Radio City Music Hall, the Beacon, the Bowery Ballroom, the Blue Note: all these destinations for live music have earned their place on New York City's perennial favorites list year in and year out. We love them, too, but we're not going to rank them...
It's that time of year again where the venues of New York City--in particular, the Lower East Side and Williamsburg--are flush with eager music fans hoping to catch a secret show with an artist they love or discover their new favorite band from Icela...
Trent Reznor sure is a happy guy these days. In a recent interview in The Fader, Reznor is even shown as chipper when facing a root canal. Reznor's apparent changed mood is so interesting because he has faced his demons so publicly in his music. Rez...
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For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Monday, 10/14: Nine Inch Nails + Godspeed You! Black Emperor Barclays Center 8 p.m., $54-$99 Back in gear after a several year absence, the visceral n...
Monday the Sunshine Cinema is hosting a screening of the documentary The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan. Ostensibly a profile of the prolific cult graffiti artist of the title, the footage soon expands its ambit to tell a story that interweaves the burge...
star/Mr. Clean look-alike is on a normal basis. Willis whipped out a harmonica during his opening monologue, achieved impression perfection with his take on Michael Kors for a Lady Gaga talk show sketch, and was a good sport about the fact that someo...
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Friday, 10/11: Brandon Seabrook & Mary Halvorson Roulette Brooklyn 8 p.m., $20 Gonna be a big one. Two of town's most inspired guitarists bring the...
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Colt Cabana Independent wresting icon Colt Cabana has had quite the year. Outside of the unfortunate hurdle of almost losing his finger (which lead #SaveColtsFinger to trend worldwide) he's continued to be a force in the worlds of wrestling, comed...
Shred sculpting radicals of the highest order, Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook are two of Brooklyn's finest six-stringers. Both have reigned as the Voice's Best NY guitarists and the intrepid pair can often be found extracting glorious sounds fro...
By Eric J. Greenberg It was a day of surprises and celebrations at Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts in Astoria, Queens, as Paul McCartney thrilled hundreds of lucky students and teachers with an unannounced 90-minute performance Wednesday nigh...
Ted Nugent--everyone's favorite gun-toting, POTUS hating archery enthusiast--will release a double DVD/CD on October 22nd. It's called ULTRALIVE BALLISTICROCK and BOOM! your mind just got blown. The live footage contained within--from an August, 14, ...
Over the past five years, Mexican Summer has introduced (or helped to introduce) bands like Best Coast, Washed Out and Kurt Vile. This weekend, to celebrate their five-year anniversary, they're throwing a two-day concert at Pioneer Works in Red Hook,...
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Better Than: Reading Macbeth for school and soundtracking the assignment with a Panic! album. Some of us can make that comparison more literally than others. Panic! At the Disco has never been afraid to try new things, and over the years we've seen...
[Editor's note: In "Tweets Is Watching," Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.] JD Samson and her MEN ensemble will release a new album titled Labor on October 22nd. It's a project that S...
Halloween is coming up: do you have your comedy costume ready? Confuse trick-or-treaters by dressing as Richard Pryor on fire, Chris Farley eating, or the most terrifying sight in comedy... Carlos Mencia being himself. But there is no need to fear te...
Ever since the first night club set up shop on the first mixed use business/residential street, people have been fighting it out in community board meetings (and more recently, in the comment sections of blogs) about just how numerous and boisterous ...
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