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Just a friendly reminder that I will be out of Ithaca from Oct. 29 - Nov. 17. Here’s a quick look at shows in Ithaca that are coming up. So bummed I’m missing HEALTH, Real Estate and Sunny Day in Glasgow! Be sure to keep checking the Ithaca Times for articles on many of these […]

[Photo by Nate Dorr] It’s here: SOUND&SEASON: HALLOWEEN EDITION 2009.
The next edition of Sound & Season will be held at the Pantonal Cave — home of the Orbiting Art Ensemble and venue for previous PY shows like Sick Llama and Cotton Museum — this TUESDAY OCTOBER 27. The evening will featuring live music from Heavy […]

[Photo by elchicodelaleche] Popcorn Youth and Skipster are proud to present Diane Cluck, Ben Miller, Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, and Autumn in Halifax live at WildFire Bistro. This is our first concert at the new WildFire space (formerly Lost Dog Lounge) and we are incredibly excited to bring these talented and diverse artists!
Friday, October […]

American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Annie Clark makes art look effortless. After stints performing as a band member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens, Clark released her first solo record under her moniker St. Vincent. Marry Me (2007, Beggars Banquet) was a lush, precocious record that earned her comparisons to her more established peers […]

Ithaca Underground and Deep BeatZ are presenting a killer show tonight with Moldover (pictured here), Robot Detective, David Ezra Brown and Luddite Machine. It starts at 8pm, with doors at 7:30pm, and will be held at The Shop. I highly recommend you check it out.. read on for more info.
Moldover >> Known in the electronic […]

My endless gratitude goes out to those of you that came to the Blues Control show on a MONDAY NIGHT. You guys are champions. It was worth it: this night of duos was one of the best shows of the fall yet. American Sphinx, Brian!, Expo ‘70, Blues Control: it was sonic excellence across the […]

Last Saturday, Charlottesville, Virginia-based musician Alex Caton performed with clawhammer banjo player Pete Winne at The Shop in support of her latest and second solo album, The Sinners and The Saved. We recently spoke to the Binghamton native about her recent tour to the West Coast, recording at Levon Helm’s studio, and playing old time […]

Last Friday, Summer People hosted a benefit at the Spark Art Space in Syracuse. We went to check out the visual art component — Tien Chang, Agata Zietek, Meredith Towsand, Michal Wisniowski, Paul McDonough, and Thomas Ward all had pieces featured — and see live sets from Summer People, DJ Afar, Wooden Waves and Animal […]

National Book Award Finalist, Cornell poet, acclaimed author and all-around wonderful lady Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon will be reading a selection of her works with live accompaniment from two of my favorite Ithaca musicians: Johnny Dowd and Richie Stearns! J. Robert Lennon and H.G. Carillo will also be reading from their works. The reading begins at […]

Chicago quartet Califone plays tonight at Cornell Cinema, alongside a screening of Tim Rutili’s feature film debut, ‘All My Friends Are Funeral Singers.’ Earlier this month, they released an album of the same name, and it is excellent. What would Wilco have sounded like without Nels Cline’s wanky guitar solos? What kind of magic would […]

Last winter, I interviewed Brooklyn musician Morgan Packard and artist Joshue Ott in conjunction for their appearance at the Light In Winter Festival, in an event co-sponsored by Deep Beatz and held at Castaways. The show itself was marvelous — a combination of intuitive, on-the-fly drawings and music that held the audience rapt — as […]

A mighty congratulations are in order for Ithaca’s beloved poet, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, who was announced as a National Book Award finalist for poetry, for her work ‘Open Interval.’ A work that is, by the way, tremendous. [NYTimes]
Annie Clark likes ‘Please Kill Me’ — and Arrested Development! (As she should.)
She also performed at Rachel Comey’s […]

[By Brandi Herrera Pfrehm] As a kid growing up in the Pacific Northwest — where the coffeehouse is king, and there were drive-thru espresso joints on every corner before the idea was even a glimmer in Starbucks’ eye — I experienced my first green-siren latte in 1989. That was back when the company fostered an […]

I was walking home late last night and saw what I thought was a flashing mass of police sirens, spinning around at the intersection of Clinton St. and N. Cayuga St. As I got closer, I realized that it was an American flag made of whirling lights, part of an installation located in the bottom […]

Tomorrow I will be the featured guest on Tracey Craig’s radio broadcast ‘NONESUCH‘ on WVBR FM. I will be on the air from 2-3pm EST, and the program streams live as well! A description of Nonesuch:
Nonesuch is old folk, it’s new folk; it’s blues and bluegrass…the best of traditional music right alongside emerging songwriters. Sometimes […]