9/09 & The Thermals, The Shaky Hands @ Bowery Ballroom
Monday, 5/11/09 The Thermals, The Shaky Hands @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Now We Can See’ tour
Saturday, 5/9/09 Fastball @ City Winery
‘Little White Lies’ tour
The Subjects, Asa Ransom & more @ Glasslands Gallery
Five Eyes Festival to benefit Cystic Fibrosis – and free Sixpoint Beer after nine!
Monday, 5/11/09 The White Rabbits @ Other Music*
The Noisettes @ Piano’s*
Monday, 5/11/09, XYZ Affair @ Piano’s
Monday 5/18/09 & XYZ Affair @ Piano’s
Monday, 5/25/09 XYZ Affair @ Piano’s
XYZ Affair Monday residency at Piano’s – but up against Jason Anderson’s at a few doors down Cake Shop, and not free like Anderson’s, or the early Noisettes show on the first night…
Tuesday, 5/12/09 Prefuse 73 & more @ Baryshnikov Arts Center*
Free w/ online RSVP for ‘Catalan Days: SonarSound NY’
Phenomenal Handclap Band, Golden Triangles @ Southpaw*
Lame band playing free show, thanks to Colt .45 – but will there be free beer?  And Golden Triangles did win SXSW’s ‘Battle of the Bands’
Wednesday, 5/13/09 Family Time @ Bell House
‘Previously On Lost’ Season Five finale party
Matt Keating @ Living Room*
                                              Local Correspondents Festival @ Bar 4*
Wednesday, 5/13/09 Night One*
Thursday, 5/14/09 Night Two*
Friday, 5/15/09 Night Three*
Saturday, 5/16/09 Night Four*
Sunday, 5/17/09 Night Five*
Monday, 5/18/09 Night Six*
Tuesday, 5/19/09 Night Seven*
Seven nights of singer/songwriters you don’t know playing free sets on the half hours at Bar 4
Friday, 5/15/09 & Dan Deacon @ 979 Broadway Backyard
Saturday, 5/16/09 Dan Deacon @ Bowery Ballroom (early show)
Dan Deacon @ Bowery Ballroom (late show)
‘Bromst’ tour, including outdoor Todd P venue on Friday & two shows at Bowery on Saturday
Friday, 5/15/09, No Fun Fest @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Saturday, 5/16/09 & No Fun Fest @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Sunday, 5/17/09 No Fun Fest @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Noise-punk ‘No Fun Fest’ at Music Hall – Sonic Youth headlining Saturday, no one else you’ve ever heard of playing the rest
Saturday, 5/16/09 Peaches, Drums of Death @ Webster Hall
Sunday, 5/17/09 The Shackletons @ Living Room
‘Kidrockers’ all-ages afternoon show
Sunday, 5/17/09 & The Vaselines @ Bowery Ballroom
Monday, 5/18/09 The Vaselines @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Kurt Cobain’s favorite alt-pop band is back
Sunday, 5/17/09, The Shins, Delta Spirit @ Wellmont Theatre
Monday, 5/18/09 & The Shins, Delta Spirit @ Terminal 5
Thursday, 5/21/09 The Shins, Delta Spirit @ Terminal 5
Monday, 5/18/09 Busta Rhymes @ Santos Party House*
Secret, free, Busta Rhymes show
Passion Pit @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise (The Temptress)
‘Manners’ release party aboard ‘The Temptress’
Au Revoir Simone @ Other Music*
Monday, 5/18/09, Green Day @ Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, 5/19/09, Green Day @ Webster Hall
Wednesday, 5/20/09 & Green Day @ P.C. Richard & Son’s Theater
Friday, 5/22/09 Green Day @ Central Park Summerstage*
Big-name pop-punkers are doing a full-court NYC press for the release of ’21st Century Breakdown’, starting with a fan club-only show at the small-for-them Bowery Ballroom, then a pseudo-secret show at the still-small-for-them Webster Hall through MySpace, then a win tickets-only show at an appliance store’s new theater (?), and finishes it off by appearing on ‘Good Morning America’ at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield
Tuesday, 5/19/09 Iron & Wine @ Other Music*
Wednesday, 5/20/09 St. Vincent @ Webster Hall
‘Actor’ tour
Thursday, 5/21/09 White Rabbits @ Bowery Ballroom
‘It’s Frightening’ tour
Chris Garneau @ Bargemusic
First-ever non-classical performance aboard Brooklyn’s actual floating barge
These Are Powers, Pterodactyls @ Glasslands*
Free Colt 45, 9-10 PM – the only reason to get anywhere near the god-awful These Are Powers
Friday, 5/22/09 Crocodiles, Japanese Motors @ Studio B*
Friday, 5/22/09 & Golden Triangle, Sisters, Little Girls @ Littlefield*
Saturday, 5/23/09 The Hundred In the Hands, Cruel Black Dove @ Littlefield*
New venue in Brooklyn opens with a pair of free shows
Sunday, 5/24/09 Golden Error, pow wow! & more @ Shea Stadium
No, not the late home of The Mets, but a yet another new venue in Brooklyn (also with a ‘Golden’ opening…), this one holding Sunday all-ages shows where they record the event
Tuesday, 5/26/09 Here We Go Magic @ Union Pool*
Free, secret-ish show before they go on tour with Grizzly Bear
A Camp, Gentleman Reg @ Bowery Ballroom
Loxsly @ Union Hall
Tuesday, 5/26/09 & Spinal Tap @ Beacon Theatre
Wednesday, 5/27/09 ‘Unwigged & Unplugged’ tour by the loudest band in rock ‘n’ roll
Thursday, 5/28/09 US Air Guitar Championships – NYC Regional @ Bowery Ballroom
Yes, you read that right
Thursday, 5/28/09, Grizzly Bear, Here We Go Magic @ Town Hall
Friday, 5/28/09 & Grizzly Bear, Here We Go Magic @ Town Hall
Sunday, 5/31/09 Grizzly Bear, Here We Go Magic @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Veckatimest’ tour
Friday, 5/29/09 Au Revoir Simone @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Still Night, Still Light’ tour starts
Friday, 5/29/09 & Nate Mars & more @ Beauty Bar Brooklyn*
Saturday, 5/30/09 Jotto & more @ Beauty Bar Brooklyn*
Manhattan’s Beauty Bar comes to Bushwick, with a DJ/dance night on Friday, then indie-rock on Saturday
Friday, 5/29/09 & Grant Hart @ Cake Shop
Monday, 6/1/09 Grant Hart @ Bell House
Hüsker Dü veteran returns to the road
Sunday, 5/31/09 Bang On a Can Marathon @ World Financial Center*
Free 12-hour percussion marathon once again kicks off downtown Manhattan’s summertime River-to-River Festival
The Morning After Girls @ Living Room

 

