Red Bull Music Academy

The 79 year old singer gained even more worldwide acclaim from her 2016 album. Dates include a Red Bull Music Academy event in NYC, a free show in Central Park, Primavera Sound, and more.

The night aimed to recreate Brazil's fluxos (block parties), with five or so subwoofer-fitted hatchbacks, beaming spotlights and strobes, a tropical bar, nonstop fog machines, and more.

"Relocated from its former home of 50 N 3rd St, new Villain is an open plan, 15,000 square-foot former factory space, equipped with a state-of-the-art sound equipment, fabrication shop, and photo studio."

The Sacred Bones 10th Anniversary show has Moon Duo collaborating with Jim Jarmusch, and also features sets from Rose McDowall, Blanck Mass, The Men,Marissa Nadler, Psychic Ills, and Uniform.

The Red Bull Music Academy is back for it's fifth straight year in NYC, happening April 29 --- May 21

ANOHNI (Antony Hegarty) made the live debut of her new album HOPELESSNESS on Wednesday night (5/18) at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC (part of Red Bull Music Academy), and she did it again last night (5/19). Pictures of night 2 are in this post.

Part of the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy in NYC, “Glenn Branca’s Symphonies” happened on Monday, May 16 at the gorgeous, baroque Masonic Hall in Chelsea and featured three of the composer's compositions for a guitar orchestra. That orchestra included longtime Glenn Branca associates Reg Bloor and Arad Evans, Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux)...

Antony Hegarty recently released her first album as ANOHNI, the excellent, powerful HOPELESSNESS, and last night (5/18) she made the debut of the album's accompanying live show...

Goth icon, avant-garde diva and autre legend Diamanda Galás played her first of three "Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes" shows at the Former St. Thomas The Apostle Church in Harlem on Tuesday night (5/10). Part of this year's Red Bull Music Academy, the shows mark the U.S. debut of new material from Galás...

UK grime vet Dizzee Rascal performed his classic 2003 album Boy in Da Corner in full for the first time ever on Friday, May 6 as part of the Red Bull Music Academy...