Indie rock favorites, The Strokes, have confirmed a New Year’s Eve show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center along with IDLES and Hinds. This will be their first New Years show in two years with this one coming on the heels of they latest Grammy-award. Tickets will be available and
The concert will be produced by leading touring entityLive Nation, the world’s preeminant live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship.
At this time, under a current New York City mandate, ticket holders are required to have at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose to attend an event at Barclays Center. Concertgoers can visit the arena’s health and safety page for any updates to this mandate, along with a list of other safety measures and protocols.
The Strokes released news of their upcoming NYE concert after recently headlining at Miami music festival, III Points and Atlanta’s Shaky Knees as well as their highly anticipated sold out show at The Forum in Los Angeles. Most recently, they made an appearance this past Halloween weekend at Outside Lands in San Francisco. Those that won’t be able to catch the NYE performance can rest easy, as the group have released numerous dates performing at festivals and select stadium dates along with Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2022.
After releasing, The New Abnormal, their first album in seven years, the anticipation skyrocketed the album to chart topping status in 2020. Their latest Grammy is one in a long list of achievements as 2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of their record-shattering and universally beloved debut album, Is This It.
THE STROKES LIVE
2021
December 31 Barclays Center Brooklyn, NY
2022
May 21 Corona Capital Guadalajara, Mexico
June 3 Primavera Sound Sant Adrià de Besòs, Spain
June 10 Primavera Sound Sant Adria de Besos, Spain
June 12 Tempelhof Sounds Berlin, Germany
July 6 NOS Alive Lisbon, Portugal
July 8 Lytham Festival Lytham, U.K.
July 9 TRNSMT Glasgow, Scotland
July 22 Splendour in the Grass Yelgun, Australia
August 3 T-Mobile Park Seattle, WA*
August 6 Allegiant Stadium Las Vegas, NV*
August 10 Suntrust Park Atlanta, GA*
August 12 Nissan Stadium Nashville, TN*
August 14 Comerica Park Detroit, MI*
August 17 MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, NJ*
August 19 Soldier Field Chicago, IL*
August 21 Rogers Centre Toronto, ON*
August 30 Hard Rock Stadium Miami, FL*
September 1 Bank of America Stadium Charlotte, NC*
Countless new strides have been made by The Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO), as they emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic filled now triumphant with an in-person 2021-2022 concert season. For these musicians living in Upstate New York and Western New England, they now call the historic Troy Savings Bank Music Hall home, marking yet another milestone. With a new first-ever Director of Education in the hands of Dr. David Bebe, he pledges to take the emerging and developing musicians to new heights.
Dr. David Bebe is a gifted cellist, conductor, and experienced pedagogue who will guide ESYO’s ventures to enrich the musical experiences of ESYO musicians. Rich with experience, Dr. Bebe was a frequent guest sectional coach with ESYO’s flagship performing ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, and was an Associate Professor of Music at the College of St. Rose. Dr. Bebe has now become a crucial component developing string curriculum and performance courses with being a critical resource for ESYO’s artistic staff and CHIME Teaching Artists.
I look forward to collaborating with my colleagues and the conductors at ESYO to identify and provide the tools ESYO musicians need to be successful in their ensembles, especially after COVID-19 interrupted music programs across the country. I’ve had the opportunity to work with emergin gand developing musicians throughout my entire career. ESYO nurtures and supports amazingly talented and passionate musicians.
Dr. David Bebe
The Empire State Youth Orchestra agenda is looking a little different than before with the newest edition of a year-round chamber music program launched by Dr. Bebe this fall. Throughout the season he will also be developing events and programs while discovering opportunities to bridge various levels, programs, and ensembles, fully committing himself to supporting ESYO.
With support from Dr. Bebe and a team of experienced coaches, ESYO musicians will experience music in a smaller, more musician directed ensemble. As with all ESYO-sponsored ensembles and programs, the ESYO Chamber Music program will culminate with a performance in early December.
The season will be opening on Friday, November 5 from ESYO’s Symphony Orchestra, led by guest conductor Andrés Rivas from the Orchestra Now at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. The season’s program also holds features from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8, Bizet’s L’Artesienne Suites No. 1 & No. 2, Jennifer Higdon’s Light, Danzon No. 2 by Mexican composer Arturo Marquez and Jazz standards by Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. On November 20, the Youth Jazz Orchestra will be joined in concert by Grammy-nominated Trumpet player Michael Rodriguez.
