Best Buy Theater

B.A.P.

Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop

• $$$

From the country that gave us "Gangnam Style" comes B.A.P., a Korean hip-hop boy band whose name stands for Best Absolute Perfect. If your idea of that equates to madly dramatic, Lonely Island–style pop music (and videos to match) then you're in luck....

Bo Burnham

Comedy

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Bona fide YouTube phenomenon Burnham, still in his early twenties, has been finding larger audiences for the clever songs featured on his episode of Comedy Central Presents and in albums such as the new What. His raps and piano plunking pair intelligent...

Alkaline Trio + Bayside

Alternative rock, Punk & hardcore

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Alkaline Trio is like a trusted brand at the supermarket, but instead of bold flavor or supercharged cleansing power, the Illinois trio delivers hooky, sad-sack pop-punk, year after year after year. It's stirring stuff, assuming you're susceptible to...

XXL Freshmen: Schoolboy Q + Trinidad Jame$ + Joey Bada$$ + Action Bronson + Travi$ Scott + Angel Haze and More

Hip-hop

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• Critics' pick

It’s another typically fantastic lineup from XXL mag, introducing their pick of this year’s “Freshmen,” which this year includes one woman—the big-mouthed, buzzy Native American MC Angel Haze—and a clutch of up-and-coming firebrands with a thing for $...

Tomahawk

Metal, Alternative rock

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• Critics' pick

The Summer Slaughter Tour: The Dillinger Escape Plan + Animals as Leaders + Norma Jean + Periphery + The Ocean + AEON + Cattle Decapitation + Rings of Saturn + Thy Art Is Murder

Rock & roll

• Critics' pick