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Last Thursday night, crowds gathered on the checkered dancefloor of Paragon in Bushwick for Pitchfork’s Year in Music party. With DJ sets from Pitchfork’s Mano Sundaresan and Alphonse Pierre, New York multi-hyphenate Anysia Kym, Chicago footwork pioneer RP Boo, Houston remixer DJ Ess, and junglists Dazegxd and Intimacy Simulator, the night captured the eclectic, genre-bending nature of dance music in 2024. Plus, pop duo NEW YORK gave a captivating live performance on the dancefloor.

Last night, Pitchfork readers, writers, and folks from across the music industry crammed into a AdHoc’s office loft space in Chinatown for Pitchfork’s first-ever Year in Music Mixtape, a series of conversations and games about all that went down in 2024. Deputy Director Jeremy D.

Last Friday, LSDXOXO brought a captivating performance to the National Sawdust stage. Synonymous with the new wave of techno artists reclaiming Black queer spaces and injecting some much-needed fun and camp into the genre, LSDXOXO left the packed audience eager for more. Opening the show, Bobby Beethoven FKA Total Freedom brought a stellar support set as well. Many thanks to William Ruben Helms for capturing the magic of the night. Check out the full set of photos below.

This past weekend on June 28-29, 2024, we had the honor of curating the Emerging Music Festival at Manhattan’s Bryant Park for the third year in a row. We kicked off Day 1 of Emerging Music Festival on Friday with quite a bang. The annual celebration of new emerging talent saw performances from cumbia-psych band Los Esplifs, jazz-tinged singer songwriter Mei Semones, as well as the abstract downtown pop of Chanel Beads.

Earlier this week on Wednesday, June 19th, Harpist and composer Nailah Hunter played a captivating show at the Stone Circle Theatre (a church-turned-music-venue), drawing in audience members into her enchanting cosmology, combining mystical folk and ambient-inspired music. Nailah Hunter released her magical debut album, Lovegaze, via Fat Possum back in January, and this show was the first NYC show supporting that new release. Listen to Lovegaze here.

Last Friday, Margaux Sauvé, a French-Canadian singer-songwriter who performs as Ghostly Kisses, performed a sold-out show at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Sauvé brougth her signature ethereal vocals alongside dreamy, minimalist instrumentals. Opening the show was Montreal-based synth-pop artist Camille Poliquin, who performs as Kroy, ensuring the audience was properly warmed up. Many thanks to Qbertplaya for capturing the magic of the night. Check out the full photo gallery below.

Last Friday night, Sophie Allison – better known as Soccer Mommy – kicked off “The Lost Shows” tour at Stone Circle Theatre in Ridgewood, Queens. The church-turned-music venue was the perfect setting for Allison’s scaled down set-up for this tour: center stage with just her guitar and voice. The stage, complete with mythical forest decor of moss, leaves, and branches, added to the intimate feeling of the performance to a sold-out crowd.

Acclaimed musician and former National Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson brought her blend of poetry and musical performance to Brooklyn’s Public Records this past week for two very excellent and sold out shows. Jackson’s love of folk music is compellingly palpable on the well-received debut album she released last year, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?

NYC’s Bryant Park hosts its annual lineup of free Picnic Performances this summer, from May 31-September 13. They’ve just revealed the lineup for the Emerging Music Festival, happening June 28 & June 29, which is curated by us fine folk here at AdHoc. All shows are free to the public and designed to be enjoyed casually – no tickets required – with more than 700 picnic blankets for audience members to borrow and ample chairs available.

Last night, we hosted Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alex Lahey for a very sold out show at Baby’s All Right. Opening the show, indie rock Georgia-native Liza Anne got things kicked off. Alex Lahey is touring in support of her her third record, The Answer Is Always Yes, via Liberation Music. These excellent photos were captured by Ryan Muir, check out the full gallery below. Alex Lahey at Baby’s All Right – 6/7/23: Liza Anne at Baby’s All Right – 6/7/23: