40 New Songs Out Today
Listen to new songs by SASAMI (ft J Mascis & Ty Segall), Pianos Become the Teeth, Moor Mother, The Sadies, Laura Veirs, Sam Prekop & John McEntire, Jesca Hoop, Elf Power, Arlo McKinley, and more...
Blue Note
Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock & Common joined Robert Glasper at Blue Note (watch)
Robert Glasper helped reopen NYC's Blue Note Jazz Club with a series of shows which features some very special guests.
SummerStage 2021 lineup (Patti Smith, Armand Hammer & The Alchemist, Questlove, more)
SummerStage returns for its 2021 season in June with free shows and ticketed benefit shows in Central Park, Marcus Garvey Park, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, and The Coney Island Amphitheate
15 Great Jazz Albums of 2020
Though jazz never went away, the past few years have seen a serious jazz renaissance that continues to grow and intersect with hip hop, electronic music, and more. Here are 15 of this year's jazz albums that we strongly recommend...
NYC’s Blue Note jazz club reopening for dining with “incidental music”
Providing incidental music during Blue Note's holiday season dining will be Eddie Palmieri, Bill Charlap, Maurice “Mobetta” Brown, Keyon Harrold, Marcus Strickland, Kenny Washington, James Burton, and more.
Skinny Pelembe turns psychedelia, jazz, electronic & more into a sound of his own
The up and coming, UK-via-South Africa musician has a trippy, genre-blurring sound that's both accessible and genuinely original.
Stream ‘Blue Note Re:Imagined’ ft. Jorja Smith, Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Ezra Collective, more
Jorja Smith's contribution comes with a video that she calls “a tribute to all the people who have paved the way for Black empowerment and freedom.”
150+ NYC clubs form the NY Independent Venue Association to help survive COVID-19
Bowery Ballroom, United Palace, Town Hall, Baby's All Right, Elsewhere, City Winery, Le Poisson Rouge, Saint Vitus, Joe's Pub and Union Pool are just a few of the NYC venues part of NYIVA which seeks aid for independent venues that have been closed during COVID-19.
Robert Glasper wrapped up Blue Note residency with R+R=NOW (review)
Robert Glasper wrapped up his Blue Note residency with his latest project, R+R=NOW (Glasper, Terrace Martin, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Taylor McFerrin, Derrick Hodge, Justin Tyson), and they brought out Taylor's father, a cappella legend Bobby McFerrin...
new Times Square venue Sony Hall opening this spring (MGMT playing Grand Opening)
Sony Hall is a new, medium-sized venue in Times Square, located at 235 W. 46th St at the Paramount Hotel. It was formerly the Diamond Horseshoe and home to off-Broadway show "Queen of the Night." The venue, which is owned, operated and programmed by Blue Note, has a capacity of 500 sitting and 1000 standing...and this month's grand opening features a performance by MGMT.