popcorn youth

[Text by Luke Z. Fenchel] If you managed to make it up to Trumansburg earlier this month for the GrassRoots Festival, you might now be suffering from an ailment I’m beginning to associate with overexposure to live local music.
This particular form of performance anxiety appears to combine symptoms of withdrawal, an acute hangover, and a […]

[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 […]

It’s been a pretty mellow week for news — until all the students return from winter break, things are pretty low key around here. In any case, there are a couple events of interest coming up. Our cover story this week was with Afro/soul/jazz combo Mifune, and they’ll be playing The Haunt tomorrow night. They’ve […]

Take a break from baking pies, sweeping floors, basting turkeys, and being thankful to check out what’s featured in the Ithaca Times this week. Our cover story this week is about the Johnny Cash tribute concert — featuring Chickenwire Parachute, the Don Bazley Projectiles, Missing Marcus, Sean Kobuk, Common Railers, PJ & G Marcus, and […]

Been putting this off for so long, seems to make the most sense to do a quickie write up of the past few gigs I’ve attended. Also note new Photos tab, with tons of extra pics I’ve snapped (will be functional until I sort out how to work our flickr account).
Tilly and the Wall (10/14, […]

EDIT: Girl Talk show is Friday night, not Saturday. Ergo, no conflict with show at No Radio on Saturday. Ignore what you read in the papers people!!

SECOND EDIT: I would like to sincerely apologize to the three owners of No Radio Records. A retraction must be made: The record label, No Radio, is a joint […]

Okay, I know the Small Sails show was almost a week ago, but better late than never, right? The show raised some extremely interesting questions on the nature of performance as a band and certain factors that completely alter the experience of the viewer/audience in terms of traditional band setup. Small Sails, as I’ve said […]