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Keller Williams

by Elyse Beaudoin September 27, 2012

Hoots, hollers and applause rose up from the crowd as one-man band and looping master Keller Williams strolled onto the Upstate Concert Hall stage with a jolly smile. He wore the same familiar haircut, earth-tone ...

The Upstate Concert Hall

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

by Josh Potter September 27, 2012

If Godspeed You! Black Emperor were given a grant and told to build themselves the ideal musical environment, it would likely look a lot like Basilica Hudson. Which probably explains the intermittently touring Montreal-based band’s ...

Basilica Hudson

Braids, Railbird, Hand Habits

by Raurri Jennings September 27, 2012

Say what you’d like about Valentine’s cockeyed pool table and infamous bathrooms, but they have made one solid booking after another this year, proving St. Vincent’s booking agent dead wrong that there is no market ...

Valentine's

Florence + The Machine

by Metroland Staff September 20, 2012

The dog days are over, as are the days of chilling on the SPAC lawn. Florence + The Machine closed out the SPAC summer season on Sunday with one of the more glamerous stage shows ...

Bon Iver

by Josh Potter September 20, 2012

Maybe he was a little looped on the Rare Vos; or maybe Justin Vernon just knows his audience really well. “Anyone out there just starting college?” he asked, as if he too had been stuck ...

World Party

by Metroland Staff September 20, 2012

Well, you can’t brown-bag it from the bodega anymore to liven up the LarkFest experience. So, it was a good thing World Party brought some sounds to cure that sobriety. Better known for his ’80s ...

Restoration Festival

by Josh Potter September 13, 2012

“This is like the last episode of Lost,” said mandolinist Matthew Loiacono, looking out at the crowd that had gathered in St. Joseph’s Church for the much-anticipated Kamikaze Hearts reunion Friday night at the third ...

Skerik’s Bandalabra

by Jeff Nania September 13, 2012

“One man steals on another man's birthday,” Skerik improvised on two events he had heard about. “It's one man's birthday, another man had his bike stolen. What does it mean? I think they're both motivated ...

Japanther

by Elyse Beaudoin August 30, 2012

With a name like Japanther, the Brooklyn-based punk duo seemed like they would shred up the stage, but their performance at Valentine’s proved otherwise. In fact, they are the ones who are about to be ...

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Japanther

by Elyse Beaudoin August 23, 2012

With a name like Japanther, this Brooklyn-based punk duo seemed like they would shred up the stage, but their performance at Valentine’s proved otherwise. In fact, they are the ones who are about to be ...

Basilica Music Festival

by Josh Potter August 16, 2012

With just enough people in the first row to lift and carry Taraka Larson, sprawled on her back, chanting “forever!” through a mane of brown curls, her gold-sequined smock sparkling like a disco ball in ...

Summer Slaughter

by The Staff August 16, 2012

Long hair can be a nuissance in the summer—which makes headbanging a practical lifeskill for anyone metal enough to grow out the locks. Last Thursday’s (Aug. 9) Summer Slaughter tourstop at the Upstate Concert Hall ...

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival

by The Staff August 2, 2012

No doubt, the members of Slayer, Anthrax and Motörhead are getting old—although, weirdly, Motörhead bassist Lemmy doesn’t seem to have aged a day since the Battle of Bull Run. But this multi-band metal bill, sponsored ...

Wilco

by Raurri Jennings August 2, 2012

Over the course of their last four records since the acclaimed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and firing of guitarist Jay Bennett, Wilco have become less avant-garde while adding bona fide avant-garde musicians. Anyone present for the ...

Bang on a Can Marathon with Steve Reich

by Paul Rapp August 2, 2012

For the past five years, the New York new-music collective Bang On A Can’s residency-ending marathon has been a blissfest, a highlight of my summer, the one thing I block out as soon as it’s ...

Sharon Van Etten

by Raurri Jennings August 2, 2012

Sharon Van Etten, who has been touring in support of her latest album Tramp since February, noted how difficult it is to play the same songs nearly every night for six months. However, her music ...

Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival

by Glenn Weiser August 2, 2012

Sunny weather, temperatures in the 80s, and music to die for greeted bluegrass fans last Saturday at Grey Fox in the foothills of the northern Catskills. The four-day multistage concert is the top annual acoustic-music ...

Camp Bisco

by Raurri Jennings July 19, 2012

On one set of decks, Saturday night, Bitch Please is spinning hip-hop/dubstep mashups complete with raunchy rhymes and build-drop dynamics on the blue channel; on the green channel, Space Jesus weaves more traditional dub with ...

Fishbone

by The Staff July 12, 2012

Going on the heat Fishbone delivered to Putnam Den on July 5, it’s almost inconceivable to think that these guys have been at it since 1979. They’ve come a long way since their start in ...

Phish

by Josh Potter July 12, 2012

Ever since the band reconvened in 2009 (the dawn of “Phish 3.0,” natch), my policy has been thus: Read setlists from the tour online and snag a ticket to the closest show (usually SPAC) just ...

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Roger Waters

by John Rodat July 5, 2012

When I first heard Pink Floyd’s The Wall, a year or so after it was released in 1979, I was floored. Until that point, my listening habits were limited largely to WPDH, a new-wave radio ...

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Freihofer’s Jazz Festival

by Jeff Nania July 5, 2012

The Freihofer’s Jazz Festival was a Latin jazz paradise this year. Acts like Pedrito Martinez, Steve Kroon, Edmar Castaneda, and Arturo O’Farrill stole the show O’Farrill’s orchestra were doing just fine on their own playing the ...

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Drake’s Club Paradise Tour

by Taylor Morris June 28, 2012

The Club Paradise Tour opened with French Montana, whom I was actually sort of interested in seeing, had he not gone onstage at 6:30, which is sort of crazy considering the set-time gulf between openers ...

Matthew Sweet

by The Staff June 28, 2012

Guitarist Dennis Taylor stepped up Friday night at the Egg to cover some of the intense guitar work (originally performed by Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine) that helped make Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend one of the ...

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Old Songs Festival

by Glenn Weiser June 28, 2012

This year, Old Songs picked the Mayan calendar to put on its commemorative festival T-shirts. The choice of the ancient circular bas-relief, which some say predicts global doom by fixing the end of time at ...

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