Zenizen

Backed by lead singer in opening band Zenizen Opal Hoyt and a contrabass player, Okay Kaya had National Sawdust under her spell from start to finish as she played material from her new album for Jagjaguwar, Watch This Liquid Pour Itself.

Live music returns to the courtyard of Brooklyn’s Industry City this summer for the 2019 City Farm Presents Summer Series

JEFF the Brotherhood, Speedy Ortiz, Swearin’, Steve Gunn, Hand Habits, Sons of Kemet, Makaya McCraven, Lee Scratch Perry, and more Summer Series at Industry City shows on sale today…

Brooklyn’s Industry City will once again host concerts this summer in their courtyard, and the initial lineup includes Guided by Voices, Blonde Redhead, Kid Koala, WAVVES & Surfbort, Frankie Cosmos, Sons of Kemet, Lee Scratch Perry and more.

MoMA’s Summer Thursdays series of live music returns to the Sculpture Garden in 2018 throughout July and August.

Among the just-announced acts are Andrew WK, Basement, Boy Harsher, The Dwarves, Moon King, Mothers, Palm, Porches, Pure Bathing Culture, Shame, and Tancred. SXSW Music Festival happens March 12 – 18 in Austin, TX.

Xenia Rubinos, Emily Reo, Harkin, Worriers (solo), Pill, and GDFX are also among the week-long lineup of shows.

Sad13, the pop solo project from Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis played a free show over the weekend (7/22) as part of Union Pool’s Summer Thunder series

Brooklyn’s Operator Music Band make motorik, analogue-synth noise rock that is probably the closest this city comes to Stereolab in 2017.