Archive for Concert Calendar
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Feb 13-19)
This week in NYC live music brings another interesting and eclectic mix of shows, including a week-long run by Richard Thompson, an all-star cast at the Tibet House Benefit Concert, lots of New Orleans-style funk/soul/jazz, plus shows by Big Gigantic, Mates of State, Yellowbirds, and Zola Jesus, among many others.... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Feb 6-12)
Although most New Yorkers are probably still thinking about last night's Giants Super Bowl win (or are at least nursing a nice football hangover), I'm taking one for the team and already looking ahead to a week of NYC-area shows. As usual, there are plenty of good options this week,... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Jan. 30 – Feb 5)
Just another week of live music in New York City...meaning lots of great options for the concert-going public. This week, we've got plenty of solid rock shows (including Smith Westerns and American Babies), some buzz-worthy electronic acts (like Tycho and Skrillex), and a few artists that fall somewhere in between... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Jan. 23-29)
This week in the NYC concert scene, we've got moe. doing a record release show, Rubblebucket and Superhuman Happiness hit the Bowery for a great double bill, Cloud Nothings playing Webster Hall, we get two nights of instrumental Zeppelin jams from our friends Bustle in Your Hedgerow, and Charles... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Jan. 16-22)
This week in NYC live music, we've got some interesting shows for the NY Guitar Festival, a two-night stand by Umphrey's McGee, the 12th annual Freaks Ball kicks off this weekend with two shows at Brooklyn Bowl, and lots of standout indie rockers hit the stage. Here are the... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Jan. 9-15)
This week in NYC shows is another mellow one compared to the normal onslaught of great concerts, but there are definitely some interesting happenings, including the New York Guitar Festival, Girls and Real Estate at Terminal 5, and Brother Past's triumphant return to Brooklyn Bowl. For all the guitar and... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Jan. 2-8)
Happy 2012 live music freaks! Hope you all had a killer 2011 and finished it off with a bang and some good shows! Last week was obviously a busy week for live music fans in the New York metro area, so naturally, the concert calendar slows down a bit this week... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Dec. 26-31) – Holiday Run & NYE Edition
Happy holidays, dudes and dudettes! Hope you got everything you wished for and downed copious amounts of egg nog. Now, on to more important stuff than family gatherings and gift exchanges....live music! Naturally, there are ton of great shows going on this week in NYC as we lead up... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Dec. 19-25) Pre-Holiday Edition
After a stellar week New York-area shows, things quiet down a bit for this week's concert calendar as we head into the holidays. There are still some decent shows going on this week, but because of the slimmer selection, I thought I'd add a few extra videos to help give... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Dec. 12 – Dec 18)
This week's NYC concert calendar features another diverse mix of shows, including a six-night run by the National, My Morning Jacket at MSG, American Babies at Mercury Lounge, and two nights of Atlas Sound, among many other interesting shows. The National kicks off a six-night run at the Beacon with... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Dec. 5 – Dec 11)
The NYC live music scene picks up again with a bunch of great shows happening this week, including the Black Keys, the Barr Brothers, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings along with plenty of other highlights. Check it out: As we covered last week, the Black Keys are now set for... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 28 – Dec. 4)
This week in NYC the live music scene calms down a bit, with much slimmer pickings than the last few weeks. But there's still some good stuff to sink your teeth into, including a few more two- and three-night runs (playing off of last week's theme). Check it: John Scofield... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 21-27)
This is a week to give thanks. Thanks to family, friends, good health, good food, and.....multi-night runs in NYC! Yep, for some reason, this week in NYC shows seems to be the week of two- and three-night stands including Allen Toussaint, the Cure, moe., M83 and Robert Randolph & the... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 14-20)
The NYC concert calendar chills out a bit this week. But there's still plenty of action, including a jam-packed weekend of shows that's going to set up some tough decisions. Here's the week's highlight reel... Wednesday night, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones make their NYC return -- w/ original member Howard... more
LMB SF: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 7-13)
Sorry for the absence of this here column last week; I got hit with an acute case of tonsillitis which definitely killed my Monday pretty badly. Felt like I was swallowing razorblades....but the good news is that it got me to the doctor to get some killer horse-pills to... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 7-13)
