Who's playing New York

Four-piece indie rock with jangly guitars, big choruses and a drummer who never sits still.

Sunny indie soul with falsetto hooks and a rhythm section that loves a slow jam.

Synth-driven indie pop built on drum machines, live bass and a lot of reverb.

Five voices, one pump organ and slow-building songs about the waterfront.

A neo-soul and jazz collective blending live drums, keys and spoken word.

Acoustic trio playing bluegrass-inflected originals and old-time fiddle tunes.

Shoegaze-leaning indie rock that is louder than you expect and softer than it sounds.

A blues-rock power trio with a slide guitarist and a drummer who hits hard.

A six-piece horn band playing hard bop and New Orleans second-line tunes with a Lower East Side swagger.

Wiry indie punk with sharp lyrics about landlords and rooftops.

Organ trio playing soul-jazz and slow blues for the late crowd.

Modular synths and processed cello in long, patient, room-filling pieces.

Salsa and boogaloo with a full horn section and timbales front and center.

Rock en español with cumbia rhythms and big, joyful choruses.

Big, bright guitar rock written for rooms with low ceilings.

A live electronic duo playing dance music with drum pads, synths and a saxophone.

Americana rock with twin guitars and road songs written on the G train.

A vocal ensemble mixing polyphonic singing, loops and hand percussion.

A ten-piece free-jazz ensemble that composes on the spot from cues and hand signals.

A quintet mixing swing, soul-jazz and gospel with a rotating cast of guest vocalists.

Hardcore-leaning punk with short songs, fast tempos and a lot of crowd participation.

Fast, loud three-piece punk with sing-along hooks and twenty-minute sets.

A groove-heavy jazz quintet built around a Rhodes, a baritone sax and a pocket drummer.

A nine-piece Afrobeat band with interlocking guitars, horns and long, hypnotic grooves.

Piano, bass, drums and tenor sax playing standards and originals in the straight-ahead tradition.

Scrappy garage rock named after the real boss of every corner store.

Latin jazz singer and her quartet playing boleros, bossa and originals in Spanish and English.

A string quartet playing Balkan, klezmer and Irish tunes at dance tempos.

A seven-piece cumbia band with accordion, güiro and a dance floor that fills by the second song.

Three producers performing ambient and techno sets on hardware only.

A folk duo trading verses and harmonies over two acoustic guitars and a banjo.

A powerhouse soul singer fronting a tight rhythm section and backing vocalists.

An eight-piece funk band with a horn section, two percussionists and no ballads.

Post-punk with angular guitars, a relentless bassline and shouted poetry.

Honky-tonk and Appalachian folk with pedal steel, fiddle and three-part harmony.

Solo singer-songwriter with a nylon-string guitar and quietly devastating songs.

A soul revue that records everything to cassette and plays like it's 1971.

A voice-and-keys duo writing warm, slow-burning soul songs.