fri31julsat01augNonameTelefone 10 Year Anniversary(july 31) 10:30 pm - (august 1) 1:00 am Sony Hall, 235 W 46th Street

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July 31 (Friday) 10:30 pm - August 1 (Saturday) 1:00 am

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The observant, poetic, and down-to-earth Noname exhibits inspirations including Lauryn Hill and André 3000, but the rapper is in a lane of her own with unflappable and conversational verses offering everything from intense self-reflection and offhanded put-downs to strong Black affirmation and considered anti-capitalist thought. These qualities shade her independent full-length projects Telefone (2016), Room 25 (2018), and Sundial (2023). Two years after the release of the latter, Noname returned with "Hundred Acres," a casually celebratory track featuring a hook from Devin Morrison. The single was billed as a preview of her fourth project, Cartoon Radio. Born Fatimah Warner in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, Noname frequented open-mike nights and slam poetry competitions when she wasn't volunteering with the local YOUMedia arts program. Her audience began to widen in 2013, the year she appeared on Mick Jenkins' Trees & Truths and Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap. After she guested on Jenkins' The Waters, Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment's Surf, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book, and Jamila Woods' HEAVN, among other releases, she made her proper debut in July 2016 with the self-issued Telefone. Three years in the making, its reflective coming-of-age tales featured productions from a strictly Chicagoan cast of Cam O'bi, Phoelix, Saba, and Monte Booker. The mixtape landed in year-end lists from numerous publications, and Coloring Book shortly thereafter won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, consequently increasing anticipation for Noname's follow-up project. Recorded during a monthlong period following touring and a move to Los Angeles, the comparatively expansive Room 25 -- with Phoelix the lone production collaborator -- arrived in September 2018 to a similarly warm reception. Nearly five years would pass before Noname's third full-length. The rapper thought about quitting music due to frustrations and other pursuits such as a book club. She went on hiatus, though in 2020 she did release the Madlib-produced "Song 33," a response to criticism from J. Cole, and vowed to direct her earnings from the track to Black mutual aid funds. In August 2023, she returned with Sundial, her third full-length. The deeply thoughtful and questioning set featured collaborations with Common, Billy Woods, Jay Electronica, and Jimetta Rose with the Voices of Creation. The Devin Morrison collaboration "Hundred Acres," her first single in four years, appeared in October 2025. - Biography by Neil Z. Yeung

sat01aug7:00 pmsat9:00 pmShevya7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

sat01aug8:00 pmsat9:30 pmPJ Morton8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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Blue Note

131 W 3rd Street

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PJ Morton is a soul singer, songwriter, performer and producer based in New Orleans. Following four consecutive years of Grammy wins as a self-released, self-produced artist, in addition to chart-topping achievements and countless collaborations, his album Watch The Sun was the next step in a remarkable career that continues to bridge styles, traditions and generations. Released in 2022 on his own Morton Records, Watch The Sun featured Stevie Wonder, Nas, Jill Scott, JoJo, El DeBarge, Chronixx, Wale, Alex Isley and more. This summer, he released Watch the Sun Live: The Mansion Sessions which featured Susan Carol, Shelea, Kenyon Dixon, and more. Following the breakthrough of his Gumbo LP in 2017, and the six albums he's released since then, PJ Morton has experienced a prolific and critically-acclaimed streak that has also led to his first-ever NAACP Image Award and Soul Train nominations, BET Award nominations, sold-out shows at the historic Apollo Theater and far beyond, plus four Grammy wins and 19 career-total nominations. On top of playing keys in Maroon 5 for more than a decade and counting, his resume also includes work with Erykah Badu, Jon Batiste, Yebba and many others, as well as creating original music for Disney's upcoming Disneyland and Disney World attraction, Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

sat01aug8:00 pmsat11:00 pmMannequin Pussy8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Starland Ballroom, 570 Jernee Mill Road

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(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Starland Ballroom

