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Show Dates

Shows coming up in the for the Long Island/NYC/Queens/Brooklyn area

 
Date
Bands
Time
Venue
Cover
Age
Wednesday 6/01 Recourse, Epoch Of Unlight 7pm Molly Blooms II, Amityville $7 18+
Thursday 6/02 Dead Hearts / Jeff Cunningham / Your Arsenal 6pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma $5 all
Friday 6/03 Days Like These, Jenoah   Village Pub South, Amittyville   all
Friday 6/03 The Devil Spades; Comisky Players; Slaughterhouse Four 8pm The Almost Home Cafe, West Islip $5 18+
Friday 6/03 With Every Idle Hour, Speed Speed Speed, Gracer 8pm Ultra Sound Lounge, Levittown    
Saturday 6/04 Byzantine, Eyehategod, Triac, Buried Inside   The Hook, Brooklyn   all
Saturday 6/04 The Blue Scene 7pm Bolton Theater, Bayshore $15  
Saturday 6/04 Crybaby McArthur (back from tour, last show ever!) Empty Silos (noise from Long Island) Bottle Rocket (sweet tunes from LI) Sexual Rites (nu hardcore locals) 3pm ABC No Rio, New York City $6 all
Saturday 6/04 Still Life Projector, LOVEHATEHERO, The Forecast, Secret Lives of the Freemasons 7pm (Tap Bar) Knitting Factory, New York City $7 all
Saturday 6/04 The Killers, Louis XIV 5:30pm Central Park Summer Stage, New York City

$32adv
$35dos

all
Saturday 6/04 Down in the Dumps, Ahoy, I AM THE RIOT!, It's a Fucking Catastrophe, Heartfelt Discord (NJ), Quarterlife Crisis 4pm St Marks Church, Bellmore $5 all
Saturday 6/04 Hidden in Plain View, Houston Calls, New Atlantic & more 3pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $12 all
Saturday 6/04 All In Vain; Privilege; SixthGate; Our Own Guilt; Kill The Last hour; The World We knew; the Rescue 5pm Village Pub South, Amityville

$8adv
$10dos

all
Sunday 6/05  Flashlight Arcade; Cinema Eye  8pm Ace Of Clubs, New York City   18+
Sunday 6/05 JENOAH, Slow Coming Day, Days Like These, All My Heroes, Meridian Drive 3pm The Continental, New York City   all
Sunday 6/05 Travis Morrison (ex- Dismemberment Plan); Cataract Camp; Na; Cologne 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $10 18+
Monday 6/06 The Futureheads, High Speed Scene, Pitty Sing 6:30pm Webster Hall, New York City $20 18+
Monday 6/06 Brazil; Three; The Reason; On My Signal 6pm Northsix, Brooklyn $8adv
$10dos
18+
Tuesday 6/07 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks w/ PAIK 8pm Irving Plaza, New York City   all
Tuesday 6/07 I Am The Avalanche, Kill Club, Sub Rosa, The Smash Up, & Yes Virginia 7pm The Continental, New York City   all
Tuesday 6/07 Marqido, War Slut, Emergency, Sundays Best, Aqui 8pm (Tap Bar) Knitting Factory, New York City $8 all
Tuesday 6/07 Lucero; The Honorary Title; Cory Branan 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City

$13adv
$15dos

16+
Tuesday 6/07 Black Castle / Night Wounds / False Step / Toru Okada + More 6pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma $8 all
Wednesday 6/08 Kevin Devine, David Poe 7pm Joe's Pub, New York City $15  
Thursday 6/09 Old 97's w/ Bobby Bare Jr. 8pm Irving Plaza, New York City $25 all
Thursday 6/09 From First To Last, Emanuel, Halifax, He Is Legend 6pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $10adv
$12dos
all
Thursday 6/09 The Coral 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $16adv
$18dos
18+
Friday 6/10 Patent Pending, The Half Jeffersons, Code: Adrenaline, Blind Culture, Drop It Jeffrey, Don't Fall Darling, Broken Hero (CD release), Valet Parking 5:30pm Calvary Lutheran Church, East Meadow $5 all
Friday 6/10 Locksley; Headquarters; Bishop Allen; We Are Scientists 9pm CBGB's, New York City   16+
Friday 6/10 Stars in December 9:30pm Village Pub South, Amityville $10  
Friday 6/10 LCD Soundsystem, The Juan Maclean 6pm Webster Hall, New York City

