BUIKA

Plus: Big Freedia, Corinne Bailey Rae, Philippe Zdar, Buika, The Wailers, Junior Reid, La India and more free SummerStage at Central Park shows.

SummerStage has announced its 2019 lineup of over 100 free shows which happen at NYC parks in all five boroughs, including Japanese Breakfast, Big Freedia, FELA! The Concert, Young M.A, The Wailers, Parquet Courts, The Mountain Goats, Corinne Bailey Rae, Alvvays, and more.

The lineup also includes Terence Blanchard, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sons of Kemet, Sun Ra Arkestra, Mayaka McCraven, and much more.

Sony Hall, the new Times Square area venue that's being booked by Blue Note, opens on Tuesday (3/27) with a party headlined by MGMT. The venue has just announced it's initial schedule...

The annual, multi-venue NYC festival also includes Sun Ra Arkestra, Dave Harrington's Merry Pranksters, Ravi Coltrane paying tribute to Alice Coltrane, Rafiq Bhatia, Red Baraat, and more.

The indoor, ticketed lineup for the 38th Montreal International Jazz Festival also includes Buddy Guy, Joey Bada$$, Robert Glasper, Tanya Tagaq, Xenia Rubinos, and many more.

Andrew Bird in Chicago in 2012 (more by Sara Pieper) NYC's Summerstage 2014 schedule was just announced and as always it features a number of free and not-free "benefit" shows in Central Park...

NPR Music posted their 50 Favorite Albums of 2013, and as usual it included a lot of classical, jazz, world music, but also many of the indie/pop/rap/metal that shows up on these lists like Bill Callahan, Blood Orange, Chance the Rapper, Deafheaven, Flaming Lips, Haim, James Blake, Kanye West, Laura Marling, Run the Jewels, Sky Ferreira, Waxahatchee and more...

If on you're way out of the subway in late July you happen to notice a busker that looks a helluva lot like Billy Bragg surrounded by an army of other guitar-weilding maniacs, don't be alarmed...