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Best Shows This Week (July 24 - 30) in NYC

Le Tigre, Mdou Moctar (free), Maggie Rogers, Aimee Mann (free), Soccer Mommy, Weeping Icon, Current Joys, cumgirl8, The Wallflowers (free), Tape Hiss (free), Anamanaguchi, Portugal. The Man & more!

July 23, 2023

BEST SHOWS THIS WEEK (JULY 24 - 30) IN NYC

TUESDAY
Celebrate PopGun Presents 15th birthday at Elsewhere and see a v. solid and fun lineup led by 8-bit heroes Ananamaguchi. HBD PGP.
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TUESDAY
Current Joys (ft. Nick Rattigan of Surf Curse) play Baby's All Right. Go to experience future happiness.
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WEDNESDAY
Experimental Brooklyn post ___ punks Weeping Icon play The Broadway. Yes.
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THURSDAY - SATURDAY
The hot topic around here is how the great Le Tigre are playing their first (3) shows on this island (well, Brooklyn) in almost 18 years.
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THURSDAY
Maggie Rogers and Soccer Mommy play Forest Hills Stadium. Surrender to this goodness.
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THURSDAY
The Wallflowers play a free Celebrate Brooklyn! show in Prospect Park. If you drive, for safety's sake, please don't do so with only one headlight.
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FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The legendary psych/garage rock compilation Nuggets is 50 years old and you can celebrate this and the passing of time at City Winery with Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Peter Buck, Juliana Hatfield, Bob Mould and more luminaries.
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FRIDAY
Wild NYC punks cumgirl8 play brand new East Village music venue Knitting Factory NY at Baker Falls and it's going to be a happening. (We checked out the space last week. It's nice!)
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Beyoncé plays New Jersé.
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SATURDAY
Listen, Mdou Moctar puts on a transcendent live show and you have the opportunity to see this musical splendor FOR FREE at Central Park SummerStage (with Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore and Rough Francis). Don't let this one pass you by.
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SATURDAY
Tape Hiss (ft. members of Sonic Youth/Modern Lovers etc) play a free outdoor daytime show at Mama Tried in Sunset Park. YOU. SHALL. NOT. PAYYY.
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SUNDAY
How about taking in a free Sunday performance and conversation with Aimee Mann at Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center? Please try and keep it down during the show because when you're outside, voices carry.
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SUNDAY
Soft Kill, Ruth Radelet (of Chromatics) and Militarie Gun play NYC's iconic Rainbow Room. Post show martinis at 21 Club or the Copacabana, anyone?
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PLUS MORE NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Portugal. The Man (win tickets), Thee Sacred Souls, Boys Noize, Phish, Bonobo, Fenne Lily (free), Bill MacKay & Riley Walker, Pool Kids, Rickie Lee Jones, Swamp Dogg (win tickets), Remember Sports, 2nd Grade, Shady Bug, Maneka, Delicate Steve, Alice Phoebe Lou (win tickets), Allison Russell (free), Billy Joel, Kid Koala, onelinedrawing, Hail The Sun (win tickets), Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, June McDoom, Clipse, Social Distortion, Ours (win tickets), Pharmakon, The Mooney Suzuki, Nanna (win tickets) and lots more...