This Week's Music Picks

Monday - 22nd

You've got two more chances to see Sufjan Stevens at Bowery Ballroom. Tonight's your last chance to see Bunky open.

"It Wasn't Me." - Shaggy @ Wingate Field

Not quite as legendary as Gorilla Biscuits who made history last week by reuniting for a CBGB benefit show, but tickets to Kid Dynamite's punk rock reunion tonight at the same small club are almost as in demand. (Kid Dynamite @ CBGB)

Arlene's Grocery - The GoStation
Bowery Ballroom - Sufjan Stevens, Bunky, Castanets
Knitting Factory (Main Space) - Bravo Silva, Raising the Fawn, Langhorne Slim, Doveman
CBGB - Kid Dynamite, Greyarea
Knitting Factory (early show) - Charlie Sexton
Wingate Field (brooklyn) - The Carlos Lezama Caribbean Music Carnival (The Mighty Sparrow - the king of calypso meets Shaggy) (free)

Tuesday - 23rd

Last chance for Sufjan. Don't miss it. (@ Bowery Ballroom)

Bowery Ballroom - Sufjan Stevens, Danielson Famile, Half-Handed Cloud
Maxwell's - Vendetta Red, Bayside
Pianos - Pine*am, NAO Superfortress, Pacifica
Pianos (upstairs) - Cross Pollination w/ Todd Martin & Derek James
Rothko - Cousin, Ladell McLin, Low Flying Jets
Tonic - Hula, Downriver, Jaggery
Jones Beach - GIGANTOUR Featuring Megadeth & Dream Theater with Fear Factory , Dillinger Escape Plan , Nevermore, Life of Agony
PNC Bank Arts Center - The Allman Brothers Band with moe
Continental Airlines Arena - System of a Down with The Mars Volta, Bad Acid Trip
CBGB - SEEMLESS (ex Killswitch engage & Shadows fall), BLINDSIDE, FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE, (exreach454) , LIKE YESTERDAY & more Tba and special guest jam
Mercury Lounge - Zambri, L.P., TRACY BONHAM, Katy Mae
Queensbridge Park - Kurtis Blow (free)

Wednesday - 24th

The Howl! Festival is underway. The shows at Joe's Pub are special this week for that reason. Tonight: Raul Malo followed by Penny Arcade (separate shows)

Irving Plaza - Rise Against with From Autumn to Ashes, Comeback Kid, The Loved Ones
Mercury Lounge - Kinski, The Big Sleep, The Most Serene Republic
Northsix (Downstairs) - Gospel (ex-Helen of Troy), Wow, Owls!, Reds, Drugs
Scenic - Morricone Youth, Narchitect
Pianos - Pop Wheelies, Group Sounds, The Glass, Siwat, Misamotu
South Street Seaport - The Double, Tomorrow's Friend (free)
The Delancey - Milk for Cats, Hero Pattern, Gym Class, Dayglow, The Pill, The New Spain
Tommy's Tavern - Wooden Wand and The Vanishing Voice, The Skaters, Davenport
Tonic - Blackfire Revelation, Dirty Excuse
Trash - AIREOKE, Murder Your Darlings, Eve to Adam
PNC Bank Arts Center - Gigantour featuring Megadeth & Dream Theater with Fear Factory, Dillinger Escape Plan, Nevermore, Life of Agony
Jones Beach - Allman Brothers Band with moe
Joe's Pub - Raul Malo (acoustic)
Joe's Pub - Penny Arcade

Thursday - 25th

Thursday on a Thursday. It's not a reunion, and they're not quite legendary, but since finding mainstream fame with their last album, it's rare for the opportunity to catch this band in a small venue (not to mention we can't remember the last time they played at all). It's even rarer for the venue to be CBGB. (Thurday @ CBGB)

"The curious world of Mr. Dickinson, unfolds. Criminally overlooked, his band The Catherine Wheel, is inarguably one of the most influential and yet invisible bands in history. They quietly unleashed 6 brilliant albums all an artistic development of the last and all reflecting a musical force that could crush any band that dared share a stage - ask Radiohead or The Smashing Pumpkins about that." [Joe's Pub] (Rob Dickinson @ Joe's Pub)

The show at Sin-e looks especially interesting tonight. After reading good reviews, COMA, The Diggs, and Autodrone are all bands on our to-see list. Here they all are on one bill.

Bowery Ballroom - Jesse Malin, Marah, Psychic Drive
Mercury Lounge - Mosquitos, Palomar, Ponce De Leon, Jessie Murphy
Northsix - Smokewagon, Blackfire Revelation, Red Ship Desert
Sin-e - COMA., The Diggs, Autodrone, John Powers
Southpaw - Ariel Aparicio, Hello Nurse
The Delancey - Vietnam, Soft, Cause for Applause, The Young Lords
Tonic - El Alto, The Glaciers, Christopher Ziter (of Essex Green), Apothecary Hymns
PNC Bank Arts Center - Avril Lavigne with Gavin DeGraw & Butch Walker
Jones Beach - Meat Loaf with Special Guest John Waite
Irving plaza - Desmond Dekker
CBGB - THURSDAY, WE'RE ALL BROKEN, BLACKOUT PACK
Pianos - AMP3 Presents: All AMPed Up w/ The WMDs, Now On, Imani Coppola, Alice Smith
Joe's Pub - Rob Dickinson (of Catherine Wheel), Ian Love
Southpaw - ESME, ARIEL APARICIO, and the Hired Guns, Queen V, plus more tba.
South Street Seaport - Sugar Hill Gang (free)

