It's your new release radar! Check out NYC's coolest up-and-coming talent, performing live every Friday this month in Times Square. New York-based musicians present free indie, acoustic, and electronic concerts, many debuting new work in advance of upcoming album releases this summer.

Anees is an independent singer-rapper who fuses pop and hip-hop with an r&b tone. His music is a genre-less treat of ear candy melodies, sublime rhyme-scheming, and vulnerable lyricism. His newest song, "leave me," comes on August 26.

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