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.
Friday, May 8
Courtney Barnett, Truman Sinclair at the Kings Theatre
Hasan Raheem, PDNY at Brooklyn Steel
Grupo Bryndis, Industria Del Amor, Guardianes Del Amor at Palladium Times Square
Cobrah at Brooklyn Paramount
Jesse Malin’s Silver Manhattan at Bowery Palace
Sleaford Mods, Dazy at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
Flo Rida, Shaggy, Paul Russell, Nina Sky at the Hammerstein Ballroom
The Flatliners, A Wilhelm Scream, Signals Midwest at the Meadows
Free Throw, Macseal, TRSH, Wakelee at Webster Hall at Webster Hall
Remember Sports, Cusp at the Bowery Ballroom
Gladie, Noun at TV Eye
C2C Festival: Arca, Nourished by Time, Los Thuthanaka, Avalon Emerson & the Charm, aya, Elias Rønnenfelt, Malibu, NEW YORK, Titanic, YHWH Nailgun at Knockdown Center
Son Rompe Pera, La Banda Chuska at Brooklyn Bowl
Cardinals at Main Drag Music
NOBRO, THICK at Baby’s All Right
Bush Tetras, Dead Tooth at le Poisson Rouge
Koyo at Rough Trade Below
Little Image, le Keep at Mercury Lounge
Phil Robinson Band at the Laurie Beechman Theatre
Juice at Mercury Lounge
Byron/Potter/Reed, the MGP Experience at the Naumberg Bandshell, Central Park
Gordon Lockwood at Terra Blues
SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues
Saturday, May 9
Broken Social Scene (acoustic) at Rough Trade Below
The Clark Sisters, Jennifer Holliday, Le’Andria Johnson at Palladium Times Square
LASZEWO, Darby, Ryan Case, Neel Samba at the Rooftop at Pier 17
The Jacksons at the St. George Theatre
Courtney Barnett, Momma, Truman Sinclair at the Kings Theatre
Max Styler at Brooklyn Storehouse
Jesse Malin’s Silver Manhattan at Bowery Palace
Sleaford Mods, Dazy at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
The Paper Kites, Donovan Woods at Webster Hall
The Cribs, Homade, Michael Ian Cummings at Warsaw
Soul Blind, Split Chain, Downward, Dream Fatigue at the Bowery Ballroom
The Thing, Nine Perfect Lives, TVOD at Irving Plaza
Sub*T, Panik Flower, Trinket at Elsewhere Zone One
Dar Williams, Spencer LaJoye at le Poisson Rouge
The Scratch, Rat Palace at Racket NYC
Ora the Molecule, Muscle Memory, Nuclear Cowboy at Pianos
Case Oats at Union Pool
Demolition String Band at Skinny Dennis
Non Residents, Skitzopolis, Silence Equals Death, Jones Grinder, Oedipus Triple Rex at Tompkins Square Park
Editrix at Mama Tried
Turbo Goth, Evil Twin at Baker Falls
Niall Connolly at the Bitter End
Michael Riff, SoulCake at Pangea Front Lounge
Strange Majik at Arthur’s Tavern
Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues
Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues
New Moon Acoustic Blues at the Red Lion
Sunday, May 10 Mothers Day
The Head and the Heart, the Brudi Brothers at Brooklyn Paramount
The Clark Sisters, Jennifer Holliday, Le’Andria Johnson at Palladium Times Square
Jodeci at the Kings Theatre
Jesse Malin’s Silver Manhattan at Bowery Palace
The Wailers at Brooklyn Bowl
Flyte, Ken Pomeroy at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
Noah Guy, Brandon at the Bowery Ballroom
Inner Wave, los Mesoneros, Twin Seas at Elsewhere Hall
Cardinals at Rough Trade Below
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at the Loft at City Winery
The Lemon Twigs, Josephine Network, Fine Mess at Tompkins Square Park
Toshi Reagon at Joe’s Pub
Joy Askew, Kris Delmhorst at Scratcher
Samoa Wilson (acoustic) at Terra Blues
The Pioneers at Terra Blues
Noé Socha at Arthur’s Tavern