Best cheap rock venues

Glasslands Gallery

• Price band: 1/4

Cutting-edge music bills rule at this bighearted Williamsburg space, where you’re encouraged to make art during shows.

Cake Shop

• Price band: 1/4

Upstairs, lip-smackin’ coffee and cake. Downstairs, a small but perfectly formed music venue with noisy rock bills and fairy lights.

Mercury Lounge

• Price band: 1/4

A Lower East Side hot spot with a big bar and a small backroom stage. Expect to be squished if it’s a popular show—but hey, you’ll still have a great view.

Union Pool

• Price band: 1/4
• Critics choice

Great up-and-coming indie-rock shows, excellent DJs and a sweet (working) photo booth. Beware the hipster crush on weekends, though.

Todd P shows

If you want fun, laid-back, slightly scrappy rock shows from genuinely hot new talent (and who doesn’t?), check promoter Todd Patrick’s website—regularly.