Sometimes the most punk thing a band can do is explore a sound outside of the oft-homogenous punk aesthetic. 2012's Open Your Heart and this year's New Moon saw exactly that from New York's the Men, who added elements of country rock and Americana to their guttural and scuzzy garage rock sound,... More >>

Having spent his whole life on stage or on screen, it’s clear that Justin Timberlake loves to be seen, and if this year’s 20/20 Experience albums, with their phoropter-themed cover art, are any indication, he regards himself as a seer as well. But as the video to “Cry Me a... More >>

One of very few musicians, Eastern or Western, to attempt to translate microtonally inflected Indian classical music to the piano, the New York-based composer and performer adds a harmonic dimension to Indian ragas’ horizontally inclined structures on New York Swara. It’s fusion for... More >>

Art-punk hipsters the B-52's have spent nearly four decades playing their kitschy party anthems, even though in recent years they've slowed the production of new music. Their last record, Funplex, came out in 2008 to generally favorable reviews, but when the group teased a new record this year,... More >>

Led by Sunny Jain, whose double-headed dhol drum serves as its heartbeat, the eight-piece "dhol ‘n’ brass" band expands India’s wedding-band template into a more inclusively throbbing caterwaul evocative of joyous brass-band cultures from New Orleans to the Balkans, but with a... More >>

The music of Daniel Lopatin, the Brooklyn-based electronicist who records as Oneohtrix Point Never, is as elegantly designed and tragically fractured as the screen of a dropped iPhone. Accompanied by Nate Boyce's disorienting visuals, Lopatin has been performing music from R Plus Seven, which... More >>

Among the women who dare lapse into the darkest, deepest parts of the psyche and emerge musically stronger, Anna Calvi has cut her own path through the jungley doom of melancholic sirens. Although she, of course, evokes comparisons to the obvious forerunners—Patti Smith and PJ Harvey,... More >>

This weekly jazz jam at the newly expanded Spike Hill bar in Williamsburg is as raucous as anything else on its stretch of Bedford. But the rotating cast of players is solid, the veggie burger is hot, and really, doesn't that newest Beacon's Closet discovery deserve to be aired out somewhere classy? More >>

Have you ever stared longingly at the Brooklyn Bridge and thought, I wish I could climb that? Brooklyn Boulders, an 18,000-square-foot refuge for the urban climber located near the Gowanus, is happy to give you a shot. In addition to providing massive synthetic boulders, 360-degree climbing... More >>