This weekend in Albany, Ophelia’s on Broadway welcomes Ryan Dempsey and Frends for two musical nights of jam-packed jam band members. The Twiddle keyboardist will be leading a cavalcade of stars on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20.
On April 19, Dempsey welcomes Mike Gantzer from Aqueous, Vinnie Amico of moe., Joshua West of Annie in the Water, Billy Stark on Bass, as well as a few surprise guests.
Saturday April 20 finds Frends Vinnie Amico of moe., Billy Stark on bass, Scotty Somerville from Late Shift, Hayley Jane on vocals, Al Schnier of moe., and host Ryan Dempsey.
Tickets are available here for Friday and here for Saturday.
Big Something, a well-established group in the Jam Band scene, brought their good time grooves and uplifting vibes to Buffalo Iron Works on April 12.
For me, seeing a Big Something show has always been an uplifting experience, and this show was no exception. Right from the start, the energy from the band to the crowd, and vice versa could be felt immediately. And if watching Nick MacDaniels jump and bounce around while playing doesn’t put a smile on your face I don’t know what to say.
This show was not a show to miss. From the first song to the last the band was on fire pulling out old favorites and I’m sure new favorites, while flawlessly pulling off a few covers. This is a not to miss band if you have an opportunity to catch them.
Big Something – Buffalo Iron Works – April 12, 2024
Set 1: Waves, Tumbleweed, Fearless (Pink Floyd), Clouds, Algorithm, Sundown Nomad Set 2: Capt D, Bob and Weave, Head ON / Pill (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard), The Mountain, Evil Josh, Song For Us, Plug Encore: The Flood
The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra has announced its third Chamber Series Concert of the 2023-24 season, Brahms and Glière, a program featuring a rich array of musical offerings performed by CCO musicians and friends on April 21 at 3:00 pm at the First Unitarian Church, in Ithaca.
The CCO was founded in 1976 and is officially designated “Ithaca’s Orchestra.” Each season includes an Orchestral Series, Chamber Music Series, a Holiday concert, a Family Concert Series, and the long-standing Willard Daetsch Youth Outreach Program, which earned the 2015 Yale Distinguished Music Educator award. In 2017, the CCO added a Youth Orchestra, which offers a high quality symphony orchestra experience for youth in Ithaca and the Finger Lakes region of New York State.
The concert will include musicians Rhiannon Banerdt, Christina Bouey, Anthony Bracewell, Sarah Chandler, Steven Harmon , Grace Ho, Wendy Mehne, Paige Morgan, Vadim Serebryany, and Taylor Smith.
The program will feature Glière: Selected Duets for violin and cello, from Op. 39, JÚLIO Medaglia: Belle Epoque in Sud America for woodwind quintet, Grant Cooper: Octagons for clarinet and string quartet, and Brahms: Trio for violin, piano and horn in E-flat Major, Op. 40. “We are eagerly anticipating our next Chamber Series concert,” said Managing Director, Sarah Chandler. “Our musicians performed for sold out houses at our November and January Chamber Series concerts.They love walking out onstage and seeing our enthusiastic audience members filling the seats. Our subscriber base is growing, and we invite you to come to your very first CCO concert!” She added.
For more information and tickets, fans can visit CCOithaca.org or contact the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Box Office at 607-273-8981 or info@CCOithaca.org
Count Blastula, a funk/jam band from Syracuse have been well over 15 years in the making, and now the group has landed on a killer lineup that is really turning up the heat.
Count Blastula
Count Blastula is characterized by a funky, groovy, get-up-and-move style of jamming. They perform enticing originals and covers combined with a dose of magic that propels the group into serious jamming territory. The band brings their talent everywhere from large festivals and theater shows to private events and intimate local bar gigs. Count Blastula bring their own brand of top-shelf homegrown music to events of all shapes and sizes.
The group displays a diverse full soundscape via a multitude of instruments that can be heard on any given tune, along with a dynamic, and ever-changing flow of rhythms, tones, and arrangements of sounds. Each song by Count Blastula encompasses a unique number of changes and musical movements.
