Um, Madonna is playing Knockdown Center this Saturday. If you're too cool to care about this news, you can go (express) yourself.

King Gizzard and The Washington Wizards (sp?) are doing a special rave show @ Under the K Bridge Park next month. Get into the groove.

Hug, a new musical joint from Devendra Banhart, make their NYC live debut at (Le) Poisson Rouge this fall. Open your heart (and arms) to this new band.

Stellar singer/songwriter L'Rain is set to take Night Club 101 by storm with two September shows scheduled. Will be a ray of light no matter what the weather.

Sick Santa Cruz indieemomathpunks First Day Back are playing a *free outdoor show* outside The Numero Group pop-up near the Seaport this month. Cherish not spending any money. RIYL: Cap'n Jazz

Computerwife headlines a sweet shoegaze-centric show inside a wrestling ring in Brooklyn *tomorrow* night. Piledrivers not appreciated. We all want to live to tell about it.

Powerful Detroit post punks Protomartyr are playing Webster Hall this fall. We're crazy for you, Protomartyr.

underscores is doing a *free* DJ set on the rooftop of Elsewhere *tonight.* Just wanted to emphasize/stress this. Promise to try and go.

True blue band The Beths announced two NYC-area shows this September. Sayreville, NJ or Hudson, NY... YOU make the call.

Decidedly noisy digital destroyers Machine Girl (not to be confused with Material Girl) are already greasing up the gears in anticipation their show at Pioneer Works this fall. Get there.

Bazooka Fest! (2-days) is popping off at The Meadows + The Wood Shop in August with Times New Viking, Cloud Nothings, Kiwi Jr., Sad13, Colleen Green and lots more goodness. Whoever put together this lineup, take a bow.

Acclaimed composer Danny Elfman is performing in Central Park in September on la isla bonita of Manhattan. He puts the GO in Oingo Boingo.

Charli XCX is doing a surprise pop-up show in Brooklyn *tomorrow night.* If you can get in, you must be my lucky star.

PLUS MORE NEW SHOWS:
Boy Harsher, Titus Andronicus, Whirr, Stephin Merritt, Horse Jumper of Love, The Bad Plus, Cortex, Jeff Rosenstock, John Waters, Ida, Rico Nasty, Of Monsters and Men, Jawdropped, New Constellations, Angus & Julia Stone, Ken Carson, Ringo Starr, Sō Percussion, Unwed Sailor, Grace Bergere, David Cross, Warmachine, Cor De Lux, A Very Special Episode, Luster, Streetlight Manifesto, Alabaster DePlume and more!

