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22 Best jazz clubs in NYC to hear live music right now
Photograph: courtesy Midnight Blue Photograph: courtesy Midnight Blue We round up the best jazz clubs NYC has to offer including old standbys and cutting-edge jazz favorites. Tuesday April 1 2025 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp Advertising So you’re looking to find a good jazz club in NYC? The city is the home of some of the best jazz in the world and has been since the 1920s.
21 Best Irish Songs for Celebrating St. Patrick's Day 2025
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All right, look: Is it offensive to suggest a rap song by a group of Irish-American knuckleheads that has nothing to do with Ireland or its history and everything to do with getting into drunken bar fights? Perhaps. But if you’ve ever celebrated St. Paddy’s Day in the states, you know that no other cultural product has captured the swaggering, staggering, boot-and-rally energy of the holiday better. And anyway, the track’s signature, incessant squealing noise sure sounds like a bagpipe, doesn’t it?
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Best Super Bowl Halftime Shows Of All Time Ranked, Rihanna to Beyoncé
Photograph: Shutterstock Photograph: Shutterstock Our picks of the best Super Bowl halftime shows of all time—from Kendrick Lamar's iconic performance to Madonna and Shakira Monday February 10 2025 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp Written by: Anna Rahmanan Advertising Whether or not you’re a sports fan, the halftime show is the one thing everyone tunes into on Super Bowl Sunday.
Best Super Bowl Halftime Shows Of All Time Ranked, Usher to Madonna
Photograph: Shutterstock/Anthony Correia Photograph: Shutterstock/Anthony Correia Our favorite Super Bowl halftime shows of all, from Usher to Madonna to Rihanna—we rank the real main event Monday February 12 2024 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp Written by: Anna Rahmanan Advertising The year's most-watched musical performance wasn't at the Grammys; it was the Super Bowl halftime show.
15 Best Irish Songs for Celebrating St. Patrick's Day 2024
Image: Time out/Frederic Legrand COMEO/Shutterstock Image: Time out/Frederic Legrand COMEO/Shutterstock Check out our playlist of the best Irish songs to get you revved up for 2024's St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Wednesday 21 February 2024 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp Written by: Ella Doyle Contributor: Liv Kelly Advertising Love St Patrick’s Day? Well, we’ve got news for you.
Hermeto Pascoal played 2 NYC shows on rare North American tour (review)
Though 86-year-old composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal performs regularly in his home country of Brazil, a North American tour is a rare occurrence. Last week NYC audiences had two chances to see the maestro – at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn on May 25 and Le Poisson Rouge on May 26 – if they could score a ticket. Both shows were sold out, and the LPR date was packed to the brim for the legend and his band.
15 Best Jazz Clubs in NYC to Hear Live Music
Photograph: Shutterstock Photograph: Shutterstock We round up the best jazz clubs NYC has to offer including old standbys and cutting-edge jazz favorites. Wednesday May 17 2023 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp Advertising So you’re looking to find a good jazz club in NYC? The city is the home of some of the best jazz in the world and has been since the 1920s.
11 Best Songs About Snow for Weathering Any Winter Storm
Another day, another three inches of snow? Hereâs a playlist of snow songs to get you through the blizzard. The myth goes that Inuits have 50 words for snow, and the pop canon contains many, many songs about it, too. It’s no wonder – few metereological phenomena can be at once so gorgeous and yet so devastating. On the one hand, songs about snow can conjure of being cozy and warm, snuggled up with a mug of hot cocoa next to a roaring fire as a winter wonderland forms outside.
55 Best Workout Songs for the Ultimate Exercise Playlist
Need some musical motivation? Here’s the ultimate pump-up playlist for adrenalin-fuelled exercise Alright: time to get physical and also musical. Contrary to what the very ripped personal trainer at the gym keeps screaming at you, sometimes the best motivation for working up a sweat isn’t the grunting encouragement of a stranger clutching a protein shake. Often, you just need the right song to get your blood pumping, your body moving and you mind in the zone.
