Because of ongoing renovations at Lucid Culture HQ, our current live music calendar, though full of fun stuff, is vastly less comprehensive than the exhaustive one we would have put together if we’d had the time – hopefully we will be back up to full steam by the time 2010 rolls around. In the meantime if you’re ambitious you can try our NYC clubs and venues page where you can find your favorite batcave and search their schedules yourself, just like we’d be doing if we weren’t so busy with other stuff. There are also plenty of other sites who do live music calendars for NYC: ohmyrockness for indie rock, NYC Bluegrass for country, etc., scroll down a little and look to your right for the blogroll which has all the links. You can also try finding your way around Time Out NY if you’re really, really ambitious. If you’re in a band, it’s time to get wiki: add a comment below and let the world know where/when you’re playing.
Here’s what we have so far – as always, weekly events first followed by some daily listings:
Starting 10/29 Taylor Mac’s epic extravaganza The Lily’s Revenge – a lily goes on a quest to wed a human bride and destroy the God of Nostalgia, approximate duration 5 hours!!! – with music by the incomparable Rachelle Garniez runs through November 22nd at Here Arts Center, 145 6th Ave. at Dominick (across the park, downstairs, west side of the street).
If you can’t make it to this year’s Womex in Copenhagen, you can stream the 2009 Womex album with all kinds of killer world music acts: Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider, Watcha Clan and more.
Sundays there’s a klezmer brunch at City Winery, show starts round 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands.
Sundays from half past noon to 3:30 PM, bluegrass cats Freshly Baked (f.k.a. Graveyard Shift), featuring excellent, incisive fiddle player Diane Stockwell play Nolita House (upstairs over Botanica at 47 E Houston). Free drink with your entree.
The 2009-10 series of organ concerts at St. Thomas Church continues most every Sunday (holidays excepted) at 5:15 sharp, featuring an allstar cast of performers. Concerts continue through the end of May 2010.
Stephane Wrembel plays Sundays at Barbes at 9. The guitarist has few if any equals as an interpreter of Django Reinhardt, but it’s where he takes the gypsy jazz influence in his own remarkably original, psychedelic writing – and what he brings to the Django stuff – that makes all the difference. One of the most interesting players in any style of music, anywhere in the world.
Every Sunday the Ear-Regulars, led by trumpeter Jon Kellso and (frequently) guitarist Matt Munisteri play NYC’s only weekly hot jazz session starting around 8 PM at the Ear Inn on Spring St. Hard to believe, in the city that springboarded the careers of thousands of jazz legends, but true. This is by far the best value in town for marquee-caliber jazz: for the price of a drink and a tip for the band, you can see world-famous players (and brilliant obscure ones) you’d usually have to drop $100 for at some big-ticket room. The material is mostly old-time stuff from the 30s and 40s, but the players (especially Kellso and Munisteri, who have a chemistry that goes back several years) push it into some deliciously unexpected places.
Every Sunday, hip-hop MC Big Zoo hosts the long-running End of the Weak rap showcase at the Pyramid, 9 PM, admission $5 before 10, $7 afterward. This is one of the best places to discover some of the hottest under-the-radar hip-hop talent, both short cameos as well as longer sets from both newcomers and established vets.
Mondays at the Fat Cat the Heun Choi String Quartet play a wide repertoire of chamber music from Bach to Shostakovich starting at 7
Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: you know the material and the players are all first rate. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.
Mondays at the Delancey on the main floor, 9 PMish Botanica frontman and master of menace Paul Wallfisch presents the edgiest weekly music series in town, playfully called Small Beast, an international mix of some of the most intelligent (and frequently darkest) performers passing through town. It’s free and there’s always some kind of drink special or freebee. If you wish Tonic was still open, Wallfisch is keeping the flame alive. He typically opens the night solo on piano, reason enough to put this on your calendar. November artists include Randi Russo, Rachelle Garniez, McGinty & White, Carol Lipnik, Norden Bombsight, And the Wiremen, Bee & Flower and more.
Also Monday nights Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, a boisterous horn-driven 11-piece 1920s/early 30’s band play Sofia’s Restaurant, downstairs at the Edison Hotel, 221 West 46th Street between Broadway & 8th Ave., 3 sets from 8 to 11, surprisingly cheap $15 cover plus $15 minimum considering what you’re getting. Even before the Flying Neutrinos or the Moonlighters, multi-instrumentalist Giordano was pioneering the oldtimey sound in New York; his long-running residency at the old Cajun on lower 8th Ave. is legendary. He also gets a ton of film work (Giordano wrote the satirical number that Willie Nelson famously sang in Wag the Dog).
