Plus: Japanese supergroup The Last Rockstars (Yoshiki, Hyde, Sugizo, and Miyavi), Morgan Wade, Breanna Barbara, Nas, Leikeli47, Anita Baker, and more tour and festival news.
Saturday's NYC-area shows include Parquet Courts, The Menzingers, Dev Hynes, Ted Leo, black midi, Fennesz, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros., Genesis Owusu, and more.
Having taken two years off due to the pandemic, Knoxville's Big Ears fest returns in 2022 and also features Sparks, Kim Gordon, Annette Peacock, Sons of Kemet, Animal Collective, Cassandra Jenkins, Angel Bat Dawid, Mary Lattimore, and more...
Bing & Ruth's David Moore has created a running playlist generator for those looking for a more meditative experience. "I think it can be difficult to find a meaningful path into this state of mind."
Including Animal Collective, Anohni, Belle & Sebastian, Neu!, Vashti Bunyan, Neutral Milk Hotel, Keith Hudson, Galaxie 500, Cornelius, Sun Ra, Vampire Weekend, Anti-Pop Consortium, Magnetic Fields, Cluster, El-P, The Fall, The Monks, Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo, The Strokes, William Basinski, Serge Gainsbourg, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio, The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Os Mutantes, and more.
While the coronavirus has caused all tours to be cancelled through the spring if not early summer, there were long-awaited and rare events that nobody saw coming in the first place that were suddenly cut short -- most notably reunions -- that fall into their own special subcategory of ”this sucks.”