This week kicks off an insane month of concerts and events in NYC. Here we go....

MONDAY

• Lou Reed, Okkervil River | Highline Ballroom | $85
• "IT IS IT" hosted by Adam Lowitt (The Daily show) w/ Greg Johnson, Tom Mccaffery, Morgan Murphy, Ben Karlin, John Oliver and Bill Burr | Pianos | free
• The Books, Real Quiet | Society for Ethical Culture | $20
• Patrick Wolf | Virgin Union Square | 11pm - Free
• Don Cheadle & John Prendergast, authors of Not on Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond | B&N Union Square | 7pm - Free
• CBS NYC Presents: Reading show w/ "Colbert Report" writer Eric Drysdale, Bob Powers, Janice Erlbaum | Mo Pitkins | $6
• Laurie Anderson + Philip Glass | Alice Tully Hall | $tba
• Modest Mouse, Love as Laughter, Man Man | United Palace | $37.50
• Rock Plaza Central, Inouk, The Loom, Vague Angels | Mercury Lounge | $10

TUESDAY

• The Fugue, The Silver Daggers, S-S-S-Spectres, Extra Life, Little Women | Cake Shop | $6
• Kenna, Bang Gang, Bear Hands | Luna Lounge | $13
• Bishop Allen + The Picture + Beat The Devil | Pianos | $25
• Michael Chabon | 92nd St Y | $tba
• Peter Bjorn and John, Fujiya & Miyagi, Au Revoir Simone | Webster Hall | $20

WEDNESDAY

• Bjork + Konono N°1 | Radio City Music Hall All | $61
• Kara Jesella & Marisa Meltzer, reading from How Sassy Changed My Life | B&N Astor Place | 7pm - Free
• moe. | HighLine Ballroom | sold out
• The Knitters | Gramercy Theatre | $25
• MUSSELS + Aeroplane Pageant | Pianos | $8
• The Cribs, White Rabbits, The Jealous Girlfriends | Mercury Lounge | $15
• Peter Bjorn and John, Fujiya & Miyagi, Au Revoir Simone | Webster Hall | $20

THURSDAY

• Paramore, The Almost, This Providence, Love Arcade | Bowery Ballroom | $15
• KAPOW!, Right on Dynamite, Coin Under Tongue | Europa | $10
• Sightings, USAISAMONSTER, Begushkin | Glasslands |$tba
• Fishbone | "Rocks Off Concert Cruise" | $tba
• The Cribs, Ra Ra Riot, The Race | Mercury Lounge | $15
• A talk with Andy Rourke (The Smiths) | Pianos | $15
• moe. | HighLine Ballroom | sold out
• Trans Am, Zombi, Psychic Paramount | Studio B | $10

FRIDAY

• Sunset Rubdown, Katie Eastburn, Get Him Eat Him | Bowery Ballroom | $17
• Northern State, Boyskout, Dogma, Charlene, Casper & The Cookies, Paper Airplanes, Alexis Gideon | Galapagos | $8
• La Laque, Hopewell, The Silent League, J Dimenna | Luna Lounge | $5
• The Mother Hips, Backyard Tire Fire, Hymns | Mercury Lounge | $15
• Ellen Degeneres | Nokia Theatre | $tba
• Six Parts Seven, Trouble Books, Ghosts of Pasha, Yellow Fever | Union Hall | $8

SATURDAY

• Konono No. 1 | Bowery Ballroom | $23
• The Bamboozle Festival w/ My Chemical Romance, Muse, MC Hammer, Andrew WK and many more | Giants Stadium Lots | $35
• The Parlor Mob, Mason Dixon, The Library, Arizona, Chairman Race | Luna Lounge | Free
• TK Webb, Jeremiah Rifles | Glasslands | $tba
• Thing One, Salt & Samovar, hello!dots! | The Annex | $tba
• Bjork | United Palace | $46
• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Love of Diagrams | Webster Hall | $19
• Brightblack Morning Light, Daniel A.I.U. Belteshazzar_Higgs, Chiara Giovando | Mercury Lounge | $13
• Cass McCombs, Arboretum, The Jewish | Don Pedro's | $8
• Unsane, Indecision, Locked in a Vacancy, Nervous System, Nassau Chainsaw | Europa | $10

SUNDAY

• Beirut, Final Fantasy | Bowery Ballroom | $18
• The Bamboozle Festival w/ Linkin Park, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, The Oohlas and many more | Giants Stadium Lots | $35
• Cass McCombs + Arbouretum | Mercury Lounge | $12
• Brightblack Morning Light | Southpaw | $15
• Kiki & Herb | Joe's Pub | $tba