A complete list of ESYO Fall performances is available online at ESYO.org/tickets. Tickets can be purchased online for as little as $1 with ACCESS ESYO’s unique “pay what you can” ticket program.
The festivities are almost upon us, and Darren Criss reminds us with his first-ever holiday album, A Very Darren Crissmas, from Decca Records. The Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award-winner and singer-songwriter invited special guests like by Adam Lambert, Evan Rachel Wood, and Lainey Wilson. Listen to the album here.
You better watch out, as in just two months you’ll have the opportunity to hear Darren live on his A Very Darren Crissmas Tour. He’ll be coming to Indianapolis, on December 3rd at the Murat Theatre then he’ll be on his merry way to Beacon Theatre on December 20. Tickets will be on sale at 10 a.m. on October 15th with artist pre-sales October 12th and 13th.
To help perfect this album Ron Fair aided in producing this album as an established multi-Grammy® nominee and producer of numerous GRAMMY-winning hits. “A Very Darren Crissmas” will be a 12 song set of wildly eclectic collection of tunes. Recorded at Nashville’s Faircraft Studios, Darren brings a bit of country to his sound along with chart topping country icon Lainey Wilson on Drunk on Christmas. Other A-list musicians include Pop star Adam Lambert joins in on (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With the Bag,bringing a touch of jazz to the festivities. Not to mention multihyphenate Evan Rachel Wood on the classic“Somewhere in My Memory,”and on the album’s sole original,. Darren illustrates his elasticity as an artist blending his sound with jazz and country.
The result is a new entry into the holiday-music canon, both delightfully unpredictable and touched with a timeless sense of Christmas magic.
In an effort to keep everyone’s best interest in regards to health and safety, concert-goers must provide proof of full vaccination and/or negative COVID-19 test at least 72 hours prior to the show date and time.
A Very Darren Crissmas Tour Dates
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3: MURAT THEATRE – INDIANAPOLIS, IN TICKETS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4: MICHIGAN THEATER – ANN ARBOR, MI TICKETS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6: CYRUS NORTHROP MEMORIAL – MINNEAPOLIS, MN TICKETS
TUESDAY , DECEMBER 7: RIVERSIDE THEATER – MILWAUKEE, WI TICKETS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9: CHICAGO THEATRE – CHICAGO, IL TICKETS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10: THE LOUISVILLE PALACE THEATER – LOUISVILLE, KY TICKETS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11: THE GOODYEAR THEATER – AKRON, OH TICKETS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 13: CAPITAL ONE HALL – TYSONS, VA TICKETS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14: THE MET PHILADELPHIA – PHILADELPHIA, PA TICKETS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16: ORPHEUM THEATRE – BOSTON, MA TICKETS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17: AUDITORIUM THEATRE – ROCHESTER, NY TICKETS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18: MASSEY HALL – TORONTO, ON TICKETS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 20: BEACON THEATRE – NEW YORK, NYTICKETS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22: THE HERSHEY THEATRE – HERSHEY, PA TICKETS
American Composers Orchestra will be hosting a live in-person and streaming multimedia event, New Canons, featuring Raquel Acevedo Klein’s interactive composition. After her debut of her newest work, Polyphonic Interlace at Little Island, Raquel is ready to dazzle us again at New Canons. The performance is scheduled virtually and in-person at multiple locations for Saturday, October 23 at 2:15pm.
The hybrid in-person and virtual concert composers focus on incorporating latency as part of their music. That is the delay between live and transmitted sound will be an integral part of each piece. American Composers Orchestra and Groupmuse Foundation has collected composers that are interested in experimenting with technology and latency in their music with their interactive works.
We welcome one another into a collective landscape in which all sounds become music.The symphonious, surround-sound composition Raquel AcevedoPolyphonic Interlace will actually invite attendees to play the piece’s musical tracks from their smartphones creating a sea of voices from several directions. Latency Canons from Ray Lustig incorporates multiple string quartets and an orchestra yet each performer will be dispersed across the room while they play in unison. Trevor New’s Cohere will use technology to manipulate latency for remote musicians . Pauline Oliveros‘ Environmental Dialogue procures an interactive element where attendees are invited to respond to sounds. All Possible Music from Chris Kallmyer may be just what you think it is where it will be a work that describes all of the music imaginable by.
