Rock the Weekend with Exciting Live Music in NYC

Japanese Breakfast, photographed above at Forest Hills Stadium in 2022, will headline at Brooklyn Paramount this Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings

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 70+ 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.

Bullet for My Valentine at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on May 7

Trivium at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on May 7

August Burns Red at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on May 7

Bleed from Within at the Rooftop at Pier 17

Friday, May 9

• Kendrick Lamar, SZA at MetLife Stadium
• Japanese Breakfast, Ginger Root at Brooklyn Paramount
• Gene Simmons Band at the Paramount
• Nils Frahm at the Kings Theatre
• Devin Townsend, TesseracT at Palladium Times Square
• Hippie Sabotage x Two Feet, Carpetman at Brooklyn Steel
• Maribou State at Terminal 5
• Django New Orleans, the Stephane Wrembel Band at Symphony Space
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Knifeplay at Webster Hall
• Memphis May Fire, Caskets, Wind Walkers, Elijah at the Brooklyn Monarch
• Alex Warren at Irving Plaza
• Black Country, New Road, Asher White at the Bowery Ballroom
• Oneohtrix Point Never, Nala Sinephro, Two Shell, EvilGiane, John Glacier at Knockdown Center
• Durand Bernarr, GAWD, Nore Davis at Warsaw
• Baroness, Dawn of Ouroboros at the Meadows
• Spellling, Smut at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• zzzahara at the Sultan Room
• Mallrat, Anna Shoemaker at Elsewhere
• Brett Dennen & River Whyless at City Winery NYC
• L.A. Witch, Daiistar, Silent Mass at TV Eye
• The Bones of JR Jones, Henry Stansall at le Poisson Rouge
• Adam Melchor at Broadway Pedestrian Plaza
• Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill, the Tall Pines at the Cutting Room
• Matt Andersen at the Iridium
• Harrison Lipton, Fetch Tiger, Sofia D'Angelo at Public Records
• Pale Moon Gang, the Ritualists, Spike Polite & Sewage NYC, Savage Heart at Baker Falls
• The Howlin' Reserve at Skinny Dennis
• David "Doc" French Trio at Terra Blues
• SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues

Bad Nerves at Warsaw on May 6

Spiritual Cramp at Warsaw on May 6

Native Sun at Warsaw on May 6

Lou Barlow (left) of Dinosaur Jr. and Bobby Bare Jr. of Guided by Voices at Mercury Lounge on May 5

Saturday, May 10

• Yolanda Adams, Shirley Caesar, Karen Clark-Sheard, Dorinda Clark-Cole at Palladium Times Square
• Emperor, Wolves in the Throne Room at the Kings Theatre
• Darlene Love, the Spinners at the St. George Theatre
• Japanese Breakfast, Ginger Root at Brooklyn Paramount
• The Crane Wives at Brooklyn Steel
• Larkin Poe, Amythyst Kiah at Irving Plaza
• San Fermin, Wormy at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Black Country, New Road, @ at the Bowery Ballroom
• Karina Rykman, Boys Go to Jupiter at Webster Hall
• Smallpools, Rec Hall, Tana Matz at Warsaw
• Grace VanderWaal, Alina, Tiffany Stringer at Racket NYC
• Billy Sherwood at the Loft at City Winery
• Lucy Kaplansky at the Iridium
• Jenny Owen Youngs, Robert Ellis at Cafe Wha?
• Mamalarky at Baby's All Right
• Shallow Alcove, Lighthearted at TV Eye
• Swamp Dogg, Alana Amram at TV Eye
• Cash Bride, Chemical Man, F*ckcrusher at the Gutter
• Charlotte Rose Benjamin, Pearla, Alana Markel at Night Club 101
• The Undead, Nihilistics, the Coffin Daggers, Jones Crusher, Skitzopolis at Tompkins Square Park
• Band of Others, the TarantinosNYC, the Supertones at Young Ethel's
• Stephanie Marie & the Double Knit Players, Church of Betty, Life in a Blender at Caveat
• Ricky Stein at the Red Lion
• Vic Thrill at Pete's Candy Store
• Squirrels from Hell at Pete's Candy Store
• Strange Majik at Arthur's Tavern
• Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues
• Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

Sunday (1994) at the Bowery Ballroom on May 5

Alisa Xayalith at the Bowery Ballroom on May 5

Monday Night Bluegrass Session at Mona's on May 5 (photograph by David Sussman)

Bluegrass Wednesdays at Mathilde on May 7 (photograph by David Sussman)

Sunday, May 11 Mothers Day

• Japanese Breakfast, Ginger Root at Brooklyn Paramount
• A-TRAK & Melé at ​Superior Ingredients
• Miyavi at Webster Hall
• Vs Self, Punxsutawney, Fake Pollocks at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Etran De L'Aïr at TV Eye
• Har Mar Superstar, LC Franke, Shonali at Sony Hall
• Martha Redbone at Joe's Pub
• Ms. Lisa Fischer at the Blue Note
• Skorts, Tea Eater, Pons, Francie Moon, Bec Lauder at Tompkins Square Park
• Stephane Wrembel & Django a Gogo at Barbès
• Niall Connolly, Emerson at the Scratcher
• New Moon Acoustic Blues at the Red Lion
• Samoa Wilson (acoustic) at Terra Blues
• The Pioneers at Terra Blues
• The Irish Seisiún at the 11th St. Bar

Broadway performer Matt DeAngelis (Swept Away, Hair, Waitress), photographed above singing with Christine Dwyer, organized The Janice Jam: Broadway for Breast Cancer at Sony Hall on May 5; the event raised $115,000+ for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) (photograph by Michael Hull)

Oscar winner Ariana DeBose at The Janice Jam: Broadway for Breast Cancer at Sony Hall on May 5 (photograph by Michael Hull)

Adrian Blake Enscoe, Stark Sands, John Gallagher Jr, and Wayne Duval of the cast of Swept Away at The Janice Jam: Broadway for Breast Cancer at Sony Hall on May 5 (photograph by Michael Hull)

Krysta Rodriguez, a breast cancer survivor, received the inaugural Fighting Flamingo Award at The Janice Jam: Broadway for Breast Cancer at Sony Hall on May 5 (photograph by Michael Hull)

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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.