Autumn Nights Are Better with Live Music in NYC

Royel Otis, photographed above at Governors Ball 2025, will headline at the Rooftop at Pier 17 this Saturday 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.

Note that the following concerts, originally scheduled for this weekend, are postponed or canceled.

• Yusuf/Cat Stevens at the Beacon Theatre
• Kneecap at the Rooftop at Pier 17
• JP Saxe at Brooklyn Steel
• Adam Melchor at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

Everynight Charley recommends the following 70+ 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.

Mt. Joy at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture on October 2 (photograph by Rob Kim, Getty Images© 2025, courtesy of the Recording Academy™️)

The Adicts at the Palladium Times Square on October 3

The Casualties at the Palladium Times Square on October 3

Mephiskapheles at the Palladium Times Square on October 3

Friday, October 10

• Lainey Wilson, Muscadine Bloodline, Lauren Watkins at Madison Square Garden
• David Byrne at Radio City Music Hall
• Sam Smith, Sienna Spiro at Warsaw
• Queens of the Stone Age, Paris Jackson at the Beacon Theatre
• sombr, Devon Gabriella at the Rooftop at Pier 17
• Air, Hayes Bradley at Brooklyn Paramount
• Toad the Wet Sprocket, KT Tunstall, Vertical Horizon at ​Palladium Times Square
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Humanist at ​Terminal 5
• Hotline TNT, Dusk at le Poisson Rouge
• BØRNS at Webster Hall
• Abdul Hannan, Natasha Noorani, Shayan at Irving Plaza
• Jacques Greene b2b Nosaj Thing, Purelink, QRTR at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Water from Your Eyes, Her New Knife, Brutus VIII at the Bowery Ballroom
• Robert Glasper X Emily King at the Blue Note
• moe. at Brooklyn Bowl
• Christian Kuria, Free Whenever at Sony Hall
• Yam Haus, Syd Hudson at Mercury Lounge
• Reid Paley Trio, Diceholes, Disappearing Act at Main Drag Music
• Pan Arcadia, the Baxbys at Night Club 101
• Strange but Surf, TarantinosNYC, Band of Others at Young Ethel's
• Dave Dreiwitz at Catalyst Records
• Jackson Scott & Friends at Pangea Front Lounge
• Adjua Ajamu Trio at Terra Blues
• Doc/Bryan Band at Terra Blues

Drugdealer at the Bowery Ballroom on October 2

Sedona at the Bowery Ballroom on October 2

Headless at the Bowery Ballroom on October 2

The Raveonettes at the Bowery Ballroom on October 1

Saturday, October 11

• Druski, Caleb Pressley, BigXthaPlug, Soulja Boy, Young M.A, Navv Greene at Barclays Center
• David Byrne at Radio City Music Hall
• Sam Smith, Sienna Spiro at Warsaw
• Psychedelic Furs, Gary Numan at the Paramount
• Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons at Prudential Hall
• Air, Hayes Bradley at Brooklyn Paramount
• Royel Otis, bby at the Rooftop at Pier 17
• Gims at Terminal 5
• Anamanaguchi, Ovlov at Brooklyn Steel
• Miki Berenyi Trio, Gina Birch & the Unreasonables at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• GoGo Penguin at le Poisson Rouge
• Sir Chloe, Suzy Clue at Webster Hall
• 6arely Human, Dev at Irving Plaza
• Cold Slither at the Gramercy Theatre
• Runnner, Shallow Alcove at the Bowery Ballroom
• Robert Glasper at the Blue Note
• Destroyer, Cass McCombs (solo), Jennifer Castl at Knockdown Center
• Perpetual Groove, Steely Dead at Brooklyn Bowl
• Jack & Jack, Edwin Honoret at Racket NYC
• Aaron Lee Tasjan (solo), Madeleine Kelson at Drom
• Morgxn at the Stonewall Inn
• Strange Boutique at Mercury Lounge
• Kinneret, Syte at the Sultan Room
• Rafiq Bhatia at Public Records
• Molly Joyce at Figure8 Recordings
• Soul Blind at Rough Trade Below
• Fenne Lily, Darryl Rahn, Isaac Stalling at Night Club 101
• Alfonso Velez at the Bitter End
• Strange Majik at Arthur’s Tavern
• Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues
• Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

Front Line Assembly at le Poisson Rouge on October 1

Mentallo & the Fixer at le Poisson Rouge on October 1

Clock DVA at le Poisson Rouge on October 1

Lead into Gold at le Poisson Rouge on October 1

Sunday, October 12

• Air, Hayes Bradley at Brooklyn Paramount
• Royel Otis, bby Terminal 5
• The Cult, Death Cult, Patriarchy at the Gramercy Theatre
• Amy Grant at the St. George Theatre
• The Oh Hellos, Rabbitology at Webster Hall
• A Lot Like Birds, Dwellings, Zeta, Mella at the ​Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Rio Romeo, Frances Forever at the Bowery Ballroom
• Robert Glasper at the Blue Note
• Nate Smith, JSWISS at Sony Hall
• Stéphane Wrembel at barbès
• Wormfest 3: Wormy, Hudson Freeman, Trace Mountains, Girlpuppy, Hank Heaven, Horsepower, Teenage Halloween, Camille Schmidt, Joey Dardano, Chuck Hayes at the Sultan Room
• Sister Nancy at S.O.B.'s
• BRNDA, S.C.A.B., Foreign Love Language at Night Club 101
• Incendiary Device, Non Residents, Dead Blow Hammer, Overstand, Steel Toe Solution at the Bowery Electric
• Tycoon Dog at Tompkins Square Park
• Jackson Scott & Friends at Pangea Front Lounge
• Samoa Wilson (acoustic) at Terra Blues
• The Pioneers at Terra Blues
• The Irish Seisiún at the 11th St. Bar

Slow Fiction at Rough Trade Below on October 2

Bodega Cats at the Bitter End on October 2

Bill Popp & the Tapes at the LIC Culture Lab on September 27 (photograph by Alan Rand)

Steve Marshall's annual birthday jam at the Cutting Room on October 2 (photograph by Shelley Fromm)

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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 40+ concerts in the New York City area this week. Consult the web site or social media of the venue for more information about a show, including location and directions, parking, ticket availability, show times, age restrictions, and COVID compliance.

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