The current band consists of five members: Adam Fisher on guitar/vocals, Jeremy Walts on bass/vocals, Mike Dâambrosio on keys, and Dave Schlossberg and Dave Donley on percussion. When the group tours, they may add a few others like a saxophonist, or other various instruments.
The group has released five unique EPs over the last 12 years. Their music is very much inspired by a wide variety of genres. Funk, rock, jam band, jazz, hip hop, country and more are heard throughout the tunes. You can hear inspiration from Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, Charlie Daniels, and Phish from the music.
Upcoming 2024 Count Blastula Shows
APR 19 FRI
Kwartet @The Fitz @ 8:30pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
APR 20 SAT
Trio with Special Guest Mike Dubaniewicz | LIVE @ Oswego Music Hall @ 6:00pm
Oswego, NY, United States
APR 27 SAT
443 Social Club Syracuse NY @ 7:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
MAY 4 SAT
Trio + Edgar Pagán @ Maplewood Bar and Grill @ 1:00pm
Liverpool, NY, United States
MAY 11 SAT
Shiftys @ 8:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
MAY 24 FRI
LIVE @ Sterling Stage FolkFest 2024 @ 8:00pm
Sterling Valley, NY, United States
JUN 14 FRI
LIVE @ Moondog’s Lounge | Auburn, NY | 7-10PM @ 7:00pm
Auburn, NY, United States
JUN 21 FRI
LIVE @ Estival Festival @ 10:00pm
Caneadea, NY, United States
JUN 23 SUN
Kwartet Rochester Private party @ 4:00pm
New York, NY, United States
JUN 26 WED
duo @Stout Brewery @ 7:00pm
Salina, NY, United States
JUN 28 FRI
Kwartet @ The Fitz @ 8:30pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
JUN 29 SAT
Trio | Private Event @ 4:00pm
Tully, NY, United States
JUL 13 SAT
Private party @ 5:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
JUL 19 FRI
Light the hotdog sessions at Guilded Club @ 7:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
JUL 20 SAT
with Edgar Pagan @ Critz Farms @ 5:00pm
Cazenovia, NY, United States
AUG 3 SAT
Blueberry jam Critz Farms @ 1:00pm
Cazenovia, NY, United States
AUG 10 SAT
LIVE @ Glen Fest 24 | The Glen Haven, Homer, NY @ 8:00pm
Homer, NY, United States
AUG 11 SUN
Middle Ages loading dock @ 4:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
AUG 17 SAT
Average Joes JamBand night Baldwinsville NY @ 8:00pm
Baldwinsville, NY, United States
AUG 23 FRI
Live @ Shiftys @ 8:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
AUG 24 SAT
Critz Farms @ 5:00pm
Cazenovia, NY, United States
SEP 6 FRI
LIVE @ Moondog’s Lounge | Auburn, NY | 7-10PM @ 7:00pm
Auburn, NY, United States
SEP 20 FRI
Kwartet @ The Fitz @ 8:30pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
SEP 27 FRI
Light the hotdog sessions at Gilded Club @ 7:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
OCT 11 FRI
Light the hotdog sessions at Gilded Club @ 7:00pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
NOV 8 FRI
LIVE @ Moondog’s Lounge | Auburn, NY | 7-10PM @ 7:00pm
Auburn, NY, United States
NOV 15 FRI
Kwartet @ The Fitz @ 8:30pm
Syracuse, NY, United States
For more information on the band and their upcoming shows, click here.
Albany’s show was originally set for September 19 of last year, but because of some health complications, Bruce Springsteen elected to postpone many of his September tour dates. This was his second postponement of the tour. They not only said they were going to make up those dates, but also announced in October, a European leg of the tour.
The show started promptly at 7:30pm with no opener. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band took the stage to a roaring crowd of approximately 17,000 people. He interacted well with the crowd, using many hand gestures to get everyone amped up. Unlike many artists today, Springsteen also had fans sit behind the stage and took time out to perform to them too.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band tour continues in Syracuse on April 18. If you can’t catch Springsteen live this time around, he also recently released a live album, Songs of Celebration, that is available on all streaming platforms.
