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New York Music Month 2025: Performances, Conferences & More

 

New York Music Month is NYC’s official music festival held every June and kicking things off is the annual NYMM Conference. Presented by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and the NYU Steinhardt Music Business Program, the conference opens on June 3 is an in-depth look at NYC’s Music Industry featuring speed talks, panels and fire side chats with more than 40 of New York’s music industry experts.  

Speakers include:

  • Benny the Butcher - Artist, President, Black Soprano Family

  • Torae Carr - Songwriter / Radio Host / Rapper

  • Jem Aswad - Executive Music Editor, Variety

  • Nabil Ayers – President, Beggars Group US

  • Tatiana Cirisano - VP, Music Strategy, MIDiA Research 

  • Mitch Glazier – Chairman & CEO, Recording Industry Association of America

  • Taylor Hanson – Musician / Songwriter / Producer / Entrepreneur, HANSON, 3CG Records, Food on The Move

  • Ladyfag – Nightlife Impresario, LadyLand Festival & Battle Hymn

  • Dre London – Founder & CEO, London ENT, Don Londres Tequila

  • Ari Melber - Host of “The Beat with Ari Melber” and MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, MSNBC

  • Jeremy Sirota – CEO, Merlin

And throughout June are special performances and events throughout the city such as the Sona New York Music Month Block Party on June 7th. Come hang with NYC’s creative community for a day of music, food, and connection. This block party brings together songwriters, composers, and music industry pros for a laid-back afternoon filled with live performances, interactive experiences, and good vibes—all celebrating the role of the arts in shaping the city’s culture and energy. WFUV's "NY Slice" program celebrates and amplifies local musicians from all over the Tri-State area and on June 9th is Radio City: WFUV’s NY Slice Showcase.

To learn more, go to: https://nymusicmonth.nyc/

New York Music Month

Conference June 3, 2025
NYU Skirball Center
566 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012

Performances Throughout the Month at Various Venues

Metrograph Theater Presents All Day David Lynch Movie Marathon


To comemorate the life of legendary director David Lynch the Metrograph theater (7 Ludlow St, New York, NY) will run an all day David Lynch marathon on February 19th In Dreams: A David Lynch Tribute, features Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart, with the cinematographer of the two last-named films, Frederick Elmes, on hand for a Q&A and introduction—and a chance to win a prize from the Metrograph Bookstore for marathoners who go the distance.

To learn more, go to: https://metrograph.com/

In Dreams: A David Lynch Tribute
February 19, 2025

Metrograph
7 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002

 

Wild at Heart: Willem Dafoe Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

 Light Sleeper

Downtown NYC’s perennial Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave) pays tribute to one of the most electrifying living actors. Wild at Heart: Willem Dafoe runs February 7th to the 26th and examines Dafoe’s work across decades with directors including Martin Scorsese (The Last Temptation of Christ), Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery (The Loveless), and David Lynch (Wild at Heart) among others.

Dafoe himself will be appearing at several screenings and the Saturday, Feb 15 screening of The Last Temptation of Christ will be followed by a very special discussion between Martin Scorsese and Willem Dafoe.

Films being shown are:

  • Light Sleeper
  • Auto Focus
  • The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Streets of Fire
  • The Loveless
  • At Eternity’s Gate
  • Wild at Heart
  • Antichrist
  • Tommaso
  • Pasolini
  • Shadow of the Vampire
  • Go Go Tales
  • Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
  • Wooster Group, PGM 2
  • Wooster Group, PGM 1

To learn more, go to: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Wild at Heart: Willem Dafoe
February 7 – February 26, 2025


Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave.
New York, NY 10003

Snubbed Forever Series at MoMI Showcases Un-Awarded Greats

The Lady From Shanghai

Cinema history is full of actors that never got the appreciation from the Academy that they truly deserve. Now the Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY) is giving some of those performances a little recognition. Snubbed Forever (running February 1 to March 9) features films from actors that never had (or have, so far) received a single Academy Award nomination for acting, including Rita Hayworth, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, and many more overlooked luminaries.

Films include:

  • 3:10 To Yuma
  • Rosemary’s Baby
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • The Lady From Shanghai
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
  • Blue Collar
  • Saint Jack
  • Don’t Look Now
  • Vertigo

And more.

To learn more, go to: https://movingimage.org/series/snubbed-forever/

Snubbed Forever
February 1 - March 9, 2025

The Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave.
Queens, NY 11106

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