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07/09 Both, Kay Keels, Rachel Erin Moore @ ALPHAVILLE
07/09 Shaggy, Robin Thicke, Tanto Metro, Devonte, Rayvon, Noah Powa, Nesta, Amber Lee, Matthew Malcolm, Shuga @ Central Park SummerStage
07/09 underscores (DJ set) @ Elsewhere
07/10 Computerwife, Smush, Push Ups, Death Drive, Pilothead @ 148 Frost Street
07/10 TOTAL XTC @ Amant
07/10 Charli XCX @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
07/10 Darling Gails, Caprice Le Marais, Torppsbride @ Purgatory
07/10 Jak Lizard, reya flowers, Papo Cucaracha Vertedero el 3ro @ Purgatory
07/10 Grace Bergere, Alana Asha Ashram, Diceholes, Woodhead @ TV EYE
07/10 Jonathan Toubin (Eclectic 45RPM Vinyl Dance Party) @ TV EYE
07/11 Carrying, The Heaven, Kierst, Hannah Hill @ Baby's All Right
07/11 Tracey Nelson, Oldstar, Badger Hunt @ Baby's All Right
07/11 Oeste, Myth Makers, Captain Tallen (and the Benevolent Entities) @ Footlight Underground at The Windjammer
07/11 Billygoat, Hard Nips @ Francis Kite Club
07/11 Veronica Vasicka, Three of Hearts @ Good Room
07/11 Anaka, Tempest City, Hold On, Fire, Tom Vincent @ Gramercy Theatre
07/11 Madonna, Stuart Price, Honey Dijon, Fcukers, Junior Sanchez, Sam-E @ Knockdown Center
07/11 Total Recall 2, Jeanne River, Mikey Enwright @ Night Club 101
07/11 bree-on-uh, Sadie Gust, VERA @ Purgatory
07/11 Pet, Al Uzza, Scant, Shredded Nerve, Sanitation @ TV EYE
07/12 Luke Gopnik, Flannery, Alejandra Sofia, Lena Fjortoft @ Bowery Palace
07/12 Vaden Landers, and more! @ Footlight Underground at The Windjammer
07/13 Bedridden, Bones Forever, untitled freak @ Night Club 101
07/13 Just Fabulous, Gal Fieri, Lydia Vengeance & The Skeleton Symphony @ TV EYE
07/14 Gracie Abrams @ Bowery Ballroom
07/14 Savannah Harris, Cleo Reed, Brandon Woody, Cosmo @ Public Records
07/14 Her Majesty, Prostitution, A Total Wreck @ Purgatory
07/15 Adam Lambert @ Brooklyn Paramount
07/15 Argo and the Violet Queens, ViRG, Summer Fling, Samsara @ Purgatory
07/16 Discovery Zone, Pawn Chess Club @ Guggenheim Museum
07/16 Giant Inflatable Dog, Mandy's Dreaming, Sunny Delight, Headlamp, Idaho Green @ Rubulad
07/16 Crush Fund, Duchess, Heaviness Fell @ The Broadway
07/17 Zacchae'us Paul, Tris10, Vanessa Camacho @ Abrons Art Center
07/17 Wyatt Cenac, Kurt Braunohler, Ike Ofomadu, Myka Fox, Tim McLaughlin, Kath Barbadoro, Kevin Casey White, Dave Ross (host), Ali O'Neil, Bobby Condon, Toby McMullen @ Pine Box Rock Shop
07/17 Flairity, Umami House, The Alabasters, Teyla, Jack Fox Baum @ Rubulad
07/17 Juneau, Aelia, Silverdollar, Love Amaryllis, Tearaway, Rojava @ Stone Circle Theatre
07/18 Zoë Casdin, Choo Choo, Teachers Lounge @ Footlight Underground at The Windjammer
07/18 Baby Got Back Talk, Normal Again, Parlor Talk, Vice Club, Scotty @ Gold Sounds
07/18 Death Certificate, Zinc, Qualms, Drivel, Pageant, Pillowbiter, Subordinate, Disfathom @ Gold Sounds
07/18 Supersonic (Oasis Tribute), Scotia Rose @ Racket
07/19 First Day Back @ Front & John St
07/19 Kianna @ Night Club 101
07/19 Lucky Number, Bomb Valley, Shane Cokely, Racrusta @ Purgatory
07/19 id m theft able, Gryphon Rue, Huichun Yang @ Sleepwalk
