This 'Burg dive offers everything you want in a dark, slightly dirty bar. Loud music pours from the jukebox, while sometimes live music also pounds from the back room. The drinks are good and pretty cheap, the bartenders attractive, the [more...]

The Zodiac is a Greek restaurant in Astoria which has a live orchestra on Saturday nights. People turn up in ballgowns, others are more casual. It's packed, frenetic, and fun.

One of the best small music venues I have been to in New York. Great atmosphere, great acts. Make sure you reserve one of the tables on the raised area around the bar to take in the scene best. They serve dinner, which looks fine [more...]

This is a friendly gay bar with generous drinks, live entertainment, and an easy going staff. Plus, there is a beautiful outdoor patio. On Sundays, Desperate Housewives is on religiously at 9pm, followed by Karaoke with Peppermint [more...]

For info, email: juilliardatnight@juilliard.edu
This world famous arts institution offers evening classes to the public! Classes are taught by renowned experts in the music and [more...]

This guitar store is known worldwide. It is a music mecca and you should go even if you can only play Mary Had A Little Lamb on your crappy thrift store guitar. The [more...]

Arts at St. Anne's is a space off the beaten performance path in NYC. Come here to see imaginative music and theater programs at the St. Ann's Warehouse, located at 38 Water Street in D.U.M.B.O.

A lesser known music festival that is well worth the travel time. Not to mention the fact that this is one of the most beautiful areas in New York state. Go to the Dutchess website for [more...]

The Clearwater Festival boasts a Green Living Expo, workshops and classes, crafts tables, an activists' area, a working waterfront, is recorded live [more...]

Vintage tours offers the tour for the rock and roll couple. They'll take you to sites associated with the Ramones, Talking Heads, New York Dolls, and many more. [more...]

If you want to be a dj, there's now an academy in New York to teach you the skills. You can take a basic intro class for 2 hrs or a 3 month extensive course for which the final exam has you spinning in a club for real.

DubSpot, [more...]

ROTHKO at 116 Suffolk St.
On the first Monday of the month, a D.J. lays down instrumental tracks while downtowners try their best to channel a famous rapper.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is our favorite place to go for live performing events. The roster of companies is more varied and interesting than most large performance venues - and definitely worth the trip out there.

MOMA has a Summer Contemporary Classical Music Garden Series.
On most summer weekends MOMA presents free concerts of "avante-garde" contemporary classical music in the museum's Sculpture Garden.

This is really neat. BargeMusic at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083, (718) 624-4061.
Bargemusic presents chamber music on a converted barge on the Brooklyn waterfront. There are amazing views of the skyline [more...]

The Juilliard School of Music at Lincoln Center, is a great place to see free concerts by extremely talented classical musicians. The Paul Recital Hall hosts free student recitals almost daily during the school year. A good way to do [more...]

For those with a taste for sophistication, dress up for an evening out with legendary lounge singer Bobby Short at the Cafe Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel, (76th Street and Madison). Just know it's about $60 per person. For all the [more...]

Sweet Basil has sets Monday-Sunday at 9, 11 and (Fri-Sat only) 12:30 am; open daily from noon to 2 am for lunch, dinner, late supper, plus no-cover weekend brunch. [more...]

Metronome has no cover charge or minimum, but the food and drinks are kinda pricey. The things that set it apart from a lot of the hole-in-the-wall places: it's [more...]

Bradley's is at 70 University Place at 11th Avenue. Phone: (212) 228-6440. This is a jazz man's jazz club - they play nothing else. It is pricier than some other places, but in this case, you still get more than what you pay for.