Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of south-of-the-border-style bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.
Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.
Mondays in June, 8 PM erudite, fascinating jazz guitar maven,Matt Munisteri plays “guitar for lovers” at the Jalopy Tavern, free
Mondays in June at 8/10:30 PM irrepressibly fun, female-fronted, brassy cosmopolitan swing band the Hot Sardines at the Blue Note, $15 standing room avail
Also Monday and Tuesday nights Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, a boisterous horn-driven 11-piece 1920s/early 30’s band play Iguana, 240 W. 54th St ( 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).
Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $30 per set plus drink minimum.
Mondays at 10 noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood
Also Mondays in June Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play Union Pool in Williamsburg, two sets starting at 10:30 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, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests.
Mondays in June at midnight wild noir piano jazz with the Dred Scott Trio back at their old spot, the small room at the Rockwood.
Tuesdays in June, 7 PM the great unsung hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin leads his Zebtet at the Fat Cat
Tuesdays in June, 8:30 PM the George Gee Swing Orchestra play surprising new arrangements of old big band standards at Swing 46, 349 W 46th St, $15
Tuesdays in June, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at 9 PM at Barbes. Get there as soon as you can as they’re very popular. $10 cover.
Wednesdays starting June 28, 6 PM a wild tribe of accordionists take over Bryant Park, performers scattered throughout the space, booked by the brilliant Ariana Hellerman of Ariana’s List. Too many amazing players to list. Choice pick: the July 5 lineup with Melissa Elledge, Shoko Nagai and Sam Reider, wow!
Wednesdays at 8 the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Owl, $15
Wednesdays in June, 8 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free
Wednesdays at 9 PM Feral Foster’s Roots & Ruckus takes over the Jalopy, a reliably excellent weekly mix of oldtimey acts: blues, bluegrass, country and swing.
Fridays and Saturdays at 5 PM adventurous indie classical string quartet Ethel plus frequent special guests playing a mix of classical and more contemporary material at the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm
Fridays at around 9:30 PM Bulgarian Romany sax legend Yuri Yunakov with his wild but haunting band at Mehanata
Fridays in June, 10:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django, $10 at the bar. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.
Fridays in July, 9 PM Bulgarian Romany sax legend Yuri Yunakov with his wild but haunting band at Mehanata
Saturdays in June, 11:30 AM (in the morning) til 3, individualistic guitarist Assaf Kehati plays jazz and bossa nova with a series of bassists: Steve LaSpina, Harvie S, Dave Baron, Rick Rosato, Michael O’Brien and maybe more at Il Gattopardo, 13-15 W 54th St, free. He’s got some funk, some surf and lots of classic postbop in him.
Saturdays at 4 PM at Bargemusic there are impromptu free classical concerts, usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles: if you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.
Saturdays in June at Barbes, 6 PM guitarist Sean Cronin“raised on country, trained in classical, steeped in punk, and brought to maturity as a jazz musician, leads the band Very Good which is actually quite good.” No joke. Expect reinvented Leonard Cohen, menacing offcenter downtown skronk, cello jazz maybe. Something to really look forward to.
Saturdays in July, 6 PM Book of J – Sway Machinery frontman/guitarslinger Jeremiah Lockwood and Jewlia Eisenberg of Charming Hostess – “take inspiration from the intersection of the sacred and the radical to create hit songs from the depths of American psalmody, Yiddish folklore, and international Jewish liturgical traditions” at Barbes. i.e. sacred and possibly profane.
Saturdays eclectic compelling Brazilian jazz chanteuse Marianni and her excellent band at Zinc Bar, three sets starting at 10 PM.
Sundays there’s a klezmer brunch at City Winery, show starts around 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands
Sundays in June at sometime past noon at Hank’s, Nashville gothic crooner Sean Kershaw‘s legendary honkytonk brunch is back! It’s just like 1999 again!
Sundays in June, 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of trios at the Bar Next Door.
6/1, 7 PM the LA Percussion Quartet play Andrew McIntosh’s epic 40-minute I Hold the Lion’s Paw, and Anna Thorsvaldsdottir’s earthy/unearthly Aura. They’ll also be premiering a virtual reality video from Chris Cerrone’s Memory Palace, at National Sawdust, $30
6/1-4, 7:30/9:30 PM lyrical purist postbop trumpeter Sean Jones leads a killer, purist quartet with Orrin Evans – piano; Luques Curtis – bass; Obed Calvaire – drums at the Jazz Standard, $30
6/1, 7:30/9:30 PM the king of extended-technique trumpet, Peter Evans solo, then with a trio with Joel Ross – vibraphone; Max Jhin Jaffe – drums at the Jazz Gallery, $15
6/1, 8 PM dark urbane Romany song maven (and Berthold Brecht descendant) Sanda Weigl and her band with irrepressible trombonist Curtis Hasselbring at Barbes
6/1, 8 PM purist, soulful Chicago-style blues guitar shredder Ana Popovic and band at Highline Ballroom, $20
6/1, 8 PM Digital Diaspora play their trippy Afrobeat-influenced downtempo jams followed by bass goddess Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith at the Delancey, $10
6/1, 8/9:30 PM edgy, noir-inspired bassist Michael Blanco leads his quartet at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/1, 9 PM astonishingly kaleidoscopic art-rock/postrock band Bent Knee – like early Genesis meets Radiohead, on steroids – at Rough Trade, $12
6/1, 10 PM the Dojo Trio with bandoneon powerhouse Martin Sued, cellist Augustin Uriburu and drummer Damian Allegretti play smart, original tango and tropical themes at Caffe Vivaldi
6/1, 10ish trippy downtempo/Balkan-tinged groove instrumentalists Filtron M play the album release show for their new one at Nublu 151 (presumably reopened by that time)
6/1, 10 PM careeningly bluesy post-Stooges psych/garage rockers Acid Dad at Baby’s All Right, $12
6/1, 11 PM keyboardist and occasional Karla Rose collaborator Frank LoCrasto‘s cinematic organ sounds at Pete’s
6/2, 5:30 PM 19th century string band maven (and Four O’Clock Flower) Eli Smith at the American Folk Art Museum
6/2, 7 PM oldschool-style Cuban salsa crooner Jose Conde and band in a rare Williamsburg appearance at St. Mazie’s, free
6/2-3, 7:30/9:30 PM bassist Alexis Cuadrado leads a killer band with Claudia Acuña – voice; Miguel Zenón – alto saxophone; Robert Rodriguez – piano Mark Ferber – drums at the Jazz Gallery, $22
6/2, 7:30 PM former Dizzy Gillespie guitarist Ed Cherry with a killer trio: Kyle Kohler on organ and Anwar Marshall on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12
6/2, 8 PM two of the individualistic voices from John Zorn’s Mycale vocal ensemble: the rapturous Sara Serpa and the playfully soaring Sofia Rei in a rare duo show at the Neighborhood Church, 269 Bleecker St. at Morton St., free. Serpa and her similarly dark, brilliant guitarist husband Andre Matos are at Joe’s Pub on 6/11 at 7:30 PM for $15
6/2, 8 PM new songs by Dick Connette, the incomparably lyrical, eclectic Rachelle Garniez, and Mimi Goese, featuring vocals by Suzzy Roche and Ana Egge, at Roulette, $20
6/2, 8 PM alternately unhinged and trippy postrock instrumentalists Kleptocrat followed e eventually at 10 by psychedelic soul-rockers Madam West and then exhilarating Balkan/Romany/dub groove band Tipsy Oxcart at C’Mon Everybody, $10
6/2, 8 PM solo and duo improvisations from saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and koto paradigm-shifter Miya Masaoka at Issue Project Room, $15
6/2-3, 8 PM lyrical, noir-tinged pianist Frank Kimbrough with Jay Anderson & Jeff Hirshfield at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar
6/2, 9:30 PM a trancey triplebill with Tigue Percussion followed b ytrippy, otherworldly, ancient North African dance percussion ensemble Innov Gnawa , then a second Tigue set and finally Afrobeat band Underground System at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec
6/2, 9:30 PM enigmatic female-fronted psychedelic pop/new wave band the New Tarot at American Beauty, $10
6/2, 10 PM this era’s most chillingly cinematic, shadowy reverbtoned noir guitar instrumentalists, Big Lazy at Barbes. 6/23 they’re at the Fox & Crow, 594 Palisade Ave, Jersey City
6/2, 10 PM baritone crooner Sean Kershaw‘s Serpentones play “hi octane Brooklyn honkytonk” followed by noir-tinged fellow baritone singer/guitarslinger Phil Gammage leading his four-piece band at Otto’s. The Serpentones are also at the Delancey on 6/14 at 9:30 PM for $5
6/2, 10:30 PM dazzlingly eclectic purist jazz singer Brianna Thomas and her band at the Django, $10 at the bar. 6/9, 7:30/9:30 PM she’s at Ginny’s Supper Club for twice that
6/2, 11 PM what the rest of the country is listening to – twangy highway rock and honkytonk with the Whiskey Gentry at Hill Country, $15
6/3, 6 PM guitarist Sean Cronin“s edgy, bracing Very Good project followed at 8 by Brooklyn’s funnest new band, psychedelic organ-driven Middle Eastern-tinged surf rock trio Hearing Things and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes
6/3, 7:30 PM French marimba trio SR9 perform works by Bach and paradigm-shifting organist Bálint Karosi, with the composer in the console, at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex, $20 sugg don
6/3, 8 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play “Ms. Rubinstein’s Beauty,” a world premiere by Seth Bedford; plus Michael Blancaflor performs Frank Picarazzi’s Vibraphone Concertina; Melissa Kritzer performs Fernade Breilh Decruck’s Scherzo for bassoon; and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Vocalise for orchestra at the DiMenna Center, $25. There’s another performance on 2/4 at 2 PM featuring Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano and Trumpet along with the Rachmaninoff.
6/3, 6 PM sardonic acoustic punks Norwood & darkly jangly, catchy, new wave-ish rockers Melissa & the Mannequins at LIC Bar
6/3, 8:30 PM it’s official: the Stone has moved to the intimate Glass Box Theatre at Mannes College of Musico. Opening night has John Zorn (sax) Dave Douglas (trumpet) Uri Caine (piano) Ches Smith (drums) Chris Tordini (bass) Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet) and Jim Staley (trombone), $20, get your tix now
6/3, 9 PM a killer, cheap triplebill at Bowery Electric: female-fronted power trio Castle Black – who veer between acidic Bush Tetras postpunk, stoner metal and more straight-up, sardonic punk, followed by careening, charismatic, lyrically-fueled soul-rockers No Ice – arguably Brooklyn’s best band – and Television lead guitar legend Richard Lloyd, $10. No Ice are also playing the annual Northside Festival on June 9 at Main Drag Music and on the 10th at the Gutter; both of those shows at 11.
6/3, 9 PM the reigning goddess of hypnotically fingerpicked apocalyptic art-rock, Marissa Nadler at St. Vitus, $20
6/3, 9 PM ten-piece country/carnivalesque/acoustic rock powerhouse M Shanghai String Band at the Jalopy, $!0
6/3, 9 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 with the catchy, jangly, trad Agent Octopus, then the louder Kimono Dragons at 10, the careening Link Wray-influenced Howlin Thurstons at 11 and classic cover band Tsunami of Sound sometime around midnight
6/3, 9 PM drummer Devin Gray’s unpredictably improvisational Dirigo Rataplan at I-Beam, $15
6/3, 9ish NYC supergroup Patscha Perowsky and Bloedow – mems. Elysian Fields, Ollabelle and a million good jazz acts – at the Owl
6/3, 10 PM New York’s only Farsi funk group,haunting, psychedelic retro 60s/70s Iranian revivalists Mitra Sumara at Pete’s
6/3, 10 PM explosive postrock/spacerock guitarist Hubble followed by haphazard careening occasionally theatrical dreampop/noiserockers Gold Dime playing the album release show for their new one at Alphaville, $10. 6/16 Gold Dime are at C’Mon Everybody at 9 for $10
6/3, 10 PM oldschool psychedelic soul/groove band Empire Beats at the Way Station
6/3, 1 AM (actually wee hours of 6/4) dark atmospheric art-rock with the Melomaniacs at the small room at the Rockwood. Pastoral Joy Division?
