All-Star percussion trio Onilu—vibraphonist Joe Chambers (of M’Boom), 🥁 Kevin Diehl, & 🥁 Daniel Villarreal—perform songs from their Eremite Records debut ONILU, one of the year’s best jazz records, at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, Boerum Hill. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DPbhip8DVX...

Detroit techno producer John “Bileebob” Williams de-miserablizes the Mozz during his 🔥 live PA set during the Monday is the New Monday party at MotorCity Wine, Corktown. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DPMXRRIjVM...

Fieldwork—the trio of 🎹 @vijayiyer.bluesky.social, alto 🎷 Steve Lehman, & 🥁 Dr. Tyshawn Sorey—perform at the record release show for their new Pi Recordings album THEREUPON at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, Boerum Hill. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DO_WL5xjZf...

Opening suite from the dazzling collaboration between jazz 🎹 @jasonmoran.bsky.social & Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills on the first night of the Detroit Jazz Festival, Hart Plaza. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DN-5hI-jck...

RIP actor Terence Stamp, whose brooding looks & air of quiet menace helped him carve out one of the wildest career arcs of any of his peers from the Swinging London era. Image: portrait 📸 by David Bailey, 1965. More images & posters at www.instagram.com/p/DNeA5ZzxMb...

Electrifying set by South Africa’s BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness), part of @activecultures.bsky.social’s globalFEST at @lincolncenter.bsky.social’s Summer for the City, Damrosch Park. Most 🤯 concert of 2025! Much more 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DM8XLfZxjC...

RIP filmmaker Jonathan Kaplan, director of one of the very best movies about American teenagers, 1979’s OVER THE EDGE starring Michael Kramer, Matt Dillon, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano, & Tom Fergus. Kaplan may be better known for directing . . . More at www.instagram.com/p/DM6tC61Nqn...

Los Angeles-based modular synthesist Jeremiah Chiu & 🎻Marta Sofia Honer perform material from their new @intlanthem.bsky.social album DIFFERENT ROOMS at the Underground at Jaffe Drive as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City Series. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DMiIZ-2MTP...

The trio of Luke Stewart on bass & mbira, 🥁 Tomas Fujiwara, & 🎷 Isaiah Collier start quietly, but joined by 🎷 Isaiah Barr they gradually reach full EF5 intensity on the Enhanced Fujita scale at Heavy Florals curated by Ariella Villefranche at Sisters; more 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DMVfvklsyW...

Remembering Stooges 🎸 Ron Asheton, born 77 years ago in Washington, D.C. Check it out: for the encore of their benefit concert for @briccelebratebk.bsky.social, Dinosaur Jr. were joined by Detroit 🎤 John Brannon for a cover of the Stooges’ “T.V. Eye” ; more 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DMO91p9N-a...

As part of Lincoln Center’s Run AMOC festival, a mesmerizing 70 minute rendition of Simeon Ten Holt’s 1976 composition CANTO OSTINATO was performed by Sandbox Percussion with 🎹 Matthew Aucoin & 🎹 Conor Hanick at the David Rubenstein Atrium. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DLaGFBlsNm...

Baltimore-raised/Sheffield-based DJ/producer @mauricefulton.bsky.social weaves together Aril Brikha’s “Groove La Chord” & Talking Heads’ “Pull Up the Roots” during his 🔥 all-night tag-team set with Brooklyn’s @musclecarsnyc.bsky.social at Good Room. More 📹 at: www.instagram.com/p/DLNOp1NMPf...

Blissful Saturday afternoon in @fortgreenepark witnessing a “battle” between Balinese gamelan ensembles Gamelan Dharma Swara (wearing white, at rear left) & Gamelan Yowana Satk (in lavender, right foreground), part of the annual Make Music NY festival. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DLOHyJIMxe...

Underground Resistance’s Mike Banks, Carl Craig, & Moodymann perform live versions of UR’s “The Final Frontier,” the Martian’s “Stardancer,” & the Aztec Mystic’s “The Jaguar” at the climax of their Movement Detroit set in Hart Plaza. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DKZn0weNnY...

Belgian-born/London-based harpist/🎹 Nala Sinephro performs music from her excellent @warprecords.bsky.social album ENDLESSNESS live with 🥁 Natcyet Wakili, 🎹 Wonky Logic, & 🎷 James Mollison as part of the C2C Festival at Knockdown Center, Maspeth. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJunITWSqT...

Chicago 🎹/🎻/🎸/🎤 Macie Stewart performs music from the new @intlanthem.bsky.social album WHEN THE DISTANCE IS BLUE with 🎻 gabby fluke-mogul & cellist Tomeka Reid at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, Boerum Hill. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJmZNZNN__...

