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This week's Notable Releases include cathartic punk comebacks from Strike Anywhere and The Lawrence Arms, the long-awaited Jarvis Cocker, the long-awaited Blu & Exile, Nicolas Jaar's second proper LP of 2020, and more...

Thursday options include Sudan Archives, Wire, the New Colossus Festival, Leon Bridges and more at Love Rocks NYC, RDGLDGRN, Jaimie Branch, KRS-One, The Murder Capital, Sorry, and more.

Listen to new songs by Free Throw, Ratso ft. Nick Cave, Ibibio Sound Machine, O.R.k ft. Serj Tankian, Nas, Many Rooms, EarthGang ft. Young Thug, and more.

Plus: Scranton's Peach Music Festival lineup, Taking Back Sunday, Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven, and more tour-related news.

Erykah Badu will be performing a string of shows this August and September, beginning with two NYC performances on August 3: she'll be playing at the newly-opened Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk at 8 PM with openers Hiatus Kaiyote (tickets) followed by a DJ set at Output, under her alias DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown (tickets). ...

The 2016 Central Park Summerstage shows are underway, and a very cool ticketed rap show is happening this month. It's presented by Mass Appeal, and hosted by Nas (who founded Mass Appeal Records), and it goes down July 25 with a stacked lineup...

Fresno, CA rapper Fashawn signed to Nas' Mass Appeal Records last year, and last week the label released The Ecology, Fashawn's long-awaited followup to his promising 2009 debut, Boy Meets...

Veteran Def Jux/Rhymesayers rapper Murs and the fresh faced Fashawn teamed up earlier this year for a collaborative album, This Generation, which was produced and released via Duck Down Music...

Though the most talked about hip hop release of this week is probably Nas' Life Is Good, don't let that overshadow The Alchemist's hip hop song cycle Russian Roulette...

Nas @ Rock the Bells (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) That didn't take long. We just announced the intitial lineup. Check out the almost-full thing below...