Tonight, there’s a concert I have been looking forward to attending for almost a year, ever since it was announced: a Radu Lupu recital at Carnegie Hall. If you live in New York, you’re spoiled for opportunities to hear great pianists, but if there’s one performer you have to go and hear when you get the chance, it’s Lupu. (There are still tickets available, by the way.)

Click-through for more from Leo Carey on Radu Lupu’s genius: http://nyr.kr/W2CXD3

In this week’s issue, Nick Paumgarten goes inside the world of Grateful Dead “tapeheads,” and looks at the band’s “vast archive of live concert recordings …something intended to be spontaneous and ephemeral [that has] became a curated body of work.” Continue reading.

Can Lana Del Rey actually sing? Sasha Frere-Jones attends her show at The Wooly: http://nyr.kr/OJg9r4

Photograph by Benjamin Lozovsky/BFAnyc.

Watch a clip of LCD Soundsystem performing “Dance Yrself Clean” from “Shut Up and Play the Hits” above, and click-through to read Sasha Frere-Jones on the band and their final show and goodbye film: http://nyr.kr/LrsiJS