Also Mondays the free reggae show that used to be held at Rehab has gravitated to SOB’s, 9ish, free w/rsvp to rsvp@jamrockmagazine.com, 21 and over.
Also Mondays in November the Barbes house band, Chicha Libre plays there starting around 9:30. They’ve singlehandedly resurrected an amazing subgenre, chicha, which was popular in the Peruvian Amazon in the late 60s and early 70s. With electric accordion, cuatro, surf guitar and a boisterous rhythm section, their mix of obscure classics and originals is one of the funnest, most danceable things you’ll witness this year. Perhaps not so strangely, they sound a lot like Finnish surf rockers Laika and the Cosmonauts in their most imaginative moments.
Also Mondays in November Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play Union Pool in Williamsburg, two sets starting around 11 PM. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically astute, frequently salacious original gospel songs and is one of the great live performers of our time. Moist Paula from the late, great Moisturizer is the lead soloist on baritone sax.
Mondays at 7 PM in November Pierre de Gaillande, frontman of estimable art-rockers Melomane and the Snow plays the music of Georges Brassens in his own English translations at Barbes. Brassens was a member of the French Resistance, an anarchist, a furiously lyrical, lecherous, somewhat louche presence and one hell of a songwriter. Here’s a way to get to know a French icon who deserves to better known outside his native land. Gaillande will be releasing an album of Brassens songs on Barbes records in 2010.
The second and fourth Tuesday of the month there are free organ recitals at half past noon at Central Synagogue, Lexington Ave. at 55th., an exciting list of first-class performers in a sonically gorgeous space, a great way to spend your lunch break if you work in the neighborhood.
Tuesdays the boisterous and very popular brass-heavy gypsy jazz band Slavic Soul Party plays Barbes at 9. Get here as soon as you can as the opening act is usually popular as well.
Tuesdays inNovember the Dred Scott Trio play astonishingly smart, dark piano jazz at the Rockwood at midnight.
Every Wednesday, Michael Arenella & the Dreamland Dance Band play sly yet boisterous oldtimey hot jazz at the Clover Club, 210 Smith St. (Butler/Baltic) in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, 8:30 -10:30 PM.
Every Wednesday in November, Will Scott and drummer Wylie Wirth play mesmerizing, hypnotic, completely authentic Mississippi hill country blues along with Scott’s own melodic, tuneful blues originals at 68 Jay St. Bar in Dumbo, starting around 8:30 PM. Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and Asie Payton are sadly gone but Scott continues their tradition of music that is as danceable as it is trance-inducing, and does his influences justice.
Sonia’s Party, who blend a bewitching oldschool Motown sound with a vintage Memphis groove play a free show every Wednesday in November at 11 PM at Shrine uptown
Fridays there’s live Mediterranean music – Greek- Arabic, Turkish Armenian, Israeli fusion with Mike Stoupakis, Christos Zavolas, Sofia on on vocals, Elias Sarkar-oud/vocals, Kostas Konstantinou – drums, plus bellydancers at Lafayette Grill & Bar, 54 Franklin St., downtown,$20 cover, 10ish, free after 1 AM.
11/2 noir outsider anthem genius Randi Russo followed by Botanica frontman Paul Wallfisch at Small Beast at the Delancey 8:30 PM
11/4 Gil Scott-Heron at BB King’s 8 PM $30 adv tix rec.
11/4 the increasingly Tom Waitsish, smartly literate, funny Maynard & the Musties at Lakeside 9 PM
11/5, 8 PM the International Pop Overthrow at Kenny’s Castaways, a killer lineup:
8:00 Edward Rogers & Pete Kennedy (with Ward White)
8:30 Maura Kennedy
9:00 George Usher
9:30 The Doughboys
10:00 Mission 5
10:30 Wendy lp
11:00 The Pretty Faces
11/5 Americana chanteuse Rebecca Turner at Banjo Jim’s 7 PM
11/5 jazz guitar legend Gene Bertoncini at the Jazz Standard, $25, sets 7:30/9:30, reservations highly recommended.
11/5 new wave legend Ellen Foley at Lakeside 9 PM.
11/5 lush, atmospheric art-rockers the Quavers at Barbes at 8 followed by the inscrutable, unpredictably, virtuosic, hilarious, charismatic keyboardist/chanteuse/dramatist Rachelle Garniez at 10 PM.
