60+ Recommended Live Music Events This Weekend in NYC

Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden in December 2018; this Friday he will again break records at the venue by performing his 86th show in his monthly residency and his 132nd lifetime show there

The Manhattan Beat regularly lists the best live music events coming to the New York City area. The twice-weekly guide also celebrates via photographs some of the musicians who have performed locally in the past few days.

Everynight Charley recommends the following 60+ live music events this weekend. Contact the venue to confirm ticket availability, show times, COVID compliance, and other updates. Note that several artists and indoor venues continue to require proof of COVID vaccinations and/or mandate the wearing of masks.

Cavetown headlined the This Is Home Project benefit concert at Racket on January 11

mxmtoon at the This Is Home Project benefit concert at Racket on January 11

Chloe Moriondo at the This Is Home Project benefit concert at Racket on January 11

Cafuné at the This Is Home Project benefit concert at Racket NYC on January 11

Friday, January 13

• Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden

• Slick Rick at the Brooklyn Bowl

• They Might Be Giants at the Bowery Ballroom

• N.Flying at Terminal 5

• Tomberlin, Palehound (solo) at Baby's All Right

• Vonda Shepard at Feinstein's/54 Below

• Kat Edmonson, Royal Wood, Kings Return at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

• Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Lakecia Benjamin, Hera, Ben Wendel, Yamandu Costa, Miho Hazama at City Winery NYC

• Specialists, Will Leet, Bentley Robles at Brooklyn Made

• Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Jontavious Willis at Sony Hall

• Doug and the Slugz, the Press, Violent Way at the Brooklyn Monarch

• Jesse Malin, Dito Montiel, Christine Smith at the Bowery Electric

• Meshell Ndegeocello at the Blue Note

• Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding at the Village Vanguard

• The National Reserve at Skinny Dennis

• Fred Thomas at LunAtico

• Balaklava Blues, NY Gypsy All-Stars, War Club, Grupo Rebolu, Djely Tapa, Maya Burns, Night in Tunisia at Drom

• Blaketheman1000, New York, Alice Longyu Gao, Angel Prost, REN, Tyler Bainbridge, Ezra Marcus at Baby's All Right

• Snacktime at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

• Macy Rodman at C'mon Everybody

• Vox Kings, Sea Monster at Pianos

• Baby Yaga at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1

• The SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues

• Junior Mack (acoustic) at Terra Blues

• Dive Bar Romeos at Stitch Bar & Blues

"King" Solomon Hicks at City Winery NYC on January 9

Quinn Sullivan at City Winery NYC on January 9

The Jeff Slate Band at Light of Day's Clarence Clemons Birthday Celebration at the Loft at City Winery on January 11

Joe D'Urso & Stone Caravan at Light of Day's Clarence Clemons Birthday Celebration at the Loft at City Winery on January 11

Saturday, January 14

• They Might Be Giants at the Bowery Ballroom

• Youngtak at the Beacon Theatre

• Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at the Town Hall

• Wheatus, Todd Morse, the Fatal Flaw at Mercury Lounge

• Daniel Seavey at Racket

• The Giraffes, Live Skull, the Austerity Program at Saint Vitus Bar

• Jade Tourniquet, Feramone, Spitphyre, Fulano at the Brooklyn Monarch

• Meshell Ndegeocello at the Blue Note

• Underdog, Bloodclot, Brick by Brick, Wreckage, Dead Las at the Meadows

• Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding at the Village Vanguard

• Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues

• The Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

• Saddlemen, Mojohand, Jane Bruce & Elijah Heifetz, Hannah Ray at Arlene's Grocery

• Squirrels from Hell at Silvana

• Contemporary Adults at the Anyway Cafe

Rachel Grae at School Night at Mercury Lounge on January 10

Alexa Cappelli at School Night at Mercury Lounge on January 10

Shane Guerrette at School Night at Mercury Lounge on January 10

Mei Semones at School Night at Mercury Lounge on January 10

Sunday, January 15

• They Might Be Giants at the Bowery Ballroom

• Dengue Fever at David Geffen Hall

• The Harlem Gospel Travelers, Eli Paperboy Reed, Ruthie Foster at City Winery NYC

• Friends of the Brothers, Veronica Lewis, Sammy Miller and the Congregation at the Loft at City Winery

• The Immediate Family at the Iridium

• 80purpp at Baby's All Right

• Meshell Ndegeocello at the Blue Note

• The Last Poets, J. Ivy at S.O.B.'s

• Pedrito Martinez at Drom

• Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

• Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding at the Village Vanguard

• Sheer Terror at Saint Vitus Bar

• Michael T & the Vanities, the Hound Dogs at the Bowery Electric

• The Pioneers at Terra Blues

• David "Doc" French at Terra Blues

• Jim Andralis at Book Club

• The Hipp Pipps, Density, Exit 99 at Otto's Shrunken Head

• Sashka Drey at the Anyway Cafe

• Assaf Salhov at the Anyway Cafe

• Matt Susich, Jenna Nicholls at the Scratcher Bar

• The Irish Siesiun at the 11th St. Bar

Juvenoia at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2, on January 10

Taryn Faye Randall at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1, on January 10

Kevin Harris (right) with Brian Charette at the Ear Inn on January 9

Beautiful Buzz at the Red Lion on January 9

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The Manhattan Beat covers New York City's live music circuit. All articles are written by Everynight Charley Crespo. All photographs are taken by Everynight Charley Crespo, except when noted otherwise.

For a list of Manhattan venues that are presenting live music regularly, swing the desktop cursor to the right of the home page and click on the pop-up tab "Where to Find Live Music."

For a listing of upcoming concerts for live audiences, visit The Manhattan Beat's January calendar.