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GVCA Will Host Fundraising Events To Combat Arts Funding Cuts
The Genesee Valley Council of the Arts (GVCA) has announced a series of four fundraising events to be held this…
Broken World Music Festival Will Return to Buffalo to Support Suicide Prevention…
It’s only a broken world if you’re not in it.
The Broken World Music Festival, a one-day benefit concert for…
Features
The 2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival Kicks Off Summer with a Bang, Toot,…
Photos by Jamie Mohr
For the 22nd time, downtown Rochester was transformed into Jazz City USA, New Orleans…
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Concert Reviews
Preoccupations Entrance the Bowery Ballroom
Post-punk unit Preoccupations entranced audiences at the Bowery Ballroom on June 27.
Photo: Sophia Strange
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New York Series
New York Series: Irving Berlin ‘God Bless America’
Irving wrote the first version of ‘God Bless America’ in an attempt to write the perfect peaceful song that would…
New York Singles
Public Circuit Release Synth-Pop Track “Samson” Ahead of Album and World Tour
Brooklyn-based and electronic post-punk band Public Circuit released the single and music video for "Samson" today. This is the first release of the band's upcoming sophomore album Modern Church which is out on September 12.
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Kirsten Agresta Copely Unveils Empowering Single “Kuruvinda,” Embracing Imperfection through…
In the hands of GRAMMY-nominated harpist Kirsten Agresta Copely, the harp becomes a symbol for deep emotion and reflection. Her latest single, “Kuruvinda,” the title track from her upcoming album, captures grief, resilience, and the beauty…
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D.K. Lyons Revives 2000s Pop-Punk Angst with New Single “stop”
NYC-based indie pop-rocker D.K. Lyons revives 2000s pop-punk angst with a new single "stop".
"stop" dips into the cliches of teenage angst by telling the story of a fleeting romantic encounter, but at its core, this deeply multilayered…
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Samara Joy Releases “Flor de Lis (Upside Down)”, Announces South American Tour
With Black Music Month coming to a close, Samara Joy, Bronx native and five time Grammy-winning jazz singer released a new single "Flor de Lis (Upside Down)," today, June 27.
"Flor de Lis (Upside Down)" reinvents the Brazilian…
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Book Reviews
The Band’s Talented and Troubled Richard Manuel Profiled in New Biography
No group may have shifted the direction of rock music more radically than The Band did at the close of the ‘60s. With their 1968 debut, Music from Big Pink, the Canadian-American quintet single-handedly put an end to the abstraction…
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Interview: Author Walter Kolosky on the Mahavishnu Orchestra
John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra were, alongside Miles Davis, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, the mightiest of the Four Horsemen of Jazz Fusion.
When he burst on the scene in 1971 with this band,…
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An Englishman in New York on “London Calling New York New York”
Trouser Press books, a New York-based publishing house specializing in music journalism and fiction, is publishing London Calling New York New York by English journalist Peter Silverton on March 12.
The book tells the winding tale - or…
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Flashback
Flashback: Phish’s Superball IX, July 1-3, 2011
Prior to being Magnified and well before it Curved, it was Super. Phish's third major festival in New York State, formally known as Superball IX, took place in July of 2011 at the esteemed Watkins Glen International located in Schuyler…
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Phish Perform “The Line” on Late Show with David Letterman
Facing a moment of immense pressure under the public eye is the basis for Phish's "The Line." The origin of the song dates to 2005 Conference-USA basketball championship, and the stress that one real life player faced from the charity…
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The Dead Close Out an East Coast Run In Style at Syracuse War Memorial: May 17, 1981
On this day in 1981, The Grateful Dead closed out an East Coast tour with a memorable performance at the War Memorial in Syracuse. The band essentially lived in the Northeast for the first half of May in 1981, with shows scheduled almost…
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Gone too soon
Sly Stone in New York: A Legacy in Funk and Soul
Sly Stone, the pioneering frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, passed away on June 9 at the age of 82. A rare talent who redefined funk, soul, and pop in just a few years, Stone’s legacy lives on—nowhere more vividly than in New York,…
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Beach Boys Legend Brian Wilson Dies at 82
Brian Wilson, the legendary singer, composer and founding member of The Beach Boys, has passed away at the age of 82. He is considered one of the most gifted songwriters and producers in the history of American pop music and leaves behind…
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Delmar’s Dave Shapiro among 6 dead in San Diego plane crash
Music agent Dave Shapiro died on Thursday, May 22 in a tragic plane crash. Shapiro, a native of Delmar, near Albany, owned the plane that came crashing down into a neighborhood in San Diego.
He brought "an excellence and positivity…
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