30 Best Birthday Songs for the Ultimate Celebration
We can do so, so much better than another chorus of ‘Happy Birthday’ Apologies to Patty and Mildred J. Hill, but on the list of the best birthday songs, ‘Happy Birthday to You’ is all the way down at the bottom. Sure, it’s claimed to be the most recognisable song in the English language, but it’s repetitive, the melody blows, and it doesn’t slap even a little bit. ‘For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow’ isn’t much better.
The 16 best running songs
To help peel you off the couch and get you moving, we’ve found the very best running songs to keep you going mile after mile in the gym or on the hiking trail. These tracks are ideal whether you run for enjoyment, hit the street to begrudgingly fulfill a resolution or incorporate running as the cardio portion of an energetic workout. Regardless of what’s driving you to pound the pavement, an upbeat playlist is a must.
A Guide to the Discography of British Reggae Architect Dennis Bovell
LISTS A Guide to the Discography of British Reggae Architect Dennis Bovell By Andrew Frisicano · January 26, 2021 It’s impossible to tell the story of British reggae without Dennis Bovell. As a producer, bassist, songwriter, DJ, and recording engineer, he’s been in the studio or on stage from the music’s breakthrough in the early ’70s through its subsequent twists and turns—the boom years and the quiet times.
Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger Annual Thanksgiving Concert --- a whole bunch of Alice’s Restaurant videos
By Andrew Frisicano Folk singer Arlo Guthrie has been associated with Thanksgiving since recording "Alice's Restaurant" in 1967. The song, which starts in an old church owned by his friends Alice and Ray and ends in New York's now-demolished US Army Building on Whitehall St, humorously details how a Thanksgiving Day-littering charge helped Guthrie avoid the draft.
Winter Jazzfest 2020: Ashley Henry, Moses Boyd & more at Le Poisson Rouge (pics, review)
Winter Jazzfest, now in its 16th year, is an institution that’s shown a knack for keeping up with both the city’s changing club landscape and the genre’s latest developments in NYC and elsewhere. Showcasing jazz’s many permutations across multiple venues, the fest’s broad scope goes from Starebaby‘s prog-metal-inspired doom jazz to Robert Glasper‘s hip-hop and R&B workouts, and many digressions in between from free jazz and Afrobeat to jam bands and neo-soul.
Dutch fest Le Guess Who? embraced diversity and the unknown (review, pics)
words by Andrew Frisicano During the closing night of Le Guess Who? Festival 2019 (Nov 7–10), two artists voiced an idea that had been simmering over the long weekend.
SummerStage in Central Park 2019 Guide
Photograph: Courtesy Nick Childers For New York music fans, SummerStage is always one of the highlights of the summer-concerts calendar. The City Parks Foundation series, which celebrates its 34th anniversary this year, is a juggernaut among warm-weather concert presenters, booking everything from classic New York hip-hop artists in outerborough NYC parks to big-name indie-rock bands on the Central Park mainstage.
Alone Together: How Music Festivals Like Big Ears Shift the Focus to Deep Listening
Not many music festivals would take cues from Pauline Oliveros, but at Big Ears in Knoxville, Tennessee last weekend, the late electronic-music pioneer’s presence was everywhere. Her words even made their way to the official merch: “Deep Listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding…” appeared near the wrist of a T-shirt, as to constantly remind the wearer.
The first BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! concert of the summer has been announced
News / Music By Andrew Frisicano Posted: Tuesday January 15 2019, 3:51pm Photograph: Courtesy David Andrako BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! series—a bunch of mostly-free concerts and events in Prospect Park and one of the best things to happen in NYC every summer—has announced the first show of its 2019 season.
Highline Ballroom is closing next month
The churn of NYC nightlife spots continues. Not long after Output, Cielo and Cornelia Street Cafe shut their doors (all at the end of 2018), another casualty has arrived. This time it's Chelsea concert venue and party space Highline Ballroom. While it hasn't been formally announced, organizers like party mainstay Daniel Nardicio have posted that they've been informed that February 8 would be the club's last day.
Governors Ball 2019 lineup brings old friends and new faces
Now that New Year's hangovers are finally starting to fade and we've had time to revisit the best albums of 2018, it's time to start making some plans for the year ahead. Last week Coachella announced its lineup, with Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino and Tame Impala as the headliners. Now the Governors Ball lineup is here. The 2019 Governors Ball Festival (May 31–June 2 at Randalls Island) brings Tyler the Creator, the Strokes and Florence & the Machine in the top slots.
