This Week's Music Picks

Monday - 8th

"...the cutting-edge, East Village Opera Company, a six-piece rock band with a string quartet combines classic opera arias with contemporary rock and pop to create a mix of sound that reaches a broad audience..." (@ Bowery Ballroom)

Arlene's Grocery - The GoStation
Mercury Lounge - Shout Out Louds, The Redwalls, Nicole Atkins & The Sea
Northsix - The Atomic Bitchwax, Debris
Pianos - Taylor McFerrin, APSCI, The Infinite Orchestra
Roseland Ballroom - Kings of Leon, Secret Machines, The Helio Sequence
CBGB - The Modern (ex reunion Show), Gracer, Like Yesterday, Fightofyourlife,The Benjamins, Kevin Devine
MSG - Anger Management Tour with Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, D12, G-Unit, Obie Trice, Stat Quo
Rocks Off Boat Cruise - Col Bruce Hampton & Jimmy Herring w/ The Code Talkers
BB Kings - Gin Blossoms
Wingate Field (Brooklyn) - Annual Gospel Night (Hezekiah Walker 20th Anniversary Tribute) (free)
Joes Pub - Richard Thompson solo
Bowery Ballroom - East Village Opera Company
Knitting Factory (Tap Bar) - Wildhorse Ranch Rescue and Knitting Factory present Zero 1 featuring Hal Sparks CD Release Party and Queer as Folk Finale Celebration Zero 1 featuring Hal Sparks

Tuesday - 9th

"Shit... shit... shit. This is the last NYC Hot Snakes show ever before the band's impending break-up (well, "ever" and "break-up" are seemingly relative these days). One of the most exciting live bands is calling it quits in the middle of their rock-me-out prime (yet Stryper still seems to be making albums... life really isn't fair). Since there is now a sense of urgency, it's everyone's duty to go to this show and see firsthand a band whose energy and tightness history shall not forget. If you don't have a ticket, sell your valuables and/or soul to procure one off of Craigslist. Seeing this show is easily worth an eternity in hell." [Oh My Rockness] (@ Bowery Ballroom)

"On her latest Leaf release, Cécile Schott leaves sampling behind entirely, crafting elegant, barely-there compositions from the pure timbres of mostly old instruments." [Pitchfork gives Colleen's new one an 8.0] (@ Joe's Pub)

Bowery Ballroom - Hot Snakes
Mercury Lounge - Madison Strays, Five O'Clock Heroes, New Blood Revival, The Like
Pianos - Innocent Animals, Elk City, Falu, Loaded Dreams
Pianos (upstairs) - Cross Pollination w/ U.V.Avnur, Sonya Cotton
Rothko - Blood Red Sun, The Swedes
The Delancey - The Assault, The Bosch, The Dead Betties, The Anabolics, Captain Evil
The Delancey - The Witnesses, Silent City, Alice Texas, Painting Soldiers
Tonic - William Parker, Guillermo E. Brown & Victor Gama
Trash - The Joy Zipper, The 1 2 3 4, Dutch Kills, Autumn Thieves
CBGB - APHASIA, SHORTIE
Irving Plaza - Paul Anka
Beacon Theatre - Meatloaf
Rocks Off Boat Cruise - Hot Buttered Rum String Band
Highbridge Park - Beatnuts (free)
Queensbridge Park - Blue Magic (free)
Joe's Pub - Colleen, A Hawk and A Hacksaw
Southpaw - Tim Lagasse & Jim Napolitano, Hungry March Band, The Rag and more
MSG - Anger Management Tour with Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, D12, G-Unit, Obie Trice, Stat Quo

DEVO

Wednesday - 10th

"Call it "Duty Now for the Past." On Saturday at the House of Blues, Devo and the sold-out house partied like it was 1979, the year the Spud Boys released their landmark second album, "Duty Now for the Future."" [Reuters] (@ Hammerstein Ballroom)

"Rising rapidly through the ranks of blog-dom in unsigned glory, Clap Your Hands Say YeaH has created a sonic tonic for ears rubbed raw from the mediocrity of over-hyped bands." [Billboard] - free @ South Street Seaport.

CBGB - Against Me!, The Exit, World/Inferno Friendship Society
Hammerstein Ballroom - Devo
Mercury Lounge - The Detroit Cobras (early show)
Mercury Lounge - The Picture, The Upwelling, Army of Me
Sin-e - Cardia, Cordova, Julia Marvel, The 101
South Street Seaport - Devotchka, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (free)
Tonic - Honorary Title
Rocks Off Boat Cruise - Los Straitjackets
BB Kings - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Knitting Factory (tap bar) - Club D'Elf (free)
Jackie Robinson Park - Blue Magic (free)
Rockefeller Park - Little Anthony & The Imperials (free)

Thursday - 11th

"Stevie Wonder will headline a second benefit this Thursday at the Apollo. You are a crackhead if you don't go." [Prefix]

Cake Shop - Asshole Parade, No Omega, Meneguar
Irving Plaza - The Knitters (of X), Phranc
Knitting Factory (Main Space) - Need New Body, Pit Er Pat, Summer Jam Band
Magnetic Field - Voxtrot, The Mugs, The Consultants
Maxwell's - Juliana Hatfield
Rothko - Tsar, Bona Roba, The Current
The Delancey - Soft, Saints and Lovers, Northern Hues, Cartel
CBGB - YA-NE-ZNIYOO, KUKURUDU, JIM TESTA(OF JERSEY BEAT), HETEROGENE, DOWNSHALLOW, CREWMAN NUMBER SIX, HIGH SPEED CHASE, PALE HORSE, DIESEL THEORY, THE SILENCE KIT, END OF OCTOBER
Rocks Off Boat Cruise - Garaj Mahal
Apollo Theater - Stevie Wonder
Marcus Garvey Park - The Last Poets and friends (free)
Central Park Summerstage - Trisha Brown Dance Company
Mercury Lounge - MC Chris, Kenny Muhammad the Human Orchestra, Cracked Out
Mercury Lounge - The Colour (early show)
Southstreet Seaport - Whodini (free)
Pianos (upstairs) - Chin Chin (free)