This week in NYC shows kicks off with a few repeats from last week's list that are sticking around town: Blind Pilot @ Music Hall and the Drums @ the Bowery. We've also got some bigger shows of note this week, including the big hip-hop double bill of Jay-Z &... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct 31 – Nov 6
We just got hit with the first snowfall of the season here in NYC. Even though the weather's starting to chill out, the live shows are keeping up the heat. Check out my preview of the week's shows with some videos of my top picks, including Ween, Battles, and Steve... more
LMB SF: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct. 24-30
Happy Monday, folks. Everyone out here in the Bay Area is recovering emotionally after the transcendent experience that was this year's Bridge School Benefit concert down in Mountain View, CA. While I couldn't make it myself this year, most of my crew made it out for a day... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct 24-30
Although last week there were a ton of shows going on due to CMJ, I think I'm actually more impressed with this week's selection. Amon Tobin's doing his ISAM live show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple for three nights (Tues-Thurs). On Tuesday, the Field will bring their hypnotic loop-based... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct 17-23
This week in NYC shows is a crazy one, with the CMJ Music Marathon officially taking over a good chunk of NYC's clubs and venues. CMJ is a bit like NYC's version of SXSW with industry panels, showcase events, day parties, and all manner of nighttime parties and multi-band extravaganzas.... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct 10 – 16
This week in NYC shows, there's some great jazz, including Pat Metheny (Tues @ The Blue Note), Wynton Marsalis (Fri & Sat @ Lincoln Center), and Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman (Sun @ Bailey Hall). Other than some classic jazz, there's a nice mix of funk, folk, rock, and a... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct 3 – 9
In any given week there's always a ton of NYC-area shows spanning across multiple genres and styles, but it seems like this week's concert calendar is even more sonically random than normal. Here are the highlights as I see 'em... Early in the week, we've got Explosions in the Sky... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Sept 26 – Oct 2
This week in NYC Live Music is an interesting one, with a couple notable heavy-hitters and a few solid small-club shows... After their Saturday night slot as the musical guest on SNL, Radiohead decided to stick around town for two, now-sold-out shows at the Roseland Ballroom; definitely a tough ticket due... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Sept 19-25
As fall comes into full swing this week, we're getting a really nice mix of interesting shows in NYC with some especially noteworthy bands in the indie rock and folk realms. Starting with the more eccentric artists, there's tUnE-YaRds @ Le Poisson Rouge (tonight), Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Music Hall... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Sept 13 – 19
This is another one of those week's of live music in NYC that requires some serious skills with scheduling and logistics. There are a ton of great shows and there's just not enough time, energy, and cash flow to take them all in. Since I'm still out of pocket, and... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Sept 6 – Sept 12
I'm out of pocket this week and man...it looks like I picked a bad week to head out of town. There are a bunch of interesting shows going on this week with plenty of options for dancing, rocking, and jammin'. For the full-on jammy goodness, Umphrey's McGee is doing... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Aug 30 – Sept 5
Although Hurricane Irene ended up being rather wimpy -- considering all of the preparations and dire warnings -- it certainly screwed up a lot of NYC concerts and festivals this past weekend. Brooklyn Bowl had to postpone BP's Saturday show, so I was denied what would have certainly been a... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Aug 22 – 28
8/26 update: Most shows on Saturday and Sunday canceled due to Hurricane Irene This week in NYC live music, we've got a few solid clubs shows going on, plus two very different NY-area festivals. As I mentioned last week, Deerhunter's hitting Webster Hall for a few nights and comes highly recommended... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Aug 16 – 22, 2011
This week's NYC Concert Calendar seems a tad quieter than last week's....which makes it seemingly a perfect week to highlight a bunch of smaller, intimate shows that are going on in town. In last week's post I already flagged Music for Money, specifically for fans of Battles and Tortoise. Those... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar
NYC's live music scene continues to bang on through the heat & humidity with an interesting mix of shows this week. We've got some well-known, genre-crossing singer-songwriters like Bon Iver and Bob Dylan...you may have heard of him. If you're more into dreamy synth-based rock that harkens back to 80s,... more
