"not selling anything / open for business ... open organizing purposes & for gathering"

"under 16 with guardian"

6:30pm doors

7pm doors; WA & DS album links asap; "Roland SP404 raffle. Entry ends on May 1st."

apbw&s album matter and desire on bandcamp

7pm doors

w/ Layale Chaker, Alexandria DeWalt, Melanie Dyer, Elizabeth Kate, Lesley Mok; LIVESTREAM

7:30pm doors

5pm-7pm free roundtable discussion w/ artists

7pm doors

7:30pm doors

8pm tix + 10pm tix

11pm doors

under 18 allowed with guardian

speeches, workshops, & music from "withfriends, bandnada, Berried Seed, Nowhere Studios, Lamp Club, United Musicians & Allied Workers, NYC Artist Coalition, American Federation of Musicians, & more" ... "New York’s music scene is broken. Good venues are closing left & right; many of the existing ones are exploitative ... The myth of radical self-sufficiency has us isolated, spending our time creating content for profit-driven corporations ... But that's not the way it has to be..."

lighting & set design by Color Theory, food by foodpyramidNYC

$20 early, up to $40 door

w/ Layale Chaker, Alexandria DeWalt, Melanie Dyer, Elizabeth Kate, Lesley Mok; LIVESTREAM

ACCESS: 21+ 📶 1 flight stairs

8pm tix + 10pm tix

doors close 7:30pm

6:30pm doors; ms w/ "Stacy Lynn Smith, Shannon Yu, Vicky Shick, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, with Mor Mendel & Nora Alami in spirit. Sound design by Shamar Watt."

6pm doors

6:30pm doors; liz says: "Try the Pie, the long-running songwriting project of Bean Kaloni Tupou, will be in town from the Bay Area ... if you like sharp & attentive songwriting, guitar-pop that moves between noise & poetry & twang, if you were a fan of Salinas Records in the 2010s or if you enjoy bands like Wednesday, etc, I think you will love their music."

7:30pm doors

"event includes auditive guidance"

"support your neighbors in the face of detention & fascism!" knowledge + resource share; EO: Amirtha Kidambi, Alfredo Colón, Matt Nelson, Lester St. Louis, Jason Nazary

"cute fest: putting the 'superfun' in 'superfund site'" lmao; lineup on insta

7:30pm doors

works by Franz Liszt, Missy Mazzoli, John Glover, Kevin Kenkel, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Robert Palmer, Ned Rorem, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Michael Fiday, Devonté Hynes

7pm doors

6:30pm doors; "open to all levels of musicial experience, participants will be invited to vocalize, though they are also welcome to join as only spectator-listeners"

7pm doors

7:30pm doors

originals + works by Thelonious Monk & Caitro Soto from new marcelo album

"supporting the discovery of Mortimer Wortman"

🌀 notaflof work trade

7pm doors

J.K.H. w/ Anders Nillson, Michael T.A. Thompson; H.Y.B. w/ Vivek Menon, Gían Pérez, Orchid McRae

6:30pm doors

new weinberg & kieran daly release

7pm doors

7pm doors

works by Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, György Ligeti

7pm-4am, happy hour w/ Alenaudio B2B Niki Krax, Biker Jake, i'm just double-listing cuz i check the end for late-night stuff

SOBM ft. Tim Dahl, Matt Mitchell, Raoul Björkenheim, Olli Hirvonen, Matt Nelson, Nick Lyons; blight music on bandcamp ("salvador dahl" = lol excellent); flyer, also on fb, "after party location TBA"

7pm doors; "ambient drone shoegaze experimental showcase"

🌀 notaflof work trade // "WP is a geological sound collaboration between Dylan RT & Joey Fishman ... Desert-born producer Cholla programs soft rhythms anchored around the earthy & effervescent side of the ambient-dub genre"

Zahra Najafi & Rokka Hashimoto w/ May Yu, Mahiri "Khasso" Fainke, Baba Moussa, Kristina Rossi

"underground music & otherworldly performance art"

Deuén w/ Rohana Chase, Curtis Mcphatter, Veda Lashkimirayan, Leah Morris, Sofia Gonzalez.

