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Good Kid and Inoha Light Up a Sold-Out Brooklyn Steel on the Can We Hang Out? Tour
On Saturday, April 18, Canadian indie rock band Good Kid took the stage at Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg. It was…
“The Light We Carry Festival” Channels HB Studio Into the Future of Theater
HB Studio utilizes its rich history to transform decades of theater into something new, running May 30 through…
Features
Echo Bloom Turn Grief Into Motion on Anabasis
There’s a moment early in Anabasis where everything feels like it might come apart, rhythm splintering, guitars…
Look Who’s Back: The Nude Party Come Full Circle in Bearsville Barn Burner
There’s a certain poetic symmetry when a band returns to the place where its story quietly began. For The Nude…
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Concert Reviews
Soul Asylum Unplugs at Levon Helm Studios
Grammy Award-winning Soul Asylum brought its Acoustic 2026 tour to Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock Friday, April…
New York Series
New York Series: Revisiting “Miami 2017” and Billy Joel’s Vision of a Burning New…
When Billy Joel released “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)” in 1976 as part of Turnstiles, it…
New York Singles
NYC Singer-Songwriter Julia Greenberg Shares Tender New Single ‘Leaves’ Ahead of June EP
New York City singer-songwriter Julia Greenberg released new single "Leaves" on Tuesday, April 21, a quietly devastating alt-country track written in the aftermath of personal loss and the first preview of her Born Sentimental EP, out…
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Myra Lee Release Vocally Mesmerizing “Magpie”
Brooklyn-based alt-rock band Myra Lee step into a new era, ushering in a fresh wave of indie sound. The band have released their lead single “Magpie,” out April 3, with their debut LP Capture The Flag set to follow on June 26.
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ROREY Releases Single and Music Video ‘Temporary Tragedy’
ROREY, a New York-based singer-songwriter, announces the release of a new single, ‘Temporary Tragedy,’ and a music video for her latest single, 'Dying Fire,' offering fans a sneak peek into her new album, Temporary Tragedy.
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Low Cut Connie Releases New Single “Oh Yeah,” Paying Tribute to Prince
Philadelphia rock and roll act Low Cut Connie released new single "Oh Yeah" on Thursday, April 2, the third preview of his forthcoming album Livin in the USA, out Friday, July 3 via Contender Records.
The same day, frontman Adam Weiner…
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Book Reviews
Brian Cullman’s Memoir of a Rock ‘n Roll Zelig
New Yorker Brian Cullman is a true rock ‘n roll Zelig. Like the character from the Woody Allen film of the same name, Cullman has built friendships with a remarkable array of figures central to the past six decades of popular music, from…
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Music’s Big Idea, the Concept Album, Chronicled in New Book by Bill Kopp
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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Ric Ocasek, The Cars’ Driving Force, Profiled in New Biography
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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Flashback
Flashback: Trey Anastasio Band at Roseland Ballroom – February 23, 2001
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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A Holiday Classic: Darlene Love performs “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” on Late…
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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Grateful Dead Double Up In Stony Brook: October 30, 1970
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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Gone too soon
Rest in Peace Bob Weir
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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Syracuse Music Community Mourns the Loss of Steve Schad
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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Grateful Dead Vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay Dies at 78
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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