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  • Brian Wilson to Perform ‘Pet Sounds’ at Tanglewood

    Brian Wilson will perform Pet Sounds in its entirety at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts on June 19.

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    Founding member of The Beach Boys Brian Wilson will perform the band’s iconic 1966 album Pet Sounds. While dates for the tour, called The 50th Anniversary Celebration and Final Performance in its Entirety, are slowly dropping, a handful have been announced. His band for this tour will include Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine along with longtime touring member of the Beach Boys Blondie Chaplin. They will be backed by the Boston Pops at Tanglewood. It is expected that other Beach Boys hits will be performed in addition to the Pet Sounds album.

    Pet Sounds was recorded after Wilson was no longer touring with The Beach Boys, but was holed up in his home and recording studio creating the album. The album, which includes Beach Boys’ hits “Wouldn’t it be Nice” and “God Only Knows,” was ranked the number two greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone, second only to The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Paul McCartney is said to have been heavily influenced by Pet Sounds, which led to the psychedelic sound of Sgt. Pepper’s. The making of Pet Sounds was documented in the recent film “Love & Mercy.”

    As part of the Pet Sounds tour, Brian Wilson will also play to a sold-out crowd at Burlington, Vermont’s Flynn Center for the Performing Arts on June 14. He will perform at Tanglewood in the Koussevitzky Music Shed on Sunday, June 19 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for the Tanglewood show go on sale Jan. 24 at 10 a.m.

  • Oneonta’s Space Carnival Brings CarnEvil 3 to the Theatre

    Mark Jan. 30, 2016, on your concert calendar. That’s the date Oneonta’s Space Carnival has set for CarnEvil 3.

    The bi-annual event was created as a way for Space Carnival to give back to its fans. Featuring carnival and space-themed artwork, carnival games and face-painting booths, the band encourages all in attendance to come in costume as a carnie or associated freak.

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    Tickets for this New York State Music-sponsored show went on sale Dec. 11 and can also be purchased at the Oneonta Theatre box office. Advance sale tickets are $10 and $12 at the door.

    Previous CarnEvil events have been held at the band’s second home in Oneonta, the Black Oak Tavern. Due to popular demand, the third edition has been moved to the more spacious Oneonta Theatre. See footage of CarnEvil 2 below:

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    CarnEvil 3 begins with another Oneonta band, Boketto, followed by Brooklyn-based Teddy Midnight.

    This event’s proceeds will go directly toward funding Space Carnival’s debut album. The band has put together an IndieGoGo campaign to help fund the recording.

    Formed in spring 2013, Space Carnival plays a blend of high-energy disco, funk and progressive rock. The band’s roster includes Jeremy Kraus on guitar, Cameron Fitch on keys and vocals, Chris Meier on bass, and Nick Tassinari on drums.

    Check out Space Carnival’s release from earlier this year, recorded at the Oneonta Theatre:

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  • Breaking Benjamin Announce Acoustic Tour For Early 2016

    Breaking Benjamin will continue their relentless touring schedule since Ben Burnley re-formed the band with new members in 2014. Breaking Benjamin has already announced a spring headlining tour with Starset, and now have announced an unplugged acoustic tour to fill the void between the New Year and the start of their electric spring tour.

    breaking benjamin acousticWhen Breaking Benjamin returned in 2014, the band set out on a small, intimate acoustic tour to get the feel of playing their songs live again. Read NYS Music’s coverage of the band’s amazing Clifton Park performance.

    New York City fans can catch the unplugged version of Breaking Benjamin on Feb. 4 at Irving Plaza. The tour will cover 18 different cities across the United States before the band plugs back in.

    Breaking Benjamin’s fifth studio album, Dark Before Dawn, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard rock chart. This marked the band’s first album to ever debut in that spot.

    Starset, who has been recently touring with Breaking Benjamin in 2015, will continue to do so in 2016, opening shows for the acoustic and spring tours.

