Ava Mendoza

NYC's Vision Festival returns in 2021, happening July 22-31 with performances by Lifetime Achievement recipient Amina Claudine Myers, plus a Milford Graves tribute, Nicole Mitchell, James Blood Ulmer, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Ava Mendoza and more.

Mike Watt, Mike Baggetta and Stephen Modges' "post-genre power trio" mssv are part of this year's Big Ears lineup and will tour the U.S. this spring around the festival...

Shellshag say they're only playing three shows this year, and then will be busy working on two new albums...

Cut-and-paste sonic social critics / pranksters Negativland are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year and will release new album True False on October 25. It's the first of two interconnected albums, and "tackles concerns that will be familiar to any surviving fans of the band: our …

The Union Pool show promises ”CAN classics, as well as new and unrecorded music, and samplings of what's yet to come.”

An all-star cast of indie rock musicians will come together for a free performance of the 2011 piece, including Paul Banks, Lenny Kaye, Angel Deradoorian, Andrew Wyatt, Sarah Lipstate and more.

Tonight's NYC-area shows include KISS, Spiral Stairs, Billy Idol, DAWN, KTL, Child Abuse, Lucifer, and more.

Lyrically, Chuck Stern says the album is about ”exile and abandonment... It is a story about certain people in my life moving on without me: the death of my father, a terrible breakup with a girlfriend, Obama's departure.”

Also: Arctic Monkeys, Beyonce & Jay Z, Paul Simon, Sam Smith, Alice In Chains, Alice Cooper, Violent Femmes, Joe Jackson, Pussy Riot, The Voidz, and more newly-announced tours.

The festival begins this Thursday (5/18) and runs through June 8, also including Marc Ribot, Steve Gunn, Gyan Riley, Trixie Whitley, Ava Mendoza, Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya, and more.