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HOUSE PARTY / BASEMENT SHOW!
MONDAY APRIL 14TH 2008
FOOD, DRINK AND LIVE MUSIC BY
THE SKATERS
MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS
PACIFIC RAT TEMPLE BAND
DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE
BURNT HILLS
HELDERBERG HOUSE
96 SYCAMORE ST
ALBANY NY 12208
PARTY STARTS AT 5 PM
LIVE MUSIC STARTS PROMPTLY AT 7 PM
PLEASE BRING A DONATION FOR THE TOURING BANDS

This afternoon, the Tompkins County SPCA Adoption Center will hold a foster care fair from 1-5pm. From what I’ve heard, the animals up for temporary care are teeny tiny KITTEHS who need intensive care in their first 1-6 months of existence. Because spring is breeding season, apparently there are a lot of teeny tiny […]

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; photo of Vic Rawlings; article from the Ithaca Times] If you happened to hear the performance by Brooklyn duo Mouthus earlier this month at No Radio Records, you witnessed an auditory event hovering somewhere between Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising and the industrial clamor of early Einstuerzende Neubauten, but updated […]

This afternoon, the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) will present Mufti Husein Kavazovic, who will give a talk titled “The Path to Reconciliation and Coexistence in a Post-Genocidal Society.” The talk will begin at 4:30pm at 233 Plant Science on the Cornell Campus. The Mufti has spent some time in Ithaca before, and we […]

Unfortunately, I can’t say I know all that much about journalist Natalie Morales (having never seen a single episode of the ‘Today’ show, for one thing), but I can’t help but admire her success and perseverance in a male-dominated industry. I can see this talk being valuable for anyone looking to break into the broadcasting […]

For all you lucky Saratoga Spring folk, here’s an announcement for an exciting show featuring our Albany buddies Century Plants perform with Northampton psych-noise collective sunburned hand of the man (whom we’ve had the pleasure of seeing live many, many times). I might add that if you are really into tweaked-out, extended jams but live […]

“… In a post-apocalyptic future, a cyborg orangutan and an albino princess must escape political imprisonment before her illegitimate brother takes over an African kingdom.  To do so, they must broker a deal with foreign agents who demand art works, once thought to be lost, which have been hidden in the palace under the guise […]

Tonight Cary Brothers and four other singer-songwriters will present the Hotel Cafe tour at the State Theatre. The show starts at 7:30pm. We can’t say it’s exactly our cuppa, but at only $15 a ticket, it’s certainly one of the State’s more affordable shows. The five featured artists have developed a semi-DIY, democratic model where […]

We go to press this afternoon, so I completely swamped with work, but I did want to mention this exciting reading tonight (apologies in advance for my unabashed reproduction of the press release). Enjoy!
>>>The Ithaca College Department of Writing and School of Humanities and Sciences will welcome Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa to campus […]

“…Hey Hey,
I’ve very excited about the coming spring. I will be on tour playing drums and bass pedals with my man Jamie Lidell for about two and a half months starting in April. Dates will be posted soon….
Willie…”
Bon voyage and best wishes!! For you lucky big city folk, tour dates here.

…As trends have flown by, Mission of Burma’s music has held firm, unaffected by fashion, unsullied by imitation, and undiminished by the passage of time…

Definitely a busier weekend this time around — there are lots of good shows happening in the next few days. Unfortunately, we won’t be around on Saturday — we’re going to see C Spencer Yeh in Albany — but there are plenty of great Ithaca options if you’re going to be in town. Although there […]

Note: You can read the transcript of my conversation with Jane Hammond in our interviews section. The following is the article that appeared in the Ithaca Times.
[From the Ithaca Times, March 12]
Systems. Recurrence. Repetition. On first glance, these words may be the last thing you think of when observing Jane Hammond’s wildly alive and seemingly […]

quick announcement that i will be playing at wvbr tomorrow [thursday] night from 7-11pm. revisiting my old hangout and playing some new tunes, so keep your ears open… so tune in to either 93.5FM or stream live at their site, then call me at 607-273-2121 for any requests. but no hate calls, please. i really […]

Soooo…. you may have noticed an absence of posts reminding you about cool stuff happening around town. Well, that’s because there isn’t really anything cool happening around town this weekend. It’s what we call a slow news week. That’s okay, because what with this and this and even this going on around here, we’ve been […]