Start June with Great Live Music

With the start of June, outdoor concerts have become plentiful. This weekend alone, enjoy the breezes and sunsets while rocking to Young the Giant, Milky Chance, Hippo Campus, Gus Dapperton, Indigo Girls, Larkin Poe, Lane 8, Chaka Khan, Resistance Resistance Revival Chorus, the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Dracu-Las, the Dave Kolker Band, Faith NYC, Four Track and many more performances. Live music also may pop up unannounced in many local parks and public spaces.

Young the Giant, pictured above at Forest Hills Stadium in 2019, will headline at the Rooftop at Pier 17 this Saturday and Sunday evenings

The Manhattan Beat regularly lists the best live music events coming to the New York City area. The twice-weekly guide also celebrates via photographs some of the musicians who have performed locally in the past few days.

Everynight Charley recommends nearly 100 concerts, both outdoor and indoor, in the New York City area this weekend. Contact the venue or the artists' social media to confirm ticket availability, show times, age requirements, COVID compliance, and other updates.

Rival Sons headlined at the Palladium Times Square on June 1

The Record Company at Palladium Times Square on June 1

Starcrawler at Palladium Times Square on June 1

Bloc Party at Brooklyn Steel on May 28 (photograph by Francesco Marano)

Friday, June 2

• Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden

• Big Time Rush at Rockefeller Plaza

• Barry Manilow at Radio City Music Hall

• The Sisters of Mercy, A Primitive Evolution at the Kings Theatre

• George Benson at New Jersey Performing Arts Center

• Natalie Merchant at Alice Tully Hall

• Ice T, Black Sheep, Tony Touch, Statik Selektah, Tony Moxberg, Lil Dee, Home & Abroad, Xavr at 7 Scott Avenue

• Sauti Sol, Eddy Kenzo, King Kaka at Irving Plaza

• Fenne Lily, Christian Lee Hutson, Why Bonnie at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

• DREAMERS, Robert Delong, CARR at the Hall at Elsewhere

• JAMALA at Racket NYC

• Nels Cline (Consentrik Quartet), Ingrid Laubrock, Chris Lightcap, Tom Rainey at le Poisson Rouge

• Juan MacLean, JDH, Equivel, Timo Lee at the Good Room

• Mason Jennings at the Loft at City Winery

• 79.5, Psymon Sine, lovetempo at Brooklyn Made

• Badflower at White Eagle Hall

• Beach Fossils at TV Eye

• Resistance Revival Chorus at Hudson River Park, Pier 45

• Fly Anakin, Yungmorpheus at Public Records

• Semaphore at Windjammer

• Portair at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3

• Ms. Lisa Fischer at Sony Hall

• Ghost Note at the Blue Note

• The Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra at Bryant Park

• The National Reserve at Skinny Dennis

• Niall Connolly at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

• Spanglish Fly at Barbès

• The Azures at the Cutting Room

• The Dracu-Las, Sean K. Preston, Ratas En Zelo at Maker Park Radio

• Danny's Devils Blues, Jezo & the Element, Lilith's Army, the Last Throes, Lani Ford at Parkside Lounge

• New Moon Acoustic Blues at Stitch Bar & Blues

• Paris Monster at Nublu

• Galdort Gumbo & the Righteous Cats at the Bitter End

• Adam Najemian at Pete's Candy Store

Graham Parker at City Winery NYC on May 31 (photograph by Henry Laura)

Tatiana DeMaria at Mercury Lounge on May 30

Johnny Burgos at Mercury Lounge on May 30

Screwbawl at Otto's Shrunken Head on May 26

Saturday, June 3

• Barry Manilow at Radio City Music Hall

• Lane 8, Sultan + Shepard, Jerro, Massane, Ocula at Forest Hills Stadium

• SG Lewis at Elsewhere

• Young the Giant, Milky Chance, TALK at the Rooftop at Pier 17

• Chaka Khan at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park

• Hippo Campus, Gus Dapperton at SummerStage Central Park

• Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, John Scofield, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride at the Town Hall