    Unplugged Touring Cycle:

    01-17-2016 – House of Blues – Houston, TX *
    01-18-2016 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX *
    01-20-2016 – Aztec Theater – San Antonio, TX *
    01-22-2016 – House of Blues – New Orleans, LA *
    01-23-2016 – Druid City Music Hall – Tuscaloosa, AL *
    01-24-2016 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN *
    01-25-2016 – The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC *
    01-27-2016 – The Ritz – Raleigh, NC *
    01-29-2016 – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA *
    01-30-2016 – The Dome at Oakdale – Wallingford, CT *
    01-31-2016 – Wellmont Theater – Montclair, NJ *
    02-01-2016 – State Theatre – Portland, ME *
    02-04-2016 – Irving Plaza – New York, NY *
    02-05-2016 – House of Blues – Cleveland, OH *
    02-06-2016 – Eagles Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI
    02-08-2016 – St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI *
    02-09-2016 – Orbit Room – Grand Rapids, MI *
    02-10-2016 – Mercury Ballroom – Louisville, KY *
    * with Starset

  • Darlingside Releases Additional Northeast Dates

    Rising folk quartet Darlingside will head to the Northeast this winter, with several dates in New York state.

    The indie four-piece is scheduled to play at Daryl’s House in Pawling Jan. 13, Club Helsinki in Hudson Jan. 14, Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs Jan. 15 and two nights at Rockwood Music Hall’s Stage 2 in New York City on Jan. 16 and 17 before dates in the Midwestern states and West Coast.

    The Massachusetts-based band — Don Mitchell (guitar, banjo), Auyon Mukharji (violin, mandolin), Harris Paseltiner (cello, guitar) and David Senft (bass) — met as students at Williams College and have been playing together for six years. Their textured, collective sound is being hailed as unique and genre-fresh by music critics and the like, with much praise being given to the group’s method of performing around a single microphone.

    Paseltiner said in a release announcing the dates:

    Each song and set of lyrics are created by all of us together, a sort of ‘group stream-of-consciousness.’ So we moved away from a single lead vocalist and started gravitating towards singing in unison, passing the melody around, or harmonizing in four parts through an entire song.”

    These additional tour dates are in support of the group’s latest album Birds Say; the 13-track release dropped in September and it is the second album on Nashville company Thirty Tigers, which also manages clients like Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. Darlingside’s extended string of dates come off the heels of a successful fall run, including sharing the bill with Grammy-nominated Patty Griffin. Tickets for all 2016 dates are on sale now through the band’s website. But if you can’t wait until the New Year, Darlingside is booked at Milkboy in Philadelphia this Wednesday.

  • Steve Perry Releasing First Album in 22 Years

    Rumors have been circulating for years about former Journey frontman Steve Perry’s return to music, especially after several surprise guest appearances with veteran alt-rockers Eels last year. Steve Perry has finally broken his silence, with a call Friday to L.A. classic rock station KSWD. In the interview, Perry reveals that he has been in the studio since March and hopes to have a new album completed for early 2016.

    steve perryThe first public performance in 19 years from one of classic rock’s signature voices was captured in St. Paul, Minnesota and posted to YouTube by an Eels fan. To date, the video has received over 2 million views. Check it out here:

    While talk of a Perry reunion with his former bandmates in Journey is premature, in light of last year’s appearances with Eels, current Journey vocalist Arnel Pineda raised eyebrows last year tweeting the following:

    With Perry’s confirmation of new material, fans waiting since his last solo outing, 1994’s For the Love of Strange Medicine, now have something to look forward to for 2016. These fans may have the blossoming friendship between Perry and Eels frontman E (AKA: Mark Oliver Everett) to thank for the reclusive vocalist’s return.

    Perry and E are not only occasional stage mates, they have developed a true friendship over the years after being introduced by a mutual friend. E tells the story in a Stereogum interview from May 2014.

