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Eight Songs of Racial Protest
Music has the power to bring people together in the name of solidarity. Throughout protest history, there have…
Goose Returns to SPAC for 2 Nights, Announce Full Summer Tour
Goose will return to Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) this summer, bringing veteran jam bands along for a…
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Features
Not Fade Away: JRAD Carry on The Legacy of The Grateful Dead & Honor Bob Weir…
Over the weekend of January 16-18, Joe Russo's Almost Dead (JRAD) returned to the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester…
Jackson and the Janks Turn Half Moon Hudson into Southern Blues Club
On Thursday, January 22, The Half Moon in Hudson, NY hosted Jackson and the Janks.
The Half Moon sits off…
Concert Reviews
Jillith Fair: New York Musicians Honor the Late Jill Sobule
Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule died in a house fire in Woodbury, Minnesota, on May 1, 2025. Reports suggest that…
New York Series
“John Brown’s Body” – the Original “Battle Hymn of…
Amid the political turmoil that we have seen unfold in 2025, the abolitionist John Brown has been popping up in…
New York Singles
The Goldberg Sisters’ Latest Track Inspired by Suburban New York
The pandemic now serves as a time marker for many people, but for The Goldberg Sisters, it became a turning point, from seeking the energy of city life to noticing the small intricacies of Hudson Valley. With the latest single “The Great…
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Christopher Ardra Single and Video “Tell Me” Released Now
Christopher Ardra is an ‘80s sophisticated soft-rock composer' located in New York, who is releasing a single and video, “Tell Me,” on January 20th. The song is a sneak peek into a sophomore album set to drop at the beginning of summer.
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Bear Grass Opens a New Chapter With “Chugging Along”
Upstate New York songwriter Katie Hammon returns as Bear Grass with “Chugging Along,” the first release from her forthcoming six-song collection Distance. The track arrives, January 23 on Soundcloud. "Chugging Along" lands not with…
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Telescreens Tap Into Pure Grit With New Single “Preacher”
NYC rock band Telescreens come out swinging on new single “Preacher,” a strong, high volume track that signals a sharp entry into the current rock landscape.
Formed in Manhattan and comprised of Jackson Hamm (vocals/guitar), Austin…
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Book Reviews
Music’s Big Idea, the Concept Album, Chronicled in New Book by Bill Kopp
Music has always been a vehicle for telling stories – of love and heartbreak, of history and fantasy, and much more. Sometimes the stories can be related in a tuneful single lasting under three minutes. In other cases, beginning in…
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Ric Ocasek, The Cars’ Driving Force, Profiled in New Biography
While his work with The Cars produced some of the best-known music of the New Wave ‘80s, many facets of the life of the band’s resident genius, Ric Ocasek, remain a mystery – one as tall as the man himself.
With his unexpected death in…
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Hole & Smashing Pumpkins’ Melissa Auf der Maur Pens A Memoir
Melissa Auf der Maur, the bassist who powered Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins to the top of the indie charts, is slated to release a memoir of her alternatively joyful and harrowing experiences in the ‘90s rock scene. The book,…
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Flashback
A Holiday Classic: Darlene Love performs “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” on Late…
From 1986 until 2014, David Letterman would close out his final show of the year with a Christmas episode that featured the one and only Darlene Love. Over the span of those 28 years, Love would perform her holiday hit "Christmas (Baby…
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Grateful Dead Double Up In Stony Brook: October 30, 1970
After two previous shows at SUNY Stony Brook in Long Island in 1967 and '68, the Grateful Dead returned to the campus gymnasium in 1970 on October 30. It was billed as two separate shows with two separate admissions. This marked the first…
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U2 at SU: “The Joshua Tree” Tour Stops at The Carrier Dome – October 9, 1987
In 1987, the Carrier Dome in Syracuse hosted the breakthrough “The Joshua Tree” tour from Irish rock band U2. Spanning over 100 shows, the tour’s third and final leg made 5 total stops across New York State in the fall of ‘87, leading to…
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Gone too soon
Rest in Peace Bob Weir
Guitarist, singer and jam band icon, Bob Weir, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday evening. He was 78. Weir performed for more than 60 years, defining a generation through his music, giving a multitude of fans worldwide a connection and…
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Syracuse Music Community Mourns the Loss of Steve Schad
Central New York lost a beloved member of its music community on Saturday, November 29, with the passing of Steve Schad. He was 72.
A native of CNY, Schad graduated from Jamesville-DeWitt High School in 1972. His music career began in…
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Grateful Dead Vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay Dies at 78
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, best known as the female vocalist of The Grateful Dead, has died at the age of 78. She passed away on Sunday, November 2 at Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Her…
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