Vijay Iyer Trio

Friday’s NYC-area shows include LCD Soundsystem, BIohazard, Protomartyr, The Feelies, Margo Price, bar italia, and more.

Saturday’s NYC-area shows include Sun Ra Arkestra, Sister Nancy, Jon Spencer + The HITmakers, The Casket Lottery, John Cameron Mitchell + Amber Martin, and more.

Newport Jazz’s 2022 lineup includes Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, BADBADNOTGOOD, Makaya McCraven, Nubya Garcia, Sons of Kemet, and more.

NYC’s The Village Vanguard reopened for the first time in 2022 on this past Tuesday (1/25) with a run of shows from pianist Vijay Iyer, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, who released the excellent ’Uneasy’ in 2021…

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Third Eye Blind, Jesse Malin, Native Sun, and more

Wednesday’s NYC-area shows include Thursday, CARM, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and more

Tuesday’s NYC-area shows include Rome Streetz, Vijay Iyer Trio, and more

Today’s NYC-area shows include night 3 of Governors Ball, Korn, Roy Ayers, Brooklyn Comes Alive, and more

This week’s playlist includes new music by Noname, Nick Cave, Dinosaur Jr, Wolf Alice, AFI, Denzel Curry, Real Estate, The Horrors, Guided by Voices, Half Waif, Lost Horizons, and more.

”The word ‘uneasy’ feels like a brutal understatement, too mild for cataclysmic times,” Vijay says of his first Trio album in over 5 years. ”But maybe, since the word contains its own opposite, it reminds us that the most soothing, healing music is often born of and situated within profound unrest.”