Your perfect Saturday

Manchester City FC vs. Chelsea FC

• Price band: 3/4

Stateside soccer fans can see two of the top four Premier League teams face off when Yankee Stadium hosts a friendly between Manchester City and Chelsea. Fingers crossed that they pull out some big guns, like City’s Carlos Tévez and Yaya Touré, and

Red Bull Music Academy: 12 Years of DFA

• Price band: 2/4
• Critics choice

The still-fab-after-all-these-years DFA label celebrates a birthday in the rather bizarre setting of the Grand Prospect Hall ("We make your dreams come true!"). Main man James Murphy will be on the decks, of course; he'll be joined by Shit Robot,

Bicycle Fetish Day

• Critics choice
• Free

See how your cycle stacks up in contests for the Best Vintage, Commuter, Handmade, Small Wheel, Mutant and Ugly categories during Bicycle Fetish Day. Riders will perform BMX stunts, while Transportation Alternatives and Times Up! will provide safety

Converge + Meek Is Murder + Trench Foot + Dead Serious

• Price band: 1/4
• Critics choice

It’s rare that the most well-known exponent of a style is also the best, and that’s why Converge stands out. This twentysomething Salem, MA, metalcore quartet is in the benchmark business: Its 2012 LP, All We Love We Leave Behind, found the band

Moon Launch Party

See solar-power-inspired art installations by Madagascar Institute, Iris Lahn and Anthony Castronovo, and hear music by dance-pop group Magic Man, rockers The Dough Rollers and synthy pop act Lapland at this party. Proceeds support Destination

Alphabet City Squats and Gardens Tour

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Neighborhood activists lead this two-hour tour that takes you inside the East Village’s plentiful community gardens, as well as current and former squatter-occupied buildings.

Macy Gray Performs On How Life Is

• Price band: 3/4

Is there any human being who did not shed a tear at "I Try" or "Still" when Macy Gray's phenomenal debut album, On How Life Is, came out in 1999? Well, lucky us, the dazzling, temperamental singer hits NYC this week for two shows at the City Winery

Greg Proops Is the Smartest Man in the World

• Price band: 2/4
• Critics choice

This comic, whom the general public will remember for his pompadour and appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, utilizes a tart tongue and—indeed—a sharp intellect in his "Proopcast." Proops's bantering skills and willingness to shred the feeble

Pandora Boxx: Lick This Boxx!

• Price band: 2/4
• Critics choice

The beloved RuPaul's Drag Race alum Pandora Boxx shares salacious stories in this autobiographical night of music and comedy. For more information, go to spincyclenyc.com.

Amanda Palmer

• Price band: 2/4
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Outrageous, charismatic and oft-grating performer (and former Dresden Doll) Amanda Palmer heads a Mermaid Parade benefit for Coney Island USA. All proceeds will go toward reconstruction efforts and making this year's parade happen, and Palmer will