American Composers Orchestra will perform at the DiMenna Center conducted by Peter Askim. The Bergamot Quartet will perform at the Murray Hill Groupmuse location. Ligeti Quartet and Alexandra Quartet play from the United Kingdom with seven selected soloists who will participate remotely from locations around the world.
There will be a myriad of venues where you may choose to experience this performance at a public gathering space, as an intimate concert in a private home, or as a fully digital event.
Concert Hall tickets at New Canons at DiMenna Center and Private Home tickets – New Canons in Murray Hill (Event address will be provided upon reservation) are $25 each, with a Virtual Event reservation $5, with a $20 suggested donation, streamed via Virtual New Canons (Streaming link provided 24 hours before event.) Doors open at 2:00pm and music will begin promptly at 2:15pm.
Pop duo BLVCKBOW released their first self-written and produced song Memorize U. BLVCKBOW quickly found out how electric their creative connection was, and easily wrote ten songs in less than a month. The pair’s charisma can be heard in their new single with effortless adlibs mixed with electro-synth groove and sentimental lyrics. The duo will be coming to Piano’s on October 20th with Yarn starting at 8 pm.
Memorize U draws in listeners with their eerie intro filled with shrieking violins and distortion to a headbanging chorus with Jasmine’s and Brittni’s effortless vocals. Hawaiian natives Jasmine Crowe and Brittni Paiva created Memorize U to draw attention to the unforgettable feeling and connection we feel with someone that we can’t help but be present in these moments. “The song is about realizing there is so much in life we can’t predict, so being present is sometimes all we really feel like we have to hold on to… The lyrics to ‘Memorize U’ are inspired by feeling physically and emotionally bonded with someone,” says Crowe.
The second verse and pre-chorus amplify the song’s energy as Paiva and Crowe riff together creating a symmetry that fuels the sleek production. Stunning high vocal riffs and harmonies from the duo stand out as unforgettable moments in the track. The sonic exploration concludes with a mesmerizing, complex solo, helping close the track on a high note.
After Brittni Paiva brilliant performance as a featured guest on Jasmine Crowe’s latest single, “LOVE IS LOVE” they soon realized the true amount of potential they held as a duo. Once the pair teamed up again as BLVCKBOW, they wrote ten songs in just over a month with ease.
Thanks to Crowe’s songwriting talent established in 2018 as the winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and Paiva’s three-time NA Hoku Hanohano Awards, we can be sure to hear more music very soon. To download on stream platforms, click here.
Acclaimed soul-rock trio, The Nth Power has made some exciting additions to their already announced “Fall Back In Love Tour,” further exploring the Midwest with nine additional dates in November. The Nth Power will also be hitting the Northeast for four nights to ring in the New Year, including two night’s in Albany. The tour will be featuring the newly released studio albumReverence.
The full band is filled with musicians you may already know from elsewhere, guitarist and vocalist Nick Cassarino (Jennifer Hartswick Band), bassist Nate Edgar (John Brown’s Body) and drummer and vocalist Nikki Glaspie (Beyonce).
Their origin story started as an impromptu late-night jam during the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The energy that Nth Power taps into is something almost sensual, spiritual, and sexy. They prove that music can be a higher power which might just be relentlessly funky and soulful. While Nth Power does transcend genre audiences hear influences from American rock, soul, funk, rhythm and blues. The latest album, Reverence offers the utmost maturity of the trio’s sound conveying messages of hope, empathy, gratitude, self-forgiveness and, above all, the universal power of love. They tap into an energy that is simultaneously sexy and spiritual, with songs that will inspire audiences to dance, groove, make love or just stand there with goosebumps.
