Before kicking off a five-month international tour, Prass and her band play BRIC’s free Celebrate Brooklyn Festival along with Rhye and Overcoats. Her new album, The Future And The Past (ATO), is one of 2018’s most acclaimed records with fans including Entertainment Weekly (“One of 2018’s Catchiest Records”), GQ (“Excellent…ecstatic and direct”) and Rolling Stone (“The sound of a musician hitting her stride…sharp and smooth”).
The rock ’n’ roll philosopher presents a special record release show for his howlin’ and political new album, Wide Awake (7/13 via ATO), and plays one of the first shows of his headlining “Wide Awake Tour.” Baxter has toured with Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, The Lumineers and more, and he’ll open for Shakey Graves for a few shows in August.
Kiley Lotz, one of the “women making the best rock music today” (NY Times), fronts a band possessing all the catharsis and vivacity of her forthcoming album, Magic Gone (Run for Cover). Lotz’s latest songs take a bitingly honest look at adulthood, accountability, responsibility, mental health and the difficulties that go along with each of them.
The third annual festival that the New York Times calls “part music festival, part TED talk, part food fair” and CNBC calls “New York’s answer to SXSW” has been extended to two days at Rumsey Playfield, right in the heart of Central Park. The eclectic lineup includes musical acts Common and Grouplove; performers Sanaa Lathan, Laverne Cox and Taye Diggs; comedians Chelsea Handler, Hasan Minhaj and Michelle Wolf; authors Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pinker, Roxane Gay and Salman Rushdie; celebrity chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Roy Choi; and other guests including ESPN’s Jemele Hill, HQ’s Scott Rogowsky and Martha Stewart.
Queens native Action Bronson headlines the eclectic musical line-up for the fifth annual one-day celebration of the life and music of Louis Armstrong, held in the park near where Armstrong lived for more than 20 years. The Soul Rebels will also perform, with other musical guests to be announced. This free festival includes some of New York’s most popular food trucks and access to the Louis Armstrong House Museum.
The third annual festival that the New York Times calls “part music festival, part TED talk, part food fair” and CNBC calls “New York’s answer to SXSW” has been extended to two days at Rumsey Playfield, right in the heart of Central Park. The eclectic lineup includes musical acts Common and Grouplove; performers Sanaa Lathan, Laverne Cox and Taye Diggs; comedians Chelsea Handler, Hasan Minhaj and Michelle Wolf; authors Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pinker, Roxane Gay and Salman Rushdie; celebrity chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Roy Choi; and other guests including ESPN’s Jemele Hill, HQ’s Scott Rogowsky and Martha Stewart.
Young harpist Davis presents her release show for debut album Delivery (Rounder Records), a sweet and salty collection of originals that Uproxx hails as “a sonic and stunning 10-track, genre-bending record.” The former Bon Iver tourmate follows a run with Lake Street Dive with this full band performance to challenge listeners’ notions of what the harp can do with synths, ‘70s AM rock and funk.
The GRAMMY-winning roots collective plays with Old Crow Medicine Show for this WFUV-sponsored performance in Central Park. The acclaimed group - that over the course of nearly 50 years have released more than 25 studio albums and played with everyone from Bob Dylan to the Dixie Chicks - will release new music later this year.
The world’s most popular fantasy football podcast presents a live taping as part of its five-date “Fantasy For The People Tour 2018,” presented by DRAFT. Hosts Andy Holloway, Mike “The Fantasy Hitman” Wright and Jason Moore have previously welcomed top NFL players onto the show, and their podcast was downloaded over 30 million times in 2017 alone.
NPR Music’s Slingshot Artist of the Month for June follows a run of dates with Rainbow Kitten Surprise and Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats with a performance supporting The Sheepdogs. NPR Music praises Cowles’ “high-energy, thoughtful rock ’n’ roll” that finds its greatest expression live. He’ll feature songs from his raucous yet reflective solo debut, How To Be Okay Alone (Dine Alone), highlighted by “Keep Moving,” an “Americana-tinged rock gem” (Baeble Music).
The GRAMMY-nominated duo “redefining electronic music” (NPR) returns to New York. Their latest festival appearance follows the recently revealed spring leg of their nationwide A Moment Apart Tour, which sold out Brooklyn's Barclays Center in December and prompted Billboard to say "ODESZA proved its worth as one of the best dance acts touring today…The A Moment Apart Tour seems only to make the full realization of a band that could rightly be regarded as legendary.”
The two trailblazing artists team up for ‘The Adventures of Kesha and Macklemore' co-headlining tour, a summer trek of amphitheaters and arenas across North America. With her trademark swagger and playful snarl, Kesha performs a set of her past global hits, her show-stopping current single "Praying" and other songs from Rainbow (Kemosabe Records/RCA Records) with her band. Rolling Stone called one of her recent live performances in Nashville "one of the most positively uplifting, inclusive concert experiences available in 2017."
The Brooklyn-based pop prodigy performs solo at this co-bill with Great Lake Swimmers. 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.
The 24-year-old country newcomer plays this one-off NYC showcase with his full band. Early praise for his upcoming debut LP, Hell On An Angel (10/26 via Riser House Records), includes the New York Times (“a voice that moves with the heft and certainty of a tractor-trailer”), The FADER (“worn-in Southern warmth”) and more. Rolling Stone Country chose Carmichael as “Best New Jamey Johnson” in its “Best of CMA Fest” 2018 recap.
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