Live-music venues worth the trip in Ridgewood, New York

Todd P’s all-ages Ridgewood room with a backyard, booking dense bills of underground rap, noise, and indie most nights.

A Ridgewood venue-bar-gallery run by a crew drawn from Bowery Ballroom, Home Sweet Home, Sacred Bones Records, and WFMU, with a proper stage, a courtyard, and a bill from post-punk to country.