From Alex G to Addison Rae, here are the artists we’re excited to catch in October.
There are thousands of shows to see in New York City every month, which makes keeping track of any kind of live show calendar hard and choosing between shows even harder. We here at The FADER are always making note of the upcoming performances we’re most looking forward to, and we’re now publishing our picks for the most exciting shows coming up in the city. Ahead, find the 31 shows we’re most looking forward to in October 2025, from Swedish cloud rap to ’80s movie music, ecstatic black metal, and more.
October 1/2: Stereolab, Memorials/Dorothea Paas @ Brooklyn Steel
To the great benefit of the listening and show-attending public, one of the greatest bands of all time has reunited after a 10-year break at the start of this decade. This year, Stereolab are touring behind their excellent new album Instant Holograms on Metal Film.
Get tickets for their October 1 show with Memorials here and their October 2 show with Dorothea Pass here.
October 1/3/4: Addison Rae @ Brooklyn Paramount/Terminal 5/National Sawdust
TikTok celebrity Addison Rae shocked the world this year by dropping an album packed with irresistible hits. She’s got three sold out shows in October: National Sawdust on the 4th, Brooklyn Paramount on October 1 and Terminal 5 on October 3. Tickets for the Paramount are reselling for roughly $210 with Terminal 5 for roughly $180.
Get resale tickets to Addison Rae’s October 1 Brooklyn Paramount show here and October 3 Terminal 5 show here.
October 2: Anika, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
With Anika’s 2010 self-titled debut album, a collaboration with Portishead’s Geoff Barrow’s electronic rock band Beak>, the British-German singer established herself as 21st-century art rock’s premiere ice queen. 2021’s Change marked her return as a solo artist, and this year’s Abyss expanded her universe even further. She’ll be joined at LPR by cumgirl8’s Avishag Cohen Rodrigues.
Read our 2011 Anika GEN F profile, and get tickets here.
October 3: Bladee, DIIV, Nettspend, Black Kray @ Under the K Bridge Park
This lineup is the wet dream for hipsters and hypebeasts young and old. With Drainer-In-Chief Bladee headlining, the show’s undercard features 18-year-old hyperpop MC Nettspend, Goth Money Records founder and cloud rap OG Black Kray (aka Sickboyrari), and DIIV, the tortured shoegazers who epitomized Brooklyn indie rock in the 2010s and returned triumphantly in 2024 with their terrific fourth album Frog in Boiling Water.
Read our 2019 interview with Bladee, our 2015 profile of DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith, and our recent review of Nettspend’s debut album. And get tickets here.
October 3: Pino Palladino, Blake Mills, Sam Gendel, and Chris Dave (quartet) @ Pioneer Works (early and late shows)
Elite session players Pino Palladino (bass) and Blake Mills (guitar) recruited a rotating cast of world-class musicians to fill out the arrangements of their subtly brilliant sophomore collab album, That Wasn’t a Dream. Sam Gendel and Chris Dave were key players in crafting the duo’s densely contrapuntal arrangements into a living tapestry, and that magic will be on full display at Pioneer Works.
Read our recent interview with Mills and Palladino, and get tickets here.
October 3: Cortisa Star, Alice Longyu, and more @ Knockdown Center
“Cortisa Star has a utopian vision for the club,” Vivian Medithi wrote in our recent profile of the unpredictable 19-year-old rapper. “Alice Longyu Gao hopes their music makes it past your algorithm,” Steffanee Wang wrote, introducing our recent interview with the Los Angeles singer-producer. Both artists resist categorization, crashing through the mountains of Spotify slop in search of whatever’s on the other side.
Get tickets here.
