ABOVE: Masked musician Nobunny plays his fuzzy pop for a roomful of kids on the awesomely weird variety show Chic-a-Go-Go. Carrot-shaped microphone? Bugs Bunny would be so proud. Find out where to see him this weekend.
Each weekend in NYC there are so many concerts that it’s hard to decide which ones to attend.
So, to help you decide where to go, we’ve assembled a list of the weekend’s Top 10 concerts based on some interesting categories, including:
Best Place to Get Drunk on a Boat with a Cool DJ (and maybe reenact this episode of the Office)
Best Place to Pretend You Liked French Music Before it was Cool
Best Place to Realize Funny Band Names are a Still a Bad Idea
Best Place to Pretend You’ve Never Even Heard of Adam Lambert
Best Place to Rock out with Johannesburg Bands (Outside of Johannesburg, obviously)
And More!
PLUS: We’ve got tons of music and videos you can check out before you go to the shows.
So, what concerts are on our list for this week? Let’s find out…
Top 10 Concerts this Weekend:
1. Best Place to Get Drunk on a Boat with a Cool DJ (and maybe reenact this episode of the Office)
Fri 6/19 @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises $30
RJD2
2. Best Place to See a Punky Bunny Guy Sing into a Carrot-Shaped Microphone:
Fri 6/19 @ Bruar Falls $8
Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx, The Baby Shakes, The Beets, German Measles
3. Best Place to Make Fruit-related Double Entendres and/or Be Killed by Drums:
Fri 6/19 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg $25
Sat 6/20 @ Stone Pony Peaches $20/$25
Peaches, Drums of Death
Electro-pop star Peaches is making sure that the boys aren’t the only ones partying with dirty beats and filthy lyrics.
FREE Mp3: Peaches-”Talk to Me” mp3
4. Best Place to Pretend You Liked French Music, Before it was Cool…Wait, is it cool? Anyway:
Fri 6/19 @ Terminal 5
Phoenix, Amazing Baby
ABOVE: Fresh from high-profile appearances on Saturday Night Live and the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, French elecro-pop outfit Phoenix performing “Lisztomania,” from 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
5. Best Place to see a punk band that’s been together for almost 30 Years:
Sat 6/20 @ Don Pedro
M.O.T.O. , Midnight Creeps, Ex-Humans, The Pizzazz, Mad Tygers
M.O.T.O., AKA Masters of the Obvious, is a Chicago pop-punk group formed in 1981. That is a long time for rock’n'roll.
6. Best Place to See if the Indie-Rock Hype is Justified:
Sat 6/20 7@ Mercury Lounge $10
Crocodiles, ArpLine (formerly The Kiss Off), Big Bang TV, Eytan & His Orchestra, Silvertone
ABOVE: Indie-rock types are abuzz over Crocodiles. Check out the ’80s-inflected gloom-pop of “Neon Jesus,” and just try not to think about the Cure or Jesus & Mary Chain.
7. Best Place to Rock out with bands from Johannesburg :
Sat 6/20 @Highline Ballroom $17/$20
Vieux Farka Toure, BLK JKS
ABOVE: South African rockers BLK JKS have been getting a lot attention lately. Is it deserved? Or is just because people think it’s cool to listen to an exotic band?
8. Best Place to Wonder if the Book is Better than the Band:
Sat 6/20 @ Glasslands
Ume, Aloke, Black Swan Green
Brooklyn bookworms Black Swan Green borrowed their name from the title of a David Mitchell book.
9. Best Place to Realize Funny Band Names are a Still a Bad Idea:
Sat 6/20 @ Santos Party House $10
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head, Kittens Ablaze, Home Video
10. Best Place to Pretend You’ve Never Even Heard of Adam Lambert:
Sat 6/20 @ the Stone $20 (8pm and 10pm)
John Zorn
ABOVE: In a somewhat odd pairing, John Zorn performs live with Mike Patton, of the rock band Faith No More.
Saxophonist/multi-isntrumentalist John Zorn has been at the forefront of NYC’s avant-garde and improv scenes since the ’70s.
