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Music News for 020412:
---By now you’ve probably heard all the rock radio stations talking about it…Godsmack, Staind and Halestorm are coming to the Broome County Arena in Binghamton on May 13th! Tickets go on sale Saturday.
---Former
10,000 Maniacs singer,
Natalie Merchant is coming to
the Broome County Forum on
Saturday, March 10th at an Anti-Fracking Rally with special
guest, The Horseflies!
Tickets are $32-72.00 and the show starts at 7pm.
---Dark Star Orchestra is coming back to our area at the
Oneonta Theatre on Sunday,
May 13th (which puts it on the same day as the
Godsmack show at the Arena!
Damn it.). If that’s
not enough for you then maybe one of their 16 other shows in our area
will do. You can catch them
in South Burlington, VT (5/7-8), Plymouth, NH (5/9), New Haven CT
(5/11), Huntington, NY (5/12), Alexandria VA (5/16), Tuxedo Park, NY
(5/18-19), Englewood NJ (5/24), Princeton NJ (5/24), Tarrytown NY
(5/26), Philadelphia (5/27), Brooklyn (5/29), Jim Thorpe PA (5/31),
Boston (6/1) and Hampton Beach NH (6/2).
---Shinedown is also coming to our area in April, along with
Adelita’s Way and
Art of Dying as part of the Avalache Tour.
The tour will be in the Scranton Cultural Center on Sunday, April
22nd as well as Niagara Falls NY (4/16), Pittsburgh PA
(4/17), Providence RI (4/18), NYC (4/20), Atlantic City (4/21) and
Baltimore (4/25) so you’ll have plenty of chances to catch them.
---Hot Tuna just added a bunch of dates, too, including an appearance
at the State Theatre in
Ithaca on June 21st.
---How about
Binghamton University grad Ingrid
Michaelson hitting the top five on
Billboard’s Album chart with
the debut of her sophomore album, “Human Again!”
Granted it’s a bit slow this time of year, but top five is Top
Five! Congrats Ingrid!
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---So what are you
doing 4th of July Weekend this year?
Donna The Buffalo just
announced they’re headlining dates for the
Great Blue Heron Festival in
Sherman, NY, out near Jamestown, NY on July 6th thru the 8th.
That means three nights of Donna and camping!
Go wild.
---John Brown’s Body fans will be happy to know that the band will be
playing the Westcott in
Syracuse on Sunday February 25th.
---So the ground
hog saw his shadow…need a sign of spring?
Darien Lake is
announcing concert dates for Summer 2012 already.
The first shows so far are the
Rascal Flatts show on June 30th
and the Vans Warped Tour on
July 17th! Yay.
---Death Cab For Cutie just added two more dates at the
Beacon Theatre in NYC on
April 28th & 29th.
---Mastodon is planning a “mammoth” (sorry, couldn’t resist.) tour with
Opeth this spring and they’ll
roam thru our area in April.
They’ll hit seven dates in the northeast including Boston (4/5),
Montreal (4/6), Toronto (4/7), Philadelphia (4/9), Wallingford CT
(4/10), NYC (4/11) and Pittsburgh (4/15).
---Bruce Springsteen added one more date to his previously announced
tour this week. It’s a date
at reknowned Apollo Theatre
in Harlem on March 9th.
Unfortunately the show will be closed to the public. It’s only
fox Sirius/ XM Satellite radio subscribers (probably subscribers who win
a contest of some kind at that, but I’m just guessing.)
---We The Kings are on a huge tour with
Mayday Parade this winter, but they’ll take a day off from the
headliner on Monday March 5th to play the Lost Horizon in
Syracuse along with The Downtown Fiction and Anarbor.
---Sweet Baby
James, the original JT (before Justin Timberlake),
James Taylor just added a
bakers dozen tour dates for this summer including a night in June
(Thursday 6/21 to be exact.) at the
OnCenter in Syracuse.
See Regional Concert Page for more dates
---Jeff Beck is doing a little mini-tour next month.
So far the itinerary includes just three dates, two in
Huntington, NY on Long Island (3/16-17) and one night in Toronto, on
Thursday March 22nd.
Hope more dates are forthcoming.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Adele stays hot on the Album Sales charts across NY State, but on
the Singles charts, Kelly
Clarkson is
Stronger…except in NYC
where David Guetta stays on
top for the second week-in-a-row with
Turn Me On featuring
Nicki Minaj on guest vocals.
---Here in
Binghamton Metallica’s ep
(that’s extended play disc for those of you who don’t know.) of throw
away tracks from
Death Magnetic,
Beyond Magnetic jumped to the top of the chart this week.
---Looking at
Modern Rock charts only Lamb Of
God took the top spot this week with the debut of their new album,
Resolution, in both
Syracuse and Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton.
Regional favorites moe.
grabbed the number two spot in Syracuse with the debut of their new
disc, “What Happened To The La La’s.”
Lacuna Coil also
debuted strong at number four with their new album, “Dark
Adrenaline.”
Lacuna Coil debuted even more
strongly in Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton, at number two, while
moe. only reached a meager number sixteen.
---Kelly Clarkson also danced to the top of the Rhythmic charts for
Syracuse and Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton with
Stronger. It was also a
good week for new songs from
Pitbull and Gym Class Heroes
which made some movement on both charts.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Cake (1)
Dark Star Orchestra
(17)
Death Cab For Cutie
(2)
Donna The Buffalo
(5)
Enter The Haggis
(1)
Feist (4)
Godsmack/ Staind/
Halestorm (1)
Green
River Ordinance (3)
Guns N’ Roses (5)
Hot Tuna (6)
James Taylor (3)
Jeff Beck (3)
John Brown’s Body
(1)
Levon Helm Band/
Los Lobos (1)
Local H (4)
Los Lobos (1)
Mastodon/ Opeth (8)
Mayday Parade/ We
The Kings (2)
Natalie Merchant
(1)
Psychedelic Furs
(2)
Rascal Flatts (5)
Shinedown/
Adelita’s Way/ Art Of Dying (7)
Stryper (2)
Tyga (3)
We The Kings/ The
Downtown Fiction/ Anarbor (1)
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Music News for 012812:
---Elmira band,
Jellyfinger is on hiatus for
three months while singer, Sean Powers, recovers from spinal surgery,
but fans of the band can catch guitar player, Paul Speck in the heavy
metal/ hair band “Phyzz” and
the classic rock/ country rock band, “Fully
Loaded.” Get well soon,
Sean!
---The
Brian Wolff Band will debut their new drummer February 11th
at the John Barleycorn, in
Owego. Also on the bill that
night is OneClickCulture.
Which one of those two is the opening band?
Man, I’d hate to have to make that decision.
---Rock superstar,
Bruce Springsteen is taking
the E-Street Band on the road for their first tour since the death of
band member and legendary sax player,
Clarence Clemons last year!
The Boss is taking the band to eleven shows within our
“Bingo-centric” area, including two in Philadelphia, two in East
Rutherford, two in NYC and the potential for many other multiple shows
to be added as the itinerary is well spaced out giving the band many
multiple nights off at this point.
Expect more shows to be added as the sell-outs mount. The first
date the tour gets close to us Wednesday, March 28th in
Philadelphia. As the
schedule stands now, his last date in the U.S. is Wednesday May 2nd
in Newark. After that the
band heads for Europe from May thru July.
---The bill is
incredible, but unfortunately, they’ve only planned two dates nearby.
Thank goodness one of them is in Syracuse!
Godsmack with Staind and
Halestorm at the OnCenter on
May 15th!
Otherwise you’ll have to catch them in Manchester, NH on 5/16.
Every other date for the 20 city tour is in the south or Midwest.
What’s up with that?
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---It’s official,
the Rockstar Energy Mayhem
will indeed play Montage Mountain
in Scranton on Saturday August 4th.
The two biggest names on the bill are likely to be
Slipknot and
Slayer!
Yee Haa! The festival
will also play Darien Lake (8/1), SPAC (7/31), Hartford (8/5) and Boston
(8/3). Venues have also been
confirmed for those cities as well, so jump on the
Regional Concert Page for all the info!
---The
Jagermeister Music Tour is another festival announcing dates early
this year, but then again, they’ll be blowing thru nearby towns in
April, so maybe it’s not that early after all.
See the tour in Baltimore (4/19), Brooklyn (4/20), Sayreville NJ
(4/21), Boston (4/22) and Buffalo on 4/24!
---It’s rare indeed
that pop supergroup, Wilson
Phillips plays a show, but they’re together again and doing some
limited touring. So far,
only four dates this year and only one anywhere near us, at the
Ridgefield Playhouse in CT on
2/23.
---I already know
one band that will be performing at this years
NYS Fair in Syracuse…The
Charlie Daniels Band on the last day of the fair, Labor Day, Monday
September 3rd.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
Adele
continues to sell albums across the state as
21 remains at number one in
every major city [Here in Binghamton it’s a different story as
Five Finger Death Punch took
number one this week, but it’s the exception, not the rule].
Buffalo native,
Ani DiFranco had a hot debut
this week with “Which Side Are You
On?” but Attack Attack!
was hotter with “This Means War.”
On the Singles
charts however it’s a different story as
“Set Fire To The Rain” by
Adele falls from the top
spot, which is claimed this week by one of two artists,
David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj
with “Turn Me On” (in Syracuse
and NYC) or “Stronger” by
Kelly Clarkson (in Rochester, Buffalo and Albany).
Guetta was also #1 in
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton.
It was also a good
week on the singles chart for
Jessie J’s new one (Domino)
and the latest by Gym Class
Heroes feat. Neon Hitch (@$$
Back Home.).
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
---Black 47
---Bruce
Springsteen (11)
---Carbon Leaf (7)
---Charlie Daniels
Band (4)
---Dark Star
Orchestra (1)
---Feist (1)
---Flogging Molly
(1)
---Florence & the
Machine (3)
---Frankie Avalon/
Fabian/ Bobby Rydell (1)
---Glen Campbell
(1)
---Godsmack/ Staind/
Halestorm (2)
---Gwar (5)
---Grass Roots
(happy together tour) (2)
---Jagermeister
Music Tour (5)
---Jessie Colin
Young (1)
---Joan Osborne (6)
---Jordan Knight
(4)
---Matt & Gunnar
Nelson remember Ricky Nelson (3)
---Mac Miller (1)
---Maze feat.
Frankie Beverly (2)
---O.A.R. (1)
---Osmond Brothers
(1)
---Pat Travers (1)
---Poco (1)
---Pop Evil (1)
---Pulp (1)
---Red (1)
---Relient K (1)
---Sha Na Na (1)
---Tesla (1)
---Theory Of A
Deadman/ Pop Evil/ Stellar Revival (7)
---Tony Bennett (2)
---Wilson Phillips
(1)
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Music News for 012112:
---Lila
Ignite have posted an acoustic demo version of their latest song, “If
Only You Had Left The Light On” on You Tube.
Meanwhile the band is putting together a fully produced version.
Check it out. It
sounds like the first local hit of 2012 to me.
Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qll2sVuTnrs&feature=youtube_gdata
Also,
Lila Ignite’s free (or low
$1.00 admission) show at the
American Legion Post in Binghamton on 1/28 will have to be
rescheduled due to the room being double booked.
---For those of
you who search the internet for the latest local band listings (like I
do), you’ll be happy to hear that
Number 5 has finally updated
their website with new entries for the first time since the September
flood! You’ll have to
navigate the site a bit to get to their revised calendar, as they show
and entire months worth of dates at a time now, but this is great news
for club, which just reopened little more than a month ago.
---American Idol
alumni, rocker Chris Daughtry
is bringing his band, Daughtry
out on the road this spring and he’ll be in the northeast a ton!
Eleven dates all together, including a date on Saturday, February
21st at the Landmark
Theatre in Syracuse.
The warm-up act for the tour is
Safetysuit. As for the
rest of the show dates, check out the
Regional Concert Page!
---Bobby
McFerrin, the pop singer/ human beat-box, best known for his number
one hit, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,”
is coming to the State Theatre
in Ithaca on Saturday, April 14th.
If you absolutely must see
McFerrin, get tickets
because, so far, it’s his only date in the U.S. this year.
That could change as he’s got lots of open dates, but he’s headed
to Europe and Asia in June.
---The
Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival
just announced dates. It
comes thru our area in late July and early August, and as close as
Scranton, but so far, just dates.
No acts and no venues named yet, however you can check out the
target cities or area’s, on the Regional Concert Page.
---Righteous
Brothers fans, Bill Medley, the last living Righteous Brother, is
playing a few dates near us on this years solo tour.
While most of his tour is set in the Western US, Medley will be
in Uncasville CT, at the Mohegan
Sun Casino on Saturday, February 11th and in Niagara
Falls at Seneca Niagara Casino
on February 12th.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Death
Cab For Cutie will launch a spring tour in America which will bring
them to eight nearby cities in April.
See Ben Gibbard and the boys in Toronto (4/19), Montreal (4/20),
Boston (4/21), Providence (4/23), Buffalo (4/24), Upper Darby (4/25),
NYC (4/27) and North Bethesda MA (4/30).
---Happy Tenth
Anniversary to Flashback’s,
on State Street in downtown Binghamton.
Has it only been ten years?
Here’s hoping for many more.
---The
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill, NY; also announced dates
this week. They’ll be
pickin’ and grinnin’ for six days and nights from July 17th
thru the 22nd.
---Petula
Clark fans will be delighted to know that she’s got a 10 night
residency at Feinstein’s At The
Regency in NYC starting Tuesday night (1/24).
She’s off Sunday and Monday and performing Tuesday thru Saturday
nights the next two weeks.
---If you’ve got
diverse musical tastes indulge them at Penn States
Bryce Jordan Center.
Van Halen just
announced for Monday night March 26th with
Kool & the Gang as the
warm-up band. Nice.
---Brian
Johnson of AC/DC is
scheduling a few solo dates in support of his forthcoming solo release.
Only one is anywhere near us, in Glenside PA at the
Keswick Theatre.
---Just saw that
Soundgarden is playing a
club in New Jersey on Friday February 10th.
Don’t know if tickets will be available to the general public,
but keep your eyes open just in case.
The venue is the Starland
Ballroom in Sayreville.
---Congrats to
local singer and the Queen of Urban Latin Soul,
Ayanna and her husband, hip
hop MC, Matt da Godfatha,
who just announced that they’re expecting a prince this year (in other
words, they’ve just determined the sex of her baby and it’s a boy!
Yay for boys! …or
something like that.)!
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
Adele
has New York State in a headlock!
Check out this weeks “Around
The State” chart to see how complete her domination is!
With “Set Fire To The Rain,”
hitting the tops of charts across the country, her sophomore album, 21
is continuing to sell astronomical amounts.
“Set Fire To The Rain,”
is the third single from 21, which also includes, “Rolling
In The Deep,” and “Someone
Like You.”
This ends
LMFAO’s streak at number one
with, “Sexy And I Know It.”
The song, which is the groups second number one song, (following
“Party Rock Anthem”) had a
streak of as long as five weeks at number one in Buffalo.
A bit less in other cities.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Andrew W.K. (6)
Asleep At The
Wheel (1)
Big Bad Voodoo
Daddy (2)
Bobby McFerrin (1)
Brian Johnson (1)
Daughtry/
Safetysuit (11)
David Guetta (2)
Death Cab For
Cutie (8)
Devil Wears Prada/
Oh, Sleeper/ Every Time I Die/ Letlive
(3)
Dropkick Murphy’s
(3)
Edgar Winter
Fountains Of Wayne
(3)
Grey Fox Bluegrass
Festival (6)
Ingrid Michaelson
(2)
J. Cole (1)
Javier Colon (1)
Joan Osborne (2)
John Mayall (7)
Lady Antebellum
(1)
Marshall Tucker
Band (1)
Matisyahu (1)
Miike Snow (5)
New Riders Of The
Purple Sage (3)
Nils Lofgren (2)
Petula Clark (10)
Peter Frampton (1)
Peter Tork (1)
Primus (1)
Psychedelic Furs
(3)
Queensryche (1)
Red Hot Chili
Peppers (7)
Rick Derringer (1)
Rockstar Energy
Mayhem Festival (8)
Steve Forbert (10)
Suzanne Vega (1)
Taproot (4)
Tesla (1)
The Outlaws (1)
Three Dog Night
(5)
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Music News for 011412:
---Talked with
Randy McStine after the
Big Ig gig at the
Cyber Wednesday night…work is continuing on his next
Lo-Fi Resistance album,
funded with money raised on the internet from fans.
McStine’s fans donated more than five-thousand dollars for the
project.
Meanwhile the
guitar prodigy is touring with his other progressive rock project,
Meridian Voice (who played at the
Cyber on Saturday), not to mention his reunion with keyboard player
John Kanazawich, bass player
Jamie Osterhout and drummer,
Al Miele, as
Great Conniptions of St. Ignatious.
Oh, and then there’s his solo stuff.
No wonder
Chris Kocher did a piece on
him in the Binghamton Press &
Sun-Bulletin’s Good Times insert this past Thursday (1/12).
The kid just doesn’t slow down.
Btw, was impressed
by Conniptons.
No singing, just playing and by that I mean improvisational
jamming. Think
Yes, with
Creams penchance for simultaneous soloing by every member of the
band and you’ve just about got it.
---Icelandic Pop
Princess, Bjork just
announced a ten night subway tour!
Six nights at the NY Hall of Science, in Queens, followed by four
shows at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC.
She’s even got them spaced out so that she performs every third
night all thru February and into March.
Now that’s the way to save on the gassin’ up the ol’ tour bus!
---Chevelle is heading out on the road with
Middle Class Rut and Janus
in support of their new album, Hats
Off To The Bull.
The tour hits Niagara Falls (2/26), NYC (2/29), Providence (3/2),
Atlantic City (3/3) and Baltimore (3/5).
---It appears that
it will only be the Yardbirds
on the bill when they appear at
Tioga Downs on February 2nd.
Vanilla Fudge, who is
touring with the legendary band, is not going to appear with them on
that night, in spite of the fact that they are listed together on at
least one internet site. Not
sure if it’s a scheduling conflict or just a one-shot arrangement for
Tioga Downs, but that’s the
way it is. …Yeah, I’m disappointed, too.
---The tour of
Pop-punk rockers, The Queers
along with fellow punkers, The
Ataris will land them within a respectable “Bingo-centric” driving
distance nine times in February, but none closer than
Redwood Arts in Wilkes-Barre,
PA! They’ll be there on
Tuesday, February 21st.
Sounds like a fun night of jamming, moshing and body-surfing!
The pair of punk-rockers will also be playing Philly, Washington
DC, NYC, Cambridge MA, Montreal, Toronto, Rochester and Albany!
---Thursday night,
February 2nd, it’s gonna be sick at the
Carrier Dome in Syracuse as
Ludacris and
Rick Ross lay down some
serious rhymes! So far it’s
the only date the two have announced together, but if all goes well, can
we expect more?
---The
Rise Against tour w/A Day To
Remember just added 16 more dates, with two of them in our region
(that’s a total of three altogether, if you’re counting the previously
announced show in Pittsburgh)…including one in Syracuse at the
State Fairgrounds on Tuesday, May 8th!
---Perry Ferrell, Dave Navarro and the boys in
Jane’s Addiction are taking their act on the road again in February
and March! In fact, they’ll
be as close to Binghamton as Toronto (2/27), Rochester (2/29), Albany
(3/2), Long Island (3/4), Montclair NJ (3/6) and Waterbury CT (3/7).
---NYS Fair in Syracuse has announced which days the event will be held
this year! The twelve day
long affair begins on Thursday, August 23rd.
No bands to speak of, have been announced yet, but don’t
worry…that will come!
---The Black Crowes Rich Robinson is taking a solo tour thru Midwest,
South and East Coast that will bring him close to our twin tiers
hamlet…expect to see Robinson in Buffalo (3/11), Cambridge MA (3/15),
Philly (3/16), DC (3/17) and NYC (3/19).
---Uncle Kracker has added a show at the
Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls in March (on 3/16 to be precise.).
Warming up will be Sonia Leigh and Ty Stone.
So far there’s no tour associated with the date, but he is
planning a new album this year…(note: Sure enough, three more shows in
our area were added after the blurb above was written in Washington DC
(3/14), Foxboro (3/15) and Mount Laurel (3/17)—Dave.)
---Pat Benatar is back on the road this spring with a half-dozen shows
inside driving distance of the
Parlor City. See Ms. Benatar
(or Mrs. Giraldo to be proper) in Montclair NJ (3/1), NYC (3/2),
Tarrytown (3/4), Collingswood NJ (4/18), Lynn Ma (4/19) and Lincoln RI
(4/20).
---Synthesizer rock
fans, one of the original modern rockers (well okay, it was called
post-modern rock back then),
Thomas Dolby is going out on the road this spring playing nearly two
dozen shows across America including eight that within driving range.
Dolby of course scored
with “She Blinded Me With Science”
and “One Of Our Submarines.”
You can catch his act in Philly (3/24), suburban Washington DC
(3/25), Sellersville (3/28), NYC (3/29), Northampton MA (3/30),
Ridgefield (3/31), Montreal (4/1) and Toronto (4/2).
---What a bill!
Nickelback, Bush, Seether
and My Darkest Days touring
together and they have eight dates within driving distance this April!
Does this still mean that
Nickelback are lamer than the
Foo Fighters?
---Remember
Montrose? No…not the village
in Pennsylvania, Sammy Hagars
first band before he went solo, then joined
Van Halen and went solo
again? Guitar player,
Ronnie Montrose, the bands
namesake is hitting the road for a brief tour, with four nearby dates
including The Westcott Theatre,
in Syracuse on 5/19. Also
look for Ronnie in Sellersville (5/17), NYC (5/18) and Shirley MA
(5/20).
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE THIS
WEEK:
Adam Ant (2)
Aimee Mann (1)
Anti-Flag (6)
Brian McKnight (2)
Bjork (10)
Chevelle/ Middle
Class Rut/ Janus (5)
Citizen Cope (4)
Commander Cody Band
(4)
Everlast/
Sinclairity (2)
Faster Pussycat (2)
George Clinton (4)
Jane’s Addiction
(6)
Joe (1)
John Waite (4)
Johnny Winter (1)
Kip Winger (1)
Moreland & Arbuckle
(2)
Nickelback/ Bush/
Seether/ My Darkest Days (8)
Pat Travers (1)
Paul Van Dyk (1)
Primus (1)
Rich Robinson (5)
Rise Against/ A Day
To Remember (2)
Roger McGuinn (2)
Ronnie Montrose (4)
Ryan Cabrera (1)
Ryan Star (1)
Shawn Colvin (2)
Snow Patrol (6)
Tea Leaf Green (1)
The Darkness/ Foxy
Shazam (6)
The Queers/ The
Ataris (7)
Uncle Kracker (4)
Vince Neil (2)
*#'s indicate number of new shows added by each act.
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Music News for 010712:
---Randy McStine is one busy guy.
Not only is he working on the sophomore
Lo-Fi Resistance album, he’s also planning to revisit “Great
Conniptions Of St. Ignatious” the local progressive band featuring
John Kanazawich on keyboards,
Jamie Osterhout on bass and
Al Miele on drums (all local
superstars in their own right)…and as if that wasn’t enough…his newest
project, Meridian Voice, is playing the
Cyber Café West in Binghamton this month!
Check out The Big Ig (as Great
Connipions of St. Ignatious is affectionately called by fans and
band members) on Wednesday January 11th and
Meridian Voice on Saturday, January 14th.
---On The Roxx has finally opened the doors to their new location!
The restaurant/ bar opened on Wednesday, January 4th
for lunches and dinners. The first bands (that I know of) scheduled to
play there are Recycled Zombies
and Castle Bravo, who are
scheduled for January 14th!
The venue has been thru lots of changes in recent years, moving
from their original address at the confluence of the Chenango and the
Susquehanna, to 73 Court Street (the old downtown McDonalds location) a
few years ago, but they were forced to move again due to an upstairs
building fire earlier this year.
Now they’re opening up a new location next to
Niko’s at 528 Upper Court
Street. The announcement was
posted on facebook on Tuesday, December 27th.
---The
Cyber Café West had an opening to fill on Friday night, December 30th,
so rather than fill it the conventional way, they made a contest out of
it on their facebook page.
The winning band was the Brian
Wolff Band! Congrats to
all the “Wolfies” who voted…and having recently seen the band perform, I
can understand why they’re so devoted!
---Zarni de Wet fans have something to celebrate during the holiday
season.
De Wet has officially finished all of her college commitments to
Berklee, with the conclusion of her student teaching assignments last
month. However, following
two shows in town this week (this past Thursday 1/5 at
McGirks and tonight, 1/7, at
the Blind Tiger Pub) she will
be moving to Seattle to pursue her music career in earnest!
Good Luck, Z! We’ll
miss you!
---Add
Vanilla Fudge to the bill with the
Yardbirds at Tioga Downs
on Thursday February 2nd.
In fact, they’re touring together on seven dates in the northeast
during February! Now that’s
some heavy duty, down n’ dirty, rock & roll right there!
Tickets for the show are only $15.00, or $20.00 if you wait until
the day of the event, so grab ‘em now, kemosabe!
---Van Halen is hitting the road with a late Winter tour starting on
2/18 in Louisville, KY and continuing thru the end of June.
The iconic rockers will hit our area beginning on Tuesday, 2/28
when they play the first of 2 nights (so far) at Madison Square Garden
in NYC. The tour will also
come to Uncasville, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Boston, Montreal, Toronto,
Atlantic City, Washington and Pittsburgh.
There are also plenty of open dates so more shows may be added!
Btw, the Café Wha?
club date the band played on Thursday night 1/5 was a media only event,
but the story behind the story here is that it wasn’t just a chance to
play at the place that launched the careers of
Jimi Hendrix and
Bob Dylan…one of David Lee
Roth’s relatives used to own the joint!
---Former
Grateful Dead background
singer, Donna Jean Godchaux
has added another date to her bands current mini-tour.
This one is closer at the
Performing Arts Center in Hunter, NY, in the Catskill Mountains
northwest of Saugerties on Friday 1/27.
---Filter has set an eight date northeast tour for March which will see
them as close as Jillan’s in
Albany on Tuesday, March 6th.
Other dates include Hampton Beach (3/1), Uncasville (3/2),
Fitchburg (3/3), Wantagh (3/4), Foxboro (3/7), NYC (3/8) and Atlantic
City (3/10).
---Pop singer,
Matt Nathanson may be the
warm up act for Kelly Clarkson’s
Winter tour, but he’s also taking advantage of his off days on the tour
to headline a few dates on the side in Uncasville CT, Baltimore MD and
Huntington, NY. Check the
Regional Concert Page for more…
---Modern Techno
Rockers, Blue October have
scheduled a northeast leg of their Spring 2012 tour, with several dates
that are “Bingo-centric,” including Baltimore (4/1), Huntington (on Long
Island 4/4), York (4/5), Asbury Park (4/6), Atlantic City (4/7) and the
previously announced Niagara Falls (4/7).
Looks like there’s plenty of room to add more dates, too, so stay
tuned!
---Tool added more dates to their Winter 2012 mini-tour, including two
near us…East Rutherford, NJ (2/1) and Boston (1/28).
---Pop star,
David Guetta just announced a
date the OnCenter Complex in
Syracuse for Friday night, February 3rd.
The hip hop artist broke out with his 2009 hit, “Sexy
Chick.” He’ll also be in
Albany on 2/2.
---Blues legend,
Charlie Musselwhite just
added five more nearby dates to his current tour, but remember, he’ll be
coming to nearby Homer on May 5th!
---Upstate NY state
band moe. have just added a
date in NYC to their tour at the Maritime Hotel on Monday night January
23rd.
---Marillion just added Philadelphia to their reunion tour on 6/15.
---Coldplay is adding additional dates in markets they’ve already
booked! In other
words…second shows in Philadelphia, Washington, Boston and Montreal!
---Neil Diamond added a second show at Jones Beach Amphitheatre on Long
Island on 6/10.
---Peter Frampton’s winter 2012 tour is expanding.
The British singer/ songwriter/ jam-rockjazz guitar wizard is now
playing in Worcester (2/4), Morristown (2/8), Albany (2/9) and New
Bedford (2/14)…in addition to the York, Lynn, Upper Darby, Westbury and
NYC dates we’ve previously added.
---The Allman Brothers Band announced the dates of their annual
residency at the Beacon Theatre in NYC, this week.
They’ll be playing a total of ten dates (so far…they almost
always add more) from March 9th thru the 25th.
---Jim Hall of Orleans just announced a six-night stand at the
Blue Note in NYC from
4/17-22, plus a stand alone date in Danbury on 4/28.
Allman Brothers
Band (10)
Andy Grammar (2)
Beth Hart (1)
Blue October (5)
Boyz II Men (1)
Bryan Adams (3)
Buddy Guy (4)
Charlie Musselwhite
(5)
Citizen Cope (2)
Coldplay (4)
Creed (2)
David Guetta (2)
Dickey Betts &
Great Southern (1)
Donna Jean Godchaux
Band (1)
Edgar Winter (1)
Estelle (5)
Everclear (2)
Fabolous (1)
Filter (8)
Fuel (1)
Howie Day (1)
Jim Hall (7)
Johnny Winter (1)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (1)
Marrillion (1)
Matt Nathanson (5)
moe. (1)
Neil Diamond (1)
New Riders Of The
Purple Sage (1)
Nick Carter (5)
NRBQ (1)
O.A.R. (7)
Peter Frampton (4)
Robert Earl Keen
(7)
Sonny Landreth (5)
Southside Johnny &
Asbury Jukes (1)
Tesla (1)
The Black Keys/
Arctic Monkeys (1)
The Yardbirds-Vanilla
Fudge (7)
Tommy Stinson (1)
Tool (2)
Van Halen (11)
Vanilla Fudge (1)
Vince Neil (2)
We Came As Romans
(5)
Weird Al Yankovic
(3)
*#'s indicate number of new shows added by each act.
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BREAKING NEWS: Van Halen fans...the band has scheduled a tune-up in a small NYC venue for, Thursday 1/5. It's Cafe Wha? (where Jimi Hendrix used to play as Jimmy James & the Blue Flames). If you go down keep in mind that seating will be limited and the show will probably be sold out before you get there, so prepare to deal with scalpers.
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Music News for 121711:
---Congrats to the
Cyber Café West!
Their Charlie Fest on
Sunday 12/4 reportedly raise $1800.00 to help pay the medical bills for
Charlie Moore, who is a wheelchair bound music fan, who was hit by a car
as his motorized wheel chair was crossing Conklin Road on the Southside
of Binghamton in October.
Moore btw, is out of the hospital and was actually in attendance for the
event, but is for the most part confined to a nursing home…for now.
Get better soon Charlie!