570 Jernee Mill Road

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Mannequin Pussy’s music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums, the Philadelphia rock band that consists of Colins “Bear” Regisford (bass, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Maxine Steen (guitar, synths), and Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals) has made cathartic tunes about despairing times. “There's just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like a radical act ,” says Dabice. “The ethos of this band has always been to bring people together.” Their latest I Got Heaven, which is out March 1 via Epitaph Records, is the band’s most fully realized LP yet. Over 10 ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It’s a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive. Following the 2019 release of their critically acclaimed third album Patience, Mannequin Pussy returned in 2021 for their EP Perfect. They toured that release relentlessly and added guitarist Maxine Steen to the band’s official lineup. Where the band members’ personal lives were in transition with breakups, changing living situations, and periods of self-reevaluation, their time together on the road was a grounding and clarifying force. “There was so much going on in our lives that it was the perfect opportunity to recalibrate who we were as people and musicians,” says Regisford. The band changed their entire formula, choosing to write together in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton over slowly crafting tracks at home. “When I've written songs, it's usually a very solitary process,” says Dabice. “So this was shedding a lot of those hermit-like qualities to do something intensively collaborative. Your best work comes when you allow other people into it.” By December 2022, the band had 17 new songs written with Congleton in Los Angeles. “Everyone felt empowered to speak up about their own ideas to make this thing the best it could possibly be,” says Regisford. New member Maxine Steen, who has made music with Dabice for years including their side project Rosie Thorne, was especially essential to the writing sessions. The album opener “I Got Heaven” initially started as one of Steen’s demos. “When she showed it to me I knew it was going to be fun because the verses have this hard-hitting and aggressive approach but the chorus allows for a really soaring melody,” says Dabice. The result is electric. Over walloping guitar riffs, Dabice defiantly yells, “And what if I’m an angel? Oh what if I’m a bore? And what if I was confident would you just hate me more? The song with its righteous lyrical blending of the sacred and profane is an unapologetic look at Christian hypocrisy. “I don't think there's ever been anything in need of a spiritual revolution more than modern-day Christianity,” says Dabice. “It sickens me the way that people use it as a way to do the worst things imaginable, say the worst things imaginable, and pass the worst imaginable legislation that directly harms people.” Instead of judgment, greed, and avarice, the songs on I Got Heaven ask what it really means to genuinely care about the people around you and help your communities in ways you can. “The world that we live in is heaven,” says Dabice. “We live on the most beautiful planet in the solar system, just by a chance and we are continuingly destroying it.” This sentiment is mirrored by the album’s cover art: a figure and a pig in nature. There’s an intentional ambiguity there that makes you wonder if this person is leading the animal to slaughter or its protector. “We should really be the shepherds and the protectors of everything that we have and the world we live in,” says Dabice. I Got Heaven is an album that understands the stakes of its message: there are countless references to fire, hunger, and holiness. Here, teeth gnash and bodies are temples that ache with desire. On the yearning single “Nothing Like,” which is anchored by a dancey, shuffling drum beat from Reading, Dabice’s voice eventually morphs from a coo to a roar as she sings, “Oh what’s wrong with dreaming of burning this all down?” Even when the songs on I Got Heaven don’t deal with fundamental human questions about how to live, Mannequin Pussy still finds ways to add urgency and resonance. Just take the buoyant and playful single “I Don’t Know You,” which slowly builds to a hair-raising peak with Reading’s brushed percussion, Steen’s enveloping synths, and a thoughtful groove from Regisford. “On that song, I changed the tuning last minute which transformed the song but everyone instinctively knew what to do,” says Dabice. “It was really cool to watch a song come alive in real-time. It's such a gift to meet other people who are creatively on the same wavelength as you, where there's no judgment in sharing ideas.” The lightness of this track pairs perfectly with the rest of the tracklist, even when it’s snarling rock like “Loud Bark” or punishing hardcore punk with Regisford sharing lead vocal duties on “OK? OK! OK? OK!” “If you're a Mannequin Pussy fan, you know that we're going to have some rippers,” says Regisford. “We're gonna have something that's going to be in your face. But we're also going to give you something that's going to be light to the touch with its own version of aggression.” The loud and uncompromising single “Of Her,” finds Dabice screaming, “I was born / Of her fire / Of sacrifices That were made / So I could make it.” It’s a song about living life without regrets and understanding the sacrifices that you and your parents, especially your mother, made to allow you to live the life you want. I Got Heaven is a visceral and stunning album for people who aren’t content with the status quo, made by people who challenged themselves and got out of their comfort zone. ”We're supposed to be living in the freest era ever so what it means to be a young person in this society is the freedom to challenge these systems that have been put on to us,” says Dabice. “It makes sense to ask, what ultimately am I living for? What is it that makes me want to live?”

sat01aug8:00 pmsat11:00 pmLos Rivera Destino8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Sony Hall, 235 W 46th Street

sat01aug8:00 pmsat11:59 pmEJEANMeant Love Tour8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Zone One at Elsewhere, 599 Johnson Avenue

sat01aug9:00 pmsat11:59 pmQveen HerbyIsle of Qveen Tour9:00 pm - 11:59 pm Franklin Music Hall, 421 N. 7th Street

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(Saturday) 9:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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Franklin Music Hall

421 N. 7th Street

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The swaggering pop-rap of Qveen Herby emerged following a hiatus for hip-hop-inspired dance-pop duo Karmin. The alter ego of vocalist Amy Noonan, Qveen Herby explored more-hardcore rap and hip-hop influences starting with 2017's EP 1, the first in a numeric series. Amy Noonan (born Heidemann) and her husband, producer/trombonist Nick Noonan, both Berklee College of Music grads, became Internet sensations in the early 2010s as Karmin. While their exuberant covers of artists like Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne were their first tracks to earn them a significant following, they were invited to perform original material on Saturday Night Live in early 2012. Their Epic debut, the seven-track Hello, saw release that May. The Billboard 200-charting full-length Pulses followed in 2014 before the independently released Leo Rising arrived in 2016. The latter reached the Top 30 of Billboard's Independent Albums chart. Moving away from the poppier style they had developed with Karmin, Qveen Herby embraced more hardcore rap influences on a series of numbered EPs beginning with June 2017's EP 1. EP 2 followed that December, with two more extended plays arriving in 2018. EP 5 and EP 6 saw release in February and May of 2019. - Biography by Matt Collar

sun02aug8:00 pmsun11:59 pmShower Beers8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Zone One at Elsewhere, 599 Johnson Avenue

mon03aug7:00 pmmon10:00 pmG FlipBed On Fire Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street

