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Graham Reynolds is a composer by day and a performer by night. In Austin, Reynolds plays around town in his band Golden Arm Trio, where he leads with both piano and drumming duties. Golden Arm Trio, a fixture on both Austin rock and experimental music scenes, relies heavily on improvisation and spontaneity, and a definite […]

From this week’s Encore: Since 2002, Hamilton College’s Independent Music Fund has been curating the Mayday Festival, bringing mostly indie and college rock bands to their campus. Past years have featured The Unicorns, Sleater-Kinney, Ted Leo, The New Pornographers, Chromeo, and Rainer Maria. The IMF, a small group of students passionate about music, have recently […]

Finally, the complete transcript of our conversation with the deeply respected artist and Cornell University professor Buzz Spector. It’s completely worth the long read, as Buzz so generously shared his thoughts on a variety of fascinating topics: the situation for critical theory in China, fellow text artists, and the importance of books for children, just […]

This has been a sad past few months for the American jazz world. In the last five months, we had to endure the deaths of iconic musicians Alice Coltrane, Michael Brecker, and James Brown. Different but no less significant was the passing away of Kurt Vonnegut several weeks ago.
Most recently, Friday saw the passing away […]

I recently noticed that in my previous Pedro the Lion post, I had failed to actually link to the interview. Oops. Well, here it is in all of its glory. The Fanclub Collective brought David Bazan to Ithaca on March 30. Unfortunately, I missed the show because I was too busy winning awards in Saratoga […]

The Cornell Concert Commission always books one big show every semester at Barton Hall (last semester, it was The Strokes; the semester before, Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab). For those not familiar with this cavernous space, allow me to remind you: the sound is awful, the ventilation is worse, and if the concert happens to […]

This week, Ithaca Times writer Jane Dieckmann sat down with soprano Katherine FitzGibbon, who is currently Cornell’s Interim Choir Director. FitzGibbon has been incredibly active in Ithaca’s classical music community, and she is participating and directing in a number of concerts around town in the month of April. Read Jane’s profile of this young woman […]

I wanted to let you know about a unique and historically significant Ithaca show coming up next Friday.
The band is Ike Yard, and the show is at the Lost Dog Lounge this Friday, April 20, at 10pm. The show is sponsored by the Fanclub Collective.
Ike Yard is a legendary NYC electro / no wave / […]

From Pamela Goddard’s article, which appears as this week’s Arts Cover story in the Ithaca Times:

The Kitchen Counter Culture Series comes to a close in April with a rare treat. Peruvian actress Teresa Ralli, a founding member of Peru’s famed Yuyachkani theater collective, will be performing Antígona — a one-woman play adapted by poet Jose […]

Friday night, Mary Lorson and Billy Cote performed a selection of their score to Steven Cantor’s documentary “What Remains.” I found their sparse, melancholic incidental music to be a remarkably effective accompaniment to such a somber, strange film. Sally Mann — you probably know her best from this controversial series of photographs — has quite […]

Kurt Vonnegut passed away last night. This is truly sad news, and a great loss to 20th century American literature. Vonnegut was one of the first “serious” authors that I devoured as a young adult. I think I even did a book report on “Cat’s Cradle” when I was in 6th grade. Vonnegut went to […]

The lineup for Slope Day 2007 has been announced: TV on the Radio and T.I. One more band will be announced in the next few weeks, but this is the official lineup so far. One thing is certain: it’s going to blow last year’s Slope Day — Ben Folds, Acceptance and Talib Kweli — out […]

From this week’s Encore:
The Abattoir is a brand new venue located over on the South Hill, and they have their debut show this Friday. Their mission statement is as follows: “The Abattoir is an old slaughter house situated behind our house up on the South Hill of Ithaca, NY. Retrofitted into a small show space, […]

This week’s arts cover is a lengthy interview with local singer songwriter Mary Lorson, who is most well known for her work in Madder Rose and Saint Low, but has been making a move into the film soundtracking world as of late. Read the cover story here and look for a more detailed post later […]

I have some exciting news! The New York Press Association has named the Ithaca Times “Best Arts Coverage of 2006″ as part of their “Better Newspapers Contest.” Nearly 250 weekly newspapers were represented, and over 4,000 entries were submitted. I was so, so surprised and incredibly honored (I didn’t even know that I was even […]