---Endicott Performing Arts Center (lovingly known by locals as
EPAC) just announced that
national touring act, Aztec
Two-Step will play in the Theatre on Friday night, April 27th.
Ticket prices and show time have yet to be announced, but we’ll
stay on top of it for ya.
---Summer’s coming!
The Vans Warped Tour
just announced dates for their 2012 tour.
Venues have yet to be determined, but there are eleven dates set
in the greater Bingo-centric area…the closest of which is in Scranton
(probably Montage Mountain) on Wednesday, July 18th.
See the Regional Concert Page for all eleven dates and area’s!
---Javier Colon, from Season One of the NBC reality competition, “The
Voice” (not that there’s been a second yet…) will be touring nearby
us in February. He’ll be as
close as Syracuse playing the
Westcott Theatre on Saturday 2/4.
For the rest of the dates, check the Regional Concert Page.
---Furthur dropped the motherlode this week, just after
Bob Weir announced a one-off
date in Wilkes-Barre at the Kirby, Furthur busted out a small tour of
the northeast and San Francisco, the highlight of which is an
eight-night stand at the Beacon Theatre from April 9th thru
the 18th. The
Grateful Dead spin-off band will also play two nights in Boston and one
show in Connecticut.
---Looks like
Aaron Lewis of Staind will
get his solo tour back on track in February.
He’ll spend two nights at
Turning Stone in Verona (past Utica on the turnpike, near Mohawk.)
on Friday 2/10 and Saturday 2/11.
His two-night stand
in Atlantic City is still on for 2/17-18, as well as the 2/19 dates in
Westbury. Lewis was ordered
to rest his voice for two months or risk permanent injury.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---According to her
Facebook posting, Dena is in
the studio writing songs for her next recording with Tom Kafafian.
---Liquid Me is also in the studio with noted local producer,
Jeff Da Bella (Mansion Audio)
working on the bands first full album to follow up their self-titled EP
from earlier this year.
Reportedly the first single will be titled “Guilt Trip,” and an earlier
version is already posted on You Tube.
Check out the link:
http://www.youtube.com/liquidmeband#p/a/u/2/IGbifVutmKc
---Brian Wolff struck a deal with organizers of the Kenny Rogers show
to have his song, “Strong”
played repeatedly before the show this past Thursday night, as the
roadies re-arrange the stage.
Cool beans! (See it
pays to have connections at the Red Cross).
---So what do you
do when the band Blue Sea Turtles
cancels on ya? If you’re the
Cyber Café West you go to
Plan B, which in this case is the name of the impromptu fill-in band
they put together, literally at the last minute.
The band includes members of
Monkey’s Typing and
Jeff Strachyra from
Dirt Farm
---Oneonta band,
One Click Culture
is offering a free download of their song, “There’s A Moment,” on
their facebook page.
---James Taylor just announced his annual 3-night-stand leading up to
and including July 4th at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA.
---Already there
are dates being booked for NYC’s Central Park Summerstage!
The first two to be announced are back-to-back
Foster The People shows on
Tuesday night May 29th and Wednesday night May 30th.
The warm-up act for both nights will be “The
Kooks.”
Tokyo Police Club joins the
tour and also hits Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia
and Maryland in June.
---Eisley just announced a major tour across the US that will bring
them thru Pittsburgh, Connecticut, Massachusetts, NYC, Philadelphia,
Boston, Toronto and Buffalo in March 2012.
---Tool just announced a mini-tour across North America, which includes
only three dates anywhere near us…Toronto (1/25), Camden, NJ (1/29) and
Uncasville, CT (1/31).
---The
Lady Antebellum Spring tour continues to firm up venues.
Now confirmed are two nights in NYC at Radio City Music Hall
(5/3-4), DCU Center in Worcester (5/5), Giant Center in Hershey (5/6),
Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia MD (5/20, including the Finger
Lakes Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua on Sunday 6/3.
Still to be confirmed a date in Bethel on 6/2 (probably Bethel
Woods), Pittsburgh are on 6/1 (perhaps Star Lake Amphitheatre), Hartford
area on 5/18 and Philadelphia area on 5/19 (best guess in Philly is SB
Center in Camden, NJ).
---Coldplay is already adding second dates to existing shows on their
Summer 2012 tour. This week
they already added shows in Toronto (now 7/23-24) and Newark (now
8/3-4).
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Big Bad Voodoo
Daddy (1)
Black Stone Cherry/
Cavo/ Rains (3)
Blue October (1)
Boyz II Men (1)
Coldplay (2)
Crack The Sky (1)
Davy Jones (3)
Del Fuegos (4)
DevilDriver (5)
Eisley (8)
Faster Pussycat (2)
Foster The People/
Tokyo Police Club (6)
Furthur (11)
Halestorm (2)
James Taylor (3)
Javier Colon (6)
Joe (1)
John Valby (1)
Leigh Nash (5)
Less Than Jake (5)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (3)
Monster Magnet (1)
O.A.R. (2)
Of Montreal (4)
Pitbull (2)
Quiet Riot (1)
Rise Against (1)
Sass Jordan (1)
Senses Fail (1)
Slick Rick/ EPMD/
Rob Base/ Rakim/ Whodini/ Naughty By Nature (1)
Tool (3)
Vans Warped Tour
(11)
Wayne Static (5)
Zen Tricksters (1)
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Music News for 121011:
---Burns Sisters fans, the Ithaca folk rockers have scheduled their
Annual Holiday Show for December 16th at the
Carriage House Hayloft in Ithaca @ 8pm.
Sounds like a fun time!
Tickets are only $10.00 and available at Ithaca Guitar Works.
---Frostbit Blue reuniting their original line-up…or as close as they
can get, for their 30th anniversary.
Looks like Velch will be back in the fold, as the band plots a
new album and perhaps a tour.
Their next show is set for March in Oswego on the 10th
anniversary of the death of bass player, Tim “Weasel” Smith.
---As speculated in
my last report, there are indeed more
moe. dates this week!
The Mohawk jam band just added shows in Boston (3/2), Albany (at
the Palace Theatre on 3/3), Stroudsburg (3/4), Toronto (3/6), Buffalo
(3/7), Pittsburgh (3/8), Philadelphia (3/9), and Baltimore (3/10).
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---The biggest news
on the Regional scene is the announcement of
Coldplay Summer 2012 tour
dates! There will be six in
our area, including Philadelphia (7/5), Washington DC (7/8), Toronto
(7/23), Montreal (7/26), Boston (7/29), East Rutherford (8/3) with
plenty of off dates in between it’s a safe bet there will be more dates
announced!
---Scott Weiland just added another date on his Christmas album tour.
He’ll be at the City Winery in NYC on Saturday, December 17th.
---Todd Rundgren fans take note, the former Nazz & Utopia lead singer
has been booked for two nights at the City Winery in NYC on 2/26-27.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Aaron Carter (1)
B-52’s (1)
Biohazard (1)
Coldplay (6)
Frankie Valli & the
Four Seasons (7)
Gordon Lightfoot
(2)
Jay-Z (2)
Less Than Jake (2)
Levon Helm Band (2)
Living Colour (1)
Mike Doughty (6)
moe. (7)
Ra Ra Riot (1)
The Wailers (3)
Third Eye Blind (1)
Todd Rundgren (2)
#’s in parenthesis
indicate amount of new dates on Regional Concert Page.
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Music News for 120311:
---Expect to see
local bands return to Number 5
soon. The popular local
restaurant and bar announced on their website this week that they’re
Grand Re-Opening would be held on Thursday night, December 1st
and indeed the “Grand Re-opening” sign was posted outside the restaurant
all weekend.
---Trans-Siberian Orchestra has added a Spring 2012 leg to their
current tour and as part of their itinerary they will play the
Broome County Arena in
Binghamton on Thursday, May 10th.
They’ll also play in Syracuse on Friday May 4th, as
well as Erie, Reading, Uncasville and Baltimore.
---Former
Grateful Dead background
singer, Donna Jean Godchaux
appears to be putting together a Winter 2012 tour.
So far though only two dates have
been announced one in NYC and the other in Wilkes-Barre, PA at the
Jazz Club.
---Music fans,
Blues/ Folk/ Jazz pianist, George
Winston will be playing the
Auburn Public Theatre in Auburn (just outside Syracuse) on
Wednesday, 3/28.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---The Moody Blues have announced a major world tour in 2012 including
15 Bingo-centric dates within a reasonable driving range.
The closest dates are in Schenectady (4/5) and Easton PA (4/7).
---Devo fans, you’re in luck…four of the new wave bands 7 dates on it’s
just announced mini-tour of the country are in the northeast…the closest
are in NYC (12/13) and Atlantic City (12/16).
The other two are on Long Island (Huntington on 12/17) and in
suburban Washington DC (Falls Church, VA on 12/15)
---NRBQ just added three dates to a Winter tour that’s still being
built. All in the NYC area,
two dates are at the famed
Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan (1/17-18)…the other one is on Long
Island (1/20) at the Boulton
Center in Bay Shore.
---Flogging Molly announces national Winter tour with three nearby
dates in Boston (2/21), New York (2/23), and Silver Spring, MD (2/24).
---Their could be a
Bob Weir tour on the horizon.
So far only one date has been announced (at the
Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre
on 4/27/12), but acts like Bob don’t usually plan to just one date.
When they go out, they plan dozens, so stay tuned.
---Deep Purple just confirmed a Canadian tour in February.
There are four dates that are within driving distance in Ottawa
(2/8), Kingston (2/9), Toronto (2/12) and Hamilton (2/13).
There are plenty of open dates in between the end of the Canadian
tour and the bands French tour in November, so here’s hoping that a U.S.
tour will be added.
---Scott Weiland of
Stone Temple Pilots and
Velvet Revolver fame just
announced a US mini-tour to promote his new Christmas album.
Only one of the four dates is anywhere near us however.
It’s on Long Island at the
Paramount Theatre in Huntington on Friday, 12/16.
---The Black Keys just announced a major late Winter/early Spring US
tour on top of their January swing thru Europe to promote their new
album, El Camino.
Tour dates include stops in Boston (3/7), Washington DC (3/9),
Philadelphia (3/10), NYC (3/12), Montreal (3/13), Toronto (3/14) and a
tour tune-up date in New York on 12/5 at Webster Hall.
---Patti Smith just announced a three night year-end run at the
Bowery Ballroom, in NYC,
12/29-31.
---Is upstate NY
band, moe. adding a March
2012 leg to their nationwide tour?
It was set to end in Chicago on 2/18, but the band just booked a
date in Baltimore on 3/10.
Stay tuned.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---For the first
time in over a year, “Nightmare”
by Avenged Sevenfold is #1 on
the Binghamton Independent Music Store chart, thanks largely to their
latest single release, “Buried
Alive.” Also up this
week are the latest releases by
Dream Theatre, Chickenfoot and Adele
(just in time for holiday gift giving).
Nickelback’s new one,
“Here And Now” debuted at
number four.
---In Syracuse, “Here
And Now” also did pretty well, debuting at number one on the Modern
Rock charts. The new
Daughtry debuted right behind
it Sales figures were
actually up due to Christmas buyers.
Take notice that every single album in the top fifteen had
positive sales figures, even if it lost position.
Btw, Florence & the
Machine scored two albums in the top ten.
Nice.
---On the Syracuse
Rhythmic chart LMFAO returned
to number one for a second time with their current hit, “Sexy
And I Know It.” The song
had hung in near the top of the chart for the last four weeks while
Rihanna monopolized the position with “We Found Love.”
---Nickelback chalked up another number one debut on the Modern Rock
album chart in Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton, again followed by
Daughtry.
---Around The State
this week there were mixed album results as
Rihanna scored in NYC,
Nickelback won the top spot
in Buffalo and Albany and Michael
Buble hit the top of the chart in Rochester.
Meanwhile LMFAO dominated all of upstate with “Sexy And I Know It,” but in NYC
Rihanna ruled as “We Found
Love” notched it’s eighth week at the top.
NEW ON THE REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Bob Mould (1)
Bob Weir (1)
Cowboy Junkies (5)
Deep Purple (4)
Devo (4)
Donna Jean Godchaux
Band (2)
Gary Hoey (1)
J. Geils (1)
Johnny Winter (6)
moe. (1)
Moody Blues (15)
NRBQ (4)
Patti Smith (3)
Ryan Adams (1)
Robert Cray Band
(8)
Sass Jordan (1)
Scott Weiland (1)
The Black Keys (7)
Trans-Siberian
Orchestra (6)
Uli Jon Roth/
Leslie West (4)
Wyclef Jean (2)
Y&T (1)
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Music News for 112611:
---Brian Wolff is now streaming the song “Strong” on his website (as part of the interview with Lori from the
Star 1057 morning show) and is also selling it as a CD single for $4.00
at his shows. The proceeds
are going directly to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to help with
recovery from the flood. The
song is also available (as we’ve mentioned in earlier reports) on
Spotify and itunes. For all
the Brian Wolff Band links please check the links page of this website.
---LA Singer
Janet Robin, is performing in
Vestal on Friday 12/2 @ 8p, however she is not playing a regular venue.
Instead she is playing at a local private residence being
referred to as the “secret base.” Robin, taught by late Ozzy Osborne
guitarist, Randy Rhodes, has
also played in Lindsey
Buckinghams band and recorded her latest album in a cabin where
Johnny Cash used to record.
She has even written songs for
Heart, Poison and
Cheap Trick.
$15.00 is the “suggested” price of admission.
If you’re interested please e-mail:
greycatconcerts@gmail.com
for directions and details.
---Kinks fans…Rooster
Fish Brew Pub has posted performances of two songs from Saturday
nights (11/26) Ray Davies
show at the State Theatre in Ithaca, on their facebook page.
Here’s the link to check them out:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1427261037
---Also
Chris Kocher from the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (and one of the biggest
Kinks fans in the area), has put up some addition
Ray Davies videos and pics
from that same Ithaca Theatre show that he found on other fan sites.
Here’s a link to his facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/realchriskocher
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---If you went to
the Guns N’ Roses show at the
Mohegan Sun Arena in
Wilkes-Barre on Sunday night, 11/20 you were treated to a late, late
affair. The show was great,
but Axle was clearly operating on his “own” time clock.
The show was scheduled to start at 7:30p, but opening act,
Sebastian Bach (formerly of Skid Row, for those of you not up on your
“big hair/heavy metal” bands) started at 8:30p…proceeded to play for an
hour, which was great…but then it was 11:16p before Guns N’ Roses
actually took the stage. The
crowd was so restless they were booing, until the band came out, put on
a killer show and played a full set.
I finally left at 1:15am, as I had my high school aged son and
his college aged friend with me, and they had school the next day.
Excellent show…just too long a wait.
Oh, and I’m glad I went to that one…the show in Albany on
Thanksgiving eve was cancelled.
Not sure yet if it’ll be rescheduled.
Check the Regional Concert Page for info.
---Neil Diamond announced a massive summer tour this week, including
dates at Jones Beach Amphitheare on Long Island, plus, Washington DC,
Uncasville CT, Philadelphia, Montreal, Boston and Toronto.
Boy, it feels good just to post a
date at Jones Beach!
---Dates for the
annual “Gathering
Of The Vibes” festival in Bridgeport CT, were announced this
week. Look for the gathering
to take place July 19th thru the 22nd.
Make plans to
attend now. Last years
festival included Furthur, the
Tedeschi Trucks Band, Taj Mahal and
Levon Helm…and that was just
one day!
---If you missed
the Monkeys Typing show at
the Cyber Café on Saturday
night you missed the bands reunion with original members, drummer Sean
Kanazawich & Matt
Jenson. It’s music history
people!
---Also at the
Cyber this past weekend,
Driftwood released their new CD, “A
Rock And Roll Heart,” on Friday night!
---Dirty Rotten Liars have a new CD coming out with a CD Release Party
planned for 12/23 at P.J. O’Hares
in Susquehanna.
INSIDE THE CHARTS;
No charts this
week. I’m took the
Thanksgiving weekend off!
Hope you had a Happy Turkey Day!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Andy Grammer (5)
Anvil (3)
Big Head Todd & the
Monsters (1)
Commander Cody Band
(2)
Cowboy Mouth (1)
Denny Laine/ Terry
Sylvester (1)
Edwin McCain (1)
Glen Campbell (2)
Kix (4)
Lacuna Coil (1)
Levon Helm Band (1)
Marshall Crenshaw
(1)
Michael Glabicki
(1)
Misfits (2)
Natalie Merchant
(1)
Neil Diamond (7)
New Riders Of The
Purple Sage (4)
Paul Revere & the
Raiders (1)
Ra Ra Riot (1)
Robin Thicke (2)
Rusted Root (1)
Steve Miller Band
(2)
The Maine (2)
The Wailers (2)
War (1)
#’s in parenthesis
indicate amount of new show postings this week by artists listed.
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Music News for 111911:
---The annual
KGB Christmas Benefit Concert II
is scheduled for Wednesday night November 23rd at the
Scoreboard on State Street in
Downtown Binghamton! The
show will feature Pawn Shop,
Dropclutch and Slam!
It’s only $5.00 to help the needy this Christmas, so get there
early!
---More and more
places that suffered flood damage in September are re-opening!
Toys R Us, just announced that they’re reopening.
Whole In The Wall is finally open again, but
Number 5 is still lagging.
Had hoped that previous postings of entertainment on their
website might mean that they would be opening soon, but the site has
recently been update to read that there will be no new postings until
they officially re-open.
Hope it’s soon!
---Rusted Root plays so many dates every year they were bound to get
back near our area sooner rather than later and sure enough, they’ll be
in Scranton on…Wednesday, December 28th at the
Hardware Bar, which is as close as they’re schedule to get thru May,
when they swing back into the Northeast and hit venues in New Hampshire,
Connecticut and in Bethlehem, PA.
---Blues fans take
note…Charlie Musselwhite who
is playing two dates in the “Big Apple” in December on the 9th
and 10th at the Beacon
Theatre, will also play the
Center For The Arts in nearby Homer (less than an hour away) this
summer, on Saturday, May 5th!
---Umphrey’s McGee just announced more tour dates including stops in
Philadelphia, Baltimore, State College and a five night stand at
Big Indian Resort in the
Catskills a five-night stand in August, from 8/6 thru 8/10.
---The current tour
of Ed Kowalcyzk (former lead
singer of “Live”), will bring
him to the Pocono’s! Ed will
be playing at Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono on Saturday February 18th!
---Kelly Clarkson, the original American Idol, has mapped out a massive
tour, including ten dates in the nearby northeast in Mashantucket, CT;
Atlantic City, Albany, Verona, New York City, Manchester, Boston,
Johnstown and two nights in Niagara Falls.
The tour will pass thru the Northeast from January thru March.
---Hope you tuned
into Star 1057 on Friday Morning (11/18) to hear
Brian Wolff play his song “Strong”
on the Star Morning show with Lori about 7:40am.
Very cool. It was all
part of the campaign to collect frozen turkey donations for Catholic
Charities so that the needy can celebrate Thanksgiving.
Btw, they exceeded the goal for turkeys donated, receiving over
three-thousand!
---Local music
prodigy Zarni de Wet posted
on Facebook this week that she was at the Bitter End in New York City
Monday night (11/21) as part of the regular SongCircle get together of
local and regional gathering.
Hope that those of you who live in the greater NYC area got to
see her!
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---On The Roxx still hasn’t opened…despite a notice in the Good Times
that Rize was playing there last weekend…they are hopeful of being open
on Thanksgiving Weekend, so stay tuned!
---Cool gig for
Driftwood!
They got to warm up for Donna the Buffalo’s show in Rochester Friday night and in Syracuse
on Saturday!
---Just heard…Southside
Johnny plays a solo date at the
Center For The Arts in Homer
on Saturday 1/28.
---Adam Ant just announced tour dates, including a few in America!
Notably, 2/14 in Philadelphia and 2/15 in NYC.
It’s rare Adam gets out anymore, so if you’re a fan of Ant music,
grab your tickets while they last.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Adam Ant (2)
Blood Sweat & Tears
(1)
Bret Michaels (1)
B.o.B. (1)
Dazz Band (2)
Dropkick Murphy’s
(6)
Ed Kowalczyk (1)
Graham Parker (2)
Henry Rollins (4)
Jack’s Mannequin
(1)
Kelly Clarkson (10)
Mac Miller (2)
New Kids On The
Block/ Boyz II Men (1)
NRBQ (1)
Pitbull (1)
Rammstein (5)
Rusted Root (2)
Ryan Star (4)
Slaughter (1)
Snoop Dogg (3)
Sophie B. Hawkins
(3)
Southside Johnny
(1)
Southside Johnny &
the Asbury Jukes (2)
Suzanne Vega (5)
Taproot (1)
The Maine (1)
Umphrey’s McGee
(10)
Young The Giant/
Grouplove (7)
# in parenthesis
indicate # of shows added this week by the adjacent artist.
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Music News for 111211:
---The date is set.
The time in known.
Even the bands have been selected…although there might be more.
Charlie Fest to benefit injured music fan Charlie Moore will be
held December 4th at 2pm at the
Cyber Café West in
Binghamton. The bands will
be Driftwood, Dr. E.F., The
Slaves, Magnolia Drive and
Monkey’s Typing…so far.
---Clear Channel
radio’s KGB Christmas benefit concert series begins Saturday (11/19)
with a show at the Martini Room
in Kirkwood. The headliners
are Triphammer, which hasn’t performed for awhile.
Not sure if this will be the original band or not, yet, but other
bands for the benefit will include
Road To Ruin, Recycled Zombies,
Meanstreak and Tim Ruffo.
---Metal ‘Cuse II is all
over but the thank you’s, so with that in mind, here’s a copy of the
post from the Metal ‘Cuse
facebook page last week:
A big THANK YOU to all the bands -
SLEEPY HOLLOW, VOODOO TERROR TRIBE, GRANNY 4 BARREL, A SOUND OF THUNDER,
STEEL KINGDOM, FLESHBURN, NINE ROUND and PSYCHOPATH. A big THANK YOU to
all the fans. A big THANK YOU to all the sponsors - Gary from Twisted
Headz, Damian from Damian Martin TV VIDEO, Jeff Van Buren from SOB Gear,
Tom Carpenter from King Weasel and Joe D at 95x. A big THANK YOU to
David Ga...rlow from the Examiner, and to Jessica Novak at the Syracuse
New Times. A big THANK YOU to Sam, Tony, Richie and staff at FUSION.
Each and every one of you helped to make METAL 'CUSE 2 another success!
Also, a very heartfelt congratulations to Gil Pan Zastor and Kathrin
Keeton. THAT WAS AWESOME! Please stay tuned for further information
about METAL 'CUSE 3 coming up in 2012!
Can’t wait.
---A late
Binghamton Restaurant Week announcement....unfortunately, due to some
last minute complications, WHOLE
IN THE WALL was not be ready to reopen as originally planned. They
were, however, open by Thursday 11/10. Plan a visit to see them later
this week!!! Hoping they
resume their music schedule, too.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---On The Roxx has been teasing us again this week on facebook that
they’re close to re-opening.
We’ll keep ya posted.
---Had a nice
facebook chat this week with
Randy McStine who says he’s raised him minimum target for funding
his next Lo-Fi Resistance album, but is still hoping for $5-to-10-thousand
more. I’m personally hoping
he gets it. I know I didn’t
give “A Deep Breathe” a great
review, but there was so much promise in it…
---Metalcore fans
and especially Metal fans who went to
Metal ‘Cuse II should check
out Voodoo Terror Tribes
Stands To Reason (ep).
It’s being offered as a free download, so here’s a link, either
stream it or download it and enjoy:
http://voodooterrortribe.bandcamp.com/album/stands-to-reason-ep
---Jeff Howell, bass player of the former Parlor Cats…now known as just
The Cats, had a CD release party on facebook on November 6th
for his first solo CD, called, “First Time.”
If you missed the party the facebook page is still up at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=143620749071624
and, if you’d like
to stream the songs, they’re posted on Jeff’s dot com page:
http://www.jeffhowell.org/firsttime.htm
---Social Distortion fans, the band just added a 2nd show at
the Town Ballroom in Buffalo.
They’ll be at the club on both 11/22 & 11/23.
---Tickets for
Wiz Khalifa at BU on 12/4
went on sale this weekend…did you get yours yet?
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---The Elves
continue to rule the Binghamton chart with the Dio-led Cortland based
band grabbing their second week on top.
Otherwise it was
the Rihanna, LMFAO and Justin Bieber who were the big winners around the
area this week.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Afrojack (1)
Al Kooper (1)
Aretha Franklin (3)
Augustana (1)
Big Time Rush (5)
Bo Bice (2)
Burton Cummings (1)
Charlie Daniels
Band (3)
Children Of Bodom
(7)
Colin Hay (1)
Corey Taylor (1)
Cowboy Mouth (1)
Davy Jones (1)
Deadmau5 (1)
Digital Underground
(1)
Donavon
Frankenreiter (1)
Donna The Buffalo
(5)
Edwin McCain (1)
Hanson (2)
Hedley (4)
Hot Tuna (3)
In Flames/ Trivium
(6)
Keith Sweat (1)
Lit (2)
L.A. Guns feat.
Steve Riley & Phil Lewis (1)
Mavis Staples (6)
Nada Surf (6)
Nitty Gritty Dirt
Band (6)
Peter Frampton (1)
Poco (2)
Rise Against (5)
Shawn Colvin (5)
Social Distortion
(1)
Taproot (4)
The English Beat
(1)
The Outlaws (1)
Tommy Roe (1)
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Music News for 110511:
---I’ve seen
Charlie Moore for years…ever since I started hanging out with some
regularity at the Cyber Café West
on Main Street in Binghamton.
I never knew who he was however, until he was struck by a car
last week at Conklin Avenue and Washington Street near the bridge.
The accident seriously injured the already wheelchair bound
Moore, breaking his pelvis, skull and spine.
His friends in the music community, who have appreciated his
support over the years are planning a benefit for him at the
Cyber Café, tentatively
planned for December 4th.
Details on the way soon, but if you’d like to send get well
wishes to Charlie, here’s an e-mail address for upstate medical center
in Syracuse, where he’s being treated:
www.upstate.edu/hospital/patients/contactpatient.php
Get well, soon, Charlie! P.S.-here’s an additional link to a story that Fox 40 News did on the accident that injured Charlie and gave some background on him. Enjoy…
http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=20858
---For as long as
I’ve been posting notices of bands playing at
Felicia’s Atomic
Lounge in Ithaca, I had no
idea until this week that they made their own Vegan Worcestershire sauce
for their Bloody Mary’s, or that they carried soy milk for use in their
creamy cocktails! They also
serve Vegan hot dogs, too!
Why don’t more establishments do this?
Felicia’s will be celebrating
the Vegan lifestyle on November 11th!
It’s healthier! It’s
green! It’ll make you wonder
why you didn’t do it before!
---Ronnie James Dio’s widow, Wendy is re-releasing the “Stars” project
by Hear N’ Aid…a heavy metal
style Christmas collaboration ala “Do They Know It’s Christmas” by
Band-Aid.
Hopefully it’ll be out this year.
---Dirt Farm posted on facebook this week that the long out-of-print
first Dirt Farm album, “Somewhere
Near Itaska…” is now available for streaming at Spotify and
available for downloading at iTunes and Amazon.com!
All three Dirt Farm
discs are on spotify for streaming, the digital discography is complete!
---Ethan from
Slam was on Freezone in the
Morning w/Jim Free & Tom the Electrician, on KGB Monday morning at about
9:25am to talk about the upcoming
RAFT benefit concert at the
Martini Room, in Kirkwood on 11/12.
The benefit is to raise money for United Way to help our
communities recover from the devastating Labor Day weekend floods!
---Speaking of KGB,
has anyone else noticed that some our favorite DJ’s vanished from the
radio two weeks ago? Sorry
to have to report that two longtime KGB mainstays have been let go by
Clear Channel.
Tim Boland, who has been the
host of the Afternoon Drive shift, the Monday night new music show,
Incoming (which has also been canceled) and was also Music Director at
the station for as long as I can remember was let go on Wednesday 10/26.
Also fired was resident hair band fan, host of Metallica 2.1 and
night-time DJ, Westy, who has been holding down the shift since Rudd left town back
in the early 2K’s.
In addition mid-day
host Matt Guido has also been
pulled off the air in order to concentrate on behind the scenes duties.
---Meanwhile, my
buddy, Joshua B. formerly of
the Star Morning show has found a new home, weekends at Magic 1017.
Josh left the Star Morning show a few months ago to go back to
school full time and polish his already formidable internet skills.
Knock ‘em dead, dude!
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Tons of new
dates announced last week by former
Pink Floyd singer/ bass
player, Roger Waters.
Ten shows all within reasonable driving distance, including a
show in Albany, at the former Knickerbocker, (now the Times
Union Center) June 28th, which will probably be the
closest.
---Score another
great show for Oneonta!
Taking Back Sunday is playing Hartwick College on Wednesday,
November 16th!
---String Band fans take note…the band has not only changed their name
to Band of Strings, but have
now changed their facebook page as well…perhaps you should “like it.”
Just a suggestion…
---Tesla just added a date at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe PA on Saturday
2/18. It’s the only date on
this tour in our area. The
rest of the dates are all in the South or West.
---Reknowned
Grateful Dead
drummer/percussionist Mickey Hart
has just scheduled 3 dates in our area, the first on January 6th,
is as close as the Westcott
Theatre in Syracuse!
---B.U. grad and
NYC native, Ingrid Michaelson
just scheduled a show date (her first in awhile) at the
Music Hall of Williamsburg in
Brooklyn, NY on 12/10.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Ronnie James Dio, heavy metal god (…and former resident of nearby
Cortland) is number one again in Binghamton!
This time, with the band that became
Elf…The Elves.
It’s a very nicely done package btw and priced to sell!
The weeks only other big debut on the Independent Music Stores
chart, was the new Megadeth, Th1rt3en.
---Otherwise around
the area and
Around The State it was
unanimous!
Coldplay took the top album
spot on every chart except the Binghamton chart, and
Rihanna scored number one on every singles chart!
Coldplay more then
took the top position on the charts.
They also scored a number of re-entries on both the
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Syracuse charts.
Coldplay also scored the top debut song-of-the-week on the Singles
charts with Princess of China
featuring (you guessed it)
Rihanna.
---Coldplay didn’t hog all of the categories however.
Kelly Clarkson had the
breakout song for the second-week-in-a-row in Syracuse, with “Mr.
Know It All” jumping into the top ten (…and just shy of the top
five) at number six! In
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton the Breakout Song-of-the-week was
Good Feeling by
Flo Rida!
