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NYC’s Electric Zoo Announces 12 Afterparties Featuring Martin Garrix, Tchami, and More

NYC’s Electric Zoo has just announced its star-studded lineup for official afterparties you don’t want to miss. There will be 12 Afterparties over the course of four days including Tchami, Camelphat, Martin Garrix, CloZee, Loco Dice, and more to come.

On September 2 through the 4, NYC’s premiere EDM festival Electric Zoo will upgrade Randall’s Island Park into a futuristic, tech-driven paradise. The festival features some highly anticipated sets from headliners like Porter Robinson, CloZee, and Armin Van Buuren across four stages. Thus, highlighting both rare performances from legacy acts and the biggest breakthrough artists.

Electric Zoo will take music fans on a cosmic musical journey beyond their wildest imaginations with 3.0, a gathering that embraces unexplainable phenomena and will open music fans’ minds to new sounds and experiences.

EZoo is excited to announce its official parties that will take place each night after the festival ends at many of the city’s most magnificent venues including Webster Hall, Brooklyn Mirage, Quantum, Marquee, Superior Ingredients, Lavo, and Avant Gardner from September 2-5.

Dice is returning to EZoo after 11 years for a highly anticipated return on the Carl Cox Invites stage. “Dice is always evolving with his sound of music that you cannot put in a musical box at all. He really does push the boundaries, which makes me excited to hear what he will pull out of the bag next.”
– Carl Cox

Since its inception, the founders have taken Electric Zoo around the globe, creating satellite soirées in Mexico, Brazil, and China. Still, its hometown in NYC continues to be the most popular, selling out year after year. A crowd of nearly 100,000 gather in Randall’s Island Park annually, according to organizers, with a record-breaking 107,500 attending in 2019.

The vibes are immaculate, and 2022 will be another ambitious undertaking destined to transport its fans beyond musical boundaries.

Tickets are available to Festival Pass Holders Wednesday, August 10th. If you do not have a pass, you will have 24 hours to purchase one in order to get ticket access to the after-parties. To purchase tickets for Electric Zoo and to learn more about the festival, click the link here.

August 17, 2022
Ween Announces Halloween Show At The Beacon

The legendary alt-rock act Ween has announced two upcoming shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre, including one on Halloween. The band is set to play four shows in the Northeast at the end of October and early November with the first two at Boston’s Roadrunner and shows on Halloween and November 1 at the Beacon.

The New Hope rockers have certainly been keeping busy lately, with recent shows in the Pacific Northwest and others lined up in the Southeast for mid-September. And Ween was also featured in the recent South Park 25th Anniversary Special, sharing the stage with Les Claypool as well as Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, the remaining members of Rush.

Tickets for the two-show Ween run at The Beacon go on sale Friday, August 19 at 10am through Ticketmaster and there is also a pre-sale registration that goes into effect Thursday, August 18 at 10am as well.

WEEN – 2022 TOUR DATES
September 15 – Rabbit Rabbit – Asheville, NC
September 16 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA
September 17 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA
October 28 – Roadrunner – Boston, MA
October 29 – Roadrunner – Boston, MA
October 31 – Beacon Theatre – New York, NY
November 1 – Beacon Theatre – New York, NY

August 17, 2022
Wiz Khalifa and Logic Vinyl Verse Tour to Make Stop at Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Wiz Khalifa and Logic are bringing their Vinyl Verse Tour 2022 to Saratoga’s Performing Arts Center on August, 23. Featuring special guests 24kGoldn, DJ Drama, C Dot Castro, and Fedd the God, the 28-city tour kicked-off on July 27 in Irvine, CA, before making stops across the United States. The August 23 date follows a performance at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on August 16 and preludes their last New York stop of the tour on August 25, at the Darien Lake Amphitheatre.

Since bursting his way onto the scene with his 2011 full-length debut, Rolling Papers, and the classic hip hop record, “Black and Yellow,” Wiz Khalifa has continued to elevate his status among the mainstream elite. Records like “23,” “Or Nah,” “Payphone” and “Young, Wild and Free” have not only maintained replay value, but has solidified Wiz Khalifa as one of the most popular hip hop acts across the world. His 2015 record “See You Again” — which served as a tribute to Paul Walker in the movie Fast 7 — earned him Grammy and Golden Globe nominations while amassing over 5 billion views on Youtube.

