The Best Live Music for a Rocktober Holiday Weekend

Foster the People, photographed above at Brooklyn Paramount in 2025, will headline at Forest Hills Stadium tomorrow 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.

Note that the following concerts, originally scheduled for this holiday weekend, have been postponed or canceled.

• Wesley Joseph at the Bowery Ballroom

• The Patti Rothberg Coincidence, Wexwax, Zona Rosa at B Scene

Everynight Charley recommends the following 70+ concerts in the New York City area this weekend. Consult the web site or social media of the venue for more information about a show, including ticket availability, show times, location, directions, parking, age restrictions, and accessibility.

The Strokes at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park on October 2 (photograph by Jenna Murray)

Charlie Puth (solo) for the Grammy Museum at National Sawdust on October 2 (photograph by RobKim/Getty Images, courtesy of the Recording Academy)

Audrey Hobert at Brooklyn Paramount on September 30 (photograph by Jackie Verba)

Empress Of at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 30 (photograph by Emma Harris)

Friday, October 9

• Harry Styles, Jamie Xx at Madison Square Garden

• The Format, the Get Up Kids, Phantom Planet (acoustic) at Radio City Music Hall

• Luke Spiller, Kelsy Karter, Sid Simons at the Silver Lining Lounge

• Kelela at Brooklyn Paramount

• Overmono at ​Terminal 5

• Daði Freyr, BRÍET at Brooklyn Steel

• Medium Build, Ken Yates at Webster Hall

• Lewis OfMan at the Ruins at Knockdown Center

• Revocation, Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, Weeping at Saint Vitus Bar

• Nevertel, Rivals, Ocean Sleeper at the Gramercy Theatre

• Bayonne, Bad Snacks at le Poisson Rouge

• Today Is the Day, Body Stuff, Statiqbloom, FRKSE at TV Eye

• Arlo, May at the Bowery Ballroom

• Mariami at Shaver Hall

• The Damnwells, White Collar Crime at Racket

• Bobby Bare Jr. at the Sultan Room Rooftop

• Boojum, Kendall Street Company at Brooklyn Bowl

• Steve Conte, Soraia, Jessie Wagner at Bowery Palace

• Phil Robinson & Jason Vitelli at the Bitter End

• Mathis Picard (solo) at Kenneth C. Griffin Sidewalk Studio at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center

• John R. Miller, William Matheny at Hill Country Barbecue Market

• Whisper Doll, Buff Ginger, Cyanotype at Baby's All Right

• Neptune's Core at Rough Trade Below

• The Phensic, Buford O'Sullivan & the Roostas, Cenzo at Otto's Shrunken Head

• Slutburger, SoulCake, Band of Others at B Scene

• The James Rocket, Mad Painter, Space Machine at the Parkside Lounge

• Adjua Ajamu Trio at Terra Blues

• Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

Rise Against at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on September 30 (photograph by Ryan Muir/The Rooftop at Pier 17)

Alkaline Trio at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on September 30 (photograph by Ryan Muir/The Rooftop at Pier 17)

Teen Mortgage at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on September 30 (photograph by Ryan Muir/The Rooftop at Pier 17)

Sawyer Hill at Irving Plaza on September 29 (photograph by Thomas Smith)

Saturday, October 10

• Harry Styles, Jamie Xx at Madison Square Garden

• Don Omar at Barclays Center

• Foster the People, Goth Babe at Forest Hills Stadium

• Steve Lacy at Radio City Music Hall

• The Chicks at the Beacon Theatre

• 50 Cent, Mamacita at Pacha New York

• San Holo, yetep, Leotrix at the Rooftop at Pier 17

• Kelela at Brooklyn Paramount

• Mind Enterprises, Fred Fancy at Brooklyn Steel

• Voivod, Bat, Electrocutioner, Mykey Massacre at the Brooklyn Monarch

• NOTD at Webster Hall

• Faux Real, Babe America, Bryce Xavier at the Bowery Ballroom

• Supertaste, Sunfade at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

• FORAGER, Nathan Farrell at Racket

• Great Falls, Kowloon Walled City at Saint Vitus Bar

• The Dreadcrew of Oddwood, Black Flag White Skull at the Wood Shop

• Laura Veirs, Karl Blau at ​Cafe Wha?

