The Global Citizen Festival has been around since 2012, highlighting major artists that grace the stage while raising awareness of the extreme poverty conditions that many people are still…
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Pop-punk band All Time Low, hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, performed in Central Park last night for the first time while on their Last Young Renegades Tour. The show…
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On Saturday, July 15, rock band Taking Back Sunday played to a sold-out crowd at Webster Hall, the 25-year-old New York City nightclub, which recently announced it would…
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By sundown Saturday night, the Full Moon Festival was in full swing on Governors Island. Revelers were dancing in the sand at the Kitsune x La Plage stage…
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This Saturday, July 8, Governor’s Island will play host to NYC’s 7th annual Full Moon Festival. Presented as a “boutique approach” to music festivals, the one-day fest takes…
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Want to get your fingers snappin’ and toes tappin’ this summer? There’s no better way to do that than by listening to some good ol’ fashioned American jazz.…
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What better way to kick off the summer months than to enjoy live, free music under the stars? New York City’s very own SummerStage concert series provides city-goers…
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Janick Thibault, 22, started playing guitar when he was just 11 years old. He grew up in Montreal, Canada listening to punk-rock mainstays like Green Day and Simple Plan.…
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With so much great music happening in New York this summer, it can be hard to decide which shows to attend. Fortunately, we here at UrbanMatter have already…
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Street performers are a summer staple in big cities. If you’ve ever been to a major city in the summer, it’s likely that you’ve stopped to Snapchat a…