Friday - 12th

"The Festival of New Trumpet Music was created to celebrate the richness of new music for trumpet in the areas of jazz, improvised, post-classical, electronic and other undefinable worlds of current musical culture. Organized around one of the most unique and personal of instruments, FONT aims to expand awareness of the astoundingly broad range of creative activity involving the trumpet. We place this burst of creativity within the explosion of growth and change happening in the culture at large."

Bowery Ballroom - Smog, Feathers
Cake Shop - Oakley Hall, Fireball, The Woods
CBGB - The Misfits
Magnetic Field - Hotel Lights, Mascott, Mark McAdam
Northsix - Roger Miret and The Disasters, Turbo AC's, Lucky 7's
Rare - Drake Equation, Kalpana, Kite Operations, Jack Tung, United States
* Rothko - Domino, Voxtrot, Au Revoir Simone
The Beach - Monotract, Metalux, Sightings
The Delancey - Electric Turn to Me, Demander, The Silent Years, Elephant Parade
Tommy's Tavern - Pearls for Brass, Rose for Bohdan, Meneguar, Captain Ahab
Rocks Off Boat Cruise - Murphy's Law 2nd annual Jimmy G Birthday Bash
Rocks Off Boat Cruise - Sound of Urchin
BB Kings - The Saw Doctors
Bryant Park (Good Morning America) - Keith Urban
Mercury Lounge - Marwood, Waltham, Valeze, Exit Clov, The Honey Brothers
South Street Seaport - Zon del Barrio (free)
Knitting Factory (main space) - Roger Alan Wade, w/ very special guest Johnny Knoxville, Danger Boots, Mary Prankster
Knitting Factory (old office) - The Cassettes, Drake Equation, Limbs, Secret Lives of the Freemasons
Sin-e - Unsacred Hearts, The Spies, Jared Scharff, DraculaZombieUSA
Tonic - Festival of new trumpet music

Saturday - 13th

"Reports form his current ``Smile'' tour, coming to Boston tomorrow at the Bank of America Pavilion, report a refreshed and surprisingly effervescent artist in the swell of a career rejuvenation. Much of this rejuvenation comes from the unparalleled success of ``Smile,'' the mysterious and mythical aborted Beach Boys' record that finally came out in newly recorded form last year after being scrapped by Wilson in 1967.``Smile'' topped the majority of 2004 year-end ``best-of'' lists, and the ensuing tour was equally triumphant." [Boston Herald] (@ Jones Beach)

Bowery Ballroom - The Pernice Brothers, Andrew Vladeck, Royal Gun
Don Hill's - The Soft Explosions
Glasshouse Gallery - Mazing Vids, Oxford Collapse, Professor Murder
Jones Beach - Brian Wilson
Knitting Factory (Main Space) - Kano, Diplo, Catchdubs, DJ Cameo of BBC1xtra
Knitting Factory (tap bar) - Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Mercury Lounge - Pilot to Gunner, Channels (J Robbins), Nakatomi Plaza, Avec
Northsix - Wires on Fire, The Lot Six, Channing Cope
Pianos - Poparoxi, The Debutants, Giant Drag, The Lil' Hospital
Rockys - Neptune, No Things (ex-Liars), Knife Skills
Secret Location in DUMBO - Elkland, Mobius Band, Charles Bissel (of The Wrens)
Sin-e - Aloke, The Redcoats Are Coming, The Art of Shooting, The Undisputed Heavyweights
Southpaw - Silver Mt. Zion, Jerusalem in my Heart
CBGB - Hawthorne Heights, Funeral For A Friend, Saosin, The Receiving End of Sirens, Hit The Lights
Randalls Island - Warped Tour
SOBs - Gabesonic
PS1 - Lovebug Starski, Jason Blackkat
Central Park Summerstage - Yolanda Adams, A.R.C. Choir, Nuttin’ but Stringz (free) (gospel)
Tonic - Festival of new trumpet music

Sunday - 14th

"Ris Paul Ric is a kinder, gentler version of Chris Paul Richards, the multi-talented guitar/bass/synth aficionado for the D.C. punk act Q and Not U. Now that Q and Not U is about to disappear fondly and noisily into the Dischord Records sunset, Richards is touring with his own compositions, works that he describes as sounding like "the quieter songs off the last two [Q and Not U] records." [SPIN] (@ Knitting Factory0

Cake Shop - The Cassettes, The Bluffs, My Best Fiend, Limbs
CBGB - Gorilla Biscuits, Black Train Jack, Kill Your Idols
CB's Gallery - Gorilla Biscuits simulcast
Knitting Factory (Old Office) - Ris Paul Ric (of Q and not U), Earthen Sea (ex Black Eyes), Daniel Martin-McCormick (ex-Black Eyes)
Knitting Factory (Main Space) - Gena Rowlands Band, John Guilt, Gloria Deluxe
Scenic - Oxford Collapse, Mommy and Daddy, Shelby, The Pages
PNC Bank Arts Center - Motley Crue with Sum 41,The Exies, Silvertide
Central Park Summerstage - Barrington Levy, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, DJ Eddie Stats (free) (reggae)
Tonic - Festival of new trumpet music

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