October 8: Jeff Mills, Jean Phillipe Dary, Prabhu Edouard @ Pioneer Works
Jeff Mills is one of those artists who’ve been doing it so long (roughly 45 years) that you sometimes need to refresh yourself on their music to remember just how good it is. “Listening to Jeff Mills’ Liquid Room set has made me hunger for music that doesn’t just blend genres, but connect them,” Jordan Darville wrote recently in The FADER, fondly referencing the Detroit DJ-producer’s iconic mix from a 1996 show in Tokyo. He’ll have support at Pioneer Works from French-Guianese producer/multi-instrumentalist/fellow OG Jean-Phi Dary and world-class French-Indian percussionist Prabhu Edouard.
Get tickets here.
October 8/9: Alex G, Nilüfer Yanya @ Radio City Music Hall/Kings Theatre
Alex G, an indie-rock darling turned rock star with major label bona fides, plays two of NYC’s biggest rooms with Nilüfer Yanya. The British artist has a similar arc: following up her singer-songwriter beginnings with adventures into bigger rock and pop sounds.
Read our 2019 Alex G cover story, our 2022 Alex G profile, and our 2017 GEN F profile of Nilüfer Yanya. Get tickets to their October 8 Radio City show here and October 9 Kings Theatre show here.
October 8: Agriculture, The Infinity Ring @ Union Pool
Even on an absolutely stacked night of shows, Agriculture could be the band to catch. The Los Angeles ecstatic black metal group will have just released their sophomore album, The Spiritual Sound, and you can trust me when I say it’s even more ear-splitting than their 2023 self-titled debut.
Read our 2023 interview with Agriculture, and get tickets here.
October 9–10: John Carpenter (Live In Concert) @ Knockdown Center
Master of horror and iconic screen composer John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, and many more) is currently touring behind the 10th-anniversary edition of his first Lost Themes Record. His live show is a joyful medley of themes lost and found, old and new.
Read Carpenter’s list of the eight scariest horror classics, and get tickets here.
October 9: Khadija Al Hanafi @ Night Club 101
Tunisian artist Khadija Al Hanafi’s refreshing strain of footwork takes the genre in a whole new direction, deeply indebted to ’70s soul records, trap music, lounge jazz, and more. She’ll roll into New York on a hot streak, behind her hard-hitting record !OK! and amid a new monthly NTS residency.
Get tickets here.
October 10: Water From Your Eyes, Her New Knife, Brutus VIII @ Bowery Ballroom
NYC indie scene veterans Water From Your Eyes shared their best album yet, It’s A Beautiful Place, this year. It’s a rollicking record combining mathy punk, gleeful hyperpop, and whatever secret juice it is that makes Nate Amos’ solo music as This Is Lorelai so addictive. Their supporting lineup at Bowery Ballroom features Her New Knife and Brutus VIII — big fish in the small ponds of the Philly-gaze underground and NYC freak-rock subaltern, respectively, that may soon swim into a broader stream.
Read our 2024 interview with Water From Your Eyes and our review of Her New Knife’s 2024 EP chrome is a lullaby, and get tickets here.
October 11: Destroyer, Cass McCombs (solo), Jennifer Castle @ Knockdown Center
Destroyer and Cass McCombs are latterday folk-rock poets, both gifted with words in a way that’s rare in writers and even rarer in musicians. Joining them at Knockdown is Jennifer Castle, a Canadian singer-songwriter who delivers deep, worldly lyrics in a warbling alto over soulful rock arrangements.
Read our 2011 Cass McCombs cover story and our 2022 Cass McCombs interview. Read our 2011 Destroyer profile and Destroyer’s track-by-track guide to his 2020 album Have We Met. Listen to Destroyer on The FADER Interview podcast. And get tickets here.
October 13: Ravyn Lenae @ Brooklyn Paramount
Ravyn Lenae makes soul-tinged pop music that moves the heart and the hips, but she’s as comfortable over a classic Chicago house instrumental, a rock groove, or a funk bassline as she is over plush synth strings. “Lenae jumps from idea to idea, genre to genre, flourish to flourish,” Alex Robert Ross wrote of Lenae in a FADER cover story last year.
Read our 2024 Ravyn Lenae cover story, watch our 2018 and 2019 video interviews with Lenae, and get tickets here.
