popcorn youth

Local old time string band the Hee Haw Nightmare have been one of the busiest acts around town this summer — not only did they release an (excellent) debut album a few weeks ago, they’ve been playing shows almost every single week, sometimes twice on the same night. Between a killer GrassRoots debut gig, house […]

Last week, the Ithaca Times interviewed Greek-born French filmmaker Costa-Gavras, most famous for his cult political thriller ‘Z.’ The full conversation can now be read in our interviews section. From the interview:
Popcorn Youth: Why did you make ‘Z’?
CG:  Z was made as a kind of protest against the colonists in Greece. All Greeks out of […]

Recently I wrote a piece published in the Ithaca Times on Epiphany Project, who played Cornell’s Schwartz Center June 30. That brief snippet really didn’t do the interview justice, so the transcript is published below in its entirety.
Ephiphany Project’s most recent album, Hin Dagh, was recorded in Armenia while Bet Williams and John Hodian, who […]

Tonight Ithaca Underground presents Kayo Dot and Tzar at the Haunt. This is an early show — doors at 5pm, start time at 6pm — so get there on time. We were totally blown away the last time Kayo Dot was in town (at No Radio Records, brought by Philip Price), as well as […]

FRIDAY, JUNE 19
LOST DOG LOUNGE
TOM CARTER >>
SHAWN DAVID MCMILLEN >>
STEVE GUNN >>
9:30pm / $6
106 S. Cayuga St.
Downtown Ithaca

Hello!
I am thrilled to announce that this Friday, June 19 at the Lost Dog Lounge in downtown Ithaca, guitar iconoclasts Tom Carter, Shawn David McMillen, and Steve Gunn will present a night of rare solo sets.
Tom […]

Last week, I attended a memorable concert at the Red House Arts Center in Syracuse. After the performance, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview the featured musicians, Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) and Olaf Bender (Byetone), two of the founders of the acclaimed Berlin-based electronic music label, Raster-Noton. Bender said this in the […]

Earlier this spring, we interviewed the co-owners of Magpie Gallery Ghop and Loudeac Tile Studio, Jean Callahan and Phil McCray. We’re a big fan of what they’ve done with the small space up in Collegetown, as well as their thriving Newfield-based studio. Both bring an esoteric and intellectual sensibility to what could well be construed […]

We recently interviewed NYC-based electronic musician Elijah B. Torn, who played at the Lost Dog Lounge this past Saturday in an event held by Sharinne Sukhnanand (otherwise known as DJ Laika) of Deep beatZ. The truncated version of our conversation appears in this week’s Ithaca Times; the full, minimally edited transcript is now up in […]

Our interview with John Clardy, the drummer for Tera Melos, is up now in our interviews section. They’ll perform with Syracuse indie rock band Summer People and locals Technicolor Winter at the Haunt on Saturday, May 9. It’s an early Ithaca Underground-sponsored show — with Tera Melos playing at 8pm — so get there early! […]

Some of you might remember the fantastic streak of shows we had with North Carolina bands Kelley & the Cowboys and the Red Hots back in March (they played back-to-back shows in Corning, Ithaca, and Trumansburg). We had the opportunity to chat with vocalist Kelley Breiding (who also plays upright bass in the Red Hots) […]

[So sorry for the delay; full interview to be posted later this afternoon. This is the version that appeared in the Ithaca Times a few weeks ago]
Nestled among the rapidly growing community of retro-embracing bands is the fast-rising and earnest dream-pop group the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. With bassist Alex Naidus, guitarist/vocalist Kip […]

Bordering on redundancy re: previous post, but a truly excellent article by Corey about tomorrow’s show with Mountains, Hank Roberts, Why the Wires [see: aforementioned blog post]. He interviewed Koen of Mountains — from the interview, which appears in this week’s Ithaca Times:
“Performing is the composition,” states Holtkamp. “We won’t play anything off the last […]

There are two great articles to be found about tomorrow’s Windy & Carl with Benoit Pioulard concert. The first is to be found in the Ithaca Times, as written by Nick Carr. An excerpt from Nick’s interview:
“We experiment with our instruments, trying new things, finding new ways to play them, and then work with sounds […]

After attending Tuesday’s AC Newman concert at Castaways, I was inspired to dig up an old transcript from my interview with Newman last year as part of their New Pornographers stop at the State Theater. I was surprised to find, however, that I never posted it online! Whoops! Well, it’s posted now, and you can […]

Maybe you’ve noticed that former intern Corey Millard has been writing quite a bit for the Ithaca Times. We’ve finally gotten around to posting the great stories he’s written about the following people. Read the full story in our interviews section here!

He spoke with NYT film critic A.O. Scott.

Then he spoke with local man-about-town Bob […]