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Aimee
Mann (2)
Big
Time Rush/ Demi Lovato/ Jason Derulo/ Breathe Carolina/ We The Kings/
Patrick
Stump (1)
Erykah
Badu (1)
Iced
Earth/ Symphony X (10)
Ingrid
Michaelson (1)
Jefferson Starship (1)
John
Doe (1)
Little
Feat (6)
Megadeth/ Motorhead/ Volbeat/ Lacuna Coil (7)
Mickey
Hart (3)
Mindless Self Indulgence (2)
Monster
Magnet (1)
Peter
Frampton (1)
Rob
Thomas (3)
Roger Waters (10)
Set Your Goals/
Four Year Strong/ Balance & Composure/ Transit (4)
Taking Back Sunday
(5)
Tea Leaf Green (1)
Tesla (1)
The English Beat
(3)
Tower Of Power (4)
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Music News for 102911:
---Randy
McStine has begun work on the sophomore album of his progressive
rock side-project, Lo-Fi
Resistance, and is funding it in an unusual way.
He’s asking for fan support!
McStine is offering a package of gifts for your assistance and
also asking you to watch a music video posted on youtube about the
project, and about helping.
If you’re interested here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UYwzEPJ15g&feature=related
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/189526063/new-lo-fi-resistance-album-chalk-lines
P.S. One new face
involved in Lo-Fi II is
Porcupine Tree’s Gavin Harrison!
Talk about lending your project some major cred!
Rumor also has it that
McStine is trying to find a way to get another local musician,
Zarni de Wet involved.
Sounds ambitious!
Can’t wait to hear it!
---Another
R.A.F.T. (Rockers Against
Flood Tragedy for those of you who don’t know) benefit is coming up in
November to help United Way of Broome and Tioga County assist
communities still recovering from the flood in September.
This benefit will be held at the
Martini Room in Kirkwood and
feature some of the area’s greatest rock outfits…including,
Meanstreak, Rize, Pawn Shop,
Jimmie Jones & the Family Jewels, Wreckless Marci, Dirty Martini and
Dropclutch.
Tickets will be only $10.00 and the show starts at 1pm!
Rock On!
---Monkey’s
Typing are hitting the road in November to play a
Dark Star Orchestra
after-party at Delilah’s in
Ithaca! DSO are playing the
State Theater in Ithaca on
Saturday night November 19th and
Monkey’s Typing are the
area’s best improv/ jam band.
Let’s see if they can make Ithaca access their “monkey-mind.”
---Local metal
band, Ruination held both a
reunion and a farewell party over the weekend at the
Downtown Quarterback in
Endicott. The band played
with Elevator Death Squad
and Well Oiled Machine, in
the Zombie Apocalypse Halloween party.
Two members of the band, (Derek and Josh) have joined the Elmira
metal outfit, King Snyder.
Singer, Nick Wilson is still looking for a new band.
Good luck to all and thanks for the music!
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Nice to see
NBT Bank has picked up
sponsorship of the Songwriter
Showcase at the Cyber Café
West. Especially in
today’s economic climate.
Kudo’s to organizer John
Kanazawich who I imagine had a bit to do with it.
Nice to see corporate support of local music!
The next showcase is November 12th!
---Texas
In July scheduled a show at
Eleanor Rigby’s in Jermyn this week, plus a few others before they
join the August Burns Red
tour in January, as a warm up band, along with
Silverstein.
---Arlo
Guthrie just added 11 dates in our Regional area, but most are in
Massachusetts or Connecticut.
---Staind
just added a date in Albany on Thanksgiving weekend, Saturday, November
26th. So far
it’s the closest one to Binghamton.
The venue is the
Washington Avenue Armory.
---30
Seconds To Mars just added a second night at the
Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC
on 12/6!
---Anyone remember
80's rockers, Marillion?
They’re back in June for 5 dates in our greater Regional area,
including two in NYC at Irving Plaza!
---Allman
Brothers Band just added a third date for the
Tower Theatre in Philly, so
they’re playing at the Tower Friday, Saturday and Sunday on Thanksgiving
weekend! Now that’s a great
early Christmas present!
---Shawn
Colvin just added another night at the
City Winery in NYC, making
it a four night stay, from 11/3-11/6.
---Soundgarden
fans…Chris Cornell just
added a solo date at the Allentown Symphony Hall on 11/23!
That might be as close to Binghamton as he gets!
---Judging by her
facebook posts at least one local musician was directly affected by the
snow…Dena who reported
having the electricity knocked out at her house.
Here’s hoping that NYSEG gets you hooked back up soon!
---The snow also
knocked out power to the Summit
Tea Room in New Milford, forcing them to cancel the
Odd Man Out appearance!
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---On the
Binghamton Independent Music
Stores chart the Grateful
Dead score their 1st number one album of the
Radio2.0 era (since 9/2007)
with the popular Europe ’72, Vol.
#2. It’s also the
highest charting Grateful Dead
album since “Rocking The Cradle:
Egypt 1978” debuted at number six in October 1978.
The biggest jumper of the week was
Dust Bowl by blues guitar
player and area favorite, Joe
Bonamassa. No new
entries this week, just a re-entry by
Lady Antebellum.
---In Syracuse,
Evanescence finally hit the
number one spot a week after it’s debut.
The highest debut of the week in the ‘Cuse was
Jane’s Addiction new one, “The
Great Escape Artist.”
Also noteworthy was the top ten debut by French electronic band,
M83 and the latest by
Everlast.
One the Syracuse
Rhythmic chart, Rihanna
returned to number one with “We
Found Love.”
Justin Bieber and
Drake both had top five
debuts and the breakout of the week was “Mr. Know It All” by Kelly
Clarkson.
---In Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton Five Finger Death Punch
held onto the number one spot on the Modern Rock album chart with “American Capitalist.”
Jane’s Addiction and
Puscifer also broke into the
top ten with their first week on the chart.
Breaking Benjamin made
the weeks biggest leap inside the chart with their greatest hits
package, “Shallow Bay”.
On the Rhythmic
chart for WB/Scr. Rihanna
jumped to number one with “We
Found Love.”
Drake and
Justin Bieber both debuted in
the top ten with their respective hits and the biggest breakout of the
week was Kelly Clarkson’s
latest, “Mr. Know It All.”
---You’ll notice
that I added Syracuse to the “Around
The State” section of the charts.
The main reason is that the biggest selling pop album, is often
not the top Modern Rock album.
Same logic for the Rhythmic singles chart.
Pop charts sometimes
place a different song on the top of that chart, just because of
differences between the two genres (minor
that they are.).
Having said that
Adele returned to number one
with 21 in most cities around
the state, thanks to the success of her second single, “Someone Like You.” The
lone hold out market was Syracuse where former Rockstar: Supernova star,
Ryan Star hit the top of the
Pop album chart with “11:59.”
On the Song side, Rihanna was
number one everywhere except Buffalo with “We
Found Love.” The top
charting pop song in “The Queen City,” was “Sexy
And I Know It” by LMFAO.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
30 Seconds To Mars
(1)
Adelita’s Way (2)
Allman Brothers
Band (1)
Arlo Guthrie (11)
August Burns Red/
Silverstein/ Texas In July (8)
Chicago (5)
Chris Cornell (1)
Commander Cody
Band (8)
David Cook (6)
Devon Allman’s
Honeytribe (2)
Duncan Sheik (1)
Eric Johnson (4)
Glen Phillips (4)
Guster (2)
Happy Together
Tour (2)
Hit
The Lights/ The Dangerous Summer/ A Loss For Words
(6)
Manhattans/ Blue
Magic/ Meli’sa Morgan/ Harold Melvin’s Bluenotes (1)
Marillion (5)
Method Man (4)
Mychildren Mybride
(1)
Nada Surf (1)
Patrick Stump (1)
Rusted Root (1)
Shawn Colvin (1)
Staind (1)
Texas In July (3)
The English Beat
(1)
They Might Be
Giants (4)
Widespread Panic
(2)
Wu-Tang Clan (2)
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Music News for 102211:
---If you missed
last weekends incredible weekend of Flood Relief at the
Belmar, you missed not only some great shows, but amazing acts of
charity. Here’s what the
Belmar posted on their
facebook page:
·
---Local music
lovers can still help out with flood relief even though the benefits
from this weekend are over.
Rockers Against Flood Tragedy (RAFT) have posted a digital album
online and you can purchase it for only ten dollars.
It’s a twenty-one track set that includes songs from twenty-one
of your favorite Southern Tier musicians including
Zarni de Wet, Tim Ruffo, 4i,
Mobday, Pawn Shop, Voodoo Highway, Absense Of Reason and
Jared Campbell, just to name a few.
If you’re interested in making a purchase, please click on the
link below:
http://rocktheflood.bandcamp.com
---McGirks is getting closer and closer to reopening.
They recently posted on their facebook page that they’re trying
to hit a soft date of Wednesday, October 26th.
They also indicated that there might be another post regarding
reopening on Friday, but nothing yet.
---Meanwhile
Number 5 continues with their
flood recovery and it may be a few more weeks before they’re ready to
reopen. The Serv-Pro trucks
may be gone, but their weekend entertainment schedule has been pushed
back to November 11th and we’re presuming that they’re
expecting to be reopening somewhere around that time.
Here’s hoping.
---The Goo Goo Dolls show at
Stanley Theatre in Utica had to be rescheduled for 11/18 as lead
singer, Johnny Rzeznik was
sick. Hold onto your tickets
for the new date! They’ll be
honored.
---The Red Cross is
using Brian Wolff Bands new
song, “Strong” for their
official slide show about official slide show about the flood.
Sweet.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Club Paradigm at Flashbacks
brought in Angelina from the MTV reality show Jersey Shore on Friday
night. Can she play an
instrument? Wait…Don’t
answer that.
---Brian Wolff from the Brian
Wolff Band was interviewed this week on Magic 101.7.
If you missed it’s on air play back (Sunday 10/23 @ 11am), you
can also hear it on
www.brianwolffmusic.com.
---Randy Barnett has announced the formation of a new local band, “Brother
Randy And The Middle Key Band.”
Nice to see another band embrace traditional horns ala the
Alpha Brass Band…
---Everlast coming to the Westcott Theatre in Syracuse 11/6!
---Check out the
Joe Grushecky shows in
Pittsburgh on 11/4-5. The
warm-up act is Bruce Springsteen!
---Rusted Root plays the Haunt
in Ithaca next in two weeks on Friday 11/4.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Five Finger Death Punch powered their way to the top of the
Binghamton Independent Music Store Top 20 this week, with their third
album, “American Capitalist. “
It’s the bands second number one album, following their debut, “Way Of The Fist,” which hit number one for a week, on June 21st,
2008. Their sophomore album,
“War Is The Answer,” missed
the top spot on the chart, debuting and peaking at number four on
October 3rd, 2009.
“American Capitalist” however is their first album to actually debut
at number one. It Took “Way
Of The Fist” fourteen weeks to climb to that point.
The only other big
debut this week goes to The
Grateful Dead, who premiered at number four with
Europe ’72, Vol. #2.
This marks the beginning of a series of several albums that will
look back at perhaps the best
Grateful Dead concert tour ever.
The original Europe ’72 album came out in 1973 and was re-released in expanded
form in 2002.
---Five Finger Death Punch also debuted at number one in Syracuse on
the Modern Rock album chart, as “American
Capitalist” just beat the self-titled news disc by
Evanescence. The other
top ten debuts were Ashes And Fire
by Ryan Adams and
Retrospective, a greatest hits collection by
Ben Folds.
Bjork’s
Biophilia premiered at number twelve,
Avalanche United by I Am The
Avalanche hit the chart at number fifteen and the
King Of Limbs remix album by
Radiohead jumped on the chart at number eighteen.
While Skillet
re-entered for a 69th week with
Awake.
---On the Syracuse
Rhythmic chart LMFAO scored
their second number one-in-a-row with “Sexy
And I Know It,” knocking
Adele from the top spot.
Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg
featuring Bruno Mars debuted
at number four with “Young Wild &
Free.” Other strong
debuts were “Good Feeling” by
Flo Rida and Heartbeat by
The Fray!
The biggest leap-of-the-week was
Bruno Mars, “It Will Rain”
from Breaking Dawn, Part One. It
jumped from number 27 to number 15.
The track with the longest life this week was “Rolling
In The Deep,” by Adele
which logged it’s thirty-third week.
---On the
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Modern Rock list,
Five Finger Death Punch hit
number one again with “American
Capitalist.”
Evanescence self-titled third album again was close behind at number
two.
Ryan Adams Ashes and Fire
bowed at number three. New
albums by Carolina Liar and Bjork also debut at number fifteen and
sixteen respectively. The
first Evanescence album,
The Fallen, re-entered, as did
Awake by Skillet.
As for the biggest jumpers this week, they were
Sigh No More by
Mumford And Sons (which has
also been on the chart longest at 60 weeks) and
Worship Music by
Anthrax.
Both moved six spots.
---Around The State
the self-titled Evanescence
ruled as it premiered at number one in Rochester, Buffalo and New York
City. Only in Albany was it
beaten by American Capitalist
from Five Finger Death Punch.
Meanwhile it was a mixed consensus on the number one song as
Sexy And I Know It by
LMFAO hit number one in
Rochester and Buffalo, but Adele
hung on in Albany with Someone
Like You, and Rihanna
took the top spot in New York City for the second week-in-a-row, with
We Found Love featuring
Calvin Harris.
NEW DATES ON THE REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
30 Seconds To Mars
(1)
Boyz II Men (3)
Bret Michaels (2)
Chicago (1)
Curren$y (1)
Dave Matthews & Tim
Reynolds (2)
Edgar Winter (1)
EPMD/ Ghostface
Killah/ Black Moon/ Special Ed/ Black Sheep/ Black Rob (1)
Everlast (4)
F**cked Up (1)
Gary Puckett & the
Union Gap (1)
Goo Goo Dolls (1)
Grass
Roots/ Buckinghams/ The Turtles/ Gary Puckett & the Union Gap/ The
Monkees (Happy Together Tour) (1)
Hot Tuna (4)
Hurt (4)
Joe Grushecky & the
House Rockers/ Bruce Springsteen (2)
John Mayall (1)
Johnny Winter (1)
Jon Anderson (6)
Kimberly Locke (1)
L.A. Guns feat.
Steve Riley & Phil Lewis (2)
Lady Antebellum
(13)
Leon Russell (1)
Lupe Fiasco (1)
MGMT (2)
Mobb Deep (1)
Peter Frampton (3)
Poco (2)
Rascal Flatts (2)
Red Jumpsuit
Apparatus (3)
Reverand Horton
Heat (1)
Rusted Root (4)
The Lemonheads (8)
The String Cheese
Incident (6)
They Might Be
Giants (1)
*#’s in parenthesis
indicate # of new shows added to regional concert page.
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Music News for 101511:
---I’m updating a
little early this week since there are so many important flood benefits
this weekend, so I hope you’re checking in early, as all three of these
events need to attended!
---Prehaps the most
ambitious benefit for flood victims this weekend, and first on the list,
is a three day affair, Friday thru Sunday (10/14-16) at the
Belmar, on Main Street in
Binghamton. This three day
event has finally been firmed up and rather than give myself writers
cramp, I’m just going to be lazy and use the copy and paste functions on
my computer to reprint The
Belmar’s announcement from their facebook page, below…so here it is!
“STEP RIGHT UP, STEP RIGHT UP to the
world’s most spectacular display of musical entertainment ever assembled
in the name of flood relief!! This weekend, and this weekend only, 30
acts have come together at the Belmar in order to donate ALL gate
proceeds to CHOW. These proceeds will be donated in order to provide
mold mitigation and safety material. Please also bring nonperishable
food to fill ...the food pantries that are so vital to the survival of
our community.
These 30 acts represent every musical food group imaginable. Friday, the
donation is $5, Saturday, $10 for the entire day. Sunday will also be a
$10 donation. Yet, a three day bracelet will be available at $25 which
will allow you entrance for every note.”
See the
Local Concert Page for the full line-up!
---Second, make sure you add the Zarni DeWet appearance at the Brass Lantern in Chenango Bridge to the list. Ms. deWet is playing a benefit on Saturday, October 15th, and it's rare we get to see her, so take advantage if you can!
---There’s another
flood benefit this weekend as well.
This one is Sunday (10/16) and it’s a little more personal.
It’s for Jordan Patch, the former owner of
Dino’s, who not only lost his
famed bar in Conklin when the flood hit, he also lost his own home and
his parent’s home! The price
is $15.00 for adults, $5.00 for children with music from
Dr. Colin Marcus!
The show starts at 1pm at the Knights Of Columbus Council #206 so
stop by and show Jordan some love.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---The Benjamin Raubinsons continue to make positive waves!
They just announced on facebook on Sunday (10/9) that they are
now on Pandora Radio! Way
cool!
---One Click Culture also expanding their reach!
Their now on Rhapsody!
---The String Band has changed their name…they will now be known as
the Band of String!
---Chaos debuts their new drummer, John Brown Saturday night at
Toppers!
---Graham Parker just added a date in Cooperstown Saturday night
(10/15) at the Sterling Auditorium!
---Thrash metal
fans, the Thrash & Burn Tour
just scheduled 7 dates in our regional area (the northeast), but the
closest so far is Allentown, PA at the
Crocodile Rock Café.
---Jam rockers,
Phish just announced a
four-night year-end stand at
Madison Square Garden in NYC, 12/28-31!
Tickets won’t last long!
---Did I ever
mention that the Janes’s
Addiction dates for New York City finally ended up being confirmed
for Irving Plaza? The shows
are next week already!
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Seems
The Adventures Of Rain Dance
Maggie have finally caught on in Binghamton, as the
Red Hot Chili Peppers, who
were at risk of falling out of the top ten on the Independent Music
Stores CD list this week, returned to number one for the third week
out-of-six with their latest disc, “I’m With You.” The
self-titled Staind disc
debuted at number ten and Avenged
Sevenfold had a strong week vaulting ten spots to number eight,
otherwise it was a sleeper of a week.
---In Syracuse
Jack’s Mannequin ruled the
roost with People & Things
debuting at number one on the Modern Rock CD chart.
Mayday Parade also had
an impressive start, debuting at number two.
The new Feist album,
Metals also premiered in the top five, while
the Indigo Girls and New
Found Glory scored top ten entries.
---The Syracuse
Rhythmic chart saw Adele hanging on for a sixth week at number one with
“Someone Like You.”
LMFAO (Sexy
And I Know It) and Rihanna
(We Found Love feat. Calvin
Harris), moved closer to the top spot, but nothing else in the top
eighteen impressed at all.
Sure, The Cast of Glee
version of Fix You debuted at
number fifteen, but those songs are usually only on the charts for a
week, maybe two at the most.
New entries by Hot Chelle Rae
(I Like It Like That feat. New
Boyz) and Daughtry (Crawling
Back To You) showed promise, popping on the chart at numbers #19 and
20 respectively.
---Jack’s Mannequin debuted strongly on the Modern Rock CD chart in
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton as well as Syracuse hitting the number one spot,
with Mayday Parade again
right on it’s heels at number two.
New Found Glory found the top five, while
blessthefall and The Misfits
made the top ten, but the new
Feist album, Metals fell
short of the top ten in it’s first week on the chart premiering at
number eleven.
Avenged Sevenfold re-entered
for it’s 59th week, at number twenty with
Nightmare, due to their hot
new track “Buried Alive.”
---On the
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Rhythmic chart there was very little upward
action! There were only two
songs in the top fifteen (It Girl
by Jason Derulo and Daughtry’s
Crawling Back To You) that
showed enough of an increase in sales to warrant our double asterisk
(our radio2.0 version of the old billboard magazine “bullets.”).
Will this translate into a large scale transformation of the top
ten next week, or was it just a bad week?
Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, there were some strong debuts from
Daughtry (Crawling
Back To You at #15), Hot
Chelle Rae (I Like It Hot at #17) and
Taio Cruz (Hangover at
#20.).
---Around The State
American Idol’s Scotty McCreery
held the top spot in pop album sales in Rochester, Buffalo and Albany,
with his debut album “Clear As Day.”
Only in NYC was McCreery denied.
Adele took the top
spot in the Big Apple as “21”
returned for it’s 9th week at number one.
As for the pop singles category,
Adele ruled there, too—but
only in Rochester, Buffalo and Albany.
Rihanna took honors in
NYC holding down the top spot for the second week-in-a-row with
We Found Love featuring
Calvin Harris.
NEW DATES ON THE REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Aimee Mann (6)
Ani DiFranco (1)
Between The Buried
And Me/ Animals As Leaders/ Tesseract (1)
Corey Taylor (6)
Dashboard
Confessional (6)
Drake/ Kendrick
Lamar/ Asap Rocky (1)
Graham Parker (3)
Hank3 (7)
Jadakiss/ Lloyd
Banks/ Juelz Santana (1)
Kid Rock (3)
Mighty Mighty
Bosstones (3)
New Riders Of The
Purple Sage (1)
Paul Simon (2)
Peter Yarrow (3)
Phish (4)
Southside Johnny &
the Asbury Jukes (2)
Staind (2)
Tea Leaf Green (5)
Tim Reynolds (2)
Tony Bennett (3)
Winds Of Plague/
Chelsea Grin/ As Blood Runs Black/ For The Fallen Dreams/ Upon A Burning
Body/ In The Midst Of Lions/ Like Moths To Flames/ Volumes (Thrash &
Burn Tour) (7)
#’s in parenthesis
indicate amount of shows added by artist this week.
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Music News for 100811:
---Dillingers has announced that they’re turning their second floor
into a dance club, Thursday thru Saturday.
It will be called
Dillingers Loft and the resident DJ will be DJ Jim Fox, from
Chenango Bridge. If you’d
like a sample of Fox’s work, just check out this youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLPsPty_5g8
---The debut
One Click Culture CD, “Rat
Race” is not only available on Amazon.com, but as of this week, is
now able to be purchased thru CDBaby.com!
Now there are twice as many ways to get culture!
---Billy Joel is coming to Bailey Hall at Cornell on December 2nd!
Good news and bad news for the show.
The good news is that Billy Joel is coming to Ithaca.
The bad news is two-fold.
The show is being billed as “Questions & Answers and a little
music,” so it may not be a traditional show.
Secondly, so far the show is only open to students and faculty.
No word yet if or when tickets will be available to the public,
but here’s hoping!
---Add another
regional Guns N’ Roses date
to the concert calendar…The Times
Union Center (previously known as Pepsi Arena & the Knickerbocker)
in Albany, NY on 11/23!
---Modern Rock band
Rookie Of The Year just
announced a modest fall tour, including seven dates in our region and
one in particular in Horseheads at
The Grid on November 4th!
Warming up for the band are
Since Forever and
Like The Stars. If
you’ve not heard of The Grid
before, don’ t worry, you aren’t alone.
This venue has just started booking regional and national rock
bands! Here’s hoping that
there are plenty more to come!
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Brian Wolff says his new single, “Strong” is finished and should be
available soon on iTunes!
---Modern rockers,
Red also just announced some
additional tour dates including three in our regional area and one
within a local drive, at Eleanor
Rigby’s in Jermyn, PA on October 21st!
---Chris Robinson of the Black
Crowes will be bringing his
Chris Robinson Brotherhood slightly closer to us than Syracuse.
He’ll be playing the Oneonta Theatre on Saturday, October 22nd.
Of course if that’s a bad night for you the CRB is still playing
The Westcott in Syracuse on
Saturday, October 15th.
---Steve Earle just announced a five-night Monday night residency at
the City Winery in New York
City, starting January 9th and running thru February 6th.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---On The
Binghamton CD Chart Chickenfoot’s
sophomore album (named III
btw) hangs on at #1, while Dream
Theatre edges closer to that coveted spot at #2 with
A Dramatic Turn Of Events.
Lil’ Wayne moves up 3 spots with
Tha Carter IV, but Adele
jumps 4 places with 21 to
become the weeks biggest jumper.
---blink 182 debut at #1 on the Syracuse Modern Rock chart with their
reunion disc, “Neighborhoods.”
Wilco and
Mastodon also debut in the
top five, while the Foo Fighters
“Greatest Hits,” and
Avenged Sevenfold’s “Nightmare”
both re-enter the chart. The
biggest leap inside the Top 20 this week belongs to the 20th
Anniversary Edition of Nevermind
by Nirvana.
---On the Syracuse
Rhythmic chart Adele hangs at
number 1 for a fifth week-in-a-row, not to mention the
fifth-out-of-seven, with Someone
Like You. Big debuts
this week for B.o.B. feat. Lil’ Wayne with
Strange Clouds (#4), and It
Will Rain by Bruno Mars.
The song is to be featured on the soundtrack for the forthcoming
Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn, part #1.
Biggest leap this week goes to
The Script with
Nothing.
---On the
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Modern Rock chart
blink 182 score again with
their comeback album,
Neighborhoods.
Wilco, Mastodon, Nirvana and
Switchfoot all had top five
debuts which means that for the second time in three weeks all five of
the top five albums are debuts.
That’s pretty rare.
There are also chart re-entries from
Devil Wears Prada, Five Finger
Death Punch and the Foo
Fighters.
---It’s a comeback
week for Adele, as
Someone Like You moves back into the top spot for a fourth week at
number one.
B.o.B. featuring Lil’ Wayne scored a big debut with
Strange Clouds opening up at
number two.
It Will Rain by
Bruno Mars also premiered
strongly at number 14.
Nickelback also managed a Top
Twenty debut with When We Stand
Together. Biggest leaper
in the Top 30 is Kelly Clarkson’s
Mr. Know It All.
---Statewide
blink 182 scored well with
Neighborhoods, debuting at
number one in Rochester and Buffalo.
Hip Hop artist J. Cole,
with his album, Cole World:
The Sideline Story taking the top spot in Albany and New York City.
Adele’s
Someone Like You nailed down number one in Rochester, Buffalo and
Albany, but not New York City where
Rihanna took top honors with
We Found Love
featuring Calvin Harris (the
rapper, not the convicted murderer.).
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Adema (1)
Aimee Mann (1)
Arctic Monkeys (4)
Billy Joel (1)
Bret Michaels (2)
Bryan Adams (3)
Chris Robinson
Brotherhood (1)
Clutch/ Corrosion
Of Conformity/ Kyng (4)
Dark Star Orchestra
(3)
David Jacobs-Strain
(1)
Demi Lovato (2)
Devon Allman’s
Honeytribe (5)
Eric Johnson (1)
Everlast (1)
George Clinton &
P-Funk (1)
Graham Parker (1)
Guns N’ Roses (1)
Ian Hunter (1)
Javier Colon (6)
Jay & The Americans
(1)
John Brown’s Body
(1)
John Sebastian (1)
Jonny Lang (1)
Kirk Franklin (4)
L.A. Guns feat.
Steve Riley & Phil Lewis (2)
L.A. Guns (w/
tracii guns) (3)
Lucinda Williams
(9)
Lynch Mob (1)
Mary J. Blige (1)
Mike Gordon (5)
Peter Tork (1)
Puddle Of Mudd (1)
Puscifer (3)
Rascal Flatts (4)
Red (3)
Rik Emmett (1)
Rookie Of The Year
(1)
Steve Earle (5)
Sting (2)
They Might Be
Giants (1)
Vertical Horizon
(1)
*#’s in parenthesis
indicate amount of new shows an act has added in our area this week.
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Music News for 100111:
---So sorry to hear
about the alleged loss of Keith “Lam Chops” Slater, who was a bouncer at
Flashbacks.
Slater apparently drown in the Chenango River on Wednesday
afternoon, in what is believed to have been an attempt to swim across
it. His body has yet to be
recovered.
---Bumped into
Todd Evans, lead singer and
guitar player for One Click
Culture, at the Cyber Café
West Flood Benefit on Wednesday night and he told me that the bands
debut CD, “Rat Race” would be available on Amazon.com on Monday, October 3rd!
Todd is still trying to reschedule the bands CD release party
(which got waylaid by the flood), so be looking for that to be announced
soon! In the meantime,
make a note to get onto Amazon.com on Monday and get yourself eight
tracks of culture!
---Congrats to
Cyber Café West & Songwriter
Showcase organizer, John
Kanazawich! Their
impromptu Flood Benefit last Wednesday raised $335.00 for flood victims,
plus the audience filled one CHOW barrel with non-perishable food items
and another barrel with clothing.
It might not sound like much, but this benefit was announced on
Friday and held the following Wednesday, so on 5 days notice and on a
school night, this was an excellent result!
Thanks to all who went and contributed!
---Ithaca folk
rockers, Donna The Buffalo
have added four more dates in our area including a two night stand at
Castaways in Ithaca on Saturday December 17th and Sunday
December 18th.
The other new dates are at the
Bearsville Theatre in
Woodstock (todd rundgren’s place) on Friday, December 16th and the
Rex Theatre in Pittsburgh on
Saturday November 5th.
---The community of
musicians in the Southern Tier is coming together to help flood victims
with a multitude of Flood Benefits!
The newest one is Rock The
Flood at the Country Pines
in Endicott set for Sunday, October 9th.
So far the line-up includes
Frostbit Blue, Tanked, Beard Of
Bees, Audreys Stone, Tyson Alston, Jared Campbell, Tim Ruffo, Lukus
Wells, The String Band and
Jimmyjohn McCabe.
---Meanwhile, the
Belmar firmed up night #1 of
it’s three night benefit for Flood Relief, which will run from Friday
night, October 14th thru Sunday night October 16th.
The Unity Group and
the Benjamin Raubinsons will
warm-up for The String Band
(as we understand it). More
acts may be added as the 5pm start time seems awfully early for just
these three bands.
---Zooneyfest, which was postponed due to flood damage has now been
rescheduled for Saturday, October 29th!
The event, which is now the 7th annual, will be held
at Orlando’s Catering, at En-joie
Golf Club in Endicott.
The benefit was originally set for
the Country Pines.
Scheduled performers include
The String Band and
The Revelers.
This years charity of choice for the organizers is Randy Buttman
and Helping Hands Of Broome County.
Zooneyfest is held
annually in memory of Endicott native and ALS victim, Joe Zunic.
---The same day as
Rock The Flood in Endicott,
Sunday, October 9th, in Sidney is another benefit for flood
victims called Sidney Rocks Flood
Relief. The line-up for
this benefit was confirmed this week and includes,
Woodshed Prophets, The Zappa
Band, No Time For Cryin’, One Click Culture (as todd evans is from
Sidney), Route 51, Blue Stone
and Seven Second.
---While we’re all
waiting for the next Soundgarden
album and tour, Chris Cornell
has scheduled ten (count ‘em ten!) solo acoustic tour dates in our
immediate driving area! Just
like the “Songbook” tour this
spring, Cornell will be playing songs from all of his various projects,
Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog and his own solo
material. The most
Bingo-centric are in Albany on Thursday, November 17th at the
Hart Theatre in the Egg
Complex and in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday November 30th at
the Bardavon Opera House.
