this week in music

FIRST SATURDAY: “CROSSING BROOKLYN” ARTISTS’ CHOICE

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway at Washington St.
Saturday, January 3, free, 5:00 – 11:00
212-864-5400
www.brooklynmuseum.org

The Brooklyn Museum welcomes in 2015 by handing over the reins of its free monthly First Saturdays program to several of the artists featured in “Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond,” which concludes on January 4. The night before, curators Eugenie Tsai and Rujeko Hockley will discuss the exhibition at 5:30, “Crossing Brooklyn” artist Linda Goode Bryant will talk about urban farming at 6:15, jazz percussionist Ches Smith will activate David Horvitz’s forty-seven suspended bells as part of a site-specific musical composition at 6:30, and BFAMFAPhD (Blair Murphy, Susan Jahoda, and Vicky Virgin) will delve into the nature of creativity and debt at 7:15. “‘Crossing Brooklyn’ Artists’ Choice” also features live performances by Snarky Puppy, DJ Selly and DJ Asen from Fon, ventriloquist Nigel “Docta Gel” Dunkley (telling the story of Cindy Hot Chocolate from Geltown), immersive dance company Ani Taj and the Dance Cartel, Fela! veterans Chop and Quench led by Sahr Ngaujah, and spoken word poets Corina Copp, Patricia Spears Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, and Charles North as well as Greg Barris’s “Heart of Darkness” comedy showcase with Janeane Garofalo and Ilana Glazer, a print-making art workshop, a creative writing workshop led by Jaime Shearn Coan, and D’hana Perry’s multimedia improvisational “LOOSE.” In addition, you can check out such exhibitions as “Revolution! Works from the Black Arts Movement,” “Judith Scott — Bound and Unbound,” and “Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time.”

DEE DEE RAMONE: THE EXHIBITION NYC

Dee Dee Ramone self-portrait is on view with other paintings, drawings, and photographs at Hotel Chelsea Storefront Gallery

Who: Dee Dee Ramone
What: The Exhibition NYC
Where: Hotel Chelsea Storefront Gallery, 222 West 23rd St. between Seventh & Eighth Aves.
When: Daily through January 1, free, 1:00 – 8:00
Why: Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Dee Dee Ramone, the founding Ramones bassist who died in 2002 at the age of fifty, along with photographs of Dee Dee and friends through the years (by Bob Gruen, Mick Rock, Chris Stein, Keith Green, and others) and the introduction of the new Fender Dee Dee Ramone Limited Edition Signature Precision Bass, in the hotel that served as his onetime home and the setting for his novel, Chelsea Horror Hotel

VIDEO OF THE DAY: “OKAY” BY HOLY GHOST!

Who: Holy Ghost!
What: New Year’s Eve show with Museum of Love and That Work
Where: Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Pl., 212-777-6800
When: Wednesday, December 31, $52.50, 8:30
Why: New York City natives Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel, the duo behind such songs as “Hold On,” “Dumb Disco Ideas,” “Teenagers in Heat,” and “Bridge & Tunnel” and the albums Holy Ghost! and Dynamics, welcome in 2015 at Irving Plaza

VIDEO OF THE DAY: THE HOLD STEADY

Who: The Hold Steady
What: Hold Steady bassist Galen Polivka’s Birthday Bash (and another holiday) in Brooklyn with the So So Glows
Where: Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth St., 718-486-5400
When: Tuesday, December 30, $35, 9:00, and Wednesday, December 31, $45-$75, 9:30
Why: The Hold Steady is still one of the best live bands around, and their most recent album, Teeth Dreams (Razor & Tie, March 2014), has them back in top form after a brief hiatus

