Items tagged with 'music'
My Exit: Gina Marie Cannistraro
Tonight: Beats by Gina Marie
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
Here's a look at what's coming up tonight:
My Exit: Jeremy Clowe
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
Here's a look at what's coming up tonight:
The Black Ships
Something to listen to this morning: "Bangalor" by The Black Ships, a duo from Saratoga. It fits with today's weather.
The band is playing a show at 51 3rd in Troy this Saturday at 8 pm -- $5 suggestion donation. Also on the slate: Big Digits and GZ Lightning Round.
Florence + The Machine at SPAC
Not pictured: The Machine.
Updated
Florence + The Machine posted the slate for its fall tour today -- and it includes a stop at SPAC on September 16. Tickets go on sale this Friday (May 11). They start at $39.50. It's a pavilion-only show.
We're guessing this will be a rather popular show, if only because of the ubiquity of that song (you know which one).
By the way: Florence has a last name -- it's Welch.
Openers for the SPAC show: another English band, The Maccabees. (Not to be confused with the 2nd century BCE Jewish rebels of the same name.)
[via @beam_record]
photo via Florence + The Machine website
My Exit: Raurri Jennings
Tonight's My Exit host, Raurri Jennings
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
Here's a look at what's coming up tonight:
Art on Lark 2012
Here's the music lineup, via our friends over at WEXT, for this year's Art on Lark festival, which is coming up June 9:
And, of course, Lark Street will be closed off that day for all sorts of artistic happenings and whatnot.
In other news: this is becoming the year of Babe City.
Tickets for Rosary Beard at Steamer 10
Hunter Sagehorn and Matthew Loiacono
Drawing's closed! Winner's been emailed!
Rosary Beard -- that would be Matthew Loiacono (Matthew Carefully) and Hunter Sagehorn (of Alta Mira) -- is playing a show at the Steamer 10 Friday night to celebrate their new album, Halfmoon Fever. We have two tickets, and we're giving them away -- maybe to you.
The enter, please answer this question in the comments:
What's your favorite beard or facial hair?
This could be in general (goatee, handlebar) or specific (Santa Claus, Ron Swanson). We'll pick one winner at random.
The new Rosary Beard album is a series of acoustic instrumentals. It's good. We've enjoyed listening to it during the work day -- it sort of makes the rest of the world temporarily disappear.
Opening Friday's show: Winterpills, a chamber pop group from Northampton. It's a well-matched slate.
The show starts at 8 pm. Tickets are $13 ahead / $15 at the door.
Important: All comments must be submitted by 10 am on Wednesday (May 2, 2012) to be entered in the drawing. One entry per person, please. You must enter a valid email address (that you check regularly) with your comment (seriously, we want to give you the tickets). The winner will be notified via email by 3 pm on Wednesday and must respond by 10 am on Thursday (May 3, 2012).
photo: Laura Harris
Death Cab for Cutie at Ommegang, Conor Oberst at The Egg
Deathcab for Cutie
And all the (now somewhat older) indie kids went "Squee!"
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is playing at Brewery Ommegang July 21 (a Saturday). It's an outside, rain-or-shine show. Tickets go on sale May 4 (this Friday). They're $39.50.
As you know, Death Cab is a former indie fave now gone mainstream. Frontman Ben Gibbard also collaborated with Jimmy Tamborello on The Postal Service. (His collaboration with Zooey Deschanel was less successful). And Death Cab is Seth Cohen's favorite band.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is playing The Egg July 25 (a Wednesday). Tickets go on sale May 4. They're $35 ahead / $40 day of.
Oberst has often created music under the name Bright Eyes, along with a bunch of other collaborations. The show at The Egg will be solo and acoustic.
Death Cab photo: Danny Clinch
My Exit: Gary Ferris
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
Today's host takes you beyond Band Aid and "We are the World" to look at a wide variety of good music that gave back...
Felice Brothers at Jillian's
The Felice Brothers are playing at Jillian's May 11 (that's a Friday). Locals Eastbound Jesus are the openers. Tickets are $18 ahead / $20 day of.
