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This Saturday, prolific garage-punk musician Jay Reatard will perform at Cornell’s Big Red Barn. Reatard plays raucous three-chord garage punk with enough distorted lo-fi ambiance and trashed, vintage effects to balance out the catchy pop hooks.
Jay speaks in a heavy Memphis accent, and his singing style is somewhere between a Britishized Robert Pollard — barking […]

This is your FINAL reminder that the Skaters show is TONIGHT. This is excerpted from the lovely Ithaca Experimental press release dealio:
Hello music and art lovers.
TODAY (Tuesday) at No Radio RECORDS we are very proud to present a rare opportunity to see the very best international exponents of underground music:
a group of projects who represent […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past couple of weeks, you’ve likely heard about the much-talked about New Pornographers and Okkervil River concert tonight at the State Theatre. If you’ve only just now heard about it, sucks, because it’s been sold out for a while.
Recently we interviewed longtime Pornographer ringleader Carl Newman. You […]

Cornell University Percussion Ensemble
Tim Feeney, director
with guest Stephen Drury
Sunday, April 13, 3:00 PM
Barnes Hall
Features guest Stephen Drury (pictured) conducting John Zorn’s improvisation game “Cobra”

Last Thursday, lauded cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel spoke at Cornell as part of the English Dept’s Spring Reading Series. In preparation of the event, Bob Proehl interviewed Bechdel, the results of which can be found in an article in this week’s Ithaca Times.
He has also posted his complete interview with Bechdel on his […]

… i hear that the yellow swans are slowly coming to an end. too bad. they were excellent when i saw them last october at the issue project room. i also remember when they made a stop in ithaca for a fanclub collective show the fall of 2006. more details (including pete’s own thoughts about […]

“Please join us for a relaxing night of French song & fare.
This Thursday with Nuages.
Music begins at 8pm.
Please call ahead to save your spot.
607-273-8515
PANGEA
120 THIRD STREET
(entrance is on Madison)”

The FLAKES goes online! We look forward to seeing what they do with their site. . .

Sorry for the delay folks, but the full and complete interview with Todd Haynes [pictured here with the lovely Charlotte Gainsbourg] is now up in our interviews section. We were fortunate enough to spend some time with Todd upon his visit to Cornell Cinema last weekend for a special screening of “I’m Not There” [and […]

LOTS of chatter about the Ithaca Times (for better or for worse) on the Ithaca Craigstlist’s Rants & Raves today. What do YOU guys think??

Dare I say it — spring is here in Ithaca! Celebrate this evening with Wingnut and Hank Roberts tonight at the Lost Dog Lounge, 8pm.

I’m pleased to announce another exciting show happening at No Radio Records this Tuesday, April 15! For those of you that missed last month’s mind-melting Mouthus and Axolotl concert, this is another opportunity to hear some truly weird, lovely music. And for those of you that WERE there, then, well, you know precisely what I’m […]

[Text by Nick Knouf] The rolling hills and bucolic landscape of upstate New York belie a long history of engagement with contemporary artistic work. The “birth” of video art took place around here in the late 1960s and early 1970s with artists like Bill Viola and Nam June Paik, at institutions like Syracuse University, University […]

full story to follow in next week’s Ithaca Times!