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Helen Sung and her quartet play the Jazz Standard Tuesday night, the club where she recorded her last album Going Express. Download her "Hopes Springs Eternally."

Koliadnyky plays traditional music from Ukraine's Carpathian mountains on hammered dulcimers, fiddles, and flutes Tuesday night at Barbès. Download a track here.

Many homeowners decorate their homes with several modest strings of lights during the holiday season, but there are some who take it to a whole different level. Check out our slidesho...

If you're looking for a different kind of holiday spectacular, something of a "funk-rock alternative to the Rockettes" goes down tonight and through the week at Joe's Pub. Download th...

Pakistani-American jazz guitarist Rez Abbassi performs new music with Rudresh Mahanthappa and Viyay Iyer tonight at Cornelia. Download Abbasi's "Lament" here, a cover of a classic Nus...

New Age bandleader Paul Winter brings a blown-out Winter Solstice extravaganza to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine Thursday night. Download Winter's "Remembering."

Most people know McMillan for his gubernatorial run, but the founder of the “Rent is 2 DAMN High” Party is riding his Internet stardom to jump-start a long dormant musical career. He ...

Turkish composer and pianist Fahir Atakoglu plays some Turked-out jazz tonight at Drom. Download his "NY Retrospective" here.

Power-poppers MiniBoone strike the Rock Shop tonight. Download the band's high-speed, feel-good "The Other Summer," here.

Nada Surf, perhaps best known for its 1996 hit "Popular", has a new cover album out. Nada Surf offers WNYC listeners a free download of “See These Bones” from the band's 2008 album Lucky.

Scott Kettner brings his Forró Brass Band to Barbès tonight with a Louisiana-meets-Brazil sonic mashup and many, many horn players. Download a live performance of the band's "Crown Heights Boogie" here.

Smooth-singing jazz guitar great John Pizzarelli begins a stint at Birdland tonight. Download his sumptuous rendition of the standard "Under a Blanket of Blue," here.

Rotary Downs brings a taste of the New Orleans indie scene to Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday night. Download the band's "Montez-Vous" here.

Brooklyn Qawwali Party brings its high-octane, horn-driven take on a mystical Pakistani music genre to Littlefield in Brooklyn tonight. Download their "Musst Musst" here.

Patricia Barber brings her deep alto voice to the Jazz Standard tonight. Download her velvety cover of Cole Porter's "The New Year's Eve Song" here.

In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death, fans gathered at the Strawberry Fields Lennon memorial in Central Park, just 100 yards from the place he was shot and ...

On December 8th, 1980 at 10:50 P.M., John Lennon was murdered outside his apartment building by deranged fan Mark Chapman as Lennon returned from his recording studio. Thirty years la...

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, the pseudonym of post-punk folk idol Will Oldham, plays Town Hall Wednesday. Download his haunting "Someone Coming Through."

The Manhattan Transfer defined a style of harmonized vocal jazz that is both loved and despised. Catch the quartet tonight at the Blue Note, and download its Grammy winning version of "Route 66."

Whitey Ford and the 78s brings a classic honkey-tonk sound to Brooklyn's Littlefield tonight. Download his bawdy "I Ain't Drunk" here.