11/6, 7 PM at Banjo Jim’s Charlene and Mo of Spanking Charlene play acoustic
11/6-8 the haunting Vijay Iyer Piano Trio at the Jazz Standard, sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $30 ($25 Sunday), adv tix. highly recommended.
11/6 smart female-fronted psychedelic rock trio Devi at their new private space in Jersey City, details TK, free
11/6 Simon & the Bar Sinisters at Lakeside 10:15ish
11/6, 7 PM a rare chance at le Poisson Rouge to see dissident rockers from behind the former Iron Curtain: Psí Vojáci (from the Czech Republic), Bez Ladu a Skladu from Slovakia, Timpuri Noi (from Romania). The 11/7 show, starting at 11 pm, will feature Kontroll Csoport (from Hungary) and legendary Polish punks Dezerter. $15 dirt cheap cover for each night.
11/7 2:30 (two thirty) PM the catchy Wilco-meets-the-Clash Brixton Riot at Kenny’s Castaways
11/7, 7 PM at Banjo Jim’s dark garage rocker Lorraine Leckie and Her Demons followed at 9 by alt-country legend Zane Campbell
11/7, 8 PM menacing, tuneful noir rockers Darren Gaines & the Key Party and deliriously fun Japanese gypsy band Kagero at the Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street (5th/Madison), all ages, $10, free wine bar (21+)
11/7, 8 PM Cudzoo & the Faggettes at Ars Nova Theatre, 54th & 10th Ave., perfect venue for these filthy theatrical rock sirens-slash-retro 60s pop satirists. They promise can’t-miss new video footage at this one…hmmm…! They’re also at Bar Matchless in Williamsburg on Dec 3.
11/7 9 PM slinky, haunting, amazing Egyptian film music revivalists Zikrayat at Alwan for the Arts, $15 and worth it
11/7, 9 PM the dark haunting hypnotic powerhouse Katie Elevitch (back from another triumphant European tour) downstairs at her M’Sonic Sessions series at the The Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 317 Clermont Avenue, 3rd Floor, Fort Greene
11/7 the ferociously good, intense, Radio Birdman-esque punk/garage rockers the Mess Around 9 PM at Don Pedro’s
11/7 the amusing, laid-back Americana duo Two Man Gentlemen Band at the Jalopy, 9ish
11/8 a killer Americana afternoon starting at 3 PM at Spikehill with smart, catchy bluegrass innovators Frankenpine, the oldschool honkytonking Newton Gang, the soaring Alana Amram & the Rough Gems and the funniest man in country music, Uncle Leon & the Alibis headlining around 5. And then Nashville gothic monsters Ninth House at 8!
11/8, 7 PM at Barbes classical violist Jennifer Stumm playing rare and obscure pieces by the first viola virtuoso Alessandro Rolla
11/8 powerpop powerhouse Patti Rothberg at Otto’s, 11 PM with her excellent band.
11/9, 8:30 PM at Banjo Jim’s lead guitarist to the stars of the underground, Homeboy Steve Antonakos.
11/9 Botanica frontman Paul Wallfisch followed by haunting, anthemic art-rockers Norden Bombsight at Small Beast at the Delancey 9 PM
11/10, 8 PM at BB King’s Capleton, Cocoa Tea and Anthony B $30 adv tic rec.
11/10 smoove oldschool hip-hop with Ice Cube’s little bro Warren G at Bowery Ballroom, 9ish, $20 gen adm
11/11 southwestern gothic rocker Tom Shaner at Lakeside 9 PM.
11/12 deviously virtuosic, exuberant mostly-female klezmer rockers Isle of Klezbos at 7PM at Holy Apostles Church, 296 Ninth Ave at 28th St, $10
11/12-15 the Claudia Acuna Quintet at the Jazz Standard, sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 ($30 Fri-Sat). Soulful, worldly wise, socially aware Chilean-American jazz chanteuse with an astonishingly powerful band behind her – guitarist Juancho Herrera is a ferocious, intense player but the rest of the band is inspired as well.
11/12 Linda Draper, soulful ex-choirgirl and literate lyricist par excellence whose new cd Bridge & Tunnel is one of the year’s best – plays the National Underground, 8 PM.
11/12, 10 PM Spanglish Fly mixes up mambo and Motown to make Latin soul in the Joe Cuba boogaloo tradition at Camaradas El Barrio, 2241 1st Ave (115th St.) dirt cheap, $5 – free boogaloo lessons for neophytes.
11/12, 10 PM the Bay Area’s best gypsy band, Gaucho plays a rare NYC date at Barbes.
