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Rich Balling joins us on the BV podcast to talk about The Sound of Animals Fighting's first EP in 14 years, the debut album by his hyperpop project Hospital Gown, and lots, lots more...

This week's playlist includes new music by Kelela, Liv.e, Weyes Blood, Meg Baird, R. Ring, Gladie, Caitlin Rose, Fousheé, Squint, The Sound of Animals Fighting, and more.

This week's Notable Releases include the great new Gladie (ex-Cayetana) album, the highly anticipated Weyes Blood album, the first Caitlin Rose album in nearly a decade, and more...

Rich Loren Balling of The Sound of Animals Fighting, Pyramids, and ex-Rx Bandits has a new hyperpop project with a star-studded debut LP on the way. Here's the first single, featuring Hail the Sun's Donovan Melero and GFOTY...

The lineup also includes Schoolboy Q (playing 'Oxymoron'), Wiz Khalifa (playing 'Kush & Orange Juice'), Lupe Fiasco (playing 'Food & Liquor'), a 2 Chainz/Ferg set, an Ab-Soul/Wale set, Danny Brown, Rico Nasty, and more...

plus: Robyn Hitchcock doing an all Syd Barrett set, Grateful Dead, The Tallest Man on Earth with Courtney Marie Andrews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Alice Glass, Stella Donnelly, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

There are always tons of great rap shows happening in NYC. Here's a roundup of a few that we haven't mentioned yet...

Rap duo Main Attrakionz released the sequel to 2011's 808s & Dark Grapes II with 808s & Dark Grapes III at the end of June. The album was produced entirely by Friendzone, and features appearances by Shady Blaze, Robbie Rob, Dope G & Lo ...

Le1f at The Studio at Webster Hall in 2012 (more by Julie Schabel) It's been a little while since we've gotten a show from NYC rapper Le1f, who plays locally a lot, but that will change this Friday (2/8) at Santos Party House, where Le1f will play Frankie Sharp's Friday with DJ Carlos Jadraque, DJ Nita, DICAP, and Joeseph Trotto Junior...

Dita Von Teese is scheduled to play four Halloween-time burlesque shows at NYC's Gramercy Theater on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...Latest Strip Strip Hooray NYC update: if you have tickets for the Oct 30th show, that may be moved to Thursday, November 1st to a late night 2nd show...