• Natalie Merchant at Alice Tully Hall

• Hot Chip at the Knockdown Center

• Air Supply at Palladium Times Square

• Dark Angel, Prong, Whiplash, Ready for Death at Irving Plaza

• Pissed Jeans, Carnivorous Bells, Shop Talk at le Poisson Rouge

• Dreamer Isioma, Amindi at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

• Cracker at City Winery NYC

• The Album Leaf, Time Wharp, Raays at Brooklyn Made

• Avery Sunshine at Sony Hall

• Ghost Note at the Blue Note

• Grandson, K. Flay, Jack Kays at Webster Hall

• Livingston Taylor at the Iridium

• corook, Olivia Barton at Baby's All Right

• Purr at Union Pool

• Bitchin Bajas at the Church of the Heavenly Rest

• Baby Shakes, Natalie Sweet, the Josephine Network, the Out-Sect, the High Kinks, Civil Rats, Sweat, the Dracu-Las, the Wanderers at TV Eye

• The Bloody Muffs, Cryo Child, the South Side Choir Boys, My Beautiful Eyes at Parkside Lounge

• Ivy Sole, the Dragon Sisters, Sir Babygirl, New York City's Gay Men's Chorus, Huda Asfour at Brooklyn Museum

• The Supertones, Strange but Surf, the TarantinosNYC, Agent Octopus, the Vivisectors, Commercial Interruption at Otto's Shrunken Head

• Nervous Triggers, the Revelatours, Early Riser, Goddamn Wrecks at Maker Park

• Allen Gogarty, the Afro-Latineers, Jennah Vox at the New York Hall of Science

• The Dave Kolker Band, the Vigilantes, Momentum, Faith NYC at El Sol Brillante Garden

• The Michael Hill Trio at Terra Blues

• The T Blues Band w. Bobby Bryan & Kelton Cooper at Terra Blues

• Walter Steding, Puma Perl, Stewart Meyer at Howl! Happening

• Kolker at the Bitter End

• Rew Starr at Silvana

SoulCake at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1, on May 27

Mark Ciani at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2, on May 28

Leni Black at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1, on May 28

Callum Jenkins at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1, on May 30

Sunday, June 4

• Barry Manilow at Radio City Music Hall

• Young the Giant, Milky Chance, TALK at the Rooftop at Pier 17

• Indigo Girls, Larkin Poe at SummerStage, Central Park

• Angela Aguilar at the Beacon Theatre

• Logic, Juicy J at the Hammerstein Ballroom

• Sunset Rollercoaster at Knockdown Center

• Kevin Barnes, Starla Online at le Poisson Rouge

• Bruce Cockburn, Dar Williams at City Winery NYC

• Ghost Note at the Blue Note

• Bang Yong Guk at Irving Plaza

• Braids, Rafiq Bhatia at Racket NYC

• Janaka Stucky at the Irondale Theatre

• Stéphane Wrembel at Barbès

• Griffin House at the Cutting Room

• Poison Ruin, the Smarthearts at Union Pool

• Hubby Jenkins (acoustic) at Terra Blues

• The Pioneers at Terra Blues

• Maul, Brat at the Kingsland

• The Shivers, Morgan Weidinger, Joe Kaplow, Habe at Mercury Lounge

• Control the Sound, Moderate Rock at Cafe Wha?

• Trash Island, Drip 2.0, Guitarmy of One, the Band of Others, the VistaCruisers at Otto's Shrunken Head

• The Lookout Honeys, Ward Hill Boys, Kerbivore, High Chiefs at Maker Park

• Mel Machete, Killer Kin, Vixen 77, Soraia, Revelatours, Loretta, Tits Dick Ass, Wifeknife, Not All Heroes at TV Eye

• Alexander Wren, Wolf van Elfmand, Kid Lake at the Bowery Electric

• Robinson & Rohe at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

• Chris Luquette & Nashville East at Skinny Dennis

• Bridget St. John & David Nagler at the Bitter End

• Puma, Joe & Dave at Lucky

• The Irish Seisiun at the 11th St. Bar

• Maidin at Book Club

• Four Track at Morton Street between Hudson Street and Seventh Avenue

The Phil Gammage Quartet at Cowgirl Seahorse on May 29 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

The Sidney Green Street Band at Stitch Bar & Blues on May 26 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Deerfrance at Lucky on May 28

Magic Forest at Tompkins Square Park on May 28

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The Manhattan Beat covers New York City's live music circuit. All articles are written by Everynight Charley Crespo. All photographs are taken by Everynight Charley Crespo, except when noted otherwise.

For a list of Manhattan venues that are presenting live music regularly, swing the desktop cursor to the right of the home page and click on the pop-up tab "Where to Find Live Music."

For a listing of upcoming performances for live audiences, visit The Manhattan Beat's June calendar.