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Interview: An In Depth Conversation With We Banjo 3 About Their New Album…
This past week, We Banjo 3 released their most recent live album titled Roots to Rise. Recorded in Ann Arbor,…
WAR: Doctors of Music To Harmonize MLK’s Manhattan Square in Rochester this…
Turf all looks the same. The ground all looks the same. The jungle, concrete, all looks the same. The only way the…
Interview: Allman Betts Band Absorbs Past, Setting Their Own Future.
During my formative years, I would look to my father for insight, knowledge and direction, trying to absorb as…
Interview: Vera Sola Discusses Songwriting, Influences and Upcoming Plans
When diving into Vera Sola’s music, the inevitable result is a transportation. You’re picked up and delivered into…
Rockin’ Blues Survivor Jimmie Vaughan to Play Two New York State Dates
Ask Jimmie Vaughan what he thinks of what the Fabulous Thunderbird have done since he left the band in 1990, and…
Brooklyn’s Shiragirl Empowers Female Musicians with Punk Edge: The Post…
Shira Yevin, better known as Shiragirl, upset The Vans Warped Tour atop her pink tour bus in 2004, so much that…
Vans Warped Tour: Sunday on the Beach
The sun was hot, quickly rolling into sets, swimming and hanging at the beach with friends. The pressure of…
Time Warped: Saturday Storm Warning in Atlantic City
For those of us 25 or younger, Vans Warped Tour has spanned our entire existence - an accumulation of memories,…
Interview: Oliver Wood Returning To Upstate With Two New Albums
Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards is set to host The Wood Brothers and Lake Street Dive with an incredible night of…
Xanthe Alexis’ Mothership Residency: Mind, Body, Music and Soul
Dementia patients lose memory of their children, but can sing full songs. Music is deep in our bodies. We need to…
Exclusive: CashorTrade Rejuvenates Music Community at Face-Value
We have all been there; a concert you simply cannot refuse. A 220-dollar concert ticket followed by 100-dollars in…
Fever Dolls: Musical Populists Transcend As Visual Storytellers
Earlier this month, Fever Dolls released their third single, “Mrs. Carver.” Similar to their previous two…
When Worlds Collide: The Dee Brothers Invade Turning Stone
Turning Stone, an award-winning, destination resort in Upstate New York, works tirelessly to bring best in music…
For The Love of Ska: An Interview with Charles Benoit of Some Ska Band
Being a music writer is a lot of fun, and there’s no one I like to talk shop with more than Charles Benoit. He…
The DNA Of Cream: From Father to Son, Fifty Years In The Making.
If you haven’t heard of Cream before, you must live under a bloody rock. Although short-lived, the trio went on…
Head For The Hills’ Matt Loewen Talks New EP, Music Videos, And More
Colorado-based, three-piece stringband Head For The Hills released their newest studio work this past Friday, an…
Listen to Episode 12 of Empire State Music Podcast featuring Justin Reckamp from…
Mungion singer and guitarist, Justin Reckamp, joins host Andy Hogan in conversation about the bands origins, life…
Hearing Aide: Driftwood’s ‘Tree of Shade’
Driftwood is set to release their fifth studio album this coming spring. This folk-rock and Americana-influenced…
Interview: Athens, Georgia meets Seattle grunge: Lullwater.
With the tour winding down, the band was preparing for the release of their 3rd and most adventurous studio album,…