Albert Hammond Jr.

The Get Up Kids are wrapping up the year with a BrooklynVegan-presented two-night stand on 12/30 and New Year’s Eve.

UK jazz keyboardist Kamaal Williams had a deserved breakthrough as one half of Yussef Kamaal with 2016’s ‘Black Focus,’ which blended early ’70s jazz-funk fusion with modern-day hip hop and electronic music. He followed that this year with his solo debut ‘The Return,’ which picks up right where ‘Black Focus’ left off…

If you’re not going to Voodoo Music + Arts Experience this weekend in New Orleans, you can stream many of the performance live… but not Childish Gambino who dropped off the lineup (Travis Scott replaces him).

Plus: Sarah Davachi, Cautious Clay, Royal Trux, OCS, Steve Gunn, and more tour news.

The California festival also includes Kali Uchis, Mac DeMarco, Toro y Moi, Devendra Banhart, BadBadNotGood, Ronnie Spector & the Ronettes, and more.

The lineup also includes Mumford & Sons, Marilyn Manson, Janelle Monae and more.

The just-released Francis Trouble is arguably the best solo record Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has made since his first. It sounds like he’s having fun on this one and he was certainly having fun when his tour hit Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday (3/28)). Part of that could be that Hinds, who were his tourmates up until just a couple shows ago, were watching and dancing from the side of the stage

The Belgian festival takes place from July 5-8 at Festivalpark Werchter, and the lineup also includes Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Killers, Pearl Jam, London Grammar, Nine Inch Nails, Fleet Foxes, At The Drive In, David Byrne, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, MGMT, Fever Ray and more.

Albert’s tour includes dates with The Killers and Franz Ferdinand. His new album, Francis Trouble, is out March 9.

New additions also include Buck Meek (of Big Thief), Field Report, American Sharks, OG Maco, White Fang, and more.