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What's going on Friday? (Shiner, Winter Jazzfest, Slick Rick, Rick Ross, Yonatan Gat, Pill, D.R.A.M., Bettye LaVette, more)

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photo: Matana Roberts at Brooklyn Masonic Temple in 2013 (more by Greg Cristman)
Matana Roberts

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

Winter Jazzfest
The 2016 edition of the multi-venue Winter Jazzfest NYC really kicks into full gear today and tomorrow, with countless great shows. Today includes tUnE-yArDs collaborator Naytronix at The New School Jazz Building Glass Box Theater; drag artist Joey Arias, rock-covering jazz band Sexmob and Brooklyn Bhangra band Red Baraat at LPR; Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld with sax great Colin Stetson at Judson Memorial Church; contemporary avant-garde musician Matana Roberts at Subculture; Dutch art punk vets The Ex at The Greene Space; R&B trio KING and Kendrick Lamar producer Terrace Martin at The Bitter End; and so much more.

Shiner, Rosetta, Spotlights @ Saint Vitus
This is the first of two BrooklynVegan-presented Saint Vitus shows for reunited ’90s-era band Shiner, whose spacey post-hardcore was quite possibly ahead of its time (it’s been very much in style lately). Opening tonight are atmospheric metal band Rosetta and sludge-gazers Spotlights.

Slick Rick, Kosha Dillz @ Brooklyn Bowl
Slick Rick, one of rap’s first great storytellers and master of the laid-back flow, is still kicking and playing his annual birthday show in NYC tonight. Humorous Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz opens.

Rick Ross @ Stage 48
Rick Ross returned in late 2015 with the new album Black Market, and even if he’s not in the fame spotlight as much as he once was (the album was rolled out rather quietly), he’s still making quality tunes.

D.R.A.M., Abra @ Santos Party House
D.R.A.M. may have been best known for a while as the guy behind the Beyonce-endorsed and Drake-sampled viral hit “Cha Cha,” but more recent material makes it seem like he’s got a real career ahead of him. Experimental R&B artist Abra, of the cultish Awful Records crew, opens this show.

Psychemagik, Francesco Tristano, Beto Cravioto & Higgins, Tuff Cone, DJ Timo @ Good Room
Psychedelic dance duo Psychemagik got their start making notable remixes (their take on Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” is especially good), but lately they’ve been putting out original songs which are just as infectious.

Yonatan Gat, PC Worship, Guardian Alien @ Mercury Lounge
Yonatan Gat is very much a “see it live” musician, as he and his band’s style — usually set up on the floor and highly improvisational — can be described (as I have before) as in-your-face. If you’re ok with that, his shows are highly recommended. This is a very DIY bill all-around, with the noisy PC Worship and Liturgy’s Greg Fox in solo Guardian Alien form

Wall, Pill, RIPS @ Union Pool
Brooklyn band Wall make scratchy post punk (a more serious B-52’s come to mind) and their debut EP was produced by Parquet Courts’ Austin Brown. Tonight’s the release show with skronky Pill and RIPS on the bill, too.

‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’ & “The Man Who Fell to Earth’ @ Walter Reade Theater
David Bowie, who we lost this week, was an accomplished actor in addition to being a musician. See him in two of his most iconic roles with these free screenings at Lincoln Center. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is at 6:30 PM; The Man Who Fell to Earth is at 9 PM.

Betty LaVette @ City Winery
Soul vet Bettye LaVette continues to tour in support of this year’s Worthy. This show is part of the APAP conference/festival.

The Black Clouds, Crazy and the Brains, Those Mockingbirds, Dead Stars, Darkwing @ Pianos
Crazy & the Brains take classic punk and inject it with a serious amount of xylophone playing. If that sounds weird, you just have to see it in action. Also worth catching tonight are the ’90s-style indie rockers Dead Stars. (And note, headliners The Black Clouds are the NJ band, not the DC post-rock band Black Clouds.)

Ryan Hemsworth @ Output
Maker of several beats of the cloud rap era, Ryan Hemsworth brings the party to Output tonight.

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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