11/13, 8 PM at Barbes amazing oud player/educator/scholar Mavrothi Kontanis plays with his band (who just backed another amazing musician, Iranian-American singer Monika Jalili, on her new cd), followed at 10 by Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts.
11/13, 8 PM at the Bell House, Brooklyn’s own forro/ska/reggae/funk baccchanal Nation Beat open the show followed by the genre-bending, gypsyish latin hellraisers Rupa & The April Fishes
11/13 “Brooklyn’s #1 regressive rock act”, hilarious metal parody band Mighty High’s 7″ release show at Hank’s, 9ish.
11/13, 9 PM smart, metaphorical Kentucky expat/Americana chanteuse Kirsten Williams‘ full-band cd release show for her new one Yesterday’s Waves at Kenny’s Castaways.
11/13, 10 PM fiery, guitar-driven, Steve Earle-ish highway rockers the Sloe Guns at the National Underground
11/13, midnight, powerhouse dark lyrical rocker Daniel Bernstein and the Everybody Knows‘ cd release show (everybody gets a freebee) at the Brooklyn Tea Party, 175 Stockholm Street, Buzzer 303, Bushwick, Brooklyn (btw. Wilson/Knickerbocker, M to Central Ave). Brand new band from the past features Scott Loving on electric guitar, Strictly Beats on drums, Scott Fragala on bass and Erin Regan on vocals.
11/14, 7:30 PM a doublebill by arguably the two best Americana chanteuses in the business, Amy Allison and Laura Cantrell at the 92Y Tribeca, $15
11/14 an amazing doublebill at Barbes starting at 8 with the devious and lushly romantic French chanson stylings of les Chauds Lapins and continuing with the careening 1920s hot jazz juggernaut Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra at 10ish.
11/14 Greek party hellraisers Magges – who do a killer version of the original Misirlou – at Mehanata, 10 PM free before 10:30
11/14, 10ish at Teneleven ornate, upbeat cello rockers Snazz Mammoth play one of those powdered wiggie Rubulad-ish parties $5 cover
11/14 Shonen Knife at Maxwell’s, 10ish, $12 adv tix very highly recommended; 11/17 they’re at the Brooklyn Bowl.
11/14 the Brooklyn What at Bar Matchless in Williamsburg 9ish
11/14 sly baritone crooner and country hellraiser (and ferociously good lead guitarist) Jack Grace at Rodeo Bar, 11:30 PM
11/15, 3 (three) PM the Antara Ensemble plays at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 2065 Fifth Avenue at 127th Street: Leos Janácek’s Idyll for String Orchestra, W. A. Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major, K. 299, Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins & Cello in D minor, and the World Premiere of Richard Spencer’s Fantasie on a Hymn for Flute & String Orchestra. Tix $25/$20 stud/srs.
11/15, 7:30 PM fiery original rockabilly/surf trio Catspaw – whose signature song Southbound Line ranks high on our list of the 666 best songs of alltime – play Otto’s, free.
11/15, 9ish at SOB’s Zulu Nation presents the 35th Anniversary of Hip-Hop Culture: Afrika Bambaataa, Naughty By Nature, Positive K, Melle Mel, Large Professor, Craig G, Shaheim, Dana Dane, $25 adv tix
11/16 the queen of phantasmagoria, Carol Lipnik and Spookarama at Small Beast at the Delancey, 9 PM.
11/18 harmony-driven, rousingly retro country crew the Sweetback Sisters at Rodeo Bar, 10:30 PM
11/19 the incomparable, inscrutable, multistylistic Jenifer Jackson at the Rockwood at 8.
11/19, 10 PM multistylistic jazz/gypsy/Americana guitar genius Matt Munisteri at Barbes.
11/19 the ferocious Balkan brass juggernaut Raya Brass Band play Local 268 (the old Meow Mix space) on Houston at Suffolk, 10ish, free.
11/20, 7 PM the comedic but equally virtuosic Erin & Her Cello at the Rockwood. She’s also there a week later, 11/27 also at 7.
11/20, 8 PM jangly Boston rockers Aloud and then moody, haunting groove/downtempo slinks El Jezel at Spikehill
11/20 surf music classics and obscurities with the Boss Guitars at Lakeside 11 PM
11/20 the Brooklyn What – whose ferocious and funny debut cd is our pick for best album of 2009 – at Trash Bar 11 PM
11/21 fiery Irish American rock legends Black 47 at Connolly’s, also 11/28, 12/5, 12/12, and New Years Eve
11/21, 8 PM Portuguese fado legend Mariza at Carnegie Hall with special guests Afro-Peruvian vocalist Eva Ayllón and Afro-Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba $25 tix available.
