Few harbingers are extra promising than the Swedish singer and producer Robyn. A sonic palate cleanser, she at all times appears to look once we want her most. Her 1995 début, “Robyn Is Right here,” signalled an alt-pop future. In 2005, her self-titled album bristled with a freedom from major-label considerations. 2010 introduced the “Physique Discuss” period and its euphoric assertion of function; she was a star dancing on her personal. Practically a decade handed earlier than she reëmerged along with her post-breakup opus “Honey,” in 2018. The singer, who formally returned from a seven-year hiatus final month with a brand new single, “Dopamine,” now grants an opportunity to enjoy her newest comeback at Brooklyn Paramount, for a New Yr’s Eve present dubbed “Robyn & Pals.”
Robyn performs Brooklyn Paramount on New Yr’s Eve.{Photograph} by Nicole Busch
Because the clock strikes midnight on 2025, d.j.s throughout the town will assist patrons usher within the coming 12 months. Two exhibits stand out in a sea of turntablists and selectors. The These days hosts Aurora Halal and Avalon Emerson—the previous a creator of Brooklyn’s long-running social gathering sequence “Mutual Dreaming,” and the latter a mixmaster and producer whose 2023 album, “& the Allure,” expanded her digital music right into a hazy, whimsical pop expanse—go on at midnight and play till six. There’s additionally the Palestinian techno artist Sama’ Abdulhadi, a trailblazer for her scene, who broke by way of in Beirut and has since turned mixing right into a form of activism. In a Bushwick warehouse at 99 Scott Ave., Abdulhadi continues a vital outreach program.
There are options to ringing within the New Yr on the dance flooring, for these looking for them. Since 2024, the Bronx rapper and producer Money Cobain has outlined the sound of pattern drill, a New York offshoot of the Chicago-born hip-hop subgenre. His début album, “Play Money Cobain,” was launched in August final 12 months, and his profile has been boosted considerably this 12 months by collaborations with Drake, Justin Bieber, and Cardi B—and pattern drill has gone nationwide. Cobain embraces his newfound prominence at Panda Harlem. On the alternative finish of the spectrum is the long-lasting jam band Phish, an improvisational hydra that has made a four-decade profession out of free types like psychedelic rock and jazz fusion. The band, fashioned in 1983, launched their sixteenth LP final 12 months, however the group locations better emphasis on the reside expertise, which samples that discography as if it’s a singular, ever-evolving organism, and has drawn a cult following. These trying to be a part of the jam can discover the band squatting in Madison Sq. Backyard from Dec. 28 till the ball drops.—Sheldon Pearce
What to Hearken to
Vinson Cunningham on a few of his favourite songs of the 12 months.
Dangerous Bunny, “BAILE INoLVIDABLE”
