Badlands Syracuse
A vacant storefront located on 1007 East Fayette Street, just on the outskirts of downtown Syracuse, doesn’t look like much during the daylight. It is surrounded by abandoned parking lots–excluding a cluster of cars owned by the residents who live in the apartments perched above the empty lower level.
At night, however, the vacancy disappears [...]
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo, Album Review
Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile takes us down memory lane on his aptly titled 4th LP Smoke Ring for My Halo. The record is folk-rock in most places but in others reminiscent of muscular seventies-era Clapton or Creedence Clearwater Revival, with the offhand vocal swagger (others call it carelessness) [...]
Thurston Moore’s Demolished Thoughts: CD/Album Review
Going through old profiles of high school friends on Facebook and listening to “Benediction,” the title track of Demolished Thoughts, I almost began to tear up. Seeing all those faces of friends I used to hang out with or people I walked past in the hallway, it’s hard to imagine that [...]
Lake George Elvis Festival 2011
The Lake George Elvis Festival returns to the Lake George Forum this summer from June 2-5, 2011, complete with Elvis tribute artist competitions, and some new events, like the interpretation and evolution of The King. Expect to see Elvis fans from around the country flocking to the Lake George area to [...]
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