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Best Shows This Week (March 4 - 10) in NYC

Mclusky, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Alkaline Trio, Porno For Pyros, KMFDM, The Dandy Warhols, Mannequin Pussy, June McDoom, Hamilton Leithauser, Laura Jane Grace, Glixen, Shadow Show & more!

March 4, 2024

MONDAY
Brooklyn post ____ synth popsters Nation of Language play Bowery Ballroom (with Tomberlin!) and after this show is over they will be your sole obsession.
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MONDAY
Mannequin Pussy play an intimate in-store at Rough Trade to celebrate their divine new album I Got Heaven.
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TUESDAY + MORE
Hamilton Leithauser begins his ten-show residency at the classy Café Carlyle. Don't walk, man. Run.
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TUESDAY
Genre-shifting rockers Hurray for the Riff Raff plays songs from their acclaimed new album The Past Is Still Alive at Music Hall of Williamsburg with v. solid support from Chicago's NNAMDÏ.
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WEDNESDAY
Stellar folk songwriter June McDoom plays a *free show* in Manhattan. On My Way!
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WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY
The New Colossus Festival starts Wednesday (through Sunday) and will feature dozens of up-and-coming bands from here and abroad playing various fine venues on the L.E.S.
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THURSDAY
The big time Love Rocks NYC: God's Love We Deliver Benefit happens at Beacon Theatre with performances/appearances by The Black Keys, Hozier, Tom Morello, Dave Grohl, Lucius, Martin Short, Conan O'Brien and *lots* more.
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THURSDAY
Welsh post____hardcore heroes Mclusky play their first NYC show (for real, this time) in almost 20 years at Warsaw and the only difference between you and them is they're not on fire.
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THURSDAY - SUNDAY
Eccentro-pop pioneer and forever modern lover Jonathan Richman plays four shows at The Bell House with Tommy Larkins on the drums.
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THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY
Perry Farrell's Porno For Pyros play three NYC-area shows this week. They make great pets.
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~~FRIDAY~~
Date Changed to Friday, March 22
Seoul-based psychedelic/New Age/drone band TENGGER play "Ambient Church" at Church of the Heavenly Rest. Please get into their sweepingly grand ethereal euphoric spiritual musical goodness.
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FRIDAY
Rising Phoenix shoegazers Glixen bring their swirly dreamy fuzzy super melodic sweetness to The Meadows.
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SATURDAY
Pop punk/punk pop heavyweights Alkaline Trio play Knockdown Center. Mercy me!
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SATURDAY
Hamburg industrial megalomaniacs KMFDM play Irving Plaza. Bring earplugs.
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SATURDAY
Rising harmonious '60s-inspired power/psych/pop Detroit trio Shadow Show play a late night show at TV Eye and you should totally go.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
The Dandy Warhols (win tickets), Laura Jane Grace, U.S. Girls (duo), The Beaches, Katy Kirby, Adam Green, Mint Field, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn (win tickets), K. Flay, Video Age, Sean Nicholas Savage, Ducks Ltd., Jobber, Washer, SAVAK, Tea Eater, Mx Lonely, Joanna Sternberg, Turnover, MSPAINT, GWAR, TVOD, Tank and the Bangas, Mutoid Man, David Cross, Pure Adult, Drug Church, Glass Spells, Sofia Kourtesis, Gruff Rhys, Louis Cole (win tickets), Red Baraat, Glimmer, Worriers, Thievery Corporation (win tickets), Anthony Green, Sid Sriram (win tickets), Red Wanting Blue (win tickets), Bleachers and more!