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Franck de Las Mercedes
After a year off, Sing for Hope Pianos is returning to New York City, resuming its tradition of installing public pianos throughout the city for two weeks in the summer.
The charity organization was founded in 2006 by Juil...
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Public Access TV
John Eatherly and his band, Public Access TV, were in California finishing up the final dates of their first U.S. tour when their manager woke them with the news that their East Village home had been destroyed in a gas leak explos...
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Jay Z and Memphis Bleek perform during Tidal X: Jay Z B Sides in NYC on 5/17/15.
Once upon a time, I almost shared sweat with Jay Z at the best concert ever. It was 2006 -- I had just fallen off the blueberry truck from Kalamazoo, Michigan -- and ...
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Remy Banks
Brooklyn has the hip-hop classicism of Pro Era. Harlem gets the A$AP Mob's region-hopping. Queens' World's Fair can be seen as a compromise between new-school leanings and the pride that comes with New York City's heritage. That's not t...
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Nico & Vinz
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.
Monday, 5/18
'Mobile Mondays' - DJ Fatha Ramzee - Tribute to the Eighties & Nineties
Bowery Electric
10 p.m., FREE
Anyone can queue MP...
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Rihanna
Let it be known that Rihanna is the only person to upstage an entire episode of Saturday Night Live -- a finale, even! -- by doing something as simple as giving the host bunny ears during the curtain call. She pissed people off for "lip-sy...
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Chui Wan
Some words defy easy translation. Take experimental psych band Chui Wan's name, which is inspired by ancient Daoist existential philosophy.
"It means different things give different sounds, and there's lots of sounds, and there's sound i...
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B.B. King in 2012
Less than two months after the 1971 Attica prison riot, B.B. King played the Rikers Island juvenile detention facility, and Patrick Carr, writing for the Village Voice, was there to document the concert. "When King wound up his p...
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Matt Pond PA
Matt Pond just remembered it's Mother's Day, and he nearly forgot to make that sacred phone call. The slip is justified. There's a lot on the mind of the namesake behind the New Hampshire-via-Pennsylvania-via-New York chamber-pop outl...
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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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Matt and Kim
For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which we update daily.
Friday, 5/15
Polaris
Highline Ballroom
7 p.m., $33
A run of The Adventures of Pete & Pete reunion shows featuring cast and crew st...
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Forest Swords is one of the many Tri Angle Records artists who will perform at the label's fifth anniversary celebration.
It wasn't that Robin Carolan necessarily saw a void that needed to be filled when he founded Tri Angle Records in the summer ...
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Polaris
Nineties Nickelodeon cult favorite The Adventures of Pete & Pete wasn't your average kids' show. From 1993 to 1996, Pete & Pete dazzled young'uns and grown-ups alike with a unique wittiness, maturity, and friendly surrealism in Wellsville'...
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Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction gets up close and personal with the crowd at Brooklyn Bowl.
Nostalgic rock fans in New York had a tough choice between concerts last night: Night one of metal heroes Faith No More at Webster Hall? Or alt-rock gods...
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Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds
Sister Sparrow -- the nom du stage of Arleigh Kincheloe -- wears the pants in the band. Literally. It wasn't until the singer donned a pair of jeans that she came into full possession of the powers that now fuel ...
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Biff Byford of Saxon
In Saxon's classic anthem "Denim & Leather," frontman/behemoth Biff Byford sings of the band-fan connection, arguably stronger in metal than in other genres: "Do you dream of playing guitar or smashing up the drums?...You can ...
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Kevin Devine and Meredith Graves
Kevin Devine fans, rejoice: It's been a minute since you made the Brooklyn singer-songwriter's last two records happen, but he's finally back with new music.Since 2002, Devine has been perfecting the art of the aco...
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Postcommodity
Last May I had the privilege of covering the Ende Tymes Festival for this publication, after years of previewing the annual event. It was a life-affirming assignment that had the effect of simultaneously redeeming festival culture ...
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Tanlines
In the opening lines of "Slipping Away," the first single from Tanlines' forthcoming sophomore record, Highlights, Eric Emm's plaintive vocal rings out over an exuberant bassline akin to the Cure's "Close to Me": "Was I running backwards?...
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The Sterling Cooper All-Company Meeting takes over UCB Chelsea tonight at 8 p.m.
This week in Cheap Laughs, we have Mad Men, shameless women, sudden impressions, mortified adolescents, and lines around the block for jokes. Here's our rundown of th...