Other dates are in Ridgefield, Torrington, NYC, Red Bank,
Atlantic City, Burlington and Pittsburgh.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Friday nights
(9/30) long scheduled Driftwood
show at the John Barleycorn
in Owego became a Flood Relief benefit earlier this week.
Hope you got to go and give greatly!
---McGirks says reconstruction started Wednesday (9/28) and should take
about two weeks to complete!
---Just on the
website for Number 5, who
don’t have anything scheduled until 10/21.
Here’s hoping that they’ll be open by then.
---Congrats to Mark
Gentile, who is the new lead guitar player for
Tanked.
Kevin Hamm has apparently gone solo, or as
Tanked put it on their
website, he’s “focusing on his newest original music project.”
Sounds like solo to me.
---Jazz great
Pat Metheny just announced a
6 night stand in NYC @ the Blue Note!
Just sayin’…
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Chickenfoot’s sophomore,
Chickenfoot III debuted at the top of the Independent Binghamton
Music Stores chart this week.
It’s the 2nd number one for the band, which last spent
4 weeks at number one back in June and July of 2009.
Also making noteworthy debuts,
Don’t Explain by
Joe Bonamassa and
Beth Hart, and Dream
Theatre’s, Dramatic Turn Of
Events.
---Joe Bonamassa had quite a week on the Binghamton Independent Music
Store Charts! Note that not
only did he have a new debut with blues singer,
Beth Hart; he also snuck back
into the top ten with his latest solo album,
Dust Bowl, which enjoyed its
27th week on the chart.
---Somehow,
Mumford & Sons came out of
nowhere to hold off the new Pearl
Jam Twenty album on the Syracuse Modern Rock Top 20 chart this week.
Opeth, Tori Amos, Thrice
and Mindless Behavior also
debuted in the top ten, while Foster The People re-entered in the top five, as
Pumped Up Kicks continues to
score on Top 40 radio stations.
---On the Syracuse
Rhythmic chart Rihanna
debuted in the Top 10 with
We Found It
featuring Calvin Harris.
Other than a couple of debuts from the
Cast of Glee it was a quiet
week for debuts.
New Boyz moved up a big 8
spots with “Better With The Lights
Off,” and was the biggest jumper of the week.
---In Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton Pearl Jam debuted at
the top with their 20th Anniversary set,
Twenty.
Other noteworthy debuts included new albums by
Thrice, Tori Amos and
Opeth.
---On the
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Rhythmic chart
Maroon 5 returns to the top
spot for a second week with “Moves Like Jagger” featuring
Christina Aguilera.
That’s the first time it’s been at the top since August 20th!
That’s six weeks between reaching the peak!
The whole time it stayed in the Top Five, too!
Quite a performance.
Also,
LMFAO continues to move up with their latest song, “Sexy
And I Know It,”
Dev
jumps ten spots to #16 and
Rihanna debuted at number ten with “We
Found Love,” featuring Calvin
Harris.
NEW DATES ON THE REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
311 (1)
Aaron Neville (1)
Average White Band
(6)
B. B. King (2)
Bruce Hornsby (2)
Burton Cummings (3)
Chris Cornell (10)
David Archuleta (3)
Donna The Buffalo
(4)
Edgar Winters Band
(2)
Edwin McCain (1)
Enrique Iglesias/
Pitbull (1)
Foreigner (3)
Goo Goo Dolls (9)
Guns N’ Roses (5)
John Fogerty (3)
Korn (1)
Maryland Deathfest
(4)
Matisyahu (7)
Pat Metheny (6)
Ryan Adams (5)
Southside Johnny
(5)
The Cure (3)
The English Beat
(4)
Thursday (4)
Todd Rundgren (5)
Warren Haynes Band
(1)
We Came As Romans
(7)
*#’s in parenthesis
indicate amount of new shows an act has added in our area this week.
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BREAKING NEWS (9/26):
---Guns N’ Roses are coming to
Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on November 20th!
Okay, so Axel is pretty much the only Gunner left from the
classic crew, but still, the new band can play!
Tickets will go on Pre-Sale on Friday (9/30), and for the general
public on Saturday (10/1) for $53.00!
Be advised…there will be a $10 parking fee to be paid in cash on
the day of the show, according to the website.
---Also, a huge
Benefit for Flood Relief is
set to play Wednesday night at the
Cyber Café West!
Organizer, John Kanazawich made the announcement on Friday in a press release
that was sent out to area media.
Expected to play at the event are local favorites,
Tyler Alston, Rick Augustine, Mark Berger, Robert Bullock, Claire Byrne,
Jared Campbell, Todd Evans, the aforementioned
John Kanazawich, Jamie Osterhout, Jeff Stachyra, Steve Strauss, Lukus
Wells and Adri Young!
The show starts at 7pm and will take donations to support local
flood relief! Should be a
rockin’ time for a great cause!
Music News for 092411:
---The
Belmar bar in Binghamton is in the process of putting together a
three night benefit scheduled for October 14th thru the 16th.
So far the benefit is being anchored by three bands,
The String Band (scheduled
for Friday night 10/14),
Thousands Of One (scheduled for Saturday 10/15) and
Driftwood (scheduled for
Sunday 10/16). More bands
are being added and scheduled.
Overall organizers are promising 16 bands and 14 singer/
songwriters on two stages.
With luck, tickets (or bracelets) maybe ready for purchase by October 1st.
---Todd Evan’s band, One Click
Culture reported this week on facebook that their new album,
Rat Race was finally out on CD
and available for purchase.
If you want one just send them a message thru their facebook page, or
their reverbnation page, or at oneclickculture.net and they’ll get one
to you. I should add that I
don’t know what the asking price is yet.
I do know that they are currently trying to book a CD release
party, as their original choice is temporarily closed due to flooding.
We’ll keep ya posted!
---Blind Tiger Pub, in Johnson City posted this week on facebook that
as of 9/20, they have quickly rebounded from the flood and are back in
business. In fact, they had
a full slate of shows this weekend.
Hope you got to check ‘em out.
---Having heard
that the bowling alley in Kirkwood suffered flood damage I assumed that
the Martini Room (which is
right behind the bowling alley) would also be damaged.
To my delight, they were not damaged and have not only re-opened,
but are planning a Roctober fest on October 15th, which
includes a stellar local line-up, including
Mobday, St. Dread, Absence Of
Reason, Flesh & Blood, Recycled Zombies, Ruination and
Castle Bravo!
Rock on!
---Meanwhile,
McGirks in Chenango Bridge
continues to recover, inspite of the fact that they were hoping to be
open enough for an event on Friday (9/23), but they couldn’t quite get
ready in time. Here’s hoping
that they’re able to re-open soon.
---Fans of 60’s
power soul band, Rare Earth
be advised! They group is
playing the Oneonta Theatre
next Friday night! You
remember their big hits, “Get Ready,” and “(I Know) I’m Losing You.”
---Brian Wolff (leader of the
Brian Wolff Band) has written a song about the response to the flood
of 2011 called “Strong,” and
preparing it for release, but in the meantime, he’s posted a “live”
version of it on his facebook page and youtube,
from a recent performance at the
Tranquil in Binghamton.
Wonder if he’ll perform it Sunday at
Blues On The Bridge?
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---The
Aaron Lewis show at Tags
(where he regrettably sings country songs and warms up for blake shelton)
has been rescheduled for 10/2.
BTW, congrats to Aaron on his current country hit going gold…kinda.
---Singer/
Songwriter, Mike Posner has
expanded his fall tour.
Check out the REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE for particulars.
---The
Weird Al Yankovic tour just added a date in Albany, this week for
Tuesday October 18th at the
Palace Theatre.
---The
Hatebreed tour will also stop in the Capitol District at the
Northern Lights on December 1st.
---Veteran blues
legend, Johnny Winter just
lengthened his winter tour with stops in NYC, New Haven, Albany and
Norfolk.
---Chickenfoot have announced dates for a minor tour, with only one
date anywhere near us, in NYC, no venue named yet though. Hoping the
schedule expands.
---Demand is so
strong for the Donna The Buffalo
show at the City Winery in
NYC on 11/25, that their appearance has just been expanded to a
two-night stop over.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Primus stays on top in Bingo for a second week with
Green Naugahyde.
Strong debuts this week by
Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper and
Lady Antebellum, as well as
re-entries by Kenny Wayne
Shepherd and My Morning
Jacket.
Avenged Sevenfold and
Adele are neck-and-neck for
longevity.
---In Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton, the self-titled Staind
album is at the top of the Modern Rock CD chart.
In fact, this weeks chart is marked by seven strong debuts in the
top ten alone! Yes Virginia,
the Christmas shopping season is here!
The rest of the top ten debuts go to
The Devil Wears Prada, Dream
Theatre, Anthrax, We Came As Romans, Primus and
Bush.
Avenged Sevenfold and
Mumford & Sons are the old
men on this chart.
---On the Rhythmic
chart in WB/ Scr. Adele hangs
in there at number one for a third straight week, it’s noteworthy that
the new Coldplay song,
Paradise featuring Rihanna
debuted at #11. Otherwise
the biggest jumpers of the week is the new
LMFAO,
Sexy And I Know It, which
leaps from #25 to #14... and
the latest from David Guetta,
Without You, featuring Usher
which vaults from #24 to #13.
Adele’s, break thru
hit, Rolling In The Deep has
now logged over 30 weeks on the chart!
---Staind is also #1 in Syracuse on the Modern Rock CD’s chart.
The pure number of debut releases this week however is astounding
as the chart almost totally turns over!
There were only 7 albums that stayed on the chart!
New entries go to Dream
Theatre, Anthrax, Primus, Bush, The Devil Wears Prada, We Came As
Romans, St. Vincent, Umphrey’s McGee, They Might Be Giants, Polar Bear
Club (from nearby Rochester),
Wild Flag and Train
(which was a re-entry). Mumford &
Sons had the most staying power logging their 56th week.
---On Syracuse
Rhythmic side Adele logged a
third week on top with Someone
Like You, and Coldplay
debuted in the Top Ten, holding down #7 with
Paradise.
LMFAO also debuted big
by appearing at #10 in their first week!
Without You by
David Guetta and Usher was
the biggest jumper of the week, moving eleven positions from #19 to #8.
The elder statesman on the chart,
Rolling In The Deep by
Adele is still in the Top 20
after 30 weeks on the chart.
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Music News for 091711:
---After initially
moving Blues On The Bridge
back a week, organizers have decided that two weeks would be better in
the face of the devastation caused by the incredible flooding
experienced in downtown Binghamton and other nearby towns and villages
in the GBA, so mark your calendars one more time as
Blues On The Bridge is moved
now to Sunday, September 25th.
Already confirmed for the festival are local favorites, Brian
Wolf, Randy McStine and Dirt Farm!
The event gets under way bright and early at 10am!
---Local musicians
contributed their time for a great cause on Wednesday night on
WSKG-TV…Flood relief!
Lukus Wells, Driftwood,
Joe Crookston, Scott Freeman and others (did I see Bingo’s pop
latino queen Ayana manning
the phones?). The telethon,
which was picked up by local network stations, helped to raise more than
$235-thousand dollars to help communities devastated by last weeks
record flooding.
---The horrible
flood destroyed homes, disrupted lives and ravaged businesses.
One example is what happened to
Dino’s in Conklin.
Below is a letter from Dino’s owner, Jordan Patch that he posted on facebook earlier this
week…
Many of you have been contacting me
regarding Dino's; and it is now time to share with everyone the events
of the past week.
Dino's was open till about 10 PM last
Wednesday as the Susquehanna rose up and out of its banks. When basement
flooding became out of control and the pumps failed, we issued last call
and begin taking precautions for serious flooding. Many regulars were on
hand to assist in saving much of Dino's inventory and equipment. Wading
through 3 feet of water, I killed the power. A last drink was shared on
the patio as the rain continued to pour around us. A quick goodbye was
said amongst friends and employees.
We learned of the fate of Dino's by
Thursday morning. Complete devastation could be seen down both sides of
Conklin road from the bridge.
Jordan, Addison, Billy, Joel, and few
volunteers regained entry by wading through the waters on Saturday to
assess the damage. Many of the discoveries can be seen on Dino's Face
Book page (Dinos Bar and Jordan Patch). The bar took on about 3-3 1/2
feet, devastating the beer cooler (which was not emptied for sake of
time). Floors had begun buckling, the pint chiller had done a back flip
and spewed its contents, and the huge back patio bar had actually
floated and moved. A keg of Saranac Pumpkin Ale along with Hazlitt
wines, patron, and Red Stag were rescued and enjoyed on the on-ramp
behind Dino's, with customers, that came to view the catastrophe.
Untouched paper goods, frozen foods, and equipment were removed and
donated to First Baptist Church.
Monday was clean-up day. Support
poured in from customers, friends, family, and strangers. Every table,
stool, and much of the beer above the flood line was removed in addition
to all memorabilia and all electronics. Dino's was now simply a shell.
Code enforcement and engineers were fearful of the buildings condition.
The foundation was beginning to cave-in and developed large holes.
Tuesday afternoon, orange stickers
reading UNSAFE BUILDING, NO ENTRY were on every door. Though it has not
been fully confirmed/communicated, we believe the building is being
condemned.
It was a wild ride, and we rocked it
hard.
With that said, I would like to thank
all of our many customers and friends that made up the Dino's family.
Your time with us made for an amazing adventure. The dedication and
drive of all of our Dino's Crew, old and new, helped create the
atmosphere that made Dino's what it once was. From me to all of you,
thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I plan to have one last goodbye event
for YOU to show my appreciation. Info on that will follow. For now, I am
spending my time repairing my home and my parent's home that also
flooded.
Take Care, Thank You, and most of all
Cheers!
- Jordan Patch
Here’s hoping
Jordan can rebuild Dino’s,
perhaps at a different location, at a later date.
For now, we can all take solace in the fact that there were no
fatalities in our area, and we’ve all got our lives.
---For those of you
who didn’t get enough Ray Davies
(Chris Kocher—not that I can blame you) when he came to the
Forum last year, get your tickets to see
the Kinks lead singer when he comes to Ithaca at the
State Theatre on Saturday,
November 26th @ 8pm.
Prices are $29.50 & $36.50 and go on sale 9/23 @ 10am.
---No that’s not a
typo on the LOCAL CONCERTS
page…I have deliberately put all of the
Benjamin Raubinsons tour
dates for their two week east coast jaunt on the local page, so you can
follow their progress as they head to Tampa, via Baltimore, Chapel Hill,
Asheville, Nashville, Atlanta and some other choice towns before
returning to the GBA on 9/30 with a show at the
Belmar! Travel safe!
---Local singer/
songwriter, Jared Campbell
has posted acoustic versions of two new songs on itunes.
The songs, “The Fight” and “January Snow,” will be included on
his next CD, but these versions are stripped down and don’t include the
full band. The versions of
these songs that appear on the CD will.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Bluegrass
singer/ songwriter (and Steve
Earle’s son), Justin Townes
Earle is coming to the
Oneonta Foothills Center on Saturday, 12/3.
---Inspite of what
it says on Pollstar, Five Finger
Death Punch are coming to WB @ the
Mohegan Sun
Arena at Casey Plaza (not
Mohegan Sun @ Pocono Downs) on Sat 11/26.
The line-up also includes
All That Remains, Hatebreed & Rev Theory.
---Dates for the
Newport Folk Festival 2012,
in Newport, Rhode Island; have been set for July 28th-29th.
Mark your calendars.
INSIDE THE CHARTS: As our area recovers from record flooding this weeks charts are
suffering from weaker than normal sales, so some of the results are not
necessarily as balanced as usual.
---Primus picks up their first #1 on our Binghamton chart this week
with Green Naugahyde.
Anthrax also had a
strong debut with their latest,
Worship Music, which is partly because of the Big Four concert at
Yankee Stadium recently.
Also noteworthy debuts by Hank 3
and Foster The People.
---In Syracuse
Hinder’s
All American Nightmare is #1.
O.A.R., Skillet, Avenged
Sevenfold and The
Decemberists are all re-entries.
Five Finger Death Punch are the seasoned veterans on the chart this
week. Interest in “War Is The Answer,” is renewed as they announced dates for their “Share
The Welt” tour, which hits the road fall.
On the Syracuse
Rhythmic chart Adele holds on
to #1, with Someone Like You,
and there are strong debuts this week by
Kelly Clarkson, Lady Antebellum,
Jason Derulo and David Guetta.
The award for longevity this week also goes to Adele, whose “Rolling
In The Deep” has now logged 29 weeks on the chart!
---In Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton, Red Hot Chili Peppers
retained #1 this week with their latest, “I’m
With You,” as there were no new threats.
This weeks only other entries were re-entries from
Bon Iver and Train.
The WB/Scr.
Rhythmic chart looked a lot like Syracuse.
Adele stayed at #1.
Kelly Clarkson and
Lady Antebellum had strong
debuts, while Jason Derulo
came back on as a re-entry.
Also noteworthy are debuts by
David Guetta, LMFAO and Adele
(“Set Fire To The Rain,” an
album track that made it onto the singles chart), and a curious re-entry
by Demi Lovato as here
Skyscraper comes back on the
chart after a six week absence.
---Across the State
Lil’ Wayne’s
Tha Carter IV managed to stay on top for a second week in-a-row in
all major markets. Results
are a little more mixed at the top of the pop songs chart statewide with
Adele’s “Someone Like You,” taking the top spot in Buffalo and NYC.
Maroon 5 returned to
#1 in Rochester and Albany with Moves Like Jagger featuring
Christina Aguilera. In
Albany, in particular, the song was #1 for the third non-consecutive
week, which is a rare feat indeed.
Songs seldom go back to #1 after they peak, much less go back to
#1 twice!
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Music News for 091011:
---This weeks
extensive flooding in the greater Binghamton area has not only disrupted
lives, homes and businesses, but many of our local clubs, too.
The deluge of water from both Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm
Lee swamped a number of our favorite haunts, including
Thirsty’s, Number 5, McGirks, The Martini Room, The John Barleycorn, The
Owego Treadway and those are only the most obvious venues affected.
Still unsure is how much the flood waters damaged the
Broome County Arena, (much of
which is above ground level) and,
the Terra Cotta, the Rathskeller, (which were located past the
ground level watermark, but also underground) as the rising waters did
not appear to pass beyond Hawley Street.
Having said that, it would appear that
Flashback’s, Tom & Marty’s and Uncle Tony’s were spared.
Here’s hoping. Of
course it remains uncertain how many other establishments were affected
by the flash flooding that preceeded the river flood.
Based on facebook
postings it seems that some clubs weathered the storm so well that they
speculated opening this weekend.
Squiggy’s on Chenango
Street in Binghamton posted on facebook that they hoped to be open on
Friday night (9/9), and the Blind
Tiger in Johnson City also expressed hopes on facebook that they
might open on Saturday (9/10), but there was no confirmation.
Tranquil in Binghamton
posted on facebook that they were opening on Sunday (9/11).
Also drove past
The Brass Lantern today
(9/12) and was surprised to find it untouched by flood waters, while
McGirks, which is a quarter mile away was inundated.
---Just heard from
McGirks on facebook.
They’re saying it’ll be 2-3 weeks before they can re-open, but
still hope to hold their “Half-Way
to St. Patricks Day” party on 9/17, but it’ll have to be outside.
---As the City of
Binghamton continues cleaning up downtown and the river levels remain
exceptionally high Blues On The
Bridge has been pushed back a week.
The annual Blues festival was set for 9/11, but will now be held
on 9/18. That means all 16
bands will have to reschedule.
Hope they’re still available next week!
---Zooneyfest, the annual benefit in the name of Endicott ALS victim,
Joe Zunic has been postponed as well.
Haven’t heard yet when they’ll try to reschedule, but as soon as
we hear, we’ll pass it on.
---The record
flooding may have devastated many of the venues that host our favorite
musicians and bands on a regular basis, but it may have also brought
them together for a common cause.
Brian Wolff, of the Brian
Wolff Band has said on facebook that a “massive benefit” is already
in the works, but no specifics have been announced yet…bands like
Ruination/ Break Of Aggression/
Nova City/ Frequilibriam/ Pawn Shop/ Tom Pufky/ A Capella and
Country Mile have all
confirmed interest. Interest
has also been expressed by
Wreckless Marci. There
has been some talk of combining it with
Blues On The Bridge, but so
far that is rumor only.
Already there is a facebook page committed to the cause and an e-mail
address for those musicians and bands who are
interested in contributing their time to the endeavor.
That address is
rocktheflood@yahoo.com.
---While most clubs
are drying out from this weeks flood,
On The Roxx is reopening
after a fire this spring.
The club had previously been near the confluence of the Chenango and
Susquehanna rivers in downtown Binghamton, but moved to the old
McDonalds on Court Street in downtown Binghamton a few years ago.
The fire that forced the club to move started upstairs in one of
the apartments and gave the venue a good excuse to look for a still
better building. This week
On The Roxx announced on
facebook that they were relocating further up Court Street next to
Nikko’s at the old Schnizelbank.
The official address will be 528 Court Street.
Nice to have another quality club on the eastside of Bingo.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Jared Campbell posted on facebook that he planned to visit the
Binghamton University shelter and give a free concert for flood victims.
Looks like it went down on Saturday night 9/10, but didn’t see
any confirmation yet.
---Dena reported on facebook (before the flooding started) that she’s
tracking vocals on new songs!
That sounds like new music from local superstar is nearly done!
---And Then There Was Darkness posted on facebook on Sunday (9/11) that
their new CD is done.
They’re having a free CD release party on 9/17 @ 4pm at 5609 Route 79,
Apt. #1, Port Crane. They’ll
have 4 bands; Beneath Collapsing
Skies, Chamber Law, Neon Guillotine and of course,
And Then There Was Darkness.
Boy, the landlords gonna love that!
---Tickets are now
available for Metal ‘Cuse 2
at Club Fusion in North Syracuse.
VIP ticket holders are supposed to get early admittance and some
cool goodies.
---Deadheads
rejoice! The Grateful Dead cover band,
Dark Star Orchestra is set to
play the State Theatre in
Ithaca on November 19th.
They’ve also scheduled 16 other dates in our region.
See the Regional Concert Page for dates and venues.
---Furthur plays Wilkes-Barre on 11/5…Syracuse on 11/11.
Tickets on sale 9/16.
---Did
JimmyJohn McCabe actually call the
Benjamin Raubinsons the best alt. rock trio in Binghamton on
facebook? They are that, but
from the lead singer of Yolk,
that is high praise indeed!
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Red Hot Chili
Peppers score their first #1 album in Binghamton since we started
keeping charts in 2007.
Stadium Arcadium came out in 2006.
Also, Lil’ Wayne had a strong showing with Tha Carter IV, which
scored one of the strongest showings for a hip hop act in Binghamton in
years. Still overall a weak
week due to the flooding.
Also worth noting, a strong debut for what is likely the last Glen
Campbell album, as Campbell is suffering from alzheimers.
Black Country Communion and Adele posted good jumps and Avenged
Sevenfold is back on the chart as the Uproar Tour brought them to nearby
Tags.
---The Chili
Peppers are hot all across NY.
They also scored #1 in Syracuse.
Other big moves in Syracuse this week,
Lenny Kravitz debut of Black And White America at #5, the re-entry of
August And Everything After by Counting Crows (which is marking it’s 15th
anniversary), American Tragedy by Hollywood Undead, and the debut
(although a weak one) of the newest Puddle Of Mudd CD, Re: (Disc)overed,
which is a cover song project.
---RHCD continued
their hot hand this week by nailing down the #1 spot amongst this weeks
Modern Rock CD’s in the greater Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton area.
Strong debuts by Lenny Kravitz and Puddle Of Mudd also marked
this weeks chart, as well as re-entry’s by Skillet, Counting Crows and
Five Finger Death Punch (who have a new disc due soon---did ya ever
notice that demand for artist catalog preceeds a new release…especially
when there are great expectations?)
Also noteworthy is Nickelback’s 128th week on the
chart with Dark Horse. On the Singles chart, Adele is on fire across the
country and WB/Scr is no different, as she jumps from 11 to #1, with
“Someone Like You.” Also
worth noting are huge new entries by Beyonce (Love
On Top), Lil’ Wayne (Mirror
& Blunt Blowin’) & David
Guetta (Turn Me On).
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Bob Seger (6)/ Richard Thompson (8)/ Dark Star Orchestra (17)/ REO
Speedwagon (2)/ Blue October (5)/ Insane Clown Posse (6)/ Judas
Priest-Thin Lizzy-Black Label Society (4)/ Anthrax (6)/ Pop Evil (1)/
Robert Rudolph & the Family Band (1)/ Dream Theatre (3)/ Indigo Girls
(11)/ The B-52’s (2)/ Shawn Mullins (8)/ David Jacobs-Strain (3)/
Marshall Tucker Band (1)/ Hollywood Undead-Asking Alexandria-We Came As
Romans (4)/ Patti Smith (2)/ Peter Murphy (7)/ Mobb Deep (1)/ Jagged
Edge (1)/ Method Man (3)/ Throwing Muses (2)/ Jane’s Addiction (3)/ Moby
(2)/ Black Lips (1)/ Matthew Sweet (8)/ Queensryche (1)/ Crosby, Stills
& Nash (2)/ Owl City (2)/ Steve Miller Band (3)/ Rookie Of The Year (1)/
Helmet (3)/ Ian Hunter (4)/ Opeth (6)/ The Zombies (1)/ Joe Walsh (1)/
Bob Mould (1)/ Halestorm (1)/ Drive-By Truckers (1)/ Furthur (8)/
Mushroomhead (5)/ Levon Helm Band (9)/
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Music News for 090311:
---Just a short
column this week due to vacations, the Labor Day Weekend and Hurricane
Irene, which forced me to spend way too much time watching my parents
cellar for signs of flooding, which were very minimal, thankfully…
---The
Dave Matthews Band Festival shows on Governors Island that were
cancelled due to Hurricane Irene have been moved and rescheduled.
They will make up the entire three-day festival on September 16th,
17th and 18th on Randalls Island (not Governors
Island as previously planned).
Watch the Regional Concert Page for more details.
---Fans of
Ministry will be happy to
know that the band is touring, but the bad news is that only one of
their 5 total tour dates are anywhere near us (at the
Theatre @ Times Square, in
NYC on 6/23).
---Casual Concerts On The River started this week (9/2) with a show by
the Binghamton Philharmonic brass section on the
Peacemakers Stage, along the River Trail in Owego.
The concert series will play out during the month of September
on Friday evenings at 5:30.
The remaining shows include the BU a cappella troupe
The Binghamton Crosbys (9/9),
Underground River feat.
Hunter Davidsohn and Adam Southard (9/16), and another a capella band
from BU, Rhythm Method
(9/23).
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Just heard that
Bill Kreutzman, formerly of the
Grateful Dead is part of the
band 7 Walkers, who will be playing at the
Catskill Chill Music Festival
next weekend in Hancock! The
line-up for the Chill already includes Umphrey’s McGee, Dumpstaphunk,
John Brown’s Body, Giant Panda Guerille Dub Squad, DJ Logic, JGB
w/Melvin Seals, Particle, Big Sams Funky Nation, The Pimps of Joytime to
name a few…cool.
---I know where
On The Roxx has relocated
too! I just can’t tell you
yet, as I’m sworn to secrecy, but an announcement is coming soon!
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
---Derek Trucks Band returned last week to the Binghamton CD chart as
Roadsongs has also re-entered for it’s 11th week for the
first time since September 2010.
---This weeks
Binghamton CD chart has been frozen due to the Labor Day weekend and
Hurricane Irene.
---Congrats to
Foster The People who score
the #1 Modern Rock CD in Syracuse this week.
It’s their first time on the top of the chart and a response to
their first hit song, Pumped Up
Kicks, which was #1 on the Syracuse singles charts last week.
---In Wilkes-Barre/
Scranton it’s no surprise that hometown boys
Breaking Benjamin have the #1
Modern Rock CD, with their new greatest hits compilation,
Shallow Bay.
Also noteworthy is this weeks re-entry of
Dark Horse by
Nickelback, which logs it’s 127th week on the Modern Rock
CD chart.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Stephen Stills (7)/ Richie Furay (5)/ Colin Hay (1)/ Ziggy Marley (8)/
Doobie Brothers (1)/ Dave Matthews Band Festival (2)/ Sting (1)/ Saves
The Day-Bayside (2)/ Ministry (1)/ Flogging Molly (1)/ Little Anthony &
the Imperials (4)/ Jack’s Mannequin (1)/ Will Hoge (5).
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Music News for 082711:
---The order of
suspension against the
Rathskeller night club has ended.
In fact the bar was expected to reopen this weekend (8/26), but
will have to do it without their liquor license.
The State Liquor Authority decided to end the punishment of the
downtown Binghamton establishment on Wednesday, after a letter from
Mayor Matt Ryan, quoted in the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, indicated that the warning of fire
on January 27th by the club disc jockey was given with, “a
wink and a nod,” so that patrons knew that there wasn’t an actual fire,
but that instead there were police on the way and that those with
illegal ID’s should leave.
It also didn’t hurt that the bars owners paid $15-thousand dollars in
fines for the eleven violations they incurred in the ten weeks prior to
the “fire” incident. The
night club also bought proper ID scanners.
[Note: after writing this story the SLA did reinstate the
Rathskellers liquor license
on Friday (8/26), so it’s business as usual for the Rat, however the
bartenders & bouncers being trained in using a fake ID scanner and the
fact that the Rat owners had paid $15-thousand dollars in fines owed was
sited in helping the Liquor Authority make their decision.]
---It’s that time
of the year again already.
Next weekend marks the 9th
annual West Fest at the Cyber
Café West, in Binghamton.
The free festival (yes, I said FREE!!!) runs from noon-to-9pm on
both Saturday, September 3rd and Sunday, September 4th
and features the best of the area’s local bands, including
Acoustic Expression, The Blind
Spots, Bohemian Sunrise, Dutch Bucket System, Magnolia Drive, Monkey’s
Typing, Native Earthling Band, Stereofidelics, Solaris and
the Woodshed Prophets.
Weather permitting, the show will be outside in the backyard of the
Cyber.
---The fight
against the gas industry and hydro-fracking once again takes musical
form on Sunday, September 4th in Hector, NY at the
Seneca Lake Big Splash!
Featured bands include
Willy Watson, The Evil City String Band, Jim Lauderdale, Sarah Lee
Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Thousands Of One, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub
Squad, Driftwood, Dutch Bucket System, The Burns Sisters, The Green
Deeps and The Double E.
The show begins at 11am and lasts until 9pm, though it’s free, a
$10.00 contribution is suggested to help fight the gas industry!
---It’s rare enough
that Diana Ross plays any
dates these days, much less one as close as the
Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre.
She’ll be there on Friday, September 30th.
The show promises to be a bit more intimate than an arena, but
not as close up as a club, so choose your seats wisely.
Ross will also be playing in Rochester, Reading and Worcester.