Garage punks Oh Sees unplug for a night of psychedelic serenades
For the bulk of Oh Sees’ 22 years, the band’s unmistakable calling card has been its live show: a throbbing din made of loud, distorted, reverberant guitar, yipped, gutteral vocals and driving rhythms at breakneck tempos. Its music—garage-rock fueled by caffeine and weed and stretched out with heavy riffs and hypnotic drumming—is made for pogoing, stage diving and generally getting soaked in sweat (if not your own, then your neighbors’).
Williamsburg dance club Output is officially closing on New Year’s Eve
Output will be shutting its doors for good at the end of this year. The club made the unexpected announcement on its Facebook citing reasons including "rapidly shifting social trends, unfavorable market conditions and weakening financial outlooks." The venue has been open on the corner of Wythe Ave and North 12th St since 2013, booking techno and house DJs on its two indoor stages and in the summer on its roof.
A Leonard Cohen exhibit is coming to the Jewish Museum
A contemporary art exhibition celebrating the work of musician Leonard Cohen is coming to NYC's Jewish Museum this spring. The show, Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, is set to open April 12, 2019 as part of a three city tour that also includes Copenhagen and San Francisco.
See Eminem perform on top of the Empire State Building tonight
The Los Angeles–based Jimmy Kimmel Live! comes to Brooklyn for five nights this week, broadcasting from BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House. The show has a few surprises up its sleeve beyond just stealing little kids' candy, and midtown passersby got a sneak peek at one of those as the Empire State Building flashed an insane array of colors around 11pm on October 6. “Someone on molly is controlling the Empire State Building,” one Tweeter noted.
The best fall concerts in NYC
We love fall for plenty of reasons: sweater weather, gorgeous foliage, fewer children running amok. But our favorite part about the season is the insane number of shows that come through town. Concerts in NYC this fall feature some promising outdoor concerts, including the debut editions of the Meadows festival and Roots Picnic NYC, as well as plenty of other concerts featuring top indie-rock bands and hip-hop artists. Check out our list of not-to-miss concerts below.
2 Chainz is playing a free BBQ in Brooklyn
Summer is winding down, but there's still a few chances for that late-season BBQ you've been dreaming of. The folks at Genius (FKA Rap Genius) are hosting just such an event on September 8 at its headquarters in Gowanus. The main attraction—besides all the barbecue and refreshments—will be 2 Chainz, rapper and star of Viceland's Most Expensivest. You'll have to ask him how the food stacks up against the $295 cheeseburger he tasted on his show.
A Q train was completely covered in illegal graffiti
A train on the Second Avenue subway line got a fresh coat of paint over the weekend. A member of the Progressive Action Facebook group posted photos early Monday morning of a Q train that was apparently graffiti bombed overnight while parked near the 96th Street Station. It's unknown how long the train was in operation before being pulled out of service for a clean up.
Aretha Franklin tribute shows up at Franklin Street station
With the news that the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit, an outpouring of tributes have sprung up, from obituaries celebrating the singer's staggering career to personal remembrances from Barack Obama to Paul McCartney. Earlier in the week, when news came out about Franklin's failing health, fans got to work setting up an impromptu tribute to the singer at Tribeca's Franklin Street Subway station.
The Backstreet Boys are playing outside Radio City next week
Put it on your calendar, in gel pen with little hearts and squiggly lines: The MTV Video Music Awards coming to Radio City Music Hall on Monday, August 20. Folks like Ariana Grande, Panic! at the Disco, Jennifer Lopez and Shawn Mendes are already set to perform at the event, and now they'll get a boost with a performance by back-in-the-day faves the Backstreet Boys, who'll play outside the venue as part of the pre-show.
Check out the lineup for the free Global Citizen Fest in Central Park
Central Park's Great Lawn has a long history of hosting massive live music events: Think the Simon & Garfunkel reunion show in 1981 and the famous Diana Ross concert in 1983. This year, it will once again serve as the home of the Global Citizen Festival, which gears up for its seventh year of bringing big-name talent to the park for charity.