June ’09

Monday, 6/1/09, Art Brut @ Mercury Lounge
Tuesday, 6/2/09, Art Brut @ Mercury Lounge
Wednesday, 6/3/09, Art Brut @ Mercury Lounge
Thursday, 6/4/09 & Art Brut @ Mercury Lounge
Friday, 6/5/09 Art Brut @ Mercury Lounge
Five straight nights of Art Brut on the ‘Art Brut Vs. Satan’ tour
Thursday, 6/4/09 The Doves, Wild Light @ Terminal 5
‘Kingdom of Rust’ tour
IAMX @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Kingdom of Welcome Addiction’ tour
Care Bears On Fire @ Brooklyn Public Library*
note: be prepared for creepy looks if you’re a guy old enough to vote, being at a free show by this band made up of three girls, 12-14 years-old
Friday, 6/5/09 TV On the Radio, Dirty Projectors @ Central Park Summerstage
Sold-out benefit show to kick-off Summerstage
Princeton, Stephen Palton Dance Company @ Lincoln Center at Fordham University
Sunny indie-pop boys we called a while ago are performing their EP ‘Bloomsbury’, about the famed literary circle, for Fordham’s ‘Woolf & The City’
                                                   Hillstock DIY Festival in Brooklyn
Friday, 6/5/09,
Day One
Saturday, 6/6/09 & Day Two
Sunday, 6/7/09 Day Three
Three nights, over 40 Brooklyn bands at DIY venues for $15 total
Saturday, 6/6/09 Dean & Britta @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday, 6/6/09 & Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction @ PNC Bank Arts Center
Sunday, 6/7/09 Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
NIN/JA tour
Saturday, 6/6/09 & Previously on Lost @ Public Assembly
Thursday, 6/11/09 Previously on Lost @ Maxwell’s
Last off-season for Lost…
Monday, 6/8/09 David Byrne @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
Celebrate Brooklyn! kicks off with a free show by the legendary David Byrne
Monday, 6/8/09, The Hold Steady @ Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, 6/9/09, The Hold Steady @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, 6/10/09 & The Hold Steady @ Music Hall in Wiliamsburg
Thursday, 6/11/09 The Hold Steady @ Music Hall in Wiliamsburg
Four straight nights of the over-rated Hold Steady (last night as part of the Northside Festival – see below)
Tuesday, 6/9/09 Sonic Youth @ Apple Store Soho*
Have to pick up free tix – already gone by the time you’re reading this…
Santigold, Amanda Blank, Trouble Andrew @ Terminal 5
Jenny Lewis, Deer Tick @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Golden Filter @ Hudson River Terrace*
Wednesday, 6/10/09 The Decemberists @ Radio City Music Hall
‘The Hazards of Love’ tour
Budos Band @ Stuyvesant Town Oval*
Start of free shows at Stuyvesant Town Oval
Wednesday, 6/10/09 & Apostle of Hustle @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 6/13/09 Apostle of Hustle @ Maxwell’s
‘Eats Darkness’ tour
Thursday, 6/11/09 Andrew W.K., Girl Talk @ Santos Party House*
Thursday, 6/11/09 & Meat Puppets @ Mercury Lounge
Friday, 6/12/09 Meat Puppets @ Mercury Lounge
‘Sewn Together’ tour
                           Northside Festival @ venues across Williamsburg & Greenpoint
Thursday, 6/11/09 to QRO Northside 2009 Preview
Sunday, 6/14/09
Highlights include:
Thursday, 6/11/09 Brightblack Morning Light @ Studio B
Northside kick-off party
The Hold Steady @ Music Hall in Wiliamsburg
Friday, 6/12/09 Sunset Rubdown @ Studio B
John Vanderslice, The Tallest Man on Earth @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Saturday 6/13/09 O’Death @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Special afternoon show at Music Hall
Bishop Allen @ Studio B
Asobi Seksu @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Sunday, 6/14/09 The Dodos, Phil & The Osophers @ Studio B
Thursday, 6/12/09 Josh Ritter & The New York Pops @ Central Park Summerstage*
Free Summerstage kicks off with Josh Ritter – backed up by the New York Pops
Saturday, 6/13/09 & Big Apple BBQ @ Madison Square Park*
Sunday, 6/14/09 Todd P acoustic BBQ @ Fort Tilden Park*
Good eatin’ weekend
Tuesday, 6/16/09 Jesse Klein, Jill Hennessy @ Living Room*
Comedian Jesse Klein & actress Jill Hennessy try their hands at music
Wednesday, 6/17/09 Metric, Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains @ Terminal 5
‘Fantasies’ tour
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Teenagers @ South Street Seaport*
Bicycle Film Festival kick-off party
Loudon Wainwright III, Sloan Wainwright & Lucy Wainwright Loche @ Madison Square Park*
Three Wainrights – and none of them are the famous one?…
Phenomenal Handclap Band @ Stuyvesant Town Oval*
Still too much to pay to see the un-Phenomenal Handclap Band – especially when there’s better free options available
Thursday, 6/18/09 Crystal Stilts, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Hatcham Social, caUSE co-MOTION! @ Cake Shop
Brooklyn garage-rock stars convene at the small Cake Shop
+/-, Versus @ Mercury Lounge
Vs meets spin-off side-project +/- determine once and for all who has the coolest name in all of indietronica
Thursday, 6/18/09 & Phoenix @ Terminal 5
Friday, 6/19/09 Phoenix @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ tour
The Rest @ Piano’s*
The Rest @ Monster Island Basement
First U.S. appearance by Ontario boys we called early…
Friday, 6/19/09 Dirty Projectors @ Other Music*
Free with purchase of ‘Bitter Orca’
Paul & The Patients, Hooray For Earth @ Cake Shop
‘To The Lions’ EP release party
Phil & The Osophers @ Goodbye Blue Monday*
BM Linx @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
Friday, 6/19/09 & Passion Pit, Bear Hands @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 6/20/09 Passion Pit @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Manners’ tour
OJ All Day Fest: Day One
OJ All Day Fest: Day Two
A festival celebrating experimental music – headlined by overrated locals Shilpa Ray & Trachtenburg Family
Saturday, 6/20/09 Frances, Fabulous Entourage @ Roosevelt Island*
Sunday, 6/21/09 Make Music New York
Reagan Youth, Blanks 77 & more @ Governor’s Island*
The Depreciation Guild, Soundpool, Elika & more @ Sackett St. Block Party*
Boombox Repair Kit & more @ Orchard Beach*
Tryptics & more @ Bushwick Music Studios*
Willie Breeding Band, Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club, Dinosaur Feathers & more @ Bar Matchless
Cinema, Cinema, Blues Control & more @ Goodbye Blue Monday*
All-day, all-free shows, all around New York City
Thursday, 6/25/09 Dinosaur Jr. @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Cracker @ Highline Ballroom
The Lemonheads @ Bowery Ballroom
Lovers of nineties alt-rock are faced with the toughest of decisions…
St. Vincent @ Bell House
…but they could all be beaten out by the divine Annie Clark
A.C. Newman @ Santos Party House*
Femi Kuti @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
Thursday, 6/25/09 & The Most Serene Republic @ Cake Shop
Saturday, 6/27/09 The Most Serene Republic @ Union Hall
Special preview of ‘…And the Ever Expanding Universe’ – but didn’t they say they didn’t play new material before it had been released?…
Friday, 6/26/09 Blonde Redhead, Ólöf Arnalds @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
Kid Cudi, Chester French @ South Street Seaport*
Nicole Atkins @ Jet Blue’s Terminal 5 @ JFK Airport*
The Feelies @ Whitney Museum*
So much free goodness on the first official Friday of summer
Saturday, 6/27/09 Au Revoir Simone @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Still Night, Still Light’ tour ends (almost) right where it started
Dr. Dog, Phosphorescent, These United States @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
Tuesday, 6/30/09 Explosions In the Sky, Constantines @ Central Park Summerstage
10th anniversary tour for post-rock pioneers

 

