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Sure, there are multiple answers to “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” There’s public transportation and “practice, practice, practice.” But at his sold-out show at the famed venue on Thursday night, all it took for Geese frontman (and Brooklyn native) Cameron Winter was to put out a knockout debut solo album, Heavy Metal.

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On a beautiful Sunday night — the last one of summer and the second of four appearances in Queens as part of her Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour — Chappell Roan had everyone singing and dancing along at her sold-out show at Forest Hills Stadium, especially when the the Midwest Princess brought out Nancy Wilson to play guitar on a cover of Heart’s “Barracuda.”

(Chappell Roan plays Forest Hills Stadium on Tuesday night.)

(Chappell Roan plays Forest Hills Stadium on Wednesday night.)

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AllMusic calls French space-rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Melody Prochet’s fourth Melody’s Echo Chamber album, Unclouded, a “record that is just as impressively crafted as anything Prochet has done. That is high praise indeed, considering she's made some of the most inventive and pleasing neo-psychedelic-adjacent albums of the previous decade or so.” And on Friday night, Prochet and Co. dazzled Webster Hall.

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On Saturday, the second day of the LadyLand Festival, English genre-spanning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (not to mention actor, dancer, producer) FKA Twigs put on a headlining set no one at Under the K Bridge Park will forget.

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Corin Roddick and Megan James have been making sweet electronic pop as Purity Ring for 15 years. And on their fourth studio album (and first in half a decade) — an eponymous LP with an evolving sound that dropped back in September — they’ve been getting some of the best reviews of their career: “A glorious triumph of soulful electronica, it’ll make your world feel like a richer place, full of hope, wonder and connection,” offers Clash. And last night that new music made everyone at Brooklyn Steel happily dance.

(Purity Ring play Union Transfer in Philadelphia tonight.)

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Norwegian singer-songwriter girl in red began posting music online when she was just a teen — and people quickly took notice. After putting out a pair of well-received EPs, her debut LP, the bedroom-pop-filled If I Could Make It Go Quiet, came out in 2021.

Last year she was one of the openers on Taylor Swift’s massive tour, and a couple weeks ago, girl in red dropped her second studio album, I’m Doing It Again Baby, again receiving glowing reviews.

On Wednesday, just three nights into the North American tour in support of the new album, girl in red was happily greeted by a packed Radio City Music Hall.

Making her way across North America, contemporary R&B singer-songwriter Jhené Aiko’s big Magic Hour Tour rolled into Brooklyn last night for a headlining show at Barclays Center.

It was a double dip of Ben Gibbard on Tuesday when the acclaimed singer-songwriter brought two of his bands to Madison Square Garden to celebrate the 20th anniversary of a pair of seminal albums, with the Postal Service performing Give Up in its entirety and Death Cab for Cutie playing through all of Transatlanticism. Plus, as an added bonus: Atmospheric four-piece Warpaint opened the show.

(The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cuite play MSG tonight.)

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