07/20 Sayonara, Muscle Bitch, BSHWCK, Wing Walker @ Gold Sounds
07/20 Brigid Hart, Nora Baier, Cadence Plenge @ Purgatory
07/20 Cherch, Sammi Lanzetta, Pete Mancini, Nathan Xander @ The Gutter
07/21 Lydia Von Hof, Aria, Sam Tunkel, Zora Imani @ Purgatory
07/22 Mike Sherm @ Gramercy Theatre
07/23 Khantrast @ Gramercy Theatre
07/23 Tiberius Saint, Raiden X, Signal Coast @ Purgatory
07/23 Boyscout Marie, Kate Revels, Anthony Sellito Budney @ Rubulad
07/23 Postmark, Slowpoke, Lucas Lusher @ The Broadway
07/24 Garbaggio, Stubborn, Candy Cane (and the Candyland Band) @ Night Club 101
07/25 Zoya Zafar, John Dorney, Saint Remy @ Cassette
07/25 Nu Jazz, OHYUNG @ Night Club 101
07/25 Boy Harsher, Chanel Beads (DJ Set), Dazegxd, Kassie Krut (DJ Set), Ivan Berko, Bapari, LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) @ Paragon
07/25 Planet Mercury, NOTNORTH, The Hips @ The Broadway
07/25 Taraneh, Thoom, The Sound Chalk Makes, poc, Hopper1000, Harmless Light, My Transparent Eye @ Trans-Pecos
07/26 The Fictionals, Robscure, COTTONMOUF, Kid At The Corner @ Rubulad
07/26 Warmachine, Sodaseas, Wince, Docents @ The Broadway
07/26 Sifa Bihimora, Berra, Siena Milan @ The Sultan Room
07/28 Joseph Keckler, Matthewadonna, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues @ Night Club 101
07/28 Revulva, Hazzard, OK KAI @ Purgatory
07/28 Film and Gender, K.O. Queen, Eyelid, Eyeless Midnight, False Spring @ The Broadway
07/28 La Berta, Bagel Brain, Elee Pink @ The Sultan Room
07/28 Kerry Kallberg, Specific Thing, Ben Dubois @ TV EYE
07/29 Emily Irving, Caroline Strickland, Catie Lausten @ Bar Freda
07/29 Violent Vira @ Gramercy Theatre
07/29 $quib, Anastasia Coope, poc @ Night Club 101
07/30 techg1rls, Jaydens Vengeance @ Elsewhere
07/30 The Sound Chalk Makes, synecdoche, new york, heavensouls @ Elsewhere
07/30 David Cross @ The Bell House
07/30 Sonora Tukukuy, Contrafuego @ TV EYE
07/30 Holy Rollers, The Owners, Teen Cobra @ Union Pool
07/31 Wild Lawn, Kristeen Young, Talsness @ Footlight Underground at The Windjammer
07/31 Lunacy, Trace Amount, Hostility Index, Milkman's Molotov @ Gold Sounds
07/31 Kilynn Lunsford, Eraser, Van Goth @ Home Sweet Home
07/31 Dane Bachman, Ellie Shannon, Sasha Sasha, Bee Hall @ Purgatory
07/31 Powerwasher, iD-sus, Libby Quinn, Blisspoint @ The Broadway
07/31 KNoWTe, Midnight Foolishness, Saint Elsewhere, Lollirot @ The Gutter
08/01 The Planes, Sorry Darling, No Jersey, Go Home, A Very Special Episode @ Main Drag Music
08/01 Onward Debacle, Mzztr, Porcelain Vivisection, GLDN @ Wonderville
08/02 Prison, Abronia, Vague Plot @ Mama Tried
08/02 Carve A Path, Idlehood, Smugly Ugly, Markzen @ The Broadway
08/03 Gilah, Coolant, Juuulian @ Night Club 101
08/04 The Sleights, Goners UK, Dear Dan @ Hart Bar
08/07 Snag, Auxiena Saint, Lastima, Bleached Cross, Casca @ Gold Sounds
08/07 JDH & Dave P @ Good Room
08/07 Fly Anakin, Nickelus F, Mutant Academy @ The Sultan Room
08/08 Shubostar, Irena Stanisic @ Good Room
08/08 Fully Furnished, The Dead Drops, Tom Messia, Mary Hood @ Mama Tried
08/08 Bae Bae, Sevyn, Spinorita, Tara, Seeps @ Public Records
08/08 Couvo, Stephen Babcock, Hey Again @ Union Pool
