Miss Madeline takes over Elsewhere's Zone One on Friday, Nov. 20

The New York club-pop performer, longtime collaborator of Club Eat's Chicken, plays Bushwick's multi-room venue in an early Friday slot.

Some performers you go to hear. Miss Madeline is one you go to watch — the choreography is part of the record. She plays Elsewhere's Zone One on Friday, Nov. 20, with a 7 p.m. start, a date announced Oct. 30, less than three weeks before the show.

Tickets are $20–$25.75 through Eventbrite. An early start on a Friday at Elsewhere means you can catch the set and still have the whole night in front of you.

If you have been near New York's club-pop underground in the last few years, you have probably run into her name. A festival booking her in Belgium last year summed up the appeal neatly: pop anthems, cheeky lyrics, slick self-directed music videos and choreography that is hard to replicate, from a figure in the online underground scene. That same booking credited her debut mixtape, *So Dramatic*, as executive-produced by Chicken.

That collaboration is the thread worth pulling. PAPER covered her 2023 single "Shock," which paired her with Chicken, described as a longtime collaborator who has been staking a claim in New York's music renaissance through his own project, Club Eat. In that interview she recalled him playing her the original beat, which carries the song's main synth line. It is a very New York story — a producer building his own scene, a performer who treats a dance-floor single like a stage show — and it explains why her Brooklyn dates feel like a hometown crowd turning out.

The choreography is part of the record.

Elsewhere is the right building for it. The 24,000-square-foot venue at 599 Johnson Ave. in Bushwick opened in late 2017 in a converted warehouse, launched by the Popgun team as a multi-room music hall, nightclub and arts space. It has since shown up repeatedly in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs poll. Zone One is the more intimate of its rooms, set up for emerging acts and close-up shows — which, for a performer whose set leans on movement, means you are actually close enough to see it.

The building's identity sits right on the line Miss Madeline walks: part concert hall, part club, with programming that treats pop and dance music as the same conversation. A Friday early show there fits her better than a late-night DJ slot would, because the point is the performance as much as the beat.

What to know before going: the start time is early, the room is built for intimacy rather than sprawl, and a show announced on short notice for a Friday night in Bushwick is not one to leave until the door.

Wear shoes you can move in. Nobody at this one stands still.

Sources: Miss Madeline — Les Nuits artist page (lesnuits.be); Miss Madeline Shocks the System — PAPER (papermag.com); First look at Popgun's new Bushwick venue Elsewhere — BrooklynVegan (brooklynvegan.com); It's where to go: new music venue Elsewhere has it all — Brooklyn Paper (brooklynpaper.com); Brooklyn's most exciting new music venue kicks off — Time Out (timeout.com); Elsewhere — DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs 2023 (djmag.com); Elsewhere — DJ Mag Top 100 Clubs 2020 (djmag.com); Elsewhere: new Bushwick music hall to put emerging NYC artists in spotlight — amNY (amny.com); Miss Madeline at Elsewhere (Zone One) — tickets (Eventbrite) (eventbrite.com)