October 14: jackzebra @ Elsewhere
jackzebra is a phenomenon, an MC from Chengdu, Sichuan who raps only in Mandarin but has somehow captured the hearts and minds of Gen Z music lovers the world across. He’s got a fresh spin on cloud rap, breathing life into a style saturated with Sad Boys/Drain Gang imitators.
Read our jackzebra GEN F profile and get tickets here.
October 15: Yung Lean @ Avant Gardner
Is Avant Gardner still open? I guess it is because they keep posting shows. Someone please confirm this for me because I’m not going over there. Except, maybe, for Yung Lean, the godfather of Swedish cloud rap.
Read our seminal 2016 profile of Yung Lean and our reviews of his 2018 mixtape Poison Ivy and 2020 album Starz, and get tickets here.
October 16: MJ Lenderman (& The Wind), Hovvdy, Annie DiRusso @ Kings Theatre
Lendermania continues to flood the country, but its sediments remain most concentrated here, in our own little slice of hipster heaven. He’ll be joined at the Kings by beloved Austin indie-rock-turned-indie-pop duo Hovvdy and Nashville singer-songwriter Annie DiRusso.
Read our review of MJ Lenderman’s worldbeating 2024 album Manning Fireworks and our 2019 Hovvdy profile, and get tickets here.
October 17: Show Me The Body, Roc Marciano, Baby Osama, Wiki, and more @ 99 Scott
This early celebration of 10 years of Body War — Brooklyn banjo-punk bruisers Show Me The Body’s debut album — features a truly insane lineup. From New York OG Roc Marciano (considered by some to be the greatest living rapper) to Baby Osama (a ball of pure energy who told The FADER last year that she’d decided to switch from plugg to boom-bap after a brief experiment with sexy drill) to Wiki (everyone’s favorite gaptoothed Manhattan MC), there are no weak spots to be found. Get there early.
Read our Body War-era Show Me The Body profile and their track-by-track breakdown of 2020’s Trouble the Water, and listen to their 2017 FADER Mix. Listen to Wiki on The FADER Interview podcast and watch him recommend his “top five books that’ll bust your head open.” Read our 2024 Gen F profile of Baby Osama and our 2012 Roc Marciano Beat Construction interview. And get tickets here.
October 17: Gucci Mane @ Brooklyn Bowl
It’s bowling while watching Gucci Mane. It’s watching Gucci Mane while bowling. It’s Gucci Mane and bowling on October 17, as in 1017 Brick Squad, as in 1017 Thug. If you remain unconvinced, find God.
Read our 2016 Gucci Mane cover story and our 2015 oral history of Gucci Mane, and get tickets here.
October 17: Oklou @ Knockdown Center
Oklou’s distorted vision — cloudy, half-speed hyperpop, languid and largely impenetrable with brief bursts of vulnerability — swam into focus on her sophomore LP Choke Enough. With three unmissable concerts to choose from on the 17th, Oklou’s Knockdown show is the lushest, least aggressive option.
Read our 2020 Oklou GEN F profile and our recent Oklou interview, and get tickets here.
October 22: Lea Bertucci, Ka Baird, and more @ Light and Sound Design
Lea Bertucci is an experimental composer and vocalist focused on the interaction of sound and space. Each of her performances is different, and she’ll be celebrating the release of her forthcoming solo album The Oracle — a mystical, ambient journey through spacetime — in the comfy folds of Light and Sound Design. Joining her is Ka Baird, another sound artist who uses space as an instrument, speaking in tongues that their contact microphones try and fail to interpret, resulting in explosions of totally foreign sounds.
Read our review of Ka Baird’s 2024 album Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardo, and get tickets here.