July ’09

Wednesday, 7/1/09 MGMT @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Harlem Shakes, Motel Motel @ Bowery Ballroom
Fake Problems, Kiss Kiss @ Mercury Lounge
Tift Merritt @ Rockefeller Park*
Jay Reatard @ Stuyvesant Town Oval*
Wednesday, 7/1/09, Phonograph @ Living Room*
Wednesday, 7/15/09, Phonograph @ Living Room*
Wednesday, 7/22/09 & Phonograph @ Living Room*
Wednesday, 7/31/09 Phonograph @ Living Room*
Free residency at Living Room
Friday, 7/3/09 Sonic Youth @ United Palace Theatre
‘The Eternal’ tour – with Ibold!
Here We Go Magic, Bachelorette @ South Street Seaport*
Another sweet season of Seaport Music kicks off
Friday, 7/3/09 & Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival: Day One
Saturday, 7/4/09 Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival: Day Two
All the Todd P bands you can shake a stick at & more
Saturday, 7/4/09 Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, Jenny Lewis @ Battery Park*
River-to-River 4th of July event is completely free this year – no tickets, so show up early…
Monday, 7/6/09 Right On Dynamite, Deleted Scenes, Deep Sea River, Michael Runion @ Union Hall
‘Johnny Leather Presents’
Tuesday, 7/7/09 & Handsome Furs @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, 7/8/09 Handsome Furs @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘Face Control’ tour
Wednesday, 7/8/09 Juana Molina, Curumin @ Central Park Summerstage*
Brian Birdwell, Hunter Cross & The Strays @ Sidewalk Café*
Forro In the Dark @ Stuyvesant Town Oval*
Three interesting, free options to get you over Hump Day
Thursday, 7/9/09 Matt & Kim, Flossstradamus, Team Robespierre @ Hudson River Park*
Things gonna get crazy at first RiverRocks show of the summer
Titus Andronicus, So So Glos @ Glasslands Gallery*
Friday, 7/10/09 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ South Street Seaport*
Be prepared to have your Fridays booked all summer, thanks to Seaport Music
Steve Schiffman & The Land of No @ Pete’s Candy Sotre*
Saturday, 7/11/09 CitySol @ Stuyvesant Cove Park*
Underwhelming acts at a ‘park’ between the highway & the river – but bring your own mug for $1 off beer!
Sunday, 7/12/09 Mission of Burma, Fucked Up, Ponytail @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
Free Pool Parties move (actually closer to any water) to Williamsburg Waterfront – dodgeball is still on!
Love As Laughter @ Music Hall in Williamsburg*
Monday, 7/13/09 Wilco, Yo La Tengo @ KeySpan Ballpark
Wilco & Yo La Tengo at the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones?  Doesn’t get much more American than that – now where’s the beer guy?
Tuesday, 7/14/09 Sugar Hill Gang @ Queensbridge Park*
Anthony Gonzalez (of M83) @ World Financial Center*
Tony Scherr @ Living Room*
Wednesday, 7/15/09, The Grates @ Pianos
Wednesday, 7/22/09 &
The Grates @ Pianos
Wednesday, 7/29/09 The Grates @ Pianos
Residency for Australian hit
Thursday, 7/16/09 stellastarr*, Wild Light, The Postmarks @ Highline Ballroom
‘Civilized’ release party
Morning After Girls @ Mercury Lounge
‘Alone’ release party
Man Man @ East River Park Amphitheatre*
Jones Street Station @ Housing Works Used Bookstore*
Thursday, 7/16/09 & The Dead Weather, Screaming Females @ Terminal 5
Friday, 7/17/09 1/2 of White Stripes + 1/2 of The Kills = The Dead Weather
Thursday, 7/16/09, ‘Tribute to Sly Stone’ @ Castle Clinton*
Thursday, 7/23/09, Richie Havens @ Castle Clinton*
Thursday, 7/30/09 &
Arlo Guthrie @ Castle Clinton*
Thursday,8/6/09 ‘John Kelly Sings the Joni Mitchell Songbook’ @ Castle Clinton*
‘Four Days of Peace, Love & Music: A Castle Clinton Tribute to Woodstock’ – but don’t let Ranger Rick catch you smokin’ weed on a national monument!
Friday, 7/17/09 Superchunk, Vs. @ South Street Seaport*
Two great reunions, one low, low price
Saturday, 7/18/09 Siren Music Festival @ Coney Island*
QRO Siren Festival Preview
It’s back from the dead…
Francis & The Lights, Gordon Voidwell @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Siren after-party
Tortoise @ Other Music*
Free with purchase of ‘Beacons of Ancestorship’
Q-Tip, Chester French @ Central Park Summerstage*
Sunday, 7/19/09 Dirty Projectors, Magnolia Electric Company, White Denim @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
‘Bitte Orca’ tour
Tuesday, 7/21/09 The Mighty Boosh @ Bowery Ballroom*
Free MySpace Secret Show by hit British comedy troupe
Wednesday, 7/22/09 KRS-One @ Crotona Park*
My Teenage Stride, The Drums, Paul & The Patients, New Numbers @ Bell House
Benefit for Empty Cages
Thursday, 7/23/09 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Radio 4, Extra Golden @ Hudson River Park*
Friday, 7/24/09 Black Moth Super Rainbow, Blank Dogs, Dan Friel @ South Street Seaport*
Regina Spektor @ Apple Store SoHo*
Saturday, 7/25/09 Jones Street Station, Diane Birch @ Roosevelt Island*
Your Nature, Wild Yaks @ Union Pool*
Sunday, 7/26/09 …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, The Black Lips, HEALTH, Grupo Fantasma @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
Pretty much something for everyone
Monday, 7/27/09 & Green Day, Kaiser Chiefs @ Madison Square Garden
Tuesday, 7/28/09 ’21st Century Breakdown’ tour
Tuesday, 7/28/09 YACHT @ Santos Party House
Thursday, 7/30/09 & The Builders & The Butchers, Illinois, Arms @ Bell House
Friday, 7/31/09 The Builders & The Butchers, Illinois @ Pianos
‘Salvation Is a Deep, Dark Well’ tour

 

                                                           All Points West Festival
Friday, 7/31/09, Day One: Jay-Z & more
Saturday, 8/1/09 & Day Two: Tool & more
Sunday, 8/2/09 Day Three: Coldplay & more
Three-day festival at Liberty State Park
                                              What To Do Instead of Going To APW
Because if there’s no Radiohead, not worth paying the $$$ and taking the long trip to & from Jersey – especially when there’s so much free goodness going on:
Friday, 7/31/09 Polvo, Obits @ South Street Seaport*
Vivian Girls, These Are Powers @ Whitney Museum*
The Picture @ Living Room*
Ben Sollee, Holly Miranda @ Music Hall in Williamsburg*
Saturday, 8/1/09 Dean & Britta’s ’13 Most Beautiful’, Crystal Stilts @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
M. Ward, Mike Watt & Nels Cline @ Central Park Summerstage*
Plant Music @ Governor’s Island*
No Age, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon @ Flying W Airport
Sunday, 8/2/09 No Age, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
Do have to wonder why someone would schelp out to Flying W Airport (also in Jersey) for the No Age/Deerhunter/Dan Deacon ‘Round Robin’ show, when they’re playing for free in Brooklyn the next day…

 