• Sicard Hollow at Groove

• Strange Boutique at Mercury Lounge

• Dean Turnley at Refuge

• Native Sun, Snowmen, Tall Juan, Dead Tooth, Abby Jeane & the Shadowband, Pippy, CS Cleaners, Short Porch at the South Street Seaport

• Pinc Louds. Momentum, Mood Merchant at la Plaza Cultural

• Strange Majik at Arthur’s Tavern

• David "Doc" French Trio at Terra Blues

• SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues

The Cynz at Parkside Lounge on October 3 (photograph by Alan Rand)

Exit 99 at Parkside Lounge on October 3 (photograph by Alan Rand)

St. Divine at Parkside Lounge on October 3 (photograph by Alan Rand)

Girl with a Hawk at Parkside Lounge on October 3 (photograph by Alan Rand)

Sunday, October 11

• Tricky at Brooklyn Steel

• Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Messa at Irving Plaza

• Five for Fighting w. String Quartet at City Winery NYC

• MC Lyte at Brooklyn Bowl

• Kidd G at le Poisson Rouge

• Robert Lester Folsom, Liz Cooper at the Bowery Ballroom

• bunii at Racket

• HI-LO, Rebūke at Creekside Under the K Bridge Park

• Lucy Kaplansky at City Vineyard

• Rebelmatic, Incendiary Device, the Droogettes, Drunk Pilots, Idiot Box at Berlin

• The Richard Dev Greene Players, Sex Fixx, PUSH!, the Saint Marks Saints at Berlin

• The Hipp Pipps, Density Black Cat, Joe Sztabnik's Ghost Dogs at ReVision Lounge

• Spaghetti Eastern at Otto's Shrunken Head

• The Leah Tash Band at Skinny Dennis

• Traditional Irish Seisiún at the 11th St. Bar

• Bobby Bryan (acoustic) at Terra Blues

• The Pioneers at Terra Blues

• NY Blues Rocket and Jam at Sugar Mouse

• Songwriter's Open Mic at Lucinda's

The Vivisectors at Unsteady Freddie's monthly Surf Rock Shindig at Otto's Shrunken Head on October 3

Mike Mok & the Em-Tones at Unsteady Freddie's monthly Surf Rock Shindig at Otto's Shrunken Head on October 3 (photograph by Unsteady Freddie)

The MGP Experience at Otto's Shrunken Head on October 3 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Wexwax at Otto's Shrunken Head on October 3 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Monday, October 12 Columbus Day

• Brand New at Barclays Center
• The Chicks at the Beacon Theatre
• The Residents at Sony Hall
• Margo Cilker + Lilly Hiatt at Baby's All Right
• Wesley Joseph at the Bowery Ballroom
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Kaonashi, Differences at TV Eye
• Mimi Roman & the Brooklyn Cowgirls at Lucinda's
• Jackson and the Janks at Lucinda's
• Svetlana & the Delancey Five at the Back Room
• Sean Kershaw at Cowgirl Seahorse
• Rev. Vince Anderson & the Love Choir at Union Pool
• The 11th St. Bar Quintet at the 11th St. Bar
• T Blues Band w. SaRon Crenshaw & Junior Mack at Terra Blues
• New Moon Acoustic Blues at Terra Blues
• Richie Cannata's Monday Night Jam at the Bitter End
• Big Ed's Blues Jam at the Red Lion
• Monday Night Bluegrass Session at Mona's
• The Antihoot at B Scene

The Cody Sisters at the weekly Monday Night Bluegrass Session on October 5 (photograph by David Sussman)

Lightning Will at Wild Horses on October 4

Huxley at Lucinda's on October 5

Rigbys outside Mussels & More on October 3

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The Manhattan Beat covers 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 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 October calendar.