A selected guide to jazz performances in the New York area.    

A selected guide to indie rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop and rock performances in the New York area.    

The drummer Jaimeo Brown drew on inspiration from the Gee’s Bend quilters for his show at Drom in the East Village.    

Two very different kinds of current music from Tunisia were part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s monthlong World Nomads Tunisia festival.    

Mr. Nelsons, 34, has been music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain since 2008.    

James Naughton hosted a Bobby Short tribute, with performances by Barbara Carroll, Paula West, Billy Stritch and the rising cabaret star T. Oliver Reid.    

A symphonic concert devoted to the music of Led Zeppelin and performances by Motown greats are among the highlights.    

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The June 2 concert will feature Kendrick Lamar, Wale, French Montana and others.    

A Twitter post from Diddy saying that he’d joined the cast of “Downton Abbey” brought messages of congratulations from fans and amused denials from PBS. And in the end, everyone was telling the truth.    

Reuters 05/15/13

The Killers performed at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, making up for a concert postponed in December.    

Kaizers Orchestra, an idiosyncratic band popular in Europe but hardly known in the United States, will make its American debut in what is also its farewell concert.    

The Gil Evans Project featured “Gypsy Jump,” a song not played since 1942, in its set at the Jazz Standard.    

The Metropolitan Opera Brass performed works by Gabrieli, Mozart and Lehar in a cathedral on Tuesday evening.    

The Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb introduced Nico Muhly, who performed a preview of his opera, among other pieces, at Le Poisson Rouge.    

Lady Antebellum’s “Golden” outsold the soundtrack to “The Great Gatsby,” which had strong digital sales.    

The French dance-music duo known for its synthetic dazzle has made its new album a flashback to the era of live musicianship.    

Mr. LaBeouf, a star of “Transformers,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “The Company You Keep,” explains his film inspired by the Future Unlimited song “Haunted Love,” which came about while he worked on the Lars von Trier film “Nymphomaniac.”