---Local folkies,
Donna The Buffalo have added
more dates to the fall leg of their tour, including two that are within
our area, at the Water Street
Music Hall in Rochester, on Friday, November 18th, and
the Westcott Theatre in Syracuse, on Saturday November 19th.
---Hurricane Irene
closed airports, cancelled Major League baseball games, NFL pre-season
games and forced the Dave
Matthews Band to shorten their festival on Governors Island to one
day, instead of three.
DMB is trying to reschedule
the last two days of the festival, but that won’t take place until after
the Labor Day weekend, as the festival is already scheduled to be
elsewhere.
---Irene also blew
away the last day of the Thater
Memorial and forced the Aaron
Lewis/ Blake Shelton show at
Tags, Big Flats to be rescheduled.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---After
Social Distortion finishes
the Foo Fighters tour, they
go on their own solo tour, but sadly they only play one date anywhere
near us, in Buffalo. What’s
up with that? Hopefully
they’ll add more.
---Wish
Pinecone Fletcher luck.
He set to play a with Warren
Haynes at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on Thursday (9/1) on
what’s being billed as the King of the Blues Grand Finals.
The event will be hosted by
Joe Bonamassa.
Cool.
---Voodoo Highway debuts album is now available on iTunes.
The album, called “Hidin’ Out With The Blues.” I know it’s
significant to get your album on iTunes, but personally, let me know
when there’s a physical copy available.
That’s still what makes me excited, and if there is physical
copy, why haven’t you sent me one yet?
Btw, the eleven songs on the album are priced at 99 cents a
piece, which makes the whole album, $10.89.
---If you’re a
“rock star” usually having a hit TV show kills your career.
The Osbournes may have
shot that theory down, but now
Adam Levine, who is part of the hit TV show, “The Voice,” on NBC, is
showing how much it can help.
Not only does Maroon 5 now have a #2 hit in Syracuse and a #1 hit in
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton, with Moves Like Jagger (which also features
guest vocals from another star of the show,
Christina Aguilera, but now
Levine whose guest vocals are featured on the new
Gym Class Heroes song, “Stereo Hearts” has another hit on his hands!
“Stereo Hearts,” just went Top Ten in Syracuse and debuted at
number 22 in Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton.
We’ll be keeping tabs on this.
---That’s not a
typo on the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton album chart.
You’ll notice at number 14 the debut of an album that first came
on the national scene more than 40 years ago, “The Cars” by
The Cars. It’s not
unusual to see what’s called “Catalog” albums re-appear on the charts
during periods of soft CD and mp3 sales.
It’s worth noting that it beat out another catalog album, “One-X”
by Three Days Grace, which re-entered at #16.
NEW DATES ON THE REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Diana Ross (4)/ Chuck Berry (2)/ Donna The Buffalo (2)/ Social
Distortion (1)/ Todd Rundgren (3)/ Steve Forbert (2)/ Pat Benatar (1)/
Sebadoh (4)/ Mayday Parade (6)/ America (5)/ Earth, Wind & Fire (1)/
Lady Antebellum (1)/ Slash (1)/ Steve Miller Band (3)/ Little Feat (4)/
Crystal Bowersox (1)/ The Bangles (4)/ John Oates (2)/ Manchester
Orchestra (5)/ Lupe Fiasco (4)/ Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (2)/
Queensryche (1)/ Dennis DeYoung (1)/ Boys II Men (1)/ All Time Low (4)/
Don Felder (3)/ Jars Of Clay (5)/ Al Stewart (5)/ Scythian (1).
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Music News for 081311:
---If you missed it
(and with the economic meltdown, violence in London and all the
political craziness in Washington, DC; I’ll understand if you did),
Monticello, NY, native, singer/ songwriter,
Gavin DeGraw was attacked and
beaten in New York City early Tuesday morning (8/9).
He suffered a concussion and a broken nose, but is otherwise okay
and has been released from the hospital.
The motive for the attack is unclear, since he was not robbed.
How odd that this should happen on the day his new album was to
be released. The latest word
is that he expects to be back on the
Train and Maroon 5 tour on
August 24th, which is just in time to play the
NYS Fair Grandstand in Syracuse, the very next night on Thursday,
August 25th.
---It’s a BYOLC
(Bring Your Own Lawn Chair) show at the
Trout Ponds Park in Newark
Valley for Bad Weather Blues
on August 20th and best of all?
It’s totally FREE!
The show starts at 6pm.
---Chalk up another
coup for the Oneonta Theatre!
They’ve landed the Zombies
with original members, Colin
Blunstone and Rod Argent
on Sunday, September 11th.
Great show, great venue, what’s not to like?
In addition, there
are twelve other shows including Boston, State College, Tarrytown,
Bethlehem, Niagara Falls, and two in NYC at the
City Winery
---Jefferson Airplane & Hot Tuna guitar player,
Jorma Kaukonen is playing the
Hangar Theatre in Ithaca on
Thursday, November 3rd!
Jorma is also playing five other Bingo-centric solo dates, or in
other words, shows within driving distance.
For the full list
go the the Regional Concert Page
and sort by artist, by clicking on the Artist column header!
---Ithaca folk
rockers, Donna The Buffalo
have added a fall leg to their 2011 tour.
Of the nearly two dozen dates on this leg of the tour, eleven are
within driving range, but most of them are well out of our local area.
The closest of the shows is in Saratoga Springs, at the
Putnam Den on Saturday,
September 10th.
Roy Jay will be the warm-up
act.
---Metal ‘Cuse II set for November 5th at
Club Fusion in North Syracuse
just announced that the show will feature a guest appearance by
Mike LePond of Symphony X!
Nice.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Bela Fleck & the Flecktones are coming to the
Foothills Performing Arts Center
in Oneonta on Wednesday, November 2nd!
---Hope you
metalheads got to the Nikstock
Survivor Party on Friday Night (8/12) in North Syracuse, at
Club Fusion.
According to, Nikstock namesake, Nick Fuoco, it was his last bash
before heading back to Cali.
Have ya noticed btw, how all the Metal fests seem to gravitate toward
Fusion?
First Metal ‘Cuse,
then Nikstock. ‘Sup?
---Driftwood announced their new website this week.
Here’s the address:
---STP
fans, the band just added a date in Albany at the
Palace Theatre on 9/11.
---Rise
Against also headed to Albany on 9/28 at
Northern Lights.
---Hippiefest
has added 4 dates on their fall leg…closest 10/13 in Albany & 10/14 in
Peekskill. Look ‘em up under
Dave Mason.
---Doors fans,
Ray Manzarek & Robbie Krieger are touring this fall and hitting 9
different nearby venues.
Best bets are either Tarrytown (10/30) or Albany (11/9).
---Tedeschi Trucks Band also added a few dates to their fall itinerary.
The closest venue is probably Rochester.
---Thanks to
Brian Wolff came to Mini-Golf
Against Breast Cancer with Star
1057 on Saturday at Skate
Estate, in Vestal! Very
cool! All proceeds went to
the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
---Dan Fluegel is looking for an experienced bass player to help him
cover dates for the rest of August and September.
You can reach him on facebook.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
The Big Four
concert at Yankee Stadium isn’t until September 14th, but
it’s already paying off for
Metallica, whose catalog are selling again, including their newest
album, Death Magnetic, which is back on the
Binghamton Independent Music
Store Chart for the first time in two years.
NEW DATES ON THE REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE: Primus (1)/ Blue October (1)/ Bruce Hornsby (5)/ Psychedelic Furs-Tom Tom Club (5)/ Gov’t Mule (2)/ k.d. lang (2)/ Mary J. Blige (1)/ Vonda Shepherd (1)/ Spin Doctors (8)/ Umphrey’s McGee (7)/ Kittie (3)/ Bob Weir (1)/ Lenny Kravitz (1)/ Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman (2)/ New Found Glory (8)/ Doobie Brothers (1)/ Jorma Kaukonen (6)/ Donna The Buffalo (11)/ Cat Power (1)/ Plain White T’s (1)/ 3 Doors Down-Theory Of A Deadman-Pop Evil (2)/ Sara Bareilles (1)/ Pepper (5)/ Saxon (3)/ Chris Brown (9)/ The Zombies (11)/ Stone Temple Pilots (1)/ Rise Against (1)/ Dave Mason-Hippiefest (4)/ Ray Manzarek & Robby Krieger (9)/ Tedeschi Trucks Band (4)/ Colbie Caillat (1)/ Cat Power (1)/ Deadmau5 (13)/ Danzig (1)/ Evanescence-The Pretty Reckless (5)/ Plain White T’s (2)/ Vanilla Ice (2)/ Neon Trees (1)/ LeAnn Rimes (3)/ Hawthorne Heights (5)/ Lupe Fiasco-Big Sean-Tinie Tempah (1)/ Buddy Guy (1)/ Smashing Pumpkins (5)/ Misfits (2)/ Wynonna (1)/ Hawthorne Heights (1)/ Hinder-Chevelle-Pop Evil-Egypt Central (1)/ Mac Miller (6).
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Music News for 080511:
---Yolk posted on facebook on Wednesday (8/3) that their 2010
performance at the Belmar will be on sale at
Music City, in Vestal, starting next week!
You can also purchase them online at yolkonline.com, but
seriously, when was the last time you went to a music store?
---According to an
article this week in the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, this years
Spiedie Fest could set a
record…if the weather cooperates, which will be iffy, according to the
National Weather Service.
While Friday and Sunday look promising-with just a slight chance of
rain, Saturday is calling for a 70% chance of showers and thunderstorms,
so keep an eye to the sky.
To see the full article, click on the link below:
---The line-up has
been set for the Chris Thater
Memorial Music Festival on August 27th or 28th.
Bands
playing on Saturday August 27th
will be:
Panigma @ 10a
Reprise 60’s @ 11a
Hailey and Shawn @
12p
Monkey’s Typing @
1p
Channel Monsters @
2p
Horseshoe Lounge
Playboys @ 3p
One Click Culture @
4p
Mel and the Boys @
5p
Brian Wolff Band @
6p
Kelly Birtch @ 7p
Scott Freeman Band
@ 8p
Bands
playing on Sunday August 28th:
Miles Ahead @ 9a
Maloney Pipe Band @
10a
Too Many Hoys @
10:25a
4i @ 11:25a
Badweather Blues @
12:25p
Magnolia Drive @
1:25p
Rooster & the
Roadhouse Horns @ 2:25p
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Is it possible
there’s just too much local music this weekend?
Between Spiedie Fest,
Nikstock II and Shelter Slam
alone…I’m so TORN!
---It’s so busy
right now that Chris Merkley
commented on facebook this week that he had to check his own website to
see where he was playing!
‘Tis the season to be busy!
---Did anyone see
Brian Wolff’s opening act at
the Blind Tiger Wednesday
night? It was 13-year-old singer/ songwriter phenom,
Brenna Swanger!
---Panic! At The Disco just announced another leg to their 2011 tour,
which will come as close as Albany (Clifton Park), on 10/27.
INSIDE THE CHARTS:
Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton sure loves the
Vans Warped Tour.
Last year, the tour hit Montage Mountain and totally rewrote the album charts for the
Northeast PA town, the following week.
This year the tour didn’t even come to town, it went to
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh instead.
Nonetheless, the same post tour bump for all the festival’s
touring acts saw eleven new entries on last weeks album chart.
Wow. I took the
trouble to put the pound sign (#) after the album entry, so you can see
for yourself which albums and artists were part of the festival.
---NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Band Of Horses (2)/ Mike Peters (1)/ Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark
(3)/ Dream Theatre (6)/ The Jayhawks (5)/ Joan Osborne (2)/ Allstar
Weekend/ The Flaming Lips (1)/ B-52’s (1)/ Pat Benatar (1)/ Blue Oyster
Cult (1)/ Jack’s Mannequin (3)/ Panic! At The Disco (7)/ Mannheim
Steamroller (9)/ Fountains Of Wayne (2)/ Marshall Tucker Band (3)/ Duran
Duran-Neon Trees (7)/ Bruce Hornsby (2)/ Gary Puckett (1)/ Plain White
T’s (5)/ 10 Years (1)/ Bob Dylan (5).
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Music News for 073011:
---Liquid Me is all excited as their new self-titled ep has hit the
internet. You can find it at
iTunes and CDBaby.
You can either surf on over there after you read the rest of this
report, or you can click on the links below…your choice.
iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/liquid-me/id450500443
CD
Baby:
https://origin.cdbaby.com/cd/liquidme
---P.J. O’Hares in Susquehanna, PA will hold a 3-day benefit for the
American Cancer Society’s Relay
For Life on Labor Day weekend (9/2-4).
The Benefit will be called
Fall Ball and will cost only $5 dollars a day, or $10 dollars for a
special 3-day pass. Still
waiting for the bands to be announced, but certainly a worthy cause and
they’re promising 20 bands over 3 days.
Nice!
---Nick Fuoco posted on facebook this week that he’s still looking for
four more bands to round out
Nikstock II for August 5th & 6th at
Champion Speedway in Owego!
If you’re interested he posted his phone number, too…(818)
212-9136. Good luck!
---You can now buy
advance tickets for Shelter Slam
II (Saturday 8/6) to help fund our local animal shelters, at any
show put on by local promoter,
Sterling Live! You can
also get them this week, at the
Martini Lounge for only $8.00.
One more thing. You
can make two last minute additions to the bill,
Dena Crush & Agony Hill.
---Trans-Siberian Orchestra kicks off it’s 2011 holiday concert season
tour a show on November 11th, at the
Mohegan Sun Arena @ Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre.
Wilkes-Barre will
(so far anyway) be the first city in our area to host a
Mannheim Steamroller show this fall, on November 29th at
the Kirby Center.
Expect more dates to be added, however as only a few for “The
Steamroller” have been posted.
For all dates in our area see the Regional Concert Page!
---MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Everybody’s
talkin’ about the guest appearance by
Frostbit Blue’s former
keyboard player, Michael Place, during the bands set at
Harborfest in Oswego.
Has he patched up his differences with Valch and the band? If so,
what does that mean for the current FB keyboard player, Bill Barry?
---Everythings OK
with Wreckless Marci.
Their cancellation at the
Mosquito Lounge was prompted by a problem at one of the band members
day jobs.
---Dena Crush meanwhile had to cancel on
Thirstys Saturday night (7/30), but
Wreckless Marci played instead.
Easy come, easy go…or vice versa, in this case.
---One Click Culture bass player, Michael Wu posted on facebook this
week that the tracks for their next CD have been mastered!
Getting’ some culture soon!
---The economy
can’t be all bad when there are two new clubs opening up in the GBA.
Welcome to the Beagle on CFJ Blvd in Johnson City and the
---NEW TOUR DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT
PAGE: Sublime With Rome (5)/
Bob Weir (2)/ Monkees (8)/ Leslie West-Michael Schenker-Uli Jon Roth
(2)/ New Riders Of The Purple Sage (1)/ David Cassidy (5)/ Ryan Cabrera
(2)/ Weird Al Yankovic (9)/ Foster The People (2)/ Marky Ramone’s
Blitzkreig (1)/ Thrice (8)/ Ween (1)/ Airborne Toxic Event (5)/ John
Waite (1)/ Kanye West & Jay-Z (6)/ Three Dog Night (1)/ Temptations &
Four Tops (1)/ Glen Burtnik (1)/ Beach Boys (2)/ Edwin McCain (2)/ Slick
Rick (1)/ Stryper (1)/ Psychedelic Furs-Tom Tom Club (1)/ Parachute-Kate
Voegele (1)/ Renaissance (9)/ Moody Blues (1)/ India.Arie (3)/ John
Mellencamp (4)/ Young Jeezy (2)/ Gin Blossoms (1)/ Trans-Siberian
Orchestra (15)/ Mannheim Steamroller (1)/ Men Without Hats (1)/ Art Of
Dying (2)/ Ted Nugent (1)/ Stephen Stills (1)/ Amy Grant-Vince Gill (1)/
Carbon Leaf (3)/ Saving Abel (2)/ Guess Who (1)/ Outlaws (1).
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Music News for 072311:
---So the
Voodoo Lounge has reopened.
Apparently it’s only available for shows, but what a show they
have scheduled for Friday night, August 5th, as
Psychostick comes to town.
If you’re not familiar with Psychostick, then you’ve never heard
the novelty rock song, Beer!
Tickets are only $10-14.00 and the show starts at 7pm.
---The search is
over (apologies to Survivor).
The Brian Wolff Band
named their new drummer this week.
He’s from Binghamton, too!
It’s Roy Clark, who is now, formerly from “The
Uniters.” Brian also
wrote to say that the band has been booked for
Blues On The Bridge, which is
coming up on Sunday, September 11th.
---Pinecone Fletcher played in the Guitar Center
King Of The Blues competition finals this week and while we don’t
know who won, there’s an incredible video on YouTube labeled as the
two-minute tie-breaker, which features
Pinecone Fletcher’s Randy
Hill. Presumably that means they
did very well. Here’s a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRn8USUWako
---Schuyler County
Sheriff’s Department came out with their final figures on the legal end
of Superball IX, featuring
Phish at
Watkins Glen International Raceway this week.
Considering the size of the crowd, which was well over
30-thousand fans, 36 arrests were paltry.
That amount is even smaller, when you consider that 32 of them
were drug-related. By
comparison the average amount of arrests during a Nascar event at the
Glen is smaller, but that’s only recently, thanks presumably to drunk
driving laws. I referenced a
July 13th entry by Jason Whong, on
PressConnects.com for the
above story.
---Also noteworthy
on PressConnects.com, a July
14th story by Lisa Kashinsky, about
Miranda Cosgrove’s upcoming
show at Spiedie Fest 2011.
Seems it could be the biggest show of the year, with demand for
tickets coming from as far away as Florida!
The show is set for Saturday, August 6th.
---The
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin had pictures posted from the
Grass Roots Festival this
weekend. Here’s a link:
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Odd Man Out stood in for
Wreckless Marci after they had to hastily cancel their show at the
Mosquito Lounge on Thursday
(7/21). No reason was given
for the cancellation.
---Meat Puppets announced a ton of dates this week, as did former
Replacements member
(currently with GNR),
Tommy Stinson. See the
Regional Concert Page for
details…
---The
Dropkick Murphy’s are bringing their
Sham-Rock & Roll Festival to cities across the Northeast in
September. See the
Regional Concert Calendar for cities and tour acts.
---Did the
String Cheese Incident really
try to let the air out of the tire of
Phish’s tour bus, or was it
all staged? Either way a
good bit of fun…as long as there are no criminal charges…
---Add
Hot Chelle Rae to the Concert On The Court series at the NYS Fair on
Saturday 9/3 @ 2p. Also add
Hinder on the Court on
Sunday, August 4th @ 8p and the
Pointer Sisters on the Court
on 8/25 @ 2p.
---NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE: Ryan Cabrera (2)/ Kid Rock (1)/
Silverstein (2)/ Missing Persons (1)/ Pat Travers (2)/ Stone Temple
Pilots (2)/ Eddie Money (3)/ Tommy Stinson (7)/ Paramore (1)/ Elliot
Yamin (2)/ The Lemonheads (9)/ The Damned (3)/ Parachute (1)/ Kix (1)/
All Time Low (8)/ Young Jeezy (2)/
Gin Blossoms (1)/ Bright Eyes (5)/ Blind Melon (1) Nonpoint (1)/
Snoop Digg (2)/ Dropkick Murphy's-Street
Dogs-Chuck Ragan-The Mahones-The Parkington Sisters (4)/ Meat Puppets
(5)/ Eddie Money-Lou Gramm-Mickey Thomas (2)/ Bob Dylan (1)/ Rick
Springfield (3)/ Crossfade (3)/ Little Feat (5)/ Texas In July (1)/ G.
Love & Special Sauce (6)/ Primus (7)/ Stone Temple Pilots (1)/ Mat
Kearney (15)/ Leslie West-Michael Schenker-Uli Jon Roth (9)/ Underoath
(4)/ Marshall Tucker Band-Little Feat (1)/ Yngie Malmsteen (11)/ Jason
Mraz (3)/ Sponge (3)/ Misfits (1)/ Berlin (1)/ Fountains Of Wayne (1)/
Hinder (1)
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Music News for 070911:
---Zarni de Wet’s new CD, “Straight Forward” is now available…almost
two months after her stunning show at
EPAC, in Endicott.
According to Zarni’s mom,
Zelda de Wet, anyone
who signed the pre-order list at
EPAC will get their copy in the mail in a few days.
However, if you didn’t please send a check or money order for
$10.00, made out to Zarni de Wet,
along with your mailing address to: 619 Nelson Road,
Johnson City, NY 13790.
Not sure yet if they’ll be in any local CD stores, but we’ll
follow up.
---Speaking of
Zarni, she was also on WSKG-TV’s
Expressions show on Thursday night with
Glenda Davenport, Miles Ahead
and ESP Jazz.
If you missed it, check the links page as WSKG often archives
these shows. Thanks to
Zarni’s mom, Zelda for the heads up.
---On The Roxx is moving again.
The venue recently moved from the confluence of the Chenango and
the Susquehanna to Court Street between State and Chenango…but since an
apartment fire a few months ago, they’ve been closed.
They haven’t officially disclosed the new location yet, but on a
recent facebook post they revealed that they’ll have “plenty of free
parking.”
---Add Ne-Yo & Cee-Lo (Green that is, if you didn’t already know who he
is),
Selena Gomez, Lady Antebellum, Three Doors Down &
Saving Abel all to the list
of shows playing the New York
State Fair Grandstand this year!
Also add Charlie Wilson and The Script
to the list of acts playing the
Courtyard at the Fair.
See the Local Concert Page
for more details. Remember,
there are no Grandstand shows on August 29th, 31st
and September 1st, which means that mostly the dates on
September 4th and 5th are only glaring holes left
to be filled.
---If you went
to Superball IX at Watkins
Glen on Fourth of July weekend, and kept your ticket you can get a free
copy of the July 3rd show on the
Phish website.
They rest of us will have to buy the download or disc.
Just click on the link below for all the info:
---btw, excellent
overall reviews of the Phish
shows, the economic impact, crowd behavior and more in an article in the
Corning Leader and the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
this week. Well done all around.
Here’s links to both:
http://www.the-leader.com/topstories/x1860263421/Phish-fest-draws-rave-reviews
Also, if you’d like
a list of all the songs played at
Superball IX, in order…click on the link below:
http://petebanta.com/stuff/superballsongs.html
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS (Ramblin’ On…)
---Tags announced this week that
Whitesnake & Cinderella will play their outdoor Summerstage on
Sunday, August 14th!
Tickets go on sale on July 15th thru
www.tagstickets.com or (800)
650-TAGS, for $32.75 and $44.75.
Is this as close as we can get Johnson City native,
Cinderella drummer, Fred
Coury to home? Hope not.
---Thousands Of One is set to release their news CD on
Grassroots Festival Weekend
(two weeks away people!).
One track features a guest appearance by Ayana!
---Congrats to
JimmyJohn McCabe and Stacey,
who welcomed a baby boy on 7/7/11.
Little Ezra Philip James McCabe weighed 7 pounds even and
everybody’s fine, according to JimmyJohn’s post on facebook.
---NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE: Gregg Allman (2)/ Cinderella
(9)/ Pixies (8)/ Hanson (8)/ Gary Hoey (4)/ Blondie (5)/ Hollywood
Undead (2)/ Pop Evil (4)/ Tori Amos (6)/ Hawthrone Heights (2)/ John
Waite (1)/ Fountains Of Wayne (10)/ The Motels (3)/ Grace Potter & the
Nocturnals (4)/ Glen Burtnick (3)/ Whitesnake (3)/ Rusted Root (1)/ The
National (1)/ Widespread Panic (2)/ Big Head Todd & the Monsters (2)/
Foster The People (6)/ Bush-Puddle Of Mudd-Hollywood Undead (1)/ Ne-Yo
(1)/ Three Doors Down (1)/ Selena Gomez (1)/ The Script (1)/ Lady
Antebellum (1)/ Insane Clown Posse (1)/ The Dirty Pearls (1)/ Def
Leppard-Heart (2)/ Emily’s Army (4)/ The Smithereens-Southside Johnny &
the Asbury Jukes (1).
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Music News for 070211:
---The
Catskill Chill Music Festival line-up continues to get firmed up.
The three day festival will run from September 9th
thru the 11th at Camp Minglewood in Hancock.
The first two days will include the legendary
DJ Logic.
Day #2 features headliner,
Umphrey’s McGee, as well as the
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad.
---Congrats to the
Cyber Café West who
celebrated their 14th birthday on 7/3!
If you’re trying to figure out what to get them for a belated
present, can I make a suggestion on their behalf?
…more business! Who
couldn’t use that? There was
a party at the café on Sunday with drink specials and music at 2pm!
FYI—Owner Jeff Kahn estimates 3500 performances have taken place
at the Cyber since July 3rd, 1994.
Staggering isn’t it?
---Fans of
The Rods can hear a new audio
interview with David “Rock”
Feinstein on Blabbermouth.net (which is a searchable site btw, just
in case it takes you a few days to get to it.), or you can just click on
the link below:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=159946
---There’s a new
drinking establishment/ watering hole for locals to hear great local
music at! Welcome the
Buffalo Head bar & grill to Conklin at 1577 Conklin Road!
---Voodoo Highway posted a new song on their
Reverbnation page. The
song, called, “Why” can be found by clicking on the link below:
http://www.reverbnation.com/voodoohighwayband
---MINDLESS RAMBLINGS (Ramblin’ On…)
---Major tour
announcements this week fro George Thorogood, Keb’ Mo’, Wilco and
finalists of “The Voice.”
---Heard that Pat
Benatar & hubby, Neil Geraldo stopped at IHOP on their way to Tioga
Downs for their show on Friday night.
They were spotted there by local singer-songwriter
extraordinaire, our own, Dena.
---Speaking of
Benatar, coming back from a family get-together in Elmira Friday night,
stopped at the rest area across from Tioga Downs.
Couldn’t see the stage, but sure could hear Pat Benatar!
Heard “Promises In The Dark,” and part of another song, while my
kids went to the bathroom.
Pat still sounds great!
---The Sweet are
back…billing themselves as “Sweet,” the only original member of the band
is bass player, Steve Priest.
They’re playing at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe, PA on 7/21.
---Sterling Live is
looking on facebook, for musicians to form a long-term country group.
Isn’t that how the Eagles got started?
---NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT CALENDAR: George Thorogood (13)/
Godsmack (1)/ 10,000 Maniacs (1)/ Queensryche (12)/ B. B. King/ Buddy
Guy (1)/ B.B. King (1)/ Jonny Lang (1)/ Glenn Frey (2)/ Soul Asylum (1)/
Keb’ Mo’ (14)/ Corrosion of Conformity (1)/ Misfits (1)/ Todd Rundgren
(2)/ Grand Funk Railroad (1)/ Pure Prairie League (3)/ Firefall (1)/
Dave Mason (2)/ The Voice Live In Concert (3)/ The Smithereens (1)/
Robert Cray Band (1)/ Lynyrd Skynyrd (1)/ Los Lobos (4)/ Britney Spears-Nicki
Minaj (1)/ Colin Hay (1)/ Glen Burtnick (1)/ John Oates (2)/ Wilco-Nick
Lowe (6)/ Dropkick Murphy’s-Mighty Mighty Bosstones (2)/ Dokken (1)/
John Hall (1)/ Rickie Lee Jones (2)/ Charlie Daniels Band (2)/ Sweet
(2)/ Matt & Gunnar Nelson (4)/ The Strawbs (1)/ Todd Rundgren (5)/ Black
Francis (3)/ Asia (1)/ Uncle Kracker (1)/ The Cowsills (1)/ Morris Day &
the Time (1)/ Rihanna (1).
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Music News for 062511:
---Grammy Award
winning, R&B singer, Bruno Mars,
will hit the stage at the NYS Fair in Syracuse this summer, but not on
the Grandstand—you’ll be able to see Mars for free on Chevy Court on
Wednesday, August 31st at 8pm.
Other acts that were just announced on “the Court,” include 70’s
pop/ rockers, Three Dog Night on Friday night, August
26th at 8pm and country duo, Steel Magnolia
on Thursday, September 1st at 2pm.
---Bands are being
sought for Shelter Slam II,
which is scheduled for August 6th to benefit local animal
shelters. Not sure of the
venue, yet. If you are interested in participating contact John Delola
or Sterling Live. More info
on the way…
---Nikstock 2011, part II has been planned for Friday and Saturday,
August 5th and 6th at
Champion Speedway in Owego (which if I’m not mistaken in Spiedie
Fest weekend…very shrewd.).
Tickets will be $25 in advance, $35 at the gate and $25 for Saturday
only. As always,
Nikstock II promises 2 days, 2 stages, 40 bands, 100 kegs!
---Ithaca
alternative/ country artist, Marc
Berger just released his new album, Ride and you can stream it on
the following link:
http://marcbergermusic.bandcamp.com/
---Pinecone Fletcher won the District 8 Finals of
Guitar Centers King Of The Blues contest!
Not sure if there’s a state or national level final, so at this
point all I can say is congrats!
---New Riders Of The Purple Sage have expanded their tour, which will
now include Syracuse!
They’ve added eight dates, including a Sunday, August 7th
appearance at the Middle Ages
Brewing Company. The
former Jerry Garcia side-project will also be performing locally in Norwich
(on 8/9) and in Candor (on 8/6).
Word has it that the band has been re-energized in recent years
with the addition of some new youngsters.
---This just in at
press time…Oneonta rockers,
Liquid Me are planning another CD release party Friday night (7/1)
at the Oneonta Theatre, to
celebrate their debut, self-titled, EP.
They previously held a CD release party at
Thirsty’s, after their plans
at On The Roxx fell apart due
to the apartment fire upstairs (p.s.—they also sent me a digital copy of
the disc and while I’ll write more later, let me just summarize by
saying, “it rocks.”). This
time around the boys in Liquid Me
will be playing before their hometown crowd so you know they’ll be
rippin’ it up (…and collapsing into a puddle of nervous sweat
afterwards)!
---MINDLESS RAMBLINGS (Ramblin’ On…)
---It was
Dick Sporting Goods Open
weekend and the first weekend of summer…seems like everyone was playing
everywhere! Heard good
things about the Maroon 5
show at En Joie, but didn’t personally attend.
---Love the fact
that there is already a Lady GaGa
cover band called, Rad Bromance.
---More teasing
from On The Roxx this week on
facebook. The nightclub has
been closed for the last two month due to fire damage sustained when the
apartments above them caught fire.
Sounds like they’re going to re-open soon… (maybe even in time
for 4th of July weekend?).
---80’s techno-pop
band, Erasure plans major
fall tour, but you’ll have to travel to a big city to see it.
---70’s rocker,
Pat Benatar added more dates
to her summer tour, a lot of which are in the northeast.
