Best Shows This Week (October 2 - 8) in NYC - Oh My Rockness

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Best Shows This Week (October 2 - 8) in NYC

Nick Cave, Japanese Breakfast, Explosions In The Sky, Yves Tumor, boygenius, Frankie Cosmos, James Blake,The Wombats, CHAI, Guided By Voices, Royal Blood, GUM, TV Girl, Shabazz Palaces, Soul Glo & more!

October 2, 2023

MONDAY
boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) play little old MSG and we're definitely cool about it.
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MONDAY
Rising like a rocket NC singer/songwriter/producer Hemlocke Springs plays Baby's All Right and tickets are going... going... GONE!
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TUESDAY
Go see Liverpool's The Wombats play Brooklyn Steel. Between bands let's dance to Joy Division.
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TUESDAY
Gotta shine a light on this goodness: Seattle post ___ hip hop collective Shabazz Palaces (led by Ishmael Butler of Digable Planets) play Bowery Ballroom.
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WEDNESDAY
EXTRA: Australian psych popsters GUM (ft. Jay Watson of Tame Impala) come down from their orbit in space to play Bowery Ballroom. Hubba bubba!
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WEDNESDAY
Acclaimed experimental artist Yves Tumor plays Terminal 5 with solid support from Canadian post ___ art collective Crack Cloud (who also play LPR this week).
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THURSDAY - SUNDAY
The week of Nick Cave starts on Thursday with readings at The Strand and 92Y, plus a real life live show at Kings Theatre on Friday and two more at Beacon Theatre over the weekend. Let Cave In.
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THURSDAY
Japanese Breakfast plays Radio City Music Hall with Ichiko Aoba. Crying in Rockefeller Center.
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THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Euphoric Texas instrumental post rock heroes Explosions in the Sky play one show at Kings Theatre and two at Bowery Ballroom this week, further proof that the earth is not a cold dead place.
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THURSDAY & FRIDAY
London songwriter James Blake does a doubleheader at Knockdown Center. Get up for these.
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FRIDAY
Poppy synth punks CHAI, the pride of Nagoya, Japan, play Warsaw. Go see them live and an excellent time will be had by all, including you.
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FRIDAY
Paramore talks with The New Yorker's Amanda Petrusich (and performs) at Webster Hall. If you want to go, hope you already have a ticket or you're in for some hard times.
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SATURDAY
Scuzzy Melbourne blazers CIVIC make their NYC debut at Elsewhere this weekend. Get into their noisy garage rock post proto punk goodness ASAP.
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SATURDAY
The great Guided By Voices play some songs from their 50,000 album discography (approximately) at White Eagle Hall. Versus to open!
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SUNDAY
DJ Shadow + A-Trak + more celebrate Fool's Gold's 15th Anniversary at Public Records in Gowanus. Go with us.
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SUNDAY
Beloved NYC indie rockers Frankie Cosmos play Warsaw and you'd be a fool to miss it.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Royal Blood, Fear, TV Girl (win tickets), Bob Mould, Crack Cloud, TENGGER, Washer, Soul Glo, Lutalo, Aunty Donna, Ethel Cain, Skullcrusher, Miya Folick, Thanks For Coming, Sean Nicholas Savage, Whitney, Rahill, No Joy, Grim Streaker, June McDoom, The Red Pears, Avalon Emerson, Strange Ranger, Pons, Joy Oladokun, Field Medic, Ben Folds, Noah Gundersen (win tickets), Lizzie Loveless, Mei Semones, May Rio, Benny Sings (win tickets), Robert Glasper, Sun Room (win tickets), Les Sans Culottes, Blanco White (win tickets), Nick Offerman, Mapache (win tickets), Laurie Anderson, Joe Pera, Sheer Mag, The Midnight, Jessy Lanza, Belly, Boy Harsher, Strawberry Runners, Lee Fields, Weird Al Yankovic and lots more...

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