Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Kamasi Washington at LPR on 10/16 (more by PSquared) NYC's annual Winter Jazzfest will return in 2016 from January 13 - 17 at various venues. The initial lineup includes Bill Laswell, Brandon Seabrook Powerplant, Nels Cline, Colin Stetson, Daw... more info

Stereogum — Boston musician Brian Carpenter is one of those guys who has worked with so many big names that he seems bound to become a big name himself. Swans, Marc Ribot, Harvey Pekar, and Colin Stetson are among Carpenter’s collaborators, and his own music w... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Brooklyn polyrhythmic pop collective Superhuman Happiness will release their new album Escape Velocity on September 18 via Royal Potato Family (pre-order). The new album features contributions from Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld, who band leader Stu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Iceage at BV-SXSW 2015 (more by Tim Griffin) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Spoon, The Antlers @ King's Theatre Spoon are such a consistently good band... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Baby Dee, who's collaborated with Antony, toured with Swans, and done a lot of other cool stuff, released the followup to her Andrew WK-produced 2011 album, Regifted Light, this week. It's called I Am A Stick, and has more... more info

Stereogum — Sarah Neufeld technically already released a record this year; the tense and aching Never Were The Way She Was was a joint project with her frequent collaborator, saxophonist Colin Stetson. Neufeld is a violinist who often tours with other bands (Arc... more info

Stereogum — In 2015 it’s a bold move to release a purely instrumental album of expertly-composed violin and horn parts. Hell, it’s probably been a bold — or rather, unprofitable — move for at least the last decade, if not longer. Though classical and com... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the The Early November show at Bowery Ballroom with The Restorations go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld show at Bowery Ballroom go on sale today at noon. Tickets for... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the eighth U2 show at MSG are on various presales. Password for the Live Nation one is "stage." Tickets for the Sun Kil Moon show at Town Hall go on AmEx presale tomorrow at noon. Tickets for... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sleep at Hopscotch 2013 (more by Karen A. Mann) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Sleep, Holy Sons @ Stage 48 Legendary doomers Sleep returned this year with... more info