Setlist: Candy’s Room, Adam Raised a Cain, Lonesome Day, Ghosts, Letter to You ,The Promised Land, Atlantic City, Trapped (Jimmy Cliff cover), Spirit in the Night, Hungry Heart, Nightshift (Commodores cover), Racing in the Street, Last Man Standing, Backstreets, Because the Night, Downbound Train, She’s the One, Wrecking Ball, The Rising, Badlands, Thunder Road
Encore (Part 1): Light of Day, Born to Run, Bobby Jean, Dancing in the Dark, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Encore (Part 2): Twist and Shout (The Top Notes cover), I’ll See You in My Dreams
On the heels of back-to-back chart topping albums, Future and Metro Boomin will be bringing live performances to an arena near you after announcing a “We Trust You” North American tour, with a performance at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center set for the summer.
Notably, Future and and frequent collaborator/ producer Metro Boomin took the internet by storm with the release of We Don’t Trust You on March 22, creating plenty of social media fodder with disses to Drake littered throughout the album, including the heavily deliberated Kendrick Lamar verse aimed at Drake and J. Cole. Less than 3 weeks later the duo made more waves with the release of a second, double-album in We Still Don’t Trust You, serving as melodic counter to the heavily trap influenced predecessor. In like manner, the latter is expected to have high first-week numbers in another chart-topping effort from the prolific duo.
Future and Metro Boomin’s “We Trust You” tour comes to Brooklyn this summer.
“We Trust Your Tour” Details
Thus, the duo announce their “We Trust You Tour” that will see them perform throughout the United States along with two notable dates in Canada roughly a month apart, including an August 11 stop in Drake’s hometown of Toronto. Presented by Live Nation, the “We Trust You Tour” begins on July 30 and will see the duo perform 27 dates in roughly a month-and-a-half. Moreover, they will bring the show to the Brooklyn’s Barclays Center with an August 15 date in New York City, before closing out the tour in Canada with a September 9 performance in Vancouver. Other notable stops include performances in Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Presale tickets for the “We Trust You Tour” are available Wednesday, April 17 for Cash App card customers, starting at 10 a.m. local time. Additionally, general sale will begin on Friday at 10 a.m. local time on livenation.com.
Emmy Award winner and two-time GRAMMY Award nominee David Cross has assembled a lineup of A-list comedians and friends for a special night of laughter under the stars at SummerStage at Central Park in New York City for David Cross and His Super Pals on Aug. 8, 2024.
Joining Cross for this incredible evening in Central Park are Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, Fred Armisen, Sean Patton, Zach Zucker, Shane Torres, and more. The evening also marks a reunion on stage between Cross, the inventive performer, writer, and producer on stage and screen, with Odenkirk as both starred in the 1990s hit TV show, Mr. Show with Bob and David.
Adding to his long list of memorable TV and film characters, on August 8, Cross will join the cast of the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy, as Sy Grossman for the fourth and final season. In February, Cross released his eighth stand-up special, David Cross: Worst Daddy in the World, to rave reviews on the 800 Pound Gorilla YouTube channel.
He hosts the podcast, Senses Working Overtime with David Cross, produced by Headgum and available every Thursday on all audio platforms with video available on Davidâs YouTube channel. In 2023, he was seen in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus film, You Hurt My Feelings, and the FX series, Justified: City Primeval. In 2021, he starred in the National Geographic series, Genius: Aretha, portraying famed music producer, Jerry Wexler opposite Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin.
David Cross and His Super Pals join James Arthur, who will open the summer concert season at SummerStage on May 17, along with Masego (June 19), Gaslight Anthem with Joyce Manor (August 21), Counting Crows (July 11), The Roots (August 23), T-Pain (June 23), Robert Glasper and Yebba (August 1), Ethel Cain (June 27), and many others.
Tickets for David Cross and Super Pals go on sale on Friday, April 19 at 10 a.m.
Hip Hop duo $uicideboys$ have announced their “Grey Day” Tour which will include shows at UBS Arena in Belmont Park on September 20 and at KeyBank Center in Buffalo on September 28.
The renowned annual “Grey Day” tour in 2024 will include different opening acts ranging from Denzel Curry, Pouya, HAARPER, Shakewell, and Ekkstacy. With the tour announcement, $uicideboy$ have also announced that they have partnered with Plus1, a nonprofit and a trusted partner that leads cultural industry artists, events, and brands in unlocking funding and building visibility for high-impact social and environmental justice initiatives, which is something very near and dear to the group.
