FUNKY TROMBONE SHORTY HORNS IN ON KIRBY CENTER
By Michael Lester Photos by Jim Gavenus WILKES-BARRE -- Troy Andrews lowered his shiny trombone to his waist, wiped his mouth and swiveled from his dual microphones at the front of the F.M. Kirby ...
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SOLD-OUT CROWD CELEBRATES VINTAGE ANNIVERSAY
By Michael Lello Photos by Jesse Faatz and Mark Dennebaum SCRANTON -- A capacity crowd helped celebrate The Vintage's fifth anniversary Friday night with a free, all-ages concert featuring A Socia...
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SILENT LIONS NEED TO FINE TUNE THEIR ROAR TO REACH POTENTIAL
By Emily Votaw CLEVELAND -- The Grog Shop is debatably Cleveland’s most intimate venue, and there’s something to be said about pop-punk in close quarters. Not that Silent Lions are necessarily pop-p...
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NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL’S SURREAL STATE THEATRE SERENADE
By Michael Lello Photo by Jason Riedmiller ITHACA, N.Y. -- Neutral Milk Hotel released just enough music to create a sense of mystery. The Athens, Ga., group only released two proper albums (one of...
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CABINET HIT THE NOTE TO WRAP UP AN EVENTFUL 2013
Cabinet_09 Photos by Jason Riedmiller Cabinet rang in the 2014 with a packed house in West Chester, Pa. The Note was the setting for three...
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LIBERTY UNDERGROUND RELEASE ALBUM
By Jesse Faatz Photos by Jesse Faatz STURGES, Pa. -- Fans and friends packed into the Wildcat Saloon to support The Liberty Underground’s CD Release on Dec. 26th. Frontman and founder Jon Chorba ...
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RAILROAD EARTH, ROWAN THRILL SHERMAN CROWD
By Michael Lester Photos by Jesse Faatz STROUDSBURG -- Seventy-one-year-old bluegrass legend Peter Rowan danced a gentle solo waltz on stage, circling Tibetan-born vocalist Yungchen Lhamo as Rail...
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STP’S SCOTT WEILAND AND THE WILDABOUTS WOW MOUNT AIRY
IMG_2310 By Michael Lello Photos by Jason Riedmiller MOUNT POCONO, Pa. -- While he may not garner as much respect as his Seattle counterpa...
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ELVIS COSTELLO’S AIM IS TRUE IN MARATHON KIRBY CONCERT
WILKES-BARRE -- It took about two and a half hours for Elvis Costello to encapsulate his career Monday night at the F.M. Kirby Center, and the poet, punk and provocateur used every minute of it to ful...
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VIOLENT FEMMES: A NIGHT OF ENERGETIC AMERICAN MUSIC
vf20131114-2 vf20131114-3 By Nikki M. Mascali Photos by Pati Bobeck NEW YORK – M...
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