$20adv
$25dos

18+
Friday 6/10 Larry Tee, A.R.E. Weapons, Duke, Unisex Salon, Apollo Heights 11pm Knitting Factory, New York City

$10adv
$12dos

all
Friday 6/10 Latterman / Yes Sensei 6pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma   all
Saturday 6/11 Autolux; Raveonettes; The Peels 6pm Webster Hall, New York City $20 18+
Saturday 6/11 Spider Nick and The Maddogs, The Rudie Crew, Kevin Batchelor, Bigger Thomas, Mass Hysteria, The Harmonics, DJ Steady Sound System 6pm (Tap Bar) Knitting Factory, New York City $10 all
Saturday 6/11 Where Eagles Dare / Thieves And Assassins / No Trigger / Lock and Key 6pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma $8 all
Saturday 6/11 Patent Pending, Locker 47, Race The Sun 2pm Molly Blooms, Smithtown $5 all
Saturday 6/11 Daughters; Doomriders; Read Yellow; Get Killed 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $10 18+
Saturday 6/11 Celebrity Murders (ex-Indecision), RUINER (from Baltimore), DAY OF THE DEAD (from Portugal), Dear Tonight 3pm ABC No Rio, New York City $6 all
Saturday 6/11 The Dears; Shout Out Louds; Marjorie Fair 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $15 18+
Sunday 6/12 Motion City Soundtrack, Bayside, Over It, The Modern 5pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $15 all
Sunday 6/12 Architecture in Helsinki, Dr. Dog, Head of Femur 8pm Knitting Factory, New York City $8adv
$10dos
all
Monday 6/13

Motion City Soundtrack; The Modern

*must buy MCS cd to get into the show*

7pm Looney Tunes, West Babylon    
Monday 6/13  The Receiving End of Sirens, Rocket Summer, Army of Me, The Rescue, Fly by Wire 6pm The Downtown, Farmingdale

$10adv
$12dos

all
Monday 6/13 Into The Moat (Metal Blade); The End (Relapse Records); The Red Death (Metal Blade); Farewell Tragedy; Edelyn; Clockwork  5pm Village Pub South, Amityville $10 all
Monday 6/13 Architecture in Helsinki; Head of Femur 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $10 18+
Monday 6/13 Sloan 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $20 18+
Tuesday 6/14 Automato; Bloc Party; Engineers 7:30pm Webster Hall, New York City   16+
Tuesday 6/14 Sloan 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $20 18+
Tuesday 6/14 Kimya Dawson; Jason Anderson (aka Wolf Colonel); Strand of Oaks; Schwervon! 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $8 18+
Tuesday 6/14 Pixies, Interpol   Jones Beach, Wantagh   all
Tuesday 6/14 The Gripweeds; Myracle Bra; The Capitol Years; Headquarters 8pm The Delancey, New York City    
Wednesday 6/15 Automato; Bloc Party; Engineers 7:30pm Webster Hall, New York City $20 16+
Wednesday 6/15 the bluffs, hearts over rome, Shanghai Valentine and the campaign 1984, the shemps 8pm the Delancey, New York City    
Thursday 6/16 New Electric; Riddle of Steel; The Love Scene 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $8 18+
Thursday 6/16 Caesars 7:30pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City

