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New York City singer-songwriter Craig Greenberg encapsulates how the landscape of modern dating is a unique form of heartbreak where connections can disappear without explanation. In his new single “First Date Ghosted,” out Feb. 27,…
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Brooklyn indie rock trio My Wonderful Boyfriend released "My Love, My Darling," a lovelorn track spanning Alpine heights to cemetery twilight. The band plays Union Pool in Williamsburg on Thursday, March 6 at 9 p.m. with Beck Zegans and…
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On her latest release, Responsible Friend, Elizabeth Ziman turns inward to explore what it really means to show up for the people we love. The album, released under her long-running project Elizabeth and The Catapult,…
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There’s a particular kind of joy that only instrumental music can unlock—the kind that bypasses language and lands directly in the body. On “Frizzante,” Marco Benevento leans fully into that sensation, delivering a sparkling, groove-driven…
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Music has always been a vehicle for telling stories – of love and heartbreak, of history and fantasy, and much more. Sometimes the stories can be related in a tuneful single lasting under three minutes. In other cases, beginning in…
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While his work with The Cars produced some of the best-known music of the New Wave ‘80s, many facets of the life of the band’s resident genius, Ric Ocasek, remain a mystery – one as tall as the man himself. With his unexpected death in…
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Melissa Auf der Maur, the bassist who powered Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins to the top of the indie charts, is slated to release a memoir of her alternatively joyful and harrowing experiences in the ‘90s rock scene. The book,…
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For the third show of Trey Anastasio Band's inaugural Winter Tour, the band arrived in New York City for a show at Roseland Ballroom, on Friday, February 23, 2001. And being back in Manhattan would also allow Anastasio and Co. the…
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From 1986 until 2014, David Letterman would close out his final show of the year with a Christmas episode that featured the one and only Darlene Love. Over the span of those 28 years, Love would perform her holiday hit "Christmas (Baby…
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After two previous shows at SUNY Stony Brook in Long Island in 1967 and '68, the Grateful Dead returned to the campus gymnasium in 1970 on October 30. It was billed as two separate shows with two separate admissions. This marked the first…
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Guitarist, singer and jam band icon, Bob Weir, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday evening. He was 78. Weir performed for more than 60 years, defining a generation through his music, giving a multitude of fans worldwide a connection and…
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Central New York lost a beloved member of its music community on Saturday, November 29, with the passing of Steve Schad. He was 72. A native of CNY, Schad graduated from Jamesville-DeWitt High School in 1972. His music career began in…
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Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, best known as the female vocalist of The Grateful Dead, has died at the age of 78. She passed away on Sunday, November 2 at Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Her…
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