JANUARY PERFORMANCE FESTIVALS

Who: COIL
What: Interdisciplinary festival featuring dance, theater, music, art, and discussion, organized by PS 122
Where: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Chocolate Factory, Vineyard Theatre, Invisible Dog Art Center, the Swiss Institute, Asia Society, Parkside Lounge, New Ohio Theatre, Danspace Project, Times Square
When: January 2-17, free – $30
Why: Dancers and choreographers Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith in Rude World; Temporary Distortion’s durational multimedia live installation My Voice Has an Echo in It; Faye Driscoll’s extraordinary, interactive Thank You for Coming: Attendance; Alexandra Bachzetsis’s Diego Velázquez-inspired From A to B via C

Who: Under the Radar Festival and Incoming!
What: Interdisciplinary festival featuring dance, theater, music, and art, organized by the Public Theater
Where: The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., and La MaMa, 74 East Fourth St.
When: January 7-18, free – $40
Why: Daniel Fish’s A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again based on audio recordings of David Foster Wallace; Marie-Caroline Hominal’s The Triumph of Fame, a one-on-one performance inspired by Petrarch’s “I Trionfi”; Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: 1900-1950s; Toshi Reagon’s Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower: The Concert Version; Reggie Watts’s Audio Abramović, in which Watts will go eye-to-eye with individuals for five minutes

Who: American Realness
What: Interdisciplinary festival featuring dance, theater, music, art, conversation, discussion, readings, and a workshop, organized by Abrons Arts Center
Where: Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St.
When: January 8-18, $20
Why: World premiere of Jack Ferver’s Night Light Bright Light; Cynthia Hopkins’s A Living Documentary; Tere O’Connor’s Undersweet; Luciana Achugar’s Otro Teatro: The Pleasure Project; My Barbarian’s The Mother and Other Plays; Dynasty Handbag’s Soggy Glasses, a Homo’s Odyssey

Who: Prototype
What: Festival of opera, theater, music, and conversation
Where: HERE, St. Paul’s Chapel, La MaMa, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Park Ave. Armory, Joe’s Pub
When: January 8-17, $22-$75
Why: The Scarlet Ibis, inspired by James Hurst’s 1960 short story; Carmina Slovenica’s Toxic Psalms; Bora Yoon’s Sunken Cathedral; Ellen Reid and Amanda Jane Shark’s Winter’s Child

Who: Winter Jazzfest NYC
What: More than one hundred jazz groups playing multiple venues in and around Greenwich Village
Where: The Blue Note, (le) poisson rouge, Judson Church, the Bitter End, Subculture, Bowery Electric, others
When: January 8-10, $25-$145
Why: Catherine Russell, David Murray Infinity Quartet with Saul Williams, Jovan Alexandre & Collective Consciousness, Marc Ribot & the Young Philadelphians with Strings, So Percussion Feat. Man Forever, Theo Bleckmann Quartet with Ambrose Akinmusire, and David Murray Clarinet Summit with Don Byron, David Krakauer, and Hamiet Bluiett

VIDEO OF THE DAY: “THE DREAM’S IN THE DITCH” BY DEER TICK

Who: Deer Tick
What: Six-night residency playing full cover albums and original songs in honor of band’s tenth anniversary
Where: Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave., 718-963-3369
When: December 26-31, $25
Why: 12/26 — NRBQ’s Tiddly Winks, DT’s War Elephant; 12/27 — Lou Reed’s Transformer, DT originals; 12/28 — the Beatles’ Meet the Beatles, DT originals; 12/29 — Devo’s Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, DT originals; 12/30 — Elvis Costello’s My Aim Is True, DT originals; 12/31 — fan-chosen set

VIDEO OF THE DAY: “AFRAID” BY AMEL LARRIEUX

Who: Amel Larrieux
What: Amel Larrieux: A Blissful Holiday
Where: City Winery, 155 Varick St., 212-608-0555
When: Friday, December 26, $24-$45, 8:00
Why: An activist, a self-described “urban chanteuse by birth,” and cofounder of Groove Theory, Amel Larrieux has released such solo records as Infinite Possibilities, Morning, and Ice Cream Everyday; “when i wrote ‘Danger’ for my latest project,” she recently blogged, “i truly did not expect i would be dedicating it to anyone so soon….”