"an evening of indie & experimental noises, songs, guitars, violins & midi controllers"

full lineup & rsvp link asap

7pm doors

7:30pm doors

7pm doors

works by Elliott Carter & Frederic Rzewski

10:30pm performance, 11:30pm-2am session

"music & pizza every thursday night," rotating cast

🌀 notaflof work trade

7pm doors

7pm doors

7pm doors, "experimental pop, punk, & dance sounds"

6:30pm doors

w/ Kevin Newton, Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson, Anna Abondolo, Jon Starks

Rare Frequency Transmissions presents

"an Intimate Concert," register

Editrix: Steve Cameron, Josh Daniel, Wendy Eisenberg

raising funds for ABC No Rio

6pm doors, backyard house show rain or shine, link to flyer, confirmed 5/9

raising funds for ABC No Rio

7pm doors

"formal wedding attire is encouraged," no guaranteed entry after 8:30pm; "one-night immersive art, theatre, & music experience ... responds to recent turmoil & violence surrounding immigration, green cards, & visa policies," click thru for full artist list

new tygapaw release (!)

🌀 if nightlife work's your primary income, u can register as a member & i think go for free?; fill out the "join us" email field & they'll be in touch +++ "if you are still at OFFICE HOURS when the music stops at 6AM, you will get free entry to SLAMBIENT"

🌀 if nightlife work's your primary income, u can register as a member & i think go for free?; fill out the "join us" email field & they'll be in touch +++ 2pm Chris Cruse Stonewall Jukebox Project; 🌀 free entry if you stay til the end of office hours the night before (ends 6am)

2:30pm open rehearsal, public invited to watch & ask Qs, 4pm performance;  "improvisers’ community orchestra" w/ Frank London, Westbrook Johnson, Patrick Holmes, Nick Gianni, Ayumi Ishito, Josh Sinton, Claire de Brunner, Stephanie Griffin, On Ka'a Davis, Rod Williams, Hilliard Greene, Lloyd Haber

"new music for piano"

ACCESS: ❓

5pm doors

6pm doors

free w/ rsvp

7pm doors; join wait list

7p doors

7pm doors; join wait list

7pm doors

7:30pm tix + 9pm tix

7:30pm doors; SL curated by Ian Douglas-Moore, Jessica Pavone, David Watson

7:30pm doors

full lineup from flyer

free with rsvp; "ASL, projected captions, a haptic wall, & masks" + reading by Eva Cilman; "HEARD is an abolitionist, cross-disability organization dedicated to ending violence against & incarceration of deaf & disabled individuals"

SS#17: the thing they cannot imagine is us (after Rebecca Solnit) pb w/ Ellen Christi, Bob Holman, Susan Hwang, Dafna Naphatali, On Ka'a Davis, Claire de Brunner

🌀 notaflof work trade // new zosha lp

7pm doors

7pm doors

7pm doors; full lineup on insta

J.H.K. w/ Chris Forbes, Bryan Carrott, Ken Filiano, Andrew Drury; H.Y.B. w/ Vivek Menon, Gían Pérez, Orchid McRae

"a thematic inquiry, distribution service ... "formulated as relayed plays with commerce ... stations from Bungee Space, Canal Street Research Association, Fei Liu, & Jen Liu ... please bring your unwanted pennies to begin the exchange"

lineup asap; LIVESTREAM

7pm doors; "refrain from talking, & the space will be phone & photo free. This is a seated space, & you are welcome to bring blankets or pillows"; join wait list

7pm doors

new shara lunon release

🌀 notaflof work trade; "begins with a group instruction on mindful movement & body awareness"

"gallery exhibition inspired by Parapsychologist Konstantin Raudive's recordings of Electronic Voice Phenomena ... live performance ... activating S.A.A.—a sound sculpture composed of salvaged metal buckets from the Hudson Valley. Outfitted with copper coils, these resonant vessels function as both receivers & transmitters ... conversation with the artist will follow"

🇵🇸 PACBI (chaos warp!) +++ bonkers okay: REAGAN HOLIDAY vs MANKID, DUO vs LINGO, Rage.inald VS MIRA MIRA vs MOBÉY LOLA IRIZARRY, sodomahigomorra vs NANA XOXO, SPAGHETTI HUMAN BEING vs DANIREV, ZAC-A-RAMA! vs GATERROR, RUGIRUGZ vs CREEPIECRAWLIE, RUMBLE ROYALE REDUXE:: VENUS TWIN vs VENUS TWIN vs BEMIS PACT vs MOWRI vs BONNIE BAXTER vs DREAMCRUSHER vs “SWEET” vs CRAB vs OOPHORO vs INDIGEQUEER vs ANGELICMIX, REONA TAPDANCE METALPERC vs KEVIN “VERY GOOD NICE GUY” EICHENBERGER vs NOCTURNAL CELLIST, TOOTH LIFELESS vs Hatechild. vs Bobby Beethoven, EVICSHEN vs Machine Girl [bassist] vs MANKID 2 // ACCESS: 20+ ❓

"D.G. – Queens rave-noise-punk ... D.T. - Cincinnati anarchist industrial breakcore ... Breakaway - BK experimental ambient vocal dream folk ... Tylenol - Unc sax hardcore / punk ... deadramones press zine distro & mixtape swap table - bring a tape, take a tape!"

