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Canada’s largest music and arts festival is back for its 18th year! The Montreal-based multi-genre music festival Osheaga starts on Friday (August 1st) and runs the entire weekend. The festival brings international stars like...

The Swell Season played to an enthusiastic crowd at Brooklyn’s King’s Theatre on Saturday night. Glen Hansard (guitar) and Markéta Irglová (piano) shared vocals and showcased all eight tracks from Forward, their first album since 2009,…

Park Theater Hudson wasn’t ready. Hell, no one was. On July 26th, Emanuel Casablanca walked on stage and turned this venue into a crime scene. Strings shredded. Ears ringing. Minds blown. This wasn't a blues show. It was a musical mugging…

The 2025 Great South Bay Music Festival (GSBMF) rolled into its second day on Friday with Reggae Day, bringing sunshine, soul, and island rhythms to Patchogue’s Shorefront Park—after a brief interruption from Mother Nature. Storm…

Old Dominion delivered an unforgettable performance to a packed crowd at CMAC on Saturday, July 19th. With clear skies, warm temperatures, and a cool breeze drifting in off Canandaigua Lake, the How Good Is That World Tour stop came on an…

Syracuse-based singer-songwriter Jess Novak is hitting the road with multiple live shows across New York this summer, showcasing her blend of soulful vocals and electric violin. Her latest single, “Eve,” released on July 17, offers a…

In a landscape tailor-made for biophilic contemplation and homespun song, I’m With Her and Iron and Wine collaborated for an evening of storytelling and alchemic harmonizing. The final show on their co-headlining Robin’s Egg Tour at the…

The New York State Fair has announced their 2025 performers, including Scotland sensations Red Hot Chilli Pipers, TV personality DJ Pauly D, family-friendly group KIDZ BOP and more. The Fair is set to run from Aug. 20 through…

Yarn/Wire celebrates 20th season with the announcement of their 2025-2026 season. Percussionists, Russell Greenberg and Sae Hashimoto, and pianists, Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer, make up the experimental quartet…

On Friday, July 25, the Woodstock Film Festival hosted a screening at the Bearsville Theater of the highly anticipated documentary “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” which focuses on the life and death of the famed ethereal ’90s…