Innov Gnawa

Bonobo’s new EP includes the album version and an analog version of “Bambro Koya Ganda” (ft. Innov Gnawa) off this year’s Migration, plus a previously unreleased song.

Park Slope venue Barbes just celebrated its 15th birthday, and continues to bring live music — from tropicalia and Slavic soul, to jazz, afrobeat, and more — seven nights a week. Barbes has been struggling to stay open, though, in the current, never-ending NYC real estate boom…

This year’s free BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival shows in Prospect Park also include Youssou N’Dour, Polica, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Weyes Blood, Moses Sumney, Esperanza Spalding, Lisa Loeb, The Soul Rebels with Talib Kweli, and more.

Bonobo is on tour now and he’s in the midst of a NYC run, having played Coachella the last two weekends. Last night (4/27), he played Terminal 5, backed by a wind section, two vocalists, and Moroccan troop Innov Gnawa…

Brooklyn Gnawa group Innov Gnawa open both of Bonobo’s Terminal 5 shows and appear on his song “Bambro Koyo Ganda,” which just got the video treatment.

The 2017 edition of the Bang on a Can Marathon, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, will take place at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, May 6, from 2 to 10 PM.

The BRIC House Sessions “will explore a wide array of genres – like a playlist come to life – with musicians who are pushing music forward in extraordinary and inventive ways.”

Today’s main event is the Women’s March in DC; and NYC shows include Heems, Tokyo Police Club, D.R.A.M., Dashboard Confessional, TV Girl, and more.

Producer and polymath Dave Harrington is once again throwing his Holiday Spectacular in NYC this year, joined by many prominent indie musicians. The third annual show goes down at Brooklyn Bowl on December 18, and the guest list includes Alex Frankel (Holy Ghost), Anand Wilder (Yeasayer), Chris Tomson (Vampire Weekend), Jen Goma (A Sunny Day […]