What's going on Wednesday? (Janelle Monae, Marissa Nadler, Herzog, The Queers, The Austerity Program & more)
Janelle Monae at The Apollo in 2013 (more by Luis Ruiz)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…
Janelle Monae @ Prospect Park Bandshell (FREE)
The 2014 season of Celebrate Brooklyn! shows at Prospect Park kick off tonight with a free one from art pop/R&B shapeshifter Janelle Monae. Janelle’s shows are often quite the spectacle, and this sounds like quite the way to kick off this stacked series of free outdoor shows.
Mark McGuire, Marissa Nadler, Delicate Steve @ Red Hook Park (FREE)
Janelle has some competition though. This free Summerstage show (happening in Red Hook Park) is also a killer lineup, with the ambient guitar of former Emeralds member Mark McGuire, the dreary dream-folk of Marissa Nadler, and the jammy Delicate Steve.
Nat Baldwin, Celestial Shore, Anawan @ Baby’s All Right
You may know Nat Baldwin as a member of Dirty Projectors, but his upright bass playing informs quite the eccentric solo project too.
Kishi Bashi, Buried Beds @ Bowery Ballroom
Volinist Kishi Bashi brings his layered, multi-instrument indie pop back to NYC tonight for a sold out show at Bowery Ballroom.
Tomorrows Tulips, Roya (Rahill of Habibi), VBA, Las Rosas @ Cake Shop
Costa Mesa, CA trio Tomorrows Tulips make lo-fi indiepop with a flower power bent, as can be heard on last year’s, Experimental Jelly, which came out on Burger Records. Fans of Beat Happening, TV Personalities, The Vaselines…this is for you.
Turnip King, Mitski, Clearance, Free Cake For Every Creature @ Death by Audio
Tonight’s DbA show is split genre-wise between the trad-style indie rock of Turnip King and Clearance and the singer/songwriter twee of Double Double Whammy (also home to Frankie Cosmos) labelmates Mitski and Free Cake For Every Creature.
Education Reform, Herzog, Meghann Wright, Sinaloha @ Glasslands
Cleveland indie rockers Herzog are back with a genuinely terrific new album, Boys, that recalls the heyday (and hooks) of ’90s college radio with great lyrics to boot.
Banks, Jerome LOL @ Irving Plaza
The indie-R&B world continues to grow rapidly and Banks is one of the many singers hopping on that bandwagon. LA producer Jerome LOL (who has remixed Banks) opens the show.
Hippy, Little Racer, The Teen Age, Mainland, Bluffing @ Pianos
Brooklyn band Little Racer have been at it for a while now, making very catchy, UK-inspired guitar pop. Tonight’s the first show of their June residency at Pianos, with a high-quaility lineup of poppy indie rock bands surrounding them.
The Austerity Program, Mockingbird, Force and Fire, Scowl @ Saint Vitus
The Austerity Program are finally back with a new album (and a new label), and from the sounds of the singles they’ve put out so far, their noise/post-hardcore blend hasn’t gotten any less killer.
The Queers, The Manges, Chumped @ Grand Victory
’90s-era Ramones lovers The Queers will squeeze into the tiny Grand Victory tonight on their tour with The Manges. Solid local support comes from Chumped, whose real-deal pop punk recalls the same era that birthed The Queers.
Big Terrific Comedy Show @ Cameo Gallery
Max Silvestri hosts the free weekly comedy show in the back of Williamsburg’s Lovin’ Cup. No word on who’s performing tonight, but Max usually lets us know via his Twitter.
Eddie Pepitone, Colin Quinn, Sean Patton, Nick Turner @ The Bell House
Known as “The Bitter Buddha,” Eddie Pepitone keeps his comedy dark. He’s shooting a comedy special over the course of two nights, this being the second.
Modern Baseball, Tiny Moving Parts, The Hotelier, Sorority Noise @ Asbury Lanes
It’s a stacked night for emo with the lyrical folk/pop/punk of Modern Baseball, mathy post-hardcore trio Tiny Moving Parts, the dead-serious, socially aware emo/pop punks The Hotelier, and the scrappy power pop-leaning Sorority Noise. Tonight they’re in NJ, and tomorrow they hit NYC.
For all of tonight’s shows, and tomorrow’s, check out our NYC concert calendar.
For laughs, check out the NYC Comedy calendar too.
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