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Best Shows This Week (July 10 - 16) in NYC

Noel Gallagher, Weezer, Future Islands, Joyce Manor, Widowspeak, MIKE (free), Noname (free), Vagabon (free), Nick Hakim (free), Little Dragon, !!! (chk chk chk), Big Joanie, Braid, Lee Fields (free) & more!

July 10, 2023

BEST SHOWS THIS WEEK (JULY 10 - 16) IN NYC

MONDAY
Today is gonna be the day that Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds play Central Park SummerStage. Maybe this is gonna be the show that saves me.
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MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
Buzzy London post __ synth punks Big Joanie make their NYC debut this week at Baby's All Right and Union Pool. See them now so you can one day say you saw them way back when.
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TUESDAY
Wonderful NYC indie rockers Widowspeak play up on the roof of Elsewhere. Everything is simple if you follow this advice: go.
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WEDNESDAY
The great Vagabon plays a *free outdoor show* at Hudson Yards. This show is totally worth paying for even though you totally don't have to.
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WEDNESDAY
Speaking of *free shows*, the cool dude Booker T. Jones plays a *free outdoor show* at Josie Robertson Plaza in Lincoln Center. M.G. = Must Go.
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THURSDAY
Weezer, Future Islands and Joyce Manor play Forest Hills Stadium. Wanna me up there? Sweet. You take your car, I'll take my board.
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THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Soulful Swedish synth pop vets Little Dragon (no relation to Puff the Magic) play two Brooklyn shows this week. Go see them. Twice.
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THURSDAY
How about another *free show* featuring a music legend? Go see Lee Fields in Battery Park for River & Blues Fest 2023. YOU. SHALL. NOT. PAYYYY.
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THURSDAY
Beloved NYC electro popsters !!! (chk chk chk) continue their highly danceable summer residency at Union Pool. Not going to be able to make it? Tsk tsk tsk!
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FRIDAY
More free summer shows please!!! OK, greedy, how about Nick Hakim and June McDoom leading another solid *free outdoor show* at Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn. An embarrassment of free musical riches!
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FRIDAY
Rock! Away! Music Festival at Rockaway Beach kicks off tonight with a *free outdoor show* featuring 95 Bulls, Shadow Monster and more.
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FRIDAY
Don't forget about Dawes. Dawes would like to play a *free outdoor show* this week too. Sheesh, it seems like All Your Favorite Bands are playing free shows this week.
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SATURDAY
Excellent local indie rockers Cende play their first NYC show in years at Baby's All Right. More like SENDME to this good show because I'll totally go.
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SATURDAY
Louise Post (of '90s alt grunge heroes Veruca Salt) plays a solo show at Bowery Ballroom. Go See(t)her.
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SATURDAY
ONE MORE SOLID *FREE OUTDOOR SHOW* TO MENTION THIS WEEK: MIKE's Young World III happens in Bed-Stuy this weekend featuring sets by MIKE, Noname, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Jay Critch and many more. Free shows forever.
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SATURDAY
Braid play their first NYC show in 9 years and I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. Hope to see you there. I'll be the one near the front holding up a frame and canvas.
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FINALLY
Brand new music venue Knitting Factory NY at Baker Falls opens this weekend in the East Village. See their initial lineup of shows.🔥

PLUS MORE NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Juan Wauters ( win tickets), Boiler Room NYC, Activity, Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes, Taking Back Sunday, Dead Prez, Mary Shelley, 75 Dollar Bill, Ellen Allien, The Frights (win tickets), Cut Worms, Joanna Sternberg, Destroy Boys, Jigsaw Youth, Delicate Steve, Mal Blum, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Chanel Beads, waveform*, They Are Gutting A Body of Water, BIG|BRAVE, L'Eclair (win tickets), Erykah Badu, Juanes, Little Jesus (win tickets), Barenaked Ladies, Molly Lewis, IC3PEAK (win tickets), Action Bronson, Letón Pé (win tickets), Marcia Griffiths, YHWH Nailgun, Ted Leo, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Meridian Brothers (free) and lots more...