The Bang On a Can All-Stars with guest 🎸 Gyan Riley perform “A Rainbow in Curved Air” at the 90th birthday tribute to Terry Riley, part of Bang On a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025 finale at Pioneer Works, Red Hook. More 📹 clips + musician info at www.instagram.com/p/DJicqzxNGH...

Chicago 🎺/🎹/🪇 Ben LaMar Gay performs with tuba player Matthew Davis, 🥁 Tommaso Moretti, & 🎸 Edinho Gerber at Public Records as part of Bang On a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025 in advance of his new @intlanthem.bsky.social album YOWZERS. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJhAmuFt8s...

Highsmith (🎹 Craig Taborn & 💻 Ikue Mori) perform with cellist Tomeka Reid at the BRIC Ballroom as part of Bang On a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025, Fort Greene. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJW1CxINKZ...

Montreal-based ambient composer/🎹/💻 Tim Hecker performs live accompanied by 🎺 player & Japanese shō player Fumiya Otonashi on the opening night of Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival 2025 at Public Records, Gowanus. More 📹 clips at www.instagram.com/p/DJKGjuIuV9...

Brooklyn’s own Tomin Perea-Chamblee—the young 🎷/multi-instrumentalist who released my two favorite jazz albums of 2024, FLORES PARA VERENE/CANTOS PARA CARAMINA and A WILLED AND CONSCIOUS BALANCE—with his parents, following his duo performance with 🎹 Teiana Davis www.instagram.com/p/DIRWZJaOzH...

100-years-young @sunrauniverse.bsky.social bandleader 🎷 Marshall Allen & new group the New Dawn perform “Boma” from debut album NEW DAWN to close their premiere show at @roulettenyc.bsky.social, co-presented by Boom Collective, Boerum Hill. More 📹 & musician info: www.instagram.com/p/DIMSkVbO-0...

Ambient dub duo HxH (💻/🎺 Chris Williams & 💻/cellist Lester St. Louis) perform at the record release event for their debut album STARK PHENOMENA at Pioneer Works, Red Hook. For concert 📹 clips go to www.instagram.com/p/DH_bU-JORW...

Word On The Street: Inflection Point, 9th Street, Park Slope www.instagram.com/p/DH_DxfjusA...

Los Angeles-based synthesist Jeremiah Chiu performs in the round as part of the @intlanthem.bsky.social + @qobuz.bsky.social series at Public Records, Gowanus. For 📹 clips of the show go to www.instagram.com/p/DH8whgbu9x...

Remembering poet/author/musician Gil Scott-Heron, born 76 years ago today in Chicago. Images: Motor City house titan Moodymann performs GSH’s “We Almost Lost Detroit” live with Louie Vega & Elements of Life at Blue Note New York. More performance 📹 & musician info: www.instagram.com/p/DH6t-QzSA2...

In memory of Detroit's Bridgette Annette Banks of Submerge and Somewhere in Detroit! #submergedetroit #undergroundresistance #detroittechno submerge.com/bridgette-an...

German experimental 🎸/💻 Michael Rother performs the music of his 1970s groups Neu! and Harmonia—including “Neuschnee”—during the final set of the Outline Festival at Knockdown Center, Maspeth. More 📹 & musician info at www.instagram.com/p/DH6VOHuuFS...

London-based jazz quartet أحمد [Ahmed]—🎹 Pat Thomas, bassist Joel Grip, 🥁 Antonin Gerbal, & 🎷 Seymour Wright—pay tribute to bassist/oudist Ahmed Abdul-Malik by interpreting his composition “El Haris (Anxious)” during their 🔥 set at Roulette, Boerum Hill. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DH1c8y3SvO...

Japanese 🎷/🎹 Yasuaki Shimizu performs a stirring set at National Sawdust on his first-ever US tour, presented by Palto Flats Records (which reissued 1982’s KAKASHI, 1983’s UTAKATA NO HIBI w/ his group Mariah, & 1984’s previously unreleased KIREN). More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DHyjd7aOvc...

At the conclusion of “Monumental Concerns” at MoMA, a gathering of artists convened by Carrie Mae Weems, 🎹 @vijayiyer.bsky.social & 🎺 Wadada Leo Smith perform music from their new ECM Records album DEFIANT LIFE, Midtown. More 📹 at www.instagram.com/p/DHm4AP-teI...

After the release of 80,000 pages of classified documents on the JFK assassination, I’ve decided to unlock my own secret archives & make public my Dec 1993 Voice Literary Supplement investigation into the conspiracy. Unseen for over three decades, now available at: www.instagram.com/p/DHZFEMWRka...

Detroit’s Scott Zacharias segues the Sex Tags Mania NYC Mix of Tim Love Lee’s “The Tortoise” into Can’s “Deadly Doris” & then mixes into Traxx’s “Body Control” during his 🔥 DJ set at Public Records, Gowanus. www.instagram.com/p/DHNdTasM-j...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Lamar was knocked out of both the men's and women's Southland Conference Tournaments today, meaning we won't get a Drake vs Lamar basketball game this year. At least American played Lafayette last week.

