Hard to believe its been overthree years since Taj Mahal brought his trio to Ithaca’s State Theatre for an inspired night of music that spanned his incredible career. Hard to pass up the chance to have him back so soon and we won’t. By popular demand, Taj returns wis his band on Friday, [...]

Wow. It’s taken a few days to recover from that amazing night last Wednesday. Lyle and the Large Band were amazing. I’ll link here to a great review rather than try and explain how phenomenal the show was. See: http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20091112/ENT/311120005/1125/ent/Review–Lyle-Lovett-and-his-Large-Band – OR READ BELOW…
Also, there’s Angelina’s photo gallery below. Speaking [...]

Ithaca is the new place to debut songs. Barely a week after new Sufjan vids hit the net from the DSP show at Castaways, They Might Be Giants come to town on the first day of their tour and do the same thing. Playing in a new configuration (John Flansburgh announced that for the first [...]

NOT THAT WE AGREE WITH THIS… BUT SINCE ITS BEEN POSTED FREAKIN’ EVERYWHERE TODAY… HERE’S A VIDEO SHOT BY SOME TRICKY FELLOW IN THE FRONT ROW WEDNESDAY NIGHT – SORRY SUFJAN.  PLEASE STILL LIKE US AND COME BACK SOON TO THE STATE LIKE YOU PROMISED…

Near the end of a sticky Wednesday, the late summer cloudburst [...]

One of the best bands to come out of the upstate area in recent years, Syracuse’s Ra Ra Riot treated a sold out crowd at Castaways to a rollicking fun night of effervescent indie rock with strings. Rounding out the show were Princeton and Maps and Atlases, who made the concert one of those awesome [...]

Dan Smalls Presents, Inc. in association with Great Northeast Productions, Inc. are proud to present Emmylou Harris and her Red Dirt Boys with very special guest Buddy Miller! on Wednesday October 21st at 7:30 at the Auditorium Theater in Rochester. After Harris spent the first half of the year touring in the hugely successful “Three [...]

It was truly an amazing night last Friday when Vieux Farka Toure and his band returned to Ithaca. In the finest Ithaca spirit, we made lemonade from lemons as instead of directly competing with local faves The Horse Flies, we staggered the start times and convinced both bands to sit in with each other [...]

It was truly an amazing night last Friday when Vieux Farka Toure and his band returned to Ithaca. In the finest Ithaca spirit, we made lemonade from lemons as instead of directly competing with local faves The Horse Flies, we staggered the start times and convinced both bands to sit in with each other [...]

This is your last chance to attend the party of the year. There are extremely limited tickets remaining for The Hold Steady live at Castaways in Ithaca this Sunday. We recommend you go here: TICKETS and purchase immediately. Depending on today’s sales, there may or may not be tickets available at the [...]

A Musical Odyssey – 50 years strong arrives in Ithaca!  Hot Tuna will play the State Theatre after far too long an absence this December 2nd.  The band, consisting of former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady have recently celebrated half a century of playing together.  Don’t miss this special ACOUSTIC engagement in [...]

Sleep deprived, yet still abuzz from last night’s events, I’m sure this will come across as an atypical gush-fest.  What can I say, last night was a long time in the making for me and I’m happy to have finally presented an artist I have enjoyed and respected for so many years.  The fact that [...]

thanks to angelina for the review and the photos…
The Haunt was packed to the gills for Gomez and Josh Ritter’s double bill last week, but it wasn’t the stuffy uncomfortable kind of crowdedness. it was the kind where the crowd was as much a part of the show as the bands performing, and only made [...]

Neko Case
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by Stephen M. Deusner
March 23, 2009
Born in Virginia, Neko Case is most commonly identified with the Pacific Northwest, thanks not only to her tenures in Cub, Maow, and the New Pornographers, but also to her locally set solo songs like “Thrice All American” (about gentrification in Tacoma) and “South Tacoma Way”. But she [...]

George Thorogood simply put tore up the State Theatre last week. After all these years, his stage show was as fresh as his could be and he and the Destroyers haven’t lost a beat. The nearly sold out crowd braved the Tuesday night blues for an evening of the World’s Greatest Bar band [...]

There aren’t words for how transcendent Joan Baez and her amazing band were this past Friday Night at the State Theatre. I will simply say that Luke Fenchel in the Ithaca Journal covered it best. Go read the review (PASTED BELOW) and now online.  Watch for it with photos in the Journal on Monday.  For [...]

In what could only be described as an awe-inspiring performance, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird not only entertained last night at the State Theatre in Ithaca, but he blew minds with his dance between instruments, loops and sequencers and built new songs from the pieces from which they began.  Simply incredible to watch and deep beyond wildest [...]

The best shows keep getting better! Billy Bragg’s “people” just called me to inform that they have added The Watson Twins to the entire NE Tour this fall. Although it pains me to not use my local favorites Hubcap here (I’ll make it up to them!), there couldn’t be a better choice for [...]

Indie darling Mirah will appear at Castaways in her first area appearance on Sunday, October 19th at a special early 8pm start time.  Tickets for the show are on sale now here and will also be available at the door on the night of show.  Advance tickets are $12.00.  Opening the show will be Vancouver’s herlded No Kids, which feature three member of the [...]