6/4, 11:30 AM/1:30 PM erudite, purist torchy cosmopolitan jazz chanteuse Svetlana & the Delancey 5 play a Ella Fitzgerald centennial celebration tribute with special guest vocalist Charles Turner at the Blue Note for brunch, $35 prix fixe
6/4, the allday Mafrika Festival at Marcus Garvey Park
6/4, 3 PM the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York play mighty arrangements of ancient themes at Merkin Concert Hall, $25
6/4, 7 PM spine-tingling darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC – at Pangea
6/4, 7 PM individualistic, John Fahey-esque acoustic guitar instrumentalist David Rogers plays a mix of “Spanish, flamenco, uptempo Latin, Leonard Cohen, Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, Roxy Music, Beatles, J.S. Bach and original compositions” at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10
6/4, 8.9:30 PM dark, sardonic, brilliantly tuneful jazz pianist Danny Fox and his Trio at Mezzrow, $20
6/4, 9:30 PM elegantly tuneful bassist Iris Ornig leads her group at 55 Bar
6/4, 10 PM Acid Witch – who sound like Sabbath at 16 RPM sometimes, other times more of a stoner boogie band with deathmetal vox – at St. Vitus, $12
6/5, 7 PM the Secret Quartet – Cornelius Dufallo, violin (ETHEL, Ne(x)tworks), Jennifer Choi, violin (ETHEL, Either/Or), Lev Zhurbin, viola (Ljova and the Kontraband), and Yves Dharamraj, cello play John King’s Middle Eastern-themed Free Palestine Quartets at Joe’s Pub, $20
6/5, 8 PM lyrical pianist Nick Sanders and saxophonist Logan Strosahi at Mezzrow, $20
6/5, 8:30 PM fiery, eclectic, purposeful pianist Helen Sung leads her Trio w/Ricky Rodriguez & Henry Cole at Bar Lunatico. 6/10 at 10 she leads a slightly different trio at St. Paul’s Church, 315 W 22nd St, $30/$20 srs/under 30
6/5, 9:30 PM Carolina Oliveros’ trippy tropicalia band Combo Chimbita, who mash up cumbia, salsa, champeta and a whole bunch of other south of the border styles at Barbes
6/6, drinks at 5:30, music at 6 PM indie classical globetrotters International Contemporary Ensemble play animal behavior-inspired works at the Miller Theatre, free
6/6, 6:30 PM up-and-coming guitarist/songwriter Alicyn Yaffee -the rare artist who successfully bridges the gap between lyrically-fueled chamber pop and jazz – leads a guitar trio with Andrew Hartman and Pravin Thomson at the Bar Next Door
6/6, 7 PM the Bushwick Book Club – a collective of incredibly diverse, typically excellent songwriters including irrepressibly fun ringleader Susan Hwang, the haunting Jessie Kilguss, and Ellia Bisker, of parlor pop mavens Sweet Soubrette – followed at 9ish by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes
6/7, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10
6/6, 8 PM a rapturously good piano/clarinet duo: Fred Hersch with Anat Cohen at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar
6/6. 8 PM purist, cleverly lyrical jazz singer Sari Kessler with her combo at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/6, 8:15 PM state-of-the-art string jazz: Jim Nolet: viola and perc; Arturo O’Farrill: piano; Zack O’Farrill, Rafael Barata: drums; Neymar Dias: bass at Shapeshifter Lab, $10
6/6, 10 PM the smuttiest man in country music, Wheeler Walker Jr. and his surprisingly good band at Bowery Ballroom, $20
6/6, 11 PM hilarious, fearlessly political performance artist/satirist/loopmusic singer Killy Dwyer at Sidewalk
6/7, 6 PM Tendor and Tenzin Choeying play spare, stark, hypnotic Tibetan folk at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm
6/7, 7:30 PM purist, lyrica; pianist/singer Kelly Green leads her trio at Mintons
6/7, 8 PM eclectic, brilliant jazz cellist Tomeka Reid’s large ensemble at Roulette, $20
6/7, 8 PM oldschool, no-BS all-female punk band LA Witch at Berlin, $10. They’re also at Bowery Electric on 6/9, guessing at around 11 (there a bunch of idiotic dj’s on the bill as well), $10
6/7, 8 PM oldschool/newschool bluegrass/newgrass/Americana twinbill: fiddler Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards followed by the Steel Wheels playing the album release show for their new one at City Winery, $15 standing room avail.
6/7. 8/9:30 PM drummer Devin Gray leads a tightly improvising, kinetic trio with Ellery Eskelin, tenor sax; Drew Gress, bass at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/7, 9 PM smart, cleverly lyrical original swing chanteuse/songwriter/trombonist Emily Asher’s Garden Party at Radegast Hall
6/7, 9:30 PM creepy, jangly, swirly retro 60s Laurel Canyon psychedelia with the Mystic Braves at the Mercury, $14 adv tix rec
6/7, 9:30 PM trombonist Jacob Garchik’s mighty atheist gospel shout trombone choir the Heavens play gospel classics at Joe’s Pub, $15
6/7, 10 PM haunting, epic, tunefully individualistic pianist/composer Fabian Almazan performs his latest work, Alcanza (“Reach”), a nine movement suite written for his Rhizome large ensemble (voice, guitar, strings, piano, bass, drums and electronics) at National Sawdust
6/8, noon Ramsey Lewis – the now-octogenarian pianist who basically invented soul jazz all by himself at Metrotech Park in downtown Brooklyn
6/8, noon Gypsy Jazz Caravan put their own eclectic spin on Django guitar romps at St. Marks Park, 10th St/2nd Ave
6/8, 7 PM Renata Zeiguer’s trippy, creepy Prozac rock project Cantina followed by dangerous folk noir chanteuse Larkin Grimm at Sunnyvale, $15
6/8, 7 PM the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir – with legendary, corrosively cynical bon vivant spoken-word artist Anthony Haden-Guest at Anderson Contemporary Art, 180 Maiden Lane just north of the FDR, free
6/8, 7 PM pianist Klara Min performs preludes by Scriabin and Chopin alongside Sean Hickey’s meditative Birds of Barclay Street, dedicated to the memory of those murdered on September 11, 2001, at Symphony Space, $15
6/8, 7 PM soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis at 55 Bar
6/8, 7:30 PM pyrotechnic, iconic avant garde pianist Kathleen Supove plays graphic scores by Earle Brown plus premieres by Armando Bayolo, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Isaac Schankler, Arlene Sierra, and Alex Weiser at the DiMenna Center, $tba
6/8, 8 PM haunting, creepy noir art-rock pianist Lorrie Doriza at the small room at the Rockwood. She was doing her evil cinematic stuff while still in her teens; good to see her out there on the club circuit now.
6/8, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies followed at 10 by formidable, reliably tuneful guitarist Tom Csatari‘s large-ensemble Americana jazz project Uncivilized playing Zappa tunes. Their Chico Hamilton tribute was out of character (tunewise anyway) but off the hook nonetheless. Missed them doing John Fahey, which is closer to home for them. How they’ll do this is a mystery.
6/8, 8 PM lush, intense, artfully orchestrated psychedelic rockers Aunt Ange at the Delancey, $8
6/8, 8 PM the Momenta Quartet play John Adams’ “John’s Book of Alleged Dances” backing a dance performance at Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune St, Floor 11 in the west village, sugg don. The program repeats 6/9 with a $25 cover charge
6/8, 8 PM night one of a three-night series of Butch Morris-influenced largescale improvisations at the original Nublu, 62 Ave. C, $15: Evan Mazunik and Zaha followed at 9 by the Walter Thompson Orchestra and then at 10 by iconic klezmer trumpeter Frank London & Co.
6/8, 8 PM wickedly rippling and ripping improvisations: pianist Geoffrey Keezer with vibraphonist Joe Locke at Mezzrow, $20s
6/8, 8 PM drummer Jordan Young leads his excellent organ groove band at the Fat Cat
6/8, 8 PM C4 Ensemble joins with Miranda Cuckson, Oren Fader, Christopher Oldfather and Matthew Ward to perform works for chorus and rock ensemble, featuring Anthony Korf’s subtle Cantata, Jonathan David’s Hounds of Spring, “a very unsubtle ode to the season that channels the spirit of old-school progressive rock;” Also on the program: Stephen Paulus’ Poemas de Amor and more. The program repeats 6/10, same time, same deal at the DiMenna Center
6/8, 8 PM Ensemble Connect play works by works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Shulamit Ran, Anna Clyne and emerging composers tba at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec
6/8, 8:30 PM ethereally enchanting art-folk autoharpist/singer Elizabeth Devlin,at at Pete’s
6/8, 8:30 PM haunting tsimbl (Ukraininan Jewish zither) player Zev Feldman and band at the Jalopy, $15
6/8, 8:30 PM ambitious, smart, noir-inclined tenor saxophonist Patrick Cornelius leads a trio at the Bar Next Door
6/8, 9 PM Ed Rosenberg’s Chewyfoot (?!) followed by Franz Nicolay’s surrealistic art-song project Peopssongs at Shapeshifter Lab, $10
6/8, 9 PM hot 20s swing with trumpeter Jason Prover and his Sneak Thievery Orchestra at Radegast Hall
6/8, 9:30 PM reliably unpredictable, assaultively tuneful guitarist Brandon Seabrook and his large ensemble play the album release show for his new one Die Trommel Fatale at Joe’s Pub, $15
6/8, 10 PM fiery garage rock band the NY Fowl Harmonic – a Gato Loco spinoff – at Hank’s
6/9, 6 PM Lusterlit play their ominous, noirish literary chamber pop followed by up-and-coming paisley underground band Moji Abiola – who add soulful vocals to the psychedelic mix – at the American Folk Art Museum
6/9, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter and her band at 55 Bar
6/9, 7 PM a benefit at Drom for Brooklyn’s best venue, Barbes featuring an unbeatable lineup including mystical Moroccan trance-dance band Innov Gnawa, allstar brass pickup group Fanfare Barbès, (with members of Red Baraat, Slavic Soul Party and Banda de los Muertos), elegantly menacing film noir instrumental icons Big Lazy, Colombian folk reinventors Bulla en el Barrio and torrential Bahian drum orchestra Maracatu NY; advance tix a bargain at $20.
6/9, 7 PM Sanjoy Banerjee and his senior protege Namami Karmakar sing Indian carnatic works at the Rubin Museum of Art, $25
6/9, 7:30 PM the fearlessly eclectic Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble play world premieres by Kevin Wilt, Andrew Rosciszewski, Jonathan Crosmer and Elizabeth Nonemaker, and works by Koji Kondo, Julian Bennett Holmes and Alain Lefébure at the Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Ave, Staten Island, $15/$5 stud
6/9, 8 PM playfully lyrical, fearlessly political superduo Kill Henry Sugar – guitar/banjo mastermind Erik Della Penna and drummer Dean Sharenow –followed at 10 by awesomely slinky, psychedelic Israeli Ethiopiques groove instrumentalists Anbessa Orchestra at Barbes.
6/9, 8 PM fearlessly haunting, dynamic, charismatic Romany/Balkan chanteuse Eva Salina with pyrotechnic accordionist Peter Stan followed at by by Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra celebrating their 10 year anniversary playing rare noir jazz and cinematic themes at the Jalopy, $12 adv tix available at the venue
6/9, 8ish the New Students play their fun, lyrically amusing, newschool trad brlugrass at Hometown BBQ in Red Hook. 6/25 at 7 they’re playing the album release show for their excellent new one at the big room at the Rockwood, $10
6/9, 8 PM no wave and punk-funk nostalgia: sampler pioneer/percussionist Ikue Mori, agelessly noisy funk-punks the Bush Tetras and Suicide’s Martin Rev with Craig Leon at the Hall at MP, $20.
6/9-10, 8 PM iconic avant garde composer Meredith Monk sings works in progress with her vocal ensemble including Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Allison Sniffin, Jo Stewart at Queenslab, 1618 Decatur St, Ridgewood, L to Halsey St
6/9, 8 PM repeating on 6/11 at 4 PM the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale sing works by Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Fauré, and others at Church of the Assumption, 55 Cranberry St, Brooklyn Heights, $20/$10 stud/srs
6/9, 8 PM night two of a three-night series of Butch Morris-influenced largescale improvisations at the original Nublu, 62 Ave. C, $15:: Mob Job and Walter Thompson followed at 9 by the Walter Thompson Orchestra and at 10 by Matt Lavelle’s 12 Houses (Extended Unit) with Gil Selinger
6/9, 8:30 PM epically tuneful, anthemic, sometimes pastorally-inclined jazz guitarist Chris Jentsch leads his quartet playing the album release show for his new one Fractured Pop at I-Beam, $15
6/9, 8:30 PM edgy, acerbic violin and piano jazz duo Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier at the Glass Box Theatre at Mannes College of Music, $20
6/9, 9 PM searing, theatrical Romany/Balkan punk rockers Bad Buka acoustic at Radegast Hall.
