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In Focus: The Last Summer on Earth at The Rooftop at Pier 17
On July 9, The Last Summer on Earth Tour took place at the Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York City, featuring three…
The Queen’s Cartoonists Bring Jazz and Animation Magic to Cooperstown Summer Music…
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival has announced a performance with The Queen’s Cartoonists on Wednesday, July…
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Features
Pleasantville Music Festival 19 – Still Rock’n in the Burbs
The 19th Pleasantville Music Festival took place on Saturday, July 12, 2025, at Parkway Field in Pleasantville, NY.…
Lettuce Turns Up The Heat With New Album ‘Cook’
Legendary funk sextet Lettuce has announced the December 3 release of Cook via the band's own Lettuce Records. The…
Concert Reviews
The Night Shakes & Billy X Wilder Light a Fire at Park Theater Hudson
There are shows you go to and then there are shows that happen to you. Friday, July 11 at Park Theater Hudson with…
New York Series
Tom Morello Releases Powerful New Single “Pretend You Remember Me”
Grammy award winning artist and activist Tom Morello has released a new single "Pretend You Remember Me" which…
New York Singles
Queens Artist Majorette Serves Up New Single “Steaks”
Only in New York can finding someone else’s steaks in your freezer spiral into a full-blown identity crisis. For Queens-based indie pop artist Majorette, it turned into a new single, “Steaks”.
“Steaks” is a light, violin-laced track…
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Lettuce Turns Up The Heat With New Album ‘Cook’
Legendary funk sextet Lettuce has announced the December 3 release of Cook via the band's own Lettuce Records. The band released the new single, "Gold Tooth," to accompany the announcement.
Cook isn’t just a nod to Lettuce’s…
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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.
Public…
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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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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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