Artists and repertoire. News, profiles, reviews, and more focused on artists and acts, especially in (but not limited to) Greater Binghamton and the various scenes that make up Upstate NY.
If you’re familiar with Damn the Kid, you probably have some inkling as to what you should expect when you sit down to listen to Ava’s Town, their freshman LP. They’ve established quite the unique indie folk-rock sound in recent…
If you’ve read any article I’ve ever written regarding pop music, you’ve heard me say this time and time again: indie pop impresses the hell out of me, because pop is hard. And Trojan Horse, the latest single by Binghamton…
I’ve been looking forward to reviewing Together, For a Moment, the third LP from Grown Ups, for a pretty long time now. One might say too long, actually. I heard a few tracks from this album back in March and…
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Damn the Kid frontwoman Amber Winestock wonderfully articulates something in the new single FNY and its B-side, RaiNY, that I’ve been saying for years, though never so succinctly. And it’s a message that resonates in…
It’s a bit strange to open up a review of American Harmony, the debut LP from the Neo Politans, talking about British harmony. But it’s also an impossible task otherwise. And as a self-confessed musical anglophile, I definitely very much…
There’s an unexpected and entirely wonderful perk to starting a music magazine that I truly wasn’t expecting. Bands send me their upcoming releases early. I know, I know. I should have anticipated that, right? But I went into this fully…
A couple of weeks back, I wrote an artist profile on the band Front & Main, and one of my many takeaways from their sound was the outrageously talented Samuel B. Lupowitz, whom I’d rank up there with Tyson Alston…
Last October, I interviewed local music legend Benny Fiacco of Music City. I asked him if there were any music acts locally that stood out to him in a big way. And one of the music acts he replied with…
This week has been pretty exciting around here. I spent last weekend over-indulging in The C&G Spot from Caviar & Grits, and then I had the absolute pleasure of reviewing Driftwood’s new LP December Last Call. And I really thought…
December Last Call, the latest LP from Binghamton’s storied Americana band Driftwood, is a prime example of what makes the Binghamton music scene stand out. And to explain why, I first need to state that as a teenager in the…