11/21 janglepop-meister Richard Barone of the Bongos with his band at Drom, 8:30 PM, adv tix rec.
11/21, 8 PM The New York Chamber Players’ fundraiser at Bechstein Concert Hall, 207 West 58th St., music by Mozart, feat. piano virtuoso Karine Poghosyan
11/21 ferociously haunting, danceable pan-Balkan rockers Ansambl Mastika at Shrine uptown, 8 PM
11/21 Lights and Alana Amram & the Rough Gems (watch Alana on bass and then guitar – or vice versa) at Union Pool
11/21 Spanking Charlene – NYC’s answer t0 X - plays their own birthday party show at Lakeside 11 PM
11/22, 3 (three) PM the world-class Greenwich Village Orchestra plays Dvorak’s New World Symphony at Washington Irving Auditorium, cattycorner from Irving Plaza, $20 for a show that would probably cost you a hundred bucks at Carnegie Hall.
11/22, 9 PM rousing oldschool harmony-driven bluegrass behemoth the NYCity Slickers play Banjo Jim’s.
11/23 three of the most powerful sirens in any style of music: grand guignol powerhouse Vera Beren, retro keyboard/vocal genius Rachelle Garniez – whose previous two albums are the #2 and #3 cd’s of the decade according to our Best Songs of the Zeros list – and the phantasmagorical Carol Lipnik at Small Beast at the Delancey. Show starts at 9 with Lipnik followed by Garniez, then the dazzlingly lyrical retro 60s psychedelic pop band McGinty & White at 10:30, and then Beren headlining.
11/24 Americana guitar genius Robbie Fulks in one of his frequent, sparkling duo shows with another first-class player, violinist Jenny Scheinman at Barbes at 7.
11/24-25 and 11/27-29 the Maria Schneider Orchestra makes a welcome appearance at the Jazz Standard, sets 7:30/9:30, tix $35 but no minimum, adv tix very highly recommended.
11/25, 7 PM, moody and sultry (and hilarious) Americana ukulele chanteuse Kelli Rae Powell – whose new album is one of the year’s four or five best – plays at the Rockwood; Sonia’s Party follows eventually at 11 with their ecstatic original take on classic soul and Motown.
11/27, 7 PM Johnny Vignault and frontman Michael Chandler of the Lost Crusaders are joined by Dale Beavers of the Compulsive Gamblers for a happy hour show at Lakeside.
11/27 for those who stayed in town, a killer Balkan brass show with Raya Brass Band at Barbes, 10 PM.
11/27 a rare live show by legendary mod punk Dog Show frontman Jerome O’Brien at Lakeside 11 PM
11/28, 7 (seven) PM sophisticated, multistylistic Americana chanteuse Julia Haltigan plays the Rockwood.
11/28 rustic harmony-driven country band Reckon So at Banjo Jim’s, 8 PM.
11/28 southwestern gothic rocker Tom Shaner at Lakeside 11 PM
11/29 haunting Balkan-tinged tunes with trumpeter Ben Holmes and his trio at Barbes, 7ish.
11/30 the hauntingly adrenalizing Balkan Raya Brass Band 6 PM-ish outside Lincoln Center – follow your ears or the band’s tweets.
11/30 a killer jazz night at Spikehill in Williamsburg starting at 8 with the Adam Larson Project featuring supersonic, fiery alto cat Jaleel Shaw, then the innovative, psychedelic, dubwise Justin Rothberg Trio, then ska jazz sax legend Dave Hillyard in one of his occasional trio shows.
11/30, starting 8:30ish the artsy Pharmacy & Gardens, then the master of menace, Botanica frontman Paul Wallfisch at the keys, the twangy southwestern gothic of And the Wiremen and then atmospheric noir soundtrack songs with Bee & Flower at 11ish at Small Beast at the Delancey.
12/1-2 trumpet powerhouse Ingrid Jensen with a quintet and then quartet at Jazz Standard, $20, sets 7:30/9:30 PM
12/3-6 the Chano Domínguez Flamenco Quintet including vox and dancer at the Jazz Standard, $30, sets 7:30/9:30 PM. At the Spanish jazz festival here last spring the pianist was haunting, even transcendent – this is something you shouldn’t miss.