$13adv
$15dos

18+
Thursday 6/16 Iron & Wine, Band of Horses 7:00pm Webster Hall, New York City $18adv
$20dos
16+
Thursday 6/16 MARKY RAMONE; The Devil Spades; The Repercussions 7pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $15  
Friday 6/17 Small Arms Dealer(ex-Back up Plan), Three Years Older 9pm Ultra Sound Lounge, Levittown $7 18+
Friday 6/17 Pilot to Gunner, Other Passengers, Tabula Rasa, Rahim 8pm Sin-e, New York City $8  
Friday 6/17 Iron & Wine, Band of Horses 6:30pm Webster Hall, New York City $18adv
$20dos
16+
Friday 6/17 The Sophomore Year, Upper Class Trash 5:30pm  Village Pub South, Amityville $10adv
$12dos
all
Friday 6/17 Ahoy!, The Oblivious, The World We Knew, Perils of Reasoning, Speechless at Gunpoint, Amandown, Beneath the Grave, Palehorse, Fightnight, Stray from the Path, and the Red Dream 5pm Setauket Presbytarian Church, Setauket $8 all
Friday 6/17 Fight Night; Palehorse; Stray From The Path; The Red Dream; BENEATH THE GRAVE; The Oblivious;  Amandown;  Speechless At Gunpoint; Ten Crowns; The World We Knew; Caught Up; At Best 4:30pm  The Fellowship Hall, Setauket $8adv
$12dos
all
Friday 6/17 Rogue Wave; The Helio Sequence; Sam Champion 9pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $13adv
$15dos
18+
Saturday 6/18 Cheap Shot; Rule Of 9; Broken Hero  7pm Dockstreet, Staten Island $8 16+
Saturday 6/18 Therapy, Sarcasm, Thin Dark Line, Traded To Racine 7pm (Tap Bar) Knitting Factory, New York City $8 all
Monday 6/20 Estrela, Southcott, Fall Of Transition, John Connor, Brand New Disaster, Race The Sun 7pm (Old Office) Knitting Factory, New York City $10adv
$12dos
all
Monday 6/20 Modest Mouse 5:30pm Central Park Summer Stage, New York City $30adv
$35dos
all
Monday 6/20 Ionia, Sex Slaves, Stellar Tuesday, Fixer, Filomath 8pm (Tap Bar) Knitting Factory, New York City $8 all
Tuesday 6/21 Copeland, Rainer Maria, Denison Whitmer, & As Tall As Lions 6pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $10adv
$12dos
all
Wednesday 6/22 The Oranges Band; Hockey Island 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $10 18+
Wednesday 6/22 Obliette / Cipher / Blackout / Saddest Day (NJ) 6pm Freespace, Ronkoma $7 all
Thursday 6/23 Sleater - Kinney; Dead Meadow 6:45pm Roseland Ballroom, New York City $21  
Thursday 6/23 Rainer Maria; Copeland 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $12 18+
Thursday 6/23 Comets on Fire; Growing; Sightings 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $14adv
$16dos
18+
Thursday 6/23 Junior Senior 8:30pm Mercury Lounge, New York City $15 21+
Friday 6/24 Sleep of Reason, Heston Rifle 9pm Ultra Sound Lounge, Levittown $7 18+
Friday 6/24 Bella Lea; French Kicks; The Get Up Kids 5pm Webster Hall, New York City $18adv
$20dos
16+
Friday 6/24 Alkaline Trio, Rufio, Thieves like Us 8pm Irving Plaza, New York City

$17adv
$20dos

all
Friday 6/24 Eisley; Lovedrug; Pilotdrift 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $15 18+
Friday 6/24 Have Heart / Learn 6pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma   all
Friday 6/24 Foreknown (Blood & Ink Records);  Fourtoomany; Rule Of Thumb; The World We Knew; Year Of Confession; Forever Scorn  7pm Village Pub South, Amittyville $10 all
Saturday 6/25 The Blue Scene 9pm Lion's Den, New York City    
Saturday 6/25 Plan-it-X Fest + Kimya Dawson. Bands: Defiance Ohio / Ghost Mice / This Bike is a Pipe Bomb + More 12pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma   all
Sunday 6/26 Ted Leo + Pharmacists; Off Minor; Radio 4 8pm Irving Plaza, New York City

$15adv
$17dos

all
Monday 6/27 Billy Corgan 8pm Webster Hall, New York City

$35adv
$40dos

16+
Monday 6/27 Fine Print / Life in Pictures 8pm Freespace, Ronkoma    
Monday 6/27 Head Automatica; Nightmare of You; The Fury; DJ Crazy Glue 7PM Bowery Ballroom, New York City $14adv
$16dos
16+
Monday 6/27 The Goodwill, Days Like These, Little Yellow Box, Before My Eyes 8pm (Tap Bar) Knitting Factory, New York City $8 all
Monday 6/27 Blindside, Showbread, The Showdown 8pm the Knitting Factory, New York City $12 all
Tuesday 6/28 Billy Corgan 8pm Webster Hall, New York City

$35adv
$40dos

16+
Tuesday 6/28 David Melillo, Rookie Of The Year, Cute Is What We Aim For 7pm the Continental, New York City   all
Tuesday 6/28 Catch 22, Wakefield, High School Football Heroes 7:30pm the Knitting Factory, New York City $12 all
Wednesday 6/29 Longwave; Benzos; The Picture 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $15 18+
Wednesday 6/29 The Devil Spades; Let It Burn; Thee Merry Widows (CA); Jesse Jaymz & The Country Blumpkins; Psychocharge 8pm CBGB, New York City $10 16+
Wednesday 6/29 Reel Big Fish; El Pus; Punchline 7pm Irving Plaza, New York City $21  
Thursday 6/30 Patent Pending,  The Fad, Tragedy Letters, The Vagabonds, The Semester, and Code: Adrenaline 6pm The Crazy Donkey, Farmingdale $10  
Thursday 6/30 Blindside, Showbread & The Showdown 6:30pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $13adv
$15dos
all