August ’09

Monday, 8/3/09 Arctic Monkeys @ Highline Ballroom
Peter Bjorn and John @ Cake Shop*
Invite/list-only ‘intimate’ secret show at super-small venue
Monday, 8/3/09 & Los Campesinos! @ Union Pool
Better, not-only secret show at intimate venue – how are they all going to fit on stage?
Tuesday, 8/4/09 Los Campesinos! @ Webster Hall
And last tour with Aleks Campesinos!!
Depeche Mode, Peter Bjorn & John @ Madison Square Garden
Tuesday, 8/4/09 Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit @ City Winery*
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit @ City Winery
Weirdly playing a free daytime show & paid evening one at the same place…
The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Dig, Hollerado @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Wednesday, 8/5/09 Alberta Cross, Phonograph @ Brooklyn Bowl*
Thursday, 8/6/09 Felice Brothers & more @ Beacon Theatre
‘The Big Surpise Tour’
Cursive @ Maxwell’s
Friday, 8/7/09 Casiokids, The Wave Picture, Slow Club @ South Street Seaport*
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Deer Tick, Jones Street Station @ Prospect Park Bandshell*
River-to-River vs. Celebrate Brooklyn!…
Saturday, 8/8/09 Brooklyn Electronic Music Fest @ The Old American Can Factory
Twelve hours of electronic music, over two stages
Harvey Danger @ Bell House 
Harvey Danger farewell tour – wait, they’re still around?!?
Sunday, 8/9/09 Simian Mobile Disco @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
Akron/Family @ Other Music*
Tuesday, 8/11/09 TV On the Radio @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Other Lives, Middle Distance Runner @ Union Hall
Budos Band @ City Winery*
Thursday, 8/13/09 Blondie, Pat Benetar, The Donnas @ Coney Island*
Yeasayer, Amazing Baby @ Hudson River Park*
Tori Amons, One Eskimo @ Radio City Music Hall
Thursday, 8/13/09 & Drug Rug, Your Nature @ Union Pool
Friday, 8/14/09 ArpLine, Drug Rug @ Mercury Lounge
‘Paint the Invisible Fence’ tour
Friday, 8/14/09 School of Seven Bells, The XX @ South Street Seaport*
Final Seaport Music show of the summer
The Walkmen, High Places @ Guggenheim
‘It Came From Brooklyn’ inaugural event
Friday, 8/14/09 & The Warlocks, The Morning After Girls @ Bowery Ballroom
Animal Collective @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Saturday, 8/15/09 The Warlocks, The Morning After Girls @ Maxwell’s
Animal Collective @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Sunday, 8/16/09 Dinosaur Jr., The Walkmen, Savoirs @ Central Park SummerStage*
Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Gravytrain!!!, DD/MM/YYYY, Kenan Bell @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
SummerStage vs. Pool Parties…
Monday, 8/17/09 & Ambulance LTD @ Union Hall
Tuesday, 8/18/09 Ambulance LTD, The Picture @ Mercury Lounge
Marcus Congelton finally returns to the stage…
Tuesday, 8/18/09 Mugison @ Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art*
Mugison @ Silent Barn*
Mugison @ Bronx River Art Center*
Mugison @ City Winery*
Mugison @ Pete’s Candy Store*
Amnesty International & Iceland’s Mugison are doing five free shows in all five boroughs!  And all for free!
The B-52s @ Governor’s Island
Tuesday, 8/18/09 & The Breeders @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, 8/19/09 The Breeders @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, 8/19/09 & Electric Six @ Maxwell’s
Thursday, 8/20/09 Electric Six @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise
Thursday, 8/20/09 Steve Schiffman & The Land of No, The Dead Trees @ Cake Shop
Friday, 8/21/09 & Vulture Whale @ Maxwell’s
Saturday, 8/22/09 Vulture Whale @ Piano’s
Saturday, 8/22/09 The Death Set, Team Robespierre & more @ 979 Broadway Backyard
Noon to 10:00 PM Bikes In the Kitchen show
Saturday, 8/22/09, Nine Inch Nails @ Bowery Ballroom
Sunday, 8/23/09, Nine Inch Nails @ Webster Hall
Tuesday, 8/25/09 & Nine Inch Nails @ Terminal 5
Wednesday, 8/26/09 Nine Inch Nails @ Terminal 5
Farewell tour – for real?…
Sunday, 8/23/09 Girl Talk, Max Tundra @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
Expect this to be the most-packed Pool Party of the summer
Monday, 8/24/09 Mew @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Wednesday, 8/26/09 The Bravery @ Webster Hall*
Free RSVP show w/ free Amstel Light – but show up early, as The Bravery might be over-the-hill, but still can draw
Thursday, 8/27/09 & These United States, Motel Motel @ Mercury Lounge
Friday, 8/28/09 These United States @ Union Hall
These United State, Motel Motel @ Union Hall
Early & late show @ Union Hall
Friday, 8/28/09, Dinosaur Feathers, My Teenage Stride, Holiday Shores & more @ Littlefield
Saturday, 8/29/09 & Wild Yaks, Drink Up Buttercup, Talk Normal, Free Energy & more @ Littlefield
Sunday, 8/30/09 Blood Warrior, Acrylics, Hospitality, I’m Turning Into & more @ Littlefield
After the Jump Fest
Sunday, 8/30/09 Grizzly Bear, Beach House @ Williamsburg Waterfront*
Final Pool Party of the summer…
Das Racist @ Public Assembly*
Mother Mother, Arms @ Union Hall

 

