popcorn youth

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 […]

I think the last teen/young adult book I read was Frindle in eighth grade. By this point I was reading mostly Tom Clancy, and just getting into John Grisham. Ho ho, I thought, I’m so mature. This book is about fifth graders, ho ho.
But then I really liked it. It had all the classic elements […]

So I heard an amusing rumor yesterday – a rumor mind you so don’t take it as doctrine – that went like this: Ithaca Fest is a celebration put on by Ithaca locals signifying their ‘taking back’ of the city due to the exodus of students that comes after the Ithaca, Cornell and TC3 […]

Don’t forget! The Magik Markers are going on a FOUR CITY tour for the release of the excellent ‘Balf Quarry’ — and they’re making a stop in Ithaca!! (WTF, we know.) Mouthus and American Sphinx to open. This show is going to be the jam of the summer, count on it! From Masters’ review, with […]

Flipped Out Records recently sent out an email about a recent article that appeared in the Metroland, an alternative newsweekly printed in Albany. As it’s a good review of the Michael Chapman / Jack Rose gig that happened in the Heidelberg House last week, it makes sense to link it here, to give you a […]

Many apologies for our extended hiatus. We’ve been super busy planning some exciting events for the next few months , and we can’t wait to tell you about them. Along the way, we’ve had lots of great shows that we feel really blessed about. Avarus and Ducktails made their first Ithaca appearance; Blues Control blew […]

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; photo of Vic Rawlings; article from the Ithaca Times] If you happened to hear the performance by Brooklyn duo Mouthus earlier this month at No Radio Records, you witnessed an auditory event hovering somewhere between Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising and the industrial clamor of early Einstuerzende Neubauten, but updated […]

…As trends have flown by, Mission of Burma’s music has held firm, unaffected by fashion, unsullied by imitation, and undiminished by the passage of time…

As most of you know, a week ago today No Radio Records hosted Super Furry Animals and Times New Viking in their modestly-sized space. I wrote a bit about the show for this week’s Encore column in the Ithaca Times, and it goes a little something like this:
It’s been quite a month for Cornell’s Fanclub […]

[Text by Luke Z. Fenchel; from this week’s Ithaca Times]
Four years ago this November, I attended one of the most exhilarating shows of my life. On tour for their breakthrough album Funeral, Arcade Fire played a sold-out show in a rec room at Cornell University; it was all thanks to the small organization, the Fanclub […]

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; from the Ithaca Times]

New music aficionados in Ithaca will be pleased by what is on offer this week. On Wednesday, trumpeter Jacques Coursil will perform in the first of two events hosted by Cornell devoted to his music and thought. Free and open to the public, his first performance will […]

[From the Ithaca Times; archive photo above of Stockhausen; all text by Aaron P. Tate]
In music’s digital age, year-end surveys and ‘best of’ lists have become simultaneously more popular (e.g., every blogger and music critic has one) and more deficient in coverage. That’s the nature of the beast, one supposes, given the enormous number of […]

[Image above: Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940), Sunday Morning, March 7, 1909, Morris Herowitz, ten years old, 1909. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Martin Z. Margulies. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art] Since we ran in this space Nancy Geyer’s review of the video art exhibit at the Johnson Museum, it […]

Broken Social Scene plays music for lovers. Not just romantic relationships, but also friends, family, and general revelers — the Toronto collective’s ramshackle, shimmering indie rock songs practically demand it. Although Sunday’s concert at Barton Hall was full of couples — I happened to be unlucky enough to stand behind a particularly touchy-feely pair that […]

This week, our cover story was on the folk trio The Roches, a group of three close-knit sisters, Terre, Suzzy, and Maggie. They’ll be playing the State Theatre this Saturday at 8pm, and stay tuned for a longer post about my lovely conversation with the youngest sister, Suzzy. Read the article that appeared in the […]