 

July 2005
Date
Bands
Time
Venue
Cover
Age
Friday 7/01 The Aquabats; The Epoxies; The Phenomenauts   BB King's Blues Club, New York City    
Friday 7/01 Modern Machine, The Ergs, Bent Outta Shape, Lost Locker Combo, the Shemps 8pm Tommys Tavern, Brooklyn $5  
Saturday 7/02 Stars in December, Yes Virginia, Sarcasm, Orion (hot foot records), The Shemps, Kevin Devine (Triple Crown Records), The Forcast (victory records), Rockets and Cars, Hello Nurse, Aslan (sexy killer records), Hijinx, The Shit (welfare records), Action Toolbelt (Fastmausic), TSP, The NSG (vudu records), more TBA 11:30am The Country Fair Grounds, Medford $5 all
Sunday 7/03 Anterrabae; Folly 5pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $11 all
Monday 7/04 Murderer, Augustine 7pm Almost Home Cafe, West Islip   all
Wednesday 7/06 Himsa, The Agony Scene, Full Blown Chaos, The Esoteric 6pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $12 all
Wednesday 7/06 Sinking Ships / Shook Ones 6pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma    
Thursday 7/07 The Devil Spades; The Ultra Sounds 8pm Otto's Shrunken Head, New York City free  
Thursday 7/07 Panthers; Immortal Lee County Killers; Little Killers 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $10 18+
Friday 7/08 BC Records Presents: The City On Film Bob Nanna (of Braid and Hey Mercedes with other members of HM), General Miggs, Rescue, Con Amore, So Many Dynamos, Others TBA 8pm (Old Office) the Knitting Factory, New York City $7 all
Friday 7/08 Mindless Self Indulgence 5:30pm Webster Hall, New York City

$25adv
$30dos

16+
Friday 7/08 Memphis Morticians, the Devil Spades 9pm Ultra Sound Lounge, Levittown $7 18+
Friday 7/08 GBH; The God Awfuls 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City $16adv
$18dos
18+
Friday 7/08 Constantines   Mercury Lounge, New York City   21+
Saturday 7/09 Kill Your Idols, Seein' Red, Bury The Living, Kriegstanz 9pm Northsix, Brooklyn $7  
Saturday 7/09 Do Make Say Think; Blame Game 9pm  

$13adv
$15dos

18+
Saturday 7/09 Seein' Red, Kriegstanz, Bury The Living 2pm ABC No Rio, New York City $6 all
Saturday 7/09 Groovie Ghoulies, Teenage Bottle Rocket, Teenage Harlets, The Unlovables 7pm (Tap Bar) the Knitting Factory, New York City $8  
Saturday 7/09 Mindless Self Indulgence 5:30pm Webster Hall, New York City

$25adv
$30dos

16+
Saturday 7/09 the Power & the Glory, Bleeding Kansas, Post Office Gals, Johnny Cage Is A Fake 9pm (Old Office) the Knitting Factory, New York City $8 all
Sunday 7/10 Bleeding Through (Trustkill Records); Zao (Ferret Music); Darkest Hour (Victory Records); Misery Signals (Ferret Music); Fight Paris (Trustkill Records)  5pm  B.B. King's Blues Club, New York $15  
Sunday 7/10 Mindless Self Indulgence 7pm Webster Hall, New York City

$25adv
$30dos

16+
Sunday 7/10 Say Anything, Circa Survive, Emmanuel 6:30pm the Knitting Factory, New York City

$10adv
$12dos

all
Sunday 7/10 Anberlin, Saosin, Acceptance, code:Seven, Terminal 5pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $12 all
Tuesday 7/12 Say Anything, Circa Survive (ex-Saosin & This Day Forward) & more TBA 7pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $10 all
Wednesday 7/13 Royksopp 8pm Irving Plaza, New York City $20adv
$25dos
 
