How much do you love Guns N’ Roses? $150 will get you a ticket to their surprise Pre-Governor’s Ball Festival this Thursday, June 6th. Doors open at 8 p.m. The full-set will be followed by a late night after-party featuring GN’R keyboardist Chris Pitman as DJ. Presented by Brooklyn Bowl and Governors Ball, tickets for the 21-and-up event can be purchased here

Doors open at 8 p.m.; show starts at 11:00

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moe. Returns to the Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club in New York City for an Intimate Performance – One Night Only South Street Waterfront Venue under Restoration Post-Sandy.

The band’s first record,Fatboy (1992), established the band as a favorite of the 1990s jam band and improvisational rock scene that grew in popularity with bands such as Phish and Widespread Panic. Just as Grateful Dead followers were coined “Dead Heads”, avid moe. fans embrace the term “moe.rons.”

Event time  : 5pm Doors  6:45pm Performance
Event ticket : $35 advance $40 day of show (if available)
Event venue : Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club
89 South Street @ Beekman Street (North Side of South Street Seaport)

Limited VIP Tickets Available for $200 Each (You MUST be 21+ for access into the VIP area. VIP Ticket includes: Exclusive private party area with unlimited food & craft beer all night, limited spirits (Jack daniels, Absolut, etc.) Exclusive viewing area.)

For tickets click here

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Composer, pianist and jazz legend Ramsey Lewis and his Electric Band will perform at The City College of New York’s Aaron Davis Hall for the first time in a special Father’s Day Weekend Celebration. Doors open at 6:30. Jazz greats Henry Johnson (Guitar), Joshua Ramos (Bass) and Charles Heath (Drums) will join Ramsey in this extraordinary concert.

Tickets are $30 and $40 for reserved seating. For more information and ticket sales visit: www.adhatccny.org or call Aaron Davis Hall Box office at 212-650-6900.

Directions: Bus: M11, M18, M100 or M101 to 135th Street
Subway: 1 to 137th Street; A, C or D to 145th Street
Driving: Free parking at West 133rd Street & Convent Avenue or parking on the street

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Gender-bending performance art will bring some feisty New York City fashion to the Revere Hotel this weekend.

“One Night in Bartschland: A Party & Pop-up Concert” with nightlife figure Susanne Bartsch, will happen at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Revere Hotel’s Space 57.

The event will raise money for the Institute of Contemporary Art as well as One Fund Boston, and celebrate the hotel’s one-year anniversary.

Revere Hotel Spokesman Bryan Barbieri describes the pop-up party as “an over-the-top spectacle featuring wild fashions worn by colorful characters and a cast of New York nightlife socialites and performance artists.”

Bartsch has staged over-the-top and avant-garde extravaganzas in cities from New York to Toyko for the past four decades, and currently holds court at Marquee NYC, along with the Soho Grand Hotel and the Standard Hotel.

Tickets are available at bartschland.eventbrite.com.

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British-born James Maddock, a mainstay on non-commercial and satellite radio, gained notoriety and accolades for his work with the band Wood and as a solo musician. His Americana sound won him praise at the 2010/11 NY Music Awards and WFUV’s 2011 Listener’s Poll.

JAMES MADDOCK

British-born James Maddock first gained notoriety in the U.S. as leader of the band Wood. Their album, Songs From Stamford Hill, produced the Top 5 hit, Stay You was included in a Dawson’s Creek soundtrack, and remains a fan favorite over a decade after it was released. As a solo artist, Maddock has released Sunrise On Avenue C, winner of the 2010/11 NY Music Award for “Best Americana Album;” Wake Up and Dream, named one of the top albums of 2011 by a WFUV Listener’s Poll; and Another Life, his newest work released May 2013.

Event Venue : Brookfield Place Plaza

Event Date : June 25 and 27

Event Time : 5:30 PM and 12:30 PM

For further information click here

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The Great GoogaMooga is back.

The much-maligned festival, which took place for the first time last summer in Prospect Park, is afloat again despite a flood of bad reviews. Tickets go on sale today.

Organizers promised that they learned lessons from last year, when festival goers complained of endless lines, not getting enough of the much-anticipated food and bathrooms without toilet paper.

The organizers, Superfly Presents, which also set up the Bonnaroo festival, seemed to be aware of dimmed expectations, promising “a new, improved recipe’s for this year’s event.”

Organizers have taken pains to ensure the festival has a different vibe – they are not offering the $250 GoogaMooga tickets, which they ultimately refunded after the complaints.

Instead, they are offering $79.50 tickets for a VIP Cocktail Experience, with a place by the main stage and five artisanal cocktails by mixologist Julie Reiner.

“It’s fair to say we learned a lot last year,” they said, vowing to “transform Prospect Park into an amusement park of food, drink and music all weekend long.”

The festivities will begin May 17 with a concert headlined by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, with The Flaming Lips and The Darkness.

Food from about 85 restaurants will include places like Momofuku Milk Bar, Red Hook Lobster Pound and Vinegar Hill House.

That will include vegetarian meals, after non-meat-eaters complained there were not enough options.

These restaurants will join more than 50 wineries and breweries.

Many Yelp reviews skewered the festival.

“The entire experience was horrendous,” a Queens attendee wrote, recounting a 20-minute line to enter the event, as well as an hour-plus line for a drink ticket and a two-hour wait for a beer.

Another reviewer wrote, “I actually started to tear up over how horribly executed this event was, I mean, I was enraged.”

But not all lamented the experience: a Brooklyn woman who said she arrived before the event opened encountered no lines.

“All in all a great day, and I can’t wait for the next one,” she wrote.

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Rapper Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake are teaming up for a 12-city summer stadium tour that will include concerts in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, music promoter Live Nation said on Friday.

The “Legends of the Summer” tour will kick off at the Roger’s Center in Toronto on July 17, and finish on August 16 at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami.

Venues in Boston, Detroit and Baltimore will also be included in the tour.

Earlier this week Live Nation said the duo, who together have won 23 Grammy awards and two Emmys and have sold 67 million albums, will also be performing together in London at the Wireless Festival on July 12-13.

Timberlake’s new album, “The 20/20 Experience,” which will be released next month, features “Suit & Tie,” a collaboration with Jay-Z. The two performed a duet together at the Grammy Awards earlier this month.

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Shilpa Ray makes powerful, dark melodies in the spirit of PJ Harvey with a full band. She is homegrown NYC and will floor you with her live show. Shilpa Ray has a singular prowess straddling the stage playing an Indian harmonium and howling sharp lyrics in a gorgeous bluesy moan. She commands a fire-y chemistry with her band. They easily build tension throughout their set and leave the listener awestruck, having bended to the whim of a petite music mistress.

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Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers shared the stage with Patti Smith at Brooklyn’s late great Southpaw. There, Shilpa owned the room and wooed new fans through minor melodies and jazzy vocals rife with political punch. Her slight frame wields a heavy message through heady lyrics and new takes on old struggles. A video made this past fall heeds a feminine battle cry in the Brooklyn streets. Depicted are hard-boiled women taking charge of the reproductive debate with stilettos and whips, captured in black-and-white as a silent film.

Though her sound and image are dark and treacherous, Shilpa’s music and presence exude that cat woman kind of sexy that couldn’t care less what you think; all claws, cat eyes and Gotham.

Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers play Shea Stadium BK, Thursday, March 7 @8pm

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