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New York concert guides
Reported picks, venue stories and scene guides connected to the New York concert calendar.
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Webster Hall’s Three-Night Run Moves From Hardcore Floor to Mixmag Lab Late Night
Three nights at Webster Hall trace a useful route through New York hardcore, experimental metal, and late-night club culture.
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Takács Quartet’s New Chapter Arrives at Carnegie Hall With Jeremy Denk
A new Takács lineup meets a carefully shaped program in Zankel Hall during the October 15–18 concert week.
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Public Records Maps a Live-to-Club Weekend Across Three Rooms
A three-night run shows how Public Records uses its rooms, its sound focus, and its long-form dance-floor hours.
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A Monk Thread Runs From Smoke Jazz Club to Mezzrow, October 8–11
Follow Monk’s repertory and piano legacy through Renee Rosnes, Micah Thomas, Nicole Glover, and William Hill III.
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Four Lead Instruments Shape a Thursday Jazz Circuit
Start the October 8–11 weekend with four distinct instrumental voices on Thursday, October 8.
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Ilya Kaler’s Carnegie Hall Concert Reclaims the Bridgetower Sonata
A Saturday chamber concert gives George Bridgetower’s story a full musical frame in Weill Recital Hall.
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Voices Unbound Brings Nine New Chamber Works to Carnegie Hall
On October 2, Voices Unbound makes a strong case for hearing new work in Weill Recital Hall.
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Three Electronic-Edged Bills Along the Bushwick–Ridgewood Border
From October 1–4, follow a compact edge-of-Bushwick circuit from an early rooftop club set to a mixed local bill.
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A Horn-Led Thursday Route Opens the October 1–4 Jazz Weekend
Three quartets put tenor, trumpet, and alto saxophone at the center of a downtown-to-Uptown jazz night.
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TV Eye Brackets Its First October Weekend With Three Heavy-Tilted Bills
Three shows at TV Eye trace a compact October weekend from black-metal billing through theatrical rock to Powerplant’s tour-closing set.
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House of Yes Builds a Three-Night Arc From Midnight Agony to Felix Cartal
A concise route through House of Yes’s stage-minded Thursday and two different approaches to Friday and Saturday club programming.
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Our Wicked Lady Gives Three Local Rock Bills Their Own Nights, September 24–26
Ghosts of Hope, Maiden, and Mars Ray & The Raptures anchor a compact Thursday-to-Saturday Brooklyn route.
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Walter Smith III Brings a New Jazz Works Premiere to Smoke Jazz Club
For September 24–27, a commissioned premiere turns three Smoke Jazz Club dates into a concise Uptown jazz destination.
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Flying Lotus Heads a One-Day Map of Dance and Experimental Music at Knockdown Center
A focused guide to the expansive OUTLINE bill arriving in Queens on Saturday, September 26.
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A Two-Stop Heavy Route for September 24–27
Start with Mastodon, Deafheaven, and Alcest on Thursday, then close at TV Eye with an international-minded Sunday bill.
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Public Records Moves From an Upstairs Hybrid Set to Two Full-Campus Club Nights
Peter Matson, upsammy, and Bradley Zero anchor three sharply different entries on the Gowanus venue’s calendar.
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Barbès Moves From Deep Songbook Swing to Sunday Choro
Three upcoming Barbès bookings trace a small-room musical map from vintage swing to Brazilian choro on September 17 and 20.
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Trans-Pecos Sets a Three-Night Route Through Rap, R&B, and Electronic Music
H31R and Tony Seltzer anchor Thursday, followed by deep Friday and Saturday lineups at Trans-Pecos.
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Webster Hall Moves From Synth Shadows to Full-Pop Scale, September 10–12
A Thursday-to-Saturday run at Webster Hall brings three sharply different approaches to the pop song into one East Village room.
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An Early-to-Late Jazz Route for September 10–13
September 10–13 offers a compact path through vocal jazz, a Sonny Rollins tribute, and solo guitar.
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Brooklyn Paramount Packs Three Hard-Edged Nights Into One September Weekend
A Thursday-to-Saturday guide to a concentrated Brooklyn Paramount run, September 10–12, 2026.
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Bar Freda Books Two Very Different Ridgewood Bills for September’s First Weekend
A two-show look at Bar Freda’s heavy Friday and open-ended Sunday during September 3–6.
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Jill McCarron Takes Mezzrow Past Midnight Twice
Two 11:55 p.m. solo-piano sets give the first September weekend a quietly precise jazz destination.
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Mercury Lounge Opens September With Three Compact Bills
DECOSTER UNIVERSE starts Thursday, then Outer Shapes and Nudey divide Friday into early and late rooms.
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Bowery Ballroom Starts September With a Folk Opener and a Gothic Weekend
For September 3–5, Bowery Ballroom moves from a sold-out BIIRD date into two nights of A Murder of Crows 2026.
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Three Late-August Entries Into Silo Brooklyn
A focused guide to three nights at Silo Brooklyn, August 27–29, where the weekend’s club options arrive with three very different points of entry.
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Elsewhere’s Rooftop Has Three Early Starts for the Last August Weekend
Three club events, three different social frames, and one open-air Bushwick room before summer’s final full weekend turns busy.
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Three Nights of OWL PRESENTS! at Our Wicked Lady
From August 27–29, OWL PRESENTS! supplies three distinct reasons to make Our Wicked Lady a weekend destination.
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Three Club Nights, One Public Records Weekend
Heavee opens the run, Elisa Batti takes Friday, and Hieroglyphic Being closes Saturday with a deep Chicago-rooted perspective.
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