Since his emergence in 2010, multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-nominated Logic has separated himself from the pack as one of the most prolific and prevalent artists of the past decade, a New York Times Bestselling author, and a positive force for change. His record “1-800-273-8255” is the previous phone number for the American National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) and earned the Maryland native two Grammy-award nominations. With a sizable discography to his name, Logic has progressed from a now-legendary run of cult-like mixtapes to three number one albums, sold out arena tours on multiple continents, and 6 billion streams and counting.

Produced by LiveNation, tickets for the 6:30 p.m. performance can be found on their official website.

August 17, 2022
The Bardavon Announces The Return Of The Nutcracker

After a two year absence for the pandemic, The Bardavon has announced the return of the holiday classic, The Nutcracker. The shows will put on on Saturday, December 10 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, December 11 at 3 p.m, (snow date December 12 at 7 p.m.).

Nutcracker

Following a very long two year absence due to Covid, New Paltz Ballet Theatre will return to the Bardavon for its 23rd season to present this classic holiday event featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet. Peter and Lisa Naumann, co-directors of the NPBT, have brought many fine regional artists together to create this beautiful production. Dancers, designers, and technicians have all contributed to make this Nutcracker a visual delight. Come along with Marie as she dreams of a fierce battle between giant mice and toy soldiers followed by a magical journey through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets.

NutCracker Photo by Jacques Luigi

The Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (the Bardavon) was incorporated in 1976 as a New York State nonprofit corporation, which is the oldest contiuously operating theater in the state. It owns and operates a 944-seat historic theater in Poughkeepsie and acquired the region’s premiere orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (the HVP) in 1999. The Bardavon offers affordable, world-class arts education programs, music, dance, theater, Live in HD broadcasts, and classic films for the diverse audiences of the Hudson Valley. The company regularly presents at other venues such as Kingston’s Ulster Performing Arts Center and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”.

The tickets are $36 for adults and $30 for students while members get $5 off. For more information, please visit https://www.bardavon.org/show/the-nutcracker-30/.

August 16, 2022
Trey Anastasio Band and Goose Team Up for 8 Show Tour, Stops in Syracuse and Glens Falls

The Trey Anastasio Band and Goose are teaming up for an eight-show tour in November, with stops in Syracuse and Glens Falls. Fans can expect a full set from each band, as well as unique collaborations.

Goose is currently traveling on their biggest North America tour thus far after the success of their acclaimed new album Dripfield. They have many sold-out shows coming up as well as a few festival stops including Charleston, SC’s Resonance Music & Arts Festival, and Austin, TX’s Austin City Limits Music Festival. Goose is a four-piece indie groove band from Norwalk, Connecticut made up of members Peter Anspach, Jeff Arevalo, Ben Atkind, Rick Mitarotonda, and Trevor Weekz.

The Trey Anastasio Band is composed of the lead guitarist and founding member of the famous rock band Phish, for whom he has acquired several Grammy nominations for his work. In the summer of 2017, Phish completed a residency at the world-renowned Madison Square Garden in New York – an unprecedented 13-night run known as The Baker’s Dozen. They return to the road in September with a headline run before teaming up with Goose on the eight-run tour.

The tour will be stopping in Glens Falls at The Cool Insuring Arena on Nov. 13 and in Syracuse at the War Memorial Center on Nov. 18. re-sale tickets for the tour begin Aug. 17 at Noon ET. General public tickets will go on sale on Aug. 19 beginning at 10 A.M. (local). To purchase tickets, go here.

August 16, 2022
Papa Roach Comes To Lakeview Amphitheater

On August 4, the iconic Papa Roach came to Syracuse with the Rockzilla tour at the St Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview. The tour consisted of Falling In Reverse, Hollywood Undead, and Bad Wolves. The Amphitheater has been host to a long list of big shows, like Foo Fighters, Slipknot, and Shinedown, who is coming back. The venue was host to Incubus and Sublime the night before. The weather could not have been any more perfect but that wasn’t the case for the Rockzilla tour, as many fans were parking and lining up, a rain delay was called for a hour due to passing storms, many stayed out as to not lose their spot. The gates opened a hour and 15 minutes later than originally planned.

First band to get the show going was Bad Wolves, who formed in 2017. Up after them was Hollywood Undead who is a treat to watch, with members switching instruments during songs. To Follow after Hollywood Undead was Falling In Reverse. The singer Ronnie Radke was on a set of risers that spanned most the stage and was moving swiftly back and forth.

