NYS Music 20​16

Category: News Desk

  • Some Kind of Jam 11 Announces Lineup

    Some Kind of Jam 11, which will be taking place April 22-24 in Schuykill Haven, Pennsylvania, has announced its initial lineup.

    The three-day event takes place just 20 miles northwest of Reading and will feature four stages and 31 musical acts. Since 2005, Jibberjazz festivals has been hosting the event. Headliners the New Mastersounds will offer their unique blend of funk/soul/jazz fusion, while the recently reunited RAQ brings an added element of excitement to the bill. Buffalo groove rock masters Aqueous were also announced.

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    The weekend will include a variety of music including jam, funk, bluegrass, folk, blues, rock, reggae and jazz. In addition to live music, festival-goers will have many activities to choose from including various workshops, light shows, fire performances and yoga. The family friendly event will also include a kids’ area and activities.

    The weekend event is located on a 60-acre fairground that includes indoor and outdoor stages, camping, permanent restrooms and showers as well as nature trails, trout fishing and electricity access for RVs. Additional information about the festival, venue and tickets is available through Jibberjazz.

    Complete Some Kind of Jam 11 Line-Up
    THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS
    RAQ
    JASON RICCI & THE BAD KIND
    MIKE DILLON BAND
    BANDITOS
    AQUEOUS
    THE BIG DIRTY
    SHOKAZOBA
    GANG OF THIEVES
    BLACK MASALA
    CAPTAIN GREEN
    ON THE SPOT TRIO
    YOSEMIGHT
    DESMOND JONES
    THE PLATE SCRAPERS
    THE JAKOB’S FERRY STRAGGLERS
    STRANGE MECHANICS
    THE HAWK OWLS
    LOVANOVA
    HEXBELT
    THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS
    APPALACHIAN GYPSY TRIBE
    BONZO TERKS
    UNCLE JAKE & THE 18 WHEEL GANG
    KATE VARGAS & THE RECKLESS DAUGHTERS
    COSMIC COWBOY SOWING CIRCLE
    HEZEKIAH JONES
    MATEO MONK
    GILLIAN GROGAN
    OLDS SLEEPER
    KNITEBITCH

  • Bisco Inferno Returns to Colorado

    Fresh off of their celebrated New Year’s run in New York City, the Disco Biscuits are slated to once again descend upon Colorado for four nights of shows with Bisco Inferno, and bring a few special guests in tow.

    This summer, the Philadelphia-based four-man jamband — Allen Aucoin (drums), Marc Brownstein (bass, vocals), Jon Gutwillig (guitar, vocals) and Aron Magner (keyboards, vocals) — will play three shows at the Ogden Theatre in Denver on June 1 through 3, followed by a performance at the Morrison, Colorado, venue with Ghostland Observatory and Twiddle on Saturday, June 4.

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    The Disco Biscuits’ Colorado run last April featured Break Science and Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead (who the band has teamed up with in the past for Gathering of the Vibes) to sold-out crowds who were treated to many collaborations of Dead cover songs.

    While other acts might be added to the lineup, Bisco Inferno 2016 guests Ghostland Observatory from Austin and Vermont-based Twiddle currently share the Red Rocks bill with the Disco Biscuits; past guests have included Big Boi of OutKast and Israeli trance band Infected Mushroom. A duo that has been a rare sighting since their 2013 parting, Ghostland Observatory has released four albums to date, with the latest being Codename: Rondo (2010), and they last performed together at Euphoria Festival in April. And the multi-genre jam quartet Twiddle is currently on tour in support of PLUMP and most recently rang in the New Year with three sold-out nights in Burlington.

    Pre-sale tickets for this year’s Colorado shows are set to be available at noon on Jan. 6 through the band’s website and on sale to the general public this Friday, Jan. 8; ticket packages must be purchased for the Ogden Theatre shows. Prior to Bisco Inferno, the Disco Biscuits’ current list of dates features stops in Philadelphia and appearances at the Aura Music and Arts Festival in Live Oak, Florida, and Atlanta’s SweetWater 420 Festival.

  • NYS Music Presents Wednesdays at Funk n Waffles Downtown

    Winter is upon us in New York and if you’re in Syracuse, you’ll need to find some place to warm up. May we suggest some Funk n Waffles? NYS Music presents bands from around New York State, every Wednesday throughout January.

    January 6 – Faces of the Damned, Wagner 3000, Pale Green Stars

    Faces of Damned grew out of years of late night shows with founders Anthony DiRosa and Andres Echenique. Anthony was the lead singer/guitarist for the punk and horror punk bands Plan 607 and Dead Holiday. Andres was bass player for Crankdaddy, a pop punk band. These bands were a key part of the punk scene in Syracuse in the early 2000s.

    Wagner 3000 is an alternative to the alternative bands. From Syracuse, Wagner 3000 performs music that simultaneously showcases a previously unseen musical spectacle among the widest range of captivating songs found in a show today. Mingling with vast aspects of influence From Bowie, UFO, AC/DC, NIN, Nirvana, King Crimson, and the ever so enchanting carnival music (and many other sources). Wagner has the capability to tingle all your moods and senses.

    Pale Green Stars has just been mistaken for one of those cow-punk power trios you might find rocking a stage behind chicken wire at some wayward Texas roadhouse. Pale Green Stars is letting its New York grown cow-punk steer deep into the heart of Texarkana as they redefine gut-bucket twang with a punkadelic cutting edge that’s as sharp as a barbershop straight razor. (Jeff Herrell – South Bend Tribune)

    January 13 – The Bog Brothers

    The Bog Brothers were formed by a group of like-minded musicians in the Central New York area who share a love of playing Americana music and having a good time doing it. Mike Gridley (aka “Griz”) leads the group, playing mandolin, banjo and providing lead vocals. He is joined by Marc Odin on guitar and his longtime musical accomplice Steve Buck on bass and vocals. Mike Lounsbery adds harmonica, percussion and vocals, West Coast resident Taylor Bucci provides drums and vocals (when schedule permits), and Scott Wilson rounds out the group on dobro.

