The David Bowie Glamour Fanzine and Sound City have come together to organize the first annual David Bowie World Fan Convention. From June 17th-19th, Bowie enthusiasts will have the opportunity to show their love for the iconic artist in Liverpool’s Mountford Hall.
The unconventional convention will have a number of events and performances to keep fans entertained. Hula-hoop artist Natasha Moonshine will make an appearance, along with dancer Joshua Hubbard and performance artist Pretentious Dross. Drag artist Jonny Woo will serve as a host for the Bowie Ball events. Woo, owner of the London LGBTQ+ venue The Glory, is also a founding member of Glastonbury’s drag scene at NYC Downlow.
The David Bowie Glamour Fanzine and Sound City have hand-picked the musical acts for the convention, with Bowie tribute band, Rebel Heroes, being the first group confirmed. DJs The MenWhoFell2Earth and Sonic Youtha will entice fans to come to the dance floor with Bowie deep cuts, familiar favorites and associated hits.
David Bowie during David Bowie’s 50th Birthday Celebration Concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Patti Ouderkirk/WireImage)
There will also be an array of art installations and displays. Painter Shaun Lowndes will be exhibiting his surrealist, comic book inspired work, while ceramic artist Maria Primolan will be displaying her series of sculptures, each piece modeled after a different Bowie era.
Some of Bowie’s closest friends and collaborators will make appearances during the two day event. Influential image makers like Tim Bret-Day and Brian Duffy will answer fan questions and give insight into Bowie’s creative processes and life.
The City of Albany has announced the lineup for the 2022 Tulip Festival. It will take place on May 7 and 8 in Washington Park.
The Tulip Festival is Albany’s signature spring event. It features over one hundred artisans selling their homemade crafts, a fine arts show, food, two stages of live entertainment, and more than 187,000 tulips in over 150 varieties.
Albany Tulip Festival
The Tulip Festival 2022 lineup is going to be bringing in some great musical acts from across NYS.
SATURDAY, May 7
MAIN STAGE
Washington Park Parade Grounds 1:30p.m. – Bad Mothers: The dirty-rock band from Albany NY heralded for their consistently hard-hitting performances. Recently signed to Black Country Rock Media.
3:00p.m. – TBA
4:30p.m. – Parquet Courts: Parquet Courts’ music is filled with thought-provoking rock. They are experimenting with electronic and psychedelic music to tell a story, while also maintaining uniqueness. Their newest work Symphony For Life falls on groovy dance music, rather than rhythm. The band is built largely from improvised jams, inspired by New York clubs, Primal Scream and Pink Floyd.
LOCAL 518 STAGE
Washington Park Lakehouse Stage
1:00p.m. – Hanzolo: is a 7-piece band from Upstate New York, that have an explosive and emotional sound that mixes soul, jazz, rock, and funk. Their songs are danceable and fun, with thoughtful lyrics. They recently won NYS Music’s March Madness competition and have won the EQX Battle of Bands and opened Albany’s annual Pearlpalooza music festival.
2:15p.m. – Canella: Canella brings a Latin spice to her indie folk-rock style. With some pop influences, her songwriting is full of intricate melodies that tell stories of existentialism and share intimate thoughts. Born and raised in Colombia but listening to 70’s and 90’s rock, Canella dove deeper into her solo songwriting career, utilizing her influences from former Albany local band Waitress, and implementing these elements into her more personal sound.
3:30p.m. – B. Chaps and Freedom Stratton: Freedom Stratton does it all he’s a singer, dancer, actor and model! B. Chaps is from Albany, NY, and does hip hop/alternative music with jazz mixed in.
4:45p.m. – E.R.I.E: came on to the Albany, NY scene in 2020. What began as a passion project developed while singer/songwriter TJ Foster was unexpectedly laid up in a hospital bed for three days, has turned into a fully-formed quartet, winning over audiences with their catchy songs and energetic live performances.