6/9, 9/10:30 PM tuneful, purposeful bassist Michael Bates leads a trio with Michael Blake, tenor sax; Jeremy ‘Bean’ Clemons, drums at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/9, 10 PM deviously funny twin-trombone dub reggae crew Super Hi-Fi at Bar Chord
6/9. 10ish catchy, enigmatic female-fronted dreampop band Loosie at the Owl
6/9, 10 PM hilarious, sardonically careening glam/party band Haley Bowery & the Manimals at Hanks, be aware of $8 cover
6/9, 11 PM hilarious one-man band Tattoo Money with his twisted hip-hop tales of NYC nightlife, sizzling bluesy guitar and psychedelic, funky keys, at the Way Station
6/10, 3 PM violinist Marshall Coid, clarinetist Justin Vance and pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe play trios by Milhaud and Kachaturian plus Stravinsky’s L’Histoire Du Soldat at St Marks Church, 10th St/2nd Ave, $15 sugg don
6/10, 4 PM trumpeter Ben Holmes and accordionist Patrick Farrell – two thirds of the fiery Yiddish Art Trio – followed at 6 by edgy jazz guitarist Sean Cronin“s bracing Very Good project at Barbes
6/10, 4 PM the Space Merchants – the missing link between the Stooges and X – at St. Vitus, $5
6/10, 5 PM a free dance party with the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra at the community center in the middle of Marcus Garvey Park, free
6/10. 7:30 PM incomparable country/jazz/janglerock icon Amy Allison at Dixon Place, free. Brilliant new material, all kinds of rarities and devastatingly funny between-song banter
6/10, 7:30/9:30 PM terse rising star postbop saxophonist Melissa Aldana leads a great quintet with Glenn Zaleski on piano at the Jazz Gallery, $22
6/10, 7:30 PM the NY Festival Orchestra play works by Mozart, Bach, Sibelius, Grieg, and premieres by Hampson Sisler and Takeichiro Hirai with gradeschool prodigy violinist sisters Fiona and Hina Khuong-Huu at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church,152 W 66 St,$10
6/10, 8 PM creepy Laurel Canyon art-rock/psych-folk/dark Americana band Quicksilver Daydream followed at 9 by wryly surreal prozac rock duo the Dream Eaters at Pete’s . The Dream Eaters are also here on 6/16 at 9.
6/10, 8ish torchy singer Jennifer Charles’ and guitar mastermind Oren Bloedow’s long-running art-rock/noir band Elysian Fields at their home base, the Owl, $18
6/10, 8 PM Romany guitar legend Stephane Wrembel airs out material from his wildly eclectic, psychedelic new double album The Django Experiment at Drom, $15 adv tix rec. At 11 (separate $15 adv tix adm) Brooklyn Balkan brass faves Slavic Soul Party featuring sensational Serbian trumpeter Demirhan Cerimovic, first-prize winner at the prestigious Guca Trumpet Festival
6/10, 8 PM energetic acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho at Guadalupe Inn
6/10, 8 PM night three of a three-night series of Butch Morris-influenced largescale improvisations at the original Nublu, 62 Ave. C, $15: cornetist Kirk Knuffke‘s “For Butch”followed at 9 by the Walter Thompson Orchestra and at 10 by iconic drummer Kenny Wollesen & the Stone Clouds
6/10, 9 PM Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” at Troost
6/10, 9 PM intense charismatic danceable metal cumbia/skaragga/latin rockers Escarioka at Mehanata
6/10, 9 PM one of the great saxophonists in the history of ska, Dave Hillyard & the Rocksteady 7 at Hank’s
6/10, 10 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic crooner Jack Grace at Bar Chord
6/10, 10 PM Random Test bring their roots reggae back to their home base, Shrine
6/10, 11 PM Lusterlit play their ominous, noirish literary chamber pop at Sidewalk
6/10 awesome, epic doom metal/thrash/art-rock band Dead Wake at Blackthorn 51, 80-12 51st Ave in Elmhurst, E/M/R to Woodhaven Blvd and a long walk down Queens Boulevard
6/11, 1 PM trumpeter Emile Turner leads his quartet at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, free
6/11, 4:15 PM guitarist/singer Kiki Sabater’s careeningly psychedelic, Hole-like power trio Slow Suck followed by Of Clocks & Clouds playing their twisted postrock and goth-tinged post-new wave anthems at Paperbox, free. Outdoors ferociously dynamic, tuneful, female-fronted power trio Castle Black play at 4:45
6/11, 4 PM ish fiery electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival, Washington St. bet. 8th & 14th St.
5/11, 5 PM magically luminescent pastoral jazz group Bryan and the Aardvarks at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex, free
6/11, 5 PM tuneful, thoughtful, lyrical Colombian pianist and composer Carolina Calvache at the small room at the Rockwood
6/11, 7 PM harrowing psychedelic art-rock band the Bright Smoke – the female-fronted Joy Division – at the Mercury, $8
6/11, 7 PM funk legend and golden age hip-hop: Main Source and George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, hosted by the realest of all Roxannes, Roxanne Shante at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Grand Central Pkwy., Whitestone Exwy. bet. 111 St. & College Point Blvd., Park Drive E. in Queens
6/11, 8 PM jangly 80s garage/Americana nostalgia: Tom Heyman (ex-Go to Blazes) and Dan Stuart (Danny & Dusty/Green on Red) at Hifi Bar
6/11, 8:30 PM Alhambra – which is basically haunting, rivetingly intricate Turkish band Dolunay plus Isabelle Ganz on vocals – at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/11, 9 PM ambitiously lyrical, cutting-edge rising star jazz composer/singer Annie Chen and her septet at Club Bonafide, $15
6/12, 8 PM trombone improvisation legend Steve Swell and Chamber Orchestra jam out music by David Haney at Shapeshfter Lab, $8
6/12, 9:30 PM Los Cumpleanos play psychedelic cumbias with new wave synths & retro organ, effect-laden trombone and trumpet as well as a three piece percussion section – at Barbes
6/13, drinks at 5:30, music at 6 PM the Mivos Quartet play a program TBA at the Miller Theatre, free
6/13, 7 PM the Om Shalom Trio – sitar, bass and tabla – play the album release show for their new one mashing up classic Indian and Jewish themes at Shapeshifter Lab, $15 includes copy of the cd!
6/13, 7 PM Detroit noir soul goddess Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas at Baby’s All Right, $15
6/13, 7 PM reliably unpredictable, assaultively tuneful guitarist Brandon Seabrook leads his trio followed at 9 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes
6/13, 7:30 PM cantors Ida Rae Cahana, Elizabeth Shammash, Raphael Frieder, and Alberto Mizrahi backed by pianist Yehudi Wyner sing popular and obscure Yiddish works from both western and eastern Europe by Mordecai Gebirtig – inventor of the crime rhyme – plus elegant art songs by Lazar Weiner, theatre music by Moses Milner, the brooding Solomon Rosowsky,the fiery Janot Roskin, plus songs by Solomon Golub, Mikhl Gelbart, Joel Engel, and Maurice Rauch at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th St., $15
6/13, 7:30 PM the Havana Lyceum Orchestra with pianist Simone Dinnerstein play works by Mozart and Carlos Fariñas at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, free
6/13, 8 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel & the Two Cent Band at Radegast Hall
6/13, 8 PM the NY Phil play Dvorak’s New World Symphony, selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story and Gershwin’s An American in Paris at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, free, enter the park from Broadway, near W 251st St, concert site is north of the baseball fields. The program repeats on 6/15 at 8 in Cunningham Park in Queens
6/13, 8:30 PM popular newschool blue-eyed soul/Motown/swing band Lake Street Dive at Prospect Park Bandshell
6/13, 9 PM funky, lyrically intense dark folk jamband the Sometime Boys– with the riveting Sarah Mucho on vocals – at the small room at the Rockwood
6/13, 9:30 PM the Bronx Conexion play their mighty salsa big band jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
6/14, 7 PM in reverse order: klezmer icons the Klezmatics, Hasidic ngunim soul band Zusha, wry a-cappella ensemble the Maccabeats with special guest cantors Chaim David Berson and Yanky Lemmer at Central Park Summerstage
6/14, 7 PM Quintet of the Americas play the Manhattan premieres of Hurricane Sandy-themed works by Bruce Odland and Kevin James at the National Opera Center, 333 7th Ave., free. 6/18 at 2 PM they play a pan-American program TBA at the Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St, 7 to Flushing/Main St., $6
6/14, 8 PM fearlessly political janglerock songwriter Fred Gillen Jr followed by the similarly fearless, even more lyrically brilliant Linda Draper at Sidewalk
6/14, 8/9:30 PM tuneful, expansive pianist Eri Yamamoto leads her trio at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/14, 8 PM the NY Phil play Dvorak’s Carnival Overture and New World Symphony plus works by Ravel, Masssenet, and Saint-Saens at the great lawn in Central Park, free, enter at 72nd St. and Central Park West. The program repeats on 6/16 at 8 at Prospect Park
6/14, 8:30 PM the wildfire NY Gypsy All-Stars joined by brilliant guest oudist Ara Dinkjian at Drom, $10 advance tix rec
6/14, 9 PM darkly cinematic composer Nathan Xander, the opaquely jangly, dreampop-influenced Dead Painters and creepy Laurel Canyon art-rock/psych-folk/dark Americana band Quicksilver Daydream playing the al bum release show for their new one at the Mercury, $!0
6/14, 9 PM oldschool soul crooner JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound at the Bell House, $15
6/15, noon latin jazz piano titan Arturo O’Farrill leads a sextet at St. Marks Park, 10th St/2nd Ave
6/15, 7:30 PM a rare performance of kinetic, rustic Colombian gaita negra with flute-and-percussion group Paíto y los Gaiteros de Punta Brava at the Lincoln Center Atrium
6/15, 8:30 PM the irrepressible Jon Irabagon on sax with Gary Versace on organ and Tom Rainey on drums at the Bar Next Door
6/15, 8:30 PM edgy, funny Russian-French klezmer band Dobranotch at the Jalopy, $15
6/15, 9;00 PM edgy, improvisationally-inclined microtonal string ensemble the Sirius Quartet at Club Bonafide, $15
6/15, 9 PM wild, noisy, genuinely Hendrixian virtuoso lead guitarist Viva DeConcini and her band at the Way Station. She’s also here on 6/22, same time
6/15, 9 PM quirky, smartly lyrical avant chamber pop with the Icebergs – Jane LeCroy – vox; Tom Abbs – cello; David Rogers-Berry – drums – at Pete’s
6/16, 6 PM haunting trumpeter/santoorist Amir ElSaffar‘s Rivers of Sound orchestra plays the album release show for their new stormy, darkly relevant new one, Not Two, on the Plaza at 28 Liberty St. (William/Broad) in the financial district, free
6/16, 6 PM sardonic acoustic punks Norwood at the American Folk Art Museum
6/16, 7:30 PM Changing Modes – NYC’s funnest, most unpredictable, sharply lyrical new wave art-rock band – at Highline Ballroom, $15 adv tix rec
6/16, 8 PM lyrically-fueled electric folk noir band Leland Sundries at the Mercury, $!0
6/16, 8 PM keyboardist Dave Kadden’s Drunken Foreigner Band – sort of a Brooklyn counterpart to Dengue Fever, or a Thai Chicha Libre – followed at by the self-explanatory Zozo Afrobeat at Barbes
6/16, 8 PM catchy oldtimey all-female string band the Calamity Janes at Silvana. 6/17 at 8 they’re at Shrine followed at 10 by Oxygen Box playing Haitian-inspired roots reggae
6/16, 8 PM adventurous South Seas pointillisms with the hypnotic Gamelan Son of Lion at the Park Church Coop in Greenpoint