September ’09

Tuesday, 9/1/09 & The Killers, Wolfmother @ Nikon at Jones Beach
Wednesday, 9/2/09 The Killers, Wolfmother @ PNC Bank Arts Center
Pet Shop Boys @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Wednesday, 9/2/09 John Fogerty @ South Street Seaport*
Former Creedence Clearwater Revivalist plays free show
Shudder To Think @ Bowery Ballroom
Their last show for a while – possibly forever…
Elvis Perkins @ Housing Works Used Bookstore
Benefit for Yellowbird Project – with Ra Ra Riot DJing (not playing, though…)
Kid Rock @ Terminal 5
Benefit for the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function
The Black Crowes @ Central Park SummerStage
For some reason, Wednesdays in September are packed with great shows – and the rest of the weeks lies fallow…
Thursday, 9/3/09 Jones Street Station, The Feed @ Housing Works Used Bookstore*
Friday, 9/4/09 & Battles, !!!, Flying Lotus, Pivot @ Terminal 5
Saturday, 9/5/09 Jamie Lidell, Born Ruffians, Hundred In the Hands @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Warp20 Celebration of 20 years of Warp Records
Saturday, 9/5/09 These Are Powers & more @ ‘Under the Tracks*
Says free BBQ & open bar w/ RSVP, under the Highline – better be, to have to endure being anywhere near the worst band in New York
Hip-Hop Howl @ Tompkins’ Square Park*
Benjy Ferree, The Black Hollies @ Mercury Lounge
Saturday, 9/5/09 & Armin van Buuren & more @ Randall’s Island Park
Sunday, 9/6/09 David Guetta & more @ Randall’s Island Park
Electric Zoo
Wednesday, 9/9/09 Les Savy Fav @ Knitting Factory
Grand opening of new Knitting Factory, now in Brooklyn, on site of old ‘new’ Luna Lounge
Boredoms: Boadrum 9
9/9/09 gets 99 drummers from Boredoms – though this is the first Boadrum you have to pay for
Jay-Z @ Gramercy Theatre
MySpace Secret Show – so if you’re finding out about it reading this, you’re not going…
Princeton, Phil & The Osophers @ Union Hall
Catch Princeton before they tour with Ra Ra Riot – which doesn’t go through NYC…
A.A. Bondy @ Mercury Lounge
‘When The Devil’s Loose’ release party
Motörhead, Reverend Horton Heat @ Roseland Ballroom
Circulatory System @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Friday, 9/11/09 & Super Furry Animals @ Highline Ballroom
Saturday, 9/12/09 Super Furry Animals @ Maxwells
Saturday, 9/12/09 Phoenix, Kid Cudi @ Terminal 5
Benefit for LIFEBEAT
Mos Def @ Governor’s Island
Hymns @ Living Room*
Saturday, 9/12/09 & Mucca Pazza @ Knitting Factory
Sunday, 9/13/09 Mucca Pazza @ Mercury Lounge
Saturday, 9/12/09 & Kings of Leon, Glasvegas @ Izod Center
Monday, 9/14/09 Kings of Leon, Glasvegas @ Nassau Coliseum
Kings of Leon just keep getting bigger…
Monday, 9/14/09 Nick Cave @ Union Square Barnes & Nobles*
‘Upstairs at the Square’ with reading & music
Fruit Bats, Iran @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘The Ruminant Band’ tour
Tuesday, 9/15/09 Ladyhawke @ Apple Store SoHo*
Tuesday, 9/15/09, Jack Peñate, Miike Snow @ Mercury Lounge
Wednesday, 9/16/09 & Miike Snow, Jack Peñate, Phil & The Osophers @ Mercury Lounge
Saturday, 9/19/09 Miike Snow, Jack Peñate @ Maxwells
Wednesday, 9/16/09 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia @ Beacon Theatre
Performing ‘The Nightman Cometh’ in its entirety
Rhett Miller & The Serial Killers @ Bell House
Bell House 1st Anniversary
Ladyhawke @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
‘Perez Hilton Presents’
Ingrid Michaelson @ Webster Hall
‘Everybody’ tour
Rodrigo y Gabriela @ Terminal 5 
Asobi Seksu @ Joe’s Pub
Little Boots, Yes Giantess @ Bowery Ballroom
Thursday, 9/17/09 The Sounds @ Roseland Ballroom
‘Crossing the Rubicon’ tour
Friday, 9/18/09 of Montreal, Janelle Monae @ Terminal 5
Bell X1, Wild Light @ Maxwells
Stryper @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
To Hell with The Devil!
Friday, 9/18/09 & …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Secret Machines @ Webster Hall
Saturday, 9/19/09 …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Secret Machines, Freshkills @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Saturday, 9/19/09 Division Day, Bad Veins @ Union Hall
‘Visitations’ tour
Damon & Naomi @ Sound Fix Records*
First in-store at Sound Fix’s new location – around the corner from the old one…
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson @ Bruar Falls*
Saturday, 9/19/09 & The Decemberists @ Terminal 5
Monday, 9/21/09 The Decemberists @ Wellmont Theatre
Monday, 9/21/09 Rain Machine @ Bell House
New solo project from Kyp Malone (TV On the Radio, Iran)
Monday, 9/21/09 & Moby @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Wednesday, 9/23/09 Moby @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Wednesday, 9/23/09 Counting Crows, Augustana @ Central Park East Meadow*
Free show by Ken Burns & more, celebrating America’s national parks
Morningwood @ Public Assembly*
Secret, free afternoon show
She Wants Revenge, Kill Hannah, Paper Route @ Webster Hall
Mark Mallman @ Fontana’s
Wednesday, 9/23/09 & Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Radio City Music Hall
Tuesday, 9/29/09 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘It’s Blitz!’ tour finally comes to New York – at one venue where you can’t dance, and another where you can’t get in…
Thursday, 9/24/09, Phoenix @ Apple Store SoHo*
Friday, 9/25/09 & Phoenix, Passion Pit @ Central Park SummerStage
Saturday, 9/26/09 Maybe the last outdoor show of ’09 might just be the best
Friday, 9/25/09 Julian Plenti @ Guggenheim
Inaugural show by Paul Banks of Interpol, at ‘It Came From Brooklyn’
Yo La Tengo, The Black Lips @ Roseland Ballroom
‘Popular Songs’ tour
Gonzales w/ Jamie Lidell @ Joe’s Pub
Gonzales w/ Jamie Lidell @ Joe’s Pub
Early & late performances of ‘Piano Songs’
Jupiter One, The Subjects, Demander @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
White Lies, Violens @ Webster Hall
Savoir Adore @ Permanent Records*
Seriously, why are all the best September shows all on the same day?!?
Friday, 9/25/09 & Bear Hands @ Cake Shop
Saturday, 9/26/09 Bear Hands @ Bruar Falls
Saturday, 9/26/09 Electric Tickle Machine @ Market Hotel
The Giraffes, Goes Cube @ Studio @ Webster Hall
Trachetenburg Family Slideshow Players, Shilpa Ray, Kendrick Strauch, Your Nature @ Kidd Yellin
Benefit for ‘Showpaper’ – featuring QRO favorites Your Nature & Kendrick Strauch (of hopefully not-late Harlem Shakes), but also non-fave Shilpa Ray…
WHY? @ (le) Poisson Rouge
that’s how we felt after hearing Harlem Shakes broke up
Himalaya @ Littlefield*
Sunday, 9/27/09 Sunny Day Real Estate @ Terminal 5
Highly anticipated reunion
Tuesday, 9/29/09 Langhorne Slim @ Cameo*
‘Be Set Free’ release party – free with purchase of the album at Sound Fix
Turkuaz, Licorice, London Souls @ Brooklyn Bowl*
Phil & The Osophers, The Courtesy Tier @ Monkeytown
Wednesday, 9/30/09 Gov’t Mule @ Brooklyn Bowl*
‘By a Thread’ pre-release event
Ghostface Killah @ Hiro Ballroom
MySpace Secret Show

 

