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inaugural Cinder Block Comedy Festival coming to Williamsburg in September

A refreshingly diverse lineup featuring over 150 performers over four days.

What's going on Tuesday?

Screaming Females and Priests at a Times Square movie theatre, the return of Texas is the Reason, Shearwater covering Bowie’s ‘Lodger,’ night 2 of Beach House, plus Noel Fielding, Jeffrey Lewis, Khruangbin, and lots more on this very busy Tuesday night in NYC.

What's going on Tuesday? (The Sword, Jack Ladder, Glen Hansard, Kelela, Elvis Depressedly, Vanessa Carlton & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… The Sword, Royal Thunder @ Webster Hall Tonight Webster Hall hosts a double dose of throwback proto-metal style riffs from The Sword and Royal Thunder…

Astoria, Queens space Q.E.D. hosting comedy, classes & more

One of NYC’s most interesting and criminally overlooked-by-me venues has to be Astoria Queens’ multi-use space Q.E.D. The place opened back in November of 2014 and has since played host to an incredible array of performances, lectures, comedy events, and more and someone should probably punch me and the yams for waiting this long to blab about it…

What's going on Thursday? (Desaparecidos, Andrew Bird, Ty Segall, Lucinda Williams, RJD2, FOUNTAINSUN & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Desaparecidos, The So So Glos @ Shea Stadium Conor Oberst put out his best album in ten years with the new Desaparecidos album…

What's going on Monday? (Ben Folds/yMusic, Kimya Dawson, Lucius, Doug Loves Movies, The Hum & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Ben Folds, yMusic @ Bowery Ballroom Ben Folds’ collaborative new album with classical sextet yMusic still doesn’t have a title or release date, but you can hear it tonight, live, when Ben and yMusic play their first of three sold-out NYC shows…

Brett Davis took over Chris Gethard's timeslot, hosts 'Macaulay Culkin Show', hosting BV-presented Menzingers shows & more

When Chris Gethard left cable access for cable television (his show will debut in May via on Fusion), the guy who took over his Manhattan Neighborhood Network show was Brett Davis…

inaugural Brooklyn Comedy Festival happens next week

We just wrote about the Sixth Annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, and here’s another comedy festival and this one hits next week: The Brooklyn Comedy Festival…

99 comics telling jokes for 99%; Jesse Popp taping a special

Speaking of Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen, maybe you were at the weekly variety show this past Monday when Andy Blitz, one of my favorite people in the biz, performed…