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Have You Heard? is our weekly roundup of items we may have previously missed (or would like to remind you of again). So as you plan the week ahead, take a look at our cherry-picked selections of what’s hot in art, music, film and fashion right now.

Everyone knows music is much better outdoors. So, we’ve rounded up the best concerts happening outside in NYC—with the beginning and end of the summer predominantly at the beach at Governors Island and the middle at Central Park’s summerstage—so you can better plan your musical outings. From CITY favorite Passion Pit to modern day hippies Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, there’s something for every musically inclined urban taste maker.

The new Neon Indian video for low-fi single “Sleep Paralysist” feels like wandering through the inside of a series of Polaroids—colors and images distort around you as the environment is shaken for developing. The Austin-bred artist, who just signed to Fader, broke from working with Brooklyn video and visual artist Alicia Scardetta to partner with Focus Creeps, the filmmaking duo behind many of the Girls videos. The result, three minutes of psychedelic nostalgia and paranoia, is pure shock art.