BRIGGS FARM SUNDAY PHOTOS: ALEXIS P. SUTER, VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & FESTIVAL REVELERS
Photos by Jim Gavenus The folks at Briggs Farm Blues Festival are most likely already hammering out plans for next year's edition, but we're still taking some time to reflect on the 2016 fest, whic...
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SONNY & THE SUNSETS ON MERRILL GARBUS, GIANT DONGS & 100 RECORDS [TICKET CONTEST]
Sonny Smith is certainly a polymath: Musician. Playwright. Multimedia artist. A guy who can seamlessly work the phrase “Edward Scissorhands of the wang” into an interview. His current endeavor is “...
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SOUL SHAKERS’ ‘GUITARMAGEDDON’ ALL-STAR BLUES ALBUM OUT THIS WEEK: HEAR A TRACK FEATURING TEDDY YOUNG
Guitarmageddon might sound like a scary concept. Some sort of apocalyptic end-of-days with fiery Fenders and Les Pauls falling from the sky? Not exactly. Luckily for music lovers, Guitarmageddon was a...
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‘JUST LIKE NEW YORK CITY’: DEAD & COMPANY AT CITI FIELD
Photos by Angelo Santoro FLUSHING, N.Y. — There’s something to be said for ending your career while your skills are at their peak, guaranteeing you won’t have a chance to sully your scorecard. Jerr...
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BRIGGS FARM BLUES FESTIVAL: 10 REASONS NOT TO MISS THE 2016 EDITION
If you’ve been to the Briggs Farm Blues Festival, you probably don’t need us to convince you to return. From the warm welcome you received when you pulled onto the sprawling festival grounds to the da...
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ERIN McANDREW FOLLOWS HER DREAMS ON ‘SKELETON OF LIFE’
Erin McAndrew had a comfortable job in marketing, but as the New York-via-Northeastern Pa. singer-songwriter tells us, “life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” So McAndrew, who played in the ...
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MASON PORTER ENJOYS A WEEKEND IN THE WOODS WITH ‘HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS’
If you didn’t know that Mason Porter’s new EP was titled “Heart Of The Mountains,” if you didn’t see the bucolic album cover complete with a bear strumming an acoustic guitar, and if you didn’t know t...
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CARL PALMER PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LEGACY OF KEITH EMERSON AND ELP
When Carl Palmer was plotting his current tour, which kicks off tonight in New York City, it was not intended as a tribute to keyboardist Keith Emerson. In fact, the drummer was in talks with his long...
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CLAMSTOMPERS PREMIERE VIDEO, DISCUSS RELEASE OF DEBUT ALBUM, ‘DWAYNE’
The ClamStompers release their debut album, “Dwayne,” today, and to kick off the festivities the Northeastern Pa. duo (and sometimes trio) are debuting a video for album track “Dwayne (Every Time ...
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ELECTRONIC ARTIST QUOTH DEBUTS NEW TRACK WITH KATIE KELLY, TALKS PRINCE IN LEAD-UP TO ALBUM RELEASE (EXCLUSIVE)
For many of us, the only time we’ve heard the word “quoth” is in Edgar Allan Poe’s famous work “The Raven.” But there’s another artist making some noise with the word, using it as his performing name....
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