Rich Medina

Summerstage offers more than 100 free shows at NYC parks in all five boroughs. This year’s lineup includes Broken Social Scene, Big Daddy Kane, Kool & the Gang, San Fermin, The Weather Station, Secret Circle (Lil Ugly Mane, Antwon, and Wiki ), Talib Kweli, Oshun, the Jungle Brothers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Porches, Crumb, Dej Loaf, Alice Smith, Mura Masa, Jessy Lanza, Rapsody, The Bad Plus, Angelique Kidjo and tons more.

A guide to the many, many mostly musical happenings around NYC during this New Year’s Eve weekend.

PLUS: Mulatu Astatke, Roy Ayers, Panjabi MC, “Rock Steady Crew 40th Anniversary,” and more.

Also: Margaret Glaspy, George Clinton, Main Source, KRS-One, Slick Rick, Robert Glasper, Denzel Curry, DJ Premier, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Capone-N-Noreaga, GZA, Bilal, and so much more.

The 9th annual Roots Picnic is happening this Saturday, June 4 at Festival Pier in Philly. The set times were revealed and there are a few conflicts in there of course, like Leon Bridges vs Blood Orange vs Metro Boomin, Future vs Kaytranada…

Also: McCoy Tyner, Indigo Girls, Mbongwana Star, the Rock Steady Crew anniversary, La Femme, KING, Orlando Julius, Rodrigo Amarante, Boogarins, GoldLink, and still many more.

Kamasi Washington‘s first show of 2016 was last night (2/24) at Webster Hall, a rescheduled Winter Jazzfest date which was postponed due to his suffering a broken an…

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Wilco, Bill Frisell @ Kings Theatre Wilco have been making good to great records for over two decades now, the latest being last year’s Star W…

The Roots‘ annual Roots Picnic returns to Philadelphia’s Festival Pier on June 4 this year. The lineup was just announced, and it’s great …

Brainfeeder-signed jazz musician and Kendrick Lamar/Thundercat collaborator Kamasi Washington is on tour now, and begins his two-night stay in NYC tonight (8/24) with 8 PM and 10:30 sets at the Blue Note and does it again on Tuesd…