Lenny Dee

Friday’s NYC-area shows include day one of Rolling Loud NYC, New Order/Pet Shop Boys, Jamie xx, Four Tet + Floating Points, The National, Amyl and The Sniffers, Robert Fripp, and more.

Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Manchester Orchestra, Kim Gordon, Immolation, Sun Ra Arkestra, Bad Bunny, and more.

Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.

The Red Bull Music Academy will once again take over NYC this year from May 1-30 with several very cool events and various venues. This year includes a night of all African electronic artists at Villain, a GHE20G0TH1K’s biggest ever party which will happen at BK Bazaar with a big lineup including New Orleans Bounce ‘sissy rapper’ Sissy Nobby‘s first-ever NYC appearance, the premiere of a new Kid Millions (of Oneida) piece with 20 musicians, a conversation with A$AP Rocky, a PC Music showcase with all their artists and SOPHIE at BRIC House, a conversation with George Clinton, the biggest-ever Nothing Changes party at Output with Merzbow and many others, a Tri Angle Records 5th anniversary party on Wall Street with most of the label’s roster, the return of Frankie Bones’ Storm Rave party, the debut of FKA twigs’ new live show with dancers and more, an Arthur Russell tribute with Dev Hynes, Cults, Phosphorescent (UPDATE: Phosphoresent was initially listed as part of this but is no longer on the lineup), Sam Amidon, Little Scr…

The New York portion of EDM festival Electric Daisy Carnival happens this weekend at NYC-area venue MetLife Stadium (5/24 & 5/25) with many of the usual EDM big players but some more interesting stuff too like AraabMuzik, Rudimental, Skream and more…