AND FINALLY:  Your Fearless leader.
Forgive me if I’m a bit predictable this year or missed a bit.  You only get to have your first child once and mine’s not from the sleepers.  Can’t believe I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in eleven months.  Thanks for reading y’all and as always, your thoughts here are [...]

Albums. (Keep in mind I have a huge soft spot for my all-time favorites, and ladies singers)
1. The Kills – Midnight Boom 
Let’s get real here. OF COURSE my album of the year was going to be the kills- it’s the only album that came out this year where I don’t have to push skip, unless [...]

Natasha Li Pickowicz (Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Ithaca Times; Popcorn Youth)
 
FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2008
In no particular order:
 
Emeralds – Solar Bridge [Hanson]
http://www.emeraldsohio.com/
 
Lau Nau — Nukkuu [Locust]
http://www.myspace.com/launau
 
Hair Police — Certainty of Swarms [No Fun]
http://www.gnarlytimes.com/
 
Michael Chapman — Time Past & Time Passing [Electric Ragtime]
http://michaelchapman.co.uk/
 
Portishead — Third [Island]
http://www.myspace.com/portisheadalbum3
 
Grouper — Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill [Type]
http://www.myspace.com/grouperrepuorg
 
Paavoharju — Laulu Laakson Kukista [Fonal]
http://www.myspace.com/paavoharju
 
Religious Knives — The Door [Ecstatic Peace]
http://www.myspace.com/religi0usknives
 
The Horse Flies — Until the Ocean [Pest [...]

1. Hold Steady – Stay Positive
2. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever ago
3. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
4. Man Man – Rabbit Habits
5. Why? – Alopecia
6. Wolf Parade – At Mt. Zoomer
7. The Lucksmiths – First Frost
8. Dutchess and the Duke – She’s the Dutchess, He’s the Duke
9. Blitzen Trapper – Furr
10. Okkervil River – [...]

ALBUMS:
Achilles Heel – Pedro the Lion
The Slow Wonder -AC Newman
American Idiot – Green Day
Antics – Interpol
Fuckin’ A – The Thermals
Hot Fuss – The Killers
The Milk-Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom
More Adventurous – Rilo Kiley
The Dirty South – Drive-By Truckers
The Tigers Have Spoken – Neko Case
Good News for People Who Love Bad News – Modest Mouse
Bows + [...]

albums:  
1. feed the animals (girl talk)
2. alive 2007 (daft punk)
3. red album (weezer)
4. ocular spectacular (mgmt)
5. LP3(ratatat)
6. jim (jamie lidell)
7. across the universe (justice)
8. stay positive (the hold steady)
9. rising down (the roots)
10. kala (MIA).
songs:  
1. play your part pt. 1 (girl talk)
2. kids (mgmt)
3. she’s nuts (the wylde bunch)
4. paper planes (MIA)
5. pencil (the gza)
6. superheroes/human after [...]

So, here’s the deal.  I don’t listen to most modern music.  All of my favorite musicians are dead: Edith Piaf, Bob Marley, Otis Redding, Hank Williams Sr., Django Reinhardt, Skip James, Elvis, Fela Kuti, Dock Boggs, John Lennon, etc.  I could, ostensibly, present you with a list of the obscure world and ethnic folk music [...]

This April 15th you can end a day of sweatin’ the fed by checking out perhaps the greatest trio in today’s world of Western Swing, The Hot Club of Cowtown.  They’ll play Castaways in Ithaca on Wednesday, April 15th with special guests to be announced. Buy tickets here.  Advance tickets will be $13.00.
In a strange [...]

HIT THE WAY BACK BUTTON TO 2005:
ALBUMS:
Nada Surf -The Weight is a Gift
My Morning Jacket – Z
Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
Brendan Benson – The Alternative to Love
Spoon – Gimme Fiction
Josh Rouse – Nashville
M. Ward – Transistor Radio
Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Elbow – [...]

The State Box Office reopens at 10AM tomorrow morning…  We at DSP apologize for any inconvenience the closing caused.  We always try to provide a no service charge option for tickets to our shows.  In the meantime, tickets are still available via the website at www.stateofithaca.com or by calling 800.919.6272.  Thanks again for all your support.
 
You can buy [...]

It would be easy to simply say the man who’s Bad to the Bone and drinks a lot of Bourbon, Scotch and Beer  (Alone) is coming to town, but George Thorogood and the Destroyers are so much more than that.  They are an amazing live experience and supremely talented musicians.  Find out for yourself when [...]

THE VAULT BRINGS YOU THE BEST OF PREVIOUS YEARS.
2006
ALBUMS:
Boys and Girls in America – the Hold Steady
Rabbit Fur Coat – Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Everything All the Time – Band of Horses
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood – Neko Case
Subtitulo – Josh Rouse
Post-War – M. Ward
The Greatest – Cat Power
A Blessing and a Curse – [...]

So here’s a quick down and dirty list of my favorites from 2008. There in no particular order, though.

Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
The Low Anthem: Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
Frightened Rabbit: The Midnight Organ Fight
Delta Spirit: Ode To Sunshine
Bjorkestra: Enjoy!
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium
Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line
The Watson Twins: Fire Songs
Beck: [...]

In her only upstate New York appearance, Joan Baez will return to perform at the State Theatre in Ithaca on Friday, March 6th. Reserved seats are $45 and $35 (plus a $1.50 facility restoration fee), and are on sale this Friday at 10AM. A limited number of gold circle tickets will be available.  call the [...]

THE VAULT BRINGS YOU THE BEST OF THE PAST YEARS – COMMENTS APPRECIATED
2007
ALBUMS
The Story – Brandi Carlisle
Under the Blacklight – Rilo Kiley
Writer’s Block – Peter, Bjorn and John
Challengers – New Pornographers
Emotionalism – The Avett Brothers
Cease to Begin – Band of Horses
Armchair Apocrypha – Andrew Bird
Neon Bible – Arcade Fire
Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
Sky Blue [...]

AND FINALLY:  Your Fearless leader.
Forgive me if I’m a bit predictable this year or missed a bit.  You only get to have your first child once and mine’s not from the sleepers.  Can’t believe I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in eleven months.  Thanks for reading y’all and as always, your thoughts here are [...]

This past Saturday, the State Theatre turned 80 years old!  We celebrated wholeheartedly with a magical night that featured a speakeasy party complete with secret entrance and a spectacular cocktail party that preceded an amazing performance by Squirrel Nut Zippers.  The regular reader knows that I am quite partial to this band having worked so [...]

It’s that time of the year. After combing through my top played songs on iTunes, analyzing what I’ll be listening to years form now, or what was just too memorable not to mention. Here it is, Scott’s top 15 songs of 2008…and yes, Britney IS on it..
The Top 15 Songs of 2008:
15. …And We Became [...]

There I was in Chicago’s O’Hare airport perusing the magazine section of one of those tiny terminal shops.  I was looking for the latest issue of Spin to pass the time until my severely delayed flight decided to arrive.  To my dismay, however, I came to find that this was a spcial issue all wrapped [...]