popcorn youth

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 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 […]

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 […]

We spotted this sign at the Gimme! outpost at Saturday’s Farmers Market. It is a bummer, as now we will all have to make our coffee stops prior to arriving at the Market at the early hour of 9am. Sigh. Life is so hard. Enjoy these photos from the weekend and happy Monday. (Oh, and […]

Last Sunday, the Fanclub hosted their first show of the semester — and it was a noise show! Hooray. And, it was amazing.

Wasteland Jazz Unit headlined.

Wasteland Jazz Unit is Jon Lorenz on saxophone and John Rich on clarinet. They are a Cincinnati (Ohio) duo and they play an amorphous, hyper-amplified free noise which is blasting […]

COTTON MUSEUM

Unfortunately my camera died before I could get pics of Heath’s (amazing) Sick Llama set.

Preparing the Pantonal Cave dinner for Heath, Chris, et all. We don’t mess around.

Absolutely everything was consumed. Clockwise from top left: Arugula, raddichio, kidney bean salad with lemon vinaigrette + parmesan. Whole wheat penne with Jason’s homemade pesto, basil and […]

First stop: Farmer’s Market for Gimme! Coffee, flatbread pizza with feta and swiss chard (!), and vegan cold noodle salads.

The Small Kings, plus Gary Graeff on mando.

Why the Wires have a CD release party on Sept 23, btw. With Daniel Francis Doyle at The Shop, sponsored by Ithaca Underground.

Bikes parked (mine is the one in […]

Thanks again to everyone that came to last week’s EATS TAPES and FYOELK show, and sweated their butts off in the steamy Chanti Loft. Heaps of thanks and praise to Bob Proehl and Luke Fenchel for contributing their (excellent!) DJ services (Ariel Pink, Junior Boys, Syd Barrett, Ducktails spun in between sets? Yes plz.) and […]

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 […]

The Sim Redmond Band is engrained in Ithacan culture, so I felt like I was undergoing a local rite of passage when I finally saw them last Friday night.

They were supposed to perform on Cornell’s Arts Quad, but the rain infuriatingly displaced the concert to Uris Hall. It was packed, especially with moms/dads/kids – understandable […]

Thanks again to everyone that came out for the show on Friday night. The evening was a massive success and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves! The next Popcorn Youth show is just around the corner: BILL NACE and METALUX and AMEN DUNES on Thursday, July 9 — my first show at the brand new venue, […]

So, I completely dropped the ball on stuff that’s been happening in the last few days. That’s because I’ve been busy planning… planning for our future. A future filled with shows featuring Magik Markers, Mouthus, Weirding Module, Trigal, Why the Wires and more. Planning big shows and small shows, public shows and basement shows… this […]

Recently, our staff photographer Rachel Philipson took some photos for a piece I did on Chris Seeds, aka Mossy Pine. (I’ll post that article soon, I promise.) She did such a lovely job that I felt compelled to post a full gallery over at our flickr. The shots are of Chris, Jennie Lowe, and Emily […]

Man, we have been so busy lately. Now that we’ve fixed our ongoing server problems, I can regail you with photos past and present. There were a couple of interesting events that we weren’t able to get photos of. (Off the top of my head: the recent Stone Baby gig at No Radio; Stars Like […]

We just caught wind of the fact that the Boston-based band Alloy Orchestra will be returning to Ithaca for two performances at the Cornell Cinema on Nov. 7 and 8. Some of you may want to check this out — the Alloy Orchestra features none other than post-punk icon Roger Miller of Mission of Burma! […]