6/16, 8 PM night one of the Jalopy’s annual International Music Festival with Zong Li Lu playing ethereal, hypnotic Chinese monochord fook, at 9 haunting flamenco chanteuse Julia Patinella, at 10 high-voltage son jarocho folk-punks Radio Jarocho and at 10 Sharq Attack with Marandi Hostetter, 5 string violin; Brian Prunka, oud; John Murchison, double bass and Philip Mayer, percussion jamming out classic Middle Eastern themes, $20
6/16, 8ish trippy, hypnotically enveloping EWI and ambient electronics from baritone sax mastermind Moist Paula Henderson at the Owl
6/16, 9 PM epic, original, intense original Balkan monsters Raya Brass Band; and their even more epic Rhode Island counterparts, street band What Cheer Brigade at Littlefield, $10
6/16. 9 PM wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers at Singlecut Beersmiths in Queens
6/16-17, 10 PM the haunting, eclectic, harmonically rich all-female Mariachi Flor de Toloache play the album release shows for their new one at Joe’s Pub, $25
6/17, 6 PM East Winds Ensemble play works by two masters of Japanese music, Masayo Ishigure and Marco Lienhard at Isham Park in Inwood, 1 train to 215th St
6/17, 7 PM night two of the Jalopy’s annual International Music Festival with Sangita Mukhiya Chhochoon with Nhuchhe Fangol on tabla & Bimal Dangi on harmonium playing Nepali songs, followed at 8 by Zikrayat playing cinematic classics from the golden age of Arabic song, at 9 by Bomba y Plena with Jorge Vazquez -doing bouncy Puerto Rican grooves, at 10 African dance band Akoko Nante and at 11 wild, spiraling, rare rustic minor-key Polesian klezmer dances and grooves with Litvakus, $20
6/17, 7:30 PM violinist Monica Chen leads a string sextet with piano playing works by Schumann, Dvorak and Ke-Chia Chen at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave
6/17, 8 PM delta blues/oldtime hillbilly music maven Mamie Minch at Barbes
6/17, 8ish Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play haunting underground Greek revolutionary anthems and hash-smoking songs from the 20s and 30s at the Owl
6/17, 8 PM vocalist Suzanne Lorge with noir jazz piano mastermind Frank Kimbrough at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave at W183rd St, $12, reception to follow
6/17, 10 PM Miss Velvet & the Blue Wolf play quirky, torchy blue-eyed soul with incisively edgy, purist blues guitar at the big room at the Rockwood
6/17, 10 PM edgy lefty guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band at the Way Station
6/17, 2 AM (wee hours of 2/18) haunting psychedelic/doom metal band Matte Black at Arlene’s, $10
6/18, 3 PM Blythe Gruda sings her enigmatic art-rock and parlor pop at Pete’s
6/18, 4 PM Angel Lam’s moody, mysterious musical theatre piece Lost in Shanghai, with a score spanning from classical to Chinese to art-rock at Flushing Town Hall, $10
6/18, 7 PM bassist Petros Klampanis leads his hauntingly lush, string-driven septet playing the album release show for his new Middle Eastern-themed one Chroma at National Sawdust, $30
6/18, 10 PM smart, darkly pensive third-stream jazz pianist Noa Fort leads her quartet at the small room at the Rockwood
6/18. 10 PM eclectic Florida roots reggae band the Ellameno Beat at Shrine
6/19, 6 PM the improvisationally-inclined Osso String Quartet followed at 9 by legendary dual-reedman George Braith – who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – leading his quartet at the Fat Cat
6/19, 8:30 PM the Attacca Quartet play a program of string quartets TBA at the third stage at the Rockwood, $15
6/19. 1 AM (wee hours of 6/20) captivating, chiming, pensively lyrical indie art-rock band Flock of Dimes at Baby’s All Right, $15
6/20. 7 PM smart, catchy, purist, sometimes devastatingly funny acoustic pop songwriter Elisa Peimer plays her bday show at Arlene’s $8
6/20, 7 PM haunting Middle Eastern chanteuse Nani with special guests: Michael Winograd (clarinet) & Dan Nadel (guitar) at Shaoeshifter Lab, $12
6/20, 7 PM lyrical pianist Guy Mintus plays the album release for his new trio cd at the big room at the Rockwood, $12
6/20, 7:30 PM tuneful blue-eyed soul bandleader Don Piper followed by this era’s most interesting voice in retro Britrock and glam-inspired art-rock,Edward Rogers and his killer band playing the album release show for his new one at the Cutting Room, $15 adv tix rec
6/20, 7:30/9:30 PM darkly melodic pianist Shai Maestro leads a trio with special guest Gretchen Parlato at the Jazz Standard, $25
6/20, 8 PM an iconic dark rock twinbill: the greatest art-rock pianist maybe ever, Botanica’s Paul Wallfisch and Bauhaus bassist (and theatrical songwriter) David J at Bowery Electric for $12? uh huh!
6/20, 8 PM guitarist Brendon Randall-Myers joins with the Dither guitar quartet and singer Eliza Bagg for new overtone-infused works at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec
6/20, 8 PM Red Gretchen play their slowly undulating, doomy psychedelic/art-rock grooves at Shrine
6/20, 9 PM pianist Dongfeng Liu leads a fascinating Asian folk-influenced quintet with pipa and erhu at Shapeshifter Lab, $12
6/20, 10 PM brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet play classic salsa grooves at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
6/21, 3 PM kinetic latin/Middle Eastern acoustic jamband Inti and the Moon followed by haunting, soaring, lyrically brilliant Great Plains gothic songstress Rose Thomas Bannister with guitar god Bob Bannister at Corkscrew Wines, 489 Myrtle Ave., Ft. Greene, C or G to Clinton-Washington
6/21, 3:15 PM hilarious, fearlessly political performance artist/satirist/loopmusic singer Killy Dwyer followed at 6 by funky, lyrically intense dark folk jamband the Sometime Boys– with the riveting Sarah Mucho on vocals – and eventually at 8 by smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes outdoors at Freddy’s
6/21, 6 PM cutting-edge improvisations with Japanese koto and shamisen player Sumie Kaneko + flutist Haruna Fukazawa at the Rubin Museu of Art, free w/museum adm
6/21, 6 PM psychedelic funk and Afrobeat with the People’s Champs at the corner of Pearl and Willoughby St, downtown Brooklyn, free. 6/23 at 10 PM they’re at C’Mon Everybody for $10
6/21, 6 PM eclectic early music choir Cantus at Bryant Park
6/21, 7 PM charming psychedelic 90s hip-hop nostalgia: Digable Planets at Coffey Park, Verona St. bet. Richard St. and Dwight St. in Red Hook
6/21, 8 PM pensive parlor pop/art-rock pianist/singer Rachei Reis’ art-song project Her Crooked Heart at Barbes
6/21, 8 PM one of the year’s hottest jazz lineups: the Rolling Stones’ Tim Ries on sax, leading a quintet with Randy Brecker, the great Chano Dominguez on piano, with James Genus on bass and Clarence Penn on drums, for real, at Drom, $15 adv tix rec.
6/22, noon Gulf Coast soul band the Suffers play their horn-infused sounds at Metrotech Park in downtown Brooklyn
6/22, 7 PM trumpeter Jonathan Saraga and his Sextet followed by the cinematic Danny Rivera Big Band at Shapeshifter Lab, $10
6/22, 7:30/9:30 PM saxophonist Ole Mathisen plays the album release show for his reputedly amazing new one Floating Points with Amir ElSaffar – trumpet; Bobby Avey – piano; Gregg August – bass, wow, at the Jazz Gallery, $22
6/22, 7:30 PM South African classical guitarist Derek Gripper reinvents Malian kora music at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised
6/22-24, 8 PM cleverly lyrical, darkly lyrical pianist Misha Piatigorsky records a live album with Danton Boller on bass and Rudy Royston on drums at Zinc Bar
6/22, 8 PM stark, banjo-fueled North Carolina noir Americana string band the Resonant Rogues at Shrine. Then they jump in a cab and rush down to Silvana to play at 10.
6/22, 8 PM soprano Eliza Bagg, backed by a sextet, sings Gemma Peacocke’s new song cycle based on Eliza Griswold‘s book, I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, giving voice to the struggles of Afghani women, at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec
6/22, 8 PM sassy New Nashville songbird Lindi Ortega at the Knitting Factory, $15
6/22, 8:30 PM intense, rapturous Balkan/Middle Eastern ensemble the Secret Trio –Tamer Pinarbasi, Ismail Lumanovski & Ara Dinkjian – at Bar Lunatico
6/22, 9:30 PM Middle Eastern-flavored psychedelic jams with Spaghetti Eastern Music at Sidewalk. They’re at Silvana at 8 on 6/28
6/22, 10 PM jangly, sharply lyrical folk-rock/chamberpop band the Morning Sea – like a more stripped-down, less druggy Elliott Smith – at the small room at the Rockwood
6/22, 10 PM uneasy postpunk/new wave/dreampop band Rich Girls at Bowery Electric, $10
6/23, 5 PM guitarist Amanda Monaco and band on the lower level at 570 Lexington Ave at 51st St, free
6/23, 5:30 PM charming oldtime C&W/front-porch folk harmony band Holler at the American Folk Art Museum
6/23, 7:30 PM the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day –play a John Coltrane tribute followed by tenor sax legend Pharaoh Sanders and his group at Prospect Park Bandshell
6/23, 7:30 PM a rare NYC appearance by Polish pianist Marcin Masecki with drummer Jerzy Rogiewicz doing their high-voltage ragtime project at Joe’s Pub, $20
6/23, 8 PN colorful classical organist Christopher Houlihan plays works by Bach, Durufle, Debussy and Hannah Lash at the Church of the Holy Apostles, 296 9th Ave at 28th St, free
6/23, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by similar oldschool danceable Colombian tunes with Chia’s Dance Party at Barbes
6/23, 8:30 PM haunting, gorgeously lyrical pianist Satoko Fujii’s Japanese folk-inspired quartet Kaze at I-Beam, $15
6/23, 8:30 PM rapturous improvisation: trumpet icon Wadada Leo Smith – who may be the best blues player alive, among many other things – at the Glass Box Theatre at Mannes College of Music, $20
6/23, 9 PM stoner boogie with Catalina Shortwave followed eventually at 11 by the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir – at Sidewalk
6/23, 10 PM majestic, cinematic surf instrumentalists the TarantinosNYC at the Parkside
6/23, 9:30 PM an eclectic night of trance-oriented global sounds with multi-instrumentalist Ravish Momin, tabla-and-kora ensemble Orakel, plaintive vocalist Muyassar Kurdi and avant garde duo Christine Southwoth and Evan Ziporyn at the Rubin Museum of Art, $20 adv tix rec
6/23, 10 PM fiery, fearlessly political female-fronted rockers the Last Internationale at Maxwell’s, $15. 6/24, 11 PM they’re at Rough Trade, $12 adv tix rec
6/23, 10:30 PM eclectic drummer/tabla player/composer David Weiss & Point of Departure doing their relevant late 60s inspired stuff at the Fat Cat
6/24, 3 PM noisy, hazily jangly, psychedelic slowcore/free jazz/avant instrumentalists Sunwatchers at Union Pool outdoors on the patio, free
6/24, 5 PM newschool fado star Sofia Ribeiro, assaultive goth/Stooges punk duo Dead Combo with special guest Marc Ribot and Portuguese band the Gift at Central Park Summerstage
6/24, 7:30/9:30 PM awesomely slinky, psychedelic Israeli Ethiopiques groove instrumentalists Anbessa Orchestra at Ginny’s Supper Club, $15
6/24, 8 PM sultry retro Franco-American torch jazz/chamber pop/ukulele swing band les Chauds Lapins at Barbes
6/24, 8 PM a night of solo sets: fiery guitarist Ava Mendoza, bassist Devin Hoff, Ethiopian violin maven Kaethe Hostetter and guitar noisemeister Colin Langenus at Secret Project Robot, 1186 Broadway at Lafayette, Bushwick, J/M to Kosciusko St.
