The Bloody Beetroots have evolved a lot in their nearly decade-long career. From leading the fidget-house movement with Crookers, collaborating with Dim Mak's Steve Aoki, and transforming into a live band, the Italian duo's frontman and now solo member, Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo — a/k/a SBCR... More >>

Inescapable but irresistible, Hozier's hit single, "Take Me to Church," has over 222 million Spotify streams and more than 25 million YouTube views, and earned a Grammy nod for Song of the Year (losing to Sam Smith). Not bad for the 24-year-old Irish singer-songwriter who, less than two years... More >>

Guitars and strings glide and collide at this Ecstatic Music Festival event when the borderline-outrageous and ceaselessly adventurous string quartet ETHEL renews its recent collaborative acquaintance with young guitar virtuoso Kaki King while adding sophisticated fretsperimentalist John King... More >>

Critic Edwin Denby’s Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets, a 1965 collection of brilliant observations about the art form, inspired writer Claudia La Rocco, like Denby both poet and critic, to assemble a seven-week “platform” that kicks off tonight with a reading by... More >>

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Wherefore be a fool when it comes to Shakespeare? The Cooper Union is offering nine free courses on the Bard and his plays, from February to May. Pick and choose which sessions to attend based on your favorites, or go to all and treat it like a semester of college. Esteemed author, scholar, and... More >>

There was some visibly dropped jaws in the audience when Rudresh Mahanthappa's band blasted their first notes at the Winter Jazzfest in January. The quintet came out charging, its fractured spin on Charlie Parker's songbook teeming with the ardor that has come to define the saxophonist's work.... More >>

Gather all ye caffeine enthusiasts: The tenth annual Coffee and Tea Festival is here. The 28,000-square-foot Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint will host more than 60 vendors from around the globe and 100-plus samples of tea and, as requested by attendees last year, more coffee. The... More >>

Richard Bennett is one in a select group of musicians, Eastern or Western, who have attempted to translate Indian classical music to the piano. The New York–based composer and performer adds a jazzy harmonic dimension to Indian ragas' horizontally inclined structure. It's fusion for sure,... More >>

Last December was bittersweet for Reel Big Fish. The ska-punk band gave fans something to celebrate with the surprise Happy Skalidays EP, six tracks of Christmas covers and crudely named originals. On the other hand, the final month of 2014 brought about the departure of drummer Ryland... More >>

Invited by the Royal Shakespeare Company to collaborate on a production of Troilus and Cressida, the Wooster Group went for high irony, portraying their Trojans as pre-colonial Native Americans complete with teepees, lacrosse sticks, and odd shamanistic rituals. In Cry, Trojans!, the Woosters'... More >>

Kehinde Wiley, only 38 years old but with a career spanning 14 years, already has his own retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, and rightly so. The works in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic feature young black subjects in poses associated with historical paintings. In Napoleon Leading the Army... More >>

Hancock's self­portrait — a demonic figure with giant tube­shaped breasts — is decidedly unflattering, but it captures the essence of an artist immersed in the perversely humorous world of underground comics. This extensive survey features his long­running mythological... More >>

The final season of Mad Men debuts on April 5, and we’ll have to say goodbye, after eight years, to all the smoking, drinking, striving, cheating, casual sexism, and slick mid-century style of Don Draper and his pals. But starting today, the Museum of the Moving Image hosts a tribute to... More >>

At 87, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz remains a vital force in jazz. His First Meeting: Live in London, Vol. 1, released last June, epitomized deliberate improvisation, perfectly balancing emotion and intellect, style and economy. Konitz's inimitable piercing yet subdued tone has complemented... More >>

David Byrne is more than just bicycle racks — however cool they are. Tonight, an incredible lineup of contemporary musicians and artists will honor the Talking Heads frontman's career, from his days on the art-punk scene at CBGB to his forays into Latin and funk and onward to this... More >>

Twin daughters of Cuban percussionist Anga Diaz, of Buena Vista Social Club, Ibeyi combine soul, hip-hop and electronic influences with the traditional sounds of their father's Yoruban culture. On their self-titled debut album, released February, Lisa-Kainde plays piano; Naomi's on the... More >>

Tell all your friends: Taking Back Sunday is officially here to stay. After celebrating the ten year anniversary of their debut album, the Long Island emo band has proven that it’s more than nostalgia and a phase that is getting them booked at mega-venues like Time Square’s Best Buy... More >>

“This is for everyone” is a tweet by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the internet — that was used to light up an Olympic stadium in 2012. In This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, MoMA borrows the tweet for its latest exhibit,... More >>

Put aside all your petty accordion prejudices. This show launches a six-day residency featuring composer Guy Klucevsek, who, having mastered the instrument in virtually all of its classical, modern, jazz, and international manifestations, has extended it into another dimension altogether.... More >>

Whether you realized it or not, the first time you saw RuPaul Andre Charles was in 1989, as an extra in the B-52s' "Love Shack" video. It was both a humble and a fabulous beginning for the queen who would go on to be a cultural icon, transitioning flawlessly from pop star to VH1 talk show host... More >>

Back in 1976, the young punks in Cock Sparrer coulda been the next Sex Pistols, but they famously wouldn't cut their hair into a punk style for Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren (another story has the reason as McLaren wouldn't buy them a second round of beers). Yet, as any punk worth her Docs... More >>