This Sunday, May 19, the FREE bi-annual Hoboken Arts & Music Festival will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Washington Street between Observer Highway and Seventh Street with over 300 artists, crafters, food vendors, dance troupes, DJs and live bands.

Little City Books will host its fourth annual “Literary Weekend” April 5, 6 & 7 on Bloomfield Street in Hoboken with numerous authors, among them Tia Williams, James Frankie Thomas, Kim Coleman Foote and the legendary Joyce Carol Oates, 85.

The sounds of Zydeco, Mambo and more will fill Washington Street between Newark Street and Observer Highway (with a second stage on Washington between Sixth and Seventh) in Hoboken this Sunday October 1 at the free Hoboken Arts & Music Festival from 12:15 to 6pm.

Hoboken alt-rockers Yo La Tengo will release their new album February 10 on Matador Records. The aptly-named “This Stupid World” will be supported by a national tour starting February 15 in Seattle. “Fallout” and “Aselestine” are the first two singles.