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The Going Rate keep their foot on the gas with "Road to Nowhere," a horn-driven ska-alt anthem that leans hard into forward momentum while wrestling with self-doubt. From the opening bars, the song surges ahead on punchy drums and…
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Singapore-born, New York-based electronic-pop artist Kyle Waves released his new single, “Picture In My Phone,” on February 6, marking a bold tonal shift for the rising artist. Built on strobe-lit house beats and understated piano…
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New York City-based alt-rock band People I've Met released "For Hire" on Tuesday, Jan. 28 via Interscope Records. The single follows the trio's December 2025 debut "Promise." Photo by Mikayla LoBasso "For Hire" was produced by People…
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Blueberry Betty, an indie folk-rock project based in Burlington, VT has dropped the first single, "Little Pilot" from their self-titled debut album. Fronted by songwriter Ben Schnier of Utica, Blueberry Betty is framed around…
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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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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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In 1987, the Carrier Dome in Syracuse hosted the breakthrough “The Joshua Tree” tour from Irish rock band U2. Spanning over 100 shows, the tour’s third and final leg made 5 total stops across New York State in the fall of ‘87, leading to…
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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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