Cynthia Kaplan

What's going on Wednesday? (Willie Nelson, Motley Crue, Hum, Roy Ayers, Pharmakon, Cherry Glazerr, 1994! & more)

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Willie Nelson, Old Crow Medicine Show @ Prospect Park It’s a little sad Brooklyn isn’t getting Waylon Jennings, who has been Willie’s tourmate for much of the summer, but a chance to see him and hear his catalog of classic in the idylic splendour that is Prospect Park is pretty good on its own…

Craig Finn lists his top 10 albums of 2012, appearing at 'Soundtrack Series' at LPR (and New Year's Eve in NJ)

Craig Finn w/ The Hold Steady in NYC in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Listen to the references he makes in his lyrics or read an interview with him and you know that Craig Finn (of The Hold Steady) has a wide range of taste, and that isn’t lost on his list of the top ten records of 2012, which bounces from underground rapper El-P to folk legend Bill Fay to non-stop rockers Japandroids…

"Tower Records demise leaves indie labels in lurch"

Touring — and selling records at venue merchandise tables — also now becomes an increasingly important part of the sales mix. “We won’t sign an artist now who won’t sell actively and aggressively off the bandstand,” Iglauer said…