Happy 313 Day to all who celebrate! Grateful for my mothership connection to the Motor City. Image: 📸 by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) on NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite, spring 2001. www.instagram.com/p/DHJYHhnuDz...

Artist Lisa Alvarado with two of her dazzling acrylic-painted canvases at her exhibition “Shape of Artifact Time,” on view through 4/12 at the Kitchen at Westbeth, 163B Bank Street, 4th floor loft, West Village. More 📸 at www.instagram.com/p/DHBRuDwOto...

Errol Morris’ fascinating new documentary CHAOS: THE MANSON MURDERS begins streaming today on @netflix.com For my own take on Charlie’s counterculture legacy, you can revisit my National Magazine Award-nominated 1994 SPIN cover story “Summer of ‘69” here: www.spin.com/2015/09/char...

At the Kitchen at Westbeth opening for visual artist Lisa Alvarado’s show “Shape of Artifact Time,” Chicago’s Natural Information Society performed their album MANDATORY REALITY at sunset, creating a stunning environment of sound & light. More 📹 & musician info: www.instagram.com/p/DG1SjEVRh1...

Longtime David Bowie 🎸 Carlos Alomar & Juilliard ethnomusicologist Fredara Hadley at the premiere of Stanley Nelson’s new documentary WE WANT THE FUNK (which features them both), part of MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. The film airs on PBS’ Independent Lens on April 8th. www.instagram.com/p/DGnwok3OF8...

RIP Gene Hackman, character actor turned ⭐️ & a true Hollywood GOAT. Hard to choose 1 role from his deep & varied career, so here’s 2: ex-con Max Millan in Jerry Schatzberg’s SCARECROW (here w/ Al Pacino in the James Scott Memorial Fountain at Detroit’s Belle Isle) … www.instagram.com/p/DGloX6rS8H...

Ambient producer/musicians Daniel Lanois & Laraaji following Lanois’ performance presented by Reflections at St. Ann’s & the Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn Heights. Video clips of the concert at www.instagram.com/p/DGgUudIRqc...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Filmmakers Bridgett M. Davis (NAKED ACTS) & Zeinabu irene Davis (COMPENSATION) at the @filmlinc.bsky.social premiere of the newly “rejuvenated” COMPENSATION, her outstanding 1999 debut feature now being distributed for the first time. Don’t miss! www.instagram.com/p/DGdVZRpOpb...

FINAL DAY: Barkley L. Hendricks, “Full Moon,” 1982, oil, acrylic, Magna paint, & gold leaf on cotton canvas, at “Barkley L. Hendricks: Space is the Place” at Jack Shainman Gallery through Saturday 2/22, 513 W. 20th, Chelsea www.instagram.com/p/DGYTio9uIs...

Remembering 🎹/🎤/composer/activist Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon 92 years ago today in Tryon, North Carolina. Image: Tylonn J. Sawyer, “Class Photo #2: Black Convening,” 2017, oil on canvas, from the “American Gods” series. www.instagram.com/p/DGWSgqqSB1...

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson—whose documentaries include THE BLACK PANTHERS, MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL, and ATTICA—at the premiere of his excellent new WE WANT THE FUNK! on opening night of MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. The film will air in April 8 on PBS Independent Lens www.instagram.com/p/DGV2cq5uPW...

FINAL WEEKEND: Barkley L. Hendricks, “Untitled,” 1981, oil, acrylic, & aluminum leaf on linen, at “Barkley L. Hendricks: Space is the Place” at Jack Shannan Gallery through Saturday 2/22, 513 W. 20th, Chelsea www.instagram.com/p/DGTzQrMSvv...

Brooklyn DJ/producers Cesar Toribio of Public Service NYC & Brandon Weems & Craig Handfield of @musclecarsnyc.bsky.social enjoying the Louie Vega & Elements of Life live performance with Detroit’s Moodymann at Blue Note New York, Greenwich Village. www.instagram.com/p/DGOboJHSuh...

Detroit house titan Moodymann performs “Seven Mile” live with Louie Vega & Elements of Life at Blue Note New York. More 📹 + musician info at www.instagram.com/p/DGLcFa8Orn...

Pioneering filmmaker Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP) & author/filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis (NAKED ACTS) at the BAM premiere of the 4K restoration of Burnett’s previously unreleased 1999 rom-com THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH, starring James Earl Jones & Lynn Redgrave… www.instagram.com/p/DGI4Dr7OMm...

FINAL DAY: Henry Taylor, “Take the wig off a me, I can’t use it anymore,” 2024, hand printed monoprint with ink & acrylic, at “Henry Taylor: no title” at Hauser & Wirt through Saturday 2/15, 442 W. 18th, Chelsea www.instagram.com/p/DGG1ZvKyVf...