October 24: OUTLINE: Erika de Casier, Smerz, Fine, and more @ Knockdown Center
You’d be hard pressed to find two acts buzzing at a higher frequency right now than Erika de Casier and Smerz, who’ll head the lineup of Knockdown Center’s fall edition of OUTLINE. Both hail from a Copenhagen pop scene that’s bubbled over in the past few years into a global phenomenon. Among others, they’ll be joined by Fine, a fellow Dane who operates in similar circles. In addition to her solo work, she releases music with Astrid Sonne as Coined. If you like her set, you can catch her the following night (October 25) at Night Club 101.
Read our 2020 interview with Erika de Casier, and get tickets here.
October 25: Autechre, Mark Broom @ Brooklyn Steel (early and late)
Autechre are an electronic enigma. The English duo of Rob Brown and Sean Booth have been making weird, glitchy tracks since before the insidious IDM acronym was coined, and have spent 30-odd years dutifully dropping consistently classic albums with little press promotion, adding to their mythos in the process. They’ll be joined at Brooklyn Steel for their 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. sets by Mark Broom, a fellow British DJ/producer with a more upbeat oeuvre.
Get tickets for the early show here and the late show here.
October 27–29: Yarn/Wire @ Miller Theatre
Yarn/Wire are a double-piano, double-percussion quartet dedicated to introducing listeners to the strange world of the contemporary-classical avant garde. For 20 years, they’ve brought a joyous big-tent energy to some of the most difficult scores ever set to parchment. They’ll celebrate that milestone this year with three concerts at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, each featuring performances of two composers’ pieces. These include world premieres of works by Zeena Parkins and Craig Taborn, as well as renditions of compositions from Sam Pluta, Enno Poppe, Tyshawn Sorey, and Mei-Fang Lin.
Get tickets here.
October 27: UNSOUND: Hania Rani, Piotr Kurek @ Pioneer Works
Experimental festival UNSOUND kicks off its New York edition with performances by two Polish luminaries: London-based composer and pianist Hania Rani — who interweaves synths, field recordings, and, of course, acoustic keys to create ever-winding entities — and Warsaw-based jack-of-all-trades Piotr Kurek, whose new album Songs and Bodies (out September 26) is a true tour de force, full of jazzy dreamscapes, fragmented Vocoder vocals, and seemingly meandering vamps that snap into place right when you least expect them to.
Read our pre- and post-coverage of UNSOUND 2024, and get tickets here.
October 28: Fleshwater, Chat Pile, and Balmora @ Brooklyn Steel
Fleshwater were forged in the fires of Boston hardcore but their sound has sped in many directions over the past eight years. On their new album 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky, one can hear traces of shoegaze, grunge, even metalcore. Oklahoma sludgeslingers Chat Pile will be joining them at Brooklyn Steel; filling out the undercard are post-hardcare headbangers Balmora, coming from Gippsland, Australia.
Get tickets here.
October 28: Eraserhead Xiu Xiu @ Elsewhere
Xiu Xiu may be the “rock” band that’s been doing it the weirdest for the longest while remaining relevant. The California trio of Jamie Stewart, Angela Seo, and David Kendrick that comprises the band’s current iteration will be pairing their strange sounds — “field recordings, homemade instruments, organ, modular synths, electrical interference, and elements of musique concrete” are all promised — with David Lynch’s iconic debut film. Doesn’t that sound nice?
Read our review of Xiu Xiu’s last album and our recent interview with the band on why they chose to remove their music from Spotify, and get tickets here.
October 29: Amaro Freitas @ DROM
You’ve never seen someone play piano like Amaro Freitas does. Like an exoticized chef, the Afro-Brazilian artist uses every part of the animal, preparing his instrument in real time (with clothespins on strings and the like) to fit each of his compositions. He’s a master looper, too, in some instances using wooden flutes and other noisemakers to build, layer by layer, the sound of the Amazon Rainforest. When he does play his instrument straight up, he’s both insanely virtuosic and remarkably restrained, tantalizing the audience with 88-key controlled demolitions until the song in question reaches its climax and all bets are off.
Get tickets here.