"ft. Uptown- & Bronx-based musicians"

🌀 notaflof work trade

JWC3 w/ Mathias Jensen, James Paul Nadien; OH3 w/ Marty Kenney & Kevin Shea

unofficial release for new octonomy LP on bandcamp

7:30pm doors (insta)

7:30pm doors

🌀 notaflof work trade

bandcamp link asap

7pm doors; new griffin album

DJ dance sets by Oragami & special guest visuals by HALF//STATE

7pm doors

7pm doors; M.E. w/ CRW, Domenica Fossati, Jennae Santos, Ethan Woods; new matt evans album

w/ Adama Bilourou, Diabate Kouyaté, Kabine Kouyaté

w/ Katie Webster, Jules Gardner, Nick Saia, Dafna Naphtali, Jon Elbaz, Kellen Mills, James Nadien

Wire Festival, Night #2/4: 98dots, CEM, DAX J (live), DJ Healthy, Dj Saliva, Dr. Rubinstein, Elle Dee, Freddy K, Hiro Kone, MARRØN, Max Watts & Julien P (live), MCMLXXXV, OZA, Quelza, SALOME, Sevyn 0000

"immersive spatial sound performance from the the Amazon rainforest"

Wire Festival, Day #3/4: 8am-10pm RUINS: Analog Soul, Boris, Gabrielle Kwarteng, ISAbella, Jacob Meehan, Lakuti, Physical Therapy, Tama Sumo; 8pm-8am INSIDE: Akua, Amelia Holt, Anabel Arroyo, Auspex, CEM, Chlär (live), cotton, D.Dan, Holden Federico, James Newmarch, JDH, Juana, Juliana Huxtable, Lauren Flax, Philippa Pacho, Stef Mendesidis (live), Voicedrone, Yanamaste (live)

live opening performance for tapescape installation, running from may 16 to aug 23

imaginary icons cassette on bandcamp

"vendors selling vinyl, CDs, DVDs, VHSs, cassettes, hand-drawn tarot cards, zines, hot food, & more ... affordable hardware ... community music ... if you're a local musician with physical media, email about being included"

raising funds for ABC No Rio

7pm doors

PR: Rafa Aslan & Kevin Lafleur; E: Naomi Greene // 🌀 notaflof work trade

full info asap

7:30pm doors

8pm tix + 10pm tix

w/ Evan Amoroso, Hugo Caldeira, Marcus Rojas, Satoshi Takeishi

Wire Festival, Day #4/4, Ruins & Indoors: Aurora Halal, Avalon Emerson, BASHKKA, Courtesy, Fadi Mohem, Kancheli, Massimiliano Pagliara, Newa, Pablo Bozzi, Peach, Roza Terenzi, Shaun J. Wright, SHDW, The Carry Nation

by dada strain! // 🌀 notaflof work trade

1 drink minimum per set

"immersive multichannel sound environment of a reimagined office building" + "Aging ... everything from a Buchla Synth, Eurorack Modular, & acoustic instruments placed in the digital environment"

🇵🇸 PACBI (artifact!) +++ 7:30pm doors; artifact (insta) curated by brian wenner, matthew ryals, & karolina lisowski

not sure what this is tbh; performers: Beatriz Albuquerque, Simone Federman, David Moscovich, Cameron Vanderscoff

new kolb on bandcamp

7pm doors

not sure what this is tbh; performers: Beatriz Albuquerque, Simone Federman, David Moscovich, Kaushik Reddy Pamulaparthy, Cameron Vanderscoff

CC w/ Theo Woodward, Ka Baird, Sam Newsome, Shoko Nagai, Knox Chandler, Mike Pride

🌀 notaflof work trade; curated by Zoë Beery, Geoffrey Mak, & McKenzie Wark; food by Eli Charm (hell yeah)

7pm doors

7:30pm doors

8:30pm doors

not sure what this is tbh; performers: Beatriz Albuquerque, David Moscovich, Kaushik Reddy Pamulaparthy, Nina Sobell

full festival 5/21-23 (this is the ~cool mom~ night that's not $50)

"FREE FOOD"

"Reaches (weird electronic music) MT (from Japan 1/2 of Masaaki, placing sounds exactly where they should be) DJ JS (playing midnight sounds between sets)"

🌀 notaflof work trade

lineup on IG; curated by chris libutti

"Varispeed showcases ambient & experimental sound artists in unique acoustic environments around the city" + sliding scale tix // medium.: yaz lancaster & gg200bpm; interlude by seamus slattery & caín lima

