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SummerStage has announced its 2019 lineup of over 100 free shows which happen at NYC parks in all five boroughs, including Japanese Breakfast, Big Freedia, FELA! The Concert, Young M.A, The Wailers, Parquet Courts, The Mountain Goats, Corinne Bailey Rae, Alvvays, and more.

Listen to new songs by Cate Le Bon, Foxygen, The Cranberries, The Dream Syndicate, Earth, Peter Perrett (The Only Ones), Lydia Ainsworth, Full of Hell, State Faults, Kash Doll, and more.

Holiday Hip Hop Jam (with Rakim, The LOX, Black Moon & more), another Weezer/Pixies tour, Mumford & Sons, Cat Power, and more tour and show news.

Plus: Billie Joe Armstrong’s band The Longshot, The Fratellis & Blood Red Shoes, Immersion (Colin Newman of Wire), Bodega, Collapsing Scenery, Viv Albertine, Screaming Females, ASG, Blis, and more newly-announced tours.

’Yo! MTV Raps’ is being reinvented for ” for a new generation” and the 30th anniversary show at Barclays on June 1 includes Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions, EPMD, Brand Nubian, Young Black Teenagers, and many more.

There’s also the Duck Down BBQ, Talib Kweli/OSHUN, EPMD, Jungle Brothers, Pete Rock & The Soul Brothers, a ‘Wild Style’ 35th anniversary, and more.

Summerstage offers more than 100 free shows at NYC parks in all five boroughs. This year’s lineup includes Broken Social Scene, Big Daddy Kane, Kool & the Gang, San Fermin, The Weather Station, Secret Circle (Lil Ugly Mane, Antwon, and Wiki ), Talib Kweli, Oshun, the Jungle Brothers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Porches, Crumb, Dej Loaf, Alice Smith, Mura Masa, Jessy Lanza, Rapsody, The Bad Plus, Angelique Kidjo and tons more.

The Mastercard House’s Grammy week schedule of shows includes St. Vincent, SZA, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Ghostface Killah with Raekwon, and more

Exciting rap shows happen in and around NYC all the time, but we don’t get a chance to dedicate posts to all of them. In an effort to remedy that, here’s a roundup of some recently-announced shows in the area.

N.O.R.E. headlines the Brooklyn show and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony headline the Boston show.