Tyler the Creator has two nights left in his 6-show NYC-area arena run, but he’s playing a seventh NYC show TONIGHT. Like he did in Los Angeles, where he played a last minute intimate show to preview his surprise new album Don’t Tap The Glass, he’s announced a comparatively intimate NYC show, at Under the K Bridge on Wednesday (7/23). Like in LA, the announcement reads, “DON’T COME IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO DANCE.” Tickets go on sale 12 PM ET.
Along with the album, Tyler had shared a statement encouraging people to dance:
I asked some friends why they don’t dance in public and some said because of the fear of being filmed. I thought damn, a natural form of expression and a certain connection they have with music is now a ghost. It made me wonder how much of our human spirit got killed because of the fear of being a meme, all for having a good time. I just got back from a ‘listening party’ for this album and man was it one of the greatest nights of my life. 300 people. No phones allowed. No cameras. Just speakers and a sweatbox. Everyone was dancing, moving, expressing, sweating. It was truly beautiful. I played the album front to back twice, it felt like that pent up energy finally got released and we craved the idea of letting more of it out. There was a freedom that filled the room. A ball of energy that might not translate to every speaker that plays this album but man did that room nail it. This album was not made for sitting still. Dancing driving running any type of movement is recommended to maybe understand the spirit of it. Only at full volume.
Read our review of Don’t Tap the Glass HERE.
Tyler’s other two remaining NYC-area shows are at Newark’s Prudential Center on July 27 and 28.