We’re going as far as you can go on planet Earth as musicians. We want to change the world through music – that’s the goal
Nikki Glaspie
Distributed by The Orchard, Reverence features guests like Kofi Burbridgeis who plays on keys and flute throughoutlike, the album itself has been dedicated to the memory of this Grammy-winning keyboardist. You may also hear renowned saxophonist Maceo Parker, vocalists Ivan Neville and Nick Daniels III of Dumpstaphunk, vocalist Cheryl Pepsii Riley and keyboardist Amy Bellamy.
The Nth Power return to the Northeast to ring in 2022 with a trio of shows in Waterbury, VT,; Albany, and Bridgeport, CT.
10.22 – Placerville, CA – Hangtown Festival
10.23 – Placerville, CA – Hangtown Festival
10.30 – Live Oak, FL – Suwannee Hulaween
11.4 – Ferndale, MI – Otus Supply
11.5 – Berwyn, IL – FitzGerald’s
11.6 – Cincinnati, OH – Fretboard Brewing Company
11.7 – Bloomington, IN – Stable Music Hall & Lounge
Henry Rollins has lived many lives to say the least. His “Good To See You” 2022 Tour will recount the events of his life in the brief pre-COVID-19 period since the last tour as well as the reality of living through a pandemic. It’s been an interesting time to say the least and he’s got some great stories to tell.
Lived many lives is completely an understatement. You may have seen his face in perhaps his own show, The Henry Rollins show which aired in 2006-2007. Or maybe his featuring on shows like Portlandia, Dreamland, or Sons of Anarchy. Or maybe you’ve heard him on TV shows like American Dad, Legend of Korra, or Adventure. Or maybe you heard his music from Black Flag or Rollins Band. It’s also possible you’ve read one of his many books that won a GRAMMY or heard his spoken word. Whatever the case may be, Henry is a well versed man.
Punk Rock icon. Spoken word poet. Actor. DJ. Is there anything this guy can’t do?
Entertainment Weekly
Rollins likes to keep his schedule packed. Perhaps this is how his autobiography won a GRAMMY because he’s just all around an interesting guy. On top of a relentless schedule full of work, with gigs as an actor, author, DJ, voice-over artist and TV show host he likes to travel too. After touring the globe with Rollins Band and Black Flag, he’s traveled alone to places such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Siberia, North Korea, South Sudan and Iran.
Henry Rollins 2022 World Tour Dates
1/9/22 Berlin, DE Huxleys Neue Welt 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
1/10/22 Hamburg, DE Friedrich-Ebert-Halle 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
1/11/22 Copenhagen, DK Studie 2, DR House 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
1/12/22 Stockholm, SE Gota Lejon 7:30 PM BUY TICKETS
1/13/22 Oslo, NO Kulturkirken Jakob 8:00 PM BUY TICKETS
1/15/22 Helsinki, FI Kultuuritalo 7:00 PM BUY TICKETS
Josh Lumsden has released a new music video, “Love Me Back,” on Friday, October 1. The eccentric, vibrant, and sci-fi inspired video could only be filmed in the New York City. Lumsden continues to work on new music with more visual media to be later released in the new year.
Josh Lumsden is a self made musician born & raised in Austin, Texas, now based in New York City and “Love Me Back” is his newest futuristic single. Lumsden’s new music video features his charming and intriguing persona complimented with a pop-beat heavy chorus that will get your feet moving. It doesn’t take long for Lumsden smooth vocals to become stuck in your head all day long.
Complete with four uniquely varying looks in the video directed by Mikey Harmon, we can learn a few fashion tips from the mesmerizing Josh Lumsden. Inclusive with a team underneath the entirety of LGBTQIA umbrella, Josh gives queers an opportunity to be in the forefront of the music industry once again.
The highly anticipated video is finally released where Josh Lumsden and Mikey Harmon had planned to collaborate for many months unfortunately delayed due to the pandemic. Harmon was sure to showcase Lumsden futuristic and sci-fi performance stylistically driving the down to earth narrative of lust and love embedded into the song’s lyrics.
Coldplay and Amazon Music have teamed up for the ultimate debut two-day event in the heart of New York City. The audience will hear Music of the Spheres in a whole new light inside “The Atmospheres” – an intergalactic audio-visual experience at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal.
The audience will be inside the custom-built installation perfect for Coldplay’s new album, Music of the Spheres, that will be officially released October 15th which features The Spheres, the distant solar system that where each of the twelve tracks is twinned with a different planet.
