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Best Shows This Week (October 16 - 22) in NYC

Depeche Mode, The Beths, Thundercat, The Walkmen, A Place To Bury Strangers, Xiu Xiu, Violent Femmes, Pile, My Morning Jacket, The Chats, L'Rain, Small Black, PVA, A. Savage, Be Your Own Pet & more!

October 16, 2023

TUESDAY
Legendary avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson collaborates with jazz band Sexmob at BAM. O yes, there will be visuals.
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TUESDAY
Thundercat brings the booming bass and beats to Brooklyn Mirage straight from planet Thundera.
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TUESDAY
The Walkmen play Kings Theatre. Let me know if you wanna be my +1 since everybody who pretended to like me is gone.
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TUESDAY
Eccentro pop pioneers Violent Femmes play Webster Hall so go strut your stuff on over there.
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TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & SATURDAY
Auckland indie popsters The Beths play four shows this week in Brooklyn. Please note: The Beths rule.
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WEDNESDAY
Rambunctious Australian punks The Chats headline Knockdown Center as soon as they get back from being on smoko.
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THURSDAY - SATURDAY
My Morning Jacket plays three shows at Beacon Theatre. Their music still moves.
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THURSDAY
A. Savage (of Parquet Courts) plays a free show at a coffee shop in Queens so you should have no trouble staying wide awake!
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FRIDAY
Excellent NYC artist L'Rain plays songs from her brand new album I Killed Your Dog at Pioneer Works.
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SATURDAY
Depeche Mode plays a big time show for the masses at Barclays Center (with DIIV). Go to this or stay at home and enjoy the silence.
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SATURDAY
Laid-back synth pop heroes Small Black celebrate the 10th birthday of their classic album Limits of Desire by performing it in full at Bowery Ballroom and deciding to go is the proper spirit.
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SATURDAY
Idiosyncratic lo-fi jangle pop band Lewsburg (from Rotterdam) play a *free show* at Mama Tried in Sunset Park. RIYL: Velvet Underground * Modern Lovers * Pavement * Feelies * Belle & Sebastian.
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SUNDAY
Pulsing South London post ___ technopunk band PVA make their NYC debut this week (with Wiki and Hotline TNT). RIYL: chilly bangers.
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SUNDAY
Otherwise, let's see each other at the A Place To Bury Strangers/Xiu Xiu show at (Le) Poisson Rouge.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Morrissey (win tickets), Jessie Ware, Be Your Own Pet, Pile (win tickets), Palehound (win tickets), Ms. Lauryn Hill/Fugees, Kristine Leschper, Teenage Halloween, Dinner Party, Horse Jumper of Love, BRIC JazzFest 2023, How Did This Get Made (Live), Samantha Urbani, Margaret Glaspy, Drugdealer (win tickets), Decisive Pink, Reggie Watts, The State (live), Spellling, Rahill, Say She She, Little Dragon, The Beaches, Joanna Sternberg, Disq, Big Bliss, Dead Tooth, Weeping Icon, Light Asylum, The Darkness, John Zorn, Hiss Golden Messenger (win tickets), Lucinda Williams, A Giant Dog, Neil Frances (win tickets), Sincere Engineer (win tickets), Genesis Owusu, Joy Orbison, The Brook and The Bluff (win tickets), Gregory Alan Isakov, Switchfoot (win tickets), Billy Joel, Don Broco & The Home Team (win tickets), Vitesse X, Girl Ray, Prewn, Gus Dapperton, The Teskey Brothers (win tickets), Del Water Gap, Fran Lebowitz (win tickets), Ulrika Spacek, Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade and lots more...