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White Rabbits and The National will play a free show at the Cornell Arts Quad tonight! You can read our full interview with The National’s Aaron Dessner here. I’ll be posting the complete White Rabbits interview tomorrow, as I spoke with both singers, guitarist Greg Roberts and pianist Steve Patterson. For now, here’s the story […]

Check out the brand new website for Our Mouth Records, where you can view their full catalogue, including music by Axolotl, Skaters, Eskimo King, Cousins of Reggae, and other Mouthus-related side projects — as well as a full Mouthus discography. Sweet! I totally want that split with Double Leopards. Visit Ithaca Experimental for full Mouthus/Yellow […]

[Read the original article in this week’s Ithaca Times]
The National are becoming stars the old-fashioned way: through relentless touring, years of hard work, and solid musicianship. Their 2005 full-length Alligator was a mild underground success, but it was not until this springs’ ambitious rock album Boxer that The National jumped into the musical spotlight (Bruce […]

Sometimes the best part about travelling is discovering small, neat surprises. We just returned from a long weekend in San Diego and made a stop at the Turf Supper Club in Golden Hill, where John Reis hangs out and has worked (Reis, as you may know, is of Pitchfork/Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes/The Sultans/Rocket From the […]

Check out our nice arts feature by Rebecca Lerner on the growing Ithaca underground and new music scene. She really covers all the bases — punk, experimental, indie and DIY scenes are all given a voice. Here’s the article as it appears in this week’s Ithaca Times:
Sweaty from the lack of air conditioning inside No […]

We recently posted about an article that we wrote for the Ithaca Times about experimental choreographer, dancer and performance artist Jonah Bokaer. He’s an incredibly busy guy — we interviewed him last summer, when he presented the excellent show ” | underscore | ” — so this time around, we tried to focus on his […]

Here’s the following article about dancer/choreographer/performance artist Jonah Bokaer that appears in this week’s Ithaca Times. I’d spoken with Bokaer almost exactly one year ago (in preparation for his excellent ” | underscore | ” performance at the Kiplinger Theatre), and, once again, I was amazed at how pulled-together and smart Bokaer is at such […]

Apparently, Cornell University is getting Brooklyn-indie rock-ified. This year’s Slope Day featured TV on the Radio, and the Cornell Concert Commission announced on Friday a free show featuring The National and White Rabbits! I have to say, this is a gigantic improvement from last year’s free arts quad concert with — ahem — Motion City […]

In this week’s Ithaca Times, our art critic Wylie Schwartz attends local artist Karen Brummund’s latest time-based installation. Formerly based in London, where she attended art school, Brummund looks to be a quite interesting addition to our local art scene, and I hope to see more of her in the coming months. Here is the […]

We’ve recently returned from an exhausting, exhilarating weekend in Brooklyn and Brattleboro, Vermont. I’ve uploaded tons of photos from our weekend romp, including a few dim shots of the mellow Zaimph + Sunroof + Prurient show on Thursday at Issue Project Room (view them here), the fantastic Richard Serra retrospective at MOMA (view those here), […]