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Today's NYC-area show options include King Crimson, Gruff Rhys, Kelly Lee Owens, Mdou Moctar, Andy Shauf, Dr. Dog, Sleigh Bells and more

Forward-thinking festival Le Guess Who? has announced its 2021 edition, happening November 11-14 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. John Dwyer, Midori Takada, Lucrecia Dalt, Matana Roberts and Phil Elverum are this year's guest curators.

The 2019 edition of Knoxville, TN's Big Ears Festival happens March 21-24 and also features Spiritualized, This Is Not This Heat, Béla Fleck, Mercury Rev, serpentwithfeet, Harold Budd, Moor Mother, Sons of Kemet, and lots more.

Big Ears also includes Sons of Kemet, Bill Frisell, Jlin, Vijay Iyer, Meredith Monk, Stephen O'Malley, the music of Harold Budd, and more.

The Drums, Janet Jackson, Shame, Ringo Starr and His All Star Band, Black Heart Procession, HAIM, Loren Connors, Circuit Des Yeux, Minus the Bear, The Brooklyn Podcast Festival, and more Wednesday show options.

As always, Tiny Mix Tapes' list is one of the more unique lists you'll see this year.

The "Top Albums of 2016" lists keep coming...

If you're sick of seeing the same names atop every publication's year-end list, you can always count on The Quietus to deliver something almost completely different...

Yo La Tengo, who recently celebrated their 30th anniversary, will release a new album, Stuff Like That There, on August 28 via Matador. Reuniting with former member Dave Schramm on electric guitar, the Hoboken legends are also revisiting the Fakebook concept, mixing covers (Hank Williams, The Cure, Lovin' Spoonful, Antietam), redoing a few of their own songs, and recording a couple new ones as well...

In addition to Austin Psych Fest's Levitation Festival in Austin, they're doing another US fest: Levitation Chicago, which happens this weekend (3/13-14) with The Pop Group, Destruction Unit, Viet Cong, Swervedriver, Atlas Sound and m...