Category Artist Profiles

Learn about artists and acts, unsigned and indie, that we’ve covered.

Artist Profile: Pocket Bandits

Pocket Bandits are a thrilling funk fusion trio hailing from Ithaca with a deeply textured, groove-fueled sound you don't want to miss.

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…

Artist Profile: Grown Ups

Grown Ups tracking at Abandoned Studios

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…

Artist Profile: Front & Main

Front & Main performing at the Ithaca Festival

I’ve always been a sucker for modern music acts that capitalize on retro sounds. Monophonics, Curtis Harding, Sloan, White Denim, Midlake, Vulfpeck, the Datsuns … I could list these performers I adore all day. But I’d much rather talk about…

Artist Profile: Revenants

Revenants from left to right: Chuck Koslowski, Rev DiCerto, and Mike Thompson

We put a lot of energy into promoting the Parlor City Sound—music that defies the boundaries of genres and breaks as many molds as possible. But there’s also a strong history of bands in our area that stick to and…

Artist Profile: Gunpoets

Gunpoets MCs Sun and Jayhigh have two different but non-opposing rap styles that work together beautifully

From the get-go, we wanted Parlor City Sound to not just cover Greater Binghamton, but pretty much everywhere with a 607 area code. And few bands are as synonymous with the Central New York and Southern Tier music scenes as…

Artist Profile: Floodlands

Floodlands are a sludge metal band with strong atmospheric rock overtones hailing from Binghamton, New York

For those of our readers who only recently moved to Greater Binghamton, or those who haven’t been here (we have 422 monthly readers in Poland and we’re not sure why), you may not recognize why the band Floodlands has such…

Artist Profile: Driftwood

Driftwood is one of the most successful bands to ever hail from the Binghamton music scene. Their sixth album December Last Call is out March 3rd 2024

When my wife Sara and I first sat down and started figuring out what we wanted this website to be and how it should work, we knew we wanted to cover the Binghamton music scene in a way Gord Downie…

Artist Profile: Ms. Honey and the Hive

Ms. Honey and the Hive deliver excellent renditions of classic blues, R&B, soul, and Motown hits

The Binghamton music scene is one that thrives on originality. So to find success in the Triple Cities as a cover band, there’s really two ways to go about it. Either you’re doing something unexpected like the Bro-Bro’s, or you’re…

Artist Profile: The Bro-Bro’s

The Bro-Bro's turn the pop punk concept on its head with high-energy punk rock covers of famous pop songs from iconic female artists

When you hear the phrase pop punk, you probably think of mainstream acts like Green Day and Blink-182. But for fans of the Binghamton music scene, there’s one act that has completely turned the phrase “pop punk” on its head.…

Artist Profile: Kipani

Kipani are an alternative indie pop band from Binghamton New York

The Binghamton music scene has a lot of forward momentum right now. It’s honestly been a bit difficult to keep up with at times. Which makes it all the more impressive that the indie pop trio Kipani are blasting toward…