Friday - 26th

The sold-out show of the week is the French Kiss Records showcase at Bowery Ballroom tonight. Les Savy Fav headline the concert that includes one of our favorite indie rock bands you can mosh to: Thunderbirds Are Now!. And after hearing the MP3 at their site, and reading good press from trusted sources, we're even more psyched to see opener Rahim. There's a Saturday Night Live comedian on the bill too. (@ Bowery Ballroom)

Over at Mercury Lounge, it's lets see if Pitchfork knows what they're talking about night with the newly-hot band Wilderness headlining the show. Brooklyn-based Oxford Collapse goes on right before them. Read their recent tour journal at Prefix.

Joe's Pub - Dayna Kurtz, Heather Greene
Bowery Ballroom - Les Savy Fav, Fred Armisen, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Rahim
Cake Shop - Parts and Labor, Big Bear, Collin Cunningham (of Breaker! Breaker!)
CBGB - DEAD BOYS, FLIPPER, PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES, ADRENALIN O.D. , FURIOUS GEORGE
Flight of the Buffalo - Hospitals, Burmese (ex-Erase Errata), Necking, More Teeth
Mercury Lounge - Wilderness, Oxford Collapse, Psychic Ills, Night Rally
Northsix - Breather Resist, Red Sparowes, Zombi
Pianos - P*S*K, Lampa, Ben LaVin, Speedspeedspeed, The Batterie
Rothko - Bobby Conn, The Holy Ghost, The Parlour Scouts
Sin-e - Liam and Me, Coastal Drag, The Beatings, Strikes Again, The Current
South Street Seaport - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Tigers & Monkeys (free)
Tonic - Monolake, Safety Scissors, Smartypants & Local Fields, David Last
Tonic - Windsor For The Derby, Early Day Miners
Trash - Heroine Sheiks, Adolf Satan, Saint Bastard, Int'l Shades, War Slut
Jones Beach - Daryl Hall & John Oates with Todd Rundgren
PNC Bank Arts Center - Journey
Bryant Park (Good Morning America) - Avril Lavigne

Saturday - 27th

Everyone's talking about Levy (Verbose Coma for instance). Download three songs on their website. They headline Mercury Lounge tonight.

Bowery Ballroom (benefit for ABC No Rio) - World/Inferno Friendship Society, Hiretsukan, The Stockyard Stoics, God Is My Co-Pilot
Cake Shop - The Victoria Lucas, Jah Division, Centipede D'Est
CBGB - DEAD BOYS, ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE, NIHILISTICS, SFA, STIMULATORS
Glasshouse Gallery - Good Morning (Eric Emm from Don Cab/Storm&Stress), Athletic Automation (ex Arab on Radar), Made in Mexico, Plate Tectonics, Mouthus
Knitting Factory (Tap Bar) - Music For Robots presents Pela, Stiffed, APSCI, My Best Fiend
Maxwell's - Jimmy Gnecco (of Ours)
Northsix - Of Montreal, The Management
Rothko - Mathematics, Jesse Mann & Wize
Scenic - The Malarkies, Oceanographer, Kristin Mueller
Tonic - La Laque, Pas/Cal, The Teeth
Trash - GSX, Federale, Dirty Rainbow, Stylofone, The Yards
Jones Beach - Avril Lavigne with Gavin DeGraw and Butch Walker
PNC Bank Arts Center - Meat Loaf with Special Guest John Waite
Joe's Pub - Hungry March Band
Mercury Lounge - Barra Libre, LEVY, WREST, National Eye, Loaded Dreams
PS1 - Monolake, Phil Smart, Nikola Baytala

Sunday - 28th

"Who would be in your ultimate music supergroup, your all-star Olympic team of rock?
Marc Ribot on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass, Jim Keltner on drums, Abdullah Ibrahim on piano, Garth Hudson on organ, fronted by Billie Holiday, Chan Marshall, or Al Green." [says Doveman in their Gothamist interview] (Mark Ribot is at Tonic tonight)

Knitting Factory (Old Office) - Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys, Fa She, Horns of Happiness
Maxwell's - Armor for Sleep
Northsix - Make Believe (Joan of Arc), Aloha, The Narrator
Jones Beach - Journey
CBGB - SHAM 69, FLIPPER, CHEETAH CHROME & THE BLACK ANGELS, WALTER LURE(OF THE HEARTBREAKERS)W/THE WALDOS, SUICIDE KINGS
Joe's Pub - Lou Reed, Keren Ann, Nico Muhly, and more (special HOWL event)
Knitting Factory (Tap Bar) - HIP HOP 101 ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY w/ Tahir, P.O.W., Equilibrium, Symantix, Mr. Complex, Farah Burns, Billy Bathgate, Shabaam Sahdeeq, A-Alikes
Tonic - The Young Philadelphians featuring Marc Ribot & Gerard Little

What did we miss?