The Five Boroughs Are Rocking with Live Music This Weekend

Rina Sawayama, pictured above left at Governors Ball 2023, will headline at the Rooftop at Pier 17 this coming Saturday night

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 75 concerts in New York City this weekend. Reference the venue or the artists' social media to confirm ticket availability, show times, age restrictions, COVID compliance, and other updates.

Carly Rae Jepsen concert at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on August 7 was cut short due to possible lightning, so she and her band performed instead later that night at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 (photograph by Alex Kane Perkins)

The Airborne Toxic Event closed a four-night residency at the Bowery Ballroom on August 5

The Movielife at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 5

City of the Sun continued a series of monthly performances at le Poisson Rouge on August 9

Friday, August 11

• Run-DMC, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Eve, Lil Kim, Remy Ma, Trina, DJ Kool Herc & Cindy Campbell, Grandmaster Caz, Kurtis Blow, Melle Mel, Roxanne Shante, Scorpio, Sugar Hill Gang, T.I., Fat Joe, Common, A$AP Ferg, EPMD, Ghostface Killah, Lupe Fiasco, Slick Rick at Yankee Stadium

• Maisie Peters, Grace Enger at Radio City Music Hall

• Ryan Adams & the Cardinals at the Kings Theatre

• JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown at Terminal 5

• Moldy Peaches at Brooklyn Steel

• Digable Planets, Kari Faux at the Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park

• Arthur Verocai w. Orchestra at Damrosch Park

• Tessa Violet, Frances Forever at Irving Plaza

• Dave Hause & the Mermaid, Crossed Keys aboard the Timeless

• Louis Cato, Elizabeth Ziman at le Poisson Rouge

• Rachel Bochner, Eva Rose, Deza at Brooklyn Made

• Yemi Alade at Sony Hall

• David Sanborn at the Blue Note

• Goldpine at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

• The Gorge at the Tubs

• The National Reserve at Skinny Dennis

• Harry Teardrop, Monobloc at the Knitting Factory NY at Baker Falls

• Tony & the Kiki, OK King, Maria Wirries at Mercury Lounge

• Junior Mack (acoustic) at Terra Blues

• The TarantinosNYC at Freddy's Bar & Backroom

• Jason Green & the Labor of Love at Stitch Bar & Blues

• Stonebwoy at S.O.B.'s

• The SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues

• Kolker at the Bitter End

• Galdorf Gumbo & His Righteous Cats at the Bitter End

Cowboy Mouth at City Winery NYC on August 9

The Englishtown Project at the Loft at City Winery on August 9

The Fugs at the Loft at City Winery on August 5 (photograph by Charles David)

Annie Hart of Au Revoir Simone at Rough Trade NYC on August 4

Saturday, August 12

• The Jonas Brothers at Yankee Stadium

• Lionel Richie, Earth, Wind & Fire at Madison Square Garden

• Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova at Radio City Music Hall

• Queens of the Stone Age, Phantogram, the Armed at Forest Hills Stadium

• Rina Sawayama, Magdalena Bay, Disko Cowboy at the Rooftop at Pier 17

• Gojira, Mastodon, Lorna Shore at the Coney Island Amphitheater

• Rakim, Rapsody at Damrosch Park

• Natalia Jiménez at the Kings Theatre

• Anthony B, Chuck Fender, F.Y.A.H., Blvk H3ro, Soul Rebel Project, Jamrock Stars at SummerStage Central Park

• glaive, Oso Oso, Polo Perks at Webster Hall

• Quarters of Change at the Rockaway Hotel

• Bass Drum of Death, Dead Tooth, Comatosed at Our Wicked Lady Roof

• The Steel Woods, Erin Viancourt at the Gramercy Theatre

• Shortparis at the Bowery Ballroom

• Mayo Thompson and the Corky Band at le Poisson Rouge

• Murphy's Law, OC Rippers aboard the Cosmo

• David Sanborn at the Blue Note

• That Chick Angel at City Winery

• The Chris Bergson Trio at 1803

• The Long Losts at Mercury Lounge

• JessX, Namesake at Tompkins Square Park

• STUY at the Knitting Factory NY at Baker Falls

• Valentines Day, Um, Jennifer? at Purgatory

• The Bobby Bryan Trio at Terra Blues

• Brian Charette at the Canary Club

• Squirrels from Hell at Pete's Candy Store

• Dive Bar Romeos at Stitch Bar & Blues

• Decoster & Dee Who at Riverside Clay Tennis Courts in Riverside Park

• The Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

• JT Bowen & the Mighty Kings of Soul at Arthur's Tavern

• The Phil Gammage Quartet at the Shrine World Music Venue

• Rebelmatic, Slashers, InCircles at TV Eye

• Labretta Suede and the Motel 6, Density at Otto's Shrunken Head

• Kolker at the Bitter End

• The Acute at the Francis Kite Club

The Mike Stern Band at the Bitter End on August 8

The Andy Ezrin Band (left to right, Andy Ezrin, Clint De Ganon, Will Lee, Oz Noy) at the Bitter End on August 9

Agents of Mayhem at Stitch Bar & Blues on August 2 (photograph by Nicholas Cohen)

The Dave Stryker Organ Trio at the Cellar Dog on August 6 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Sunday, August 13

• The Jonas Brothers at Yankee Stadium

• (G)I-DLE at the Theater at Madison Square Garden

• Prince Royce, Vicente Garcia, YEИDRY at SummerStage Central Park

• Elderbrook, Stello, Sanvero, Pizzala at Summer Club

• Voice of Baceprot, Above Snakes at the Gramercy Theatre

• Will Paquin, John Roseboro at Baby's All Right

• Sloppy Jane, Locate S, 1, Kira McSpice at Baby's All Right

• The Detroit Cobras, the Sugar Tradition, Labretta Suede & the Motel 6, Certain Death at TV Eye

• Sloppy Heads, Lefty Parker, Kitchen at Union Pool

• David Sanborn at the Blue Note

• Las Cafeteras, Natu Camara, Justy at Stapleton Waterfront Park

• The Luca Benedetti Trio at Barbès

• Niall Connolly at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

• June McDoom, Kate Davis at Union Pool

• Samoa Wilson (acoustic) at Terra Blues

• Shred Flintstone, Tits Dick Ass, Pop Music Fever Dream at Tompkins Square Park

• Puma, Joe & Dave at the Francis Kite Club

• David Russell at the Bitter End

• The Irish Seisiun at the 11th St. Bar

• The Pioneers at Terra Blues

• Seth Okrend at Silvana

The Wraycyclers at Unsteady Freddie's Surf Rock Shindig on August 5

Magic Forest at the Hard Swallow on August 8

RewBilly with Rew Starr and Billy Ficca at the Hard Swallow on August 8

Graveyardz at the Hard Swallow on August 8

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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.