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(Monday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Bowery Ballroom

6 Delancey Street

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As G Flip, Melbourne's Georgia Flipo makes emotive, anthemic synth pop. After gaining attention with their 2018 debut single, "About You," they polished their sound on the following year's full-length About Us, an ARIA-nominated Top Ten hit in their native Australia. The drums-forward DRUMMER arrived in 2023 and was followed in 2025 by the '80s pop/rock-inspired Dream Ride. Flipo grew up in a music-loving family: their father introduced them to the Clash and Green Day, while their mother passed on her affection for pop and R&B. Flipo began playing drums at age nine, when their uncle gave them a kit as a present. A few years later, they learned piano and guitar and played with bands ranging from metal to reggae acts. They idolized their high school drum teacher, Jenny Rose Morrish, whose support and instruction helped Flipo get into Box Hill Institute, where they majored in drums and earned a Bachelor of Music. When Morrish died from cancer at age 31 in 2015, Flipo made it their goal to fulfill their teacher's dream of touring America. They became the drummer and backing vocalist for the band EMPRA and eventually toured the States with them. When EMPRA disbanded in late 2016, Flipo dedicated themself to making their own music. They spent much of 2017 working on their production and vocal skills with online tutorials. They also built an audiovisual screen for their kickdrum head that they named the Je Re Mo in honor of Morrish. When they weren't working on their music, Flipo gave drum and guitar lessons to schoolchildren in their studio space. Early in 2018, G Flip signed with the Future Classic label; that February, they released their debut single, "About You." The track earned widespread acclaim as well as chart and streaming success, and Flipo made their live debut a few months later at SXSW. To make their debut album, they collaborated with Scissor Sisters' Scott "Babydaddy" Hoffman, Melbourne-based producer/songwriter Joel Quartermain, and producer Ariel Rechtshaid. The ARIA-nominated About Us -- which was inspired by the on-again, off-again relationship Flipo was in during G Flip's early days -- appeared in August 2019 and featured the Australian Top Ten single "Drink Too Much." They soon began writing for a follow-up while releasing non-album singles like "Hyperfine," "You & I," and "I'd Rather Go to Bed" in 2020. Tracks including "Queen," with mxmtoon, and "Scream," a collaboration with UPSAHL, followed in 2021, the year Flipo relocated to Los Angeles. The next year saw the release of the strutting "GAY 4 ME" featuring Lauren Sanderson, and solo outings such as "Waste of Space." Eventually, in the first half of 2023, G Flip previewed second album DRUMMER with the lead single "Be Your Man," a tribute to their partner, actress Chrishell Stause. The couple married that May. Offering a hybrid of pop and rock with drums given prominence in the mix, the complete DRUMMER LP followed on Future Classic in August of 2023. G Flip kept the volume up and the rock element on board for their third album, September 2025's Dream Ride, which, inspired by '80s music and the decade's neon flare, adopted a character called Butch Springsteen. - Biography by Heather Phares

mon03aug8:00 pmmon9:30 pmSinéad Harnett8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

mon03aug8:00 pmmon11:59 pmBillie MartenSummer Shoes Tour8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Elsewhere Space, 599 Johnson Avenue

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(Monday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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599 Johnson Avenue

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Billie Marten has a delicate, lyrical indie folk style. Her craft matured when she was young, and she made an impression with her first viral music video as a preteen. Her debut full-length album, Writing of Blues & Yellows, drew comparisons to the sound of such influential singer/songwriters as Kate Bush and Nick Drake when it arrived in 2016. She continued to refine and transform her plaintive folk-pop on subsequent efforts Feeding Seahorses by Hand (2019), Flora Fauna (2021), Drop Cherries (2023), and Dog Eared (2025). An English singer/songwriter based out of North Yorkshire, Isabella Sophie Tweddle, better known by her stage name Billie Marten, first caught the public's attention in 2011 (at the age of 12) with a YouTube performance that garnered the budding musician over 100,000 views. By 2014, she had released her first EP and began earning favorable comparisons to fellow English folkies like Laura Marling and Lucy Rose. The following year saw Marten ink a deal with Chess Club Records and release a second EP, and in November of that year, she was nominated for the prestigious BBC Sound of 2016 on the strength of the singles "Bird" and "Heavy Weather." Her debut full-length, Writing of Blues & Yellows, followed in September of that year. The record received widespread acclaim, with Marten commended for her ability to craft intricate, woeful, and ethereal songs. Still exhibiting those traits, she returned in 2018 with the singles "Mice" and "Blue Sea, Red Sea," the first results of her sophomore album. Marten had recorded the album to four-track with producer Ethan John at his home in Bath, U.K., with the release, Feeding Seahorses by Hand, issued in mid-2019. The effort was preceded by two more singles, "Cartoon People" and "Betsy." 2021's Flora Fauna saw Marten add elements of pop and Krautrock to her expansive sound while continuing to look inward lyrically. The four-song Acoustic EP arrived later that November. In early 2023, Marten announced the arrival of her fourth long-player with the release of the lead single, "This Is How We Move." Written and co-produced by Marten with Dom Monks in Somerset and Wales, Drop Cherries was released later that April. In 2025, Marten unveiled her fifth long-player, Dog Eared. Produced by Phil Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker) and featuring the assured single "Feeling," the intimate set saw her collaborate with Núria Graham, Sam Amidon, Shahzad Ismaily, and Sam Evian, among others. - Biography by James Christopher Monger