She’ll be at Tioga Downs on 7/1.
---Blues great,
Kenny Wayne Shepherd will hit
the road in August with 7 nearby shows.
His recent album, “Live In Chicago,” was a huge hit here in
Bingo.
---NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT
CALENDAR: Pat Benatar (12)/
Stevie Nicks (1)/ Tommy James & the Shondells (1)/ Cheap Trick (1)/
Elton John (1)/ Coheed & Cambria (1)/ Kenny Wayne Shepherd (7)/ Elliott
Yamin (3)/ Steve Forbert (5)/ Barenaked Ladies (3)/ The Grass Roots (1)/
Allman Brothers Band (1)/ Motion City Soundtrack (6)/ Erasure (7)/ Ray
LaMontagne (4)/ Bela Fleck & the Flecktones (5)/ Fastball (1)/ My
Morning Jacket (1)/ Misfits (5)/ Bush (1)/ Sammy Hagar & the Wabos (1)/
10,000 Maniacs (1)/ Kix (1)/ Ani DiFranco (1)/ Lee Rocker (2)/ Fleet
Foxes-The Walkmen (3)/ Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (1)/ Taj Mahal (3)/
All Time Low-Cartel-The Cab-We Are The In Crowd (1)/ The Human League
(5)/ Sonny Landreth (9)/ Alien Ant Farm (4)/ New Riders Of The Purple
Sage (8)/ Chris Robinson Brotherhood (8)/ Big Head Todd & the Monsters
(1)/ Men Without Hats (3)/ Bruno Mars (1)/ Three Dog Night (1)/ Steel
Magnolia (1)/ Black Eyed Peas (1)/ Shawn Colvin (1).
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Music News for 061811:
---the
Uproar Festival has announced dates this week and it will find it’s
way as close to Bingo as Montage
Mountain in Scranton, on Saturday, August 27th .
The only other Bingo-centric date is
Darien Lake Amusement Park
near Buffalo on Saturday, September 10th.
The rest of the dates are out of state, if not
out-of-the-country…in Philadelphia, Boston, Hartford, Toronto and
Pittsburgh.
---The line-up for
Saturday nights Songwriter
Showcase at the Cyber Café
West, was originally supposed to feature
Ade Adu, but he had to bow
out due to a medical problem (heard a rumor that he suffered a broken
arm but wasn’t able to confirm that), so the re-revised line-up included
Todd Evans/ Linda Stout/ Wade
Verano/ Randy McStine and a rock project called
Orion’s Departure, which
features Verano, Evans and
McStine.
Either way, another stellar line-up, thrown together lovingly by
John Kanazawich.
---The
Carnival of Madness festival-style tour has added a date in
September for a stop at Tags
Summer Stage in Big Flats!
The bill for the tour includes
Alter Bridge, Theory Of A
Deadman, Black Stone Cherry, Adelita’s Way and
Emphatic!
They’ll be rocking Tags
at 6:15pm on Friday night, September 9th!
Tickets are going
for $29.50 (including a $2.50 service fee) in advance.
$37.50 day-of-show and are available thru the
Tags website at
www.tagstickets.com.
---There’s another Rock Festival tour making the rounds. The line-up was just announced this week for the Rock Allegiance Tour. The bill includes Buckcherry and Papa Roach as the headliners, along with Puddle Of Mudd, P.O.D., Red, Crossfade and Drive A.
So
far the only date anywhere near us is in Rochester, at
The Brewery, on September 11th,
but there are plenty of open dates on the itinerary, so that
could change.
---MINDLESS
RAMBLINGS (Ramblin’ On…):
---Paul
McCartney has already added a second show at
Yankee Stadium.
He’ll now be there two consecutive nights, on Friday and Saturday
night, July 15th & 16th.
---On
The Roxx recently posted on their facebook page that they’ll be back
up and running soon and even promised some surprises.
OK, I’m teased…
---Godsmack
& Disturbed fans take note!
The pair will be at
Darien Lake on Tuesday 7/26.
---Lindsey
Buckingham also announced dates this week, and while there are 8
within driving distance, the closest is in Philly (glenside) or
Ridgefield (Connecticut).
Bob Dylan (2)/ Godsmack-Disturbed-Machine Head-Trivium-In Flames (1)/
Trivium-In Flames (1)/
Lindsey Buckingham (8)/ The Walkmen-Fleet Foxes (1)/ Jefferson Starship
(4)/ Robyn (1)/ Pat Benatar (2)/ D12 (1)/ En Vogue (1)/ Morris Day & the
Time (1)/ Ginuwine (2)/ Mr. Big (1)/ Maxie Priest (1)/ The Yardbirds
(1)/ Constantine Maroulis (1)/ Kara DioGuardi (1)/ Corky Laing (1)/ Keb
Mo (1)/ Buckcherry-Papa Roach-Puddle Of Mudd-P.O.D.-Red-Crossfade-Drive
A (1)/ Vonda Shepherd (1)/ Johnny Winter (1)/ Stephen Malkmus & the
Jicks (6)/ Bryan Ferry (3)/ Yellowcard (7)/ The Smithereens (1)/
Marshall Tucker Band (1)/ Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (2)/ R. Kelly-Keyshia
(1)/ X (6)/ D12 (2)/ Anvil (3)/ Dokken (1)/ Hinder (3)/ Bruce Kulick
(1)/ Grand Funk Railroad-Bruce Kulick (2).------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music News for 061111:
---Bob Dylan announced additional tour dates late last week, including
two very close-by…at Montage
Mountain in Scranton on Wednesday, August 10th and the
day before, at CMAC in
Canandaigua (the former Finger
Lakes Performing Arts Center.) on Tuesday August 9th.
Additional dates are being posted at press time including Friday,
August 12th at Bethel
Woods, home of the original Woodstock.
---Fans of former
Faces/ Small Faces organist,
Ian McLagan take note!
McLagan is playing as close as
Cazenovia on his current tour!
Look for him at the
Cummings Theatre at Cazenovia College, in Cazenovia (just outside
Syracuse) on Thursday night, this week, June 13th.
---Syracuse area
band, Ra Ra Riot is opening
up for Guster and
Jack’s Mannequin in August in Baltimore (8/7), Asbury Park (8/9),
Philadelphia (8/11), Boston (8/12) and close to their home and ours, at
Canandaigua (8/13) at the former
Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center (CMAC).
---HighLine stated recently on their facebook page that, “The band is
working on more new songs which we will debut June 25th at Rockin'
Roadhouse in Mt. Upton. These new fun songs were chosen based on
suggestions by You (our friends) and you are going to love them! “
They’re also
working on “Friends With Benefits” features if you like their facebook
page.
---The
Brian Wolff Band are saying good bye to Benny, their drummer, who’s
off to Law School in August, and therefore looking someone to step in
and rock the kit!
---If you’re a fan of Modern Rock (otherwise known as Alternative Music) check out the line-up for this years Rockathon at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse on Saturday, July 30th! The Festival has corralled at least 11 national recording acts, three of which are superstars in their genre, Bush, Seether and Stone Temple Pilots! The undercard ain’t bad either, including the Dropkick Murphy’s, Hollywood Undead, Sick Puppies, Airborne Toxic Event, Anberlin and My Darkest Days. Rock on, Salt City!
---MINDLESS RAMBLINGS
(Ramblin’ On…)
---Frostbit Blue is opening up for another big name act this summer,
Barenaked Ladies at
Harbor Fest in Oswego, on
7/29.
---New Riders Of The Purple Sage will open up the
Chenango County Fair in Norwich on Tuesday, August 9th.
---Pop/ Alternative
band, Switchfoot are playing
SUNY Oneonta Tuesday,
September 27th.
---If you’re a fan
of Canadian folk singer, Bruce
Cockburn he’ll be as close as the
Earlville Opera House on
Saturday, September 24th.
---NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE: Bob Dylan (3)/ Ian McLagan (5)/
Ra Ra Riot (2)/ Rev Theory (4)/ NRBQ (3)/ Marcy Playground (1)/ Al
Stewart (1)/ They Might Be Giants (3)/ Joey Belladonna (7)/ Chuck Negron
(3)/ Nas-Damian Jr. Gong Marley (2)/ Buckethead (1)/ John Oates (1)/
Stone Temple Pilots (3)/ Lonestar (2)/ Citizen Cope (4)/ Urge Overkill
(8)/ Stephanie Mills (1)/ Mark Farner (2)/ John Corabi (3)/ Kix (1)/
Joan Osborne (3)/ Paul McCartney (1)/ Vanessa Carlton (5)/ Katy
Perry-Jessie J (2)/ REO Speedwagon (1)/ Chubby Checker (1)/ Kellie
Pickler (1)/ Uncle Kracker (1)/ The Smithereens (1)/ Tragically Hip (2)/
Stone Temple Pilots-Seether-Bush (1)/ Weird Al Yankovic (3)/ Dr. John
(6)/ Roger McGuinn (1)/ Johnny Winter (2)/ Devon Allman’s Honeytribe
(2)/ Eric Johnson (6)/ Melissa Etheridge (1)/ Volbeat (3).
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Music News for 060411:
---Binghamton Big Splash, the Anti-Fracking Symposium and Concert will
be held this Sunday. The
symposium part will take place at the Riverwalk Hotel in downtown
Binghamton. The concert part
happens at Rec Park, starting
at 11am with performances by some of the area’s most important bands,
including Yolk, The Sim Redmond
Band, Thousands Of One, Driftwood, Richie Stearns & the Evil City String
Band, Dutch Bucket System, The Green Deeps and
Cabinet.
The event is free and open to the public, however a ten dollar
donation for the cause is appreciated.
(Note: at the Benjamin Raubinsons show at the
Cyber as I’m posting this and noticing that the
Burns Sisters and the
Grady Girls are late adds to
the concert. Enjoy. P.S.
The Raubinsons are rippin’ it
up!)
---Between
performances by Tyson Alston
and Zarni de Wet recently at EPAC,
I noticed a little café area, off of the main entry way and was
wondering about it. As it
turns out, it’s opening for business, as of Thursday, June 2nd.
The EPAC Café will
feature a coffee house atmosphere and entertainment, too, including
karaoke, comedians and musicians.
Here’s hoping Endicott’s struggling economy can support the new
venue. The musical acts can
be found on the Local Concerts Page.
---Another great
act in a season of great acts at
Tioga Downs! The
Fabulous Thunderbirds
featuring original singer, Kim Wilson will play the local race tracks/ casino on Saturday July
23rd. So far this
year they’ve had Jefferson
Starship, The Spin Doctors
and Salt & Pepa (on 6/10)!
Still to come this year are
Wynonna, Pat Benatar and
Sha Na Na.
---If you have ever
wanted to see Jackson Browne,
you’ll have plenty of chances to see him this fall…no less than 17, just
in our Bingo-centric coverage area (…and that’s not even the entire
northeast!). Browne will be
as close as Utica, Albany, Rochester and Reading, PA.
Why not Binghamton?
Well, there are some open dates on the tour, so cross your fingers…
---It’s been awhile
(too long if you ask me), but the next
Songwriter Showcase at the
Cyber Café West in Binghamton
has been set for Saturday, June 18th!
This one will feature bluegrass band, the
Lost Boys as the headliners.
There are usually two or three other bands in these showcases,
but they have yet to be named.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS (Ramblin’ On…):
---Blue Oyster Cult makes a stop at the
Oneonta Theatre on 10/21.
---Incubus plays 9 dates nearby this August and September, but so far
gets only as close as SPAC.
---Taina Asili, a relative of local singer, Ayana plays
Cyber Café West on 6/10.
If you like World-beat or Afro-beat music, come out and show some
love!
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Music News for 052811:
---Well, it’s
official! Country Star
Chris Young will close out this year’s
Spiedie Fest at Otsiningo Park in Binghamton.
The 3 day/ 3 night Balloon Fest and Cook-off will open with
Eddie Money on Friday (8/5),
feature Miranda Cosgrove on
Saturday (8/6) and finish up with Young on Sunday (8/7)!
Buttons are $15.00
until July 5th.
After that the price goes up to $20.00.
Get yours today at the following outlets:
Participating
Wendy’s
Weis Markets
Wegman’s
Can Man
Cost Cutters
Lupo’s
Sidney Federal
Credit Union
Horizon’s Federal
Credit Union
Oakdale Mall office
---The bands have
been announced for the Avenue
Summer Concert Series sponsored by
Downtown Endicott Business
Association (DEBA) Concert series for 2011.
The series of free concerts will be held one Wednesday a month,
each month of summer, June, July and August .
The venue is the parking lot at 121-123 Washington Avenue and all
shows will start at 6pm.
The acts and dates
are as follows:
6/15:
Rooster & the Road House Horns
7/20:
One Sweet World (a dave matthews band cover band)
8/31:
The Poets/ Frankie & the Corvettes
---The line-up has
been cast-in-stone for P.J.
O’Hares Tiki Bash!
Expect to see Dirty Rotten Liars, Mojo, The Look, Where’s Brendan, 7 Minits 2 Madness
and Dirty Martini, starting
at 3pm on June 18th!
Tickets are only $10 bucks!
---Can’t wait for
Nikstock (June 10th
& 11th at Owego Speedway)?
It’s less than two weeks away now, but June 3rd,
you’ll get a taste at the Martini
Lounge in Kirkwood when Cold
Ethyl and Rize take the stage.
---Correction:
Apparently we were fed Biker Night info instead of
Live At Five bands last week, so in the interest of posting correct
information, let’s again, publish the band list for
Live At Five at
Flashbacks in Binghamton:
Live At Five Fridays:
5/27:
Odd Man Out
6/3: Distant Thunder
6/10: tbd
6/17: Bad Hair Day
6/24:
tbd
7/1: tbd
7/8:
Splash
7/15:
tbd
7/22: tbd
7/29:
UUU
8/5: Hover
8/12: Bad Hair Day
8/19: Hi-Way Fruit Market
8/26: Beard Of Bees
9/2: Silent Fury
…and as for
Biker Night Thursdays:
5/26: Dena Crush
6/2: Beard Of Bees
6/9: Odd Man Out
6/16: Randy McStine Band
6/23:
Dena Crush
6/30: Beard Of Bees
7/7: Odd Man Out
7/14: Wreckless Marci
7/21: Agony Hill
7/28:
?
8/4: Randy McStine Band
8/11: Beard Of Bees
8/18: Odd Man Out
8/25: Dena Crush
9/1: Randy McStine Band
Granted this is a
tentative schedule as there are some dates that haven’t been filled yet,
but at least it’s the right info…any other questions?
Alright then. Rock
on.
---MINDLESS RAMBLINGS (Rambling On…)
---Another coup for
the O.T.--Badfish playing
Oneonta Theatre 7/30.
---Skynyrd/Doobies tour hits Canandaigua 8/25
---InXS @ the Mo’ (Mohegan Sun
Arena, that is) in WB on 8/7.
Not sure who’s singing this tour, yet.
---*NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE: blink 182-My Chemical Romance
(Honda Civic Tour)(11)/ Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (1)/ Peter
Frampton (1)/ InXS (5)/ Wiz Khalifa (1)/ Breathe Carolina-Chiodos (9)/
Grand Funk Railroad (1)/ Puddle Of Mudd-Rev Theory (1)/ Los Lobos (1)/
Donavon Frankenreiter (1)/ Ra Ra Riot (1)/ TV On The Radio (1)/ Kenny
Loggins (1)/ Fountains Of Wayne (1)/ Hollywood Undead-All That Remains
(3)/ Rock The Bells (2)/ Guess Who (3)/ Alkaline Trio (7)/ Ted Nugent
(2)/ Dropkick Murphy’s (4)/ Elvis Costello (2)/ Alterbridge (4)/ Lynyrd
Skynyrd-Doobie Brothers (6)/ Donavon Frankenreiter (1)/ Emmure-Iwresteldabearonce-Blessthefall-Born
Of Osiris-The Ghost Inside-After The Burial-Motionless In White (6)/
Howie Day (3)/ 10,000 Maniacs (2)/ Colbie Caillat (1)/ Jars Of Clay (1)/
Great White (1)/ Taj Mahal (1)/ Melissa Etheridge (3).
*#’s in parenthesis
indicate # of new dates for act listed.
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Music News for 052111:
---The
Lynyrd Skynyrd & Z.Z. Top show at
Tags in Big Flats has been rescheduled for Sunday July 31st
after heavy rains caused about two feet of water to flood the lawn at
the Summerstage Amphitheatre!
Tags posted a message
on their website indicating that all tickets will be honored and if you
have any doubt about how bad the flooding was, they’ve posted pictures
on their website. If you’d
like to check them out, here’s the link:
http://www.tagstickets.com/usr/2011%20Photos/Flooding-Animation.gif
---If you missed
Chris Kocher’s article about
Zarni de Wet in the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin’s
“Good Times” insert on Thursday (5/19), you can still find it on their
website. Just click on the
link below:
I did see
de Wet’s show at
EPAC Friday night and I’ll post a full review soon.
Needless to say, it was great.
No only did we find out Zarni can rap, she can also play guitar!
De Wet’s
sophomore release, “Straight
Forward,” is due to be released soon.
Pre-orders were being taken at the show.
---The Benjamin Raubinsons show at the Cyber Café West on Friday, June 3rd won’t just be any
show…it’ll be a CD release party!
Their new disc will be called, “Go
Dutch,” and will be available for purchase at the show for a measly
$10.00, so start saving your pennies now.
---At least one of
the musical acts for “pop” music night at
Spiedie Fest was announced
this week…Miranda Cosgrove,
who not only stars on the show, “I-Carly,” but also has a budding pop
music career, will be performing in the concerts area around 6pm.
The opening act has yet to be announced.
---The EP release
party for Liquid Me, that was
originally set for On The Roxx
has been rescheduled at Thirsty’s
on Saturday night, June 4th.
You may recall that show was scratched due to the fire at
On The Roxx three weeks ago
(5/6). The bill for the new
show will include Dropclutch,
Drunken Bastards At The Door
and Tyrade!
Liquid Me also
announced that they’ll be on the bill for
Nikstock, on June 10th
& 11th, too!
Still no word on
when On The Roxx will reopen
as they have water and smoke damage to finish cleaning up.
---Live At Five is back starting Friday, May 27th with an
outdoor show by Dena Crush!
Here’s the rest of the line-up, so far:
6/3:
Beard Of
Bees
6/10:
Odd Man Out
6/17:
Randy McStine Band
6/24:
Dena Crush
7/1:
Beard Of
Bees
7/8:
Odd Man Out
7/15:
Wreckless Marci
7/22:
Agony Hill
8/5:
Randy
McStine Band
8/12:
Beard Of Bees
8/19:
Odd Man Out
8/26:
Dena Crush
9/2:
Randy
McStine Band
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS (Rambling On…):
---New website for
Metalcuse, now at
http://www.metalcuse.com
---So, who was
responsible for booking Zarni, ZZ
Top &
TSO on the same night? Couldn’t they be spaced out a bit?
---You can now
follow Dena on twitter!
http://twitter.com/#!/denamusic
NEW DATES ON THE REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Steve Forbert (9)/ They Might Be Giants (9)/ Umphrey’s McGee (4)/ Janet
Jackson (3)/ Elton John (1)/ Naughty By Nature (5)/ Amon Amarth (5)/
Sully Erna (3)/ Dark Star Orchestra (3)/ Foo Fighters (5)/ Pearl Jam
(3)/ Burton Cummings (4)/ Hollywood Undead (4)/ Kansas (1)/ Southside
Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (5)/ Kid Cudi (4)/ Gym Class Heroes (1)/ Lovin’
Spoonful (1)/ American Idols Live (2)/ Christopher Cross (1)/ The Black
Lips (4)/ John Parr (1)/ Matthew Morrison (1)/ Fountains Of Wayne (1)/
John Oates (8)/ Howard Jones (3)/ Z. Z. Top (4)/ Mr. Big (1)/ Miranda
Cosgrove (1)/ Tea Leaf Green (2)/ Ke$ha (1)/ Kid Rock (1)/ k.d. lang
(1)/ Secondhand Serenade (1)/ Marc Cohn (1)/ Marc Anthony (3)/ Pat
Travers (1)/ cKy (3).
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Music News for 051411:
---Details are
still emerging about an Anti-Fracking Rally to be held
at Rec Park in Binghamton,
which will not only be FREE, but will also feature some of the best local and regional
bands. So far the list
includes the Sim Redmond Band,
Driftwood and the rally headliner,
Yolk! Psyched!
P.S. It was just
announced on facebook that Matt
Murphy is coming in for the festival to play drums with
Yolk for the rally!
Double psyched!
---Elmira “new
groove” band Stereopticon is
featured this week on JamBands.com.
If you want to check out the write up, click on the link below!
http://www.jambands.com/features/2011/05/13/new-groove-stereopticon
---Speaking of
Yolk, they've said on their facebook page that if they get enough
pre-orders for their reunion DVD they’ll make it available in time for
the Anti-Fracking June 5th rally.
The documentary features 40 songs from the show (and other parts
of their career) and the asking price is only $15.00.
Not bad…
You can reach the
band thru their facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yolk/124041217637903
---In order to
promote their forthcoming disc, “Vengence”
The Rods will be making a
special in-store appearance at the
Gallery Of Sound store in
Wilkes-Barre, PA on Wednesday, May 25th from 7pm to 9pm.
Why Wilkes-Barre? It
doesn’t hurt that Rods drummer, Carl Canedy has lived their for the last twenty years.
“Vengence” hits stores nationwide on May 24th and also
includes some of the last vocals by the late
Ronnie James Dio (who is also cousin to Rods lead vocalist
Dave “The Rock” Feinstein).
---Speaking of “The
Rods,” Dave “The Rock” Feinstein is also featured this week in an interview
on RockOverAmerica.com. If
you’ve got a quicktime player on your computer you can stream it from
the link below:
http://www.rockoveramerica.com/index.php?view=Media&mediaid=197&type=1&file=media%2F1%2F197.wav
---A line-up has
been announced for the Hickory
Smoked Music Festival at
Hickory Park Amphitheatre in Owego.
The date has been set for Saturday, July 30th and
includes Michael Burks, Big Bill Morganfield, Carolyn Kelly, Pete Panek
& the Blue Cats and Hi-Way Fruit Market, so far.
Whether or not this will be the final line-up remains to be seen,
as these things are often subject to tweeking.
Stay tuned.
---The
Syracuse Balloon Festival has announced it’s final line-up!
The festival, which will be held Friday, June 10th
thru Sunday June 12th, at Jamesville Beach Park, will not
only feature .38 Special and
Frostbit Blue, as we
previously mentioned, but also regional favorites
Benny Mardones and
moe.
For the complete listings, check out the
Regional Concert Page!
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---Steely Dan just added 4 more dates to their September residency at
the Beacon Theatre in NYC,
for a total of 10! Get your
tickets now!
---Hip Hop fans,
Lil’ Wayne’s tour just booked
11 dates in the northeast, including
Montage Mountain, in Scranton, plus Hershey Park & Darien Lake!
Sounds like fun!
---moe. has just set the dates for this years moe.down…September 2nd,
3rd & 4th once again, at
Gelston Castle Estate in Mohawk, NY.
That’s just off I-90 between Utica and Schenectady.
---Steve Earle just added eight more dates including a stop in
Wilkes-Barre in August.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE*:
Steely Dan (4)/ Lil' Wayne-Rick Ross-Keri
Hilson-Far East Movement-Lloyd (11)/ Robert Randolph (1)/ moe. (3)/
Steve Earle (9)/ Bob Weir (1)/ OTEP (5)/ Little River Band (1)/ Sick
Puppies (1)/ Ted Nugent (1)/ O.A.R. (7)/ Z.Z. Top (1)/ Styx (1)/ The
Cars (5)/ War (2)/ Bon Iver (7)/ All Time Low (1)/ They Might Be Giants
(1)/ Pop Evil-Crossfade (1)/ InXS (1)/ Tea Leaf Green (5)/ Huey Lewis &
the News (1)/ B. B. King (1)/ Roger Daltrey (7)/ Jackyl (3)/ Texas In
July (7)/ Steve Miller Band (3)/ Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (3)/
Colin Hay (3)/ M.C. Hammer (1)/ Toad The Wet Sprocket (1)/ Commander
Cody Band (3)/ The Tokens-Jay & the Americans-The Cleftones-The
Crystals-The Tune Weavers (1)/ Crosby, Stills & Nash (1)/ Deadmau5 (5)/
Ben Harper (5)/ Norma Jean (1)/ Marcy Playground (1)/ My Morning Jacket
(3)/ Revis (1)/ Ian Hunter (1)/ Enrique Iglesias-Pitbull (5)/ Carl
Palmer Band (1).
*numbers in
parenthesis indicate number of dates added to calendar this week.
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Music News for 050711:
---On The Roxx Restaurant and Night Club sustained water and smoke
damage on Tuesday, due to a fire on the 5th Floor of their
building at 73 Court Street, Binghamton.
On The Roxx will be
closed while clean-up continues.
Hopefully they’ll be open again real soon.
If you missed the coverage in the Binghamton Press &
Sun-Bulletin, here’s a link to the story from their website:
---Tags in Big Flats has announced more dates for their Summer line-up.
Their concert season gets underway in less than two weeks with
Lynyrd Skynyrd & Z. Z. Top on
5/20. In addition, Tags has
also announced shows by Stone
Temple Pilots, Meatloaf, The Machine and
Aaron Lewis of Staind, in
support of his country album.
---The Big Four tour with
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth & Anthrax has finally added a date
that’s close enough to drive to…Wednesday, September 14th at
Yankee Stadium in the Bronx!
Tickets are on sale now, but they’re not cheap.
The least of the tickets are selling for $130.00.
---Nikstock Weekend is now carved in stone!
Put this one on the calendar, too!
The weekend begins on Friday, June 10th at
Champion Speedway in Owego
and continues the next day as well, on Saturday, June 11th.
As always the festival lives up to it’s billing, two days, two
stages, 40 bands (…and oh yeah, two bikini contests!).
King Snyder and Torrential
Downpour are the latest bands to confirm.
---Soundgarden’s reunion tour hits 7 nearby cities this July including
Toronto, Newark, Uncasville, Boston and Wantagh.
Coheed & Cambria open
most of the dates, except Philadelphia and Atlantic City, which will
feature The Mars Volta.
MINDLESS RAMBLINGS:
---So rumor has it
that Magic City Music Hall is
still looking for a new home…but it won’t happen soon.
---“Straight Forward” is the name of the new
Zarni de Wet album, due this month.
---Speaking of
Ms. de Wet, congrats on
graduating from Berklee!
---Jimmyjohn McCabe announced on facebook that his solo CD, “Baby To
Baby,” has been reissued!
---Wynonna Judd plays Tioga
Downs on 8/12!
---Frostbit Blue opens up for
.38 Special at Jamesville Beach just outside of Syracuse on 6/12.
That’s Balloon Fest weekend right?
---NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE: .38 Special (4)/ A Flock Of Seagulls (1)/ Skid Row (1)/ Stone Temple Pilots (1)/ Meatloaf (1)/ Aaron Lewis (3)/ Alice Cooper (2)/ Buckethead (1)/ Dr. John (1)/ J. Geils Band (3)/ Colin Hay (1)/ Lou Christie (1)/ The Tubes feat. Fee Waybill (1)/ Montrose (4)/ Flaming Lips-Weezer (2)/ Marshall Tucker Band (2)/ Whitesnake-Tesla-Firehouse-Sebastian Bach (2)/ Metallica-Megadeth-Slayer-Anthrax (1)/ Black Eyed Peas (1)/ Big Time Rush-Allstar Weekend-The Ready Set-We The Kings (1)/ Taking Back Sunday-Thursday-We Are The In Crowd (7)/ The Kills (1)/ Motley Crue-Poison (1)/ Miranda Cosgrove (1)/ Aretha Franklin (2)/ Debbie Gibson-Tiffany (1)/ Janet Jackson (1)/ Daryl Hall-Todd Rundgren (1)/ Secondhand Serenade (1)/ Rihanna-Cee Lo (1)/ Duncan Sheik (3)/ Rachel Sage (4)/ Dokken (1)/ Leslie West (1)/ Kansas (2)/ Vertical Horizon (1)/ Daniel Lanois (6)/ Soundgarden (7)/ Donavon Frankenreiter (2)/ Gin Blossoms (1)/ Christina Perri (6)/ Lynyrd Skynyrd (1)/ Ted Nugent (1)/ Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels (1)/ F**ked Up (3)/ Eddie Money (1).
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Music News for 043011:
---There’s a
partial list of performers for
Ithaca Summer Jam 2011, but no schedule yet.
The festival runs June 24th, thru the 26th
(the same weekend as the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open). The list includes,
Blind Spots, Blue Sky Mission
Club, Dutch Bucket System, Family Dawgz, Free Boody Institute, Gunpoets,
Little Mountain Band, Radar Radar, Rebel Fire, Technicolor Trailer Park,
The Shakedown, The Spelunkers and Tim Herron Corporation.
Here’s the official
link for more info:
http://www.ithacasummerjam.com/index.php
---The
Yolk Reunion DVD from last summers
Belmar Backyard (on 8/28, were you there?) show is nearly ready for
release and the band is taking pre-orders now on their websites.
---The
American Idols Live tour just announced 16 dates this week, within
the greater northeast, and your best chances to catch the tour is either
Sunday, August 21st at the
Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza
in Wilkes-Barre, PA or on Tuesday, September 6th at the
OnCenter in Syracuse!
---Maroon 5 will be doing much more this summer than playing
En Joie in Endicott for the
Dick’s Sporting Goods Open…they’ll also be opening up the
New York State Fair in Syracuse on Thursday, August 25th,
along with show headliner, Train
and opening act, native New Yorker,
Gavin DeGraw (who’s from just
outside of Monticello, in case ya didn’t know…).
Sugarland and Sara Bareilles
(9/3) and the Journey/ Foreigner/
Night Ranger tour (8/30) have also been confirmed so far.
Tickets for all three shows go on sale next week, Saturday, May 7th.
---If you’ve been
putting off your chance to see
Levon Helm perform with his new band he’ll as close as Cooperstown
on Friday May 13th, playing at the
Ommegang Brewery.
Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!
Mindless Ramblings:
---Jamie Willard said on his facebook page Wednesday that his surgery
went well.
---$30.00 tickets
for Ithaca Summer Fest are
now available, but online only!
---Blind Tiger & UNO posting
on facebook this week that their patio’s will be open soon! (In fact,
John Kanazawich & Randy
McStine tried to play on the UNO Patio on Thursday, but high winds
forced them to cancel.)
---Anyone else do a
double take when they noticed that
Scythian signed on to play
the 1st night of the Grassroots festival?
Relax. It’s the
Celtic band, not the death metal group.