October 30: UNSOUND: RP Boo & Gary Gwadera @ David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
UNSOUND New York will move to Lincoln Center for its second night, featuring a collaborative performance from Chicago footwork godfather RP Boo and Łódź-based drummer Gary Gwadera, whose 2024 album Far, far in Chiacago. Footberk Suite. mixes strains of Polish folk music into rhythms that stick to some of footwork’s basic conventions but boldly flaunt many others — just as Boo and fellow footwork experimentalists like Jlin often do in their own music.
Read our 2016 RP Boo interview. This is a free show, with RSVP for “Fast Track” (priority admittance) going live at noon on Monday, October 27 on this page.
October 30: Machine Girl, LSDXOXO, Candy, Deli Girls @ Knockdown Center
Machine Girl have been blessing us with post-industrial chaos since 2012, and they’ll play songs at Knockdown from a brand new album called Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X), the follow-up to 2024’s excellent MG Ultra. They’ll be supported by a posse fellow freaks: Berlin-via-Philly dancefloor degenerate LSDXOXO, EDM/metal melders Candy, and no-holds-barred punks Deli Girls.
Read our 2024 profile of Machine Girl and our 2018 Deli Girls GEN F profile. Get tickets here.
October 31: Sun Ra Arkestra, Pharmakon, ESG, Martin Rev, and more @ Knockdown Center
Sun Ra Arkestra and Pharmakon, two acts approaching the border of sound and music from utterly different directions, share a stage this Halloween. Also joining the fun are iconic South Bronx groovers ESG and Suicide’s Martin Rev, some of the dozens of artists performing at NY Night Train’s 20th Annual Halloween Haunted Hop at Knockdown Center.
Read our 2013 Pharmakon GEN F profile and our 2024 non-GEN F Pharmakon profile, and get tickets here.
Other shows we recommend
October 1: Ryan Sawyer, Wendy Eisenberg, Animal Surrender, Domestic Drafts @ Cassette
October 1: Nels Cline (Consentrik Quartet), Ingrid Laubrock, Chris Lightcap, Tom Rainey @ Littlefield
October 1: Lorde, The Japanese House, Chanel Beads @ Madison Square Garden
October 1: The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid To Die, ASkySoBlack, Sleepwack @ Market Hotel
October 1: David Byrne @ Radio City Music Hall
October 1: TOPS, Starcleaner Reunion @ Webster Hall
October 1: Tomeka Reid, Lesley Mok, Yvonne Rogers (trio) @ The Stone
October 2–3: Gelli Haha, Shallowhalo @ Night Club 101
October 2: Drugdealer, Sedona @ Bowery Ballroom
October 2: Oneida, Michael Beach, SAVAC @ Union Pool
October 2: Dry Cleaning, Infinity Knives, Brian Ennals @ Warsaw
October 2: Synthicide: Velvet May, Max Headroom, Andi @ Bossa Nova Civic Club
October 2: Marty Erlich & Tomeka Reid @ The Stone
October 3: Kevin Gates, DJ Chose @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 3–5: We Belong Here feat. MGMT (DJ), Gordo, Ellerbrook (DJ), Carl Cox, and more @ Greenpoint Terminal
October 3: Tomeka Reid, Tomas Fujiwara, Ikue Mori (trio) @ The Stone
October 3: Ninajirachi, Somewhere Special, and more @ Market Hotel
October 3: Mustafina, Thought Partner, Arklight @ Main Drag Music
October 3: Rally in the Jungle: 3mouth, nguyendowsXP, amita Pierce Jackson @ Trans-Pecos
October 3: Gojnea76, Marlie, Jack Mulqueen & Yochanan @ Signal
October 4: Manuka Honey, Authentically Plastic, DJ Lita & WTCHCRFT b2b sh4dows @ Paragon
October 4: John Maus, Christopher Owens @ Warsaw
October 4: DJ Stingray 313, Akua, and more @ BASEMENT
October 4: Synthicide: Qual. Moon 17 @ TV EYE
October 4–5, 11–13: InGardens Festival feat. Janice Lowe Trio, Lesley Mok Trio, Patrick Brennan, Luke Stewart, and more @ First Street Green
October 4: Dumpstaphunk @ Brooklyn Bowl
October 4: Bush Tetras, Los Microwaves, Pons, Genre Is Death @ Market Hotel
October 4: Lutalo, Spellbinder @ Night Club 101
October 4: Ches Smith Clone Row, Ikue Mori, Tomerka Reid, and more @ Public Records
October 4: KYRUH, Donis, and more @ secret location
October 5: Aminé, Sango @ Central Park SummerStage
October 5: midwxst @ Racket
October 5: Farsight, Maenad, Drummy b2b Nick Boyd @ Bossa Nova Civic Club
October 5: The Ghost feat. Zach Rowden, Branden Lopez, Henry Paz, Holman Alvarez, and Whit Dickey (quartet) @ P.I.T.
