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Brooklyn-based indie Americana songwriter and artist Kaneb Andrews returns with his latest single "Recombination," a vulnerable reflection on his struggle to grow while being held back by a lingering attachment to a past love. …
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New York City electronic post-punk band Public Circuit released their latest single, “To The Grave,” capturing both a shine and crash as the band reels against the parts of themselves they refuse to push back down. Photo by Nicole…
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Brooklyn-based band, Warn The Duke, is back with "Angels," their first new single in over two years. Gritty, melodic, and emotionally urgent, the song channels the turbulence of a year marked by personal and global upheaval. The track was…
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Toronto-based rock band Propter Hawk released nostalgic rock EP Sorry! on July 25 comprised of tracks "Time Won't Wait," "Days Go By," "Sorry!" and "Long Long Time." “This EP marks our first wave of new material since our debut…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Legendary Rochester jazz musician Chuck Mangione, best known for "Feels So Good" and the the 1980 Winter Olympics theme "Give It All You Got," has died. The trumpet and flugelhorn master was 84. His family wrote in a statement on…
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Ozzy Osbourne, powerful rock front man of Black Sabbath and legendary solo artist, passed away on Tuesday, July 22 at the age of 76. Osbourne's legacy touched thousands of lives and hundreds of venues, especially those in New York State. …
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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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