mon03aug10:30 pmmon11:59 pmSinéad Harnett10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

tue04aug7:00 pmtue9:00 pmLilies of David7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

tue04aug7:00 pmtue10:00 pmG FlipBed On Fire Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street

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(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Bowery Ballroom

6 Delancey Street

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As G Flip, Melbourne's Georgia Flipo makes emotive, anthemic synth pop. After gaining attention with their 2018 debut single, "About You," they polished their sound on the following year's full-length About Us, an ARIA-nominated Top Ten hit in their native Australia. The drums-forward DRUMMER arrived in 2023 and was followed in 2025 by the '80s pop/rock-inspired Dream Ride. Flipo grew up in a music-loving family: their father introduced them to the Clash and Green Day, while their mother passed on her affection for pop and R&B. Flipo began playing drums at age nine, when their uncle gave them a kit as a present. A few years later, they learned piano and guitar and played with bands ranging from metal to reggae acts. They idolized their high school drum teacher, Jenny Rose Morrish, whose support and instruction helped Flipo get into Box Hill Institute, where they majored in drums and earned a Bachelor of Music. When Morrish died from cancer at age 31 in 2015, Flipo made it their goal to fulfill their teacher's dream of touring America. They became the drummer and backing vocalist for the band EMPRA and eventually toured the States with them. When EMPRA disbanded in late 2016, Flipo dedicated themself to making their own music. They spent much of 2017 working on their production and vocal skills with online tutorials. They also built an audiovisual screen for their kickdrum head that they named the Je Re Mo in honor of Morrish. When they weren't working on their music, Flipo gave drum and guitar lessons to schoolchildren in their studio space. Early in 2018, G Flip signed with the Future Classic label; that February, they released their debut single, "About You." The track earned widespread acclaim as well as chart and streaming success, and Flipo made their live debut a few months later at SXSW. To make their debut album, they collaborated with Scissor Sisters' Scott "Babydaddy" Hoffman, Melbourne-based producer/songwriter Joel Quartermain, and producer Ariel Rechtshaid. The ARIA-nominated About Us -- which was inspired by the on-again, off-again relationship Flipo was in during G Flip's early days -- appeared in August 2019 and featured the Australian Top Ten single "Drink Too Much." They soon began writing for a follow-up while releasing non-album singles like "Hyperfine," "You & I," and "I'd Rather Go to Bed" in 2020. Tracks including "Queen," with mxmtoon, and "Scream," a collaboration with UPSAHL, followed in 2021, the year Flipo relocated to Los Angeles. The next year saw the release of the strutting "GAY 4 ME" featuring Lauren Sanderson, and solo outings such as "Waste of Space." Eventually, in the first half of 2023, G Flip previewed second album DRUMMER with the lead single "Be Your Man," a tribute to their partner, actress Chrishell Stause. The couple married that May. Offering a hybrid of pop and rock with drums given prominence in the mix, the complete DRUMMER LP followed on Future Classic in August of 2023. G Flip kept the volume up and the rock element on board for their third album, September 2025's Dream Ride, which, inspired by '80s music and the decade's neon flare, adopted a character called Butch Springsteen. - Biography by Heather Phares

tue04aug9:00 pmtue11:59 pmAtta Girl9:00 pm - 11:59 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

tue04aug(aug 4)10:00 pmwed05(aug 5)1:00 amGhais Guevara10:00 pm - 1:00 am (5) Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

wed05aug6:30 pmwed9:00 pmFink6:30 pm - 9:00 pm (le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street

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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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158 Bleecker Street

