Tough Shits

James Chance, Ian Svenonius & lots more playing Jonathan Toubin's rooftop "Soul Scream" summer series

Every Sunday night at Bushwick’s Our Wicked Lady: Public Practice, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Dirty Fences, Ice Balloons and more will also play.

What's going on Sunday?

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include DeJ Loaf, Margo Price, Playboi Carti, Trevor Noah, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and more.

What's going on Friday? (Robert Plant, How to Dress Well, Rancid, Ultimate Painting, Cold Beat, EMCF, Quintron & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters @ Hammerstein Ballroom Robert Plant still has all the charisma and (most of) the vocal strength that made him a star four decades ago, and his current band (featuring members of Massive Attack and Portishead) help keep his music sounding modern…

Three thousand guitarists to play "Smoke on the Water" on a beach w/ Deep Purple's Ian Gillan for world record attempt

Walk into any Guitar Center right now and chances are there will be someone mangling Deep Purple‘s “Smoke on the Water.” Next to “Stairway to Heaven” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” few other riffs have been butchered so thoroughly, so often…

The Tough Shits, Ex-Humans, Jonathan Toubin and more playing benefit for Josh Styles TODAY at Union Pool

Our pal Josh has to have hip replacement surgery. He will not be able to work. He managed to get on Medicaid but they are only partially paying for the surgery and he is going to end up with a BIG medical bill…