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June 2018

01 June

Natalie Prass – Rough Trade (Brooklyn, NY)


Prass plays the release-day show for her celebratory and defiant new album. On The Future and the Past (6/1 via ATO), she taps into new dance grooves that glisten with '80s pop and '90s R&B along with the lushly orchestrated ballad songwriting that’s earned her praise from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork (Best New Music), The New Yorker and more.

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06 June

The Voidz – Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY)


This reinvigorated group (formerly Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) holds a special June NYC residency celebrating the release of Virtue (3/30 via Cult Records/RCA Records). Early praise for the new LP includes the New York Times, Stereogum and Rolling Stone, which dubbed lead single "Leave It In My Dreams" "infectious...pop with deft forays into the surreal."

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08 June

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – City Winery (NYC)


Alvin, the founder of the seminal punk-roots band The Blasters, and Gilmore, of the pioneering country-folk trio The Flatlanders, team up to play music from their first-ever collaboration, Downey To Lubbock (6/1 via Yep Roc). The new album explores the musical history of America’s past 100 years and features covers of classic New Orleans R&B, Texas and West Coast country, traditional folk and early rock ’n’ roll.

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08 June

Matt Simons – Baby’s All Right (Brooklyn, NY)


The Brooklyn-based pop prodigy plays AWAL's debut Northside Festival party, a night featuring a lineup of emerging talent. Simons' virtuosic piano and guitar playing find a blissful middle ground between Ed Sheeran and George Ezra, but he's also honed the vignette-style lyricism of James Bay, Hozier and Leon Bridges. His first three albums generated No. 1 hits in seven countries, a Triple A Top 5, over 200 million Spotify streams and multiple sold-out tours and top festival appearances including Pinkpop and Frequency.

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08 June

13 June

Henry Jamison – Rough Trade (Brooklyn, NY)


Vice Noisey, American Songwriter, World Cafe and more have been vocal fans of Vermont's "millennial transcendentalist" and his debut LP, The Wilds (Akira Records), a record equally inspired by his familial connections to Chaucer and the electro-folk of James Blake. On tour, Jamison is joined by a full band and performs songs from The Wilds and tease unreleased material.

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13 June

The Voidz – Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY)


This reinvigorated group (formerly Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) holds a special June NYC residency celebrating the release of Virtue (3/30 via Cult Records/RCA Records). Early praise for the new LP includes the New York Times, Stereogum and Rolling Stone, which dubbed lead single "Leave It In My Dreams" "infectious...pop with deft forays into the surreal."

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14 June

Ariana and the Rose

Ariana and the Rose — House of Yes (Brooklyn, NY)


Having sold out its debut last November, Ariana and the Rose brings “light + space” back to the celebrated Bushwick-based creative space for a three-event residency. Self-described as “Studio 54 in outer space,” the immersive music experience spotlighted by New York Magazine, HuffPost, and Time Out NY consists of interactive theater, a DJ set and a live performance by Ariana.

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16 June

Mandolin Orange – BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival (Brooklyn, NY)


One of the most accomplished duos in roots music today opens for The Jayhawks at the Prospect Park Bandshell as part of the free BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. North Carolinian multi-instrumentalists and singers Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin blend traditional roots storytelling with sharp social critique, and they have been praised by Rolling Stone Country (“lush”), NPR Music (“sweet, angelic harmonies”) and more.

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18 June

Dillon Carmichael – Rockwood Stage 2 (NYC)


The Kentucky native with “a voice that moves with the heft and certainty of a tractor-trailer” (New York Times) makes his NYC performing debut with a solo show. Rolling Stone Country praises Carmichael’s single “It’s Simple” as “a rare breed.” His debut LP, Hell On An Angel, is out 8/17 via Riser House Records.

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19 June

Dr. Dog

Dr. Dog – Brooklyn Steel (Brooklyn, NY)


The beloved indie outfit tours for the first time in two years on behalf of new album Critical Equation (4/27 via Thirty Tigers). The new album is Dr. Dog’s most infectious and adventurous collection yet, an existential awakening that has brought the band into a new creative period.

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19 June

Paul Cauthen – Berlin (NYC)


Cauthen performs new music during the release week of new album Have Mercy (6/22 via Lightning Rod Records). UPROXX declares “his live show really is unmissable,” and the “muscular voiced outlaw” (LA Times) recently toured with Margo Price, Elle King and Ryan Bingham. Cauthen is opening for Shakey Graves this summer and was named a "Best of SXSW 2018" by Rolling Stone, Garden & Gun, CMT and more.