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As Fink, British singer and musician Fin Greenall explores intimate songwriting in solo acoustic, band, and electronic settings. A longtime staple of the Ninja Tune family, he started out making breakbeat-driven music, starting with the experimental drum'n'bass EP Fink Funk (1997) and the downtempo trip-hop album Fresh Produce (2000). He switched Fink into a more soulful, acoustic-based project with 2006's Biscuits for Breakfast, and his introspective songwriting found him collaborating with the likes of John Legend, Amy Winehouse, and other talented songsmiths. Fink's style developed on strong, emotionally dynamic records like 2014's Hard Believer, which featured his most recognizable hit, "Looking Too Closely." The raw, blues-based Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1 appeared in 2017, and Fink continued issuing studio albums like Bloom Innocent (2019) and Beauty in Your Wake (2024), as well as live, acoustic, and reimagined versions of previously released material. Born in Cornwall but raised in Bristol, Greenall made his first steps in music by recording an ambient/downtempo album with Lee Jones (aka Hefner) that was eventually released under the name EVA by Kickin' Records in 1995. Billing himself as Fink, Greenall signed to Ninja Tune's Ntone imprint and released a pair of EPs, 1997's jungle-influenced Fink Funk and 1998's significantly more relaxed Front Side, Blunt Side. These preceded Fink's 2000 debut full-length, Fresh Produce, which continued the chilled-out trip-hop direction of Front Side. Greenall released electronic music as Sideshow, picking up the tempo a bit and leaning toward deep, dubby minimal techno. He released two Sideshow EPs on Will Saul's Simple Records before Saul and Greenall started the highly successful Aus Music label in 2006. By this point, his work as Fink had undertaken a stylistic change, largely abandoning electronics and focusing on acoustic-based blues and folk songwriting. He had also begun working with other songwriters as a producer and collaborator, writing demos with Amy Winehouse, and contributing vocals to a track by British singer/songwriter Nitin Sawhney. With the addition of Tim Thornton on drums and Guy Whittaker on bass, Fink became a band, fully transitioning into Greenall's new style of lowly lit indie songwriting with the release of Biscuits for Breakfast on Ninja Tune in 2006. Distance and Time followed in 2007, with production work from Lamb's Andy Barlow. The album included the single "This Is the Thing," which was featured in the film Dear John. In 2009, Fink released Sort of Revolution, which furthered and refined his songwriting and featured a collaboration with John Legend on "Maker." Perfect Darkness, from 2011, was produced by Billy Bush (Beck, Garbage) and garnered enough attention for Fink to be invited to perform with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. This concert was subsequently released as a live album in late 2013, and the studio album Hard Believer was released in July 2014, courtesy of Fink's Ninja Tune sublabel R'COUP'D. A collection of dubs from Horizontalism was released in May of 2015. Two Fink full-lengths appeared in 2017: the roughly hewn live Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol. 1 and the more refined Resurgam. In 2019, Greenall embarked on a solo acoustic tour and began releasing new singles ("We Watch the Stars" and "Bloom Innocent") in anticipation of an upcoming album. That album, also titled Bloom Innocent, appeared later in the year. 2021, the 15th anniversary of Biscuits for Breakfast, brought IIUII ("It Isn't Until It Is"), a re-recordings album on which the band reimagined and reshaped 12 of their best-loved songs from across the breadth of their career. Fink's version of Neu!'s "Weissensee" was released in 2022, as part of the German band's 50 box set. The limited edition release The LowSwing Sessions (2024) included acoustic covers of songs by Soundgarden, David Bowie, the Smiths, and others. Studio album Beauty in Your Wake, recorded in Cornwall with producer Sam Okell, was released in July of 2024, and reached number two on the U.K. indie chart. An acoustic version of the album was released in 2025, and Fink collaborated with Will Saul on the downtempo EP Paradise Ave. In 2026 Greenall & co. reteamed with Okell for Fink's ninth studio album, The City Is Coming to Erase It All. Recorded once again in the wild open spaces of his home county, it saw him return to the source for a set of pure organic acoustica that echoed the smooth jazz-inflected folk of '70s pioneers like Michael Chapman. - Biography by James Pearce

wed05aug8:00 pmwed11:00 pmNonameTelefone 10 Year Anniversary8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Sony Hall, 235 W 46th Street Event Organized By: Move Forward

