JSM CULTURE
Music
Artists, releases, concerts, festivals, sound, scenes and the business and culture surrounding music.
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Charli xcx Turns Barclays Center Into Brooklyn’s Two-Night Culture Lab
Charli xcx brings her Music, Fashion, Film tour to Barclays Center for two Brooklyn nights, turning the arena into a collision of live music, style, film and fan culture.
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Bryson Tiller Brings Neo Trapsoul to the Garden, and the Supporting Cast Makes the Night
Bryson Tiller brings the Neo Trapsoul Tour to Madison Square Garden Sunday with Majid Jordan, Ty Dolla $ign and Austin Millz, a lineup built for a full R&B night rather than a single-headliner stop.
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Before K-Pop Became an American Stadium Business, BIGBANG Helped Build the Blueprint
BIGBANG returns to the New York market at MetLife Stadium on its 20th anniversary, bringing one of K-pop’s foundational live acts back to a U.S. stadium stage.
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Why Gustavo Dudamel’s New York Era Is Starting Bigger Than Classical Music
Gustavo Dudamel’s inaugural New York Philharmonic week moves from a Radio City crossover opener with Lizzo, St. Vincent, Aaron Tveit and Joaquina to a September 11 memorial concert downtown.
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The JSM CULTURE Weekend Edit: New York Is Everywhere at Once
NYFW, the US Open, the Subway Series, BIGBANG, Harry Styles, Jay Park and a packed cultural calendar make September 11-13 one of New York’s biggest crossover weekends.
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One New York Weekend, Five Event Ecosystems: What Happens Behind the Scenes
NYFW, the US Open, the Subway Series and major arena and stadium concerts are colliding across one weekend. The real story is the operations required to make all of it feel effortless.
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Before the Parade Was Over, Brooklyn Had Already Said Everything
A first-person JSM CULTURE reflection on the 2026 West Indian American Day Parade, Caribbean joy on Eastern Parkway, and why Brooklyn’s biggest cultural traditions still matter.
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Brooklyn Is Giving Machel Montano His Flowers While the Music Is Still Moving
Brooklyn Public Library’s Journey of a Soca King exhibition turns Machel Montano’s four-decade career into a living archive of soca, migration, memory and Brooklyn’s role in Caribbean music culture.
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At ESSENCE, the Magic Is Public. The Work Is Everything You Never See.
Inside ESSENCE Festival of Culture, the guest experience is built through credentials, timing, hospitality, movement, rooms, pressure and thousands of decisions no audience member should ever have to notice.