6pm doors

🌀 notaflof work trade

BB: Eric Biondo, Lim Jeong, Connor Elmes, Justin Carroll; V: JP Schlegelmilch, Jonathan Goldberger, Jim Black

MATA Festival, Night #1/3: The Bang Group / MATA Mavens play works by Reich, Feldman, Yifan Guo, Liann J Kang, Anselm McDonnell, Kaleena Miller, Sami Seif, Zihan Wu, David Parker, Pauline Kim Harris

7:30pm doors; "all donations will go directly to support undocumented, asylum seeking community members"

6:30pm doors

🌀 notaflof work trade

7pm doors

7pm doors

MATA Festival, Night #2/3: Zosha Warpeha & Tristan Kasten-Krause; Unnameable Strings play work by Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio & Jennifer Gersten; Laura Raquel Cetilia & Julie Kim (& i think Marilyn Nonken, Taka Kigawa); Conrad Harris (w/ Nonken, Kigawa) play Bunita Marcus; & maybe more, i can never parse these lineups

7pm doors; Gelsey Bell, Seth Cluett, Viv Corringham, Mary Edwards, James Ilgenfritz, C. Lavender, Ben Richter, Jane Rigler, Lisa Schonberg; curated by VC; for A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros

new deli girls bandcamp album link asap, juno here; "all proceeds will be split between Al Otro Lado & Lebanon Solidarity Collective"

1:30pm doors

ALSO CHARLIE'S BIRTHDAY WOOOO!!! // sponsored by & info at @bigbarnewyork; link's to flyer // IF NO RAIN, OUTDOORS at first street green (park map; all ages, wheelchair accessible, no restroom) ... but 70% chance of rain so i'm assuming bar

"come any time after 5:30pm," & plz enjoy the excellent skinny neocities website // if you can't make it but wanna donate a few dollars to skinny &/or otherwise celebrate generous community pal tom, you can venmo me with note "skinny" & i'll send it along! (you can also email tom & tell him the people want a skinny donation link!!!)

raising funds for Property Is Theft! become a member; for $5/month u get a Josh MacPhee-designed membership card :') $10 tier includes macphee card & ~gift,~ & for $25/month also "one-off screen-printed P.I.T. hoodie"

7pm deep listening session by aka-Sol, 8pm performances // 🌀 notaflof work trade

6:30pm doors

7pm doors

MATA Festival, Night #3/3: BlackBox Ensemble plays works by Laila Arafah, Erich Barganier, Kristupas Bubnelis, Gillian Rae Perry, Floriana Provenzano, Jessica Shand

7pm doors; Double Bills & Buster: Two Nights Of Film & Music by Bill Frisell, Bill Morrison, & Buster Keaton w/ Luke Bergman & Tim Angulo

2:30pm open rehearsal, public invited to watch & ask Qs, 4pm performance;  "improvisers’ community orchestra" w/ Frank London, Westbrook Johnson, Patrick Holmes, Nick Gianni, Ayumi Ishito, Josh Sinton, Claire de Brunner, Stephanie Griffin, On Ka'a Davis, Rod Williams, Hilliard Greene, Lloyd Haber

works by George Lewis, Kaija Saariaho, Bethany Younge, Christopher Trapani

5pm doors, says 6pm on flyer; LOPEZ BDAY WEEK PARTY

7pm doors

7pm doors

1 drink minimum per set

7pm doors; Double Bills & Buster: Two Nights Of Film & Music by Bill Frisell, Bill Morrison, & Buster Keaton w/ Luke Bergman & Tim Angulo, Night #2/2

7pm doors

"experimental & improvisational"

performance-y convo: "the pair establish a shared set of rules, organizing their dialogue around three key prompts they call 'Strategy,' 'Focus,' & 'Loose Ends'"

7pm sculptures on view, by Yehwan Song, pap souleye fall, Sonia Rosa Kahn, Michael Candy, Maggie Boyd, Séan, Marcus Jahmal, Liz Zito, Taezoo Park, Cameron VH; 8pm performance; LIVESTREAM

full lineup on insta

7pm doors

7pm doors, insta

"traditional & experimental music," curated by Nagai in collab with See See Records +++ says 3 sets on insta but not sure about groupings, will confirm asap

"Jazz Bands whether they like it or not"

"informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi," likely not live

"a limited number of tickets will be available at the door depending on capacity ... w/ Kim Gordon’s Count Your Chickens & the accompanying group exhibition Folded Group"

