Cornell Cinema presents
Ithaca Premiere
Unmade Beds
“Unmade Beds revels in its art-pop sensibility, bursting with the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard and Wong Kar-wai.” (Village Voice)
Friday, December 4 9:20
Saturday, December 5 [...]

Cornell Cinema presents
Soul Power
“Takes you to a place where the discipline that produces great popular art is indistinguishable from the ecstasy that art creates.” (NY Times)
“Explodes in a burst of energy, musical chops and an eerie political prescience that makes it feel like something beamed from some past-is-future time warp.” (Washington Post)
Friday, October 2, 10:00pm
Sunday, [...]

The Cornell Concert Commission is pleased to present their annual free kickoff show next this Saturday night…
Indie rockers Rogue Wave will headline with local powerhouse Hubcap opening the 8PM show on the Arts Quad on the campus of Cornell University.  DSP will be there with a chance for you to win tix to next Sunday’s [...]

Standing outside the new Shea; my first foray into the hallowed grounds of New York baseball has absolutely nothing to do with a ball game.  Instead of seeing Mets hats, jerseys and drunken fans, I find myself surrounded by people of all ages donning ‘Let it Be” and “Abbey Road” t-shirts.  Yes, tonight, like phoenixes  [...]

 
Music Docs at Cornell Cinema – Summer 09
Great music brings us together, sometimes physically, for outdoor concerts and impromptu jam sessions, and sometimes emotionally, when a song’s power moves us in unexpected ways. This June we explore those connections in three documentaries about the extraordinary power of music to break barriers, bridge boundaries and beautify [...]

DSP and Cornell Cinema present an amazing evening of music, film and pure art in Andy Warhol’s legendary screen tests aptly dubbed 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests  on Friday, September 25th at 7:30 PM in Cornell Cinema’s Willard Straight Theatre on the Cornell University campus.  This project, commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum [...]

Wilco’s first long-form concert film was shot in five quintessentially American venues–Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Tipitina’s in New Orleans, The Mobile Civic Center, The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, and the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.–during the band’s February ‘08 tour. Made by Brendan Canty (Fugazi) and Christoph Green, makes of the Burn to Shine DVD [...]

 
Last week’s SOUND&SEASON was a success — thanks to everyone who came! — and I’m following it up with one of my biggest shows yet: headliners Detroit, MI-based power rock trio Awesome Color, with Brooklyn duo Chaw Mank, Boston swamp no-punk quartet Ladderlegs, and area improv duo American Sphinx.

Awesome Color is the psych-addled garage-blues rock trio of Derek Stanton (guitar, [...]

As the title of this album clearly indicates, you will fall in love with the dirty punk/power pop guitar of Oregon’s posthumously praised quartet.  The Exploding Hearts hailed from Portland, Oregon and were on a mission to make you want to completely lose your hearing by cranking their infections rock gems to the max.  
The [...]

Hey guys, let’s go listen to some electronica.  Wait…before you run to get your pacifiers and glow sticks, it’s not that kind of electronica.  It’s Morgan Packard.  His debut full length solo album “Airships Fill the Sky,” has opened to rave reviews by many critics:  ”Packard has created a truly captivating album here which we’re totally [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Really?  A white guy?  Funky and Fresh?  I don’t believe it.  
Well doubters, get ready to feel the funk from your ears to your soul.  Edan – The Humble Magnificent is a hip-hop artists and turbtablist with a extensive discography that you’ve probably never heard of, but you should really really want to.  He’s like [...]

What a year!
I am thrilled to announce the FINAL Popcorn Youth concert of 2008. It has been an exciting year for live music in Ithaca, and I couldn’t be happier to present — one of the most innovative, focused, and formidable improv duos around — in our last concert of the year. Local electronics improviser Aaron Phillip Tate will open [...]

We all know and love our iTunes playslists, and while we’re aware that there’s a infinite amount of music out there (read: on the internet), both good and bad, we find it hard to break from the old and embrace the new.  Well you lazy bastards, now you don’t have to troll myspace and hypem [...]