Archive for June, 2007

(From this week’s Ithaca Times) 
Tonight, Bill Gregg will present a solo concert entitled “Electronica XXI: A Concert of Electro-Acoustic Music.” Although Gregg is proficient in many styles of music, this program will draw upon his electronic works of the last 20 years. This Saturday also marks his first live concert of electronic works in over […]

(Note: This is from the article that originally appears in this week’s Ithaca Times. Check back soon for the complete transcript of our conversation with Tom and Christina Carter in our interviews section as well as photo galleries from the Soundlab show.)
Charalambides has been making experimental music that excels for the last 15 years, […]

Please join us at No Radio Records this Thursday, June 28th, 2007, at 8pm, for the first installment of what we hope will become a regular series of shows at various locations around town. “Ithaca Noise & Electronics” is what we are calling it, for now.
Performing Thursday will be Differance Engine, both solo and […]

This Saturday at 10pm, visit Lost Dog Lounge to help No Radio Productions celebrate their 5th birthday. The party will feature one of their popular musical face-offs: This weekend, it’ll put David Bowie and Talking Heads to the test. No Radio’s dance parties are usually held at the Chantiloft, where the sound is so bad, […]

Within the strange and beautiful world of western Massachusetts and the cross-pollinating winds that blow through Ecstatic Yod and Ecstatic Peace! — where layers upon layers of music history-and-futurity seem to bubble endlessly, flowing from Brooklyn, Boston, Hartford, Brattleboro and elsewhere back through the world again — an enigmatic artist known as Gown has […]

John Darnielle, the major songwriting force behind lo-fi indie duo The Mountain Goats, will headline a benefit for Watkins Glen’s Farm Sanctuary. The fundraiser, titled Zoop! A Benefit for Farm Sanctuary, runs from Saturday, June 16 through Sunday, June 17. Darnielle will perform two shows, accompanied by bandmate Peter Hughes and The Prayer & Tears […]

This Saturday, I will make my first trip ever to Buffalo to see Charalambides play at the Soundlab. I am looking forward to this show on a number of levels — I love Charalambides’ most recent work, such as “A Vintage Burden” on Kranky; I love solo Tom Carter projects such as “Lunar Eclipse” and […]

Sadness, sadness, sadness. John Pike was found dead yesterday, on June 3. Pike was the drummer for the Syracuse indie rock outfit Ra Ra Riot, who we love unabashedly for their melancholy, anthemic pop music. We had thoughts of bringing them here over the summer for another Ithaca show. The last time we saw them […]