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Alongside the announcement of the release date for her long-awaited EP, Space to Roam, NYC-based singer-songwriter Olivia Reid offers a glimpse into the project's world with the release of the music video for her calm indie-folk single…
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Long Island band Half Dizzy dropped bittersweet nostalgia for the summer with punk rock song "Fade Away" on July 18. "Fade Away" taps into the 90s nostalgia of summer music where days are spend making memories. The heart of the…
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Only in New York can finding someone else’s steaks in your freezer spiral into a full-blown identity crisis. For Queens-based indie pop artist Majorette, it turned into a new single, “Steaks”. “Steaks” is a light, violin-laced track…
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Legendary funk sextet Lettuce has announced the December 3 release of Cook via the band's own Lettuce Records. The band released the new single, "Gold Tooth," to accompany the announcement. Cook isn’t just a nod to Lettuce’s…
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No group may have shifted the direction of rock music more radically than The Band did at the close of the ‘60s. With their 1968 debut, Music from Big Pink, the Canadian-American quintet single-handedly put an end to the abstraction…
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John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra were, alongside Miles Davis, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, the mightiest of the Four Horsemen of Jazz Fusion. When he burst on the scene in 1971 with this band,…
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Trouser Press books, a New York-based publishing house specializing in music journalism and fiction, is publishing London Calling New York New York by English journalist Peter Silverton on March 12. The book tells the winding tale - or…
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Prior to being Magnified and well before it Curved, it was Super.  Phish's third major festival in New York State, formally known as Superball IX, took place in July of 2011 at the esteemed Watkins Glen International located in Schuyler…
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Facing a moment of immense pressure under the public eye is the basis for Phish's "The Line." The origin of the song dates to 2005 Conference-USA basketball championship, and the stress that one real life player faced from the charity…
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On this day in 1981, The Grateful Dead closed out an East Coast tour with a memorable performance at the War Memorial in Syracuse. The band essentially lived in the Northeast for the first half of May in 1981, with shows scheduled almost…
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Legendary Rochester jazz musician Chuck Mangione, best known for "Feels So Good" and the the 1980 Winter Olympics theme "Give It All You Got," has died. The trumpet and flugelhorn master was 84. His family wrote in a statement on…
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Ozzy Osbourne, powerful rock front man of Black Sabbath and legendary solo artist, passed away on Tuesday, July 22 at the age of 76. Osbourne's legacy touched thousands of lives and hundreds of venues, especially those in New York State. …
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Sly Stone, the pioneering frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, passed away on June 9 at the age of 82. A rare talent who redefined funk, soul, and pop in just a few years, Stone’s legacy lives on—nowhere more vividly than in New York,…
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