12/3, 8 PM, a very rare worthwhile evening of songwriters in the round: soulful, metaphorical Kentucky expat Kirsten Williams, genius bassist Carolann Solebello (of Red Molly), powerful and incorrigibly extroverted white soul sister Meg Braun and the irrepressible, deviously funny, brilliantly tuneful Sharon Goldman (half of the excellent Sweet Bitters) at St John’s Lutheran Church, 81 Christopher St (just west of 7th Ave), free w/sugg. don.
12/4, 8 PM the NY Chamber Players play Beethloven’s 6th Symphony and Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No 2 with pianist Luigi Fracasso at Christ & St.Stephen Church, 122 W 69th St.
12/4 dark, somewhat Waits-ish alt-country rockers Maynard & the Musties at Sidewalk 9 PM
12/4 secular gospel hellraisers the Lost Crusaders at Lakeside 7:30ish
12/6 otherworldly Italian percussionist/choreographer Alessandra Belloni leads her group in a performance of her piece Voyage of the Black Madonna at St. Mary’s Church, 126th St. just west of Amsterdam, take any train to 125th St., $10 sugg. don.
12/7 smartly lyrical noir rocker Darren Gaines, ex-Thalia Zedek keyboardist MG Lederman, ferociously charismatic ghoulabilly/LES noir glam songwriter Reid Paley and Botanica’s Paul Wallfisch at Small Beast at the Delancey, 8:30ish.
12/8, 7:30/9:30 PM, legendary jazz percussionist/bandleader Chico Hamilton at the Jazz Gallery where he’ll be performing tracks off of his latest album Twelve Tones of Love (recently reviewed here, very favorably) with his quintet Euphoria.
12/9 a repeat of the transcendent trifecta recently at Small Beast at the Delancey, this time around moved to Galapagos in Dumbo: Strange Girls Sing featuring the phantasmagorical Carol Lipnik (whose ongoing collaboration with John Kelly just gets more and more intense), another equally otherworldly water nymph, Rachelle Garniez (whose two most recent albums are on the top ten in our Best Albums of the Decade list) and the “white Eartha Kitt” AKA noir cabaret legend Little Annie Bandez, show starts at 8:30 sharp.
12/10 ,1 PM at Trinity Church a classical duo show with Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir, cello and Alexandra Joan, piano, free.
12/10–12/13 the Tango Meets Jazz Festival with the Pablo Ziegler Quartet with special guests Miguel Zenon (12/10 & 12/11) and David Sanchez (12/12 & 12/13) at the Jazz Standard, $30, sets 7:30/9:30 PM
12/11 Debo Band play Ethiopian jazz followed by the ecstatically powerful pan-Balkan rockers Ansambl Mastika and their “New Balkan Uproar” at Drom, 8 PM, adv tix $10 very highly rec.
12/11 surf music classics and obscurities with the Boss Guitars at Lakeside 11 PM
12/12 a real blast from the past, 80s new wave rockers That Petrol Emotion at the Bell House, 7:30 PM, $17 adv tix rec.
12/12 David “Solid” Gould & the Temple Rockers (feat. ex-John’s Brown Body members) play hypnotic dub and Balkan-inflected roots reggae at Drom, $15. 10 PM
12/12 NYC’s answer to X, Spanking Charlene at Lakeside 11 PM.
12/13 fiery, multistylistic Canadian gypsy/klezmer rockers Beyond the Pale play klezmer brunch at City Winery, 11:30ish. They’re also at the World Financial Center plaza at half past noon on 12/14 in case you work in the neighborhood.
12/16 catchy, lush, anthemic janglerockers the Somebodies at Lakeside 9:30ish
12/17 janglemeister guitarist Chris Erikson & the Wayward Puritans at Lakeside 9:30ish
12/18 punk/new wave legends Band of Outsiders at Lakeside 10 PM
12/19 virtuoso punk/rockabilly/surf guitarist Simon & the Bar Sinisters at Lakeside 10:15ish.
12/21, 9:30 PM subtly haunting, wickedly lyrical, amusing pianist/songwriter Lee Feldman plays Joe’s Pub on something of a collaborative doublebill with jazzcat and Elvis Costello fave Deidre Rodman and others.
12/22–12/23 the Edmar Castaneda Trio plus Special Guest Joe Locke at the Jazz Standard. You want eclectic and innovative? Can’t miss with this crew: Colombian harp, trombone, drums and vibes, $20 sets 7:30/9:30 PM
12/31 Tammy Faye Starlite’s sick Stones cover band the Mike Hunt Band at Lakeside 11 PM
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