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“Interpret it well,” reads the script text in Raymond Pettibon’s mysteriously evocative drawing. A few thick black ink strokes describe an enigmatic landscape – the telephone poles, the railroad track and the building in the distance seem obvious enough as markers of desolation, but the swirl of lines on the horizon are more ambiguous. The steam from an approaching train? An oncoming tornado? Hope or dread, connection or destruction, all depend on interpretation.

Concerts we’re going to this month include Waxahatchee at Tarrytown Music Hall, Cate Le Bon at Colony, and Ornettiquette at Quinn’s.

Improvising on trumpet and two guitars, the avant-garde composer and his collaborators mourn the natural world while asking us to forget what we know about conventional musical hierarchies.

The catwalks of New York might seem far removed from his Doncaster roots, but Keanan Duffty has certainly found a niche in the American fashion world, with his clothes sold in the likes of Bloomingdales and Bergdorf Goodman.

Alex Skolnick shares an insightful tribute to the father of modern jazz guitar.