A few days after the Jillian's show, the Felice Brothers will be back in town to play the New Yorkers Against Fracking concert at The Egg on May 15.
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photo via Felice Brothers Facebook
Anti-fracking concert at The Egg
The Egg announced today there will be a "New Yorkers Against Fracking" concert there May 15 -- and the lineup is includes a bunch of names you'll recognize: Medeski, Martin & Wood; Natalie Merchant; Citizen Cope; The Felice Brothers; Joan Osborne; Tracy Bonham; Toshi Reagon; Dan Zanes; Ida; The Horse Flies; The Ahkwesasne Women Singers.
The show will be hosted by actors Mark Ruffalo and Melissa Leo. Ruffalo, who lives in the Catskills, has been a vocal opponent of fracking -- lobbying at the Capitol and starting an org to fight it.
Tickets went on sale this morning. They're $150 and $40 / $20 for students and seniors. Presumably proceeds from the concert will be benefit New Yorkers Against Fracking.
The original announcement for this concert include Yoko Ono in the lineup, but organizers say she wasn't confirmed.
My Exit: Mike Guzzo
Tonight's My Exit host, Mike Guzzo
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
This week, the host of CRUMBS Cafe goes heavy on the rhythm section...
My Exit: Kevin Wright and Heather Wright
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
This week, a family jam band session....
Tulip Fest 2012 lineup and schedule
Fountains of Wayne. Let's hope they don't need the scarves in May.
The lineup for this year's Tulip Festival was announced today -- Fountains of Wayne is the headliner. And some tribute bands.
Tulip Fest is May 12 and 13 this year (Mother's Day weekend, as always).
The full lineup -- with a schedule of events -- is after the jump.
Wilco at Ommegang, Wilco at MASS MoCA
Wilco at MASS MoCA in 2010.
There's no Solid Sound Festival this year, but Wilco will be playing two shows in the region this summer:
Brewery Ommegang
Wilco is playing outside at the Belgian-style brewery in Cooperstown July 28. Tickets go on sale this Friday (April 13) at 11 am. The Lee Ranaldo Band opens.
Tickets are $42 ahead, $50 day of (kids under 12 free). Camping is another $15. It's a rain or shine event.
MASS MoCA
Wilco is playing a benefit show for the museum July 31. It will be indoors, in the museum's Hunter Center, with a capacity limited to 1000 people.
MASS MoCA members get first crack at the tickets this Wednesday and Thursday (April 11 and 12) -- a limited allotment will be made available at the price of $113 (limit 2 per member) -- by calling the museum's box office (413.662-2111 x1) between 11am and 5pm . After that, the tickets will go up for a public auction/lottery that starts Friday. Details for that are after the jump.
And, if you're planning way ahead, the next Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA is June 21-23, 2013.
Some shows that are coming up, spring 2012
The Avett Brothers are playing the Palace.
There are people who like to go to concerts. You may be one of these people.
There are also people who just like to know that there are concerts. You might be one of those people if you're not the other kind of person.
Either way, you will be interested to know that these concerts will be happening in the Capital Region. And during the next few months.
My Exit: Kelly Ryan
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
Here's this week's person...
Santigold at Northern Lights
Santigold performing in Australia last fall.
(Insert your own description of her genre) singer Santigold is playing Northern Lights May 12. Tickets go on sale this Friday (April 6). They're $25.
If you haven't heard Santigold, you've probably still heard Santigold. Songs off her debut album -- "L.E.S. Artistes," especially -- were pretty everywhere in 2008 and 2009. Since that album, she's toured and/or worked with all sorts of acts -- from Diplo to Coldplay to M.I.A. to Bjork to Jay-Z to Kanye to Karen O to The Lonely Island. (You should check your own discography -- she probably sang on one of your tracks.) As a writer for Stereogum recently remarked: "Santigold is the best, biggest pop star, and the perfect person to rep our pre-apocalyptic polyglot universe."
She has a new album coming out in May. There's a good chance you've already heard a single off it.
