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(wallyg/flickr)Music Around New York... and About New York
Radiohead, Isaac Hayes and the Mostly Mozart Festival are among the highlights of this summer's concert agenda in New York. Today: we take you through a selected round-up of the best summer concerts for all tastes. Also: New York is clearly a star in "Sex and the City: The Movie," which opens this weekend. The composer of the film's musical score talks about capturing the essence of big-city glamour. Meanwhile, big-city grit has often been a theme of Bang on a Can's annual Marathon. We get a preview of this weekend's edition. And finally: a trip way downtown, to a sound installation created by David Byrne.
Top Ten New York Summer Concerts
The hot months ahead are the busiest for concert-goers and there are events all over the city. Yancey Strickler from eMusic.com brings some help, picking the ten events you can’t miss.
Top ten New York summer concerts, compiled by eMusic editor Yancey Strickler
5/30 Wire at South Street Seaport
6/12 Isaac Hayes at Prospect Park
6/14 Vampire Weekend at Summerstage
6/28 Obits at East Side Ampitheatre
6/28 Mos Def Big Band with Gil-Scot Heron at Carnegie Hall
7/4 Sonic Youth + The Feelies at Battery Park
7/19 Siren Festival
7/29 Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center
8/3 Rock the Bells at Jones Beach
Tribe Called Quest, Santogold, Nas, Spank Rock, Cool Kids
8/10 All Points West at Liberty State Park
Radiohead, Cat Power, New Pornographers
9/21 My Bloody Valentine, Yo La Tengo at All Tomorrow's Parties, Catskills, NY
Downtown Sounds
Musician David Byrne talks about his music installation, called "Playing the Building," which opens this weekend in the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan.
Bang on a Can 2008
Music critic Anastasia Tsioulcas previews this weekend's Bang on a Can Marathon, which will include new-music groups like Alarm Will Sound and Crash Ensemble as well as alt-rockers like Dan Deacon and Marnie Stern.
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Sound Off
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Throughout May, Soundcheck presents “Sound Off” a Friday series on the many aspects of noise in music and our lives. The series -- which coincides with “Better Hearing and Speech Month” -- looks at issues like New York’s noisiest neighborhoods, the latest research on iPods and hearing loss, and what happens when noise becomes a musical ingredient.
