Good Live Music for Mid-May in NYC

The Tedeschi Trucks Band, photographed above at the Beacon Theatre in 2024, will begun yet another multi-night residency at the venue on Saturday

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

Miyavi headlined at Webster Hall on May 11

Black Country, New Road at the Bowery Ballroom on May 10

Claud at Night Club 101 on May 12

Joanna Sternberg at Night Club 101 on May 12

Friday, May 16

• Shakira, Pitbull at MetLife Stadium
• Ravi Coltrane, Flying Lotus, Brandee Younger, Michelle Coltrane w. the Sai Anantam Devotional Ensemble at Carnegie Hall
• Sō Percussion, Helado Negro, Kate Stables at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Ministry, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Die Krupps at Brooklyn Paramount
• Fontaines D.C., Jadu Heart at the Hammerstein Ballroom
• Malcolm Todd at Terminal 5
• Knuckle Puck at Warsaw
• Dandy Warhols, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor at the Bowery Ballroom
• YHWH Nailgun, LEYA at the Hall at Elsewhere
• Nicotine Dolls, Lostboycrow at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• The Kiffness at Irving Plaza
• Will Wood, Shayfer James at the Gramercy Theatre
• The Vitamin String Quartet at the Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture
• Rapsody at Racket NYC
• The Dare at Baby's All Right
• The Dan Band at le Poisson Rouge
• A.M. Boys at Cassette
• The National Reserve at Skinny Dennis
• SUM SUN at Broadway Pedestrian Plaza
• The Ross Byron Band, the Record Players at Silvana
• New Moon Acoustic Blues at Terra Blues
• Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

Swamp Dogg at TV Eye on May 10 (photograph by Charles David)

Saul Rubin Trio at the Cellar Dog on May 11 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Jaden Andreone at Mercury Lounge on May 11

Brain Leak at Berlin on May 11

Saturday, May 17

• Tedeschi Trucks Band, Buddy Guy at the Beacon Theatre
• Sō Percussion, Helado Negro, Kate Stables at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Fontaines D.C., Jadu Heart at the Hammerstein Ballroom
• Patrice Roberts at SummerStage Central Park
• grentperez, Rocco at Terminal 5
• Geordie Greep at Brooklyn Paramount
• Dandy Warhols, Dion Lunadon, Jasno Swarez at the Bowery Ballroom
• Dandy Warhols at Two Fifteen
• Renao at Brooklyn Steel
• Trousdale, Beane, Nia Ashleigh, Buffchick at ​Irving Plaza
• Los Amigos Invisibles at le Poisson Rouge
• Buffalo Tom at Sony Hall
• Will Wood at Warsaw
• Jay Mula at Racket NYC
• Fulci, Mutilation Barbecue, Civerous, Degraved at the Meadows
• Subhumans, War on Women aboard the Liberty Belle
• CORPUS OFFAL, Mephitic Corpse at TV Eye
• Pan Arcadia, Cab Ellis, Two-Man Giant Squid at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• The Dare at Baby's All Right
• Jann Klose & Band at the Bitter End
• Steve Rondo, Jackie Evans at Drom
• Wyldlife, Ravagers, How Tragic at the Bowery Electric
• Lightheaded, Nicole Yun, PFFU at Baker Falls
• LMNE at Perelman Performing Arts Center Lobby Stage
• Steve Krebs & the Maynard G's, Joe Castro & the Gravamen, Curtis Suburban at Parkside Lounge
• Jason Trachtenburg at Pete's Candy Store
• Lady Kisses, Poor Rork, Kill Devils, Rockets & Llamas, Lefty at Sugar Mouse
• Michael Hill Trio at Terra Blues

Skorts at Tompkins Square Park on May 11

Tea Eater at Tompkins Square Park on May 11

Pons at Tompkins Square Park on May 11

Francie Moon at Tompkins Square Park on May 11

Bec Lauder and the Noise at Tompkins Square Park on May 11

Sunday, May 18

• Fontaines D.C., Jadu Heart at the Hammerstein Ballroom
• The Wonder Years (and the Little Kuta String Ensemble), Kevin Devine at Warsaw
• Dandy Warhols at Mercury Lounge
• BØRNS, American Authors, MILCK, Jordan Carlos, Gaia Music Collective at Brooklyn Paramount
• Amble, Joe Devito at the Bowery Ballroom
• Weathers at Racket NYC
• The Dare at Baby's All Right
• Klymaxx at Sony Hall
• Ally Venable at the Iridium
• THICK, Slaughterhouse, Crush Fund at TV Eye
• The Art Gray Noizz Quintet, Joseph Keckler, Genre Is Death, Avishag Cohen Rodgriues at Madam X
• The Hipp Pipps, George Gilmore & the Giblets, Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers at Otto's Shrunken Head
• Ditch, Dogwood Gap, the Simple Son, Sockeye at Arlene's Grocery
• Leonid & Friends at City Winery NYC
• Tycoon Dog at Tompkins Square Park
• Samoa Wilson (acoustic) at Terra Blues
• The Pioneers at Terra Blues 
• The Irish Seisiún at the 11th St. Bar

Stella Blue's Band at the Central Park Bandshell on May 13

Hollywood Phil busking outside Tompkins Square Park on May 11

Departing Storms busking on Avenue A on May 12

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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 May calendar.