Titantic party on the Captain JP
The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is April 14. And, as a commemoration of sorts (if that's the word), there's a show/party lined up that night on the Captain JP II river cruise ship that docks in Troy. The night includes three musical sets:
EVENT 1: (Indie/Alt/Folk/Jazz/Blues/Soul/Rock)
Titantics, Prima, Around the World and Back, Babe City, Carl Daniels
EVENT 2: (House/Electro/Moombahton/Dub/Trance/BASS)
DJ Kiddo ~ PeepThis, DESPEREAUX~ Heady Productions, Just The Sauce~ Heady Productions, DAYO ~"Daayyyyooooo", LAZERBASS~ (Xerxes & Lifechild), Mr. Kissner W/S/G Brother Suarez
EVENT 3!!!!: Upper Deck (Space Electro/Moombah/fidget/Glitch hop/House)
Rome Thrasher, Don Stone - 51Bass, Sweatpants Money - SP$, Eric David vs. MeloManiac
It starts at 7 pm. Tickets ("boarding pass") for the event are $30 (and there will be a cash bar). The event is organized by Heady Productions.
There's also an after party at Bootlegger's in Troy that night, starting at 10 pm -- admission is included with a ticket for the event. Otherwise, it's $10.
Bonus points if you show up in character as Patrick Crawley.
My Exit: Rick O'Disko
This week's My Exit has a techno vibe.
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
Here's this week's person...
MerchNow
Inside MerchNow's Fuller Road factory
It's quiet inside the Fuller Road t-shirt factory, but the place is busy. Machines
are carouseling black, long-sleeved sweatshirts as workers oversee the printing and folding and stacking. Thirteen thousand shirts were printed and shipped before the first week of March had ended.
MerchNow makes shirts that bands sell to support themselves on tour. Owners Kate and Steve Reddy employ 95 people, offering a lunch program supplied from local farms and health insurance completely paid for by the company. Their mission is to create a business that sustains people and not just the bottom line.
Merch Now, and its sister enterprises Equal Vision Records and Mantralogy were born out of the punk rock scene and Bhakti yogic practice.
Yes, punk rock and yoga.
Drake at SPAC
Hip hop star Drake is playing SPAC June 14. Tickets go on sale this Friday (March 30) -- they start at $35.75 (lawn) and $55.75 (inside).
Drake has been tearing it up the last few years, with a couple of platinum albums that have included collaborations with Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, and Lil Wayne. He's now a huge star, both in and out of the hip hop world (with that has followed coverage in places like NYT proclaiming that he's pushing rap "toward the gothic").
He's also -- gasp -- Canadian. And started out as a TV actor. On Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Updated price info because of a typo in the original press release announcing the show.
photo: Brennan Schnell via Wikipedia
My Exit: Jeannette Sheehy
It's Monday, which means WEXT is running another My Exit show -- where the listeners get to pick their own playlists.
Here's this week's person...
Camp Bisco 2012 lineup
The Camp Bisco music festival released this year's lineup today. Headliners include The Disco Biscuits (of course), Bassnectar, Big Boi, Skrillex, and Crystal Castles.
This year's festival is July 12-14 in Mariahville, which is about a half hour west of Schenectady. Three-day general admission tickets are $170.
Bisco or bogus?
The full Camp Bisco lineup includes about 50 acts. And some of them have great -- or funny, or just plain odd -- names. For fun, we've put together a quick quiz to see if you can judge what's an actual act playing at Bisco -- or just a made-up name...
Our Day in the Sun
Check it out: the new album from The Parlor (nee We are Jeneric) is now out.
Our Day in the Sun is available both as a download ($10) and disc ($12). You can also have a listen via streaming at that linked Bandcamp page.
It's a fun album. Fittingly, it sounds like sunshine.
The Parlor is playing an album release show April 7 at Valentine's. Also on the slate: Sgt Dunbar, and The Red Lions. That's a quality lineup.
By the way: The fantastic artwork for Our Day in the Sun is by local designer
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