Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement

This historic circa 1915 350-capacity theater is the new location where Tonic stages occasional events since closing their doors in Spring 2007 MORE…

Asterisk Art Project

Asterisk is a Bushwick art space that every now and then hosts amazing parties and underground rock shows. MORE…

BAM Cafe

A cavernous room and rather stiff place to see a show, BAM Cafe is nevertheless located in the beautiful 1908 Beaux Arts Brooklyn Academy of Music Peter Jay Sharp building and it’s not the worst place in town to dine. MORE…

Black Betty

Perhaps the first in Williamsburg’s first wave of hipster bars, Black Betty’s evolved into an eclecticly restrained neighborhood classic with decent Middle Eastern fare and a weekly ram jam by the incomperable Reverend Vince Anderson. MORE…

Bowery Ballroom

Built in 1929, this is one of the most beautiful and best-sounding rooms in the city. Since it’s a less-comunity oriented more general “venue,” the bookings varies in terms of genre, quality, etc. MORE…

Cake Shop

Not only a cafe and record store, with some of the better coffee and baked goods in the neighborhood, but the Cake Shop’s the only New York venue offering live underground music from the indie side of the whoopie pie every night of the week. Staffed by music-lovers who’ve done plenty of time in the scene, the basement’s booking policy’s both well-informed and diverse… And they now have a full bar. Check out New York Night Train’s peice on the venue. MORE…

Central Park Summerstage

Debuted in 1986 with a concert by the Sun Ra Arkestra, Summerstage sounds great, looks great, books a really interesting diversity of music from around the world, and, benefits withstanding, has free admission. But get ther early for anything popular MORE…

Club Midway

Owned, operated, and staffed by long-time NYC underground musicians and scenesters, and residing in the same spot as Scenic, Guernica, and Save the Robots, the basement floor features a stylistic variation of music but specializes in the heavy stuff. MORE…

Dead Herring House

A DIY show/loft space on the north side of the Williamsburg bridge, right next to the Woodser. MORE…

Death By Audio

This DIY space, just around the corner from Glasslands, has been host to a number of fine shows, Todd P and otherwise, of late. MORE…

Don Pedro’s

A charming, inexpesive, and long-standing neighborhood Ecuadorian restaurant/bar that once hosted a Black Lips show thrown by neighbor Crypt Records, Don Pedro’s now hosts regular Todd P shows. MORE…

Europa

Absolutely one of the top two Polish discos in all of Greenpoint to witness an indie rock show. MORE…

Glasslands Gallery

Hosting shows, parties, and art events with increasing frequency, the charming Glasslands Galley, which stemmed from Brooke Baxter’s Glass House, is every day a more vital part of NYC’s live underground music and art scene. MORE…

Hanks Saloon

46 3rd Ave. at the Corner of Atlantic
Brooklyn, NY

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Subways: G to Fulton St.
C to Lafayette Station
D, M, N, R to Pacific St.
2,3,4,5 to Atlantic Ave.

Knitting Factory

One of the more cutting edge New York music venues for almost 15 of its 20 years in business, the ol’ gal, miles away from the adventurism of her youth, still has an occasional show up her sleeve. MORE…

Lakeside Lounge

If the walls here could talk… A Lower East Side fixture just above Tompkins Square Park, with the best photobooth and arguably the best jukebox in town, Lakeside still continues to have rootsy shows on a nightly basis. MORE…

Lit

Monday’s amazing Precious Metal party withstanding, there ain’t a whole lotta great shows here any more - but this dingy hipster hole is an amazing place to see one when they’ve got it goin’ on and decent DJs sometimes spin as well. MORE…

Luna Lounge

“This looks like the kind of place the cast of Beverly Hills 90210 would go to catch a band.” My friend agreed, “That’s so weird… I was just telling a dude a few minutes ago that I felt like I was in a rock venue from an early 1990s movie.” MORE…

Magnetic Field

One of the better places in Brooklyn, or the city for that matter, to watch your favorite band, this Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill border bar has reasonable drinks, friendly folks, great sound, and a perfect stage that’s hosted some of the country’s finer garage-ish bands - all the way from The Fleshtones to The Black Lips. LA… MF… MORE…

Maxwell’s

Another historic venue that’s seen better days in terms of booking but still sometimes busts out a candy gig. In the 1980s Maxwell’s became such an important indie rock stop that Peter Buck bought a piece of the ship to keep it from going under, as, later, did Bob Mould, and, much later, current co-owner Steve Shelley. The sound is amazing, there ain’t a bad spot in the room, and the grub is just fine. MORE…

Michelenes

1124 Broadway (at Kosciuszko under the JMZ)
Brooklyn, NY 11221
(718) 453-0400
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train: J to Kosciuszko

Monkey Town

This southwest Williamsburg restaurant/bar has box-shaped back room with a giant screen on each of the four walls. A killer place for video-oriented stuff but also a decent place to see a show - particularly the multimedia variety. MORE…

Monster Island

Longstanding cluster of vital DIY art, music, and performance spaces that includes Secret Project Robot, Live With Animals, Kayrock Screenprinting, Todd P’s rehearsal complex, and Avant floor. MORE…

Prospect Park Bandshell

An unworldly venue in one of the world’s finest parks (by Central Park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux), this circa 1939 bandshell, modernized and given a few facelifts over the years, hosts Celebrate Brooklyn’s many summer shows. MORE…

Silent Barn

A mid-sized DIY house in Ridgewood where Todd P frequently does shows. The upstairs is roomy enought, has a proper stage, and is an excellent spot for bandwatching. MORE…

Soundfix Records

The cafe behind this rather generic indie pop-centered recording vendor is a fine place for a free instore - handsome wooden room, warm acoustics, and an upright piano MORE…

Spiegel

This ornate antique Belgian tent has been a mobile venue at European spectacles for over a century. For the second year in a row it is parked near Fulton Fish Market for your entertainment pleasure. MORE…

Studio B

A cavernous Polish disco with a hexagonal doorway, crazy lights, and sometimes fake smoke, Studio B, under a few different names, has been the sight of many amazing shows and dance parties over the years. MORE…

The Hook

18 Commerce Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn

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bus: B61

The Tank

The Tank
279 Church St. (at Franklin)
New York, NY 10013
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trains: ACEJMZNQRWZ6 to Canal

The Woodser

The Woodser
141 South 5th #1SE
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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train:L Bedford, JMZ Marcy
bus: Q50 - Kent@S. 3rd, B61 - Driggs/Bedrord@S. 2nd

Trash

Housed in the former Luxx, this sleazy rock dive hasw incomperable tater tots, decent sound, and books almost exclusively rock’n'freakin’roll. MORE…

Union Hall

The downstairs bar of this sizeable Park Slope restaurant features nightly performances by local indie pop and rock bands. MORE…

Union Pool

This wild and wooly longtime neighborhood watering hole has opened their back space to shows in the last year or so. The size, sound, and, moreover, wooden warmth of the room makes it an ideal place to see shows. MORE…

Warsaw at the Polish National Home

This wonderous old Polish ballroom is not only something to look at, but pierogis, kielbasas, and other delights can be obtained in the side-room. The boomy room’s sound typically stinks - but who isn’t more forgiving when it comes to aesthetic beauty? MORE…