• Dangerous, an all metal tribute to Michael Jackson featuring members of Tragedy and 2 Skinnee Js at Bowery Ballroom on August 1. Tickets
• Ambulance Ltd at Mercury Lounge on August 18. Tickets
• Juana Molina at Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 20. Tickets
• Counting Crows and Augustana at Hammerstein Ballroom on August 25. Tickets
• AA Bondy at Mercury Lounge on August 28. Tickets
• Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime with Easy Star All Stars, Collie Buddz, The Cannabis Cup Reggae Band performing the music of Bob Marley at The Beach at Governor’s Island August 29. Tickets
• Petty Fest 2009 (A Night to get drunk and celebrate the songs of Tom Petty) at Bowery Ballroom on September 3. Tickets
• Alice in Chains at Irving Plaza on September 8. Tickets
• Sondre Lerche at Bowery Ballroom September 8 and Music Hall of Williamsburg September 9. Tickets
• Calvin Harris DJ set at Music Hall of Williamsburg September 10. Tickets
• The Proclaimers at Gramercy Theater on September 11. Tickets
• Lupe Fiasco at The Beach at Governor’s Island September 11. Tickets
• Rhett Miller & The Serial Lady Killers at The Bell House on September 16 and Webster Hall September 19. Tickets
• Los Fabulosos Cadillacs at Hammerstein Ballroom on September 22. Tickets
• Will Hoge at Bowery Ballroom on October 10. Tickets
• The Twilight Sad at Bowery Ballroom on October 6. Tickets
• Thee Oh Sees at Mercury Lounge October 8 and Maxwell’s October 10. Tickets
• Hard NYC–Crookers, Major Lazer, and more at Terminal 5 October 10. Tickets
• Drummer (featuring members of the Black Keys, Houseguest, and The Party of Helicopters) at Southpaw October 8 and Mercury Lounge October 10. Tickets
• Placebo at Terminal 5 October 11. Tickets
• Soulive at Bowery Ballroom October 15. Tickets
• Lyle Lovett and His Large Band at Beacon Theatre November 4. Tickets

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Spanish songstress Juana Molina played a free show at Central Park’s Summerstage last night. The weather was perfect and she was great, playing songs from her many albums.If you missed her, she just announced a show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 20 (tickets go on sale Friday at noon). Click here to see the rest of Summerstage’s schedule this summer.

Images: Devorah Klein (sorry for the blurry pictures, my camera was mesed up!)

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Last year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. free concert series at Wingate Field in Brooklyn saw the likes of Erykah Badu. This year includes Keyshia Cole and Anita Baker, among others. All shows are free and are on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at Wingate Field (entrance on Brooklyn Ave. by Rutland Rd. and Winthrop St. in Brooklyn). Here’s the schedule:

• July 13: Keyshia Cole and Lyfe Jennings
• July 20: The O’Jays, Russell Thompkins Jr. & The New Stylistics, Jerry Butler, and Harry Mevin’s Blue Notes
• July 27: Anita Baker and Charlie Wilson
• August 3: Robin Thicke and Jazmine Sullivan
• August 10: Ruben Studdard, Teena Marie, and Jeffrey Osborne
• August 17: Gospel Night with Yolanda Adams and Israel Houghton & The New Breed
• August 25: Caribbean Night with Sean Paul and The Might Sparrow

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Deliciously beautiful singer/songwriter Madeline released her third album, White Flag, back in March and has been on tour promoting it. Her strong but lilting vocals draw you in and the music is a beautiful complement. She is at Zebulon in Williamsburg tonight (Tuesday) and will be at Cinders Gallery (103 Havemeyer St., Williamsburg) for an all-ages acoustic set on Friday and Cake Shop on Saturday.

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• Blink-182
• Weezer
• Franz Ferdinand
• Girl Talk
• Jet
• Mates of State
• Public Enemy
• Taking Back Sunday
• The Bravery
• The Hold Steady
• The National
• St. Vincent
• Wale

And in the dance tent:

• Danny Howells
• Holy Fuck
• Lee Burridge
• Pete Tong

Kind of weird lineup, but whatever, it’s free!