08/09 Nettle, Summers in Autumn, Stringhead, Metropole @ Stone Circle Theatre
08/11 Supercontinuum, Public Speaking, 'nguento @ Sleepwalk
08/12 Savannah Harris, KeiyaA, Immanuel Wilkins, Omo Igi @ Public Records
08/12 Nathan Mattingly, Sweetbreads, I'm Not Holden Caulfield @ Stone Circle Theatre
08/13 Joker @ Public Records
08/14 Riobamba (DJ Set) @ Amant
08/14 Garrett + the Bad Boys @ Night Club 101
08/14 From States Away, ANTHMS, DriveLine, Bad Humors @ Rubulad
08/14 Horse Jumper of Love, Babehoven, Carol @ Stone Circle Theatre
08/15 Zacchae'us Paul @ Abrons Art Center
08/15 Muscle Bitch, Knifethroat, Barrette @ Footlight Underground at The Windjammer
08/15 Loser Protagonist, The Sleepaways, Speedfriending, Being Ur Dad @ Hart Bar
08/15 Ge-ology, Tom of England, Hiatt DB, Renata Do Valle @ Public Records
08/15 Emily Has Fallen, Four Trips Ahead, DEOSA @ TV EYE
08/20 SPAER, Patching, Chammeili @ The Sultan Room
08/21 Evolfo, Windows, Mirror Tapes @ ALPHAVILLE
08/21 Anish Kumar, Extra Meesh @ Good Room
08/21 Pretty Lights @ The Capitol Theatre
08/21 Cemetery Sex, Shadow Age, Military Scientist (DJ) @ TV EYE
08/22 A Very Special Episode, first president of japan, Pond View, Nihiloceros @ Bowery Palace
08/22 Never Dull @ Elsewhere
08/22 Wide Right, The Martinets @ Mama Tried
08/22 Pretty Lights @ The Capitol Theatre
08/22 Times New Viking, Cloud Nothings, Kiwi Jr., Sad13, Colleen Green, 2nd Grade, Winston Hightower, Asher White, PARKiNG, TV Buddha, Uniflora, Trinket, Alex Walton, Chime School, Great Lakes, Giant Day, The Garment District, Love, Burns, Hang Him to The Scales, The Alaskas, Vivian, Sunshine Convention @ The Meadows
08/23 Evan McMillian, Whipporwhill, Adam Najemian @ Sleepwalk
08/23 Pretty Lights @ The Capitol Theatre
08/23 King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard (Rave Show), Vril @ Under the K Bridge Park
08/25 Blums, May Rio, Angel Puppet @ Night Club 101
08/26 Small, Blankslate, Red Tank! @ Bar Freda
08/26 Black Milk, Fat Ray @ Elsewhere
08/27 Gunderbus, Pal, Safka @ Mama Tried
08/28 Jen Kirkman @ Joe's Pub
08/28 Voiski, Annie Lew, Andrey Pushkarev, Max Dowd @ Public Records
08/28 Thaetas, Vomit Fist, Aphelion Entity @ The Broadway
08/28 Nuclear Cowboy @ The Sultan Room
08/28 The Bird Calls, Adeline Hotel, Izzy Oram Brown @ Union Pool
08/29 Fairlane @ Elsewhere
08/29 Jonathan Toubin (SOUL CLAP & DANCE OFF), Abby Jeanne and the Shadowband @ TV EYE
08/29 Earlybirds Club @ Webster Hall
08/30 Tough Darling, OOF, Blank Account @ Mama Tried
08/31 Venetian Blinds @ Baby's All Right
09/03 Ken Carson, xaviersobased, Prettifun, DJ Moon @ Barclays Center
09/03 Savannah Harris, Miriam Elhajli, Malik Abdul-Rahmaan @ Public Records
09/03 Martha's Vineyard Ferries, Scrawl, Taxidermists @ Union Pool
09/04 Sofia Kourtesis (DJ set) @ Elsewhere
09/05 Hot Since 82, Danny Tenaglia, Juliet Mendoza, Kilopatrah Jones @ Knockdown Center
09/06 Titus Andronicus @ Crossroads
09/06 Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Anthrax @ Sports Illustrated Stadium
09/08 Wé Ani @ Baby's All Right
09/08 Fenix Flexin @ Warsaw
09/09 Angelo Mota @ Baby's All Right
09/09 Tomorrowish, Morgan Cole Brown, Kay Roman, Olive Riggio @ The Gutter
