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Dead Sara
Though the events of the last year -- which started with getting dropped by Epic Records following the completion of their second album -- made for a harsh lesson in the business component of the music biz, the Dead Sara's motto remains ...
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Alt-J
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.Monday, 3/30
Alt-J
Madison Square Garden
8:00 p.m., $39.50-$49.50
Since Alt-J released their magnificent album, This Is All Yours, to near-...
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George Ezra
I know it's crazy hard to believe, but yes: It's completely and totally possible for a scrawny white kid with a cowlick from across the pond to listen to, love, and make music that rips from the more treasured refrains of American soul...
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Swervedriver
It's been a long time coming -- seventeen years long, to be precise -- but on March 6, Swervedriver released a brand-new album, I Wasn't Born to Lose You, marking the shoegaze vets' first full-length record since 1998's 99th Dream.
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See Nikki Lane on Friday at Warsaw in Greenpoint.
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.
Friday, 3/27
Sannhet
Saint Vitus Bar
8 p.m., $10
Sannhet have the distinction of being the fir...
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Blackstreet
Yes, you're reading the above title, in a piece from the Village Voice of all places. It's here where Barry Michael Cooper coined the term New Jack Swing in his 1987 profile of Teddy Riley, the Harlem producer who was the main architec...
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Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton
If you're persistent, you can learn and begin to conquer an instrument in about seven years. By using this same time frame and dedication, the Brooklyn Folk Festival is prepping itself for a scorching solo in this year's ...
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Shakey Graves and Nikki Lane
Here's the thing about Shakey Graves and Nikki Lane: The two of them are always down for stage shenanigans, and the fact that they're currently on tour together is a genius and terrible idea all at the same time. When ...
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Tove Lo at the Highline Ballroom
Tove Nilsson -- better known as Tove Lo -- started her music career penning hits for the likes of Girls Aloud and fellow Swedes Icona Pop. Given that history, it's hardly surprising that she knows how to craft a ki...
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Andrew W.K.
[Editor's note: Every week, New York City's own Andrew W.K. takes your life questions and sets you safely down the right path to a solution, a purpose, or -- no surprise here -- a party. Need his help? Just ask: AskAWK@villagevoice.com...
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Kenny Gorka, right, outside the Bitter End on Bleecker Street
What audience members tend to remember after a show at the Bitter End (aside from the music, of course) is the famed brick wall that serves as the backdrop for the iconic Greenwich Vill...
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Tobias Jesso Jr. plays a sold-out Mercury Lounge, 3/26/15.
If you've traversed the music blog circuit even casually during the past two weeks, you've likely come across the name of Tobias Jesso Jr. Maybe you wondered why you were seeing his name i...
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Big Data at the Bowery Ballroom
Alan Wilkis does not seem dangerous. Bespectacled and bearded, he looks more like the hipster archetype known to inhabit his hometown of Brooklyn. Maybe even a little nerdy, like the paranoid tech guy that rambles o...
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Shana Falana
Shana Falana may be gearing up to release her solo debut, but the Kingston-based psych goddess is hardly new to the game. Before she packed up and moved upstate, Falana was cutting her teeth in Brooklyn and on tour, constantly working...
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Lane Moore of "Tinder Live"
This week in Cheap Laughs, we have badass women, Irish gays, pizza, and shame. Now that's what we call a night on the town. Here's our rundown of the best in independently produced New York comedy this week.Wednesday, M...
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Update, March 26
ACTUALLY, NEVERMIND. Roberts canceled this campaign this morning. When asked about it, he writes to the Voice: "Decided that it wasn't the right move, and that I would be better off continuing to create work in my spare time." He...
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Brian Elmquist, Kanene Donehey Pipkin, and Zach Williams of the Lone Bellow
Though the Lone Bellow often make friends on the road, they hadn't planned on meeting a snaggle-toothed creature behind a crumbling headstone in a buddy's backyard in Nash...
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Laura Marling at Warsaw
On March 23, English folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling released her fifth album, the partially plugged-in and deeply American-inspired Short Movie. At a sold-out show at Brooklyn's Warsaw the same night, she displayed th...
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David Byrne takes the stage at Carnegie Hall for The Music of David Byrne & Talking Heads, 3/23/15.
One sympathizes with the task saddled onto the good folks running the benefit concert/career-spanning tribute to New York institution David Byrne. ...
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Action Bronson's fans love him, no doubt, but will they love Mr. Wonderful? That was the question asked by Sowmya Krishnamurthy in last week's music feature about the rapper, whose major-label debut is out today.
Bronson tells the Voice: "I don't k...
