The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 10/27/14

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Monday, 10/27
Weezer
Bowery Ballroom
8:00pm, $71.00
Is the "Blue Album" the best all time? Is that even a question anymore? Yeah, Pinkerton was under-appreciated and may have pegged emo a good seven years ahead of its weepy golden age. Yeah, Maladroit was a critical darling and half the internet will explain to you why. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But 1994's Blue Album will always sound like high school, no matter when or where in America you went to it, and coming home for Thanksgiving every subsequent year after. Rivers Cuomo and the boys will probably never birth another record that's as consistently cathartic through and through, but that doesn't mean we're not still game for whatever they've got on the horizon. Tonight Weezer return to promote Everything Will Be Alright in the End, their ninth album, which dropped earlier this month. The title's promise is hefty, but when it's made by a band that we have so many pleasantly nostalgic ties to, we're inclined to believe it. -- By Heather Baysa

Demi Lovato
Barclays Center
7:00pm, $25.00-$85.00
Unlike certain former Disney stars who now ride enormous hot dogs and run a trippy-as-f* Instagram (yes, we're referring to Miley, if that couldn't be more obvious), Demi Lovato has cultivated her own brand of post-Disney cool. The singer's latest album, 2013's Demi, is chock-full of synthpop goodness like "Heart Attack" and "Neon Lights," which live she pairs alongside less-exciting-but-still-damn-catchy songs like "Give Your Heart a Break." While she may be on the tamer side, she's no less a dynamic and polished live act. -- By Jill Menze

Joyce Breach
Don't Tell Mama
7:30pm, $20.00
Who's the best singer in Manhattan this very minute? Only a few are in contention, and this warbler is way up there. Her trick is that she employs no tricks. With a colorful shawl wrapped around her shoulders in a style Mable Mercer established, she straightforwardly sings the Great American Songbook standards to which she's loyal, and that's precisely the way you're sure their makers would have wanted. Mike Renzi is at the piano, and he's very close to the top of the best-accompanist list. -- By David Finkle

The Allman Brothers Band
Beacon Theatre
Monday & Tuesday, 8:00pm, $50.99-$200.99
There are only two more opportunities to hear the Allman Brothers Band live. Possibly ever. Over the past 45 years, since the ramblin' men from Macon, Georgia, played their first show for $1 tickets in 1969, they've taken myriad midnight rides, but after more than 200 shows at the Beacon, Southern rock's indefatigable progenitors have become more synonymous with the venue than even the Fillmore East. Through tragedy, personnel changes, and health scares, they've kept on hittin' the note, but as they go into the mystic with their own solo projects, it looks like it might finally be the end of line. -- By Aidan Levy