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Best Shows This Week (May 27 - June 1) in NYC

Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, A Place To Bury Strangers, Momma, Water From Your Eyes, Pinback, David Byrne, Tennis, Wishy, Crack Cloud, Hello Mary, Fatboy Slim, Palehound, The Menzingers, Panchiko, Hamilton Leithauser, Matt Berninger, Alvvays, Los Campesinos!, Balaclava & more!

May 27, 2025

TUESDAY
Palehound, The Ophelias and Grumpy play a benefit show for the Immigrant Defense Project at Baby's All Right.
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WEDNESDAY
Can't decide between seeing Hamilton Leithuaser (The Walkmen) and eating pizza on Wednesday night? What if we told you you could do both?
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THURSDAY
UK rockers Panchiko bring their pretty post ___ shoegaze to Brooklyn Paramount.
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THURSDAY & FRIDAY
Pinback play their 2004 album Summer in Abaddon on night one and their hits on night two at MHOW. It would be good to sea you there.
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THURSDAY
Water From Your Eyes, Crack Cloud and Hello Mary play on a boat on the water. All three of these bands are really making waves.
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THURSDAY
David Byrne hosts an 'Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things Variety Show' with lots of special guests and Town Hall must be the place.
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FRIDAY
Fatboy Slim plays a day + night rager (praise you for your energy) at Knockdown Center. Consider going, right here, right now.
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FRIDAY
Adding to the boatload of good shows this week, beloved loud band A Place To Bury Strangers rock a Rocks Off Concert Cruise and they should make quite the row.
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FRIDAY
Scrappy Scranton melodic punks The Menzingers play Warsaw. Go to this show if you don't wanna be an a****** anymore.
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FRIDAY & SATURDAY
BERN NOTICE: Matt Berninger (of The Natural, naturally) plays a solo show at Webster Hall and does an in-store at Rough Trade the next day.
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SATURDAY
Bloc Party plays Forest Hills Stadium (with Blonde Redhead, no less). This is the #1 most saved show this week. Missing this one would be so painful, like eating glass
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SATURDAY
MWWW? (Momma, Wishy, Warsaw, Wanna?)
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SUNDAY
Alvvays plays Jones Beach (vvith headliner Halsey). Vve vvill alvvays blurb about this vvonderful band.
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SUNDAY
Rising noisy post ___ punks Balaclava lead a solid *free afternoon show* at Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick. Sick.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Tennis, Alice Glass, Los Campesinos!, Wet, Julie Byrne, MIKE, Jet, The Budos Band, OK Go, Trace Mountains, Christeene, Her New Knife, Catbite, The OBGMs, Crate, Clinic Stars, Alex Orange Drink (win tickets), Sinkane, Florist (win tickets), The Body, Christopher Owens, Annie DiRusso, Squirrel Flower, Taleen Kali, Landlady, Meredith Monk, Samia, Raffaella, Craig Finn, Mercer Henderson (win tickets), Flasyd, Sun Junkies, SAVAK, Perennial, The Gotobeds, Weeping Icon, Miranda July, TDA, True Body, death's dynamic shroud, Vitesse X, Tea Eater, Cigarettes For Breakfast and more!