6/24, 8 PM a rare US appearance by darkly eclectic Polish improvisers the Wójciński/Szmańda Quartet with similarly brilliant cellist Erik Friedlander at the Jazz Gallery, $22
6/24, 9 PM hip-hop brass: New Orleans ensemble the Soul Rebels with special guests Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch and Kirk Knight at Prospect Park Bandshell
6/25, 2 PM the NY Scandia String Orchestra play a program of rare Nordic music TBA on the Billings Lawn at Fr. Tryon Park, A to 180th St., go into the park and take the path downhill, follow the sound
6/25, 4 PM the guy who built the Temple of Hip-Hop, KRS-1 at at Coffey Park Verona St. bet. Richard St. and Dwight St. in Red Hook
6/25, 4 PM mesmerizingly improvisational string ensemble the Lutosławski Quartet with violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix req
6/25, 6 PM in reverse order: a site-specific performance by the epically stygian Eli Keszler, cumulo-nimbus vocal experimentalist Stine Motland, enigmatically ambient reedwoman Lea Bertucci, the reliably fun Tilt Brass and avant garde marching band Ashcan Orchestra at the Knockdown Center, $15
6/25, 6 PM sharply lyrical southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner at LIC Bar
6/25, 7 PM Ashley Bathgate – NYC’s go-to new-music cellist – plays works by Steve Reich and Fjóla Evans and world premieres by Emily Cooley and Alex Weiser at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix req
6/25, 8:30 PM an excellent Americana twinbill album release show: purist retro rock and C&W bandleader Monica Passin and her rockabilly outfit, Li’l Mo and the Monicats, followed by haunting DC songwriter Mary Battista & Little Pink at the Treehouse at 2A
6/25, 9 PM a killer twinbill at Pine Box Rock Shop with wryly retro, period-perfect classic 60s style female-fronted honkytonk band the Bourbon Express and wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers
6/25, 9:30 PM Navin Chettri‘s band makes jazz out of rarely heard Nepali themes at Drom, $10 adv tix rec
6/26, 5 PM riveting, theatrical, amazingly eclectic Korean psychedelic folk band Coreyah, theatrical, high-voltage Korean disco band Ssing Ssing and Korean rappers Year of the Ox at Central Park Summerstage
6/26, 7 PM sweeping, kinetic, Mediterranean and Andalucian string sounds with the Maureen Choi Quartet at Shapeshifter Lab, $15
6/26, 8 PM the year’s most unexpected twinbill: sardonic, irrepressible satirical songwriter Jonathan Coulton and the unstoppably dark, lyrical legend Aimee Mann at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $35
6/26, 8:30 PM thoughtful, often riveting violinist Sarah Bernstein leads her microtonal improvising quartet – Ron Stabinsky – piano; Stuart Popejoy – electric bass; Satoshi Takeishi – drums – at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/26, 8:30 PM eclectic Celtic/baroque pop harpist/singer Kristin Rebecca at the big room at the Rockwood, $10
6/26, 8:30 PM cleverly lyrical, coolly intriguing jazz chanteuse Dorian Devins leads her trio with Lou Rainone on keys and Paul Gil on bass at the Bar Next Door
6/27, noon Cuban son legends Septeto Santiaguero at Metrotech Park in downtown Brooklyn
6/27, 7 PM soaring singer Jo Williamson – who’s been mining a purist Americana folk sound these days – outdoors at LIC Bar
6/27, 7:30 PM irrepressible, historically informed, folk noir/art-rock songwriter Elisa Flynn at Cowgirl, 519 Hudson St (10th/Charles Sts.)
6/27, 7:30 PM violinist Lara St. John leads a chamber ensemble performing works by Britten, Vaughan Williams and Jessie Montgomery at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, free
6/27, 8 PM lustrously dark jazz pianist Guy Mintus collaborates with flamenco guitarist Andreas Arnold at Caffe Vivaldi
6/27, 9 PM haunting folk noir duo Pear Claw – guitarist and Nick Cave soundalike Mike Shoykhet and stark, intense violist Karen Claman – at Sidewalk
6/27, 9 PM excellent, purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall at 11th St. Bar
6/27, 9:30 PM Indian-inspired, ex-Sharon Jones organist Colin Brown leads his trio at Freddy’s
6/27, 10 PM Palehound – who blend eerie, lyrical new wave with hypnotic motorik vintage Wire-style postpunk – at Baby’s All Right, $15
6/28, 5 PM Yotoco play psychedelic cumbia and boleros at the corner of Pearl and Willoughby St, downtown Brooklyn, free
6/28, 7 PM vintage soul band Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue followed by Rare Essence at Betsy Head Park, Dumont Ave. & Strauss St., in Brownsville, 3 to Saratoga Ave.
6/28, 7:30 PM intense, piano-based, Aimee Mann-style literate chamber pop group Elizabeth & the Catapult with the Britpop Choir & Brooklynite Choir at the Poisson Rouge, $10 gen adm
6/28, 7:30 PM timbalero Don Perignon and his Puerto Rico–based orquesta at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
6/28, 8 PM pyrotechnic Balkan multi-reedman Greg Squared‘s Circle at Barbes
6/28, 8 PM Lazurite (Megan Moncrief) plays her ukelin – a 32-stringed American folk instrument sold door-to-door as a sort of Depression-era competitor to the autoharp – over ambient drones, followed by meticulously kinetic, lustrously melodic singer/sound sculptor Lesley Flanigan performing new works in her new duo project with ceilist Mariel Roberts at Issue Project Room, $15
6/28, 8:30 PM Antibalas spinoff Armo play newschool Afrobeat at Bar Lunatico
6/28, 9 PM Crescent City-flavored “steamboat soul” band Roosevelt Dime at Maxwell’s, $10
6/28, 9:30 PM Texas swing icons the Hot Club of Cowtown at at Joe’s Pub, $25
6/28, 9:30 PM a Planned Parenthood benefit with short sets by Americana guitar legend Eric Ambel, the Stonesy, fearlessly populist Dirty Rollers, soul-rock cult heroine Dina Regine, powerhouse soul Lizzie Edwards of Lizzie & the Makers, oldschool Max’s style glampunks the New York Junk and others tba at the Delancey, $10
6/29, noon fiery fiddler/composer Alicia Svigals and her hotshot klezmer band at St. Marks Park, 10th St/2nd Ave
6/29, 7 PM brooding baritone sax/piano improvisations with the Charles Evans/Ron Stabinsky duo followed by the world’s funniest improvising ensemble, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, at Shapeshifter Lab, $10
6/29, 7:30 PM noir mambo powerhouse Orkesta Mendoza followed by Mexican-American folk song reinventor Lila Downs at Prospect Park Bandshell
6/29, 7:30 PM sardonic, Gil Scott-Heron-influenced soul-rock songwriter Chocolate Genius at the Lincoln Center Atrium
6/29, 8 PM 20s hot jazz revivalist/impresario/trombonist Michael Arenella leads his quartet at the Red Room, 85 E 4th St., free. 2 pairs of free tix to the 8/27 Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island to the first 50 people in the house!
6/29, 8 PM eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leads his Tango Quartet followed at 10 by energetic acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho at Barbes
6/30, 7 PM St Lenox play their insightfully lyrical, fearlessly populist soul and parlor pop at the park at 125th St. and the Hudson
6/29, 8ish lush, brilliantly lyrical art-rock band the Universal Thump – the missing link between Kate Bush, Supertramp and Split Enz -at the Owl
6/30, 7:30 PM Rez Abbasi leads a guitar army playing Monk: Nels Cline, Julian Lage, Miles Okazaki, Liberty Ellman, Steve Cardenas, Anders Nilsson and Mike Baggetta, plus many ore at Greenwich House Music School, expensive, $30 but worth it.
6/30, 7:30 PM retro 1930s swing with Margi & the Dapper Dots at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
6/30, 8 PM guitar-and-bass magic: Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan play the album release show for their rapturously gorgeous, intimate new one at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec
6/30, 8 PM cult favorite outlaw Americana songwriter Jim Lauderdale followed by wild, intense, frequently satirical newgrass/oldtimey hellraisers the Dustbowl Revival at City Winery, $15 standing room avail.
6/30, 8 PM darkly playful, epic piano-based art-rock singer Eve Lesov at Sidewalk
6/30, 8 PM awful segue, two good bands: klezmer/circus rock crew Bella’s Bartok followed by female-fronted retro rocksteady band Big Takeover at American Beauty, $10
6/30, 8 PM soaring chamber-pop/art-rock singer/pianist Kristin Hoffmann at Caffe Vivaldi
6/30, 8ish in reverse order at the Knockdown Center; creepy post-industrial wastescapes with Fierro Ex Machina, uneasy soundscaper Amy Mills, hauntingly ethereal, lyrically edgy cellist Meaner Pencil, loopmusic violinist Matthais Etterm $10/$5 stud
6/30, 8:30 PM state-of-the-art trumpeter Dave Douglas and band play the album release show for his new one inspired by Carla Bley at the Glass Box Theatre at Mannes College of Music, $20
6/30, 8:30 PM accordionist Sam Reider’s amazing, cinematic pastoral jazz crew Future Folk at Bar Lunatico
6/30, 9 PM speedmetal band Sweet Magma and political punks Kilifax at Desmond’s
6/30-7/1, 9/10:30 PM state-of-the-art melodic postbop trumpet: Russ Johnson leads a quartet with Aruan Ortiz, piano; Michael Formanek, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
6/30, 10 PM intense frontwoman Hannah Fairchild’s searingly lyrical punk/art-rock/noir cabaret band Hannah vs. the Many – this blog’s current favorite group -at the Way Station
6/30, 10 PM fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/southern rockers Lizzie & the Makers at the small room at the Rockwood
6/30, 10 PM pan-tropical band Yotoco – whose rotating cast spins through cumbia and other south-of-the-border styles – at Barbes
6/30, 10 PM slinky original rocksteady with Osekre & the Lucky Bastards at Shrine
6/30, 11 PM edgy, guitar-fueled peak era King Crimson-ish art-rockers Woodhead at Hank’s
7/1, 3ish boogaloo legend Joe Bataan outdoors at Union Pool, free. 7/7 at 7:30 he and the band are at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/1, 5 PM in reverse order: NYC’s arguably finest oldtime swing band Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks, the charming, female-fronted cosmopolitan swing crew Avalon Jazz Band and 20s jazz chanteuse Aurora Nealand at Central Park Summerstage
7/1, 6 PM Book of J – Sway Machinery frontman/guitarslinger Jeremiah Lockwood and Jewlia Eisenberg of Charming Hostess – followed at 8 by eclectic, electric C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts and then at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes. The Jug Addicts are at Bar Chord at 10 on 7/7
7/1, 7:30 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra – the late, great Sharon Jones’ backing band – at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/1, 7/9:30 PM perennially lyrical, prolific tenor postbop tenor saxophonist/composer Tom Tallitsch and his group at Minton’s, $15
7/1, 8 PM Iranian art-rock/avant garde violinist Parnaz Partovi and Electric Monks at Drom, $20 adv tix rec
7/1, 8 PM high voltage skiffle/Americana band the Salt Cracker Crazies followed at 9 PM by Divining Rod – who work the furthest open-tuned corners of 70s Britfolk – and then at 11 PM by oldschool psychedelic soul/groove band Empire Beats at the Way Station. Empire Beats are also here on 7/7 at 10
7/1, 8 PM classic 30s swing with the Rob Stoneback Big Band with vocalists Kathy Jenkins & Rob Kevlin at Kingsborough Colllege Lighthouse Bandshell, 2001 Oriental Boulevard (at Oxford), Manhattan Beach, B/Q to Brighton Beach, free
7/1, 8 PM oldtime blues guitar/banjo/piano genius Jerron Blind Boy Paxton at Iridium, $25. He’s finally playing for the tourists now.
7/1, 8:30 PM the world’s creepiest crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Bar Lunatico
7/1, 8:30 PM perennially fresh jazz trumpet star Dave Douglas and his quartet play the album release show for his new one Riverside: A New National Anthem at the New School’s Glass Box Performance Space, 55 W 13th St, $20
7/1, 8:30 PM darkly growling jazz guitarist Joe Morris with lustrously lyrical pianist Sylvie Courvoisier. At 9:30 he plays a duo set with haunting violinis Mark Feldman, $15
7/1, 8:30 PM popular 90s chamber pop/Americana songsmith David Poe at the third stage at the Rockwood, $15
7/1, 9 PM sweeping, kinetic, Mediterranean and Andalucian string sounds with the Maureen Choi Quartet at Terraza 7, 40-19 Gleane St, Queens, $10
7/1, 9/10:30 PM state-of-the-art melodic postbop trumpet: Russ Johnsonleads a quartet with Aruan Ortiz, piano; Michael Formanek, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
7/1, 10:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at Smalls. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.