SUNDAY, MAY 8
MAIN STAGE Media sponsors: 1023 Kiss FM 1:30p.m. – Taina Asili: Taína Asili is a New York-based Puerto Rican singer, filmmaker and activist who carries on the traditions of her ancestors, taking past and present struggles into her music with a soulful and strong voice. Her songs have themes of hope and liberation, fusing with Afro-Latin, reggae, and rock genres. Asili’s music spans continents, and inspires audience at venues across the globe- from Carnegie Hall to the Women’s March on Washington to the main stage of San Francisco Pride. With an energetic horn section and infectious rhythms, Asili’s music urges people to get on their feet and dance to the rhythm of rebellion.
3:00 p.m. – DJ TGIF
4:45p.m. – Powerhouse Funk Band: Combining R&B, neo soul, jazz, funk and everything in between, Powerhouse will have you dancing on your feet and feeling the good vibes deep in your soul. They play with a lot of emotion and soul, which gravitates fans to listen to them.
LOCAL 518 STAGE 1:00p.m. – Kyla Silk: R&B singer Kyla Silk has a soulful voice reminiscent of Carole King and Janis Joplin, as well as modern influences like Alicia Keys.
2:15p.m. – SIDE – B: Four-piece alternative rock band from Upstate New York consisting of drummer Dylan Travison, bassist Eric Mitchell, guitarist AJ Horton, and vocalist Ian Justino.
3:30p.m. – Kieran Rhodes: Kieran Rhodes is an accomplished performer, songwriter, pianist and vocalist. As a songwriter, he has released multiple songs under his name which can be found on all streaming platforms. Kieran also has experience writing songs for television. His most recent project being a co-writer on a song for The Food Network’s “Restaurant Impossible.”
4:45p.m. – Playin’ with Fire: is a vibrant and powerful Performance Act capturing seamless tributes to every song that audiences love. Led by an irresistible, energetic female vocalist and dynamic male singer/guitarist, the band handles music from Rock, Pop, Country and Blues with astonishing accuracy. Crowd pleasing originals, harmonies and engaging personalities make the Playin’ with Fire Band a sure “fire” hit for any event. The 5 person band includes professional musicians (drums, bass, lead guitar) who have performed with major recording artists across the nation.
Grammy award-winning band, Clannad has announced the relaunch of their tour for 2022, The Farewell Tour. Clannad will make a pit stop at Gramercy Theatre in New York City on Thursday and Friday September 29th and 30th, 2022.
Clannad released five successful and inspirational albums over a decade which led to their greater recognition as a band after collaborating with a three-part TV drama depicting the troubles in Northern Ireland for the show Harry’s Game in 1982 as there theme music composers. The song “Theme From Harry’s Game” hit number two in Ireland and number five in the UK, which won the band an Ivor Novello award.
Their music appeared in soundtrack albums for documentary’s and a half hour animation The Angel and the Soldier Boywhere only Clannad’s music played without any voiceovers that told the story perfectly. Clannad has also collaborate with a diverse range of artists such as Bruce Hornsby, Steve Perry, JD Souther, Paul Young, Duke Special and Bono of U2 which became the band’s most successful collaboration of their career to date.
Photo Credit: Anton Corbijn
Clannad’s “In A Lifetime, The Farewell Tour” begins in September in California for the kick off to the 23-city North American part of the tour. Tickets are on sale at here.
NORTH AMERICA TOUR DATES:
Thu Sep 08 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts
Sat Sep 10 – Los Angeles, CA – Palace Theatre
Sun Sep 11 – San Diego, CA – The Magnolia
Tue Sep 13 – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center
Thu Sep 15 – St. Louis, MO – Sheldon Concert Hall
Sat Sep 17 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
Sun Sep 18 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
Tue Sep 20 – Chicago, IL – Irish American Heritage Center
Federico Aubele has released the second single “Old Spanish Films” from his upcoming album The Holographic Moon, out May 27.