Wednesday 7/13 The Bravery, The Dead 60’s   Webster Hall, New York City $20adv
$23dos
18+
Thursday 7/14 Dinosaur Jr.; Broken Social Scene 4:30pm Central Park Summer Stage, New York City $37.25adv
$40dos
all
Thursday 7/14 Tegan & Sara, Communique   Webster Hall, New York City $17adv
$20dos
16+
Thursday 7/14 Empty Silos Echo War, Yes Sensi 10pm Sin E, New York City    
Thursday 7/14 Mae, Lovedrug, This Day & Age, Dropping Daylight 6pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $12adv
$13dos
all
Friday 7/15 The Pennyroyals   Tribeca Rock Club, New York City    
Saturday 7/16 Yes Sensi, Empty Silos Echo War, Matthew Winn 9pm Cedar Beach, Mt Siani free  
Sunday 7/17 18 Visions, Black Maria, He Is Legend, Love Hate Hero 5pm The Downtown, Farmingdale

$12adv
$14dos

 
Sunday 7/17 The Blue Scene 6pm Creative Performing Arts Center, Oakdale    
Tuesday 7/19 Elvis Costello & The Imposters 6pm Central Park Summer Stage, New York City

$57.50adv
$60dos

all
Tuesday 7/19 Blue Monday / Go It Alone / Allegiance 6pm Freespace, Ronkonkoma   all
Tuesday 7/19 The Subhumans, From Ashes Rise 5:30pm  B.B. King's Blues Club, New York   all
Thursday 7/21 Junius, Automatic Arms, Gracer   169 Bar, New York City    
Thursday 7/21 Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs 7pm Webster Hall, New York City $20 18+
Thursday 7/21 Coheed & Cambria 8pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City   18+
Friday 7/22 The Academy Is 6:30pm the Knitting Factory, New York City

$10adv
$12dos

all
Friday 7/22 Coheed & Cambria   Irving Plaza, New York City    
Saturday 7/23 Fear Before The March of Flames, Curl Up and Die, Bear vs. Shark, Fire When Ready 2pm The Downtown, Farmingdale $10 all
Sunday 7/24 The Academy Is, Plain White T's, Days Away, & June 5pm The Downtown, Farmingdale

$10adv
$12dos

all
Sunday 7/24 The Blue Scene, SGT   Theatre, Patchouge    
Monday 7/25 Gravy Train!!!!, Veronica Lipgloss, V.I.P. 8pm the Knitting Factory, New York City $10 all
Monday 7/25 SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS (Immortal Records), The Forecast (Victory Records), SUNDAY DRIVER (Doghouse Records), EMMA (Emerald Moon Records) 8pm (Old Office) the Knitting Factory, New York City $8  
Wednesday 7/27 Action Action; Gatsby's American Dream; Spitalfield; Waking Ashland 7pm the Continental, New York City   all
Wednesday 7/27 Pelican, Panthers, Big Business 8pm the Knitting Factory, New York City $12 all
Thursday 7/28 Action Action; Gatsby's American Dream; Spitalfield; Waking Ashland 6pm The Downtown, Farmingdale

$10adv
$12dos

all
Friday 7/29 The Blue Scene 10pm Kenny's Castaways, New York City    
Saturday 7/30 Cruiserweight (Doghouse Records), The Letters Organize (Nitro Records), My Epiphany (Eyeball Records), The Blackout Pact (Astromagnetics) 7pm (Old Office) the Knitting Factory, New York City $8  
Sunday 7/31 All-American Rejects 5pm The Downtown, Farmingdale

$15

all
Sunday 7/31 Duran Duran   Jones Beach, Wantagh    

 

August 2005
Date
Bands
Time
Venue
Cover
Age
Friday 8/05 L.A.O., SleepBellumSonno, Gracer, In Pieces 6:30pm Village Pub South, Amittyville   all
Thursday 8/11 Ahoy!, Shattered Realm, Death Before Dishonor, Ramallah, and Suffocate Faster 7pm The Crazy Donkey, Farmingdale $10  
Friday 8/12 The Devil Spades 8pm 169 Bar, New York City $5  
Saturday 8/13 Warped Tour   Randall's Island    
Saturday 8/13 Brian Wilson   Jones Beach, Wantagh    
Tuesday 8/16 Holly Golightly; Tom Heinl 8pm Northsix, Brooklyn $12  
Thursday 8/18 HIDDEN IN PLAINVIEW; New Atlantic 7pm the Knitting Factory, New York City   all
Thursday 8/18 Death Cab for Cutie; The Decemberists; Stars 5:30pm Central Park Summer Stage, New York City $30adv
$35dos
all
Friday 8/19 Sufjan Stevens 8:30pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City   18+
Saturday 8/20 Sufjan Stevens 8:30pm Bowery Ballroom, New York City