7/1, 11 PM lush, intense, artfully orchestrated psychedelic rockers Aunt Ange at the small room at the Rockwood
7/2, 8 PM bassist Andrew Sheron and Tuvan folk ensemble Alash mash up otherworldly, stark Central Asian and bluegrass sounds at Joe’s Pub, $25
7/2, 10:30 PM keyboardist and occasional Karla Rose collaborator Frank LoCrasto‘s cinematic organ sounds at Pete’s
7/2, 10:30 PM tuneful soul-jazz trombonist David Gibson leads his quintet at Smalls
7/3, 8 PM minimalistic postrock/thrash instrumentalists the Austerity Program followed by retro 80s goths and Fields of the Nephilim soundalikes Fotocrime at St. Vitus, free
7/3, 8 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel & the Two Cent Band at Sunny’s
7/3, 8 PM indie classical guitarist Dan Lippel plays a program TBA at Branded Saloon of all places
7/3, 9 PM Lowpines play their low-key Elliott Smith soundalike psych-pop at Pete’s
7/3, 9:30 PM cumbia band Los Cumpleanos – with new wave synths & retro organ sounds with effect-laden trombone and trumpet as well as a three piece percussion section – at Barbes
7/4, 2 PM awesomely unhinged horror surf/hotrod instrumentalists the Mad Doctors open an allday bill, with Carolina Oliveros’ trippy tropicalia band Combo Chimbita – who mash up cumbia, salsa, champeta and a whole bunch of other south of the border styles – and then finally careening noise/psych/doom band Stuyedeyed headlining at around 10 at Sunnyvale, $10
7/4, 3 PM perennially fiery, relevant guitarist Marc Ribot’s Songs of Resistance Project followed by high-voltage psychedelic cumbia band MAKU Soundsystem – whose new album takes a detour toward Caribbean and African sounds – at the Knockdown Center, $15
7/4, 7 PM torchy singer Aurora Nealand ’s New Orleans swing band the Royal Roses followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes
7/4, this era’s most cutting-edge, politically relevant large jazz ensemble,Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society plays the most confrontationally cool 4th of July show anywhere in town, 7:30/9:30 PM at the Jazz Standard, $25
7/4, 7:30 PM David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong repertory big band at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/4, 9:30 PM the first of three very rare NYC shows by haunting psychedelic bandleader and Nick Cave soundalike Weinf, who brings to mind the Doors, Blue Oyster Cult and maybe the Frank Flight Band, at Sidewalk. He’s back there on 7/6 at 10 and then plays a house concert on 7/7 at 8, email for info/location
7/4, 10:30 PM snarling female-fronted Nashville gutter blues band Thelma & the Sleaze at Baby’s All Right, $10. They’re at the Mercury the following night, 7/12 at 10 for the same price
7/5, 1 PM jazz pianist Eugene Marlow’s lush, darkly eclectic, latin-tinged Heritage Ensemble at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex, free
7/5, 6 PM ambitiously lyrical, cutting-edge rising star jazz composer/singer Annie Chen and her septet at at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 + $10 min
7/5 inspired, cutting-edge trombonist/composer Ryan Keberle & Catharsis play the album release show for their incendiary, politically-fueled new one, 7:30/9:30 PM at the Jazz Standard, $25
7/5, 7:30 PM a rare, killer B3 organ twinbill:Jared Gold with his trio followed by Brian Charette with his quartet at Smalls. Charette’s also here on 7/6, same time
7/5, 7:30 PM the Isaac Delgado Orchestra play their mighty Afro-Cuban salsa at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/5, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10
7/5, 8 PM a free screening of Pink Floyd’s The Wall at Brooklyn Bazaar, rsvp reqd
7/5, 9 PM Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” at Troost
7/6. 6:30 PM cellist Nioka Workman’s intense Firey String Sistas chamber jazz project at Socrates Sculpture Park, Broadway at Vernon Blvd in Long Island City, G to 21st St.
7/6, 7:30 PM lush, dynamically eclectic Korean folk/art-rock band Coreyah mash up lustrous, often plaintive themes with hard-charging hip-hop and dance tunes at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised
7/6, 7:30 PM the Peekaboos – a large allstar NYC cast including but not limited to guitarist Oren Bloedow, singer Michelle Casillas and saxophonist Briggan Krauss – play rocksteady classics at the Owl
7/6, 8 PM Brooklyn’s funnest new band, psychedelic organ-driven Middle Eastern-tinged surf rock trio Hearing Things followed at 10 by epic, cinematic guitar soundtrack composer Christina Courtin at Barbes
7/6, 8 PM confrontational Iranian singer/violinist Sadaf H. Nava collaborates with artist Evan Caminiti and filmmaker Paul Clipson in a multimedia exploration of the general toxicity of urban areas at Issue Project Room, $15
7/6, 8 PM elegant, sharply lyrical parlor pop stylist Heather Eatman at Hifi Bar
7/6, 8 PM smartly populist oldtimey-flavored Americana band 2/3 Goat and long-running 90s alt-country favorites Rusty Truck at Hill Country
7/6, 8/9:30 PM Romany jazz accordionist Julien Labro and guitarist Olli Soikkeli lead their quartet at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/6, 9 PM Quantum Peruvian – who blend jangly Plan 9 psychedelia, GBV scruffiness and a little glam – at the Delancey
7/6, 9 PM the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir and dark cabaret – at Pete’s. 7/24 at 11 she’s at Sidewalk with her fiery Americana band the Demons.
7/6, 10 PM slyly lyrical New Orleans oldschool soul/groove/Americana crew the Nat Osborn Band at Rough Trade, $12 adv tix rec
7/6, 10 PM Hollywood’s Dan Finnerty leads his savagely hilarious top 40 parody group the Dan Band at Joe’s Pub, $25
7/6, 10 PM Of Clocks & Clouds play their twisted postrock and goth-tinged post-new wave anthems at Bowery Electric, $12
7/7, 7:30 PM psychedelic funk and Afrobeat with the People’s Champs at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/7, 8 PM the Ulysses Quartet play works by Schubert, Golijov, Turina and Janacek’s harrowing String Quartet No. 2 at Scholes St. Studios
7/7, 9:30 PM elegantly exhilarating tarantella/Neapolitan folk jamband Newpoli at Joe’s Pub, $15 adv tix rec
7/7, 8:30 PM the fifteen-piece Makrokosmos Orchestra with jazz singer Christine Correa play compositions by Tim O’Dell and Richard Nelson at Shapeshifter Lab, $10
7/7, 10 PM intense charismatic danceable metal cumbia/skaragga/latin rockers Escarioka at at Bar Chord, free. They’re at Mehanata the following night, 7/8 at 9 for $10
7/7, 10 PM noir soul and groove themes with the Ghost Funk Orchestra at the Gutter, $10
7/7, 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with the David Gibson/Jared Gold, Hammond B3 organ band at the Fat Cat
7/7, 10 PM this era’s most chillingly cinematic, shadowy reverbtoned noir guitar instrumentalists, Big Lazy at Barbes
7/7, 10 PM bizarre segue, good twinbill: guitar genius Lenny Molotov’s torchy, lyrically smashing original female-fronted oldtimey swing crew the Fascinators followed at 11 by ska-punks the Horsewater Skanks at Sidewalk
7/7, 11 PM haunting, psychedelic doom metal band Matte Black at Hank’s, $8
7/7, 1 AM (actually wee hours of 7/8), psychedelic downtempo jazz quartet Mute the Commercials at the small room at the Rockwood
7/8, 1/3 PM pioneering downtown avant garde vocalist Pamela Z in Nolan Park in the middle of Governors Island, free
7/8, 5 PM the Jimmy Heath Big Band at Springfield Park, 184th St. & 146th Terrace in Springfield Gardens, Queens
7/8, 6 PM the haunting, eclectic, harmonically rich all-female Mariachi Flor de Toloache and legendary Colombian Caribbean singer Totó La Momposina at Central Park Summerstage
7/8, 6 PM Adam Klipple‘s Organ Soul Explosion with Al Street on guitar and Curtis Fowlkes on trombone at 55 Bar
7/8, 7 PM spot-on Fela cover band Chop & Quench followed by Jamaican dancehall hitmaker Chronixx at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/8, 8 PM trombone man Wycliffe Gordon and His International All-Stars at Kingsborough Colllege Lighthouse Bandshell, 2001 Oriental Boulevard (at Oxford), Manhattan Beach, B/Q to Brighton Beach, free
7/8, 8 PM eclectic, richly pensive chamber works by Michal Raymond Massoud performed by an ensemble TBA at Scholes st. Studios
7/8, 8:30 PM violin/accordion band the Ghosts of Indecision play a wild mix of Balkan and klezmer sounds at the Owl
7/8, 8:30 PM state-of-the-art postbop guitarist Will Bernard leads his band at Bar Lunatico
7/8, 9 PM intense, brilliantly lyrical, fearlessly political 1950s style original folk/blues singer Joshua Garcia at Caffe Vivaldi
7/8, 9/10:30 PM bassist Peter Brendler leads his postbop quartet with Rich Perry, tenor sax; Gary Versace, piano; Vinnie Sperrazza, drums at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/8, 10 PM darkwave and carnivalesque art-rock with Children Having Children at the Cobra Club, $tba
7/8, 10 PM jangly female-fronted latin lounge/80s chime pop band Parrot Dream at Footlight Bar, $10
7/9, 5 PM vintage soul band Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue followed by 70s disco hitmakers the Ohio Players at Springfield Park, 184th St. & 146th Terrace in Springfield Gardens, Queens
7/9, 6 PM Book of J –Sway Machinery frontman/guitarslinger Jeremiah Lockwood and Jewlia Eisenberg of Charming Hostess – followed at 8 by charismatic, fearlessly political, lurid noir Americana songwriter and banjoist Curtis Eller and at 9 by awesomely slinky, psychedelic Israeli Ethiopiques groove instrumentalists Anbessa Orchestra at Barbes
7/9, 7 PM Lyla Cante play their fiery, kinetic blend of flamenco and Sephardic sounds at Pier One on the upper west side
7/9, 7:30 PM crystalline-voiced noir Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss followed eventually by excellent, purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Clifford Westfall at Union Hall, $12
7/9, 8 PM a killer duo project: fiery, eclectic, torchy Nicole Zuraitis on vocals and Helen Sung on piano at Mezzrow, $20
7/9, 8:30 PM haunting dark Americana songwriter/soul belter Jessi Robertson followed eventually at 10:30 PM by edgy, broodingly tuneful, jangly female-fronted trio Shadow Monsters at Pine Box Rock Shop
7/10, 8:30 PM smart, darkly pensive third-stream jazz pianist Noa Fort leads her quartet at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/10, 9 PM 90s West Coast hip-hop nostalgia: the fearlessly political Rass Kass and the always hilarious, surprisingly lucid Alkaholiks at B.B. King’s, $20 adv tix rec
7/10, 10 PM epic Indian-inspired spacerock band Humeysha at at the Mercury, $10
7/10, 11 PM eclectically tuneful swing/noir/pastoral jazz combo the Jazz Thieves at the small room at the Rockwood. They’re also at the Way Station on 7/29 at 9
7/11, 7:30 PM popular indie classical orchestra the Knights play works by Mozart (Symphony No. 40), Purcell and John Adams at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, free
7/11, 7:30 PM conguero Eddie Montalvo and his salsa band at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/11, 7:30/9:30 PM drummer Simon Barker leads an intriguing quartet with Jen Shyu – vocals; Tony Malaby – tenor saxophone; Marc Hannaford – piano at the Jazz Gallery, $15/$10 stud
7/11, 8 PM purposeful, pensive Slavic jazz guitarist Martina Fiserova at the Way Station
7/11, 9 PM edgy female-fronted funk band Eliza & the Organix – feat. swirly alto sax player Kristen Tivey followed by anthemic, surfy chamame rock band Paracuta at Shrine. Eliza and crew are also here on 7/18 at 9
7/11, 9 PM purist oldschool guitarist Dap King Joe, “the Staten Island Soul Junkie” (aka Joe Crispiano of the Dap Kings) and band at Freddy’s
7/11, 9:30 PM lyrical, cinematic pianist Julian Shore leads his quartet with Dayna Stephens, tenor sax; Petros Klampanis, bass; Colin Stranahan, drums at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/12, 6:30 PM ace drummer Art Lillard’s Blue Heaven Swing Sextet on the plaza at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza
7/12, 7:30 PM Michael Gentile & the Rhythm Serenaders play hot 20s swing at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/12, 7:309:30 PM pianist Jacob Sacks’ excellent 40420 Quartet with Jacob Garchik on trombone at the Jazz Gallery, $15/$10 stud
7/12-13, 7:30 PM ex-Dylan lead guitarist Larry Campbell with singer Teresa Williams at Joe’s Pub, $27
7/12, 8 PM popular psych-folk band the Cave Singers at the Mercury, $15. Purist retro dark Americana harmony band the Cactus Blossoms are also there that night at 11, $12 separate adv tix rec
7/12. 8 PM dynamic, fearlessly populist soul belter Stephanie Rooker at the Way Station
7/12, 8:30 PM wickedly catchy Americana/paisley underground rockers Girls on Grass at Hifi Bar
7/12, 8:30 PM savage stoner boogie/doom/NWOBHM metal band Horseburner at St. Vitus, $8
7/12, 9:30 PM kinetic jazz vibraphonista Yuhan Su leads her quartet at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/12, 10 PM oldschool dub and hip-hop influenced roots reggae with horns with the Merry Rockers at Silvana
7/12, 10 PM stoner 70s Murder City style rockers Sun Voyager followed by stoner boogie band Dead Things at Alphaville, $10
7/12, 10 PM Waits-ish noir Americana songwriter Pokey LaFarge at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix rec. 7/13 at 10 he’s at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, same deal
7/13, 7:30 PM Astoria Tango Orchestra’s ace bassist Pablo Aslan’s Aces of Rhythm pays tribute to the innovative style of legendary Argentinian bandleader Juan D’Arienzo – “El Rey del Compás” – at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/13, 7:30 PM Blick Bassy – Cameroonian crooner/songwriter who adds nifty bluegrass touches to his wildly eclectic but subtle acoustic songs – at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised
7/13, 8 PM the scuffily catchy, jangly, all-male Britanys at Baby’s All Right, $12. Avoid the sucky poser-rock band afterward
7/13, 8 PM a rare, excellent quadruplebill: garage punks QWAM, explosively theatrical, phantasmagorical indie/metal trio A Deer A Horse , the Lounge Act – who veer between dark 60s psych-pop and slicker 80s new wave – and then reverb guitar-driven janglerockers Color Tongue at Brooklyn Bazaar, $10
7/13, 8 PM tuneful, purposeful, edgy guitarist Amanda Monaco plays the album release show for her new one at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum.Followed at 9:30 by tenor saxophonist Aaron Burnett & the Big Machine: Peter Evans, trumpet; Carlos Homs, piano; Nick Jozwiak, bass; Colin Stranahan, drums; separate adm and min.