To close out the night, is Papa Roach, who has been around since 1993 and still rocking on with the release of their latest album, Ego Trip back in April. When the band hit the stage, the crowd went into a roar. Jacoby disappeared from the stage during one of the songs and many were looking around, then behind the pit, you could seen phones in the air and the spot lot on him as he went through the crowd. Then for one song song, he was up in the pit the barricade, with the barrier between him and the fans.

Though the show started off with bad weather, It wasn’t enough to stop it from going. They have many other concerts lineup of various genres, so head over to their site to see who’s coming next!

Bad Wolves

Hollywood Undead

Falling In Reverse

Papa Roach

August 16, 2022
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts: Keeping the Woodstock Dream Alive 53 Years Later

Nestled in the heart of the Catskills, on the land where the iconic Woodstock music festival took place, stands the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Aug. 15, 1969, marks 53 years since the festival, and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts continues to preserve, develop, and discover more about the event every day.

With 800 acres, a 16,000-seat amphitheater, Event Gallery, Conservatory, and museum, the cultural institution offers programming for all ages in the scenic area. As part of the National Register of Historic Places since 2017, the institution, and the award-winning Museum at Bethel Woods, work to keep the spirit of the legendary festival alive.

The Museum at Bethel Woods holds a permanent Woodstock exhibit showcasing 20 films, five interactive productions, 164 artifacts, over 300 photographic murals, and much more. The 6,728 square feet museum allows attendees to truly get a glimpse into the festival which changed the music scene forever and launched the careers of beloved artists.

Dr. Neal Hitch, the senior curator at the Museum at Bethel Woods, works diligently to bring more information about Woodstock to the public. Currently, the museum is two years into a five-year plan to collect as many oral histories as possible from those who attended the festival to put them into a searchable database. In 2023, the museum plans to hold pop-ups across cities such as New Mexico, Los Angeles, and Columbus, to hear from even more attendees.

I think that the story that wasn’t written very often is the story of why somebody came, what happened to them when they came and how that has affected their life since attending Woodstock. For many people, Woodstock was a defining moment, something that we still talk about 50 years later.
-Dr. Neal Hitch on the Oral History Initiative

To mark Woodstock’s 53rd anniversary, the museum is hosting events throughout the week, including a behind-the-scenes tour and a look into how the festival was planned, and how the site is now managed and preserved. The public-facing program allows for a unique look at the current research happening on-site.

Hitch continues to learn more about the festival throughout his work, and every new fact keeps the spirit of the festival alive. Four young men spent nine months planning Woodstock which would become a message of peace and the staple for festivals after it. “If you go to Coachella or Bonnaroo, you’re really seeing the result of this dream that people had of seeing music in this artistic environment,” Hitch said.

Visit the grounds of the Woodstock festival at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, and celebrate with some of the people who know it best. For more information about the cultural institution, programs, and events, visit the center’s website.

August 16, 2022
Holy Wave Floods the Bug Jar with Scintillating Sound

Holy Wave, a quintet out of Austin, made a stop at the Bug Jar in Rochester last Wednesday. The stage filled with various keyboards which laid the baseline for much of what the band presented during their set. Sounds layered upon sounds, waves in phase and out. Syncopation shifted and suddenly a united front became polyrhythmic. Their head-swaying psychedelia perfectly matched the venue’s aesthetic. Colorful squiggly waves filled the walls; colorful waves squiggled forth from the speakers. Retro furnishings hung upside down from the ceiling, while the band took nostalgia and flipped it on it’s head.

Their brand new single, “Chaparral” opened the set. A march-like beat built behind textural synths and soaring guitar lines. Art rock influence was apparent immediately, reminiscent of the eerie edges of early Genesis. Wild drum fills cut through the meandering synth and guitar layers in “Maybe Then I Can Cry,” which extended magnificently in a subtly shifting outro. “Western Playland” added a touch of psychedelic surf, this time fuzzy bass blasts broke through the haze.

“She Put a Seed In Your Ear” picked up the pace a bit, but still felt like it was fighting to pull out of their generally slogging cadence. The overlapping layers of keys, bass and guitars rode the rollicking drums until it all crashed into a dripping ooze. The set ended on a highlight from 2020’s Interloper, “I’m Not Living Here Anymore” but the crowd wouldn’t let them leave without an encore, which pulled them way back to 2013 and their early breakthrough, “Do You Feel It.” The room spun on it’s axis a few more times, the colored squiggles undulated a little while longer before silence slapped everyone back to reality.

