Big Apple BBQ

JC Brooks, Alejandro Escovedo, & Southern Culture on the Skids playing Maxwell's after Big Apple BBQ (not together)

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound at #HotelVegan (more by Amanda Hatfield) Call Maxwell’s the unofficial New Jersey headquarters for the Big Apple BBQ…

Big Apple BBQ 2012 music lineup announced

JC Brooks @ BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Nate Igor Smith) The most non-vegan, free NYC event of the year once again curates a great lineup of rock and soul to accompany the food at Madison Square Park on June 9th and 10th…

Doug Gillard is doing stuff (Captain Beefheart show w/ Gary Lucas, Beatles band, Tommy Keene tour, Nada Surf LP)

Doug Gillard @ Irving Plaza NYE (more by Chris Gersbeck) I got heavily obsessed with Guided By Voices after the demise of the “classic ’93 – ’96 line-up” which featured Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, and Greg Demos (a line-up that reunited in 2010 and has been blazing a sweaty, beer soaked trail across the US since) (this past weekend’s Sasquatch Festival included)…

Big Apple BBQ 2011 free music lineup announced, includes Those Darlins and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears

Black Joe Lewis @ Outside Lands 2009 (more by Chris Graham) Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears and Those Darlins just cant get enough of each other…

free shows in Madison Square Park (Big Apple BBQ this wknd)

The 2010 lineup for Madison Square Park‘s annual Oval Lawn series of free Wednesday shows is below. Held in the same NYC location that the Big Apple BBQ occupies this weekend (June 12-13), the series will offer eight free concerts this summer…

Lucero played Pianos, the Big Apple BBQ & Maxwells (pics)

“Lucero on the heels of four Hold Steady shows in a damn row? I may very well be far too old for these things. The weather is nice(r) and it only makes a man think that it’s a good idea to ride the bike to Hoboken and post up at Maxwells…

Big Apple BBQ Block Party - 2009 music lineup includes Lucero (after Maxwell's) & Junior Brown (all tour dates)

The Sadies @ Big Apple BBQ 2008 (more by Chris La Putt)The Seventh Annual Snapple Big Apple Barbecue Block Party returns to Madison Square Park June 13-14, 2009, from 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM…

The Sadies, Eli Paperboy Reed & Alex Battles in a park - pics

words & Alex Battles and the Whiskey Rebellion, Eli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves, and The Sadies were the free entertainment at the second day of the Big Apple BBQ in Madison Square Park on Sunday (June 8, 2008)…

free music @ the Big Apple BBQ in NYC this weekend

Although I can’t endorse the BBQ aspect of this thing, there’s no denying that this looks like a great lineup of free music at Madison Square Park in NYC this weekend…