Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Friday, May 15.
Tank and the Bangas turning a Rough Trade signing into a live stop gives the early evening more energy than a standard bookstore queue.
Bushbaby on the Elsewhere rooftop is a sharp Friday start for anyone trying to stay in the Brooklyn dance orbit without waiting until midnight.
This is the loudest serious bill on the calendar, with enough hardcore weight to make Music Hall feel less polished for a night.
Melody's Echo Chamber at Webster Hall is the dreamier counter-programming to the heavier Brooklyn bills, and Strange Lot makes the pairing less obvious.
MoMI screening Redline is the right kind of film pick here: maximal animation, proper screen, and a reason to be in Astoria at showtime.
McNally Seaport should pull a different literary-fashion crowd for Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder than the usual downtown reading circuit.
CMAT at Brooklyn Steel has enough personality and scale to be the night's cleanest big indie-pop option.
Eli Escobar all night at Good Room is a dependable NYC dance pick because the selector and the venue actually match.
CPR gives Julian Donahue a small, focused performance setting, which is often where this kind of work lands best.
Kavakos, Shaham, Tamestit, Hagen, and Weilerstein on one Carnegie bill is too much player quality to treat as routine classical filler.