NEW DATES ON REGIONAL CONCERT PAGE:
Kiss (2)/ Z.Z.Top (1)/ American Idols Live (18)/ Frankie Valli & the
Four Seasons-Beach Boys (1)/
This Or The
Apocalypse-Mychildren Mybride (1)/ Manchester Orchestra-An Horse (4)/ An
Horse (3)/ Rick Springfield (3)/ Fabulous Thunderbirds (4)/ Jorma
Kaukonen (4)/ Blue Oyster Cult (1)/ Paul Rodgers (2)/ Maroon
5-Train-Gavin DeGraw (9)/ B-52’s (2)/ Lee DeWyze (4)/ Jonny Lang (6)/
Death Cab For Cutie (5)/ They Might Be Giants (1)/ Bon Iver (1)/ Kenny
Loggins (1)/ Lynyrd Skynyrd-Doobie Brothers (2)/ Patty Smyth & Scandal
(2)/ Natalie Cole (2)/ Marc Cohn (2)/ Aaron Neville (3)/ Wiz Khalifa
(1)/ Billy Bragg (3)/ Black Dahlia Murder (5)/ Jagged Edge-Avant (1)/
Panic! At The Disco-Neon Trees (1)/ Ian Hunter (4)/ Joan Osborne (3)/
Rob Base (1)/ Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (7)/ Stephen Pearcy (1)/ Faster
Pussycat (2)/ Michael Franti (4)/ New Riders Of The Purple Sage (1)/
Matisyahu (7)/ Jennifer Hudson (4)/ George Thorogood & the Destroyers
(1)/ Ted Nugent (4)/ Sugarhill Gang (1)/ Glen Burtnick (1)/ Marc Anthony
(1)/ Sully Erna (1)/ Usher-Akon (1)/ Tedeschi Trucks Band (1)/ Owl
City-Mat Kearney (2)/ Kurt Vile (2)/ Ronny Cox (2)/ Buddy Guy (1)/ Levon
Helm Band (1)/ Jimmie Vaughan (4)/ J.D. Souther (7)/ Robert Cray Band
(5)/ Old 97’s (6)/ Queensryche (1)/ Beach Boys (5)/ Eric Johnson (3)/
Steve Forbert (1)/ The Spinners (1)/ Marc Cohn (1)/ Donavon
Frankenreiter (5)/ The Wailers (3)/ Tonic (1).
---Rock On!
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Music News for 042311:
---Word is that
rocker, Eddie Money will play
the opening night of Spiedie Fest,
at Otsiningo Park, on Friday
night, August 5th.
No word at press time as to the acts for the 2nd and 3rd
night. We’ll let you know
when it’s official.
---A report on
Fox 40 WICZ-TV’s News At Ten
confirmed that Broome County will continue to fund
Spiedie Fest.
They will however change the way that they raise the money to
fund the 3-day festival to celebrate that marinated shish-kabob meat.
Need more details, the click on the link already:
http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=18322
---The Heisman Hopefuls are asking for your support to get back on the
Vans Warped Tour this year.
Just click on the link below and vote for them.
If they get enough votes, they’ll be selected to appear on the
Scranton date, at Montage Mountain, on Thursday, July 14th.
http://www.battleofthebands.com/u/theheismanhopefuls
---Congrats to
Monkeys Typing!
400 shows as of Thursday night (4/21) and counting…
---Our thoughts are
will Jamie Willard who is
going under the knife on Monday…then performing again on Friday!
…and you thought Superman was Clark Kent…
---New Dates On The Regional Concert Page: Donna The Buffalo (6)/
Against Me (9)/ Miranda Cosgrove (4)/ Eddie Money (2)/ (hed)p.e.-Mushroomhead
(1)/ Pat Travers (2)/ Levon Helm-Donald Fagen-Natalie Merchant (1)/ Gin
Blossoms (4)/ Natasha Bedingfield (5)/ Artimus Pyle (2)/ Dave Matthews
Band Caravan (3)/ Hot Tuna (2)/ Dave Mason-Mark Farner-Rick
Derringer-Felix Cavaliere-Gary Wright-Hippiefest (6)/ Creedence
Clearwater Revisited-Three Dog Night (1)/ Jacke’s Mannequin (3)/ Guster
(2)/ Joey Belladonna (1)/ The Tubes (5)/ Mitch Ryder & the Detroit
Wheels (1)/ Black 47 (1)/ Leon Redbone ?/ Peter Frampton (1)/ R. Kelly
(3).
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Music News for 041611:
---It’s official.
The Rat has lost it’s liquor license.
The Rathskeller bar in
downtown Binghamton, that is.
Speculation has been rampant for weeks about what action the
State Liquor Authority would take. They demanded that an emergency suspension be
executed, a result of charges related to serving minors.
The question now,
is how long will it be before they regain their license to serve liquor.
That, of course, will be determined by the SLA and the resolution
to the legal charges filed against the owners, who say they’ll fight.
---Rocker
Steve Earle, best known for
the song, Copperhead Road, will play State Theatre in Ithaca on August 5th.
Also, Canadian balladeer Gordon Lightfoot will return to the area, making an appearance at
the State Theatre, himself on
Thursday, September 29th.
---If you missed
Furthur at the
Arena (like I did--sigh) you have a shot at redemption in July as
the Phil Lesh/ Bob Weir
post-Grateful Dead project has scheduled as many as eight dates in
the northeast over an eleven day span (which includes some dates as
close as Bethel, Holmdel and Canandaigua; and an appearance at the
Gathering Of The Vibes in
Bridgeport, CT). I can
already smell the second hand pot smoke.
---Native New
Yorkers, The Goo Goo Dolls
are coming back to the Empire State, the rest of the northeast and the
mid-Atlantic states, with no less than ten shows in July and August and
a great triple bill, including
Michelle Branch and Parachute!
Some of the dates include Bethel, Darien Lake and Saratoga
Springs! Plenty of Goo for
everyone (sounds like a great new slogan for nickelodeon)!
---NYS Fair confirmed at least a few Grandstand dates this week!
Not only will Sugarland play the State Fair (as we surmised in an earlier post)
with Sara Bareilles on
September 3rd, but the
Journey-Foreigner-Nightranger triple bill will also play the Fair on
Tuesday, August 30th!
---Alice Cooper fans…your worst nightmare has come true!
Or, maybe your favorite nightmare, right?
The Ringmaster of Darkness is coming to the Weinburg Theatre in
Scranton, at the Scranton Cultural Center, on Tuesday, August 23rd.
Tickets went on sale on Friday.
Coop also announced
a few other dates as well in the northeast.
Check the Regional Concert Page for details!
Speaking of which…
---New Dates On Regional Concert Page: Eddie Money (1)/ Furthur (8)/
Goo Goo Dolls-Michelle Branch-Parachute (10)/ Gordon Lightfoot (1)/ John
Brown’s Body (1)/ Dave Koz (1)/ O.A.R. (1)/ Guster-Jack’s Mannequin (7)/
Graham Parker (1)/ Todd Rundgren (1)/ Snoop Dogg (4)/ 10,000 Maniacs
(1)/ Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (6)/ Peter Frampton (9)/
Michael McDonald (4)/ Beach Boys (1)/ ?uestlove (2)/ Children of Bodom
(4)/ Lucinda Williams (6)/ Jimmie Vaughn (1)/ moe. (1)/ Dirty Vegas (4)/
Brian Wilson (1)/ Jonny Lang (2)/ Bootsy Collins (4)/ Eels (2)/ Glee
Live (2)/ Journey-Foreigner-Night Ranger (2)/ Alice Cooper (4)/ New
Riders Of The Purple Sage (1)/ Leon Russell (6)/ Elvis Costello (2)/
Alicia Keys (2)/ Jennifer Hudson (1)/ The Outlaws (1).
---Rock on!
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Music News for 040911:
---Pop/ jazz
singer/ musician Zarni de Wet
is coming home next month!
If you missed the post on the Local Concerts page in the last week, de
Wet will be playing the Endicott
Performing Arts Center (EPAC) on Friday, May 20th @ 8pm!
Opening up the show will be the
Tyson Alston Band.
Tickets are just $15.00.
Word is that de
Wet’s band will be stocked with classmates from Berklee, where she
attends school. It will be
interesting to hear how this band influences her unique sound.
---Three stories in
three days this week in the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin’s website, PressConnects.com, about
continuing incidents at the
Rathskeller bar in downtown Binghamton.
It started on
Thursday with news that the bars other co-owner has been ticketed on
charges of serving minors and continued Friday with a time line of
recent troubling incidents at the establishment and then, later on
Friday, a report of the Liquor Authority’s proceeding to either “cancel
or revoke” the bars liquor license.
If the Rat losses
it’s liquor license that could mean that the bar closes down for a time
(or perhaps tries to reinvent itself as a coffee house?—just a
suggestion.)
If you want to get
caught up on all background, click on the links below:
---If you’re going
to the Kaki King show at
Binghamton University on Saturday night, be prepared to pay a three
dollar donation for the otherwise free show.
Recent Facebook posts have indicated that
BUMP (Binghamton Underground Music Presents) is over budget for the
year and are hoping that donations will help make a difference.
Even at three dollars, that’s a pretty good deal for a three act
concert.
---Mindless Ramblings on…
---Driftwood’s Jon Doll, who is now officially, a doctor.
Congrats, dude!
---New On Regional Concert Page:
Neon Trees (2)/ Wiz Khalifa (2)/ Wishbone Ash (3)/ Seether (3)/ Ed Kowalczyk (1)/ Asia (2)/ Third Eye Blind (1)/ Brian Wilson (5)/ 1910 Fruit Gum Company (1)/ Leon Redbone (2)/ Sick Puppies-Framing Hanley-Adelitas Way (1)/ Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (1)/ Whitesnake (2)/ Yes-Styx (6)/ Skynyrd-Doobie Brothers (1)/ Joey Molland (1)/ Bright Eyes (3)/ Huey Lewis (1)/ Chris Cornell (1)/ Sting (1)/ Aiden (7)/ Dinosaur Jr. (5)/ Chicago (3)/ Nicki Minaj (1)/ Albert Lee (1)/ All That Remains-Hail The Villain (2)/ Faster Pussycat (4)/ 30 Seconds To Mars-Anberlin (1)/ Elvis Costello (1)/ John Brown’s Body (2)/ Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (2).
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Music News for 040211:
---The crazy speculation is over! The announcement has been made! Legendary Jam band, Phish is playing Watkins Glen Raceway for three consecutive nights on 4th of July weekend! The exact dates are July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, and will, as previously reported, be called “Super Ball IX.” Only three nights though instead of four.
Tickets for the event go on sale on Monday, April 4th! Weekend passes will be $200.00 in advance, $230.00 day of first show. RV passes are an additional $125.00, and there are also accommodations for camping.
For more info and to purchase tickets, just click on this link:
http://superballix.com/tickets.html
---Well, it’s April! This is the month when the rest of the summer concert season is fleshed out. If that last four years have been any indication to us here at Radio 2.0, we’ll all be buried in concert announcements from now until half way thru May. With that in mind, the Anderson Center announced it’s summer concert series in Thursday’s Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin Good Times insert (just as reporter/ editor Chris Kocher told us on facebook last week!) So here’s what we know so far…
*The summer starts with pop/ country singer, k.d. lang on July 4th. Tickets are $28 (lawn) & $56 (reserved seats).
*American surf music masters, the Beach Boys play the Anderson on August 24th. Tickets are $30 (lawn) and $60 (reserved seats).
*Finally, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, who are a genre unto themselves with their fusion of jazz, bluegrass, world music, etcetera…will play at B.U. on September 2nd. Tickets are $20 (lawn), $40 (reserved seats) and $12.50 lawn tickets for students will also be sold. Nice.
All tickets went on sale on Thursday March 31st, so grab ‘em soon before they sell out.
---If you’re a local music fan, you’ve noticed concert listings for “Dena Crush” on the Local Concerts page, lately. Well if you’ve been scratching your head, just like we have, we went right to the source to get the story straight. In this case, the source was Dena, the local pop/rock singer from Endicott. After sending her a billion questions on facebook, she wrote us back and answered every single one. (Isn’t it cool how our local musicians are so approachable?). So here’s what she wrote back (with a little editing)…
“DENA CRUSH is primarily a cover band…It's purpose is to play live shows…The music of DENA CRUSH, will be edgier, and rock more than what I’m writing personally for myself. I think it will be a lot of fun. Eventually it will transform I think. And who knows, if things work out, then maybe we will record something…”
So Dena Crush is essentially a Dena side-project that plays live, edgy, rock cover songs. The debut Dena Crush show is set for Saturday, April 16th at the Mosquito Lounge @ 9pm. All four of the bands dates so far are listed on the Local Concerts Page.
---We also found ourselves wondering about all the albums coming from Chris Merkley and Steve (Stiv) Morgan’s little corner of the world lately, so we wrote Chris on facebook to get some clarification. We reported last week that Morgan, Merkley and their band “Digger Jones” all had new albums out. As it turns out, it’s only about 66% true.
So, it’s just Morgan who has a new solo album, not Merkley. The combined Merkley & Morgan project, Digger Jones, debuted their album on Friday in Cortland at the Stone Lounge and Saturday at John Barleycorn, in Owego. Merkley’s feature on WHRW, last week, wasn’t for his solo album after all (which came out in 2009), but was instead to play some early mix versions of songs which came out on Friday (4/1) on the Digger Jones album. Meanwhile, if either one of them releases a new album at any time during the rest of this year scorecards will be issued.
---New Shows on Regional Concert Page: Deep Purple (5)/ Taproot (2)/ Tokyo Police Club (1)/ Molly Hatchet (7)/ Earth, Wind & Fire (6)/ The Lovin’ Spoonful (1)/ Shawn Colvin (1)/ John Sebastian (1)/ Britney Spears (7)/ Psychedelic Furs (1)/ Steve Miller Band (1)/ The Eels (5)/ The Go Go’s (8)/ Freedy Johnston (6)/ Tiffany (2)/ Saving Abel (4)/ Sully Erna (9)/ Owl City (1)/ Weezer (2)/ Kid Rock-Sheryl Crow (6)/ Drake (1)/ 10,000 Maniacs (4)/ Phish (3)/ Blood Sweat & Tears (3)/ Winds Of Plague (1)/ Brian McKnight (6)/ Psychostick (4)/ Big Head Todd & the M onsters (3)/ UFO (1)/ Foghat (1)/ Matthew Morrison (5).------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music News for 032611:
---Word came late
Sunday night (3/20) that any announcement of the rumored 4th
of July, “Phish
Fest” at Watkins Glen
Raceway would be delayed, but so far there is nothing new to report,
except for rampant internet speculation.
Rumors range from
moving the date of the festival to late August, to and including what
the name of the anticipated festival might be (…Superball
IX, btw).
Subsequent tweets
by Watkins Glen Raceway, President Michael Printup have indicated that
negotiations are on going, so we can continue to hope that an
announcement will come soon.
---Another sure
sign of Spring…Tags in Big
Flats (just west of Elmira) have announced their first Summer Stage show
of the 2011 Season. It’ll be
Lynyrd Skynyrd & Z. Z. Top on Friday night, May 20th @
8p. Tickets are $49.75 and
on sale now thru their website.
Here’s a link:
http://www.tagstickets.com/index.asp?pageId=35&pId=119
Incidentally, this
tour is only making 3 stops in the northeast, and two of the three dates
are in New York state, (…the other venue is the
Times Union Center (formerly
the Knickerbocker & Pepsi Arena) in Albany).
To see these two great veteran rock bands in such an intimate
venue should be a must. If
you can afford to buy tickets, do so and do so soon, as this event will
likely sell out quickly.
---Fitzie’s Irish Pub is getting ambitious in April.
Starting Monday, April 11th their goal is to bring in
24 bands/performers in 7 days!
The line-ups are still being finalized, but we’re looking forward
to what should be a great showcase for local music.
Some of the bands being mentioned for these shows are
The Uniters, Dr. E.F. & the
Rudimentary of Funk, Monkey’s Typing, Lutheran Skirts, Driftwood,
Benjamin Raubinsons, Mostly Water, Taze Yanick and others...sounds
like fun!
---Chris Merkley played the broadcast debut of his new CD on Binghamton
University’s 90.5, WHRW-FM on Monday night from 10-11:30pm.
He was accompanied by his usual cohort-in-crime,
Steve (Stiv) Morgan.
Those two are pretty busy these days as they’ve both reportedly
got solo albums coming out and a
Digger Jones album, too.
Geez! I thought I was a
work-a-holic! They make me
look like a piker.
---Speaking of
Steve (Stiv) Morgan, he’s had
his own time in the spotlight this week, being featured in the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin’s Good Times insert!
The occasion for the page 6 article is the release of his
Bluegrass/ Blues/ Country solo album, “When It Rains.”
Morgan and Merkley celebrated the
release with a Digger Jones
show Friday night at Tranquil
in Binghamton.
---Congrats to
Jared Campbell who hit the
10-thousand friends mark on his Facebook page this week!
---What a week for
Endicott! John (Bones) Jones
wins the UFC title and Gary
Wilson played SXSW!
---Congrats to
Marice Barber (sp) a bartending regular for 30 years at the
Brackney Inn. She is
retiring this weekend and there was a surprise retirement party for her
on Saturday at the Inn.
---Who knew
Dena & Jon (Bones) Jones were
in the same graduating class at U.E.?
She put the Senior picture on Facebook this week.
---Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin Entertainment reporter,
Chris Kocher teased on
facebook that the Anderson
Centers Summer Concert Line-up will be announced in the
Good Times this week (3/31).
Be looking for it!
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Music News for 031911:
---Phish fans have been hearing rumors for months about a possible
4-day Phish fest at Watkins Glen
International Raceway on 4th of July weekend 2011.
Those hopes were seemingly shot down in January by the track
President, Michael Printup, but in the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
posted a story on it’s website,
PressConnects.com on Friday (3/18) that rekindled those PhishPhest
hopes!
The Press story was
based on a “tweet” by Printup that he posted on Friday morning, in which
he stated that he was going “phishing,” and a later tweet that more news
could be coming on Monday (3/21).
Almost immediately
a facebook page popped up for this potential event.
Here’s a link:
According to the
website “bandsthatjam.com, tickets for an event like this would be $200
dollars for the weekend.
Here’s a link to that site as well:
http://www.bandsthatjam.com/tour-information/update-phish-watkins-glen-2011
Cross your fingers
everyone! We’ll try to stay
on top of this one. It’s
developing fast.
---Liquid Me fans, check out their latest single, “She
Said,” posted this week on their Reverbnation.com page.
The punk-infused, modern rockers from Oneonta are getting ready
for a big show at Flashbacks next Friday (3/25) with
Catastrophe Me and
Meeeooo, Like a Catfight!
Here’s a link to the Liquid Me Reverbnation page:
http://www.reverbnation.com/liquidme
---Classic rock
fans rejoice!
The Doobie Brothers will be takin’ it to the streets of Wilkes-Barre
on Sunday, July 31st!
The Tom Johnston
line-up of the Doobies will be playing at the
Mohegan Sun Casino at Pocono
Downs. This line-up
includes not only Johnston on lead vocals and guitar, but is also
anchored by founding Doobie,
Patrick Simmons, as well as veterans John McFee and Michael Hassock.
---‘90’s Modern
rock act, Fastball, who had
hits with songs like, “The Way,”
“Fire Escape” and “Out Of My
Head,” will be playing in nearby Montrose, PA in May.
Fastball will be
playing at Chestnut Street, as part of the Chocolate & Wine Festival on
Saturday, May 21st.
Not sure yet on the exact time of the event or if you need to
purchase tickets.
---Frostbit Blue bandmates, Benny Fiaco and Nick Gravelding have
collaborating on a demo which may become a future
Frostbit Blue song. The
song, called Highway 51,
features Nick singing, Benny on guitar and bass and no drumming--sounds
very bluesy. Whether or not
it will become a future Frostbit song of course, remains to be
seen…Meanwhile there hasn’t been a new
Frostbit Blue album since
1997’s Just What The Doctor
Ordered. Both it and the
debut CD, 1995’s Icebreaker
are currently out of print.
So guys, what are we waiting for?
---Mindless Ramblings:
---Congrats to area
native, Joe Stento scored a
gig for Saturday night (3/19) at Baker Street Pub during the SXSW
festival in Austin, Texas.
Very cool.
---Oneonta Theater does is again!
The Wailers play there
on 5/26!
---Joe Bonamassa to play State
Theatre in Ithaca on 11/8!
New On Regional Concert Page:
Doobie Brothers (2)/ Fastball (1)/ Patty Smyth & Scandal (1)/ Hall &
Oates (3)/ George Thorogood & the Destroyers (1)/ Papa Roach-Escape The
Fate-Pop Evil (1)/ Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (1)/ (hed) p.e. (5)/ Fabulous
Thunderbirds (1)/ Cake (1)/ Jefferson Starship (4)/ Air Supply (2)/
Local H (1)/ Lupe Fiasco (1)/ Interpol (1)/ The Maine (6)/ Panic! At The
Disco (4)/ Weezer-Panic! At The Disco (1)/ Eric Burdon & the Animals
(1)/ Cowboy Mouth (2)/ Los Lonely Boys (1)/ Huey Lewis & the News (4)/
Tom Tom Club (1)/ Blood, Sweat & Tears (1)/ Little Feat (4)/ Jimmy
Buffett (2)/ Psychostick (4)/ Airborne Toxic Event (1)/ Warren Haynes
Band (2)/ Jerry Butler (7)/ Paul Rodgers (1)/ Stone Temple Pilots (2)/
Manchester Orchestra-Cage The Elephant (3)/ Elvis Costello (3)/ TV On
The Radio (1)/ Papa Roach (2)/ Duran Duran (2)/ Ronnie Earl (4)/ Uriah
Heep (3)/ Michael McDonald-Boz Scaggs (3)/ Tonic (1)/ The Spinners (2)/
The Wailers (3)/ Joe Bonamassa (5)/ Kenny Loggins (5)/ Of Montreal (1)/
Rickie Lee Jones (3)/ Zebra (2)/ Three Dog Night (1)/ Robert Randolph &
the Family Band (1)/ Indigo Girls (1)/ Drive-By Truckers (5)/ My Life
With The Thrill Kill Kult (2).
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Music News for 031211:
---Hope you went to
the Woodshed Prophets CD
release party at McGirks in
Chenango Bridge on Friday night.
Nice review in the Good
Times insert of the
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin by
Chris Kocher, too (page 6
people!). If you haven’t
been turned onto the Prophets yet, (which is drummer,
Sean Kanazawich’s new project
btw, with Rob Strachyra) just
jump on the links page and check them out on facebook, myspace or their
original dot com!
---Binghamton
guitar prodigy, Randy McStine
has a new band. The outfit
is a progressive jazz fusion band
called, Meridian Voice.
They’re making their performance debut in Orange, NJ at the
Hat City Kitchen on Friday
night, April 8th.
If you’d like to check out their debut CD, it’s called
Atypical Symmetry (love the name) and available now on
CDBaby.com! Here’s a link:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/meridianvoice
---Local bands!
The Chris Thater Memorial
Music Festival, part of the overall Thater Memorial is looking for
you! It doesn’t matter what
genre of music you play, they’re looking to fill a two-day schedule on
August 27th and 28th at Rec Park, in Binghamton.
There are two easy ways to apply: first, go to
www.bcstopdwi.com, then click on
the link for the Thater Memorial.
That will direct you to an online application that you can either
download or fill out.
Otherwise, call BC Stop DWI for more info @ (607) 778-2056.
Last year they had 18 bands!
This year, one of them could be yours!
---No acts yet,
(except for Jim Lauderdale on
Saturday) but the dates for the
Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg have been set!
Make plans for this summer’s annual “lost weekend” on July 21st
thru July 24th.
---Folk music
legend Peter Yarrow, of
Peter Paul & Mary will grace the stage at the
State Theatre in Ithaca this
fall. The venue just
announced that they have a date set for him on Saturday, October 22nd.
The show isn’t on their website yet, however, so no ticket info
yet.
---Southern Rock
fans make plans to be in Syracuse on Saturday, June 4th.
Word has it that head Allman Brother,
Gregg Allman, will be playing
at Clinton Square in downtown
for the annual Taste of Syracuse
festival, so this may be a free show.
I’ll check into it.
The official announcement is expected to be made on Monday, March 14th.
---Another sure
sign of summer, dates went up on internet concert sites for the
New York State Fair in Syracuse this week.
Few acts were announced however as much is still in the planning
stages…however one bill that is certain is the
Journey-Foreigner-Night Ranger
tour. They will play the
Grandstand on Tuesday, August 30th, which is the 6th
night of the fair. I still
expect Sugarland to be
announced for September 3rd, but nothing official yet.
---For a guy who
recently had a hole in both his heart and his head,
Bret Michaels sure is hard to
keep down. Not only is he
bringing Poison around this
summer, he’s also playing more solo dates both before and after the
tour! Michaels is mostly
playing towns east of us that he didn’t hit last year (like Verona,
Tarrytown, Albany) next month, but if you want to see Bret before he has
to take a break, you’ve got no excuse.
---Mindless Ramblings:
---Frosbit Blue noted on their facebook page Friday that it’s been 9
years since the passing of their original bass player, Tim “Weasel”
Smith.
---The Rods news CD drops on 5/10.
The first single is “The Code.”
---Talk about
floating on cloud 9…Zarni de Wet
ran into John Mayer and got a
glowing critique on her song “Evaporated.”
As you can imagine, she’s flying high.
Deservedly so.
---New On Regional Concert Page: Peter Yarrow (1)/ Gandolf Murphy & the
Slambovian Circus of Dreams (2)/ Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
(5)/ Blackmore’s Night (7)/ Bret Michaels (8)/ Gregg Allman (1)/ Steely
Dan (13) (including Bethlehem Musikfest)/ Journey-Foreigner-Night Ranger
(9)/ Saliva-Rev Theory-Emphatic-Madam Adam-Seven Day Sonnet (8)/ Thin
Lizzy (4)/ Neil Young (9)/ Dave Matthews Band Caravan (3)/ Wishbone Ash
(5)/ Jimmy Buffett (2)/ Indigo Girls (2)/ Yellowcard (1)/ Rascals Flatts
(1)/ Def Leppard-Heart (3)/ Kenny Loggins (1)/ Big Audio Dynamite (1)/
Wishbone Ash (5)/ Silverstein (6)/ Chicago (2)/
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Music News for 030511:
---Here comes
summer! Frankly, it can’t
come fast enough for most of us, but one sure sign is when all the
outdoor venues start booking shows and it’s coming as fast and as
furious as global warming in Alaska!
Last week Def Leppard and Heart
announced a North American tour, this week it’s
Motley Crue, Poison and the
New York Dolls, on July!
The best part is that they’re playing nearby…and not just
Montage Mountain!
They’re also playing in Hershey,
PA…Saratoga Springs and
at Darien Lake!
---One of my
favorite bands of the ‘90’s, was a one album wonder, in fact their
“Pocketful Of Kryptonite,” was loved by radio.
Too bad their career tanked after that.
The Spin Doctors, who had huge hits with “Two Princes,” “Little Miss
Can’t Be Wrong,” and “Jimmy Olsen Blues,” are coming to
Tioga Downs in Nichols, on
Thursday night, May 26th.
---Happy to hear
this week that the Burns Sisters
are not only on Arlo Guthrie’s
tour, they’re singing back-up vocals!
It got underway on Thursday night in Easton, Maryland.
The tour continues thru Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas,
Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, California and Nevada, where it ends on
April 16th. Have
a safe trip girls!
---Ayana has been busy this week.
Not only did she make a celebrity analyst appearance on Fox 40
News at Ten, to help give us the breakdown of the latest crop of
contestants on American Idol, she also posted a new song on her
Reverbnation page.
Fortunately for you, I’ve got links to both events and I’m in a sharing
mood:
Fox 40:
http://www.wicz.com/news/video.asp?video=02%2D23%2D11+idol%2Eflv&zone=News
Reverbnation:
http://www.reverbnation.com/#!/ayanad
---Metal ‘Cuse II is promising to raise more money for the
Ronnie James Dio cancer fund
and end the show with another Dio jam.
Just in case it slipped your mind the now annual festival is set
once again for Club Fusion in
North Syracuse on November 5th @ 7p.
We’ll let you know about any
potential line-up and tickets as soon as we hear!
---Driftwood posted on facebook this week that their New England tour
dates were up for the first full week of April, so of course, I jumped
over to their page to see what they were and post ‘em on my concert
page, so If you cross reference the
Regional Concert Page, then
sort by Artist, just by clicking on the word Artist at the top of the
Artist column, you’ll see them all when you scroll down to
Driftwood!
Or, you could always just go to their facebook page, whatever
works.
---Frostbit Blue posted a link to music on the facebook page this week,
so I followed it to find out what they had posted and how the quality
was. I have to say I’m quite
impressed. If you haven’t
liked them on facebook
yet, here’s their link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FROSTBIT-BLUE/368417800248?v=info&ref=ts
---What are you
doing this weekend? A brief
road trip to Ithaca may be in order as local favs,
The Rods are gearing up for a
gig at The Haunt on Saturday
3/12. If you’ve never seen
them and you’re a fan of 70’s style metal, you own yourself a favor.
Plus, their lead singer is related to the late, great metal icon,
Ronnie James Dio.
Winning! (…to quote Charlie Sheen.)
---Mindless Ramblings:
---Annie Burns says the next CD (not sure if she meant her own or a
full-blown Burns Sisters disc) is due in August.
Hope you can wait that long.
---Lots of
Monkees dates, but only 3 out
of the 4 members touring, as
Michael Newsmith remains a no-show.
---NY State Fair in Syracuse has announced dates!
The fair will open Thursday August 25th and continue
for 12 days thru Labor Day, Monday September 5th.
Still waiting to hear if that Sugarland date on 9/3 will be at
the fair…
---The 2nd
Annual Binghamton Jazz Festival
will be Saturday July 9th!
New On The Regional Concert Page This
Week: Spin Doctors/ Motley
Crue-Poison-New York Dolls (10)/ The Wailers (3)/ Sick Puppies (10)/
John Mayall (6)/
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Music News for 022611:
---As I’m posting
this on Sunday morning, let me remind everyone that there’s a benefit
for Katie Scott-Hlavac, the lead singer of
Persuasion (and formerly of
the bands TRIX,
Tres Chic and
Millennium), who is suffering from a congenital defect of the
pancreatic ducts.
The benefit, which
features Persuasion, will be
led by Carl Petro of
Brotherhood! It starts
at 1pm and runs until 4pm at the
Number 5 Restaurant.
It’s $15, but if you can’t make it donations can be made directly to
Tioga State Bank. Make
checks payable to the Katie Scott-Hlavac Benefit Fund c/o Tioga State
Bank. We’re all thinking of
you Katie!
