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Best Shows This Week (August 7 - 13) in NYC

QOTSA, Death Grips, The Moldy Peaches, Digable Planets (free), The Revivalists, Band of Horses, Wu-Tang (free), Sweeping Promises, Tim Heidecker, !!! (chk chk chk), Sloppy Jane, June McDoom (free), The Swell Season & more!

August 7, 2023

BEST SHOWS THIS WEEK (AUGUST 7 - 13) IN NYC

WEDNESDAY
SAC gods Death Grips play Terminal 5 and if you haven't bought a ticket to this yet, better get to the money store.
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WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY
Tim Heidecker plays NYC and NJ in the same week. Great job! Should you go see him? Ab...so...lutely.
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THURSDAY
Wu-Tang does a *free show* in Queens to help celebrate Hip Hop's 50th birthday. Wu-Tang forever.
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THURSDAY
Band of Horses and The Revivalists play Prospect Park for Celebrate Brooklyn! You can't do everything all the time but you can do this... if you're free Thursday.
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THURSDAY
This week is !!! (chk chk chk)'s last summer residency date at Union Pool. Dance with them while you still can or tsk tsk tsk!!!
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THURSDAY
Not to make any expansive assurances, but if you go see Sweeping Promises' sweet danceable post ___ punk at Music Hall of Williamsburg you will leave in a winning mood.
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THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Beloved NYC indie popsters The Moldy Peaches are back to play two at Brooklyn Steel this week, their first NYC shows in... 19 years?! (Who saw them at The Hook in 2004? The Hook!)
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FRIDAY
Digable Planets (they be to rap what key be to lock) lead another excellent *free* Celebrate Brooklyn! show in Prospect Park for BRIC's celebratory Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary Weekend.
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FRIDAY
Only a few more MoMA PS1 Warm Up parties remain for the summer of '23. Get thee to Long Island City before September. So sayeth the blob.
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SATURDAY
Queens of the Stone Age play Forest Hills Stadium, their first NYC show in no one knows. (6 years.)
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SATURDAY
The Swell Season (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova) play Radio City Music Hall. They also did a movie once.
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SUNDAY
Sloppy Jane start their perfectly messy August artist-in-residency at Baby's All Right with "Wedding Night."
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SUNDAY
Captivating folk artist June McDoom plays a *free afternoon show* for Union Pool's 'Summer Thunder.' Swoon.
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PLUS MORE NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Bass Drum of Death, Calexico (win tickets), JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rina Sawayama, Sam Smith, The Clientele (win tickets), John Zorn, Rakim (free), Dog Date (free), Gorjira, Mastodon, JessX (free), Pons, The Detroit Cobras, Jeanines, Wild Yaks (free), Tea Eater (free), Raavi, Namesake (free), Fetch Tiger, Tennis Courts, Trophy Wife, Hit The Lights (win tickets), Joe Pera, Mt. Joy, City of the Sun (win tickets), 50 Cent, Krallice, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Maisie Peters, Lamb of God (win tickets), Phantogram, Dead Tooth, Murphy's Law, Magdalena Bay, glaive, Oso Oso and lots more...