Joakim

Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Enumclaw, vein.fm, Jesse Malin, All Them Witches, Why Bonnie, Combo Chimbita, Caroline Rose, and more.

Summerstage offers more than 100 free shows at NYC parks in all five boroughs. This year's lineup includes Broken Social Scene, Big Daddy Kane, Kool & the Gang, San Fermin, The Weather Station, Secret Circle (Lil Ugly Mane, Antwon, and Wiki ), Talib Kweli, Oshun, the Jungle Brothers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Porches, Crumb, Dej Loaf, Alice Smith, Mura Masa, Jessy Lanza, Rapsody, The Bad Plus, Angelique Kidjo and tons more.

French electronic producer Joakim has released the title track from his forthcoming album Samurai, due out March 17 via Tigersushi / Because...

Check out the somewhat steamy performance of "Big Top."

Doug Hream Blunt's guest-filled set featured a surprise appearance by David Byrne. Finding Novyon rounded out the bill.

Doug will also play two other NYC shows while in town.

Rapper Finding Novyon is also flying in for this BrooklynVegan curated Red Bull Sound Select show.

The compilation has tracks from Joakim’s various collaborative projects, including Everyone (with Kindness), JHACK (with Bryce Hackford), and POV (with Crackboy).

Following their appearance at Pitchfork, Todd Terje and The Olsens hit NYC on Tuesday night (7/21) at Terminal 5 for what was one of better live dance music shows I've seen in a long time...

More bongo! More cowbell! Todd Terje and the Olsens satisfy both fixes. Disco influences and burbling electronics aside, the Norwegians are a bonafide jam band given over to that style's sins of redundance and indulgence...