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Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Nxworries, Jeff Tweedy, Les Claypool’s Flying Brigade, Shamir, Swearin’, and more.

Plus: Mal Blum, Kevin Devine, Jeff Rosenstock, Sarah Squirm, Men I Trust / TOPS, 50 Cent, Buffalo Daughter, and more tour and festival news.

Porn actor and comedian Ron Jeremy is trying to save the tree outside his childhood home in Bayside, Queens that his father planted the day Ron was born…

More lineup additions this week include, Lucy Dacus, Pussy Riot, Speedy Ortiz, WAVVES, Classixx, Cold War Kids, G Flip and more…

Chicago rapper Tree recently put out The @MCTreeG EP. In addition to answering the question “wait, but what’s his Twitter handle?” we said the EP “opens with Tree’s raspy voice over the seemingly slow-moving ‘Probably Nu It,’ which gets to grooving as the hi-hats slide in…

Tree has shared a new video for his booming The @MCTreeG EP cut “Like Woah.” He struts around town in the clip—in The Loop and in some much grittier neighborhoods—and shows some love to Chicago…

Today, Chicago “soul-trap” rapper/producer Tree has dropped off his latest project. It’s a Scion-sponsored effort called The @MCTreeG EP and follows last year’s promising-yet-fractured Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out mixtape…

New York producer/MC Roc Marciano welcomed his new album, Marci Beaucoup, last week via Man Bites Dog Records. Unlike his recent The Pimpire Strikes Back mixtape, all LP production was handled by the man himself…

I always look forward to FACT‘s year-end list, which you can count on to be chock full of (but not limited to) forward-thinking electronic music, pop, R&B and rap, and it’s one of the lists where I’m usually guaranteed to find something new…

World’s Fair at MHOW in August (more by Maclyn Bean) As always, there’s a number of good hip hop shows coming up in NYC, and here’s a few of those…