Everynight Charley recommends the following concerts. Contact the venue or the artists’ social media to confirm ticket availability, show times, age restrictions, COVID compliance, and other updates.
Friday, August 18
- The National, Patti Smith and Her Band at Madison Square Garden
- Sigur Ros, Wordless Music Orchestra at the Kings Theatre
- Billy & the Kids at the Rooftop at Pier 17
- iLE, Divino Niño, Sara Curruchich at the Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park
- Jon Batiste at Brooklyn Steel
- Blessthefall, Caskets, Kingdom of Giants, Dragged Under at the Gramercy Theatre
- Emancipator, Northern Form, Murge at the Hall at Elsewhere
- Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Love by Numb3rs at Brooklyn Bowl
- Shamir, Peaer, Maneka at the Knitting Factory at Baker Falls
- Average White Band at City Winery NYC
- Margaret Glaspy at Rough Trade NYC
- The Baseball Project, Stephen McCarthy at Brooklyn Made
- Blitzen Trapper, Air Waves at Racket NYC
- Trever Keith (acoustic) at the Loft at City Winery
- Poptropicaslutz!, Wilmah, Jhariah at the Bowery Ballroom
- Greg Howe’s Lost and Found w. Stu Hamm at the Iridium
- Temple of Angels, Lathe of Heaven at Union Pool
- The Dales at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2
- Tracy Bonham at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2
- Annie Hart, Anna Fox Rochinski, Soft Yes at TV Eye
- Nikki Nair at Public Records
- The National Reserve at Skinny Dennis
- The SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues
- Junior Mack (acoustic) at Terra Blues
- .357 Lover, Bikini Carwash at Otto’s Shrunken Head
- Buck and a Quarter at the Francis Kite Club
- Joe Taino at the Bitter End
- The Val Kinzler Band at Stitch Bar & Blues
Saturday, August 19
- The Strokes, Angel Olsen, Seaton Smith, Promiseland at Forest Hills Stadium
- Carlos Vives at Radio City Music Hall
- Louis the Child, What So Not, Blonde Maze, Joyryde, the Knocks, Snakehips, Dr. Fresch, Moksi, Pauline Herr, TAIKI NULIGHT, DOT at the Brooklyn Mirage
- Cautious Clay, Wet, Christian Kuria, Zinadelphia at SummerStage Central Park
- Kamelot, Battle Beast, Xandria at Webster Hall
- John Cale, Tomberlin at the Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park
- A Place to Bury Strangers, Monsterwatch, Spoon Benders at Brooklyn Made
- Chief Adjuah at (le) Poisson Rouge
- Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, the Guilty Ones, Dead Rock West at City Winery NYC
- Clipse at the Knockdown Center
- Adrienne, Ballista, Bazooka, Bleed the Pigs, Buggin, Burn, End It, HIDE, Kharma, Knife Wound, Lustsickpuppy, Move, Playytime, Rebelmatic, Shawty, Soul Glo, Thirdface, Truth Cult, Zulu at the Bowery Ballroom
- Ryley Walker, 75 Dollar Bill, Garcia Peoples, Sunwatchers, Weeping Bong Band, Gold Dust, Ned Collette, Glyders at the Ground Brewery
- Desert Sharks, InCircles, Kissed by an Animal, the Sheer Currents at 18th Ward Brewing
- Mountain Movers, Shirese, Drew Gardner and the Flowers in Space Band at Mama Tried
- Greg Howe’s Lost and Found w. Stu Hamm at the Iridium
- Cinema Cinema at the Hart Bar
- Kolb at Life World
- ANKHLEJOHN, ZekeUltra, Ade Hakim, Zedikaya at the Knitting Factory NY at Baker Falls
- Night Spins, Bandits on the Run, Nicholas Johnson at Sleepwalk
- Divino Niño at Drom
- The Nora Kelly Band at the Brooklyn Monarch
- Tash Neal at the Bitter End
- Kolker at the Bitter End
- The Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues
- David “Doc” French (acoustic) at Terra Blues
- The Phil Gammage Quartet at Stitch Bar & Blues
- Squirrels from Hell at Silvana
Sunday, August 20
- Mark Ronson, A-Trak, Byron the Aquarius, Venus X, Dwells, Clip, Chris Crack, Fatboi Sharif, Vincent, The Owl at the Nursey
- Jose Alberto, the Big 3 Palladium Orchestra, Karen Joseph and Mambocha at the Coney Island Amphitheater
- The Lox and Friends w. Jadakiss at the Rooftop at Pier 17
- Cirith Ungol, Night Demon, Sanhedrin at (le) Poisson Rouge
- Jill Sobule at North Square
- Schwayze at the Rockaway Hotel
- Justin Furstenfeld at City Winery NYC
- Mike Love & the Full Circle, SunDub at Brooklyn Bowl
- Adrienne, Ballista, Bazooka, Bleed the Pigs, Buggin, Burn, End It, HIDE, Kharma, Knife Wound, Lustsickpuppy, Move, Playytime, Rebelmatic, Shawty, Soul Glo, Thirdface, Truth Cult, Zulu at the Bowery Ballroom
- Sloppy Jane, Suo, Van Vreeland at Baby’s All Right
- TVOD, Shred Flintstone, InCircles at Maria Hernandez Park
- The Hipp Pipps at Otto’s Shrunken Head
- Tapi-Tapi at Barbes
- William Tyler + the Impossible Truth, Garcia Peoples at Union Pool
- Tim O’Brien w. Jan Fabricius at Hardeman Orchards
- Black Emoji, Control the Sound, Nick Vivid at Elsewhere Zone One
- Samoa Wilson (acoustic) at Terra Blues
- The Pioneers at Terra Blues
- Brian Charette at Small’s
- Sunday School with Binky Griptite at the Bitter End
- The Irish Seisiun at the 11th St. Bar
