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Best Shows This Week (August 4 - 10) in NYC

Death Cab For Cutie, American Analog Set, My Chemical Romance, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Guster, The Mountain Goats, TVOD, Dropkick Murphys, Bad Religion, mxmtoon (free), Kelly Moran, NewDad, Nicole Atkins, Speedy Ortiz (free), Beach Bunny, Katy Kirby & more!

August 4, 2025

MONDAY
Jens Lekman discusses his new book collaboration Songs for Other People's Weddings at the Strand. Should be a sweet summer's night on Broadway.
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MONDAY
Guster and The Mountain Goats play The Rooftop at Pier 17 after their show originally scheduled for last week was washed out. All hail, rain checks.
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TUESDAY
Stellar singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins plays Baby's All Right. Not going would be a little crazy.
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WEDNESDAY
Nashville songwriter Katy Kirby commences her soaring August residency at Cassette, a cool dry place.
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WEDNESDAY
mxmtoon plays a *free show* at Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens. More like ukulelet's go!
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WEDNESDAY
Galway, Ireland's NewDad play MHOW. Please get into their dreamy shoegaze-y goodness immediately.
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THURSDAY
Acclaimed post ___ pianist/composer Kelly Moran plays a *free show* The Underground at Jaffe Drive - Lincoln Center.
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THURSDAY
Smooth singing Beach Bunny plays an intimate in-store at Rough Trade next week. BYOBE: bring your own bunny ears.
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FRIDAY, SUNDAY & TUESDAY
Death Cab For Cutie headlines three shows at Brooklyn Paramount (with American Analog Set supporting). These are the facts, please vote yes.
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FRIDAY
The great Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham) plays Pioneer Works. Can I get a photo pass to this, for I am a cinematographer.
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FRIDAY
TVOD headlines Baby's All Right with CDSM and Balaclava RIYL: the punk rock.
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FRIDAY
A *free* night of poetry and music with Speedy Ortiz at Battery Park City's newly re-opened Wagner Park.
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SATURDAY
My Chemical Romance plays MetLife Stadium with support from Death Cab For Cutie (where have I heard that name before?) and Thursday. E(uphoria) M(ay) O(ccur).
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Go to the *free* afternoon Show Brain Festival in Tompkins Square Park this weekend with a bunch of solid NYC punks playing.
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SUNDAY
Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) curates a musical celebration of Arthur Russell at Little Island at Pier 55 with performances by Zoh Amba, Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Hannah Cohen, Elysian Fields, Martha Wainwright and more.
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SUNDAY
Otherwise, we'll be at Summer Thunder.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
bôa, Dropkick Murphys, Bad Religion, Mumford & Sons, Lucius, Clipse, Earthgang, Deradoorian, NoMad Jazz Fest, Snow Tha Product, MoMA PS1 Warm Up, Peaer, Brutus VIII, John Roseboro, Zach Phillips, 95 Bulls, Torture and the Desert Spiders, The Fray, Aloe Blacc, Charlotte Lawrence, Orange 9mm, Miles Hewitt, Skull Practitioners, Daddy Long Legs, The Mystery Lights, Native Sun, The Thing, Dion Lunadon, Dead Tooth, The Dollyrots (win tickets), The Word Alive (win tickets), Nonpoint (win tickets), Pop Music Fever Dream, gobbinjr, King's X, The Avett Brothers, Anberlin, Esperanza Spalding, Planning For Burial, The Chainsmokers, Todd Barry, Giraffage, Lyricist Lounge, Rakim, Editrix and more!

☆THE FULL LIST☆

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