Panorama Music Festival 2018 Recap: Hits and Misses
The third-annual Panorama Music Festival was a study in extremes: scorching heat and drizzly rain, killer performances and total no-shows. The festival, which inhabits Randalls Island much the same as June's Governors Ball, set up in a noticeable smaller foot print this year, moving from four to three stages. The result was a slimmer lineup but as a result, set times overlapped only minimally.
Panorama Music Festival 2018: What You Need to Know
The three-day Panorama Music Festival brings Janet, the Weeknd and a bunch of highly Instagrammable food to Randalls Island this weekend. You are ready to party, right? The fest's lineup—a mix of contemporary pop, indie-rock, hip-hop and loads of dance music—should provide ample opportunity to move you feet. As usual, there's no telling how the city's unpredictable weather will pan out (it might hail...or not!). Either way, come prepared, and make the most of the weekend by following these tips.
See pictures of Blondie and Liz Phair playing a tiny Brooklyn show
Since 2010, Brooklyn's House of Vans has been a reliable spot to see a wide range of bands, from drone-metal band Sleep to poetic hip-hop outfit Digable Planets, usually for free with R.S.V.P. As the shoe brand announced in May, this is the Greenpoint venue's final summer, in its current home at least. While we won't miss the long lines (and the chance that it might be full by the time you get to the door), it's hard to argue that HoV hasn't brought a lot of good free music to Brooklyn.
Your guide to Panorama Music Festival
Coachella in California is the fest that really kicks the summer music festival season into gear. So it makes sense that its organizers, Goldenvoice, have made NYC Panorama Music Festival its East Coast counterpart. The three-day event, one of the best NYC events in July, competes with, or complements, depending on your perspective, Governors Ball, in the same space that fest inhabits, Randalls Island Park.
14 Best Live Music Venues in New York City
Photograph: Courtesy Luis Nieto DickensElsewhere Photograph: Courtesy Luis Nieto Dickens Savor live music, just the way you like it, with our complete guide to the city's best music venues Thursday October 31 2024 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp Advertising Even as the recording industry struggles, the five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, even Queens—remain packed with live-music venues, from hole-in-the-wall dives to resplendent uptown theaters.
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Paul Rudd and Michael Peña spark but the fun levels get shrunk in a so-so second Ant-stallment. The first Ant-Man movie succeeded largely because of its less-is-more approach: a livewire heist caper stuffed with Honey-I-Shrunk-the-Avenger-style visual gags. It leant hard on Paul Rudd’s guileless charm as criminal-turned-micro-hero Scott Lang and some scene-stealing turns, spearheaded by Michael Peña as Lang’s motor-mouthed buddy Luis.
The best Beyoncé songs of all time
How do you rank the Queen? Most would agree that everything Beyoncé touches turns gold, so counting down the best Beyoncé songs seems like an ambitious (and potentially fruitless) task. Her best love songs track the intricacies of passion with precision and fervor, but can you really place them above the fury of the breakup songs that come after? Maybe you just need a list of the best karaoke songs for your next Beyoncé cosplay night.
A legendary Brooklyn theater is being restored to its original glory
A new old music venue is coming to Brooklyn. LIU Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, located at Flatbush and DeKalb Avenuess in downtown Brooklyn, will start renovations to restore the historic space to a working live music venue (it was previously a multi-purpose space as part of LIU Brooklyn’s campus). The work is set to finish mid-2019.
Paul Simon’s final tour will end in Queens
Paul Simon is currently on the road for what he's calling “Homeward Bound: The Farewell Tour.” After this, the singer says, he'll still be writing tunes and playing the occasional gig but he's done with country-crossing road shows. Until today, the tour was scheduled to end with two shows at Madison Square Garden on September 20 and 21 (buy tickets) with the final date show set as a TBA.
Afropunk Brooklyn 2018 Music Festival Guide
Afropunk Festival is an annual event that takes place in August at Brooklyn's Commodore Barry Park. Over the course of a weekend, Afropunk 2018—NYC's outdoor summer music festival celebrating multicultural arts—hosts a wide array of well-known musical artists (including some of the biggest hip-hop artists), as well as food trucks, live art, a craft market and more. Additionally, Afropunk strives to raise multicultural awareness in New York City with its Activism Row initiative.
