January 1, 2009
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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 |
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Monday, 1/5/09 | Glasvegas @ Union Square Virgin Megastore* |
Free performance & signing by much-hyped Scots |
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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 |
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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’) |
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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 |
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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!!!” |
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Thursday, 1/22/09 | Matt & Kim @ Music Hall in Williamsburg |
‘Grand’ release party – at home in Brooklyn |
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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
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
July ’09
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
September ’09
October ’09
November ’09
December ’09
New Year’s Eve |
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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 |
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