This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC

Yeah, so, Brooklyn … I don’t know how to break it to you, but Nashville’s comin’ for us. And I mean, like, she’s hot on our trail. I saw it with my own eyes, ya hear?

And Nashville, don’t take Brooklyn too seriously when we act all, ‘oh, we’re so not impressed by your hand-me-down hipsterdom,’ and we tell you you’re just a parody of our fine, tattooed, beer-brewing borough. We all know where our plaid and pedal steel originated. We all know.

And I, for one, take you very, very … very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that when I saw new Nashvegas band The Wild Feathers set to play NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall this week, my heart fluttered. Flutter it did, because in a music-saturated metropolis where the ratio of quasi-listenable to listenable artists is about 207:1, the preface “Nashville-based” carries a promise of talent … and almost always delivers.

Check out an intro video to this “Nashville-based” band, as well as their raucous ‘Backwoods.’

More must-see picks:

Tuesday, July 9
5:30 p.m. — Eilen Jewell w/ The End of America, The 5th Annual Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival
8:00 p.m. — River City Extension / The Mowgli’s / Coasta at Bowery Ballroom
9:00 p.m. — Dawn Landes at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2

Wednesday, July 10
8:00 p.m. — The Wild Feathers at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2

Thursday, July 11
7:00 p.m. — Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Apollo Theater

Friday, July 12
7:00 p.m. — John Prine at Beacon Theater
10:30 p.m. — Lydia Loveless at Hill Country BBQ

Sunday, July 14
10:00 p.m. — The Whiskey Collection at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2