Habibi

The 2018 Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival runs July 24 – August 12 with all manor of free music, dance and spoken word events…

Real Estate will be on tour this spring, including a just-announced run of Midwest and Northeast dates in June with Brooklyn’s Habibi…

Plus: NY Deathfest, U2, Frank Turner/Lucero/Menzingers, Wye Oak, Erasure, Jonathan Davis (Korn), Remy Ma, APTBS, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Yaeji, The Feelies, Agent Orange and more tickets on sale.

Jose James celebrating Bill Withers, The Nude Party & Insecure Men, Pop 1280, Purling Hiss/Mike Donovan, Habibi, and more Thursday show options.

This week’s playlist includes songs from Bjork, The Breeders, The Replacements, Django Django, US Girls, Guided by Voices, The Soft Moon, Angel Olsen, Tommy Keene, and more

Angel Olsen, The Hold Steady, Spoon, the all-star ‘L.A.M.F’ tribute, Beach Slang, Cannibal Corpse, Kralice, and more Wednesday show options.

Having released new album Desert Center via Suicide Squeeze back in August, Portland party punks Guantanamo Baywatch are currently on a North American tour which brought them to NYC on November 2 at Elsewhere’s Zone One (which just opened a couple days prior). For that show they were paired with two local bands known for wild live shows: Sufbort and Sloppy Jane.

The Burger Beach Bash is returning to Coney Island in a new location but with same party rock n’ roll attitude. The initial lineup includes The Zeros, Nobunny, Habibi, Sunflower Bean, Chinese post-punk band Re-TROS, Daddy Long Legs

Japanese cult band Shonen Knife — rocking from Osaka since 1981 — are currently in the US supporting their new album, Overdrive, that finds them putting a bit of ’70s glam sparkling on their signature punky pop…

Roya is a brand new Brooklyn trio with a pretty strong pedigree: singer Rahil Jamilifard fronts Habibi, drummer Hamish Kilgour is a member of legendary band The Clean (as well as NYC’s Mad Scene), and Jay Heiselmann is in Grooms (and formerly French Miami)…