7/13, 8:30 PM ornate, theatrical metal band Cave of Swimmers at Gold Sounds, $12
7/13, 10:30 PM sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece leads his quintet at Smalls
7/13, 11 PM expansive brass-fueled Afrobeat jams with the Brighton Beat at American Beauty, $10
7/13, midnight exotic surf rock band the Vibro-jets – a Sea Devils spinoff – at the Way Station. They’re also at Troost the following night, 7/14 at 9
7/14, 7:30 PM a Texas honkytonk twinbill with Asleep at the Wheel‘s Ray Benson and Dale Watson at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/14-15, 7:30/9:30 PM elegant pianist Aaron Parks leads a quintet with Maria Grand – saxophone; Chris Dingman – vibraphone; Matt Penman – bass; Anwar Marshall – drums at the Jazz Gallery, $22
7/14-15, 8 PM Gong Linna and the Bang on a Can All-Stars play her new Chinese mythology-themed art-song suite Cloud River Mountain at the Lynch Theater at John Jay College,524 W 59th St,, $25 seats avail
7/14-15, 8 PM suave, smoky tenor saxophonist Harry Allen leads a trio with Rossano Sportiello (piano), Joel Forbes (bass)at Mezzrow, $20
7/14, 8:30 PM progressive jazz sax legend Steve Coleman at the New School’s Glass Box Performance Space, 55 W 13th St, $20
7/14, 9 PM Cleveland metal band and Iron Maiden soundalikes Sunless Sky at St. Vitus, $15
7/14, 10 PM the Revolutionary Council Afrobeat Sextet at Bar Chord
7/14, 10 PM wryly surreal prozac rock duo the Dream Eaters at Pete’s
7/14, 10 PM guitar mastermind Danny Weiss’ and magical Americana singer Mary Olive Smith’s soulful retro bluegrass band Stillhouse Serenade at Sunny’s
7/15, 2 PM in reverse order: popular 80s Argentine janglerockers Los Pericos, LA psychedelic latin soul stars Chicano Batman and La Vida Bohéme at Central Park Summerstage
7/15, 7 PM sax-fueled psychedelic cumbia band Consumata Sonidera at Starlight Park South Entrance, 1480 Sheridan Expressway, the Bronx, 2/5 to Freeman St and go east
7/15, 7:30 PM the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17
7/15, 7:30 PM eclectic postbop drummer Sylvia Cuenca leads her quartet at Smalls
7/15, 8 PM aphoristic, catchy, smart Nashville folk-rock songwriter Ali Sperry at Pete’s
7/15, 8 PM roots reggae band the Far East open for one of the several incarnation of Bob Marley’s backing band the Wailers – this one with bassist Family Man Barrett, fronted by Junior Marvin – at Highline Ballroom, $25 adv tix vec
7/15. 8 PM New Orleans-flavored swing with Dan Levinson’s Gotham Sophisticats featuring vocalist Molly Ryan at Kingsborough Colllege Lighthouse Bandshell, 2001 Oriental Boulevard (at Oxford), Manhattan Beach, B/Q to Brighton Beach, free
7/15, 9/10:30 PM drummer Dan Weiss leads his tuneful postbop trio with Jacob Sacks, piano; Thomas Morgan, bass at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/15, 11:30 PM Cleveland punk cult hero Frank Secich (the Dead Boys’ Stiv Bators’ lead guitarist) followed by fuzztone garage rockers Room Full of Strangers at the Mercury, $10 adv tix rec /album/bad-vacation-lp
7/15, midnight the haunting, eclectic, harmonically rich all-female Mariachi Flor de Toloache at Joe’s Pub, $25
7/16, 4ish in reverse order: cinematic vibraphone soul legend Roy Ayers, Afrobeat dance band Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and Brooklyn’s Underground System at Central Park Summerstage
7/16, 7 PM the intoxicatingly clattering, sintir bass lute fueled Moroccan trance grooves of Innov Gnawa at Pier One on the upper west side
7/16, 7 PM pianist Zack Clarke’s Communer with Charlotte Greve, sax; Chris Irvine, cello ; Evan Crane, bass; Leonid Galaganov, drums followed by playful improvising quartet Bright Dog Red – “Digable Planets meets Mahavisnhu” – at Shapeshifter Lab, $15
7/16, 8:30 PM art-rockers the Tea Club play their wild, eighteen-minute, early Genesis-esque epics at the Knitting Factory, $12 adv tix rec
7/17, 7:30 PM the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play Bach Brandenburg Concertos at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, free
7/17, 8ish 90s noiserock/janglerock icons Yo La Tengo – as vital as ever – at Central Park Summerstage
7/17, 8 PM the Ed Palermo Big Band – whose jazz reinventions of 60s and 70s British psychedelic rock can be hilariously fun – at Iridium, $25
7/17, 8 PM the New Alchemy Jazz Orchestra, featuring trumpeter Terell Stafford at the Cutting Room, $20 adv tix rec
7/17, 8:30 PM golden age Argentine tango with
7/17, 8:30 PM golden age Argentine tango with Malena Dayen, vocals; David Rosenmeyer, piano at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/17, 11 PM strange but excellent segue: tuneful pastoral jazz guitarist Cameron Mizell leads his trio followed by gonzo noir postbop pianist Dred Scott leading his at the small room at the Rockwood
7/17, 7 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10
7/18, 7:30 PM badass, purposeful electric blues guitarist and compelling, eclectic singer Christina Apostolopoulos at Pete’s
7/19, 7:30 PM rising star postbop trumpeter Ryan Kisor leads his quintet at Smalls
7/18-19, 7:30/9:30 PM Ravi Coltrane leads a quintet with Brandee Younger – harp; David Virelles – Wurlitzer organ; Rashaan Carter – bass; Johnathan Blake – drums celebrating the work of his mom Alice Coltrane at the Jazz Gallery, $22
7/18-23, 8:30/10:30 PM guitarist Mary Halvorson – arguably this era’s best six-string player not named Bill Frisell – and her lush, rapturously good octet at the Vanguard, $30
7/19, 6 PM innovative pipa virtuoso Jiaju Shen plays electroacoustic pieces at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm
7/19, 9:30 PM smartly eclectic pastoral jazz songsmiths Max Hatt & Edda Glass at Bar Lunatico
7/19 Count Vaseline play their undulating post-Velvets spacerock at Harefield Road, 769 Metropolitan Ave (Humboldt/Graham) in Williamsburg
7/20, noon New Orleans’ darkly shuffling, explosively funky Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Metrotech Park in downtown Brooklyn
7/20, 8 PM cleverly lyrical, murderously witty murder ballad/chamber pop allstars Charming Disaster at Joe’s Pub, $15
7/20, 9 PM edgy lefty guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band at Bar Chord
7/21, 5 PM a wild night of accordionists and accordion bands hosted by New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez featuring the iconic Middle Eastern Bil Afrah Project, the haunting sounds of Zlatni Balkan Zvuk, Brazilian rainforest group Osnelda, cumbia crooner Gregorio Uribe, and special guests at Bryant Park, free
7/21, 6 PM incisive, fearlessly populist, catchy Irish chamber-pop songwriter August Wells at the American Folk Art Museum
7/21, 6 PM vintage soul band Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue and ageless boogaloo bandleader Joe Bataan at Corporal Thompson Park, Broadway btwn Markham Rd. & Wayne St., Staten Island
7/21, 7:30 PM trippy, otherworldly, ancient North African dance percussion ensemble Innov Gnawa open for intense, psychedelic Malian microtonal guitar-and-vocal band Amadou & Mariam at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/21, 7:30/9:30 PM pyrotechnic Indian classical singer Roopa Mahadevan leads a trio with violinist Anjna Swaminathan and percussionist Abhinav Seetharaman at the Jazz Gallery, $22
7/21. 8 PM a rare appearance by poignantly sweeping Syrian orchestra Yousef Shamoun & the Tarab Ensemble at the Poisson Rouge, $15 adv tix rec
7/21, 8 PM haunting dark Americana songwriter/belter Jessi Robertson followed eventually at 10 by wild oldschool Houston soul brass band the Nightowls at Union Hall, $10
7/21, 9 PM noiserock guitar icon Thurston Moore and group at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix rec. Why isn’t this guy playing Madison Square Garden, he’s popular enough…
7/21, 10:30 PM intense, haunting Americana/honkytonk singer Ruby Rae followed by similarly intense,more blues-oriented Americana songstress Alice & the Underground at Pine Box Rock Shop
7/22, 5 PM trippy Afrobeat group Budos Band on their home tuft at Corporal Thompson Park, Broadway btwn Markham Rd. & Wayne St., Staten Island
7/22, 7:30 PM psychedelic, relentlessly kinetic piano-driven dancefloor postrockers Dawn of Midi followed by Beirut Middle Eastern/postrock band Mashrou’ Leila at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/22, 8 PM playful, improvisationally-inclined swing band Swingadelic at Kingsborough Colllege Lighthouse Bandshell, 2001 Oriental Boulevard (atOxford), Manhattan Beach, B/Q to Brighton Beach, free
7/22, 9/10:30 PM the Chopin Poject with Noah Preminger, tenor sax; Nate Radley, guitar; Kim Cass, bass; Rob Garcia, drumsat Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum. They’ve done Bartok so this should be a walk in the park!
7/22, 9 PM eclectic psychedelic riff-rockers Lemon Sky – who mix stoner boogie, a little flamenco and twisted Britfolk into the mix – at Arlene’s, $10
7/22, 10 PM ferocious, politically fearless soul-punk/new wave/postrock band Algiers at Baby’s All Right, $15
7/23, 2 PM oldschool 70s style Cuban psychedelic salsa band Ola Fresca at at the Central Park Discovery Center, 110th St between Lenox and Fifth Aves
7/23, 5 PM the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA at Corporal Thompson Park, Broadway btwn Markham Rd. & Wayne St., Staten Island
7/23, 6 PM erudite, witty art-rock pianist/songwriter/composer Lee Feldman at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum. Followed at 8 by quartet Anouman playing Django guitar jazz, separate cover and min.