    January 20 – Caleb Liber & Judge Gazza

    Caleb Liber (Telegraph Hill Acoustic) will bring his acoustic guitar along with a wide range of musical styles including indie rock, post rock, post hardcore, metal, punk, post punk, grunge, electronica, acoustic and folk.
    Judge Gazza is a retro swampy blues musician originating from Syracuse New York. He brings his growling vocals, raw barebones Peavey powered slide guitar and pounding Converse Chuck Taylor hill stomp rhythmic beats to the back corners and sidewalks outside punk rock shows and the campfires of metal band summer festivals all over Central and Western New York. Judge Gazza’s first EP, It’s All Fun & Games, was released June 28th 2015 on cassette tape via LRS Records of Syracuse NY.

    January 27 – RUHA with special guest Corey Paige

    RUHA is the brain child of long time touring musician Charley Orlando. This time around RUHA is Brian Lauri on Keys and Vocals filling in the space between Charley’s acoustic guitar and vocals. The duo is massive sounding and unique for 2 people.

    Corey Paige is a SAMMY Award winning singer-songwriter from Syracuse, NY. His influences include Elliott Smith, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, and Soul Coughing. After five studio albums and more than a decade as frontman for rock band Candid, he’s currently working on new material for his first solo album.

    Doors open at 7pm each night with music starting at 8pm. Enjoy a variety of bands that call New York State home every Wednesday night at Funk n Waffles, and some great food too!

  • Bernie Worrell Diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer

    Bernie Worrell, keyboardist and founding member of Parliament Funkadelic, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, his wife and manager, Judie, announced.

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    The announcement was made through a post to Worrell’s Facebook page:

    I have not wanted to share this information with anyone this soon. But, I am being told “people around the world LOVE Bernie, they would help if they knew”. We shall see: Bernie is suffering from 4th Stage Lung Cancer. He wants his album released in his lifetime (if you have not already, please go to the indiegogo page (see Kevin’s posts for the actual URL). Then, we will address trying to find a cure for him. … Please say whatever you have to say to whichever Diety/Great Spirit/Allah/God/Jehovah in whom you believe — and should Bernie be appearing somewhere GO SEE HIM…..just don’t talk about this to him. It is totally overwhelming for him and he does NOT want a lot of emotional histrionics.

    Worrell is best known for his work with Parliament Funkadelic and use of the Moog synthesizer to create their futuristic sound. He was also a de facto member of the Talking Heads through much of the ’80s, performing on two of their albums, the studio album Speaking in Tongues and the live album Stop Making Sense, and touring with the band.

    More recently he has been touring with his Bernie Worrell Orchestra, which features a rotating lineup of musicians that have included Steve Kimock and Andy Hess. In 2015, he appeared as the keyboardist in Meryl Streep’s fictional band in her movie Ricki and the Flash.

  • Funktional Flow Gives Birth to “On the Way”

    Buffalo’s funk/reggae/rock fusion act Funktional Flow released a second single from their forthcoming album, Time Will Tell.

    In honor of the birth of guitarist and vocalist Jeffrey Kuebler’s son, Jack Michael Kuebler, the band released “On the Way.” The song is available for streaming through Sound Cloud or the band’s website.

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    The song was written by Kuebler on the heels of discovering that he and his wife were expecting.

    When my wife Ashley informed me in early May we were expecting I went through so many new and crazy emotions. Joy, fear, elation, wonder and pure happiness! At the time being hit by that wave of feelings I immediately picked up the guitar and played the first thing that hit me. With the guys in the band being extremely excited we took it on immediately hoping to capture the emotion we all were feeling. Within a matter of hours the music was done! The lyrics came that night and it so accurately captured the feeling it had intended to! I would love people who are expecting for years to come to use this song to somehow channel or express the emotion that comes with all aspects of childbirth and feel the same thing!  – Jeffrey Kuebler

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    Funktional Flow will release the entire album at their CD release party on March 5 at Buffalo Iron Works. The band will also be opening for Twiddle at the Town Ballroom on Feb. 25.

    Funktional Flow plans to announce dates for a spring tour in support of Time Will Tell in the near future.

  • Natalie Cole, an Unforgettable Songbird, Passes at the Age of 65

    As the year comes to a close, so does the music of one of America’s most loved musicians. On Dec. 31, 2015, Natalie Marie Cole, daughter of legendary Nat King Cole, died as a result of congested heart failure.

    natalie coleThis multiple Grammy award-winning musician brought to us decades of music from R&B, to jazz, to pop, to the beautiful standards her father was best known for. Living her life for the world to see, she shared her joys and struggles with us, never once pretending to be anyone she wasn’t. Her melodic voice and “Unforgettable’” duets she performed with her father through the magic of technology honored her father and introduced a whole new generation to the beauty of the standards.

    In 2009, Natalie Cole received a much-needed kidney transplant from a direct donation made to her from the family of a South American fan who knew she was in need. Diagnosed with Hepatitis C from years of drug addiction, the recovered Cole underwent a successful transplant, and in 2013, Cole released her final album, Natalie Cole en Español, a tribute to honor both the donor and her father.
    natalie coleThis multi-talented woman dabbled in film, television, as well as music and didn’t allow her father’s shadow to define who she was or what she wanted to achieve in her career. For more than 20 years, she refused to cover her fathers songs, but in the end, it was her celebration of his music together with her angelic voice that will live on in our hearts forever.