7pm doors

🌀 notaflof work trade; "begins with a group instruction on mindful movement & body awareness"

7:30pm doors; disregard site flyer, actual lineup on insta

7pm doors; LIVESTREAM

 🇵🇸 PACBI (heavy hearts!) +++ with Cultural Solidarity Project & VXPX

7pm doors; new tempers

"improvised performances with Pauline Oliveros’s Expanded Instrument System"

🌀 notaflof work trade

BFG: Cheryl Pyle, Michael Eaton, Sylvain Leroux, Gene Coleman

"jagged folk patterns reconfigured into knotty grooves"

6pm notaflof exhibition opening; "series connecting contemporary Czech & Slovak music with NY’s experimental & alternative scenes"; SK: Václav Girsa, Radomír Albl, Ladislav Kouba, Tom Kotík, Tereza Špinková, Daniel Vlček, Michal Mariášek, Tomáš Hrůza, Brian Tyler Noble ("Prague-based music & art collective ... noise hardcore, post-underground, punk, or witch techno")

🇵🇸 PACBI (body hack!) +++ "raising coinz for the BIPOC Autonomous Space, Middle Tennessee Sex Worker Support Fund & the BIPOC Support Fund at the Gay Woods in TN"; 🌀 "No Black Trans Person Will Ever Be Turned Away For Lack Of Funds"; donate @bodyhack

"DIY grocery distribution GG ... all ticket sales go to our fundraising goal of $2500 to support our next grocery distribution, the financing of a new code compliant community fridge for the Living Gallery (where our distributions take place), & to support our DJs"; i'll give a direct donation link if i find one, in the meantime there's a donor ticket

7pm doors; Y/W (Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer, Dustin Donahue, Russell Greenberg) play works by Jonah Haven, Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir; LIVESTREAM

10:30pm performance, 11:30pm-2am session

fundraiser info asap

7pm doors

NT4: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, Noa Even, Erin Rogers, Zach Herchen, ft. guest Adeline DeBella

"series of Listening Sessions, DJ sets & AV ... for TRANSMISSIONS, a 4-week installation ft. Joe Doucet’s new diffusion-based sculptural listening system ‘Volumes’"

7pm doors; $44 adv, $50 at door

7:30pm doors

curated by Annie Garlid; 7pm doors

info & link asap

7pm doors; John Zorn: New Masada Quartet, w/ Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Kenny Wollesen

CK's North / East Reunion w/ Seth Meicht, Bill Lowe, Joe Fonda, WS

idk that's what it says lol; either 4th tba or actually trio!

free marathon festival; 2pm-4pm family-friendly programming, pay-what-you-can snacks & drinks // TRM: Leah Asher, Marina Kifferstein, Carrie Frey, Meaghan Burk; sets also ft. Endea Owens & Darío Acosta

link to flyer, also insta // "a 2-day fundraiser for ICE detainees" ... festival started "to raise awareness of the rising fascism in the US & to commemorate anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in China. Festival founder Rose Tang is a survivor of the massacre" // JBTB: Chris Branch, Steve Holtje, Scott Pfaffman, Luke Stewart, Kevin Murray, Nahtal; OTW: Nathan Repasz, Dave Mandl, Sam Morrison, Rose Tang; TR: Mimi Tang, Cris, Just Luis

5:30pm doors, 6pm sharp start

 🇵🇸 PACBI (29 speedway!) +++ now one show at 7pm, honoring both 5pm tix + 8pm tix; "for TRANSMISSIONS, a 4-week installation ft. Joe Doucet’s new diffusion-based sculptural listening system ‘Volumes’" // medium.: yaz lancaster & gg200bpm; SCRAATCH: E. Jane & chukwumaa; DW: AC Williams & Daniel Creahan

7pm doors

7:30pm doors; new mzztr

w/ Mara Rosenbloom, Joe Fonda, Jeff Lederer, George Schuller

"100% proceeds to benefit families in gaza"; more info asap

link to flyer, also insta // "a 2-day fundraiser for ICE detainees" ... festival started "to raise awareness of the rising fascism in the US & to commemorate anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in China. Festival founder Rose Tang is a survivor of the massacre" // 80PP w/ Bruce Mack, Ximena Bedoya, sjfleish, Lama, Erica Mancini, Alex, & more

insta; much love

5pm tix + 7pm tix; "for TRANSMISSIONS, a four-week installation featuring Joe Doucet’s new diffusion-based sculptural listening system ‘Volumes’"

6:30pm doors

TAK: Laura Cocks, Madison Greenstone, Charlotte Mundy, Marina Kifferstein, Ellery Trafford

7:30pm tix + 9pm tix

presented by Liana Chin