October ’09

Thursday, 10/1/09 Polyphonic Spree @ Webster Hall*
Free with text to 68405
Friday, 10/2/09 Love Automatic, BM Linx & more @ Crash Mansion*
Friday, 10/2/09 & The Twilight Sad, brakesbrakesbrakes, We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Southpaw
Tuesday, 10/6/09 The Twilight Sad, brakesbrakesbrakes, We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Bowery Ballroom
Three of Scotland’s finest – but no Frightened Rabbit, unfortunately…
Saturday, 10/3/09 Bling Kong, Motel Motel, Arms, Noel Heroux & Paul Holmes and more @ Bell House*
Johnny Leather’s ‘What’s Good For You’s Good For Me’ one-year anniversary
Hooray For Earth @ Monkeytown
And then hit up Noel Heroux’s Hooray For Earth at Monkeytown, playing live & debuting a new video
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Depreciation Guild, Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Webster Hall
Wallpaper, Mystery Roar, Bodega Girls, Das Racist @ Cameo
The Antlers, Holly Miranda @ Maxwell’s
Sunday, 10/4/09 Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, All-American Rejects @ Madison Square Garden
That much emo might cause MSG to explode…
Maps & Atlases, Princeton @ Knitting Factory
Sunday, 10/4/09, Sufjan Stevens, Cryptacize @ Bowery Ballroom
Monday, 10/5/09, Sufjan Stevens, Cryptacize @ Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, 10/6/09 & Sufjan Stevens, Cryptacize @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Wednesday, 10/7/09 Sufjan Stevens, Cryptacize @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Famed alt-folk artist playing four nights in (relatively) intimate settings
Monday, 10/5/09 Home Video, ArpLine, The Naked Hearts @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
Finally, a nice line-up of acts at Studio @ Webster Hall’s ‘No Cover Mondays’
Pink, The Ting Tings @ Madison Square Garden
Tuesday, 10/6/09 Lou Barlow @ Mercury Lounge
‘Goodnight Unknown’ record release party, from your second-favorite member of Dinosaur Jr. (after Murph…)
Wednesday, 10/7/09 & Still Life Still @ Mercury Lounge
Thursday, 10/8/09 Still Life Still @ Mercury Lounge
Friday, 10/9/09 & Timber Timbre @ Union Hall
Saturday, 10/10/09 Timber Timbre @ Mercury Lounge
First-ever NYC appearances for these two Arts & Crafts acts from Canada
Thursday, 10/8/09 Bob Mould Band, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
The Bravery @ Terminal 5
Thursday, 10/8/09 & Grand Archives, The Most Serene Republic @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Friday, 10/9/09 Grand Archives, The Most Serene Republic @ Southpaw
‘Keep In Mind Frankenstein’ & ‘…And the Ever-Expanding Universe’ tours
Friday, 10/9/09 Gossip @ Terminal 5
‘Music For Men’ tour – free drink with each ticket, starting at 6:00 PM, at Bar Nine, 807 9th Avenue between 54th & 55th Streets
The Psychedelic Furs, Happy Mondays, Islands @ Roseland Ballroom
Gonna be an old crowd at Roseland…
Bell X1, Wild Light @ Highline Ballroom
Zambri, Hooray For Earth, Mystery Roar @ Studio @ Webster Hall
Sunday, 10/11/09 White Rabbits, Glass Ghost, The Dig @ Maxwell’s
Blitzen Trapper, Wye Oak @ Bowery Ballroom
Sunday, 10/11/09, Lenny Kravitz @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Monday, 10/12/09, Lenny Kravitz @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Wednesday, 10/14/09, Lenny Kravitz @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Thursday, 10/15/09 & Lenny Kravitz @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Sunday, 10/18/09 Lenny Kravitz @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
To quote Electric Six’s Dick Valentine, “Why the hell does anyone like Lenny Kravitz?!?”
Tuesday, 10/13/09 & The Dodos @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Wednesday, 10/14/09 The Dodos @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Time To Die’ tour
Wednesday, 10/14/09 Regina Spektor, Jupiter One @ Radio City Music Hall
Daniel Johnston @ Highline Ballroom
Thursday, 10/15/09 Port O’Brien @ Sound Fix Records*
Thursday, 10/15/09 & The Gaslight Anthem, Murder By Death @ Terminal 5
Asobi Seksu, Loney, Dear @ Maxwell’s
Friday, 10/16/09 Asobi Seksu, Loney, Dear, Anna Ternheim @ Bowery Ballroom
The Gaslight Anthem, Murder By Death @ Brooklyn Bowl
Friday, 10/16/09 Sunset Rubdown @ Grand Ballroom
‘Dragonslayer’ tour
Dirty Projectors & more @ Bell House
Part of the ‘New Yorker’ Festival
Friday, 10/16/09 & Electric Six @ Hiro Ballroom
Sunday, 10/18/09 Electric Six @ Southpaw
‘Evil’ tour – coming to NYC just in time to catch Lenny Kravitz
Saturday, 10/17/09 Echo & The Bunnymen @ Mercury Lounge
Famed eighties New Wave act playing super-small (for them, even now) place
The Avett Brothers @ Terminal 5
Art Brut, Princeton @ Maxwell’s
                                                              CMJ Music Marathon
Tuesday, 10/20/09 to CMJ 2009 Preview
Saturday, 10/24/09 Way, way too many shows & bands to list here – go to CMJ 2009 Preview above
Sunday, 10/25/09 Neon Indian, Real Estate @ Living Room
‘Kidrockers’
Wednesday, 10/28/09 Weezer @ tba
Enter to win to see Weezer play a private show at a secret location here
Benjamin Gibbard & Jay Farrar @ Webster Hall
‘One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouc’s Big Sur’ by leaders of Death Cab for Cutie & Son Volt
The Dear Hunter, Annuals @ Bowery Ballroom
What are Annuals doing opening at Bowery – and for The Dear Hunter?!?
Charles Bissel (of The Wrens), They Might Be Giants, Nada Surf @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Acoustic benefit for Northside Town Hall Community & Cultural Center
Thursday, 10/29/09 A Place To Bury Strangers @ Bowery Ballroom
Thursday, 10/29/09 & Bruce Springsteen & E. Street Band, Simon & Garfuknel, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stevie Wonder, Sting & more @ Madison Square Garden
Friday, 10/30/09 Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Metallica, U2 & more @ Madison Square Garden 
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary celebration with all-star of all-stars line-up

 

                                                              Halloween Weekend
What to do in New York on All Hollow’s Eve – and All Hollow’s Eve Eve
Friday, 10/30/09 Yeasayer, Tanlines @ Guggenheim
Previewing new material from 2010’s ‘Odd Blood’ in the third ‘It Came From Brooklyn’
Simian Mobile Disco, The Phenomenal Handclap Band @ Webster Hall
Future of the Left, Freshkills @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Subjects, Bad Veins @ Southpaw
Pinback, Obits @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Appomattox, Hypernova, ArpLine @ Cameo
Living Colour @ Highline Ballroom
Friday, 10/30/09 Tegan & Sara @ Town Hall
& King Khan & BBQ Show, Dum Dum Girls @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 10/31/09 Tegan & Sara @ Town Hall
King Khan & BBQ Show, Dum Dum Girls @ Bell House
Saturday, 10/31/09 Weezer, Matt & Kim @ Hammerstein Ballroom
If you don’t win a ticket for the 28th, celebrate ‘Halloweezer’ (not to mention another Halloween with Matt & Kim)
Bad Brains, The Jesus Lizard & more @ tba
Viceland’s 15th anniversary – party like it’s 1994!
The Very Best & more @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Flavorpill’s Halloween party – with open bar!
Mike Doughty @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Mike Doughty’s annual NYC-area Halloween show
Deer Tick @ Brooklyn Bowl
Playing the songs of The Sex Pistols
Wooden Shjips, Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts @ 171 Lombardy
Todd P’s Halloween show – though Matt & Kim have other plans this year (see above)
World/Inferno Friendship Society, O’Death @ Webster Hall
Expect a ton of costumes at Webster Hall
Talib Kweli @ Hiro Ballroom
Cymbals Eat Guitars, Mystery Roar @ 14 Steuben Street
Tim Fite @ Union Hall
Thievery Corporation @ Terminal 5
Junior Boys @ Bell House
Lemonade, Jessica 6 @ Tribeca Grand*

 