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(Wednesday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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The observant, poetic, and down-to-earth Noname exhibits inspirations including Lauryn Hill and André 3000, but the rapper is in a lane of her own with unflappable and conversational verses offering everything from intense self-reflection and offhanded put-downs to strong Black affirmation and considered anti-capitalist thought. These qualities shade her independent full-length projects Telefone (2016), Room 25 (2018), and Sundial (2023). Two years after the release of the latter, Noname returned with "Hundred Acres," a casually celebratory track featuring a hook from Devin Morrison. The single was billed as a preview of her fourth project, Cartoon Radio. Born Fatimah Warner in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, Noname frequented open-mike nights and slam poetry competitions when she wasn't volunteering with the local YOUMedia arts program. Her audience began to widen in 2013, the year she appeared on Mick Jenkins' Trees & Truths and Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap. After she guested on Jenkins' The Waters, Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment's Surf, Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book, and Jamila Woods' HEAVN, among other releases, she made her proper debut in July 2016 with the self-issued Telefone. Three years in the making, its reflective coming-of-age tales featured productions from a strictly Chicagoan cast of Cam O'bi, Phoelix, Saba, and Monte Booker. The mixtape landed in year-end lists from numerous publications, and Coloring Book shortly thereafter won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, consequently increasing anticipation for Noname's follow-up project. Recorded during a monthlong period following touring and a move to Los Angeles, the comparatively expansive Room 25 -- with Phoelix the lone production collaborator -- arrived in September 2018 to a similarly warm reception. Nearly five years would pass before Noname's third full-length. The rapper thought about quitting music due to frustrations and other pursuits such as a book club. She went on hiatus, though in 2020 she did release the Madlib-produced "Song 33," a response to criticism from J. Cole, and vowed to direct her earnings from the track to Black mutual aid funds. In August 2023, she returned with Sundial, her third full-length. The deeply thoughtful and questioning set featured collaborations with Common, Billy Woods, Jay Electronica, and Jimetta Rose with the Voices of Creation. The Devin Morrison collaboration "Hundred Acres," her first single in four years, appeared in October 2025. - Biography by Neil Z. Yeung

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wed05aug9:00 pmwed11:59 pmBull Thieves9:00 pm - 11:59 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

thu06aug(aug 6)9:30 pmfri07(aug 7)1:00 amShemar Pierre9:30 pm - 1:00 am (7) Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

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6 (Thursday) 9:30 pm - 7 (Friday) 1:00 am

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Shemar Pierre is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, producer, composer, and visionary designer. Known for fusing electronic music, alternative hip-hop, and experimental sound textures, he crafts a dense and immersive atmosphere, oscillating between raw intensity and fragile emotion. Shemar’s musical journey began with a clear objective: to push sonic boundaries, blend melody and dissonance, and create soundscapes where every synth, every kick drum, every silence matters. Early on, he knew his voice wouldn’t come from conformity, but from a deliberate singularity. With his first five-song album, “ENIGMA.”, Shemar had to test and explore his universe before finding himself. It wasn’t until his next project, “NEXUS :: Discipline,” released on April 10, 2022, that he found a sound he liked and would stick with. From there, Pierre began working in actual studios with various producers, videographers, and photographers from all over the country to help him bring his dream to life, while they did the work they enjoyed. With the new project, Pierre said, “Now I was going to put out a body of work that would stand the test of time.” Each project he releases marks a step in a quest for identity and self-transcendence: music, images, live performances. Everything converges toward a single truth, that of an artist in constant evolution, in perpetual struggle with his demons, his dreams, his vision. This is how “ALL COWBOYS GO TO HEAVEN” was born on February 18, 2023. His minimalist and futuristic visual universe has accompanied his productions ever since, building a coherent aesthetic that is both introspective and radical. Shemar doesn’t seek the easy path. He doesn’t want to please the masses. He wants to connect with those who seek intensity, authenticity, those who are willing to lose themselves in order to find themselves. Giving birth to the album “LEATHER & FUR,” which marked another radical departure, on August 9, 2024, he continued his exploration of blended, profound sounds imbued with dark emotions. In a world saturated with noise, Shemar Pierre offers a charged silence, music as a refuge, a cry, a hope. He doesn’t follow any trends: he forges his own. Today, Shemar released “GLORY,” his new album which defies all expectations and surprises us with its undeniable brutal energy, ready to conquer the world, regardless of nationality.

fri07aug(aug 7)10:00 pmsat08(aug 8)1:00 amCharlotte de Witte10:00 pm - 1:00 am (8) Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Avenue

sat08aug6:00 pmsat10:00 pmDogs In A Pile6:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave N

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(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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The sandy shores of Asbury Park, New Jersey are hallowed ground in the Northeast; the rolling waves have ushered generations of venerated musicians to worldwide acclaim. Dogs In A Pile, an eclectic quintet, has emerged as the heir apparent to the town’s rich musical legacy. Merging funk, jazz, and rock and roll with psychedelia, the band presents a completely original vibe built on kaleidoscopic soundscapes eerily reminiscent of the days of yesteryear. The Dogs employ a unified approach to performance and songwriting, crafting aural mosaics through adept instrumentation and humble precocity. As avid storytellers, they draw inspiration from personal experiences, balancing life’s foibles with ever-present youthful sanguinity. Dogs formed when Jersey Shore native and guitar gun-slinger Jimmy Law began playing with family friend Joe Babick (drums) at a young age. Lightning struck when they were introduced to Berklee School of Music student and bass player Sam Lucid, who immediately suggested fellow Berklee student and keyboard player Jeremy Kaplan. The addition of Berklee student Brian Murray (guitar) in 2019 made for the quintessential final piece in the Dogs’ puzzle. A string of sold-out local shows drove the development of a massive Northeast fan base, affectionately known as the Dog Pound. As the band has traversed new territory, their astronomical rise has continued nationwide. Armed with an evolving catalog of material and cultivation of an identity unique to Dogs In A Pile, the quintet is laying down a musical and communal foundation most often associated with the scene’s most beloved acts.

