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The following rules will be enforced by concert security staff:
- Purchase tickets onsite at the Bandshell’s General Store. Cash and credit cards only. There is a $1 service fee per ticket for all tickets purchased with cash. There is a 3% service fee applied to all tickets purchased with credit cards.
- No alcoholic beverages, glass, bottles, coolers, pets, bicycles, folding chairs, weapons, recording devices or pro (long lens) cameras.
- All bags and persons are subject to search.
- All concert attendees must have a ticket regardless of age.
MGMT
SOLD OUT!
July 1st doors at 5:30 pm
with Kuroma and Suckers
40 years after the Summer of Love (and 30 years after the Summer of Hate), MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, the duo's much-anticipated first full-length album, an enigmatic and prophetic collection of hallucinatory sounds and hook-riddled pop tones for the new millennium. MGMT is: Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two psychic pilgrims whose paths first intersected in the green pastures of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, circa 2002. "We weren't trying to start a band," Ben remembers. "We were just hanging out, showing each other music that we liked." The pair was drawn to the music of other duos and found themselves incorporating the implications of the hallucinatory power-twee of the Incredible String Band, the roaring subway minimalist electronica of Suicide, the silky pop-soul of Hall & Oates, the pulsing narcotic trance of Spacemen 3, the avant-garde industrial romanticism of Royal Trux and much more into the constantly evolving sounds of MGMT.
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Jackson Browne
July 21st doors at 5:30 pm
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Reserved Seat tickets and General Admission Lawn tickets
If tickets do not sell out in advance, they will be sold at the door on the night of the show (cash only).
Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. He's been honored with inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2004) and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (2007).
TV on the Radio
August 11th doors at 5:30 pm
Tickets on TicketMaster
General Admission/Standing Room tickets
Tickets to Bowery Presents shows are sold at the Mercury Lounge and Music Hall of Williamsburg box offices free of service charges. Mercury Lounge (Mon-Sat: 12-7 PM ); Music Hall of Williamsburg (Saturdays only: 11-6 PM).Both box offices are cash only. If tickets do not sell out in advance, they will be sold at the door on the night of the show (cash only).
This Brooklyn-based band's experimental mishmash of electronics, indie guitar rock, free jazz, funk, soul and occasional a cappella doo-wop vocals recalls the adventurous mix of music on early Funkadelic albums while invoking the likes of the Beach Boys, Jesus & Mary Chain, Otis Redding and even Aphex Twin. TV on the Radio gained fame beyond the underground rock world with the major-label release of its second full-length album, Return to Cookie Mountain in 2006, and its 2008 follow-up Dear Science.
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Bonnie Raitt & Taj Mahal
August 12th doors at 5:30 pm
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Reserved Seat tickets and General Admission Lawn tickets
If tickets do not sell out in advance, they will be sold at the door on the night of the show (cash only).
This summer, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal—two leading lights of modern blues—are joining forces for their first-ever tour together. This show will feature Bonnie and Taj on stage alone and together. Bonnie, backed by her always-dazzling group, and Taj, with the six-piece, Grammy-winning Phantom Blues Band, will play full sets separately, before closing the night with a collaborative, blow-out performance.
Bonnie Raitt's Website
Taj Mahal's Website
BonTaj Tour Website
Animal Collective
August 14th doors at 5:30 pm (SOLD OUT!)
2nd show added! August 15th
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General Admission/Standing Room tickets
Tickets to Bowery Presents shows are sold at the Mercury Lounge and Music Hall of Williamsburg box offices free of service charges. Mercury Lounge (Mon-Sat: 12-7 PM ); Music Hall of Williamsburg (Saturdays only: 11-6 PM).Both box offices are cash only. If tickets do not sell out in advance, they will be sold at the door on the night of the show (cash only).
Despite the evident appeal of their deliciously skewed songs, heartbreaking hooks and deep pop sensibilities, Animal Collective is clearly not a simple or stable ‘band’ proposition. Friends and musical partners since 1992, core members Avey Tare and Panda Bear came together in 2000 with the intention of moving pop music in a direction that would place heavy emphasis on sonic experience. Soon after this, they began operating as Animal Collective, an umbrella name now used for a grouping of four people: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deaken, who play together under different names and in different configurations (anything between 1 to 4 people), and whose releases are prone to continual musical change: from beautifully skewed pop ballads to fiercely ruptured noise-squalls to tribal rhythmic work-outs to simple folk songs, to who knows where; from fully orchestrated group freak-outs to a the intimacy of an acoustic duo.
