Ava Mendoza

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Helado Negro, Testament, Eyehategod, Dave, and more.

Wednesday's NYC-area shows include Phish, Wilco, Kowloon Walled City, Fruit Bats, Adia Victoria, Mild High Club, and more.

Plus: Modern Nature's Jack Cooper tell us about his favorite albums of 2021.

The second in Can's live album series, ‘Live in Brighton 1975‘ will be out in December via Mute.

Today's NYC-area shows include Sea.Hear.Now fest, Antibalas, Trombone Short & Orleans Avenue, TLC, keiyaA, and more

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 nervous systems, our realities, and the evolving forms of media that inevitably insert themselves between the two.

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