MUSIC
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2*
7:00 PM

Negro Leo
Brasil Summerfest
David Rubinstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
61 West 62nd Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free
http://www.lincolncenter.org/show/negro-leo

Negro Leo is really good.  Part of the Rio de Janeiro experimental music scene, he does a very noisy, sort of no-wave update of Tropicália, the fantastic Brazilian psychedelic rock style of the '60s, with even more free jazz and funk mixed in -- and, don't forget, noise.  It's been said accurately that Leo's "short and pointed tunes . . . behave like song but sound like noise, and sometimes vice versa" -- as good a description of his music as I can imagine.  Good for Brasil Summerfest for bringing him over.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Masseria dei Vini is not one of the top top top Neopolitan pizza spots in New York -- but it's good.  Good antipasti and, indeed, pastas and main dishes, too.