thu13aug8:00 pmthu11:59 pmThe Lemon Twigs8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Asbury Lanes, 209 4th Avenue

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(Thursday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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As the Lemon Twigs, sons of power pop songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ronnie D'Addario, Brian and Michael D'Addario channel the '70s singer/songwriter energy of their father's era and add a healthy love of musical theater and an over-the-top performance. The brothers began writing songs at young ages and delivered their 2016 debut album, Do Hollywood, on 4AD at the tail-end of their teenage years. Success came quickly, with critical acclaim and a string of TV appearances as well as extensive touring. They evolved from the conceptual eccentricity of their 2018 sophomore album, Go to School, to a more varied but no less bombastic set of songs on their 2020 album Songs for the General Public, to the emotionally naked sentiments of their more subtle but still wildly eclectic albums like 2023's Everything Harmony and the following year's A Dream Is All We Know. Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario started the Lemon Twigs while they were still in their teens, each playing multiple instruments, counting guitar, keyboards, drums, horns, and strings among their proficiencies. The boys were raised in a musical home, sons of working musician parents. Along with an interest in theater, early musical influences like Harry Nilsson, Todd Rundgren, Wings, the Zombies, and other '60s and '70s Baroque pop figures played heavily into the band's sound at a formative time. In 2015, their earliest output arrived in the form of the cassette-only album What We Know. Significant buzz had formed around the group even then, and they signed to indie superpower 4AD, releasing their "These Words" b/w "As Long as We're Together" single in 2016 and selling the 7" mostly while on a tour supporting Carseat Headrest. Their debut album, Do Hollywood, arrived later in the year, produced by Foxygen's Jonathan Rado. The Lemon Twigs embarked on a tour in support of the album with a live version of the band that included Danny Ayala on keyboards and Megan Zeankowski on bass. They returned in September 2017 with Brothers of Destruction, a home-recorded EP written largely during the sessions for Do Hollywood featuring a handful of live staples from their touring set. In August of the next year, sophomore album Go to School arrived, a massive production conceptualized as a musical about a chimpanzee raised by human parents. The ambitious Broadway-inspired record included guest appearances by both of the D'Addario brothers' parents as well as power pop legends Todd Rundgren and Jody Stephens. In April 2020, the band returned with The Lemon Twigs LIVE, a fundraiser for Coalition for the Homeless culled from live-to-tape recordings from shows in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and California. It was followed in August by their third studio full-length, the Rado-co-produced Songs for the General Public. It spent a week on Billboard's Top Current Album Sales chart (number 61). The brothers contributed to Tim Heidecker's album Fear of Death, which saw release a month later, and over the next few years also appeared on records by Rundgren and Weyes Blood. The Twigs began work on their next album in 2020 and spent months refining their new material before resurfacing in early 2023 with the self-produced single "Corner of My Eye," the first song shared in advance of their fourth album Everything Harmony. In addition to their long-running love of glam and theatrical power pop, the band looked to the influence of both mainstream and outsider folk artists for their new set of songs, evoking Simon & Garfunkel on some tracks and Moondog on others. Everything Harmony was released in May of 2023 and was the band's first album with new label Captured Tracks. Almost exactly a year later, their next album A Dream Is All We Know was released. It was recorded immediately after the completion of Everything Harmony during a period of intense productivity and featured more string arrangements than other Twigs' albums. - Biography by Neil Z. Yeung

fri14aug6:00 pmfri9:00 pmOtis Kane6:00 pm - 9:00 pm SOBs (Sounds of Brazil), 204 Varick Street

sun16aug6:00 pmsun9:00 pmOtis Kane6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N Front Street

sun23aug6:00 pmsun10:00 pmChance The RapperColoring Book 10 Year Anniversary Tour6:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave N

fri28aug3:00 pmfri10:00 pmBleachersShadow Of The City3:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave N

