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Waking up in the Present
Read Part 1 of NYS Music's Bonnaroo coverage here.
The days bleed together and it was hard to resist the sun…
Sophistafunk Joins Night Lights Festival’s 2018 Lineup
Four additional artists have been added to Night Lights Festival’s 2018 lineup including the Syracuse-based band…
Ecstatic Dance Rochester Takes Flight in the Flower City
Nestled near the west bank of the Genesee River, Kaleidoscope Collective invites you to step into your new favorite…
Albany Hip-Hop Artist Young Cobain Releases Self-Titled Debut Single
The mystical, confessional artist known as Young Cobain has emerged in 2018 as a unique creative, merging hip-hop,…
Kendrick Lamar Kicks it Old School on the Top Dawg Entertainment Championship Tour
All videos and photographs by Nora Hones.
The Top Dawg Entertainment Championship Tour touched down at the…
Post Malone Kicks Off Summer at Darien Lake
Post Malone's coast-to-coast, sold out tour made its only upstate NY appearance at Darien Lake on the last Saturday…
New York, The Silk City: Governors Ball 2018
Premier northeast music festival The Governors Ball returns to Randall’s Island in New York City in just a few…
New York Series: The Beastie Boys ‘An Open Letter to NYC’
The overall message of the song is about how the cities’ fortitude comes from diversity, and that no matter what…
Watch: 14 trapdoors music video for ‘Holy Water’
Buffalo rap group 14 trapdoors - Short Moscato, Bendyface and Wza - have partnered with Mass Appeal to premiere the…
Hearing Aide: Ozymandias ‘Godly’
“I won’t stop until they put me in the earth” and “I’m here to bring a vibe,” Ozymandias says on his newest album,…
Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer Prize for Music
Columbia University announced the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners on Monday afternoon. In the category of music, the…
Hearing Aide: BG the Boy Genius, ‘The PreVisual’
BG the Boy Genius, a hip hop artist based in Albany, NY, launched The PreVisual, a mixtape, on March 30 through…
Hearing Aide: The Weeknd, ‘My Dear Melancholy,’
The Weeknd released a six-track EP called My Dear Melancholy, as a surprise in the early morning of Friday, March…
Funk and Hip-Hop Invade Buta Pub
These two fans of funk went head to head in a show down of the ages at Buta Pub in Rochester NY
Local Hip Hop Artist 3ality Talks with NYS Music
Schenectady native, and upcoming local hip hop artist, 3ality, recently sat down with NYS Music for his first ever…
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie teams up with Audiomack for Trap Symphony rework of…
Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has teamed up with emerging music discovery platform Audiomack to remake three…
Albany Hip Hop Outshines Headliner Riff Raff at Jupiter Hall
Local hip hop acts found their beat at Jupiter Hall in Albany, on March 10, sharing the stage with headliner RiFF…
Washington Avenue Armory Files Suit Against Rap Group Migos
In 2015, Atlanta-based rap trio Migos, performed a show at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany when all hell…
Gramatik and Balkan Bump team up for “Aymo” featuring Talib Kweli
Balkan Bump, the newest project from trumpet player, producer and ethnomusicologist Will Magid, Gramatik and…
New York Series: Jay-Z ‘Where I’m From’
He was a one-man businessman who was conscious of the fact that pushing his product could become a life or death…