October 5: Mister Sunday: Eamon Harkin, Justin Carter @ Nowadays
October 6: Michael Kiwanuka @ Beacon Theatre
October 6: Skullcrusher @ Night Club 101
October 6: Deltron 3030, Kid Koala, Leilani @ Webster Hall
October 6: Tom Skinner @ Night Club 101
October 7: Yazmin Lacey @ Cafe Erzulie
October 7: J.R. Bohannon, Greg Fox, Steve Gunn, Mark Morgan @ Cassette
October 7: Tom Hamilton @ Light and Sound Design
October 8: Makaya McCraven @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
October 8: Sloppy Jane, Lea Jaffe, girlpuppy, Good Anya @ Night Club 101
October 8–9: 2hollis @ Terminal 5
October 8: Delicate Steve, Pinc Louds, Katy Pinke @ Xanadu
October 9: Matthew Danger Lippman, Storey Littleton, The Curls @ ALPHAVILLE
October 9: Lily Seabird, Thomas Dollbaum @ Baby’s All Right
October 9: Tune-Yards @ Bowery Balloroom
October 9: Zoh Amba, Jake McKelvie, Michael Martin Doherty @ Cassette
October 9: Pile, NNMAMDÏ, youbet @ Sony Hall
October 9: JW Francis @ The Sultan Room
October 9: Garbage Party: Kill Alters, Reagan Holiday, RGEM (DJ) @ TV EYE
October 9: High Vis, Crush Your Soul, Cold Gawd, Secret World @ Warsaw
October 9: Taraneh, Eliusin, Comet @ Xanadu
October 9: Harassment, Alex McGrath & Francesca H, Unknown Sound Collective, Exit Seraphim @ Kaleidescope
October 10–12: Air @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 10–12: We Belong Here feat. Porter Robinson (DJ,) Wax Motif, Nora En Pure, and more @ Wollman Rink
October 10–11: David Byrne @ Radio City Music Hall
October 10–11: Teksupport: PAWSA @ Brooklyn Storehouse
October 10: Hotline TNT, DUSK @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
October 10: Kneecap (livestream) @ Kings Theatret
October 10: Jacques Greene, Nosaj Thing, Purelink, QRTR @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 10: Aurora Halal, Deep Creep, LOIF, Eden Aurelius @ Public Records
October 10: Erik Friedlander, Wendy Eisenberg, Myk Freedman @ The Stone
October 10: Robb Bank$ @ Baby’s All Right
October 11–12: Yusuf (Cat Stevens) @ Town Hall
October 11: Rafiq Bhatia @ Public Records
October 11: Sir Chloe, Suzy Clue @ Webster Hall
October 11: Scarlet Rae, girlpuppy, Superfan
October 11: Wet Ink Ensemble @ The Tenri Institute
October 11: John Carroll Kirby, Miho Hatori @ First Unitarian Congregational Society
October 11: Erica Eso, Kalbells @ Union Pool
October 11: Nonstop: Anthony Naples, Kilopatrah Jones, Sugar Free, Theo Parrish, Very J @ Nowadays
October 11: gun.mp3 @ Isola Brooklyn
October 11: DJ SWISHA, SilkyBlack @ House of Yes
October 12: Carl Craig & DJ Minx @ Public Records
October 12: Mister Sunday: Soul Summit @ Nowadays
October 12: Jubilee @ Gabriela
October 13/14/16/17–8: Grizzly Bear, L’Rain/This Is Lorelei/Sam Evian/Chanel Beads @ Brooklyn Steel
October 13: Natural Information Society, Kalia Vandever @ Roulette
October 13: Petey USA, Alex Cameron @ Webster Hall
October 14: Big Dumb Baby, Baby Fischgrund, Kid Lake @ Cassette
October 15: Asylum Support Clinic benefit: Porches, more eaze, fantasy of a broken heart, Mature, Body Meat (DJ), People (DJ), Jaboukie Young-White, and more @ Baby’s All Right
