All Music events

Music: Rock/Pop
Darker My Love
Tuesday Dec 2 (7pm) @ Mercury Lounge
Darker My Love's overdriven soul isn't the most original thing in the world — imagine the Jesus and Mary Chain channeled by Brian Jonestown Massacre... View details »
Darker My Love
Music: Experimental
Silver Apples
Tuesday Dec 2 (8pm) @ The Kitchen
As the experimental electronic-music scene blossomed, modern knob-twiddlers have traced their genealogy only to find Silver Apples perched near the top of the family tree.... View details »
Silver Apples
Music: Electronic
El Guincho
Tuesday Dec 2 (10:30pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Born in the Canary Islands and now residing in Barcelona, Pablo Díaz-Reixa (aka El Guincho) draws as much from the beach as from Brooklyn, offering... View details »
El Guincho
Music: Hip-Hop
Red Bull Finals feat. Alchemist
Wednesday Dec 3 (8pm) @ Highline Ballroom
Red Bull's Big Tune competition spent the past few months crossing the US in search of the nation's best unknown hip-hop producers, leading up to... View details »
Red Bull Finals feat. Alchemist
Music: Punk/Metal
Boris
Wednesday Dec 3 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
With a sound that ranges from slow doom metal to noise rock, Japan's Boris are nothing if not unpredictable. Regardless of the genres Boris navigate,... View details »
Boris
Music: Electronic
Blip Festival 2008
Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ The Bell House More times »
For the past two years, Christmas has come early for old-school videogame lovers in the form of Blip Festival. Curated by 8bitpeoples and the Tank,... View details »
Blip Festival 2008
Music: Electronic
OhGr
Thursday Dec 4 (9pm) @ Blender Theater at Gramercy
While Skinny Puppy was never dead-pan serious, frontman Nivek Ogre apparently needed another outlet for his acerbic humor. His side project, OhGr, is a bit... View details »
OhGr
Music: Rock/Pop
Owen
Saturday Dec 6 (6:30pm) @ Mercury Lounge
Mike Kinsella has been on quite a journey: in addition to playing alongside his brother Tim in indie stalwarts like Cap'n Jazz and Joan of... View details »
Owen
Music: Rock/Pop
Meat Loaf
Saturday Dec 6 (8pm) @ United Palace
With over 43 million units sold, Meat Loaf is the Big Mac of temperamental balladeers. The singer's bio reads like one of his epic story... View details »
Meat Loaf
Music: Rock/Pop
Yeasayer
Saturday Dec 6 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Just admit it: Yeasayer have lived up to the hype that surrounded their first single, the apocalyptic "2080." The quartet's debut album, All Hour Cymbals,... View details »
Yeasayer
Music: DJ
Don Rimini and Aaron LaCrate
Saturday Dec 6 (11pm) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Fortune smiled upon Parisian producer and DJ Don Rimini when B-more club mainstay Aaron LaCrate and rapper Rick Ross asked him to craft the first... View details »
Don Rimini and Aaron LaCrate
Music: Punk/Metal
Show No Mercy feat. Nachtmystium
Sunday Dec 7 (7pm) @ Public Assembly
The bleak months of winter are upon us, and while we may have some residual tryptophan afterglow, Brandon Stosuy (the man behind Pitchfork's Show No... View details »
Show No Mercy feat. Nachtmystium
Music: Rock/Pop
Nada Surf
Sunday Dec 7 (8pm) @ Webster Hall
Rising to popularity with 1996's buzzing post-punk dirge "Popular," Brooklyn's Nada Surf have spent the past decade hopping labels and redefining their musical identity. Now... View details »
Nada Surf
Music: Rock/Pop
Constantines
Sunday Dec 7 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
At a time when many bands are moving away from direct rock influences and attempting to "go electronic," typically with dubious results, Toronto's Constantines keep... View details »
Constantines
Music: Experimental
Don Caballero
Monday Dec 8 (8pm) @ Club Europa
When Don Caballero burst onto the scene in the early '90s, their heady, precise, neo-classical metal (unfortunately tagged "math rock") seemed from a different planet,... View details »
Don Caballero
Music: Classical
Handel's Messiah
Sunday Dec 14 (3pm) @ Trinity Church More times »
Savor the chance to hear Handel's Messiah on the site where the epic oratorio received its New World premiere. Trinity Church has hosted a performance... View details »
Handel's Messiah
Music: Rock/Pop
Neil Young
Monday Dec 15 (8pm) @ Madison Square Garden More times »
If there were a Geiger counter that detected, instead of toxic radiation, the presence of a heart in music listeners, it would likely emit the... View details »
Neil Young
Music: Hip-Hop
Wu-Tang Clan
Tuesday Dec 23 (8pm) @ Hammerstein Ballroom
While we don't know exactly who or how many Clan members will show up for tonight's show (it's always a gamble, really), expect a killer-bee... View details »
Wu-Tang Clan
Music: DJ
The Bunker Jewish Christmas Party
Friday Dec 26 (11pm) @ Public Assembly
While a paid holiday and some Chinese food might be the easy way out for Jews on Christmas, Berlin's Miss Fitz, née Maayan Nidam, prefers... View details »
The Bunker Jewish Christmas Party
Music: Rock/Pop
Chuck Berry
Wednesday Dec 31 (8 & 11pm) @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Chuck Berry
Music: Rock/Pop
My Morning Jacket
Wednesday Dec 31 (9pm) @ Madison Square Garden
My Morning Jacket
Music: DJ
Marcel Dettmann
Friday Jan 9, 2009 (11pm) @ Public Assembly
For their sixth anniversary, the good folks at the Bunker bring Germany's Marcel Dettmann — Hard Wax employee and one of the recent stars of... View details »
Marcel Dettmann

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Music: Jazz/Blues
Slavic Soul Party!
Tuesday Dec 2 (9pm) @ Barbès More times »
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain soul. Taking a subtler,... View details »
Slavic Soul Party!
Music: DJ
Deprogram
Thursday Dec 4 (10pm) @ Love More times »
Chris Alker and Sushi Steve, responsible for the Lower East Side's weekly Stereo-Type parties, DJ and host this new monthly jam at basement-tastic venue Love,... View details »
Deprogram
Music: Jazz/Blues
Mingus Mondays
Monday Dec 8 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Jazz Standard More times »
The Mingus Big Band, one of three rotating groups that makes up this weekly celebration of the music of Charles Mingus, cannot be contained on... View details »
Mingus Mondays