November ’09

Monday, 11/2/09 Fuck Buttons @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Tarot Sport’ tour
Monday, 11/2/09 Noah & The Whale, Robert Francis @ Mercury Lounge
to Noah & The Whale, Robert Francis @ Mercury Lounge
Wednesday, 11/4/09 Noah & The Whale, Robert Francis @ Mercury Lounge
Tuesday, 11/3/09 Athlete @ Bowery Ballroom
‘The Getaway EP’ release party
Wednesday, 11/4/09 Thao & The Get Down Stay Down @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Know. Better. Learn. Faster.’ tour
Wedneday, 11/4/09 & Hidden Cameras, Gentleman Reg @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Friday, 11/6/09 Hidden Cameras, Gentleman Reg @ Union Hall
Wedneday, 11/4/09, The Mary Onettes @ Union Hall
Friday, 11/6/09 &
The Mary Onettes @ Studio @ Webster Hall
Sunday, 11/8/09 The Mary Onettes @ Mercury Lounge
‘Islands’ release parties
Thursday, 11/5/09 Fucked Up @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Playing all of Polaris Prize-winning ‘The Chemistry of Common Life’
Limbs @ Bruar Falls*
Thursday, 11/5/09 & Jeremy Jay @ Union Hall
Friday, 11/6/09 Jeremy Jay @ Cake Shop
Thursday, 11/5/09, Ray LaMontagne @ Beacon Theatre
Monday, 11/9/09 & Ray LaMontagne @ Beacon Theatre
Tuesday, 11/10/09 Ray LaMontagne @ Beacon Theatre
Friday, 11/6/09 The Jones Street Boys @ Mercury Lounge
Friday, 11/6/09 & Monsters of Folk @ United Palace Theater
Sunday, 11/8/09 Monsters of Folk @ Beacon Theatre
‘Monsters of Folk’ tour
Saturday, 11/7/09 Basement Jaxx @ Santos Party House
‘Scars’ release party
The Heavy, Illinois @ 92YTribeca
‘The House That Dirt Built’ tour
Crystal Stilts @ Brooklyn Museum*
Sunday, 11/8/09 & Wolfmother, Heartless Bastards @ Terminal 5
Monday, 11/9/09 Wolfmother, Heartless Bastards @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
‘Cosmic Egg’ tour
Monday, 11/9/09 Peter Björn & John, El Perro Del Mar @ Webster Hall
Bumped down from Terminal 5…
Wednesday, 11/11/09 The xx @ Bowery Ballroom
Bumped up from Mercury Lounge…
Thursday, 11/12/09 White Denim, Brazos @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
‘Fits’ & ‘Phosphorescent tours
Arms, Dave Monks (of Tokyo Police Club) @ Pianos
‘Kids Aflame’ U.S. release party
ArpLine, Aeroplane Pageant @ Brooklyn Bowl*
Thursday, 11/12/09 & The Cribs @ Bowery Ballroom
Friday, 11/13/09 ‘Ignore the Ignorant’ tour
Thursday, 11/12/09 & The Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Mercury Lounge
Saturday, 11/14/09 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Tribeca Grand*
Friday, 11/13/09 & Art Brut @ Brooklyn Bowl
Sunday, 11/15/09 Art Brut @ Bowery Ballroom
“Modern art! Makes me! Want to… bowl?”
Saturday, 11/14/09 Crystal Stilts & more @ Bell House
Slumberland Records 20th anniversary
Peaches, Amanda Blank, Jessica 6 @ Terminal 5
2 AM Club, Bon Savants @ Bell House
Saturday, 11/14/09 & Metallica @ Madison Square Garden
Sunday, 11/15/09 Listen to the music used to torture inmates at Guantanamo Bay!
Saturday, 11/14/09 &
Shonen Knife @ Maxwell’s
Tuesday, 11/17/09 Shonen Knife @ Brooklyn Bowl
‘Super Group’ tour
Sunday, 11/15/09 & Neko Case @ Wellmont Theatre
Monday, 11/16/09 Neko Case @ Beacon Theatre
Monday, 11/16/09 John Mayer @ Music Hall in Williamsburg*
‘MySpace Secret Show’
Sholi, At Sea @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
Monday, 11/16/09 & The Jesus Lizard @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Tuesday, 11/17/09 The Jesus Lizard @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Tuesday, 11/17/09 The Dead Weather @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Special pre-‘MTV Woodie Awards’ performance
Tuesday, 11/17/09 to
Bob Dylan & His Band @ United Palace Theatre 
Thursday, 11/19/09 ‘Christmas In the Heart’ tour
Wednesday, 11/18/09 Evangelicals, Holiday Shores @ Union Hall
Wednesday, 11/18/09 & Grant-Lee Phillips @ DROM
Thursday, 11/19/09 Grant-Lee Phillips @ Union Hall
‘Little Moon’ tour
Wednesday, 11/18/09, Dirty Projectors @ Bowery Ballroom
Thursday, 11/19/09, Dirty Projectors @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Saturday, 11/21/09 & Dirty Projectors @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sunday, 11/22/09 Dirty Projectors @ Bowery Ballroom
Four sold-out shows by Dirty Projectors
Thursday, 11/19/09 Dr. Dre, will.i.am, Major Lazer (featuring Diplo), David Guetta @ Best Buy Union Square*
And the head of Interscope Records, Jimmy Iovine, at the new Union Square Best Buy (used to be Circuit City, before they folded)
The Dig @ Mercury Lounge
Thursday, 11/19/09 & Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, These United States @ Bell House
Friday, 11/20/09 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, These United States @ Mercury Lounge
‘Summer of Fear’ & ‘Everything Touches Everything’ tours
Friday, 11/20/09 The Honorary Title, Robert Francis @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Last The Honorary Title show ever
Shoney Lamar & The Equal Rights @ Bruar Falls*
Friday, 11/20/09 Bishop Allen @ Union Hall
& Devo @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Saturday, 11/21/09 Bishop Allen @ Bell House
Devo @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Saturday, 11/21/09 Yo Gabba Gabba Live! @ Beacon Theatre
Yo Gabba Gabba Live! @ Beacon Theatre
Yo Gabba Gabba Live! @ Beacon Theatre
Three shows, at 11:00 AM, 2:00 PM & 5:00 PM
Land of Talk @ Mercury Lounge
Lizzie Powell, it’s been too long…
Boy Crisis @ Tribeca Grand*
Saturday, 11/21/09, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. @ Terminal 5
Punk rock doesn’t get any more iconic – will Terminal 5’s walls still be standing afterwards?
Tuesday, 11/25/09 & Sonic Youth @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Wednesday, 11/26/09 Sonic Youth @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Or catch Sonic Youth at the more ‘intimate’ Music Hall in Williamsburg – but can you ever put ‘Sonic Youth’ & ‘intimate’ in the same sentence?…
Sunday, 11/22/09 Camera Obscura, Papercuts @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Camera Obscura @ Other Music*
Sunday, 11/22/09 & Devendra Banhart @ Town Hall
Monday, 11/23/09 Devendra Banhart @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
‘What Will Be, Will Be’ tour
Monday, 11/23/09 Blacklist @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
pow wow! @ Bruar Falls*
Monday, 11/23/09 & Röyskopp @ Webster Hall
Tuesday, 11/24/09 ‘Junior/Senior’ tour
Monday, 11/23/09 The Pixies, Black Gold @ Hammerstein Ballroom
to The Pixies, Jay Reatard @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Wednesday, 11/25/09 The Pixies, Rain Machine @ Hammerstein Ballroom
The Pixies @ Hammerstein Ballroom
‘Doolittle’ 20th anniversary tour – including a second late-night show on Wednesday!
Tuesday, 11/24/09 & Julian Plenti @ Bowery Ballroom
Wednesday, 11/25/09 Julian Plenti @ Brooklyn Bowl
Wednesday, 11/25/09 deadmau5 @ Terminal 5
Thursday, 11/27/09 Teddy Thompson @ Rockwood Music Hall*
Saturday, 11/28/09 Brand New, Thrice, Glassjaw, Manchester Orchestra @ Nassau Coliseum
Special, massive Thanksgiving Day Weekend show on Long Island
Mike Doughtly @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Returns less than a month after playing the same place
Greg Holden @ Rockwood Music Hall*
Saturday, 11/28/09 & Do Make Say Think, Happiness Project @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sunday, 11/29/09 Do Make Say Think, Happiness Project @ Bowery Ballroom
Sunday, 11/29/09 ArpLine @ Death by Audio
Monday, 11/30/09 The Subjects & more @ Studio @ Webster Hall*

