Best Shows This Week (July 21 - 27) in NYC - Oh My Rockness

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Best Shows This Week (July 21 - 27) in NYC

Femi Kuti & The Positive Force (free), Primus, Ty Segall, Ducks Ltd., RJD2, Ghost, Cymande, Acid Bath, Broncho, The Swell Season, Eric Slick & friends, PC Worship (free), Drive-By Truckers, Deer Tick, Trace Mountains, The Dare, Fcukers, Folk Bitch Trio, Bonny Light Horseman, Sumac & Moor Mother, Safe Mind, Tall Juan, 79.5 (free) & more!

July 21, 2025

MONDAY
Primus plays The Rooftop at Pier 17 (with Ty Segall). Sorry, no outside pork sodas allowed.
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MONDAY
Swing by beloved Brooklyn venue Our Wicked Lady for their last night open ever. Hoo will miss OWL? OMR will miss OWL. RIP. RSVP.
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TUESDAY
Toronto jangle popsters Ducks Ltd. play the rooftop at Elsewhere (with Trace Mountains), further proving this band is everything they're quacked up to be.
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TUESDAY
Lush Melbourne indie popsters Folk Bitch Trio have come all the way from the other side of the world to play their good songs for you at Night Club 101 (with Bloomsday).
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TUESDAY
Ghost play MSG, as good of an arena as any to host these heavy glammy Swedish apparitions. More like Madison Square Going.
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WEDNESDAY
Eric Slick (of Dr. Dog) hosts a night of Krautrock & Kosmische Music at Brooklyn Bowl with buds Kevin Morby, Nels Cline, Cass McCombs, Spencer Tweedy and more.
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THURSDAY
Super supergroup of sorts Bonny Light Horseman plays 92Y on a Thursday in July.
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FRIDAY
Enjoy a nice free summer night at Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City with poetry and music by sweet disco-psych-acid-jazz-soul-popsters 79.5.
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FRIDAY
Psst, late afternoon/early evening dancing happening at MoMA PS1's Warm Up 2025.
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SATURDAY
Irish folk duo The Swell Season (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova) play Kings Theatre. They were in a musical movie together once.
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SATURDAY
RJD2 brings the big time beats and electronic excellence to Brooklyn Bowl. Roll through to this show and yer doin' it right.
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SATURDAY
Truth: The Dare and Fcukers DJ a highly danceable set at Knockdown Center (Ruins). Should be hot siht (sic).
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SATURDAY
Ease on down to Prospect Park this Saturday evening and see a screening of The Wiz in Prospect Park, a Celebrate Brooklyn! tribute to Quincy Jones. Free!
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SUNDAY
Acclaimed Nigerian Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti & The Positive Force play a joyful *free show* at Central Park SummerStage. Please note: this is the #1 most saved show on OMR (NY) this week.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Broncho (win tickets), Drive-By Truckers, Acid Bath (win tickets), Algiers, Sumac & Moor Mother (win tickets), Safe Mind, PC Worship (free show), Tall Juan (win tickets), Faraquet, Cymande (free show), Alex Amen (free show), Black Chamber Folk Music, Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (free show), Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage, Ocean Alley (win tickets), Phish, Nightosphere, Laveda, SAVAK, Jacqueline Novak, Sedona, Torture and the Desert Spiders, Gin Blossoms, Robert Lester Folsom, Kesha, Trobone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, The Fin. (win tickets), Wild Child Doors Tribute (win tickets), Three Dog Night (win tickets), Asher White, The Thing, Loose Buttons, Death Tooth, Pantera, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues (free show), Mal Blum and more!

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