This summer's best Grateful Dead-related shows and hangouts in NYC
It's a good time to be a deadhead. Yes, Jerry is still gone but the music of the Grateful Dead is far from forgotten. The band's remaining members are putting in serious work, playing in various combinations, and a seemingly endless stream of tribute bands, themed events and movie screenings mean you'll have quite a few chances to wear your tie-dye in a judgement free zone this summer. Here are the NYC-area highlights.
Staten Island Yankees are becoming the Staten Island Pizza Rats this summer
It's a big week for random, opportunistic rebranding. Just days after the International House of Pancakes proclaimed itself the International House of Burgers, the Staten Island Yankees, the Single A affiliates of the real Yankees, have announced they'll play this season's Saturday home games as the Staten Island Pizza Rats. Fans voted for the moniker as part of a poll way back in 2016, and, only two short years later, the team has made those fans' dreams a reality. See, your vote does matter.
How to see a concert at Jones Beach this summer
With a bay view behind the stage, Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater (as it’s now called) provides one of the area’s most picturesque spots to see a summer concert. Yes, you’ll have to plan ahead to make your way there: The venue is about an hour from Manhattan by car. If you don’t have a friend with wheels, the LIRR is an option, though you’ll need to take a bus (or a ride share) to complete your trip.
17 Best Concerts in NYC in June 2018
There's no shortage of things to do in NYC this summer—sunbathing at NYC parks, checking out summer music festivals, lounging at rooftop pools… The list is endless. But don't let that distract you from these unmissable concerts in NYC! RECOMMENDED: See our guide to concerts in NYC
The best free concerts in NYC this summer
New York is the greatest city in the world for music lovers, and musicians agree; they’ve written many a tune about it. (For proof, just check out our 100 best NYC songs.) Seeing a great show doesn’t have to mean reaching into your wallet, believe it or not. In fact, you can even check out some of the city's best parties without spending a single penny. All it takes is a little planning beforehand—which is where we've got your covered with our top free concerts NYC has to offer.
Peek Inside Rachael Ray Every Day's Food & Music Issue
Food and music are two of life’s great pleasures. Put them together and you’ve got a full-on sensory feast. Check out music festivals with killer food, quirky tour-rider requests, singers who make wine, and more below. Italian composer Gioachino Rossini understood the connection between food and music: His passion for opera (he wrote 39, including The Barber of Seville) was matched only by his devotion to food.
What Rihanna, Adele, the Foo Fighters & More Like to Eat Backstage
Photography by Marcus Nilsson1. Foo FightersCornish game hens2. Steve AokiA large layer cake3. RihannaRegular and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos4. Jack WhiteHomemade guacamole5. Mariah CareyFried chicken6. Action BronsonSeasonal fruit7. Kayne WestSlushie machines8. Ludacris12 assorted Minute Maid juice boxes9. Justin BieberA large pack of Swedish fish10. AdeleMini chocolate bars and European lagers11. Lady GagaRed and white wines and a cheese plate
The full MoMA Warm Up PS1 2018 schedule has arrived
MoMA PS1 Warm Up series—an annual summer concert staple—has always been known for hosting a diverse array of music, but this year's schedule demonstrates a special eclecticism, bringing artists specializing in genres ranging from hardcore punk to classic Detroit techno to pop R&B. This year, the outdoor party takes place in Long Island City across ten Saturdays from June 30 to September 1.
Best Summer Parties NYC has Including Rooftop Bashes
One of the best things to do in summer is attend all the killer summer parties NYC offers. There are a ton of warm-weather bashes during which you can guzzle frozen cocktails and shake your rump until the break of dawn (or, at least, until last call). From world-class DJs playing at rooftop bars and clubs, to a prohibition-era jazz soiree as well as some incredible summer concerts in NYC’s lush parks, there’s truly something for every party goer.
U2 is playing the Apollo Theater next month
U2 is currently in the midst of its gigantic eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour that'll bring the band to arenas around the world. Among those dates, they'll be playing one show at a much more intimate venue. On June 11, the band stops at the Apollo Theater for a concert sponsored by Sirius XM radio.
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