    Journey, meanwhile, recently announced a summer shed tour with The Doobie Brothers. Syracuse’s Lakeside Amphitheater, as well as Saratoga and Darien Lake, are New York dates for this package tour.

  • Drummer Corky Gainsford to Depart Otherwise Due to Personality Conflicts and Creative Differences

    Otherwise drummer Corky Gainsford stated that he will part ways with the band in a video he posted on his Facebook page.

    Gainsford cited creative differences and personality conflicts as some of the reasons for stepping down from the band after five years. Gainsford’s last show with Otherwise will be Dec. 26 in the band’s hometown of Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel.

    Corky GainsfordGuitarist Andrew Pugh will also depart and wrap up with the band on Dec. 26.

    Some excerpts from Gainsford’s video has been transcribed below:

    Whats up everyone? This is Corky Gainsford here. There’s no real easy way to say this so I’m just gonna come out and say it. After five years in Otherwise, it is time for me to move on to the next opportunity in my music career. I don’t know what that next adventure might be; I just know that this is no longer the right place for me anymore. Simply put, artistic differences and personality conflicts in the band have prevented us from being productive creatively, and for the betterment of everybody involved, it’s simply time for us to go our separate ways.

    My time in Otherwise has been such a great, crazy whirlwind of an experience. I’ve had so many roles with the band — everything from drummer to songwriter, producer, engineer, tour manager, business manager, merch manager, fix the broken RV or find us a van to get to the next gig on time manager and I’m sure a few other things I’ve forgotten, but really it’s been a great and truly rewarding experience to live out a dream that I worked my entire life towards. So thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way.

    I’m gonna continue making music. I will be always making music. It is something that is in my blood, in my bones, in my DNA, and I will never stop making music.

    Gainsford also stated in the video that he plans to still show his other artistic side as he will continue to create art on drumheads and cymbals and any other canvas that presents itself. Gainsford went on to say the popularity of his artwork is a blessing and that it’s an outlet that he loves to show that creative side of him.

    Gainsford closed out the video by thanking everyone who supported him throughout his career. Gainsford also wished Otherwise nothing but the best moving forward while they work on their third album.

    Gainford’s and Pugh’s departure makes the Patrick brothers (Adrian and Ryan) the only two remaining original members left in the band. About a year ago, bassist Vassilios Metropoulos left the band and was replaced by Tony “The Beast” Carboney.

    BAND ANNOUNCEMENT:”After 5 years with OTHERWISE, it’s time for me to pursue other opportunities in my music career.”Please see the video for all the details.Thank you, Corky G*

    Posted by Corky Gainsford on Friday, December 11, 2015

  • Update: Taste of Country daily lineups released

    Updated 3/22/2016: Fans can rush to their computers and grab their single-day tickets for the fourth annual Taste Of Country music festival, now that the festival has released their daily lineups. Friday night’s lineup will be headlined by Kid Rock, with Big & Rich, the Cadillac Three, Jana Kramer and Annie Bosko.

    On Saturday, fans can see Kenny Chesney in the closing spot along with Frankie Ballard, Eric Pasley, the Swon Brothers, Old Dominion and William Michael Morgan.

    Jake Owen will close out the fourth annual country festival. Joining him on Sunday will be Gary Allan, Chris Janson, Neal McCoy and Outshyne.

    Fans attending the festival can head over to the Bud Light Stage and see some of country music’s future artists. Musicians will perform there throughout the weekend: Logan Brill, Amanda Watkins, Dylan Jakobsen, Adley Stump, Keith Walker, Elizabeth Lyons, Jake Worthington and McKenna Faith.

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    For those fans who have been holding out and waiting to buy their tickets for the Taste Of Country Music Festival to announce more artist than the featured headliners, the wait is over. Organizers have announced the artists who will join Kenny Chesney and Jake Owen on a country-packed weekend at Hunter Mountain Ski Resort on June 10-12, 2016.