Federico Aubele was born in Buenos Aires but now lives and works in Brooklyn. Credit: Desdemona Dallas
The song is about a relationship coming to an end after the two people acknowledge an inevitable incompatibility.
[It’s based] on the realization that a relationship I was in was built on projections, from both people in it, and didn’t have any real foundation. The end of the relationship was obviously sad. But in hindsight I can see that for the brief amount of time we were together we did give each other something valuable that we needed at the time, mostly companionship.
Federico Aubele
His deep baritone and penchant for downtempo melancholy offer a rumination on things lost. His relationship may have ended but it didn’t lose its value. His signature vocals envelopes the acoustic guitar that glides through the track to create a sense of something lost but, nonetheless, appreciated.
In a first for the Brooklyn based Argentine singer songwriter he also directed the video for “Old Spanish Films.” The Camcorder and Walkman in the video are meant to evoke a gone-by era of your life, to represent things that were once precious and now only their memory is.
Aubele’s overt pursuit of experimentation may not be for all. But “Old Spanish Films” is worth a listen at least just to satisfy your curiosity.
Queens based band, The Forms, released a cover of “Latch” the popular Disclosure song featuring Sam Smith.
Photo by Noah Kalina
“The core composition is so strong that the song would probably work in any format, but hopefully our un-electronic version will highlight what Disclosure and Sam Smith accomplished with their remarkable work,” said Alex Tween.
In The Forms cover they swapped out the electronic production for the physical instruments featured in the song.
Apart from Sam Smith’s voice and Disclosure’s harmonies, the original song was entirely composed of synthetic elements seemingly, so for our take we used all physical instruments (rhodes, hammond organ, piano, drums).”
The group tried to reverse engineer the song and draw out its “weirdness”.
“’Latch’ is definitely one of the weirdest and most complex songs ever to break through to the mainstream,” Tween said. “The chords are so strange and unique, the slow triplet rhythms virtually unheard of for a dance track, and the lyrics are so subtly subversive that it is truly an astonishing achievement that it made the Top 10.”
Photo by Noah Kalina
The Forms is a two-person band composed of Tween, who plays piano, guitar, and provides vocals, and Matt Walsh. The two have known each other since high school. They released their debut album together back in Feb. 2003. The Forms are currently work on an album that will be released in 2022 with Steve Albini of Electrical Audio.
New York based singer-songwriter Chloe Sautereau, also known by her stage name sautereau, released her newest music video “What If” on Friday, April 1. This song certainly sparks up that intriguing feeling of wanting more, whether that’s hitting it off with someone new to exploring your own city’s timeless treasures.
what if – sautereau cover
Chloe Sautereau is a Swiss singer-songwriter from New York, currently studying Recorded Music at NYU. She is originally from Geneva, Switzerland, and goes by the stage name “sautereau.”
After discovering a strong passion for music, sautereau started her musical journey at the age of eight. She would find this passion by writing songs and playing the guitar. Initially, her career began in 2019 under the name Cee, where she released her debut EP, “As I Keep on Dreaming.”
“What If” Official Video
She released her first single, “Conversation Hearts,” under the name sautereau in 2021. Thus, providing a fresh perspective of her as an artist.
sautereau describes “what if” as “that moment you hit it off with someone for the first time and relive all those little memories that are crisp in your mind.” The song was produced by Chloé Sautereau and Toby May at Unagi Sound and was mixed and mastered by John Arbuckle at Cove City Studios, who also recorded the vocals on the track.
“what if” is an ode to feeling like you’re on the same wavelength as the person you’re with, more so than you thought you could be. It’s about evoking new experiences and discovery, but also an ode to New York City and its little wonders that we often overlook.
– sautereau
sautereau full with guitar
Within this song, sautereau’s songwriting and storytelling capabilities shine through effortlessly. “What if” reminds us to stop and think of the endless possibilities that a situation can bring. Along with how these possibilities can impact our lives forever. She has a distinct talent for using her own experiences and making them relatable for her listeners.
sautereau jeans & guitar
“what if” is available to download and stream on platforms worldwide. Be sure to check out sautereau on Instagram @iamsautereau to keep up with her musical journey ahead.