---Dropclutch sure are getting lots of attention for their new single,
“One Bullet.” The Johnson
City modern rock band released the song on Valentine’s Day and have not
only gotten attention from WKGB’s
local radio show, “The
Underground,” where DJ Mike
Benson debuted the song, KGB morning show host
Jim Free also gave it a spin
on Thursday morning (2/24) in the middle of the most highly listened day
part on the station. The
spin was a response to the word-of-mouth being generated for the band,
by a Binghamton Press &
Sun-Bulletin by reporter Chris Kocher, story about it in Thursday’s
Good Times insert!
The song is
available at iTunes, Zune, Napster and even, Amazon!
(If they get this much press for one song, imagine what might
happen when their next album comes out.)
---Score another
great show for the Oneonta Theater!
They just booked the Dark
Star Orchestra this week for Saturday, May 7th!
---Vermont jam band
Phish is hitting the road big
time this summer with (so far—as I expect dates to be added) 10 shows in
the northeast alone, the closest being a three-night stand at the site
of the original Woodstock, Bethel
Woods, in Bethel, NY, on Friday May 27th, Saturday May 28th
and Sunday May 29th!
Sounds like a lost weekend to me!
---Johnny Cash and
June Carter’s daughter, Rosanne
Cash is playing the Corning
Glass Museum this Summer on Saturday June 18th.
I don’t think she can shatter glass, but I’ll be she’ll blow some
cool vibes that day.
---Legendary
Country band, the Oak Ridge Boys
are coming to Binghamton.
They’ll be playing the Forum on St. Patrick’s Day.
Sounds like an interesting combination.
(It also sounds like an interesting game…I might just go to see
how many St. Patrick’s Day celebrants are butchering the lyrics to
Elvira.).
---If you’re
confused about which day Edwin
McCain is playing the
Westcott in Syracuse, you’re not alone.
McCain recently switched dates in Syracuse and Pittsburgh for
logistical reasons, which were on back-to-back days.
Originally the date was Friday, March 25th.
It’s now Thursday, March 24th and McCain will be in
Pittsburhg on the 25th.
Got it?
---Johnny Popper, the front man for the self-proclaimed “World’s
Ugliest Band,” Blues Traveler,
is stepping out on a solo tour this Spring, and now going by the more
formal sounding John Popper.
He’ll play the Westcott in
Syracuse on Wednesday, March 30th.
---Mindless Ramblings:
---Feel sorry for
Zarni de Wet.
She’s spending her Spring Break working…but don’t feel too sorry.
The work she’ll be doing is really a labor of love, as she’ll be
recording tracks for her next album.
The real question is can she record the whole thing during Spring
Break? I’m sure she’ll keep
us all posted on facebook!
Meanwhile, I hope
it’s warm in Boston!
---New Dates On Regional Concert Page: Dark Star Orchestra (15)/ Kenny
Loggins-Boston Pops (5)/ Phish (10)/ Rosanne Cash (4)/ Edwin McCain (2)/
Johnny Popper (8)/ Black Keys-Cage The Elephant (3)/ Atticus Metal Tour
(4)/ Smithereens (4)/ Senses Fail (2)/ Hollywood Undead-10 Years-Drive A
(4)/ TV On The Radio (6)/ Fleet Foxes (5)/ Ray LaMontagne (8)/
Yellowcard (1)/ Brand New (5)/ Weird Al Yankovic (4)/ Iron & Wine (1)/
Crack The Sky (1)/ Aaron Lewis (2)/ Def Leppard-Heart (7)/ Scott Stapp
(1)/ cKy (8)/ Marshall Tucker Band (4)/ Stryper (1)/ Grace Potter & the
Nocturnals (6)/ Bob Seger &
the Silver Bullet Band (1).
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Music News for 021911:
---Hip Hop legend,
Keith Sweat is coming to the
Broome County Arena on April
Fools Day (no foolin’), Friday April 1st @ 8pm.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, February 23rd at 10am
at Ticketmaster.com and the Arena box office for $44.90 and 75.85.
No word yet on an opening act.
---Avenged Sevenfold is coming to the
Mohegan Sun Casino at Casey Plaza, in Wilkes-Barre on Friday, April
29th! The entire
bill is pretty strong on this tour as
Three Days Grace and
Sevendust open up. When
the tour hits Springfield just a few dates later, on Tuesday May 3rd,
Sevendust is replaced on the docket by
Bullet For My Valentine, so whenever you see this show it’s a great
triple bill.
Tickets go on sale
at 12pm on Friday February 25th.
Presale thru their fan club starts Tuesday 2/22 at 10am.
There are also presales thru the
Three Days Grace official
website, on 2/23 and the Mohegan
Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, on 2/24.
---So who will have
the honor of playing at this years Relay For Life?
We’ll find out on Wednesday February 23rd at
Binghamton University as six bands square off for the opportunity.
The line-up includes: Anything Serious, Paid Vacation, Mad Hatters, Matt MacDonald, Murj and
the Brian Wolff Band.
Out of the six I believe only two bands will play, and the crowd in
attendance at the Battle Of The Bands votes!
The showdown begins
at 7pm in the University Union
Hall. Good luck to all!
---Musefest announced on their facebook page this week that the dates
for this years Ithaca Summer Jam
have been set for June 24th, 25th and 26th.
Meanwhile the festival is looking for a different location.
If you’re interested in participating as a vendor, they’ve set up
a site at
www.ithacasummerjam.com.
---Just like
The Amp before it, the
College Corner Bar And Grill
in Elmira is closing down.
They posted on their facebook page that Wednesday night, February 16th
was their last night of business.
Seems like they just opened.
Here’s hoping there’s another venue for the adjacent Elmira
College soon.
---Didn’t I just
say in my last update that Oneonta has been scoring some good shows
lately? Well, they’ve done
it again! This time around
it’s Gordon Lightfoot (yeah, I know he was just at the Forum last year,
but still…). Lightfoot will
be playing Foothills Performing
Arts Center on Thursday, March 31st.
---For those of you
(like myself) who may have missed
Zarni DeWet’s Ustream concert on Saturday, you’ll be happy to hear
that she was smart enough to record this one, so just click on the link
below for nearly 90 minutes of Zarni, live from her bedroom:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zdewet
She plays a lot of
her own songs, plus surprise covers of other artists, like
Billy Joel’s, “Piano Man,” and
Elton John’s, “Rocket Man.”
Very nice.
I’ve only had a
chance to quickly scan the concert so far, but it appears that for the
most part it’s just DeWet and her keyboard this time around.
No guest guitarist.
For Zarni, however a keyboard and her voice are all she needs.
---If you fancy
yourself a guitar player and you’d like to learn how to play
Grateful Dead songs from a master, you’re in luck!
Cyber Showcase artist, Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is conducting a workshop on how to play them
at Audio Classics at 3501 Old Vestal Road in Vestal on Saturday March 5th
from 2-4pm. The price is
only $35.00 ($60.00 if you also buy the accompanying DVD.)
To make a reservation call (607) 766-3501, or (800) 321-2834, or
e-mail
tickets@deadtothecore.com.
Thanks to John Kanazawich for putting the whole thing together.
---If you tried
getting the Linkin Park shows
this past week at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT or The Verizon
Wireless Center in Washington, DC or
you know that Chester
Bennington’s been ill and the shows couldn’t go on as scheduled.
The band also had to cancel shows in Houston and Dallas.
So far only the Houston show has been rescheduled.
---Mindless Babbling:
---The On Fires will open for
Kaki King at BU on 4/9.
---Aretha Franklin’s only booked show as of 2/17, in Niagara Falls on
5/28!
---Tickets for
TSO @ the
Arena on 5/20 go onsale March 19th, but there may be a
pre-sale! Check their
official website!
---Will there be a
Steely Dan tour this summer?
At least one date’s already been booked…
New Dates On Regional Concert Page:
Lots of new tours announcing
this week!
Queens of the Stone Age, the
Happy Together Tour w/ the
Turtles and Friends, Michael
Buble, the first leg of the
Bob Seger tour (most of which is already sold out-but Buffalo goes
on sale on Saturday 2/19), Los
Lonely Boys and 30 Seconds To
Mars, with other acts adding a few dates here and there.
Below are the acts, followed by the number of new dates that were
added to the calendar since my last update.
Enjoy!
Gordon Lightfoot (8)/ Adler’s
Appetite (4)/ Michael Buble (8)/ Bob Seger (1)/ Uriah Heep (1)/ Los
Lonely Boys (5)/ Turtles-Buckinghams-Association-Grass Roots-Mark
Lindsey (6)/ David Allan Coe (2)/ 30 Seconds To Mars (4)/ Eddie Money
(2)/ Delbert McClinton (2)/ Queens Of The Stone Age (5)/ Wiz Khalifa
(3)/ Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (1)/ Michelle Shocked (1)/
Edwin McCain (5)/ Cold (2)/ Tower Of Power (1)/ Aretha Franklin (1)/
Leon Russell (1)/ Levon Helm Band (2)/ Hawthorne Heights (2)/ Dickey
Betts & Great Southern (4)/ Joey Belladonna (1)/ Herman’s Hermits (1)/
Roger McGuinn (1)/ Gary Puckett (1)/ Steep Canyon Rangers-Steve Martin
(13)/ Average White Band (5)/ Bruno Mars (3)/ Stone Temple Pilots (1)/
Bryan Adams (2)/ Sonny Landreth (1)/ Ingrid Michaelson (1)/ Doobie
Brothers (1)/ Airborne Toxic Event (9)/ Dave Mason (11)/ Rammstein (3)/
Pete Yorn (7)/ An Horse (4)/ Sara Bareilles (3)/ Ingrid Michaelson (1)/
Juliana Hatfield (1)/ Rihanna-Cee-Lo (2)/ Pat Benatar (1)/ Aimee Mann
(5)/ Bret Michaels (1)/ Avenged Sevenfold-Three Days Grace (2)/ Hinder-3
Doors Down-Seether-Apocalyptica (1)/ Old 97’s (5)/ Rusted Root (3)/
Steely Dan (1)/ Citizen Cope (3)/ Marshall Crenshaw (2)/ Gary Hoey (4).
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BREAKING NEWS: Zarni DeWet fans, tune into the UStream link below for a live internet only concert on Saturday, February
12th, at 12pm eastern time. Zarni's done this before and there should be a chance to interact via instant messaging, too. Very cool.
Here's the link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zdewet
Enjoy!
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Music News for 021211:
---I’m posting the
Music News early again this week to let you know about some cool stuff
coming up this weekend. One
them is that Grammy Award winner,
Elton John is coming to the
Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday, April 22nd!
Tickets go on sale this weekend, Saturday, February 12th
at 10am at all ticketmaster outlets, livenation and the
Mohegan Sun Arena box office.
There is an 8 ticket limit.
Enjoy!
Elton
will also play in Rochester at
Blue Cross Arena the night after on Saturday night, April 23rd,
just in case Friday night is bad for you.
---Hot Tuna, the side project of
Jorma Kaukonen and Jack
Cassady of Jefferson Airplane
fame, that blossomed into an on going project, is coming to the
Oneonta Theatre, in Oneonta,
NY on Saturday April 30th!
Show time is 9pm, and tickets are on sale now for $45.00.
$50.00 day of show (has anyone else noticed how the
Oneonta Theatre has quietly
put together a string of great shows lately?
Keep ‘em coming.)
---If you missed
Syracuse band, Ra Ra Riot on
Jimmy Kimmel last week, here’s a link to the You Tube video!
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-rr95sERak
---Just saw on
facebook today that Tim Ruffo’s
new album Take Me Away is
officially out on Amazon.com!
Congrats Tim! If you
want to grab a copy it’s a measly 10 BUCKS!
Here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Tim-Ruffo-Take-Me-Away/dp/B004MMEGH0/ref
---One of the other
things going on this weekend that you should be aware of is that
Binghamton Star contestant Brian
Wolff is debuting his first album with his group,
The Brian Wolff Band, this
weekend. This morning
(Friday 2/11) Wolff will be featured in an interview on the Star Morning
show on Star 1057, with hosts, Joshua B. & Lori.
Brian will premiere the music Saturday night at
Thirsty’s, in Binghamton and
copies will be available for only $10 at the venue.
Congrats, dude!
---So it seems that
the Rascal Flatts show that
was originally hoping to schedule a date at the
Broome County Arena on
February 24th, has instead gone to the Blue Cross Arena in
Rochester. Who dropped the
ball on that one?
---I hate to be the
bearer of bad news, but All
Tomorrow’s Parties is moving!
The festival, previously held at
Kutcher’s Country Club in
nearby Monticello, hailed by fans and critics alike is headed for the
Convention Center at Asbury Park, NJ.
In a statement on
their website, the organizer’s said,
“Everyone
who came to our three events at Kutshers knows how special the place was
and how lucky they were to have been a part of our events there and
while we are sad to not be returning, we are excited to be moving to the
iconic Asbury Park.”
Portishead
will be curating this years festival on Friday, September 30th
thru Sunday, October 2nd.
3-Day passes are already sold out, but single day passes are
still available for $60.00 on Friday and $99.00 for both Saturday and
Sunday.
Jeff Mangum
is playing a special Monday night show at the
Paramount Theatre for $35.00.
You
can get tickets from the ATP website.
Here’s the link:
http://www.atpfestival.com/content/buytickets.php
New Dates On The Regional Concert Page:
Ke$ha (1)/ New Pornagraphers/ James Taylor (4)/ Elvis Costello (6)/
Elton John (2)/ Sebadoh (7)/ Kid Cudi (1)/ Rise Against (7)/ Robin
Trower (2)/ Steve Miller Band (3)/ Crosby & Nash (13)/
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Music News for 020511:
---The question is
what action will the Alcohol Board take and for how long will it last,
in light of an underage drinking bust gone awry at the
Rathskeller in Binghamton.
After police began
making a sweep of downtown establishments on Thursday night last week,
word spread to the Rathskeller
where owner, Andrew Urso allegedly ordered the DJ to declare that there
was a fire on the premises and that everyone should evacuate.
No one was injured in the evacuation, but police caught on
quickly and charged Urso with Reckless Endangerment and Obstructing
Governmental Administration.
Now it remains to
be seen what kind of action the Alcohol board will take.
Will it fine Urso, strip him of his license or suspend it for
awhile? If so how long?
The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin have been following this
story pretty closely, so here are some links that offer more info:
The
Rathskeller has already been fined twice in recent years by the
board and you may remember it was also the site of the near fatal
beating of Binghamton University student Brian Steinhower a few years
ago by Mladin Kovochavic, who is now serving time for the crime in his
native Serbia.
---Seeber’s Tavern in Smithville Flats was the site of a bar fight that
apparently led to the death of one of their patron’s on Saturday night.
32-year-old Chance Howey was reported unconscious shortly after
he arrived home, where he was taken following the fight.
Howey was declared
dead at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse on Monday.
Chenango County Sheriff’s opened an investigation and an autopsy
was conducted on Tuesday.
Evidence points to
Howey receiving a fatal headblow, which means the death is now a
homicide. Since the fight
happened outside the bar, it’s unclear what the charge will mean for
Seeber’s or for the individual who delivered the fatal blow.
Here’s a link to
the account reported in the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin:
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20110201/NEWS01/110201004/Man+dies+after+bar+fight
---Monkey’s Typing introduced their new drummer, Matt Massie at their
Thursday night residency this week at the
Cyber Café West.
This show was Matt’s first public appearance with the band, so I
hope you got to get out and hear how he sounds.
Matt is taking over the kit from
Sean Kanazawich, who left to
pursue other projects.
---There’s a new
way to party in Syracuse.
Lucien’s Entertainment Complex opens up Saturday, February 5th
with a high energy metal concert in
Club Mystify!
Cover is just 5 dollars!
The complex is actually three clubs in one.
There’s the rock and metal venue,
Mystify, the high energy
dance club where you dress to impress…Black
Cat, and a casual dress venue with live music and DJ’s,
Coyote Joe’s.
So where’s the party?
7800 Brewerton Road, or in other words, Route 11.
(Isn’t that where Fusion is, too?
Hmmm.) Rock on!
---Mobday’s debut release,
The Beginning, Part. II
has been out about a month, and if you haven’t grabbed it, you’re
missing out on some premium modern metal.
Check my journal page for the full review!
---The Oneonta Theatre has been picking up some cool shows lately,
including a tour that’s currently testing it’s legs in maybe a dozen
markets.
Matthew & Gunnar Nelson, formerly of
Nelson, are paying tribute to their late father,
Ricky Nelson, by touring as
the Ricky Nelson Remembered Tour.
You can see the twins playing their father’s music in Oneonta on
Sunday March 27th.
---Okay, so I’m a
month late, but I used the last couple of snow days to finally finish
tallying Binghamton’s Top 30
Albums for 2010, based on our weekly survey of independent music
stores. I’ve posted it on
the charts page for you’re perusal.
Enjoy.
New Dates On The Regional Concert Page:
Matthew & Gunnar Nelson (2)/ Scythian (4)/ Asleep At The Wheel (2)/
Alterbridge-Black Stone Cherry (1)/ Shawn Mullins (8)/ Bulletboys (3)/
Uriah Heep (1)/ The Raveonettes (8)/ Dark Star Orchestra (5)/ Bon Jovi
(3)/ Naughty By Nature (3)/ House of Pain (4)/ Gene Loves Jezebel (3)/
Tommy James & the Shondells (1)/ John Brown’s Body (1)/ Thin Lizzy (1)/
Michael McDonald (1)/ Salt-N-Pepa (5)/ Devon Allman’s Honeytribe (5)/
New Riders Of The Purple Sage (1)/
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Music News for 012911:
---Guitar player,
Pete Yorn, once a Rolling
Stone magazine award winner, is coming to the
Westcott Theatre in Syracuse
on March 6th, with opening acts,
Ben Kweller and the Wellspring. No
ticket info yet.
---Blues legend,
John Mayall, frontman of the
Bluesbreakers, which has had
some famous members over the years, including
Eric Clapton,
Peter Green and
Mick Taylor, is adding dates
to his solo tour. One of the
newest dates will bring him within an hour of Binghamton, at
Oneonta Theatre on April 1st!
Tickets are on sale now for
$30.00 in advance, $32.50 day of show.
---Pink Floyd cover band, The
Machine, has planned a pretty special date at the
Forum in Binghamton on April 8th!
It’s special because they’re teaming up with the
Binghamton Philharmonic for a
symphonic rendition of your Pink Floyd faves.
Tickets for this
event actually go on sale on Thursday, February 10th @ 10am.
It‘s pretty rare that tickets go on sale on a Thursday, instead
of a Friday or Saturday, so if you want the best tickets, pay attention.
Ticket prices range from $39.25 to $54.70.
---Sha Na Na, the famous doo-wop cover band, immortalized at
Woodstock, is coming to
Tioga Downs on September 17th!
As you might guess, it’s way too early to predict ticket prices
or an on-sale date. Stay
tuned!
---Hip Hop
superstar Lil’ Wayne recently
announced tour dates for this spring, but did you know that his tour
won’t only stop at Baltimore, Philadelphia, Long Island, Penn State, and
Washington, DC, but it begins in Buffalo, at HSBC Arena!
Touring along with Wayne will be newcomer,
Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, blink
182 drummer Travis Barker,
and Mix Master Mike.
---Stone Sour, Theory Of A Deadman, Skillet, Halestorm and the
Art Of Dying have combined
for the Avalanche Tour, and
while it’s an incredible bill, so far, you’ll have to drive to either
NYC or Uncasville, CT to see it.
Out of the 22 or so dates on the schedule, 8 of them are in Texas
alone! Most of them are in
the South or Midwest, so here’s hoping the tour extends eastward and
soon! Btw, the NYC date is
April 29th at the
Hammerstein Ballroom, while the show in Uncasville, CT is at the
Mohegan Sun Arena on May 1st.
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Music News for 012211:
---Tim Ruffo’s 5-song EP is due out next month.
There will be a CD release party at
Bobby’s Place in Endwell on
February 18th, but it will be a muted celebration, as Ruffo
is set to open up for country act, Whitey Morgan and the 78’s.
In a tough economy, an EP is actually a good idea!
It’s the most economical way to get your music to the public.
---Monkeys Typing are literally counting the performances until
Sean Kanazawich is leaving
the famed area Grateful Dead cover band.
It’s not that they’re happy to see him go, they just want to make
sure fans get to see him before he’s gone.
Haven’t yet talked to Sean about his future plans, but he is very
busy with other projects, so it’s not surprising to imagine that he’s
stretched a bit thin. No
word yet on his replacement either, but I haven’t caught up with Jeff
and the guys in the band, yet, so hopefully, in next weeks report, I’ll
be able to give you more info.
---Trans-Siberian Orchestra just announced a major spring time tour,
with 6 stops in the northeast including, the tour ending destination at
the Broome County Arena on
Friday, May 20th!
No info yet on ticket prices, but we’ll stay on top of it.
---Pop/ Rock Guitar
Virtuoso and Golden Globe winner,
Kaki King will play
Binghamton University on Saturday, April 9th.
Not sure which one of their venue’s she’ll be featured at yet.
No word on ticket prices yet either, but as always, we’ll keep
digging until we find out.
---Modern rockers,
Senses Fail are coming to
Eleanor Rigby’s in Jermyn on
March 10th, with opening acts
Man Overboard and
Transit. This stop is
opening night on the American leg of a major worldwide tour for
Senses Fail that will have
just concluded nearly a dozen dates in England, and this part of the
tour will extend well into April, including four other stops in the
Northeast in Washington DC, Allentown, Pittsburgh and Pawtucket.
---New Dates On The Regional Concert Page: Flo Rida (1)/ Widespread
Panic (3)/ Good Charlotte (6)/ James Blunt (5)/ Janet Jackson (2)/ El
DeBarge (3)/ Chiodos/ Trans-Siberian Orchestra (6)/ Styx (2)/ Ill Nino
(4)/ Iron & Wine (2)/ Scott Stapp (2)/ Chris Cornell (9)/ 1910 Fruitgum
Company (4)/ Katy Perry (9)/ Citizen Cope (4)/ Kylie Minogue (1)/
Taproot (1)/ Senses Fail (5)/ Meatloaf (3)/ Ice Cube (4)/ David Lindley
(7)/ L.A Guns (1).
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Music News for 011511:
---When it comes to
the national music scene, what exactly does Binghamton have to hang it’s
hat on?
Dio (although technically he
was from Cortland)…Gary Wilson, certainly…Frostbit
Blues inclusion on a movie soundtrack…Gruond breaking Modern Rock
fusion band, Yolk…Fred Coury’s stint with Cinderalla, of course.
Well, now thanks to our abundant snowfall, scenes from the Taylor
Swift video for the song, “Back To December,” were shot at Rec Park in
Binghamton and suburban Vestal, last month.
Sometimes it pays to be in the next state north of Taylor Swifts
home state (which is PA, btw.)
The Binghamton
Press & Sun-Bulletin ran the story on their front page yesterday.
So, if you promise you’ll come back to us, you can click on the
link…
---Renovations at
the Landmark Theatre took a
near tragic turn this week when the roof collapsed, trapping one person
working on the building. The
worker was freed and taken to the hospital, where they are recovering.
No word yet on how this accident will alter the plans to renovate
this historic Syracuse venue.
---Yes,
Southern Tier Celebrates may be done, at least temporarily, but the
Brown Bag Music Series and
Rec Park Music Fest will be
back in 2011. Already two
acts, Driftwood and
Beard Of Bees have announced their participation in the
Rec Park Music Fest (maybe
they should invite Taylor Swift this year.), while
Driftwood has also announced
that they will play an installment of the
Brown Bag Music Series on
June 24th, on the Court House lawn, in downtown Binghamton.
---Mountain Jam Fest is breaking out the big guns for this years four
night festival! Just
announced headliners are Soulive
on Thursday, June 2nd, followed by
Warren Haynes on Friday 6/3,
Gov’t Mule on Saturday 6/4
and My Morning Jacket to wrap
up the festival on Sunday 6/5!
Hope you haven’t put in for your vacation yet!
---If you’ve never
heard of the Wise Ash Lounge
before, don’t feel left out.
According to google maps, it’s behind Jo-Ann Fabric on the Vestal
Parkway, off of Airborne Avenue.
According to a facebook invite that is exactly where sax player
extraordinare Rob Weinberger
and the Citi Cats are playing
on Saturday night (1/15)! I
hear that there is a dress code (jackets and “attractive wear”) and the
cover includes the price of your first drink, but according to Rob, the
acoustics are great! The
address is 809 Imperial Woods Drive.
There is no phone.
Sorry.
---Zarni de Wet has posted pictures on her facebook page, from her
recent visit to a game preserve while she was visiting relatives in
South Africa. Some great
wildlife pictures that even Jack Hanna would be proud of…here’s the link
(although I think you’ll have to be logged into facebook to go here)…
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=600439&id=661520246
---With
Gwar heading out on tour again (as close as The Westcott Theatre in Syracuse) let me take this opportunity to share
their Christmas video with you.
Just click on the link below for all the fun and frivolity…(and
remind me to tell you the story of how I saved them from the Chattanooga
police when I lived in Tennessee.)
http://www.break.com/break-originals/other-funny-stuff/christmas-with-gwar-1968895
---Jamie Willard recently sent me a link to WSKG’s Expressions page, on
facebook for those of us who, like me, missed his performance on the
popular local show. Well
imagine my surprise when I found the treasure trove of local musicians
shows, archived, most of them in full, for the last three years!
If you haven’t seen any of these or want to see them again,
here’s the link:
http://www.wskg.org/television/local-productions/expressions/expressions-previous-episodes.aspx
---The Rods just announced this week that their new CD, “Vengence,”
will be out in March!
--New Dates on the Regional Concert
Page: Janet Jackson (6)/ Buddy Guy (6)/ Johnny Winter (1)/ Gov’t
Mule (1)/ Warren Haynes (1)/ Soulive (1)/ Joey Belladonna (1)/ Gregg
Allman (2)/ My Morning Jacket (1)/ Dr. John (6)/ Gwar (7)/ Antigone
Rising (1)/ Panic! At The Disco (1)/ David Gray (4)/ O.M.D. (5)/ John
Oates (3)/ Of Montreal (6)/ Kylie Minogue (4)/ Elton John (3)/ Coheed &
Cambria (7)/ Trey Songz (2)/ John Waite (2)/ Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks
(6)/ Dennis DeYoung (1).
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Music News for 010811:
---Endicott Metal/
Alternative band, Mobday has
been selling it’s newest release
The Beginning, Part II, in
local independent record stores, and by that I mean,
Music City. Haven’t
heard it yet, but I have heard good things about it.
(Hey Ryan, can you spare a promo copy for a review? Please?)
---Annie Burns of the Burns
Sisters updated here status to married on her facebook page over the
weekend. Congrats to the
lovely bridge and her handsome hubby…I understand they’re taking a
couple weeks in Hawaii for their Honeymoon.
Nice.
---The Ithaca based
metal band, Bone Jar has
broken up as of January 6th, per a posting on their facebook
page. No word yet what their
individual members will be doing next.
---Tickets for
Furthur will be on sale as of
Saturday on January 15th.
The show will definitely be at the
Broome County
Arena, and
NOT at the Forum, as was
originally posted on Pollstar.com.
Ticket prices will be $60.50.
The show is scheduled for March 29th.
SNIPPETS OF NEWSINESS:
---Ry Cuming has been tapped as
the opening act for Maroon 5
at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open
on June 24th.
---John Valby fans can catch “Dr. Dirty” at the
Country Pines, in Endicott on Jan. 22rd!
---Starship will play two shows at
Tioga Downs on Saturday March 26th at 7p & 9p.
Tickets are $20.00.
---Frostbit Blue is finally on facebook!
Jump on and friend them.
---Folk and Blues
superstar, Lucinda Williams
is playing the State Theatre
in Ithaca on March 7th.
Tickets are now on sale for $29.50.
---Allman Brothers fans will be happy to hear the band just added 5
shows to their nearly annual Spring residency at the Beacon Theatre, in
NYC.
---Sugarland is still putting together a summer tour, but a few of the
proposed dates look promising for local fans, including a July show @
Darien Lake and a Syracuse
show on September 3rd!
No venue for the Syracuse show has been named yet, but how can it
be anything but the New York
State Fair?
---New Dates on Regional Concert Page: Lucinda Williams (9)/ Sugarland
(5)/ Corky Laing (mountain) & the Memory Thieves (1)/ Utopia (2)/ Allman
Brothers Band (5)/ Gene Ween (1)/ Apocalpytica (1)/ Jon Bon Jovi &
Friends (1)/ Deftones (8)/ Scott Stapp (1)/ Monster Magnet (1)/ New Kids
On The Block-Backstreet Boys (2)/ Jason Castro (2)/ Graham Parker (8)/
Pat DiNizio (3)/ Adler’s Appetite (2)/ War-Cameo-Sugarfoot’s Ohio
Players (2)/ Peter Yarrow (6)/ Lou Gramm (1).
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Music News for 010111:
---Well, okay…we
didn’t have a first night celebration this year, but that doesn’t mean
that there weren’t other celebrations going on in the Parlor City.
If you were one of
the lucky few to ring in the new year at the new
Studio 65, the site of the
former, Eclipse nightclub, at
the Days Inn on Front Street, in Binghamton, you were also giving to a
good cause, the fight against Aids and the local organization, STAP.
The question is
now, after the event is over, what is the future of the nightclub?
After all the renovation and revamping of a venue with so much
history, it would be a shame for it to go by the wayside and never be
used again. Hopefully, this
is only the beginning of a new chapter in it’s history.
---The
Riverwalk Hotel (formerly the Binghamton Regency) also had a New
Years celebration Friday night, honoring a group of soldiers from Fort
Drum. The Hotel recently
changed hands as a private owner has taken over from the city, on
December 16th.
Their website also indicates that the hotels new nightclub will open
soon. Here’s hoping.
---The
Mosquito Lounge is moving!
In fact, it will have to as one of it’s sister businesses, Price
Chopper, builds a new store in the Foundry Plaza, while simultaneously
keeping the old store open.
In fact, all the stores in the strip outside of Price Chopper will have
to close or move, as they will be demolished to make way for the new
Price Chopper. So where does the
Mosquito Lounge go?
Starting early this
month the lounge will relocate to 4 State Street which is the site of
the former Anthony’s Restaurant.
The move will allow the venue to double it’s floor space and
nearly double it’s number of employees.
Pretty sweet.
---New Dates On Regional Concert Page:
Donna Jean Godchaux Band (3)/ Asia (5)/ Foghat (1)/ Commander
Cody Band (2)/ Devon Allman’s Honeytribe (6)/ Blue Oyster Cult (1)/
Blood Sweat & Tears (2)/ Lauryn Hill (1)/ Afrika Bambaataa (1)/ Dan Reed
(3)/ The Ventures (1)/ Adema (8)/ Days Of The New (2)
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