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Led by Grammy-winning producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer/songwriter Jack Antonoff, Bleachers turns the sounds of '80s pop and college rock into buoyant, grandly emotional songs. Along with his work as a producer for stars such as Taylor Swift, Lorde, and Lana Del Rey, Antonoff delivers heartfelt anthems like "I Wanna Get Better," Bleachers' 2014 certified-platinum debut single. That year's debut album, Strange Desire -- which cracked the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 -- presented Bleachers' relatable synth pop in its purest form. Though Antonoff added inventive sonics to 2017's Gone Now, revisited his Jersey roots with Bruce Springsteen on 2021's Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, and looked inward on 2024's Bleachers and 2026's Everyone for Ten Minutes, Bleachers always wrapped genuine emotions in unabashedly big sounds. Antonoff began working on music for Bleachers in secret while touring in support of Fun.'s Grammy-winning album Some Nights. Drawing upon his love of '80s pop and darker college rock sounds (particularly the soundtracks of classic '80s John Hughes films like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink), he released the project's debut single, "I Wanna Get Better," in February 2014 on RCA. The song topped Billboard's Alternative Airplay and Bubbling Under Hot 100 charts and was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA. Arriving that July, Bleachers' first full-length, Strange Desire, was also a success, reaching number 11 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and number two on the Top Rock Albums chart. Featuring co-production by John Hill and Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure) and appearances by Yoko Ono and Grimes, the album also spawned two more hit singles, "Rollercoaster" and "Like a River Runs." After Strange Desire's release, Antonoff put together a live band and launched a tour that lasted through most of 2015. That September, Bleachers released Terrible Thrills, Vol. 2, which featured versions of all the songs from Strange Desire performed by female artists, including Carly Rae Jepsen, Elle King, Tinashe, and Antonoff's sister Rachel. Also in 2015, Bleachers covered the Beatles' "Dear Prudence" and made a cameo in the film Hello, My Name Is Doris as the band Baby Goya and the Nuclear Winters. Following Antonoff's work with Taylor Swift on her album Reputation and the Fifty Shades Darker song "I Don't Wanna Live Forever," Bleachers returned in June 2017 with Gone Now. Another collaboration with Clarke, the album also featured Lorde and was inspired by Antonoff's memories of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and his sister's death from cancer when he was 18. Recorded in his home studio and previewed in an art installation that replicated his childhood bedroom, Gone Now peaked at number six on the Billboard Alternative Albums chart and included the singles "I Miss Those Days" and "Don't Take the Money," which was certified gold by the RIAA. While on tour in support of the album, Bleachers performed an MTV Unplugged show at Asbury Park, New Jersey that was released as an album in November 2017. Love, Simon [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] March 2017 saw the release of the soundtrack to the film Love, Simon, to which Antonoff contributed songs as Bleachers and under his own name. One of Bleachers' songs, "Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song)," reached number 36 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay chart. In March 2019, Terrible Thrills, Vol. 3, arrived and featured versions of Gone Now's songs as performed by female artists including MUNA, Mitski, and Julien Baker. Along with Antonoff's production work for Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and the Chicks, Bleachers covered R.E.M.'s "At My Most Beautiful" and collaborated with Carly Rae Jepsen on her May 2020 single "Comeback." That November, they returned with the singles "45" and "Chinatown," a duet with Bruce Springsteen that became a Top 20 hit on Billboard's Adult Top 40 Airplay chart. Both songs were included on July 2021's Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, a more organic take on the Bleachers sound featuring production assists from Patrik Berger and St. Vincent's Annie Clark and vocals from Lana Del Rey. The album peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and also included "Stop Making This Hurt," another charting hit on the Adult Top 40 Airplay chart. In 2022, Bleachers contributed a cover of John Lennon's "Instant Karma!" to the Minions: Rise of Gru soundtrack and remixed Swift's "Anti-Hero." Following a tour with support from artists including Wolf Alice, Beabadoobee, and the Lemon Twigs, Bleachers reunited with Del Rey in early 2023 on the Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd single "Margaret," which appeared on Billboard's Hot Rock/Alternative Songs chart. After Bleachers signed to Dirty Hit, Live at Radio City Music Hall appeared in August. That year, the project became a full-fledged band, with multi-instrumentalists Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchison, Evan Smith, Michael Riddleberger, and Zem Audu completing the lineup. In September 2023, Bleachers previewed their next album with the sax-driven single "Modern Girl." Arriving in March 2024 -- shortly after Antonoff won the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical Grammy Award for the third year in a row -- the eponymous Bleachers offered a softer, more reflective sound and outlook as well as another collaboration with Del Rey, "Alma Mater." Along with hitting 62 on the Billboard 200, the album reached number five on the Top Alternative Albums chart. A reimagined version of the project's debut album, A Stranger Desired, appeared a few months later. Along with touring the U.K., U.S., Europe, and Japan, Bleachers released the holiday single "Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call," their first single to appear on the U.K. Singles Chart. A live version of the song featured on that year's From the Studio to the Stage (Live from Madison Square Garden NYC), which also featured performances by Jeff Tweedy and Carly Rae Jepsen. In 2025, Antonoff remained an in-demand producer, working with artists including Doja Cat, Sabrina Carpenter, and Kendrick Lamar. His work on the latter's "Luther" with SZA won the Record of the Year Grammy Award at the 2026 ceremony, making Antonoff one of four people to win the Grammy for Album, Record, and Song of the Year as well as Best New Artist. Bleachers' February 2026 single "You and Forever" heralded the May release of their fifth full-length Everyone for Ten Minutes. Venturing into Americana and soul influences, the album balanced joy and introspection as Antonoff reflected on marriage, friends, and family. - Biography by Heather Phares

fri28aug8:00 pmfri11:59 pmSwervedriver8:00 pm - 11:59 pm White Eagle Hall, 337 Newark Avenue Event Organized By: Brooklyn Vegan