Rochester’s own Drippers got the night started properly, warming the stage fully for Holy Wave as their tour mates Champaign Superchillin’ had to pull out of the show last minute. Mike Turzanski laid down screeching dissonance with effects-laden guitar work employing a unique finger picked technique while riding the whammy bar heavily. His airy and echoey vocals arrived almost as an after thought. Inspired playing throughout from the bass and drums allowed Turzanski to work some textural guitar magic. Speaking of non-traditional playing, Overhand Sam, of Maybird (among many others), joined in on bass for the night with his namesake overhand playing style. Like the BASF of Rochester’s music scene, he doesn’t make a lot of the tunes you hear, he makes a lot of the tunes you hear better.

August 15, 2022
J-LINE Drops End-Of-Summer Hit ‘If I Don’t Have You’

NYC-based LGBTQ dance-pop artist J-LINE is dropping his instantly catchy new dance pop hit “If I Don’t Have You” on August 19. The song is an upbeat yet lyrically haunting track about letting go of an ex, right before the end of the summer. Thus, allowing listeners to dance out their own feelings of loss and loneliness

Using elements of 80’s synth-pop and modern dance music, the track “If I Don’t Have You” brilliantly captures that post-breakup feeling without falling into despair. Because of it’s upbeat tempo and memorable lines like, “I sit and wait for you at a table set for two” and “I know I sound desperate but I’m crazy and I can’t forget about you.”

J-LINE has described his newest hit as “seeing your ex as an ethereal being/ghost that haunts you every minute of your life. As you walk downtown, as you sleep, when you feel the summer breeze on your face. Every second brings back a memory until you get to such a fragile emotional space you’re someone who’s ‘haunted’. It’s about that desperate attempt to reconcile, ignore all the issues in the relationship and plead with your ex to ‘come back’ to you.”
– J-LINE

J-LINE has gathered over 1 million streams, 2 million youtube views and fans all over the globe with his unique sound. Using a synth electro-pop sound that mirrors the brightness of the late 80’s/early 90s, J-LINE makes the underground music scene feel alive again with an electrifying-80’s twist. “If I Don’t Have You” captures the best of what J-LINE offers, emotionally complex dance music from a queer perspective mixed with a retro yet modern twist.

J-LINE will continue to release more music throughout 2022, as well as dazzle crowds with his live show. More recently, including a recent breakout performance to a crowd of well-over 5000 people at the first-ever Montclair Pride.

Currently, J-LINE is touring with his “Dirty pop party” concert, where he performs alongside LGBTQ artists (including Myylo, Peppermint, and Dillon Burnside) in major US cities, highlighting what the diverse future of music looks and sounds like. His live set is an energetic blend of choreography, vocals and music that leave audiences electrified.

To listen to “If I Don’t Have You,” click the link here.

August 15, 2022
Fleet Foxes Hold Serve at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium

Indie rock veterans Fleet Foxes wrapped up the North American leg of the Shore Tour on Saturday, August 13th, at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens. Shore was released almost two years ago in September, 2020 and the band was finally able to kick off the lengthy tour earlier this summer with a hometown show at Seattle’s Moore Theater. Support for the show came from Nigerian-born and North Carolina-raised Uwade, who also joined Fleet Foxes for several songs and covers. Check out the full photo gallery below.

Fleet Foxes at Forest Hills Stadium, 8/13/22. Photo by Joseph Buscarello

Fleet Foxes played a lengthy, 27-song setlist in Queens, including several covers and some songs performed solo by frontman Robin Pecknold. During the main set, the band covered “Phoenix” by Big Red Machine and “The Kiss” by Judee Sill. During the encore, Uwade rejoined the band for a rendition of The Strokes’ “Under Control”. For the encore, the band dressed the part and sported all white, custom tennis whites; a classic look for the long-standing tennis club of Forest Hills.

Robin Pecknold, Fleet Foxes, 8/13/22. Photo by Joseph Buscarello

The show in Queens was the last in the US for Fleet Foxes. The band heads to Europe at the end of August for a short leg of dates in the UK and across Europe. Head over to the band’s website for the full tour schedule.

August 15, 2022

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