Music

Last-Minute NYC New Year’s Eve Ideas: FREEish Things to Do for the Broke and Almost Broke
#1 Join 800,000 other people for the famous and FREE Ball Drop in Times Square. But before you hurry over there, here´s some advice – get there EARLY, bring food and dress warmly – you´re going to be there for a while. And there are NO bathrooms. If the sound
Broke-Ass Music: Subway Mixes
One of the first bits of advice I received upon moving to NYC was to get noise canceling headphones/earbuds for the subway and to always have music playing in them. This, of course, was already a given for me because I don’t really do much without a constant soundtrack playing.

Pre-NYE Roller Disco
Any good disco party is, from start to finish, a fleshy, hairy, glittery mess slick with sweat and your choice of several other warm liquids. Any good foray on roller skates is pretty much the same deal, if you’re doing it right. Meaning: combined, they make a gloriously hot pantsed

Slavic Soul Party at Barbès on Tuesday
You may be tempted to take it easy in between the holidays and New Year’s Eve, but I always say it’s better to keep your celebratory momentum up or you may risk running out of steam. A night with Slavic Soul Party is the perfect way to keep the party

Whipper Snapper has a Happening Happy Hour
I found a great place for Happy Hour in San Rafael that I can swoop by for a drink and some cheap appetizers on my way back to the city after work. Whipper Snapper is the perfect spot for meeting the girls for a pitcher of Sangria and some tapas. They offer

Zach Rogue Lights the Chanukah Candles Tonight @ Tikva Records
Only one week left for the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation’s pop-up Jewish record store, Tikva Records, in the Mission (3191 Mission St.). Read all about it in Aidin Vaziri’s Chronicle article). Music? Jews? You know how much I like both of those things. So the first ever Jewish pop-up

Levy’s Presents: A Vintage Tea and Swing Dancing Party for FREE
Picture an afternoon filled with swing dancing, tea, finger sandwiches and jazz music on vintage New York City subway trains. This Saturday, December 17th, Levy’s Unique New York will make this offbeat combination a reality. Beginning at 12pm, folks will gather at the F line’s 2nd Avenue Station on the

FREE This is the Kit Show tonight at The Delancey
Hey, you there. Yes, you. The you sitting there wondering if you’re too old to make some kind of collage out of magazine clippings and give it to your mom as a holiday present to save money, or the you wondering if eating out for lunch will ever graduate beyond