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North Coast Music Festival 2012 (more by James Richards IV) As discussed, North Coast Music Festival 2013 is slated to take place in Union Park from August 30 – September 1…

Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows. Here are some highlights… Literature @ South Street Seaport’s Front/Row stage (FREE) One of the most fun bands at the 2013 NYC Popfest, Philly (via Texas) band Literature play a manic brand of janglepop, with tons of energy live…

James Murphy aboard SS Coachella 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) Staying in NYC this weekend? There’s actually no shortage of things to do here, even though the weather forecast is less than ideal…

Savages at BV-CMJ 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Last month, SXSW revealed its first round of artists for their 2013 festival, which happens from March 12-17, and now they’ve revealed a second announcement with way more arti…

Osheaga 2012 wrapped up on Sunday, August 5. It was one of the few dates for Passion Pit this month after they cancelled much of their tour…

I walked onto the south field of Grant Park on Saturday just in time to catch the last couple Doomtree songs. Within that time, all four emcees (Cecil Otter, Dessa, Mike Mictlan, P…

Lollapalooza continued in Chicago’s Grant Park yesterday (8/4) after beginning one day earlier (8/3). Day 2 gave us sets from Frank Ocean, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, tUnE-yArDs, The Tallest Man on Earth, Neon Indian, Chief Keef, Bear in Heaven, Washed Out, The Weeknd, and more…

We just posted about Austra who’s coming back to North America (including 9/19 at Music Hall of Williamsburg) after a tour of Europe. She’s also one of many artists playing the 2012 Osheaga Festival in Montreal which happens August 3 – 5…

What’s better than getting a little sexy? Getting sexy for free at noon in the middle of Metrotech, BAM is guessing. That theory will be put to the test once again at the 2012 R&B Festival at Metrotech Commons, the annual, completely free and open to the public series going down throughout the summer…

ANNOUNCING LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS 42nd SEASON JULY 25-AUGUST 12, 2012 100 FREE PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS ACROSS THE PLAZAS OF LINCOLN CENTER 17 World, US and NY Debuts, Premieres and Commissions, Including: * Phil Kline’s dreamcitynine – festival-long GPS-based audio app installation plus live performance * Art meets sport this Olympics summer with Kimmo Pohjonen’s Accordion Wrestling dance theater piece featuring the accordion experimentalist and ten Finnish wrestlers Los Irreales de Ondatrópica – Quantic and Frente Cumbiero lead an intergenerational all-star gathering of Colombian musicians * Celebrated Turkish psych-folk icon, singer Selda Bagcan, highlights Istanbulive * The Bad Plus: On Sacred Ground – Re-envisioning Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring * Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – German minimal techno group’s chamber orchestra * Polyglot Theatre’s Tangle – site-specific, audience-created installation and kids’ “play space” AND…