“The Atmospheres” will find a worldwide audience, coming to New York as well as London, Tokyo, and Berlin. These big cities will bring you to redesigned exhibits of the alien worlds Coldplay has created.
“The Atmospheres” has also created interactive features for their fans where they can create their own alien language messages and snap selfies in an augmented reality photobooth. The jaw dropping environment will be soundtracked with the highlight album People of the Pride, mixed in Dolby Atmos to better exhibit the exclusive 360 visuals.
Coldplay fans will not be able to resist this two-day pop-up event, running from Friday, 15 October through Saturday, 16 October in London, New York, Tokyo, and Berlin. Dolby Atmos “The Atmospheres” will have their viewers perplexed and by exhibiting a new way of experiencing music in the most immersive way possible. Register for tickets here.
Goose made it look almost all too easy to sell out their second night of Terminal 5 on October 9, 2021. The Connecticut-based quartet undeniably took the audience on a full fledged journey that encompassed the multitude of genres that have influenced the band, thus far. Lucky New Yorkers had a chance to experience the powerhouse that transported us somewhere outside New York City this weekend.
Stage lights dim welcoming Rick, Peter, Trevor, Ben, and Jeff on stage, accompanied with a roar from fans begging “GOOSE”, echoing from all three stories inside the terminal. “Tumble” opened the show where Ben Atkind (drums) did us the favor of pulling us into the groovy funk dictating the addictive dancey beat that defines Goose. Rick Mitarotonda (guitar, vocals) spoke indefinitely through the gorgeous Paul Reed Smith Hollowbody II, putting the audience in a trance with his guitar shredding improv through Bob Don.
Peter Anspach makes his first lead vocal debut of the night with a new song from the band, Life On the Shelf. Clearly an unreleased hit, without knowing any words fans were hooked on the chorus, dancing and swaying to the sincere folk tune, highlighted by Rick and Peter’s buttery harmonies. Followed with “Jive Lee” and “Jive II,” Peter’s funky solos and Trevor Weekz thick bass lines brought the crowd furiously jumping and screaming once again. Without any hesitation the audience was pulled into a surprise cover of “Rock the Casbah” from the Clash shaking the floor until the end of set I.
“Wysteria Lane” kicked off the second set with a smile and Peter’s earnest vocals, with some help from the Luigi plush on one of his three dazzling double casio keyboards. Unbelievable Goosian-shredding kept the crowd mesmerized cheering with each cadence as both Rick and Peter swiftly moved up and up the neck leaving the audience asking if they came to a hard rock concert. Rick guided us through Seekers on the Ride I and II with ease reminding fans of their versatility as artists. The loudest cheers of the night broke when Rick’s eccentric solos pushed to the well known hard twangy intro of “Hot Tea.” Ending with “Dragon Fly I & II,” Rick eased our anxieties with a smile “Don’t worry we have one more set.”
“Get The Funk Out of My Face” was not the only cover of set III, but Goose’s folk rock cover of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” made it sound like Goose could’ve written the song. Just when we thought Trevor Weekz might just be too cool for us, being the backbone of Goose with his 5-string bass and sunglasses, the spotlight shined on him as he read a “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost backed by Ben Atkind (drums) and Rick filling some eerie melodies. The band endurance was unrequited through three full set of nonstop music eventually wrapping with an Encore of “Hot Tea.”
Goose – Terminal 5 – Friday, October 8, 2021
Set 1: So Ready, Look Out Cleveland, Honeybee, Indian River, The Whales, All I Need
Set 2: 2021> Old Man’s Boat >2021, Rosewood Heart > Into the Myst, Echo of a Rose > 2021
Encore: Flodown
Goose – Terminal 5 – Saturday, October 9, 2021
Set 1: Tumble, Bob Don, Life on a Shelf*, White Lights > Jive 1 > Jive Lee > Rock the Casbah
Set 2: Wysteria Lane > It Burns Within, Seekers on the Ridge [Part I & II], Hot Tea > Dragonfly [I&II]
Set 3: Get The Funk Out Ma Face, Creatures > Pumped Up Kicks, Madhuvan** > Turn on Your Love Light > Madhuvan