On Friday when the video drops, it will be available to play on Youtube here.
Electronic pioneers of the last 50 plus years, Kraftwerk, are set for their 2022 North American Tour beginning this May. Not only is the group stopping at Radio City Music Hall on June 17, but they recently added three dates, including June 14 at State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ.
Considering Kraftwerk has been around since 1970 and they have had to put their shows on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the group is excited to share their next best thing. With a combination of electronic music, 3-D visuals and performance art, Kraftwerk is certain they will wow their fans on tour.
Kraftwerk is known for their influence on music culture in regards to clubs and DJs, techno, as well as all forms of electronic dance music. Therefore, there’s no surprise their Remixes compilation album showcases what the group represents. This album will be available on vinyl and CD on April 8 in the U.S. Furthermore, the album consists of Kraftwerk’s original remixes from 1991-2021, as well as contributions from some of the world’s biggest DJs and producers. These prominent voices in the music industry include François Kervorkian, William Orbit, Étienne de Crécy, Orbital, Underground Resistance, DJ Rolando and Hot Chip.
Since the 1970s, Kraftwerk has set the tone for innovative techniques, synthetic voices, and computerized rhythms in regards to electronic music. The group who first began as a duo with Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, influenced other genres of music, one being synth-pop. By the mid-1970s, the group had international recognition for their accomplishments and efforts to produce new sounds to the world of music from their experimentation with robotics and other technological innovations.
In recent years beginning in 2012, Kraftwerk changed their 3-D visuals to resemble the art scene of Düsseldorf, Germany from the late 1960s. In fact, this theme switch was first showcased at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Following the MOMA’s exhibition, this series continued in London, Tokyo, Los Angelos, Berlin and more.
Due to Kraftwerk’s impact, they have been honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.
Tickets are currently available, but to learn more information visit the Kraftwerk website.
Blue Note New York has announced the 11th Annual Blue Note Jazz Festival, presented by Sony. Kicking off June 1, there will be a free show in Washington Square Park headlined by Robert Glasper in association with Washington Square Park Conservancy.
The Blue Note Jazz Festival Lineup.
Since 1981, the Blue Note Jazz Club has been a cultural institution in NYC and one of the premiere jazz clubs in the world. Blue Note strives to preserve the history of jazz, and the club practices the foundations of jazz on a nightly basis.
Alex Kurland, Director of Programming at the festival had a lot to say about this year’s festival.
This year’s Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York presents an exceptional range and depth of artistry. We’re excited and proud to present a diverse lineup within different settings and at venues featuring the most established, iconic and influential artists as well as the next generation of cutting edge progressive artists at venues ranging from Washington Square Park, Central Park to the Blue Note Jazz Club in Greenwich Village and more. We are grateful again to bring a tasteful city-wide music festival to the culture of New York City.
The European Sounds Series returns to the Blue Note Jazz Festival this summer with weekend brunch shows at the club. It features international acts from places like Switzerland, Estonia, Romania, Spain, France, Poland, Austria, and Slovakia. Tickets for the festival can be bought here.
