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Sorry to have been MIA for the past few days — I even missed my favorite: Monday Youtube Zen. I’ll make up for it by posting my show calendar one day early. There’s a surprising amount of stuff going on considering it’s a holiday weekend. I’m mostly staying local this weekend, from the […]

We just caught wind of two new-ish local music websites: In addition to their myspace, our buddy Ithaca Underground now has a blog, which features their email zine, interviews, and show info. And then there’s Ithaca Music, which attempts to post about every musician and document every event around town (good luck). Both are clearly […]

If you are up for the hour-long drive, the big event tonight seems to be ‘Democracy Now!’ host Amy Goodman at Geneva’s Smith Opera House. Ithaca’s own Evil City String Band is opening at 6:30pm NOT at 7:30pm as it was incorrectly printed on the tickets so get there early! Kathryn recently interviewed the journalist […]

[Summertime photo from my flickr] The Horse Flies will play a free show tonight from 5:30-7:30pm at the Corning Museum of Glass as part of their opening reception celebration. If you haven’t made the drive out to Corning to see the museum, this is a pretty good excuse to make the trip!

I can’t believe Wednesday snow is already here! I present your weekly show calendar. My picks include the free show with The Horse Flies at the Corning Museum of Glass on Thursday and Hank Roberts with Wingnut at the Chapter House on Saturday. Other than that, it’s a pretty quiet weekend. A few other fun […]

It’s just been announced that Columbia, MO-based band Jerusalem and the Starbaskets will play No Radio tonight with Heater. The show begins at 8:30pm and is free and open to the public. A brief description, courtesy of Bull Tongue (Thurston Moore / Byron Coley column in Arthur Mag):
“An amazing split LP is to be had […]

Here’s some more information about tonight’s show that I’ve conveniently gathered for you here. SO COME OUT, PLZ. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. Ahem. The above photo is one that I took earlier this year during an nmperign show at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room (apologies for the fuzziness). Onward: This is a fantastic interview on Stylus […]

We already told you that we had a great time at The Decemberists concert on Sunday night… now read the interview! Kathryn had the opportunity to interview the Decemberists’ ’stoic’ bass player, Nate Query, for the IT. Read on to see what Nate prefers: unicorns or butterflies! Oh, the suspense. From their chat:
Katie: What was […]

We heard great things about Sunday’s concert with Cassandra Wilson (and featuring pianist Jason Moran, no less), but between Edie Sedgwick, the Cobra Skulls, and The Decemberists, there were a million things going on. Luke recently interviewed the jazz vocalist for a feature in the Ithaca Times. From his story:
“I wanted to work with spare […]

Right now we’re catching up on our interview archives and we realized we never posted this article from October. Danielle recently interviewed Eilen Jewell before her concert at Castaways back in October. Read the full story here. From the article:
“I wrote that song because I felt like at that time it was — and still […]

This is our LAST SHOW of the year so you have NO EXCUSE not to come. I do not say things like this lightly: DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW. IT WILL BE FANTASTIC. One quick addition: Local musician Cosmo Alpern is back in town, and playing an early set tomorrow evening around 6:30pm. A.P. Tate […]

There seem to be a ton of shows this weekend, which is great for those of you that are already battling with early onset Seasonal Affective Disorder. (S.A.D.) Friday’s highlight is definitely the Ithaca return of Transcendental Manship Highway, all improv black metal drone psych heaviness, featuring members of: Aaron Phillip Tate, Stone Baby, Oliver/Reeg, […]

THIS WEDNESDAY 11/12!!!
Triclops!, HO-AG, Screaming Protest, The Motivators @ No Radio
312 E Seneca St
Ithaca, New York 14850
$5 7PM
OH YEAH!  We got this tour to come to ITHACA!!!  A bit in the making but its here and you don’t want to miss out!! Crazy ass acid/prog punk of Triclops! (Alternative Tentacles) to the all over the […]

Oh dear. It’s snowing! Monday malaise to be sure. Did anyone see The Walkmen / The Decemberists show last night? Did anyone think that 1.) It would have been nice if The Walkmen played at least one old song besides the old standard “We’ve Been Had” 2.) No “The Rat”? Seriously? 3.) Colin Meloy was […]

Full tour dates, in case you happen to be elsewhere:
Monday, 11/10: No Radio Records, 312 East Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY, 8:00PM
Jesse Kudler and Christian Weber; Aaron Tate
Tuesday, 11/11: Abient Editions presents at 48 Abell st. unit 108 (Queen + Gladstone), Toronto, ONT, CA, 9:00PM, $10
Christian Weber solo; Chandan Narayan + Jesse Kudler duo; Black […]