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Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré, mewithoutYou, Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, Homeboy Sandman, and more.

Saturday's NYC-area shows include Wilco, Big Thief, Lyricist Lounge 30th Anniversary Celebration, The Zombies, Tim Heidecker, Lee Fields, and more.

Plus: Yacht Rock Review, The Art of Rap (Ice-T, CL Smooth, more), Khruangbin, Tori Amos, Converge & Chelsea Wolfe, Blondie & The Damned, Wet Leg, Wolf Alice, and more tour and festival news.

Here's how to get tickets to the Central Park ”mega-concert,” plus the four hip-hop shows leading up to it in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

The lineup for ”It's Time for Hip Hop in NYC,” a series of four free shows leading up to the Central Park ”mega concert” happening in August, is here.

Plus: Algiers, Anna of the North, Beach Bunny, Poison Idea, DaBaby, and more NYC-area shows on sale.

It's the unofficial start of summer and we've got some suggestions for musical stuff to see this long holiday weekend in NYC.

Plus: Live From Here With Chris Thile, Baby Dee and more tour news.

The free 2017 Bushwick Collective Block Party has free face painting for kids, graffiti and street art, food trucks, a Modelo beer garden, and live music with a lineup that's heavy on veteran New York rappers.

There's also a new Nas and Erykah Badu song.