Sony presents Blue Note Jazz Festival 2022 5/31 – 6/1 – DOMi & JD Beck – Blue Note New York 6/1 – Robert Glasper – Washington Square Park (FREE) 6/2-3 – Madeleine Peyroux – Sony Hall 6/2-5 – Kenny Garrett – Blue Note New York 6/3 – An Evening with Kenny G – The Town Hall 6/6 – Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience – Blue Note New York 6/7 – The Robert Cray Band – Sony Hall 6/7-12 – Al Di Meola – Blue Note New York 6/8 – The Legendary RAKIM with Special Guest Ravi Coltrane – Sony Hall 6/10 – Fabrizio Sotti w/ Ice T & M1 of Dead Prez – Sony Hall 6/11 – Herbie Hancock w/ Special Guest Opener: Keyon Harrold – SummerStage (FREE) 6/13 – Raul Midón – Blue Note New York 6/13 – Bilal – Sony Hall 6/14 – Los Pericos – Sony Hall 6/14-19 – José James – Blue Note New York 6/15 – George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic – Summerstage 6/16 – The Zappa Band – Sony Hall 6/18-19 – Chris Botti – Sony Hall 6/21-26 – Dave Holland and Kenny Barron Trio with Johnathan Blake – Blue Note New York 6/22 – Big Bad VooDoo Daddy – Sony Hall 6/23 – Con Tumbao ft. Robert Ameen, Issac Delgado, Oscar Hernandez, Conrad Herwig, Pedrito Martinez – Sony Hall 6/26 – An Evening with Charles Lloyd w/ The Chapel Trio featuring Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan + Kindred Spirits featuring Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers & Kendrick Scott – Sony Hall 6/27-29 – Theo Croker – Blue Note New York 6/29 – Harlem Gospel Choir Sings Nina Simone – Sony Hall 6/30 – Dizzy Gillespie Big Band – Sony Hall 6/30 – 7/3 – Macy Gray – Blue Note New York
Each Sunday evening from 7-9pm you’ll find EQXposure on WEQX, featuring two hours of local music from up and coming artists. Tune into WEQX.com this Sunday night to hear new music from, Jade Relics, Atelo Songs, and many more!
WEQX has long been the preeminent independent station in the Capital Region of New York, broadcasting from Southern VT to an ever-expanding listening audience. NYS Music brings you a preview of artists to discover each week, just a taste of the talent waiting to be discovered by fans like you.
Jade Relics – “Mandarine” & “Leave us Alone”
Jade Relics is a collective of Vermont Musicians featuring, Elder Orange, Rico James, IamE. Their debut release is equally infectious as it is danceable all the while carrying a message. The music floats along a hip hop feel with emo heartfelt singing, excellent production and instrumentation creating a head bobbing yet smart piece of music.
Jade Relics previously released “Start Over,” a massive sounding intoxicating grooed out jam about pushing the rest button or at least being forced to do so.
Atelo Songs – “Wish I Could Drop”
Sam Gleason aka Atelo Songs is a singer/songwriter and producer who creates music spanning a wide variety of genres, including rock, pop, folk, psychedelic, and new wave. Getting his start over a decade ago performing at various venues throughout the state of New York, he’s become known for both his powerful and unique voice as well as his strange, story-telling style of songwriting.
Having played shows with artists such as Jimmy Webb and Charles NeVille, he continues to constantly play out throughout New York and has not stopped writing, recording, and putting out as much music as possible. Atelo currently resides in the city of Albany, and has spent the gigless days of the pandemic writing, recording, and releasing singles. See less
NY Punk Band Shakeout has just released their new inspiring single “Build Your Building.” This is the second single from the band this year, who just got off an east coast tour.
Shakeout is a two-piece alt/punk band from Yonkers that formed at the end of 2016. The band’s songwriting is filled with experimentation as they take influence from a multitude of genres including punk, pop, and hip-hop. They have also built their sound on the heavy use of looping, which creates the idea that there are more than two people in the band. They are unique as well because both of the band’s members are named A.J.
The band has already self-released three EPs, has played throughout the east coast and midwest. They have played at multiple festivals, including the Launch Music Conference in Lancaster, PA, NYC’s Punk Island, and NY Riverfest.
The new single “Build Your Building” is inspiring with lyrics about “feeding a machine that dictates the lives we lead” and “building yourself up and don’t tear them down.” The song has a steady drum beat and layers of guitars. The overarching message of the song is inspiring, as they urge you to build yourself up and don’t tear others down, as they shout it in the bridge.
The single is availible to listen to now on any streaming service.
