Warm Up 2025 to Feature MikeQ, John Glacier, Sarz, Ok Williams, Special Request, DJ Stingray 313, and Many More

Warm Up. 2024. Photo: Ryan Muir

Six Fridays in July and August

Warm Up, MoMA PS1’s signature music series, returns for its 27th season this summer with DJ sets and live performances from 4 to 10 p.m. on six Friday evenings in July and August. This season’s lineup charts origin points for innovations in electronic music, celebrating new sounds from scenes in New York City and around the world, including opening-date headliner MikeQ, a Ballroom music icon who returns to the stage following performances in 2017 and 2012; Hackney-born rapper, poet, and producer John Glacier; Nigerian Alté innovator Sarz; Breakbeat stalwart Special Request; improvisational spoken word and bass collaborators Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez; influential club duo Nguzunguzu; rising London party-starter OK Williams; Godfather of Memphis Rap DJ Spanish Fly; dystopian Darkwave producer Marie Davidson;; and Detroit techno legend DJ Stingray 313. The complete lineup follows below. Advance tickets are now available for all dates, as well as a season pass offering admission to all dates, available for a limited time only.

Each date features four distinct sets that build from sonic experimentation to dancefloor breakbeats. The series brings together art, music, and nightlife communities, with performances in PS1’s open-air courtyard on a set designed by New York City-based artist and musician Jeffrey Joyal. Attendees are encouraged to visit the museum galleries and experience the full slate of PS1’s exhibitions, in addition to Yto Barrada’s monumental installation Le Grand Soir, which serves as a setting for the series.

A group of leading cultural practitioners linked to the city’s sound, music, and nightlife scenes serve as this year’s host committee: Enyonam Afi Amexo (Dweller), Kay Gabriel (The Poetry Project), Maggie Lee (artist), Ser Serpas (artist, The Gatherers), and Gage Spex (The Spectrum).

Since 1998, Warm Up has presented experimental and avant-garde music that forms an integral part of PS1’s multidisciplinary programming across under-known subcultures, scenes, and communities. A groundbreaking and influential series that amplifies emerging, underground, and legendary performers alike, Warm Up has presented renowned DJs and producers such as Honey Dijon, SOPHIE, DJ Spooky, Yasunao Tone, Easyfun, Arca, and Crystallmess. Today, the legendary summer program foregrounds international and diasporic perspectives within emergent generations of experimental and club music. Building on the growing resurgence of night-life genres, the series also serves to recontextualize historic figures and regional sounds for new audiences. Warm Up offers an environment for unique encounters between local and international art and music audiences, at an all-ages hour within the setting of a premiere cultural institution.

Warm Up 2025 is organized by Kari Rittenbach, Assistant Curator, and Nick Scavo, Senior Project Manager, Music, Performance, and Events, with Sheldon Gooch, Curatorial Assistant.

SUPPORT

Support for Warm Up 2025 is provided by the Daniel Graham and Mieko Graham Foundation.

LINEUP

• July 18

MikeQ / Qween Beat / New Jersey

DJ Empress / Empower Recordings / New York

Alex Zhang Hungtai / New York & Tashi Dorji / Drag City / Asheville

LYDO / Futura Artists / New York

• July 25

Sarz / UnitedMasters / Benin City

DJ Q / Huddersfield

John Glacier / Young / London

Tati au Miel / Montreal

• August 1

Eric D. Clark / Whirlpool Productions, SUBCURRENT MEDiA™, reboot.fm, Cashmere Radio / Berlin

OK Williams / NTS Radio / London

DJ Spanish Fly / Memphis

Masaaki / New York

• August 8

Marie Davidson (DJ set) / DEEWEE / Montreal

LOKA / Discwoman / New York

Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez / TAO Forms, Reading Group / New York

Concrete Husband / White Owl Records / Brooklyn

• August 15

Special Request / UK

Nguzunguzu / Los Angeles

Authentically Plastic / Nyege Nyege Tapes / London and Kampala

NEW YORK / Estonia & US

• August 22

DJ Stingray 313 / Berlin

DJ Travella / Nyege Nyege Tapes / Dar es Salaam

Natural Wonder Beauty Concept / Mexican Summer / New York

xexexe\halfpet / Charlot Abhors A Void / New York

ADMISSION

Tickets

$25 Advance Admission; $30 Day-Of Admission

$20 Advance Student/MoMA Member; $25 Day-Of Student/MoMA Member

For discounted admission to all six Warm Up 2025 dates, a season pass is available for $95. All tickets may be reserved at momaps1.org/warmup.

Free Tickets for the Community

Long Island City residents with proof of residency in ZIP codes 11101, 11106, 11109 receive one complimentary ticket per event on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that a limited number of tickets are reserved for local residents at each Warm Up event.

ABOUT MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1 champions art and artists at the intersection of the social, cultural, and political issues of our time. Providing audiences with the agency to ask questions, access to knowledge, and a forum for public debate, PS1 has offered insight into artists’ diverse worldviews for more than 40 years. Founded in 1976, the institution was a defining force in the alternative space movement in New York City, transforming a nineteenth century public schoolhouse in Long Island City into a site for artistic experimentation and creativity. PS1 has been a member of New York City’s Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) since 1982 and affiliated with The Museum of Modern Art since 2000.

Directions: MoMA PS1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Ave in Long Island City, Queens, across the Queensboro Bridge from midtown Manhattan. Traveling by subway, take the E, M, or 7 to Court Sq; or the G to Court Sq or 21 St Van Alst. By bus, take the Q67 to Jackson and 46th Ave or the B62 to 46th Ave.

Information: For general inquiries, call (718) 784-2084 or visit moma.org/ps1.