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20 June

Dr. Dog

Dr. Dog – Brooklyn Steel (Brooklyn, NY)


The beloved indie outfit tours for the first time in two years on behalf of new album Critical Equation (4/27 via Thirty Tigers). The new album is Dr. Dog’s most infectious and adventurous collection yet, an existential awakening that has brought the band into a new creative period.

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20 June

The Voidz – Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY)


This reinvigorated group (formerly Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) holds a special June NYC residency celebrating the release of Virtue (3/30 via Cult Records/RCA Records). Early praise for the new LP includes the New York Times, Stereogum and Rolling Stone, which dubbed lead single "Leave It In My Dreams" "infectious...pop with deft forays into the surreal."

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20 June

Andrew Duhon – Hill Country BBQ (NYC)


The New Orleans-based songwriter performs music from new album False River (5/25), a collection of songs inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self Reliance” and Delta blues. Duhon has performed at Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Voodoo and more major festivals, and his “haunting and soulful” (Parade) songs come alive on stage solo and with a trio.

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20 June

Paul Cauthen – The Freehold (Brooklyn, NY)


Days before the release of his album Have Mercy (6/22 via Lightning Rod Records), Cauthen returns to New York to play a free hour-fifteen-minute set right after 10pm. Uproxx declares that “his live show really is unmissable,” and the “muscular voiced outlaw” (LA Times) recently toured with Margo Price, Elle King and Ryan Bingham. Rolling Stone, Garden & Gun, CMT and more, named Cauthen a “Best of SXSW 2018” and this summer he opens dates for Shakey Graves.

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21 June

The Dirty Nil – Berlin (NYC)


The JUNO-winning Canadian shredders have opened for The Who, Against Me!, The Menzingers and more. Now the trio returns to the US to preview new music. The band’s fans include Stereogum, Noisey and Pitchfork, which praised their technically informed yet polish-free punk for smashing “the boundaries separating ‘indie,’ ‘pop punk,’ and ‘alt-rock.’”

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21 June

Dr. Dog

Dr. Dog – Brooklyn Steel (Brooklyn, NY)


The beloved indie outfit tours for the first time in two years on behalf of new album Critical Equation (4/27 via Thirty Tigers). The new album is Dr. Dog’s most infectious and adventurous collection yet, an existential awakening that has brought the band into a new creative period.

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21 June

PJ Morton – BAM R&B Festival (Brooklyn, NY)


The GRAMMY-nominated, multi-faceted musician stirs up his “deeply soulful R&B” (NPR), inspired by his native New Orleans, for this free outdoors lunchtime concert. For more than two decades, this concert series has brought new voices and established masters of R&B, funk, gospel, soul, jazz and world music to the heart of downtown Brooklyn.

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21 June

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Barbara Dane – Joe’s Pub (NYC)


One of the unsung champions of American music – cited by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and others as inspiration – plays her first NYC show in 15 years. Dane, who will be 91 years old, celebrates the release of Barbara Dane: 60 Years of Hot Jazz, Cool Blues and Hard-Hitting Songs, a two-disc retrospective released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and the Tammy Hall trio and Osamu and Pablo Menendez will join her onstage.

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22 June

The Dirty Nil – Berlin (NYC)


The JUNO-winning Canadian shredders have opened for The Who, Against Me!, The Menzingers and more. Now the trio returns to the US to preview new music. The band’s fans include Stereogum, Noisey and Pitchfork, which praised their technically informed yet polish-free punk for smashing “the boundaries separating ‘indie,’ ‘pop punk,’ and ‘alt-rock.’”

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27 June

The Voidz – Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY)


This reinvigorated group (formerly Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) holds a special June NYC residency celebrating the release of Virtue (3/30 via Cult Records/RCA Records). Early praise for the new LP includes the New York Times, Stereogum and Rolling Stone, which dubbed lead single "Leave It In My Dreams" "infectious...pop with deft forays into the surreal."

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29 June

Dessa

Dessa - Warsaw (NYC)


The singer, rapper and writer who has made a career of bucking genres and defying expectations adds a newly found orchestral influence to her theatrical and unapologetically bold live show. The member of the Doomtree hip-hop collective performs “enormously relatable and compelling … badass” (AV Club) tracks from her Chime album with “incredible gravitas, presence … and humanity” (NPR All Songs Considered) and a full band.

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30 June

Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi - Radio City Music Hall (NYC)


The most streamed classical artist in the world makes his Radio City debut as part of his ‘Essential Einaudi’ North American tour. The Italian composer and pianist’s music incorporates pop, rock, folk, world music and more, and he brings with him a five-piece ensemble that augments his luminous, emotive melodies with strings, percussion, keyboards and electronics.

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