Editor Picks
Here are our editor picks for the next seven days.
Sat, May 26 2012 View all »
Today @ Governors Island
Leave the potato salad packing to someone else this Memorial Day holiday and head out to Governors Island for a Sixpoint-beer-and-blues-infused...
Today @ City Reliquary
Brooklyn's greatest little museum takes over Havemeyer Street between Hope and Grand for a day of BBQ, contests and tons of...
Today @ The Mercury Lounge
If Virgins frontman Donald Cumming looks familiar, it may be because you've seen his bits 'n pieces gracing the walls of...
Sun, May 27 2012 View all »
Tomorrow @ Gowanus Grove
As far as we're concerned, the return of Mister Sunday marks the start of summer — and it comes not a...
Tomorrow @ Brooklyn Bowl
There's alt-country, and then there's The Sadies. While the band's main influence is obviously The Byrds, The Sadies seem to be...
Mon, May 28 2012 View all »
Monday 5/28 @ Wave Hill
If you haven't been up to Wave Hill yet, this holiday weekend is a perfect time to explore. Spring and summer...
Talib Kweli "The Prisoner of Conscious Tour"
Monday 5/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli is a legend in his own right — a smart, superlative lyricist who's remained a fixture in the hip-hop...
Tue, May 29 2012 View all »
Tuesday 5/29 @ Word
Bestselling author Lev Grossman makes his way back to Greenpoint to read from The Magician King, the second book in his...
Wed, May 30 2012 View all »
Props w/ Rich Medina & Akalepse
Wednesday 5/30 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Decades before house music got Westerners all loose-limbed and wiry on the dance floor, Nigeria's polyrhythmic Afrobeat sound was doing the same thing...
Wednesday 5/30 @ Lolita Bar
Imagine a room full of literary types, cheap drinks and good beats. Now brush up on the latest book-nerd gossip and...
Chef Ty-Lör Boring: Asian Barbeque
Wednesday 5/30 @ City Grit NYC
Our favorite Nolita-based culinary salon serves up three evenings with saucy former Top Chef contestant Ty-Lör Boring. Busy at work on...
Great Lake Swimmers w/ Cold Specks
Wednesday 5/30 @ The Bowery Ballroom
The Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channel was a project of lyrical succinctness, with most tracks weighing in at about three minutes....
Wednesday 5/30 @ The Bell House-
The list of late 1980s-early1990s indie bands that have reformed to critical acclaim has been growing as we get deeper and...
Wednesday 5/30 @ The Mercury Lounge
We predict the annals of shoegaze history will one day include a passage on I Break Horses, the Stockholm duo consisting...
Thu, May 31 2012 View all »
Thursday 5/31 @ Organic Avenue
This yoga/rave hybrid is both a workout and a party. Go early (8pm) for a "Dance of Liberation" with Parashakti, or...
Curren$y w/ Styles P @ Webster Hall
Thursday 5/31 @ The Bowery Presents
As an artist, Curren$y has evolved and perfected his lyrical delivery into a very unique sound. With his own personal swagger...
Thursday 5/31 @ Prudential Center
Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer catapulted the band to iconic status; the Oxford boys' superhuman creativity, well-documented in the film Meeting People Is Easy,...
Thurston Moore, Bill Nace and Joe McPhee
Thursday 5/31 @ Roulette
Roulette brings together three vastly different musicians for this evening of experimental music. Singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth fame...
Thursday 5/31 @ Tribeca Grand
Recess, the artists' workspace located in a Soho storefront hosts an evening of cocktails, dancing, and visual and performance art to...
Fri, Jun 01 2012 View all »
Friday 6/ 1 @ Various Locations
It's the sixth year of Brooklyn's best art crawl, Bushwick Open Studios. With the neighborhood growing more and more every day,...
Friday 6/ 1 @ Terminal 5
tUnE-yArDs is a chore to type out and only slightly simpler to listen to, the music similarly riddled with jolting ups...
Friday 6/ 1 @ Glasslands Gallery
New York's MS MR are taking that whole "mysterious" approach to promotion that we've seen so much of in recent years,...