7/23, 6 PM witty Microscopic Septet pianist Joel Forrester leads his quintet at Silvana. Will anybody actually shut up and listen there?
7/23, 7 PM killer dark retro 60s psychedelic/stoner boogie/art-rock band Medusa’s Disco at Gussy’s Bar in Queens
7/23, 7 PM chanteuse/uke player Dahlia Dumont’s Blue Dahlia play edgy, smartly lyrically-fueled, jazz-infused tunes in English and French with classic chanson and Caribbean influences at Pier One on the upper west side
7/25, 7:30 PM fiery alto saxophonist Lucas Pino’s twin-guitar No No Nonet at Smalls
7/25-30, 8:30/10:30 lyrical jazz piano icon Fred Hersch leads his trio at the Vanguard, $30
7/25, 9 PM darkly jangly, catchy, new wave-ish rockers Melissa & the Mannequins at the Way Station
7/25, 9:30 PM cinematic Quincy Jones-style B3 gutbucket organ jazz with Colin Brown and his band at Freddy’s
7/25, 11:30 PM hard-hitting garage-punks the Falling Birds – like a minor-league Radio Birdman or OBNIIIs – at the Knitting Factory, $12
7/26, noon high-voltage accordion-and-microtonal sax-fueled original Balkan tunes with Tipsy Oxcart at Madison Square Park, free
7/26, 7 PM intoxicatingly fun, bouncy Colombian coastal dance grooves with Tribu Baharu at Madison Square Park, free
7/26, 7:30 PM tersely incendiary Chicago blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker at B.B. King’s, $15
7/26 irrepressible, transgressively funny saxophonist Jon Irabagon leads an organ trio with Gary Versace on B3 and Nasheet Waits on drums, 7:30/9:30 PM at the Jazz Standard, $25
7/26, 8:30 PM fearlessly haunting, dynamic, charismatic Romany/Balkan chaunteuse Eva Salina at Bar Lunatico
7/26, 9 PM charmingly catchy, new wave-tinged female-fronted Minneapolis band Bad Bad Hats at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $12
7/26, 9:30 PM Renata Zeiguer’s trippy, creepy Prozac rock project Cantina followed by dangerous folk noir chanteuse Larkin Grimm – who’s gone in a psychedelic Indian direction lately – at Footlight Bar, $10
7/26, 9:30 PM lustrous, darkly enigmatic singer/composer Song Yi Jeon leads her quintet with Kenji Herbert, guitar; Vitor Gonçalves, piano; Matt Aronoff, bass; Jongkuk Kim, drums at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum
7/27, 7 PM in reverse order at Damrosch Park: fearlessly populist LA folk-punks Las Cafeteras, our own Alynda Segarra aka Hurray For the Riff Raff,, trippy downtempo guy Helado Negro and fiery, dramatic belter Xenia Rubinos
7/27, 7 PM baritone sax goddess Moist Paula does double duty, first with her electroacoustic project Bliss Station and then with powerhouse Aussie hokum blues songwriter/revivalist CW Stoneking – who schools a lot of the Americans mining the genre –at the Mercury, $15
7/27, 7:30 PM fiery agitator Rev. Billy & the Church of Stop Shopping Choir – sort of the Dead Kennedys or Public Enemy of original, politically spot-on original gospel music – followed bytrumpeter Steven Bernstein’s legendary noir jazz outfit Sexmob playing a live score to the 1926 silent film Maciste All’Inferno at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/27, 7:30 PM kinetic, fearlessly populist oldtime Americana songwriter/banjoist Kaia Kater at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised
7/27, 7:30 PM catchy, cinematic, noir-inclined saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads his quintet at Smalls
7/27 lyrical jazz pianist Christian Sands leads his trio, 7:30/9:30 PM at the Jazz Standard, $30
7/27, 8 PM shamisen player/singer/improviser Emi Makabe leads a trio with Vitor Gonçalves on piano and accordion at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum. Followed at 9:30 by violinist Tomoko Omura and her quintet, separate cover and min.
7/27, 9 PM wryly retro, period-perfect classic 60s style female-fronted honkytonk band the Bourbon Express at Pete’s
7/27, 9 PM darkly intense bassist Dana Schechter’s hauntingly cinematic slowcore/art-rock project Insect Ark at Matchless, $10
7/27, 10 PM powerpop cult heroes Dany Laj & the Looks at Hank’s, $8
7/28, 5:30 PM elegant, jazz-tinged acoustic songwriter Kalyani Singh followed eventually at 6:30 by brilliant accordionist/raconteuse/urbane lyrical eclecticist Rachelle Garniez at the American Folk Art Museum
7/28, 6 PM pianist Dongfeng Liu leads his trio through a mix of Chinese and latin-tinged originals at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 cover plus $10 minimum. Followed by the Bryan Landrus Orchestra playing the album release show for their new lush, resonant new one, separate adm and min. Landrus is also here on 7/29
7/28, 6 PM popular salsa songstress La India at St. Mary’s Park, St Mary’s St bet. St Ann’s Ave and Jackson Ave in the Bronx, 2/5 to Jackson Ave
7/28, 7 PM Eljuri play their ferocious, brilliantly guitar-driven, fearlessly populist rock en Espanol at the park at 125th St. and the Hudson
7/28, 7 PM darkly intense ex-Band of Susans guitarist/songwriter Anne Husick solo followed by noir-tinged crooner/guitarslinger Phil Gammage leading his four-piece band at Sidewalk
7/28, 7 PM International Contemporary Ensemble plays Pauline Oliveros’ Applebox Double, Heart of Tones and One Hundred Meeting Places on the plaza at Lincoln Center
7/28, 7:30 PM popular jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding and band followed by chamber pop/lit-rock icon Andrew Bird at Prospect Park Bandshell
7/28, 7:30 PM charming oldtime swing harmony trio Duchess – Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner and Melissa Stylianou – sing Andrews Sisters tunes to accompany a dance performance at Damrosch Park
7/28, 7:30/9:30 PM a rare appearance by Cuban son legends Septeto Santiaguero at Joe’s Pub, $15 adv tix rec
7/28, 8ish irresistibly named, darkly sizzling psychedelic garage punk rockers Anderson Council at Hank’s
7/28, 8:30 PM Chicago improvisational sax icon Ken Vandermark leads his group at the New School’s Glass Box Performance Space, 55 W 13th St, $20
7/28, 10 PM intense frontwoman Hannah Fairchild’s searingly lyrical punk/art-rock/noir cabaret band Hannah vs. the Many – this blog’s current favorite group – at the Way Station
7/29, 6 PM Taiwanese bands in reverse order: catchy pop-punks Fire Ex, low-key folksinger Dadado Huang + Berry j and Sangpuy at Central Park Summerstage
7/29, 7:30 PM would you sit (or, more likely, snooze) through a set by a British pop moppet at Damrosch Park just to see Dionne Warwick play a handful of songs? Maybe we should call the psychic hotline and find out!
7/29, 8 PM harrowing Palestinian oud ensemble Le Trio Joubran play the US premiere of their elegaic suite of settings of Mahmoud Darwish poems on themes of exile and resistance at the Lynch Theater at John Jay College,524 W 59th St, $30 seats avail
7/29,9 PM deviously lyrical cult favorite Americana soul/punk songwriter Marcellus Hall at Pete’s. Last time he was there he had Ambrosia Parsley on harmonies, a great band, and he slayed.
7/29, 9:30 PM catchy, fun indie soul band Sunshine Nights at Freddy’s
7/30, 5ish pioneering golden-age female hip-hop star MC Lyte at Central Park Summerstage
7/30, 7 PM La Mecanica Popular play their original, psychedelic update on classic 70s Nuyorican salsa dura at Pier One on the upper west side
7/31, 8 PM bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone plays new solo works by Rebecca Saunders, Martin Bauck and Lauri Supponen at Scholes st. Studios
8/1, 7:30 PM the East Coast Chamber Orchestra play works by Holst, Shostakovich and Bach at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, free
8/1, 9ish haunting string soundscapes and noir Americana from all-female harmony band Little Mazarn at Troost
8/1, 10 PM the original cello rockers, Rasputina, as fearless and funny and relevant as ever, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $17 adv rix rec
8/2, noon upbeat original ska with the Brown Rice Family at Madison Square Park, free
8/2, 7 PM all-female Americana harmony trio the Wild Reeds at Madison Square Park, free
8/2, 7:30 PM Ibibio Sound Machine play EDM with hints of Afrobeat followed by Angelique Kidjo and band covering a crappy Talking Heads album at Damrosch Park
8/3, 7:30 PM newschool cabaret agitator Nellie McKay followed by perennially fun, psychedelic banjo jamband leader Bela Fleck at Prospect Park Bandshell
8/3, 7;30 PM dance sequences from Bollywood film set to live music by a group TBA at Damrosch Park. Followed at 10:30 PM by a “silent screening” of The Big Lebowski where everybody wears headphones, supplied by the venue. Guess this means we have to text our buddies to share a laugh or two during the film.
8/4, 7;30 PM orchestral hip-hop: violinist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson leads a chamber orchestra playing a J Dilla tribute at Damrosch Park
8/5, 3ish Orquesta Criolla Nacional de Puerto Rico on the plaza at Lincoln Center
8/5, 7:30 PM second-wave surf rock icons Los Straitjackets and British roots-rock maven Nick Lowe at Damrosch Park
8/5, 8:30 PM pantheonic, eclectic guitar hero Nels Cline leads his big pastoral jazz band at Prospect Park Bandshell
8/5 fiery, eclectic, purposeful pianist Helen Sung leads her poetic, powerfully relevant, vivid Sung With Words project at Bryant Park
8/6, 1 PM Albanian superstar vocal/accordion duo Merita Halili & Raif Hyseni and the Cheres Ukrainian Folk Ensemble on the plaza at Lincoln Center
8/6, 5 PM hardcore late 90s hip-hop nostalgia with Jadakiss at Crotona Park North to South, Fulton Ave to Southern Blvd and Crotona Park East in the Bronx, 3 to Freeman St.
8/9, 7:30 PM spectacular, fiery Colombian jazz harpist Edmar Castaneda followed by the swinging salsa dura sounds of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra at Damrosch Park
8/9, 8:30 PM alto sax icon Kenny Garrett and his band at Madison Square Park, free
8/10, 7 PM lush improvising orchestra Burnt Sugar at East River Park
8/10, 7:30 PM the Brooklyn United Marching Band followed by jazz piano star Jason Moran and the Wordless Music Orchestra playing a live score to the film Selma at Prospect Park Bandshell
8/11, 6 PM Andy Montanez, El Godfather de la Salsa, Puerto Rican bolero singer/songwriter legend at East River Park
8/12, 1/3 PM indie classical ensemble Contemporaneous plays music by Ian Gottlieb, Emma O’Halloran and Finnegan Shanahan in Nolan Park in the middle of Governors Island, free
8/16, 7 PM hard-driving, often noir-tinged swing pianist/singer Davina & the Vagabonds at Madison Square Park, free
8/19, 6 PM hypnotic, intricate, eclectically virtuosic fingerstyle guitar instrumentalist RD King – Fahey meets Kottke meets Dave Miller? – at the small room at the Rockwood
8/20, 5 PM in reverse order: the year’s best outdoor show with ageless Ethiopian jazz composer Mulatu Astatke, fiery Tunisian art-rocker Emel Mathlouthi and slinky Middle Eastern/Nile Delta band Alsarah & the Nubatones at Central Park Summerstage
8/25, 7 PM the lavish, sax/clarinet-fueled Anat Cohen Tentet at Marcus Garvey Park
8/25, 10 PM 60s janglerock/psych-pop legends the Flamin Groovies at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $20 adv tix rec
8/26, 3 PM in reverse order: cool jazz legends the Lee Konitz Quartet, dynamic drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science, postbop drummer Louis Hayes and his group, and powerful belter – and Gil Scott-Heron reinventor – Charenee Wade at Marcus Garvey Park
8/27, 4 PM in reverse order: state-of-the-art alto postbop with the Joshua Redman Quartet, oldschool soul-jazz man Lou Donaldson, and the ferociously intense, charismatic Tia Fuller at Tompkins Square Park
8/29, 7 PM Inkarayku play Peruvian psychedelic folk at Gantry Plaza State Park