 

December ’09

Tuesday, 12/1/09 Manchester Orchestra @ Apple Store SoHo*
Kurt Vile, Small Black @ Brooklyn Bowl*
The Seedy Seeds @ Piano’s
Tuesday, 12/1/09 &
The Mountain Goats, Final Fantasy @ Webster Hall
Wedneday, 12/2/09 The Mountain Goats, Final Fantasy @ Bell House
‘The Life of the World To Come’ tour
Wednesday, 12/2/09 Phoenix, Passion Pit, Jack’s Mannequin, Manchester Orchestra @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Matt Pinfeld Holiday Bash
Aeroplane Pageant @ Public Assembly*
The Suzan @ Cake Shop*
Jaguar Love @ Mercury Lounge
Wednesday, 12/2/09 to Phish @ Madison Square Garden
Friday, 12/4/09 Three nights of the didn’t-break-up-after-all Phish at MSG
Thursday, 12/3/09 Rihanna @ Hammerstein Ballroom*
MySpace Music’s ‘The Release’ urban music concert series
Bear In Heaven @ Sound Fix Records*
Pablo @ Spike Hill*
Dan Friel, Dinowalrus, Electric Tickle Machine @ Union Pool
Thursday, 12/3/09 The Wrens @ Maxwell’s
& Ian McCulloch (of Echo & The Bunnymen) @ Other Music*
Friday, 12/4/09 Ian McCulloch (of Echo & The Bunnymen) @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
The Wrens @ Maxwell’s
The Wrens @ Maxwell’s
early & late shows for The Wrens
Friday, 12/4/09 Mew @ Webster Hall
The Big Pink @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Teddy Thompson @ Rockwood Music Hall*
Friday, 12/4/09 & Elvis Perkins In Dearland, Bowerbirds @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 12/5/09 Elvis Perkins In Dearland @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Bowerbirds @ Union Pool
Saturday, 12/5/09 Sam Champion, Matt Trowbridge @ Union Hall
After more than a year off, Sam Champion returns – for likely their last show ever…
Friendly Fires, The xx @ Webster Hall
Two of Beggar’s Group’s best
Heloise & The Savoir Faire @ Brooklyn Bowl*
Yes, Giantess @ Tribeca Grand*
Sunday, 12/6/09 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists @ Bowery Ballroom
Tuesday, 12/8/09 Parts & Labor @ Brooklyn Bowl*
La Strada @ Bell House*
Wednesday, 12/9/09 The Ting Tings @ M2 Ultra Lounge*
Paper Magazine’s 5th Annual Nightlife Awards
A.A. Bondy @ Bowery Ballroom
Jones Street Station @ Housing Works Used Bookstore*
The Young Republic @ Living Room*
Thursday, 12/10/09 Xylos, Zambri @ Union Hall
Benefit for St. Christopher’s Inn Drug Rehabilitation Center
Bear Hands @ Littlefield
In Cadeo @ Spike Hill*
Thursday, 12/10/09 & Arctic Monkeys, Screaming Femals @ Terminal 5
Friday, 12/11/09 ‘Humbug’ tour
Friday, 12/11/09 Dr. Dog @ Brooklyn Bowl
‘July In Christmas’
The Whigs, The Features, Mean Creek @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
The Woes, Previously On Lost @ Death By Audio
Friday, 12/11/09 & The Fiery Furnaces, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers @ Music Hall in Williamsburg
Saturday, 12/12/09 The Fiery Furnaces, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers @ Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, 12/12/09 The Lights Out, Teddy Blanks & more @ Brooklyn Bowl*
TheMusicSlut.com Holiday party
Eye Candy For Strangers, Toro y Moi @ Brooklyn Bowl*
Saturday, 12/12/09 & A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Frances, Jaguar Club @ Union Hall
Sunday, 12/13/09 A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ (le) Poisson Rouge
Sunday, 12/13/09 Saadi, The Octagon @ Living Room
‘Kidrockers’
Steve Aoki, Holy Ghost! @ Webster Hall*
Tuesday, 12/15/09 Cold Cave, Small Black @ Music Hall in Williamsburg*
Tuesday, 12/15/09 Neon indian, Toro y Moi, Electric Tickle Machine @ Mercury Lounge
to Neon indian, Toro y Moi @ Mercury Lounge
Thursday, 12/17/09 Neon Indian @ Brooklyn Bowl
Two sold-out nights at Mercury Lounge means $5 ticket price Brooklyn Bowl is going to be packed
Wednesday, 12/16/09 stellastarr* @ Bowery Ballroom
‘Civilized’ tour
Thursday, 12/17/09 Bluebrain @ Monkeytown*
Formerly The Epochs
Friday, 12/18/09 Fanfarlo, Freelance Whales @ Webster Hall
‘Reservoir’ tour
Goes Cube, Takka Takka @ Spike Hill*
Ear Farm holiday party
Saturday, 12/19/09 Grant Hart, Shilpa Ray @ 92YTribeca
How come the unwanted Shilpa Ray keeps getting booked with great acts, like Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart?…
Phantogram, Class Actress @ Brooklyn Bowl*
Zambri, Mystery Roar @ Cameo
Monday, 12/21/09 Hank & Cupcake @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
Wednesday, 12/23/09 BM Linx & more @ Studio @ Webster Hall*
Sunday, 12/27/09 Gogol Bordello @ Webster Hall
to Gogol Bordello @ Webster Hall
Tuesday, 12/29/09 Gogol Bordello @ Webster Hall
Gogol Bordello’s annual year-end, multi-night NYC bash
Wednesday, 12/30/09 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings @ Brooklyn Bowl
Tuesday, 12/29/09 Patti Smith & Her Band @ Bowery Ballroom
to Patti Smith & Her Band @ Bowery Ballroom
Thursday, 12/31/09 Patti Smith & Her Band @ Bowery Ballroom
Of course, the New Year’s Eve show costs way more $$$…

 

                                                                  New Year’s Eve
What you can do to say out of Times Square & say goodbye to this decade we never named…
Thursday, 12/31/09 Dean & Britta @ Southpaw
Early show from the most beautiful people in alt-rock
The Felice Brothers @ Southpaw
Late show from the go-to roots-revival act – but their annoying fans will be out in force on the 31st…
Obits @ Bell House
$40 for the mediocre Obits?!?
The London Souls @ (le) Poisson Rouge
But not as bad as $95 for The London Souls – no matter what else is included
Surfer Blood @ Cameo
Someone who is going to blow up in 2010 (whether you like it or not) playing a tiny space
Talk Normal, Screaming Females, Frankie & The Outs @ Cake Shop
The ladies (of varying musical ability) rock in the new year
Golden Triangle, Electric Tickle Machine @ Glasslands
Electric Tickle Machine should know how to ring in the new year right
Yes Giantess @ Piano’s
Also featuring Passion Pit… DJ set
Patti Smith & Her Band @ Bowery Ballroom
The Detroit Cobras @ Mercury Lounge
Fischerspooner @ Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Q-Tip @ Brooklyn Bowl
Project Jenny Project Jan @ Union Hall
Team Robespierre @ Bruar Falls
Excepter @ Monkeytown
Titus Andronicus, The So So Glos @ Mercury Lounge
Special 1:30 AM show
MSTRKRFT @ Webster Hall
Special 3:00 AM show

*Free

 

 

 

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