A Place Both Wonderful and Strange

From Witches and Zombies to cover bands and parades, here are our picks for best Halloween shows, events and parties in NYC this week.

From GWAR and Coven to tribute band shows and parades for dogs and humans, here are our picks for best Halloween shows, events and parties in NYC.

Plus: more ‘Twin Peaks’ events in NYC.

NYC will be busy with many spooky events and Halloween-themed fun this year. We round it all up, including the Village parade, Peaches, GWAR, Fatboy Slim, Diamanda Galas, cover shows, and more.

Northside Fest is in full swing, which means even more NYC-area shows than usual. Tonight there’s the BV/AdHoc showcase with Aldous Harding, Dirty Projectors/Kamasi Washington/Jay Som, The War On Drugs, Dan Auerbach, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Mary Timony Plays Helium, Giuda, and more.

The NY Comic Con was this past weekend, as well as the related NY Super Week, and one of the events was the Blade Rave, a dance party that recreated the opening sequence from the original Blade film…

If you’ve seen the 1998 vampire action flick Blade, you probably remember its opening scene, set at a stylish underground rave where unsuspecting revelers are having the time of their lives…

by Bill Pearis photo: Tamaryn @ Levitation 2015 (more by PSquared)

Neko Case in Long Island in 2011 (more by Greg Cristman) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows. Here are some highlights…