The MoMA is opening up a new exhibit: Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today. The exhibition features work from forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.
There are several events running throughout the showing, including a sold out DFA party (we hate you!), panel discussions, and […]

What better way to spend corporate sponsorship dollars than cheap concerts? Jelly NYC, the promoters behind the pool parties at McCarren Pool, just announced two awesome shows at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Tickets available at TicketWeb.
Boost Mobile + Jelly NYC in partnership with New York Magazine present ‘The Secret Society’ with:
Sunset Rubdown, Ecstatic […]

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Ex-Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins will be doing two nights of his new spoken word show, Provoked, at Warsaw in Greenpoint. The shows start at 7PM on Wednesday and Thursday night.
Henry has been doing spoken word for years now, in addition to fronting Black Flag and Rollins Band, acting, and generally getting things […]

One of our favorite experimental electronic acts Matmos is playing back-to-back sets (8PM & 10 PM) on Saturday at The Stone in the East Village. Tickets are $10 and you might want to get there early since there are no advance tickets available. The XLR8R video above documents the groups move from San […]

We don’t know what the cold brings out in us over here at Obscene NYC but every winter we get an insatiable appetite for electronic music. If you didn’t hear Audion or Troy Pierce absolutely WRECKING January’s minimoo parties you really, really missed out.
Today we’re happy to inform everyone that minimoo has finally […]

[Kanye West featuring Daft Punk at the 2008 Grammy Awards]
This is a show that we’re all way excited about! Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark Tour will be up in Madison Square Garden on May 13th. The tour features Kanye along with Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D. and Rihanna. No word yet on when tickets will be […]

Curbed has some info about what’s to become of one of our favorite summer venues, McCarren Pool. As far as we know, the coming summer concert series is still a go, and there were rumors early on that any renovations to the pool would still allow for the possibility of shows to be thrown there, […]

This is one of the shows we wish we would’ve caught last year, The Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert. This year Philip Glass is the Artistic Director with acts like Sufjan Stevens, Band of Horses, Ray Davies, Phamie Gow Nawang Khechog, Ashley MacIsaac, Marisa Monte, & Tom Verlaine. It’s probably above my cash […]

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Aw, horse apples! Our friend Maxwell Williams curated a group show opening tonight at Cinders Gallery featuring small, intimate pieces by David Shrigley, PFFR (dudes behind Wonder Showzen) and a whole bunch of others. Afterparty at Soundfix! Full artist list and afterparty details below!

We’re super stoked to hear that The Bomb Squad, Public Enemy’s legendary production team helmed by Hank Shocklee (seen above), will be debuting their new dubstep material at this month’s Dub War on the 15th! This looks to be a big one, as Loefah will also be along for the ride in addition to Blackdown […]

Edan, one of our favorite rappers, is playing the Knitting Factory Saturday night. The last time we saw him was at Southpaw where he opened for Prefuse 73. We weren’t expecting it, but he blew EVERYONE out of the water.
MP3: Edan - Run That Shit!