popcorn youth

A HUGE thank you to everyone that came out to the Awesome Color show on Sunday… it was an extraordinary success! I think I can say with great confidence that it was one of the best shows I’ve been to this year. Those of you that were there can vouch for their intensity and incredible […]

Plenty of hump day links …..
……Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Ox. Guess who is an Ox? Our new president! Here’s what the venerable Wikipedia had to say:
“Traditionally, people born under the influence of the Ox are thought to be kind, caring souls, logical, positive, filled with common sense and with their […]

[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 […]

[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 […]

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; photo of Carter in 2000 by Meredith Heuer; appears in the Jan. 31 edition of the Ithaca Times]
Though his birthday is not until December 11, the year 2008 marks the centenary of the birth of one of America’s finest living composers, Elliott Carter, whose seven decade-long meditation on form, pitch […]