New York Magazine

The stage and screen actress has been playing classical piano since childhood and released a self-titled EP last year.

The countercultural pair have nine comedy albums, eight films, and multiple Grammy nominations under their belt. Also, they really like weed, as further evidenced by their partnership with the Marijuana Policy Project.

The legendary Grammy-winning Cuban virtuoso and his percussion-heavy octet recently released the album Chucho’s Steps, and they’re celebrating with Valdés’s first U.S. tour in seven years.

Discover the next big indie thing, or check out already familiar names like Phoenix and Das Racist, when the music, film, and comedy festival descends on the city for five plethoric days.

Tucker’s feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney ended its eleven-year run in 2006, but you can’t disguise her yelping vocals, which these days she fuses with streamlined rock. With Screaming Females and Hungry Ghost.

You may not see any celebs at this gay soiree but you'll definitely see who did their hair extensions.

The veteran improv troupe, whose credits include Comedy Central, Adult Swim, and the Onion, takes inspiration from tales of family dysfunction.

Snappy comedian Brad Loekle hosts a weekly comedy series at this beloved gay bar.

Each week, a rotating lineup of professional comics takes the stage.

The “Cars” singer celebrates the 30th anniversary of his landmark synth-pop album The Pleasure Principle by performing it in its entirety. With Rasputina and Boom Boom Satellites.

Free weekly comedy hosted by local favorite Greg Johnson.

The guitar-heavy proto-metal quartet sprung from the New York underground scene and is on tour for their independently released seventh album, Seeing Eye Dog .

Former solo folk artist Jana Hunter moved cities, put together a band, and started delving into a dreamy atmosphere that’s defiantly pretty, but stays dirty.

A role model of slow-burning success, Jim James’s band of hirsute roots rockers will play one of their albums on each night. They can fill MSG, which makes their residency at the cozier Terminal 5 even more of an event.

Perversions prevail and bodily fluids fly at Nightmare: Superstitions, over two dozen rooms of an insane asylum theater of the macabre in Noho

A weekly celebration of pre-rave Manchester miserablism.

Contemporary music and computer-animated show, in the dome of the Hayden Planetarium.

A popular, long-running tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes.

Tea dance, drag show, and go-go boys all in one.

Eugene Mirman and Michael Showalter host an unmissable comedy bonanza with a variety of talents on the rise.

From San Francisco's heady garage scene, Ty Segall smudges his bratty 60s tunes with hazy fuzz and in-the-red volume.