One of the biggest annual EDM festivals in the United States, the Ultra Music Festival, will celebrate 20 years in 2018, hailing from it’s usual stomping grounds at the Bayfront Park in downtown Miami, Florida the weekend of March 23-25. While clubbers await the much anticipated lineup, Ultra has announced that fans can register now […]
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Sunday Fun Day at Rochester Fringe Festival with Tart Vandelay at Java’s Cafe
KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival is still going strong. In its fifth year, the entertainment offerings are better than ever. After a couple nights at the main stage on Parcel 5 at Fringe Festival, I took a detour down Gibbs Street to check out one of the smaller Fringe Festival venues, Java’s Cafe. On Sunday, they […]
lespecial Hits the Road, Releases New Single
With a new single and new album in the making, Boston’s lespecial have announced a slate of fall dates taking them throughout the Northeast as well as locations in the South and Midwest. The tour kicked off Friday night in Greenfield, MA and continues tomorrow night at Funk ‘n Waffles Downtown in Syracuse with hometown […]
Dopapod Unveils 2018 Hiatus News Among ‘Megagem’ Album Details
For the last seven years, Dopapod has fostered growth at exponential rates. Putting forth multiple studio and live albums, headlining festival bills, undergoing lineup changes and constantly roping new fans in by the dozens. The quartet decided to butter us up with inside details on their fifth effort, MEGAGEM, before announcing extremely bleak news that […]
Dopapod Announces New Album ‘Megagem,’ New Year’s Eve Run
Toying around with guessing album title palindromes, fans have been passing the time and patiently waiting for a fifth Dopapod studio album to emerge. Back in June, NYS Music got an inside tip from Chuck Jones and Rob Compa themselves at Disc Jam, divulging that the quartet would add strings, cellos and violins to their […]
Hearing Aide: Your Name Here ‘5 Weeks’
This album is a true inspiration to aspiring artists and those currently running through the trials and tribulations of beginning adulthood. It’s a complicated time to be alive but it’s comforting to know that there’s a number of people in the same place in life. This is a thoroughly impressive album from an orchestral and […]
The Arise Festival Is More Than a Wake-Up Call
At times, the music industry can seem like a viciously preposterous environment, kind of like a Sharknado movie sequel only with amplified instruments and egos, laptop computers and seven-dollar plastic water bottles sucked into a funnel cloud with the slimy sharks. But every now and then, a musician emerges from an overseas humanitarian mission or […]
EDM Legend to Spin Capital Region This Fall
Legendary Dutch EDM Dj/producer Tiësto, will travel the eastern part of the United States this fall, with his very limited 8-city Club Life College Tour. Fog will start filling venues on Oct. 3, at The Pavilion at Pan Am in Indianapolis, In, and dissipate on Nov. 12, at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Bethlehem, […]
ARISE Has Risen
ARISE Music Festival was held at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland, Colorado, on a jovial weekend August 4-6, surrounded by rock formations, pleasant lakes, and mysterious meadows. This land was indeed filled with love, so its name holds true to its essence. It was a glorious gathering of all walks of life – an open, family […]
Nietzsche’s in Buffalo to Host Intrepid Travelers Residency in September
Intrepid Travelers have announced a residency at Nietzsche’s in their hometown of Buffalo throughout the month of September. This marks the progressive band’s debut residency at the local musical hotspot. Head down to Allentown every Thursday at 8pm to be part of the experience as Intrepid Travelers jams with the support of other local bands. […]