The Best Choices for Live Music This Weekend in the NYC Area

Metallica, pictured above at Webster Hall in 2016, will headline two nights at MetLife Stadium this Friday and Sunday

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.

The following concerts, originally scheduled for this weekend, have been postponed or canceled. If you planned to attend any of these shows, look further down the list for alternate shows.

• Snoop Dogg, Wiz Kalifa, Too Short, Warren G, Berner at Barclays Center
• Lil Durk, Kodak Black, NLE Choppa, DD Osama at Barclays Center
• Plaid at Brooklyn Made

Everynight Charley recommends the following 60+ concerts in the New York City area this weekend. Refer to the venue or the artists' social media to confirm ticket availability, show times, age restrictions, COVID compliance, and other updates.

Phil Lesh & Friends headlined the third of the four days of the sixth annual Great South Bay Music Festival on July 22 (photograph by Artie Raslich)

The Eric Krasno Trio at the Great South Bay Music Festival on July 22 (photograph by Artie Raslich)

Soundswell at the Great South Bay Music Festival on July 22 (photograph by Artie Raslich)

Aimee Mann at Damrosch Park on July 30 (photograph by Shelley Fromm)

Friday, August 4

• Metallica, Pantera, Mammoth WVH at MetLife Stadium
• Phish at Madison Square Garden
• deadmau5 vs. Testpilot, Callie Reiff, Gusted, STAR SEED at the Brooklyn Mirage
• The Mountain Goats, Pool Kids at the Rooftop at Pier 17
• The Airborne Toxic Event at the Bowery Ballroom
• Indigo De Souza, Vundabar at the Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park
• Prong at MetLife Stadium Parking Lot
• Jon B. at City Winery NYC
• Annie Hart at Rough Trade NYC
• Binki, Ernest Rareberrg at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• French 79, brothertiger at Racket NYC
• argonaut&wasp, Boys Go to Jupiter at the Sultan Room
• Strange Ranger, Nourished by Time at Drom
• Sparta, Geoff Rickly, Zeta at the Brooklyn Monarch
• Phoebe Hunt (solo) at Skinny Dennis
• Nora Brown, Sarah Kate Morgan, John Haywood at Cafe Wha?
• The National Reserve at Skinny Dennis
• Cancion Franklin, Doc Honey, Shawn Parsons at the Parkside Lounge
• John Borra & Joe Sztabnik at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1
• Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1
• The Black Angels NYC, the Gunsmoke Sinners, DonBlackCat & Friends at Otto's Shrunken Head
• New Moon Acoustic Blues at Terra Blues
• The SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues
• Perpetual Groove at the Cutting Room

The Ghost Inside at Irving Plaza on July 28

Underoath at Irving Plaza on July 28

We Came as Romans at Irving Plaza on July 28

Better Lovers at Irving Plaza on July 28

Saturday, August 5

• Phish at Madison Square Garden
• LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, Ludacris, De La Soul, Method Man & Redman, Swizz Beatz, Salt-n-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, the God MC Rakim, Slick Rick, Fabolous, Boot Camp Clik w. Buckshot and Evil Dee, Smif-N-Wessun, OGC and Rock & Bernadette Price, MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, MC Sha Rock, Roxanne Shanté, Monie Love, the Cold Crush Brothers at Forest Hills Stadium
• The Airborne Toxic Event at the Bowery Ballroom
• Win and Woo, ASTOR, Jumo at Pier 83
• Crumb, U.S. Girls, Model/Actriz, Grace Ives, Pelada, Palm, Club Intl at the Knockdown Center
• The Originals w. Stretch Armstrong, Clark Kent, Rich Medina, D-Nice, Tony Touch at SummerStage Central Park
• Amy Wiles, anamē, Andrew Bayer, Gabriel & Dresden, ilan Bluestone, Mat Zo, SunrYse at the Rooftop at Pier 17
• SB19 at Webster Hall
• Stonebwoy at Crotona Park
• The Movielife, Piebald, Macseal at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Havok, Toxic Holocaust, I Am, Hammerhead at the Brooklyn Monarch
• Analepsy, Wormhole, Cognitive, NecroticGoreBeast, Coronary Thrombosis at the Meadows
• OTTTO, Bastardane at the Gramercy Theatre
• MC Magic, Baby Bash, Lil Rob at Racket NYC
• Juana Molina, Jupiter, Okwess, Supaman, RAM, Bia Ferreira Raga Massive at Lincoln Center
• Rah Digga, Sa-Roc at City Winery NYC
• The Fugs at the Loft at City Winery
• Delicate Steve, Frankie Sunswept at the Sultan Room
• Gouge Away, Demand, Bazooka, Nine of Swords at Market Hotel
• Psywarfare, Final Gasp, Vosh, Savage Mystic at TV Eye
• Scotch Mist, Richie Quake, Speedrun at 17 Monitor Street Rooftop
• Cigarettes for Breakfast, Dead Leaf Echo, Iceblynk at Berlin
• Clarence Spady (acoustic) at Terra Blues
• The Chris Bergson Trio at 1803
• The Wraycyclers, Northern Tides, Commercial Interruption at Otto's Shrunken Head
• The Nihilistics, All Out War, Diasassociate, Kartel, Necrotic Society, Xtinguish the Code, Caught in a Trap, Niuta at Tomkins Square Park

Tennis Courts at Mercury Lounge on July 28

Bushwick's Dead Family Band at Stitch Bar & Blues on July 29 (photograph by Nicholas Cohen)

The Lord Calverts at the Endless Party at the Parkside Lounge on July 29

Faith NYC at the Endless Party at the Parkside Lounge on July 29

Sunday, August 6

• Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills at MetLife Stadium
• Overkill at MetLife Stadium Parking Lot
• Nice N Smooth, Special Ed, Buckshot, Masta Ace, CL Smooth, Rah Digga, Rampage, Sweet Tee, Joeski Love, Sparky D, the B-Boys at the Coney Island Amphitheater
• Brent Faiyaz, Tommy Richman at SummerStage Central Park
• Laurel Canyon at Cafe Wha?
• Fundead, Hammerbrain, Jennifer Blowdryer, the Art Grey Noizz Trio, Skitzopolis, Child Labor, Year of Band at Tompkins Square Park (1 p.m.)
• Xylouris White, Ismaily + Jones + Sawyer Trio at Union Pool
• The Pioneers at Terra Blues
• Gordon Lockwood at Terra Blues
• The Irish Seisiun at the 11th St. Bar

Thornetta Davis at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park on July 28

Techy at a benefit for Leesa Huntington-Squyres of Lez Zeppelin at Tompkins Square Park on July 30

InCircles at Tompkins Square Park on July 30

Frida Kill at Tompkins Square Park on July 30

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The Manhattan Beat reports on 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 The Manhattan Beat home page and click on the pop-up tab "Where to Find Live Music."

For a more complete listing of upcoming performances in the New York City area, visit The Manhattan Beat's August calendar.