09/12 Julez and the Rollerz @ ALPHAVILLE
09/13 Rico Nasty @ Knockdown Center
09/13 The Rasmus, Saint Agnes, Death Valley Dreams @ Racket
09/15 Danny Elfman @ Central Park SummerStage
09/15 Jeff Rosenstock @ Crossroads
09/15 Jeff Rosenstock, JER @ Crossroads
09/15 Cheap Trick @ The Paramount
09/16 Bella Kay @ Brooklyn Steel
09/16 Noah Hill @ Night Club 101
09/16 Feedback, Soft Crush, Lather @ Sleepwalk
09/16 Haylie Davis @ TV EYE
09/17 Sam Collins, Mona Matsuoka @ Elsewhere
09/20 Whirr, Luster @ Brooklyn Paramount
09/21 Green-House @ Elsewhere
09/22 Alabaster DePlume, Tara Lily @ Elsewhere
09/22 Angus & Julia Stone @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
09/22 Unwed Sailor, Heaven, Dead Leaf Echo @ TV EYE
09/23 Of Monsters and Men, August Ponthier @ Central Park SummerStage
09/23 Angus & Julia Stone @ Racket
09/23 Fabio Frizzi, Ethan McCarthy @ TV EYE
09/24 The Beths @ Basilica Hudson
09/24 Darby, MiiNDS @ Elsewhere
09/25 The Beths @ Starland Ballroom
09/25 The Black Queen @ TV EYE
09/27 Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band @ PNC Bank Arts Center
09/28 L'Rain @ Night Club 101
09/29 L'Rain @ Night Club 101
09/30 Hannah Cole, Evil Adeline @ Night Club 101
10/01 The Womack Sisters @ Baby's All Right
10/01 Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band @ Forest Hills Stadium
10/01 Megasound @ Night Club 101
10/02 Kiefer, Shibo @ Elsewhere
10/03 Out of System Transfer, They Love Them, The Skirts @ Bar Freda
10/03 Parkies, Smores, Luana Sandoval, Elle Prado @ Hart Bar
10/03 Walden, Anaia @ Night Club 101
10/04 Chief Keef @ The Rooftop at Pier 17
10/08 Hug (Gyan Riley, Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
10/08 Jawdropped @ Night Club 101
10/08 Cor De Lux, Editrix, Yuvees, Big Girl @ The Broadway
10/12 Cortex, Adrian Younge, J. Rocc @ Knockdown Center
10/15 Vlad Holiday @ Night Club 101
10/18 guardin, kennedyxoxo, Fijimar @ Market Hotel
10/19 Elanor Moss @ Night Club 101
10/21 Yaya Bey, H31R @ Baby's All Right
10/22 Asher White, Nara's Room, Retail Drugs @ TV EYE
10/25 Sophie Truax, Sasha Cee @ Gramercy Theatre
10/28 Sō Percussion (Steve Reich's Drumming) @ 92NY
10/29 The Hails @ Elsewhere
10/30 Machine Girl @ Pioneer Works
11/04 Setting, Wednesday Knudsen @ Public Records
11/05 Old Tower, Alberich, Bereft Raven, Fury Within @ TV EYE
11/06 Chapo Trap House @ New York Society for Ethical Culture
11/09 New Constellations, Vox Rea @ Bowery Ballroom
11/11 BAILEN @ National Sawdust
11/12 The Bad Plus (in the round) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
11/12 Protomartyr, J.R.C.G. @ Webster Hall
11/16 John Cameron Mitchell @ Beacon Theatre
11/18 Qasim Naqvi @ Roulette
11/19 Jessica Cook @ Roulette
11/20 Jessica Cook @ Roulette
11/28 Troyboi @ Brooklyn Steel
12/05 Streetlight Manifesto @ Starland Ballroom
12/07 6LACK, Eem Triplin @ Brooklyn Paramount
12/09 Jackie Evans @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
12/18 Stephin Merritt @ 92NY
12/20 Patrice Roberts @ Brooklyn Paramount
12/20 John Waters (Christmas) @ City Winery
04/02 Gutalax, Malignancy, Fermented Mess @ The Meadows

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