Best Shows This Week (September 11 - 17) in NYC
Pavement, Melvins, Boris, Warpaint, Bush Tetras, Downtown Boys, Run The Jewels, Superchunk, The Spirit of the Beehive, Cigarettes After Sex, The Lemonheads, Laraaji, Dream Wife and more!
BEST SHOWS THIS WEEK (SEPTEMBER 11 - 17) IN NYC
MONDAY - THURSDAY
Pavement begin their four-night Brooklyn Steel residency this week. Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God. Oh, my God, oh, your God, oh, his God, oh, her God, it's everybody's God, it's everybody's God.
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TUESDAY
Heads Up: wonderful L.A. indie rock vets Warpaint play Brooklyn Bowl. Spare no expense to go.
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TUESDAY
The always dope Downtown Boys play Elsewhere. RIYL: the punk rock.
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WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY
Sparkling hip hop super duo Run the Jewels run it back to Terminal 5 four times and legend has it, these are their first NYC headlining shows in 6.5 years. Let's go.
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Go see Thursday celebrate the 20th birthday of their 2003 album War All The Time by performing it full on a boat on Thursday.... and Wednesday.
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THURSDAY
Lovely, laid-back indie rock outfit Trace Mountains play a *free show* at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. Go to this and lvl up your life.
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THURSDAY
Sacred Bones and Pioneer Works Present: Plantasia 2023 at beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery with a solid slate of musical performances (for plants and people) led by Laraaji and lots more.
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FRIDAY
Explosively eclectic Philly post ___ rockers The Spirit of the Beehive play Baby's All Right. Go to this show and everything will be fine.
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FRIDAY
Poppy London punks Dream Wife play Brooklyn Made. Is this real life?
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FRIDAY
NYC post punk No Wave legends Bush Tetras play (Le) Poisson Rouge with solid support from wicked noise band Weeping Icon. You can't be funky unless you go to this show.
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FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Europe's leading stoner rock festival Desertfest arrives at Knockdown Center in Queens this weekend with heavy/sludgy performances by Melvins, Boris and Monster Magnet (plus many more) sure to be among the high-lights.
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY
ROAD TRIP? Asbury Park's Sea.Hear.Now. Festival this weekend features The Killers, Foo Fighters, Weezer, The Breeders and many many more bands and artists you've heard of. You take your car. I'll take my board.
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SATURDAY
Chapel Hill indie rock heroes Superchunk play Bowery Ballroom and you'd be foolish to miss it. Come pick me up.
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY
HEADS VP: Lauren Mayberry (of CHVRCHES) makes her NYC solo show debvt this weekend and some tickets are still available. Lvcky yov.
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SUNDAY
I know a place where I can go. The Lemonheads celebrate the 30th birthday of their classic 1993 album Come On Feel The Lemonheads by performing it in full at Racket.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Being Dead, Claud, UNKLE (win tickets), Fred Armisen, Annie Hart, Sinkane, Dinosaur Jr, Surf Curse, KAYTRAMINÉ, Black Sabbath Cover Band Rehearsals, John Zorn, Ween, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily, The Babe Rainbow, Timecop1983, Tash Sultana, Cigarettes After Sex, Baroness, Taper's Choice, Steve Gunn, Eli Winter, Provoker, Omar Souleyman, Pissed Jeans, Denzel Curry, Billy Idol, Alex Cameron, Senses Fail (win tickets), Greta Van Fleet, Melt (win tickets), Phony Ppl, Lastlings (win tickets), Tanya Tucker, The Glorious Sons (win tickets), Wu-Tang Clan, Dougie Poole, John Zorn, L7, Front Line Assembly, Work Wife and lots more...
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