October 15: Grandaddy, Greg Freeman @ Brooklyn Steel
October 15: Rico Nasty @ Irving Plaza
October 15: YOB, Windhand @ Pioneer Works
October 15: Pardoner, Halloween, Bullseye, Guyscrapers @ The Broadway
October 15: Henry Fraser @ The Stone
October 16: Guerilla Toss @ Brooklyn Bowl
October 16: Peel Dream Magazine, 22° Halo @ Baby’s All Right
October 16: Bambara, Malice K, Buck Gooter @ Bowery Ballroom
October 16: Henry Fraser & Michael Cabuto @ The Stone
October 16: Cakedog, username, and more @ Bossa Nova Civic Club
October 16–18: My Morning Jacket, BALTHVS @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 16: Margaret Glaspy, Daphne Gale @ (Le) Poisson Roge
October 16: Kota The Friend @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 16: Car Culture, Ian Kim Judd, and more @ Nowadays
October 17–18: BRIC JazzFest: Chief Adjuah, Adrian Younge, Nubya Garcia, Karriem Riggins and more @ BRIC House
October 17: Julian Lage @ Town Hall
October 17: Brian Chase (of Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), David Watson @ Roulette
October 17: Bret McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords) @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
October 18–19: Will Butler, Sister Squares @ Joe’s Pub
October 18: Henry Fraser, Michael Halderman, Eliana Glass, Anthony Pearlman, and John Starks (quintet) @ The Stone
October 18: Upchuck @ Elsewhere
October 18: Madison McFerrin, 13th Law @ Elsewhere
October 18: Mutilated Fest: Beheaded, Incinerate, Dripping, and more @ The Meadows
October 18: Disclosure (live), Villager @ Forest Hills Stadium (early)
October 18: Disclosure, Bullet Tooth, Don Ri @ Knockdown Center (late)
October 18: Quadeca @ Irving Plaza
October 18: Madi Diaz @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 18: bloodsports, Venus Twins, and more @ Union Pool
October 18: Dripping Nonstop: Elena Colombi b2b Relaxer, Nidi b2b DJ N***a Fox, and more @ Nowadays
October 18: Jayda G, Rissa Garcia, Marco Lys, and more @ Elsewhere
October 18: Softi, DJ JM, Mui Mui @ secret location
October 18: DJ Assault @ Market Hotel
October 19: WE SAVE US: MGMT (DJ), Pom Pom Squad, and more @ Brooklyn Bowl
October 19: Ravyn Lenae @ Terminal 5
October 19: Alice Phoebe Lou @ Bowery Ballroom
October 19: The Psychedelic Furs, Gary Numan @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 19: Disclosure, JADALAREIGN @ Knockdown Center
October 19: Saul Williams, Carlos Niño @ The Sultan Room
October 19: Wayne Horvitz: Solos, Duos, and Pocket Ensemble @ The Owl
October 19: Marcel Dettman @ Nowadays
October 19: bullet tooth @ Public Records
October 20: gushes, Low Tides, Kaye, ALYXÅNDRA @ TV EYE
October 20: Doechii @ The Theater at Madison Square Garden
October 21: Modest Mouse, Built to Spill @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 21: D.A. Crimson, Gabriel Delicious, Pain Annihilator @ Cassette
October 21: Princess Nokia @ Baby’s All Right
October 22: John Medeski @ The Stone
October 22: Neko Case, Des Demonas @ Beacon Theatre