    Just in time for the holidays, fans can now ask their loved ones for some new cowboy boots or a 10-gallon hat so you can line-dance in style with Gary Allen, Big & Rich, Neal McCoy, Frankie Ballard, Eric Paslay, Chris Janson, Old Dominion, The Swon Brothers, Jana Kramer, The Caddillac Three, Outshyne, William Michael Morgan and Annie Bosko.

    Gary Allen has been on the country music scene since 1996. His debut album, Used Heart for Sale, is gold certified. Allen’s third studio album, Smoke Rings in the Dark, was his first in three consecutive albums to reach platinum certification.

    Allen has released more than 25 singles that have reached Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Eleven of those tracks reached the top 10, with four of those singles reaching No. 1 including “Man to Man” and “Tough Little Man” (2003), “Nothing On but the Radio” (2004), and “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)” (2013).

    Big & Rich consists of the country music duo Big Kenny and former founder and member of the band Lonestar, John Rich.

    Their smash hit “Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy” is certified platinum and has been featured in various TV spots including an episode of Boston Legal, while ESPN used the song in commercials for the 2004 World Series of Poker.

    Big & Rich have released five studio albums, with their latest, “Gravity,” being released in 2014. The album was released under the duo’s personal record label. Big & Rich Records.

  • Two-Decade-Old ‘Grateful Doe’ Case Finally Solved

    The 20-year-old mystery of the identity of a young man known only as “Grateful Doe” has finally been solved. The Virginia Medical Examiner’s office and a representative for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS) confirmed that DNA testing identified the young man who was killed in a car accident in Virginia in 1995 as Jason Patrick Callahan. The two-decade-old case was brought to life again after interest in the story was reignited on social media.

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    (Left) Photo Reconstruction of “Grateful Doe’ from The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and (right) photo of Jason Callahan

    In June 1995, Callahan went missing after leaving his home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to follow the Grateful Dead. His mother attempted to report him missing, but due to her son’s nomadic intentions, she had trouble filing a missing person’s report with the appropriate jurisdiction.

    Callahan was killed along with the vehicle’s driver, Michael Hager, after the car crashed into a pair of trees on U.S. Route 58 West on June 26, 1996. No identification for Callahan was found in the wreckage. Hager’s family were not able to identify the passenger of the vehicle. Two ticket stubs for the Grateful Dead’s two Washington, D.C., shows on June 24 and 25, 1995, were found with his body, leading police to identify Callahan simply as “Grateful Doe.”

    The Virginia Department of Health says Callahan died due to acute head trauma suffered in the accident. Images of Callahan could not be released due to the graphic nature of his injuries. This past January, a former roommate of a young man named “Jason” stumbled upon a image of Grateful Doe that had been digitally reconstructed by The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

    Lesha Johanneck, one of the Grateful Doe page administrators, confirmed to NYS Music that the former roommate contacted their page to share the photos of his friend Jason. The Grateful Doe page is overseen by volunteers who take a personal interest in missing person cases.

    The former roommate couldn’t provide Jason’s last name, but did have several photos and details that tied Jason to Myrtle Beach. Johanneck shared the information with the authorities and then began posting the roommate’s photo of Jason in various groups, including ones that were Grateful Dead related.

    Grateful DoeNews outlets in Myrtle Beach began to report the story. After a member of Jason’s family saw the report on a local news station, Jason’s mother posted directly onto the Grateful Doe Facebook page, noting she believed the “Jason” in the photo was her missing son.

     Callahan’s mother filed an official missing person report on Jan. 13. After the official report, various agencies began working together to confirm that Grateful Doe was Jason Callahan. 

    Johanneck told NYS Music that the Grateful Dead community played a large part in helping the leads go viral. “I think they felt close to Grateful Doe since growing up hearing about the case,” she noted. “So many of them remembered and kept the story close to their heart.” 

    She also noted that it’s important to report missing loved ones or friends as soon as possible, especially after concerts or festivals. “So many of these unidentified persons don’t have a report and that’s why they go unidentified.”

