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What's going on Tuesday?

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Craig Finn, Operators, Ed Askew, H. Hawkline, KeithCharles SpaceBar, and more.

Gaika releases accompanying video for Warp debut, plays NYC tonight

The genre-defying UK artist Gaika is part industrial, part dancehall, but mostly he’s impossible to pigeonhole. He released the Security mixtape earlier this year, and then signed to Warp and put out his first release for the label, Spaghetto, last month…

What's going on Thursday?

Balance & Composure/Foxing/Mercury Girls, Nicolas Jaar, Letters to Cleo, Wyclef Jean, Caspian/Appleseed Cast, Swet Shop Boys, The Good Life, Jonathan Richman, Deafheaven/Carcass/Inter Arma and more NYC-area shows tonight.

stream Jimi Tents' '5 O'Clock Shadow' LP, see him open for Vince Staples at MHOW tonight

Brooklyn rapper Jimi Tents recently released his 5 O’Clock Shadow album, a 14-track expanded version of his EP of the same name. It opens with an intro featuring Philly rapper Tunji Ige, who first caught our ear collaborating with Christine and the Queens and is a good artist in his own right, and he sounds great here …

Father, Murs, Lordz of Brooklyn, Sugarhill Gang, A$AP Rocky, Earl Sweatshirt & more upcoming NYC hip hop shows

Plenty of great hip hop shows in NYC are getting announced all the time. We don’t get a chance to write about all of them, so here’s a roundup of some recently-announced stuff coming up: Blog-hyped rapper Father plays SOB’s on Monday (7/13) with KeithCharles Spacebar, Slug Christ and Playboi…