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Thursday (tonight):

• Forro in the Dark at the MoMA Sculpture Garden (free, 5:30 pm)
• Thee Oh Sees, Golden Triangle, The Beets, German Measles at Glasslands
• Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Tammy Faye Starlite at (le) Poisson Rouge
• The Feelies at Maxwell’s
• Jay Reatard, Screaming Females, TV Smith of the Adverts at Music Hall of Williamsburg
  
• Cubic Zirconia, Head Automatica, Chico Mann, Dam Funk at Santos Party House
• Cage, Yak Ballz at Southpaw

Friday:

• Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival with Crystal Stilts, Blank Dogs, Psychedelic Horseshit, caUSE co-MOTION!, Mayfair Set, Gary War, Little Girls, Kid Romance, Beachniks, Gutsies at 979 Broadway Backyard in Bushwick, Brookyln (starts at 5 pm)
  
• Cryptacize, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Katie Eastburn at Market Hotel
• The Feelies at Maxwell’s
• Here We Go Magic, Bachelorette at South Street Seaport (free)
• Cage, Yak Ballz, Junk Science, Tone Tank at Southpaw
• Sharon Van Etten, Angel Ocana at Sycamore
• pow wow!, Dinosaur Feathers, Darlings at The Studio at Webster Hall
• Sonic Youth, The Entrance Band at United Palace Theater

Saturday:

• Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band, Jenny Lewis at Battery Park (starts at 3:30 pm, free)
• First Saturday with The Shondes at Brooklyn Museum (free)
  
• Woodsist/Captured Tracks Festival with Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls, Kurt Vile, Woods, Tyvek, Dum Dum Girls, The Fresh & Onlys, Brilliant Colors, Ganglians, The Great Excape, The Beets, Real Estate, German Measles, Beach Fossils at 979 Broadway Backyard in Bushwick, Brookyln (starts at 2 pm)
  
• Afropunk Festival with Whole Wheat Bread, Pure Hell, Game Rebellion, American Fangs, The Objex, Funk Face, oOohh Baby Gimme, Jesse Nobody at Brooklyn Academy of Music (starts at 3 pm, free)
  
• Rooftop Films with Bachelorette at Chelsea Art Museum (starts at 6 pm)
  
• Japanther, NinjaSonik, Ghost Mall, Muhammid Ali at Lit Fuse Cyclery (409 Willoughby Brooklyn, NY) (starts at 1 pm)
  
• The Feelies at Maxwell’s

Sunday:

• Afropunk Fesitval with Earl Greyhound, Tamar-Kali, The London Souls, Apollo Heights, Sabatta, Sweetie, Peekaboo Theory, The Echo Jinx, B L A C K I E at Brooklyn Academy of Music (starts at 1 pm, free)
• Psychedelic Horseshit, Wet Hair, John Maus, Ganglians, Dead Luke at Monster Island Basement (NE corner of Metropolitan Ave & River Street Brooklyn, NY)
• The Entrance Band, TK Webb and The Visions at Southpaw
• Das Racist, Team Facelift at The Studio at Webster Hall (start at 4 pm)
  

And Monday, the Afropunk Festival continues with Saul Williams, Janelle Monae, Dallas Austin, Elevator Fight, Chewing Pics at Brooklyn Academy of Music (starts at 3 pm, free)

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Local Brooklyn band The Shondes have a lot on their plate these days, but they will be celebrating Independence Day in style. The band will be playing a FREE show at the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturday/July 4th party. The band goes on 8 pm and is sure to bring up the energy level with their punk-influenced rock music. Their album The Red Sea came out last year and they are currently working on a new one. The group has opened for the likes of Electrelane, Erase Errata, and Amy Ray, and has played various venues throughout New York and beyond. I had the chance to talk with drummer/vocalist Temim Fruchter:

Big Apple Music Scene: Your band identifies with many cultures and traditions, like Judaism, punk, and the LGBT community. How do these myriad of traditions influence your music?