October 22: Jeff Tweedy, Liam Kazar @ Brooklyn Steel
October 23: Ela Minus, Danz CM @ Elsewhere
October 23: Wood River, Timo Vollbrecht @ The Owl
October 22: Cafune, Crushed @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
October 22: White Reaper, Dazy, World’s Worst @ TV EYE
October 23: Jack Antonoff, Hayley Williams, Role Model, Maria Zardoya (of The Marias) @ Beacon Theatre
October 23: Clara La San @ Night Club 101
October 24: Yves Tumor (DJ) @ Elsewhere
October 24–25: PinkPantheress @ Kings Theatre
October 24: Caroline Rose @ National Sawdust
October 24: Peggy Gou @ Avant Gardner
October 24: John Medeski & Billy Martin @ The Stone
October 24: A.J. Croce @ Town Hall
October 24: Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., The Macks @ TV EYE
October 24: John Medeski & Ikue Mori @ The Stone
October 25–26: Osees, DMBQ, Leila Bordreuil @ Warsaw
October 25: Big Thief, Lomelda @ Forest Hills Stadium
October 25: Fine @ Night Club 101
October 25: Speed, End it, MSPAINT @ Xanadu
October 25: Thundercat @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 25: Bassvictim @ Bowery Ballroom
October 25: Te Shi @ Elsewhere
October 25: John Medeski & Aba Diop @ The Stone
October 25: Ben Special, So Totally, Loadcard, Watching Planes I Touch Myself @ Cassette
October 25: Pressure X HELLTEKK: Hiroko Yamamura, Dakota Velasquez b2b Fuckthepsychs, and more @ secret location
October 25: Teksupport: Nina Kraviz @ location TBA
October 26: Stephin Merritt, Noah Britton, and more @ Union Hall
October 26, 28–29, 31: Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Amber Mark @ Madison Square Garden
October 27–28, 31: Tame Impala @ Barclays Center
October 27: Indigo De Souza, Mothe @ Webster Hall
October 29–30: St. Vincent @ Café Carlyle
October 29: The Rise of the Novel @ Roulette
October 29–30: Robert Glasper, Ledisi (early and late shows) @ Blue Note
October 29: King Princess, Sasami @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 29: Living Colour, Nabihah Iqbal (DJ) @ City Winery
October 29: Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Amber Mark @ Madison Square Garden
October 29: Na-Kel Smith @ Market Hotel
October 29: Mother Soki, Sex Week, Swordes @ Night Club 101
October 29: Eucademix, Dream Crease, Cassandra Croft @ Public Records
October 29: Ezra Furman @ Webster Hall
October 29: Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, Earl Howard, and surprise guest (Quartet) @ The Stone
October 30: Little Simz @ Brooklyn Paramount
October 30: Purity Ring @ Brooklyn Steel
October 30: Conway The Machine @ Racket
October 30: Debby Friday @ Public Records
October 30: Mark Dresser, Matt Wilson, and Myra Melford (Trio) @ The Stone
October 31: PC Music, PinkPantheress, and more @ The Brooklyn Monarch
October 31: Nonstop Halloween: DJ Hell, Helena Hauff, Juliana Huxtable, and more @ Nowadays
October 31: The Vampire Ball: Kittin, Jubilee, LSDXOXO, and more @ Industry City
October 31: Ben UFO, Cic, and more @ Elsewhere
October 31: Egyptian Lover, Byrell The Great, and more @ Paragon
October 31: Honey Bun, KYRUH, Von @ Xanadu