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‘Become an Island’ is out in June and is the NYC band’s first in nearly a decade.

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Afropunk Festival @ Commodore Barry Park It’s the second day of the awesome multi-genre two-day Afropunk Festival, and there’s a ton of great artists today including Gary Clark Jr, Kele, Thundercat, Kaytranada, Kelela, Goldlink, Curtis Harding, Petite Noir, and plenty more…

Onetime Swell Maps and Television Personalities member Jowe Head released Confessions from the Twisted Tower last year. The album’s somewhere between the postpunk bands he’s known for and proggy English folk, and can be streamed via Rdio below…

Braids @ BVSXSW 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Oneohtrix Point Never @ Webster Hall, June 2012 (more by Bryan Bruchman) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…

Head is probably best-known for his time as bassist in Swell Maps where he wrote two of the band’s catchiest songs, “Harmony in Your Bathroom” and the great “Cake Shop Girl” which did indeed inspire the name of the Ludlow St…

Joe Fiorentino, a longterm member of the NYC underground music community who played bass in Artanker Convoy, as well as with James Murphy, Daughter, and more passed away unexpectedly November 15…

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