    UPDATE: THE NEWS WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!! The dna results are back that our Greatful doe is infact Jason Callahan…

    Posted by Grateful Doe on Wednesday, December 9, 2015

  • Blinded By The Price: New York Questions Springsteen Ticket Reselling

    Every music fan has endured the online ticketing rush; when the clock strikes on-sale time, it’s a frustrating game of repeatedly hitting refresh, chancing each click until that next one successfully  unfreezes the screen to show items in your cart. But in truth, most concertgoers stick it out to avoid being forced to pay for high-priced resale tickets, or missing out on the show entirely.

    While the secondary market has improved with the creation of fan-based campaigns and startups on a mission to embrace the face value, professional ticket brokering is still finding a way to flood the resale market. And New Jersey’s blue-jean boss Bruce Springsteen is the latest artist to fall victim (again) in the never-ending battle against ticket scalping.

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    Tickets for Springsteen‘s 2016 tour will be released at 10 a.m. today through Ticketmaster and Live Nation, but the New York Times reported Tuesday that hundreds of seats were already listed by resellers online with single-ticket prices beginning at $5,000.

    Thankfully, these eyebrow-raising listings led New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to send the involved sites letters that questioned the act of false advertising under state general business law, since sellers could not yet have the tickets in possession.

    The NYT also said that the sites in question — StubHub, TicketNetwork, Vivid Seats — either remained confident in their refund policy for invalid tickets or removed listings for concerts in New York until the public on-sale date. Schneiderman’s office called the removal of listings a victory for consumers and pledged to continue to work on the issue.

    Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to tour the country, making stops for two nights in New York City (Jan. 24 and 27), Albany (Feb. 8), Buffalo (Feb. 25) and Rochester (Feb. 27). Springsteen is touring in support of the box-set release of “The Ties That Bind: The River Collection,” and this run is a nod to the Boss’ career-making 1980 “The River” tour.

  • 2016 Carolina Rebellion Announced, Expands To Three Days

    With more and more American rock festivals being announced left and right, this week also saw the announcement of Carolina Rebellion 2016.

    For the first time ever, Carolina Rebellion expands to three days starting on May 6, 7 and 8 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.

    All the bands are listed below.
    [one_fourth]DISTURBED
    SCORPIONS
    ROB ZOMBIE
    ZZ TOP
    FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
    SHINEDOWN
    DEFTONES
    LYNYRD SKYNYRD
    A DAY TO REMEMBER
    3 DOORS DOWN
    ALICE COOPER
    BRING ME THE HORIZON
    CYPRESS HILL
    PENNYWISE
    LAMB OF GOD
    MEGADETH
    GHOST
    SIXX: A.M.
    ANTHRAX
    COLLECTIVE SOUL[/one_fourth]
    [one_fourth]CLUTCH
    THE SWORD
    THE STRUTS
    ASKING ALEXANDRIA
    YELAWOLF
    BABYMETAL
    POP EVIL
    BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
    P.O.D.
    SEVENDUST
    HELLYEAH
    BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
    PARKWAY DRIVE
    BLACK STONE CHERRY
    SAINT ASONIA
    TRIVIUM
    ESCAPE THE FATE
    AUGUST BURNS RED
    TURBOWOLF[/one_fourth]
    [one_fourth]ENTER SHIKARI
    SICK PUPPIES
    FILTER
    CANDLEBOX
    TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN
    NEW YEARS DAY
    ARANDA
    THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH
    RED SUN RISING
    TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION
    HANDS LIKE HOUSES
    CODE ORANGE
    FAILURE ANTHEM
    AVATAR
    LACEY STURM
    THE GLORIOUS SONS
    FROM ASHES TO NEW
    WILSON
    I PREVAIL[/one_fourth]
    [one_fourth_last]MONSTER TRUCK
    AUDIOTOPSY
    WILD THRONE[/one_fourth_last]
    The individual day lineups can be seen in the poster below.
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    Tickets go on sale this Friday, and can be purchased here.