Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Thursday, October 22, 2026.
The Damned’s Final Damnation 50 bill pairs the British punk originals with Flamin’ Groovies and the Courettes, a three-generation guitar night at Brooklyn Steel.
Beck’s Ride Lonesome Tour reaches Brooklyn Paramount for one of two local dates, bringing the songwriter’s restless mix of acoustic turns and studio-built pop into a theater-sized show.
MoMA PS1 keeps the galleries open late for School Nite, with perreo-pop singer Isabella Lovestory, dance-pop duo B0YG1RL and NYC producer ali rq.
Symphony Space screens Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels in the Broadway on Screen series, a chance to catch the play’s sharp farce through a filmed performance.
Unsound’s free atrium show pairs experimental sound artists claire rousay and Martyna Basta with Keith “Giant Claw” Rankin and Julek Ploski for U.S.-debut collaborations.
CPR’s Open Studios brings Sol Cabrini, Bao Nguyen and Karwaan Kotwal together in an evening curated by Anh Vo, moving between performance and the incommensurable.
The Moth Mainstage brings a full evening of live storytelling to Symphony Space, where unrehearsed personal narratives get the larger theater treatment.
Fred Hersch leads a five-piece band with Tony Malaby, Ralph Alessi, Drew Gress and Joe Dyson through a six-night Village Vanguard engagement.
Built to Spill bring their long-running guitar-pop catalog to Music Hall of Williamsburg for an 18-plus Brooklyn show, where the band’s patient songs can open up at concert volume.
Caveat’s ninth annual Halloween puppet slam gathers hand, string, shadow, mechanical and mask puppetry for a 9:30 p.m. late-night variety show.