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BAM’s annual summer R&B Festival which happens Thursdays at noon – 2 PM at MetroTech Commons at MetroTech Center from June 4 – August 6 (corner of Flatbush and Myrtle Aves in Brooklyn)…

RadioLoveFest returns for a second year at BAM from May 5 – 10, reimagining some of your favorite radio programs as a live show. This year’s highlights include science show Radiolab Live (5/5), “An Evening with Terry Gross” (5/6), “Don’t Look Back: Stories from the Teenage Years” (5/6) which is hosted, quiz show “Wait Wait…

Like last year, the 2015 Red Bull Music Academy will host a two-night tribute concert at BAM. Last year was William Onyeabor, and this year they’ll be paying tribute to the late, great Arthur Russell whose music spanned folk, classical, dance and areas in between…

With the most recent run of David Byrne‘s Here Lies Love now in the past, David Byrne has just announced his next high-concept project which is on an even bigger scale…

Sufjan Stevens at Prospect Park in 2011 (more by Jessica Amaya) Sufjan Stevens will be presenting the world premiere of his new piece, Round-Up, in Brooklyn at BAM from January 20-25, part of BAM’s 2015 Winter/Spring Sea…

We posted this when it was first announced, but here’s a reminder about the three day event happening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend (11/6-11/8):Part of 2014 Next Wave Festival The Andy Warhol Museum and Dean Wareham Featuring live performances by: Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) Eleanor Friedberger (The Fiery Furnaces) Martin Rev (Suicide) Tom Verlaine (Television) Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna) The films of Andy Warhol are provocative milestones of underground cinema, flaunting convention simply by letting the gritty world be itself…

Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifts released their new album lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar earlier this month and just brought their tour to the NYC-area for three dates…

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced:Bestsellers, trend-setters, celebrities, visual wizards, and story-tellers converge at BAM in three wide-ranging, one-night-only events in the winter of 2015…

There were no speeches, or stagy hugs, or arms lifted in reconciliation. Not even a handshake. Still, on Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, two pioneers of Minimalism, the composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich, both 77, put aside a personal and professional feud that lasted more than 40 years and, for the first time since the early ’70s, performed together as they had in their early days so often and so momentously…

Sam Amidon at SXSW 2011 (more by Tim Griffin) Sam Amidon is releasing a new album of re-imagined folk songs, Lily-O, on September 30 via Nonesuch…