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    Red Baraat at Brooklyn Bowl

    Brooklyn-based brass and drum-led Bhangra dance-party band Red Baraat plays May 8 at Brooklyn Bowl, on the release of their latest record, "Bhangra Rangeela". May 8, 2025

    Red Baraat at Brooklyn Bowl
  • #4862, Ambient Electronics

    There’s new ambient electronic and electroacoustic music by cellist MIZU, synthpop songwriter Vince Clarke, sound artist Roger Eno, sax player David Binney, and the trio Cowboy Sadness. May 8, 2025

    #4862, Ambient Electronics
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    Fiddlers Mark and Maggie O’Connor Connect Chamber Music and Bluegrass, In-Studio

    The husband and wife fiddle team of Mark and Maggie O’Connor play everything from Beethoven to bluegrass in a chamber/folk way. They play some O’Connor classics, old and new, in-studio. May 8, 2025

    Fiddlers Mark and Maggie O’Connor Connect Chamber Music and Bluegrass, In-Studio
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    New Sounds Live: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble with Alarm Will Sound at Kaufman Music Center

    Vocalist, choreographer, and composer Meredith Monk and her Vocal Ensemble team up with new music supergroup Alarm Will Sound to perform her music at Kaufman Center on May 30.  May 30, 2025

    New Sounds Live: Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble with Alarm Will Sound at Kaufman Music Center
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    Ancient-to-Future Hot Psychedelic Gnawa Blues from Bab L' Bluz, In-Studio

    French-Moroccan band Bab L' Bluz makes ancient-to-future music, serving hot psychedelic blues spiked with the Gnawa trance rhythms of northern Africa's Maghreb. They play in-studio. Apr 28, 2025

    Ancient-to-Future Hot Psychedelic Gnawa Blues from Bab L' Bluz, In-Studio
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    Weekly Music Roundup: Mei Semones, McKinley Dixon, and Pachyman

    This week, Brooklyn-based singer and guitarist Mei Semones’s debut; rapper and singer McKinley Dixon’s darker sound, and Pachyman warms things up with dub-drenched pop.  May 2, 2025

    Weekly Music Roundup: Mei Semones, McKinley Dixon, and Pachyman
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    King Hannah's Fuzzy-Jangly Charged Romanticism, In-Studio

    Liverpool duo King Hannah consists of singer and songwriter Hannah Merrick and guitarist Craig Whittle. They bring moody jangly-fuzzed guitars and spoken-sung vocals to play, in-studio. May 1, 2025

    King Hannah's Fuzzy-Jangly Charged Romanticism, In-Studio

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New Sounds is New York Public Radio’s home for the musically curious, since 1982. It’s a hub for discovering weird and wonderful music from artists, composers and traditional musicians. Follow us on YouTube and Instagram. Email us at hello@newsounds.org.

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