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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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