Temim Fruchter: This stuff all makes its way into our music just because it’s pieces of who we are and the things we care deeply about, you know?  I think we all constantly appreciate that we all come from pretty different backgrounds – musically and otherwise – and were able to come together and be like, we just want to make music that really moves people, and that means something to people.

TF: Our band name is both a loving tribute to Jewish and specifically Yiddish tradition, and a reclamation of an age-old Yiddish insult.  Someone whose identity doesn’t quite mesh or who speaks out for justice a little too loudly or radically or brashly is often called a Shonde.  I think it’s pretty safe to say that some of my favorite people in the world are Shondes.  You know, in the best possible way!

TF: I think some of our favorite shows have just been the ones where people get the sweatiest and scream along the loudest, venue-irrelevant.  Still, we love some of the venues closest to home – Union Hall, the site of our last New York show, was fun and cozy (and has bocce ball to boot).  One of the first OMG-I-Live-In-NY-Now activities I engaged in upon first moving to Brooklyn was attending First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum, so I’m really excited that I get to play it this time around!  We love to play free and all-ages shows when possible, so it’s great that this is both – and it doesn’t hurt that we’ll be playing amid a host of great works of art.

TF: I have to say the thing that’s going to sound cheesy but is quite true – some of the raddest musicians and bands we’ve played with are the ones who you may not have heard about yet.  That said, I was pretty psyched to open for Joe Lally [bassist for Fugazi] a little while back.  I grew up in the DC area and when I discovered Fort Reno and the punk/political music scene ‘round those parts I fell hard and fast for Fugazi, so I had a little bit of punkstarcrush holdover when we played with him.

TF: We are hard at work on our next album and are super-excited about it.  Stay tuned for news and announcements on that front.  In the meantime, we’re collecting mini-heartbreak-stories on twitter and at shows – heartbreak is a huge thread through the songs on the next record.  We definitely want your stor

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The Apollo Theater is hosting a tribute to Michael Jackson today (Tuesday) starting at 2 pm. Six hundred fans at a time can go in and listen to his music and watch video tributes. Rev. Al Sharpton will be there to read a eulogy, as well as the president of the Apollo. People have been at the theater since MJ died and I’m sure the crowd is huge right now…but go on up there and try to get in!

Images: Newscom

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• July 4: Main Floor: Mark Farina / DJ Hype / Heidi / Audio Fly / Keoki / Proper Villains / Future Funk & Kliprock / Chris Love / The American Dream Team / Human? Floor 2: DJ Dara / Odi / Jen Mas / St8cyde Jump Up with MC Dylz / Strife / Steppo / Tracatak / Su_Real / Mike Vertex / Sour Diesel / DJ Dupont Open Air Rooftop: DJ Translucent / DJ Kiwi / Billy Belmont / Dali / R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. / Metaphysikal / Anthony Nero / Frankie Pena / Rob Junior / Mike D. Tickets

• July 10: Flashing Lights party with Flosstradamus (Chicago) Plus DJ Ayres, Nick Catchdubs, and Jubilee
• July 11: Down and Derby Roller Disco with Eli Escobar (Outside Broadcast/Plant Music/Money Studies), Duane Harriot (Negroclash/Bim Marx/Other Music), and Rok One (The Bangers). RSVP
• July 12: Tragedy, Morne, Blacklisted, Brainkiller, + 1 more TBA. Tickets

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• July 11: Dark Star Orchestra, Keller Williams, Pete Francis and Barefoot Truth. Tickets
• July 12: DJ kHZ for FREE
• July 18: DJ Erik the Red for FREE
• July 19: TRAGEDY, All Metal Tribute to the BEE GEES, The School of Rock All-Stars / The Rodney Speed Experience for FREE
• July 25: The Beatards for FREE
• July 26: Turntables on the Hudson, Full lineup/tickets TBA
• August 4: Erykah Badu. Tickets
• August 15: Hip Hop Karaoke BBQ
• August 18: The B-52s. Tickets
• August 23: Turntables on the Hudson, Full lineup/tickets TBA
• September 6: Turntables on the Hudson, Full lineup/tickets TBA
• September 12: Mos Def Ecstatic Tour. Tickets
• September 26: Buckethead. Tickets

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