Upcoming music & nightlife events

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Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute

  • Price band: 2/4

A seven-piece of David Byrne aficionados takes to the water tonight, performing the Talking Heads' early material, deep cuts, Afrobeat-influenced work and cult favorites—on a boat. Because this is New York, that's why!

  1. Rocks Off Concert Cruise (aboard the Half Moon) Skyport Marina, E 23rd St, at the East River
  2. Thu May 23
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Red

  • Price band: 2/4

Nashville's Grammy-nominated Christian-rock quartet Red brings the good word to the Gramercy Theatre masses—loudly.

  1. Gramercy Theatre 127 E 23rd St, between Park Ave South and Lexington Ave
  2. Thu May 23
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Buckcherry + Heaven's Basement

  • Price band: 2/4

L.A.'s Buckcherry continues to mine the most vapid elements from decades' worth of sleazy rock, from Aerosmith to the kings of glam metal. Tonight the band is out playing behind a newie, Confessions.

  1. Irving Plaza 17 Irving Pl, at 15th St
  2. Thu May 23
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William Blake: Echoes of Etta

  • Price band: 2/4
  • Critics choice

William Blake—not the visionary 18th-century English poet and artist, silly, but the high-flying local tenor—returns to Joe's Pub with a salute to the late Etta James. If any white man can pull this off, the gifted Blake might just be the one.

  1. Joe's Pub at the Public Theater 425 Lafayette St, between Astor Pl and E 4th St
  2. Thu May 23
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Terveet Kädet + Iron Lung + Massgrav + Wake + Lotus Fucker

  • Price band: 1/4

Terveet Kädet, an influential Finnish hardcore band with a 30-year-plus history, rages at Saint Vitus in the wake of an appearance at Baltimore's Maryland Deathfest. Also on tap: Iron Lung's harrowingly intense brand of extreme-rock catharsis, informed equally by hardcore, grindcore and doom metal.

  1. Saint Vitus 1120 Manhattan Ave, between Box and Clay Sts, 11222
  2. Thu May 23
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Astrograss + Shapiro's Shanty Shakedown + Dr. Zsa's Powdered Zydeco + Luna Sisters and More

  • Price band: 1/4

Local folkie Jordan Shapiro celebrates his birthday by helming a bluegrass-y benefit for Sunny's—the oldest bar on the Brooklyn waterfront—which took a battering during Hurricane Sandy.

  1. Jalopy Theatre 315 Columbia St, between Hamilton Ave and Woodhull St, 11231
  2. Thu May 23
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Total Control + Raspberry Bulbs + Crazy Spirit + Survival

  • Price band: 1/4

Melbourne's Total Control offers jangly, melodic punk with shades of gothy electropop. Joining the band here are Raspberry Bulbs, who serve up midtempo misanthropy that's both enervating and addictive.

  1. 285 Kent Ave 285 Kent Ave, at South 1st St, 11211
  2. Thu May 23
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Malaikat Dan Singa + Dan Higgs + PC Worship

  • Price band: 1/4
  • Critics choice

Visionary throat singer and bass clarinetist Arrington de Dionyso (of Old Time Relijun) turns up on the LES with the freaky, fuzzed-out Malaikat Dan Singa. Also onboard is multitalented indie-rock mystic Daniel Higgs—longtime Lungfish singer, recent Skull Defekts collaborator and a marvelous tattoo

  1. Cake Shop 152 Ludlow St, between Rivington and Stanton Sts
  2. Thu May 23
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Andy Statman

  • Price band: 1/4

Andy Statman’s fleet-fingered and inventive mandolin playing expands the scope of a folk instrument with seemingly known dimensions. In his equally accomplished clarinet work, Statman melds Eastern European Jewish music with mid-’60s jazz.

  1. Barbès 376 9th St, at Sixth Ave, 11215
  2. Thu May 23
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Desert Stars + Howth + Carroll + Pinegrove

  • Price band: 2/4

Headlining Brooklyn quintet the Desert Stars creates hazy, loose-limbed shoegaze reminiscent of Beach House.

  1. Cameo 93 North 6th St, between Berry St and Wythe Ave, 11211
  2. Thu May 23
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