Kavinsky

Friday’s NYC-area shows include HEALTH, Tierra Whack, bar italia, Hamilton Leithauser, Phil Lesh, Mom Jeans, María José Llergo, Twin Shadow, and more.

‘Darker Waves‘ happens November 18 in Huntington Beach, CA, and also has Devo, OMD, The Psychedelic Furs, Violent Femmes, The Human League, The Chameleons, The English Beat, X, Xymox, and more.

The “alternative dance music festival” returns to San Francisco for a second year and the lineup also includes Hot Chip, Thundercat, SBTRKT, Jon Hopkins, Little Dragon, 2ManyDJs, Todd Terje, and lots more.

Jacob Bannon, Nate Newton, Kurt Ballou, and Ben Koller all share their favorite albums of the year with us.

Listen to new songs from Liam Gallagher & Dave Grohl, Kavinsky, METZ, Kae Tempest, Kreator, Conway the Machine, Nicki Minaj & Lil Baby, RZA, King Von, $NOT & A$AP Rocky, YG (ft. J Cole & Moneybagg Yo), and more…

Listen to new songs by 100 gecs, Saba, Kaytranada, WILLOW/Kid Cudi, Morray/Benny the Butcher, EST Gee, Big Boi & Sleepy Brown, The Cribs, Ted Leo, My Brightest Diamond, Kavinsky, Urge Overkill, and more…

Still no word on a release date for Chromatics’ ‘Dear Tommy’ though.

After spending three days shooting portraits and other SoundWave tent activities for us at Lollapalooza in Chicago, BrooklynVegan photographer Dominick Mastrangelo took off to Finland for this year’s Flow Festival…

Destroyer @ Webster Hall, 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Love Inks @ Mohawk, Austin, 2012 (more by Tim Griffin) Browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows…

Tickets for the Kim Gordon benefit at Issue Project Room are on sale today. Tickets to see the Pixies shows at Capitol Theatre and NJPAC go on sale today at 10 AM…