Coinciding with the tour announcement, the group has also revealed the lead track “Us Vs Them” from their eagerly awaited next full-length album, titled New World Depression, set to release on June 14. On “Us Vs Them,” $uicideboy$ delve into facing tough challenges and feeling disconnected from society. Ruby da Cherry and $crim deliver verses about coping with personal struggles and maintaining one’s identity in a challenging world. Fans can stream the single here.
In their upcoming album World Depression, the duo navigates themes of fame, self-destruction, and the relentless search for identity amidst chaos. Across the 13-track release, their raw, unfiltered lyrics serve as a gritty narrative of personal turmoil, substance abuse, and the struggle for authenticity in a world that often feels cold and indifferent. This album is an unapologetic exploration of the darker sides of human experience, resonating with anyone who has ever felt out of place or battled with their own shadows. The album will commemorate the 10th anniversary since the formation of $uicideboy$ and fans can pre-save it here.
$uicideboy$ will bring their “Grey Day” Tour at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY on September 20 and at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo on September 28 and fans can find tickets here.
$Uicideboy$ 2024 Tour Dates
August 7 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
August 9 – Birmingham, AL @ Legacy Arena at the BJCC
August 10 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
August 11 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena *
August 13 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
August 14 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
August 16 – San Antonio, TX @ Frost Bank Center
August 17 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center
August 19 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
August 21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Delta Center *
August 23 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena *
August 24 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena *
August 25 – Portland, OR @ MODA Center *
August 27 – Sacramento, CA @ Golden 1 Center
August 28 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
August 30 – San Diego, CA @ Pechanga Arena
September 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
September 6 – Las Vegas, NV @ The MGM Grand Garden Arena
September 7 – Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
September 10 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
September 11 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Paycom Center
September 15 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
September 17 – Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena
September 19 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
September 20 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena
September 21 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
September 23 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
September 24 – Montreal, QC @ Place Bell
September 25 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
September 27 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
September 28 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center
September 29 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena
October 1 – Cincinnati, OH @ Heritage Bank Center
October 2 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena
October 4 – Indianapolis, IN @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse
DJ Premier and Snoop Dogg stay tapped in with the streets as two of hip hop’s most revered figures come together for the official music video to their latest single “Can U Dig That?.” After releasing the single a few weeks ago, the duo have now come together adding visuals to their groovy west coast track. Featuring cousin and fellow original Death Row records signee Daz Dillinger, “Can U Dig That?” pays ode to the state of California, their hip hop legends, and the urban life profiled throughout many of their songs.
Snoop Dogg, Daz Dillinger and DJ Premier pay tribute to the West coast in their new single.
“Can U Dig That?” Official Video
In light the music video follows a similar path as the record. Notably, Snoop Dogg is seen at a roundtable with with Daz Dillinger with DJ Premier on the 1’s and 2’s as the duo enjoy a trademark joint while Snoop reminisces on his journey as a West Coast native. Similarly, the record contains plenty of famous name drops as Snoop pays tribute to some of California’s most recognizable faces in hip hop, including Easy-E, E-40 and Ice-T. With a backdrop of a G-funk inspired beat with the now-iconic DJ Premier record scratches, Snoop also pays tribute to inner-city California life encapsulating the overall vibe of the Wes Coast. Uniquely while Snoop acknowledged the shootouts, those “on the yard,” he puts a positive twist to the record urging for the beef in the West come to an end.
Though Premier and Snoop have worked together previously; Snoop appeared on Gang Starr’s The Ownerz Album (“In The Life…”), Premier produced two songs on Snoop’s Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Boss album, “Unfucwitable” feat The Lady Of Rage from Snoop’s Doggy Style Allstars Vol. 1, “Can U Dig That?” is their first collaboration under DJ Premier and Ian Schwartzman’s independent imprint TTT.
The Means of Production is a Brooklyn-based collective of artists interested in an output of experimental jazz. The group released the single “Silver Pools” on April 11, and see the release of their debut LP in June.
The Means of Production is a meeting point for six of Brooklyn’s most fearless, young musicians with musical backgrounds as divergent as you’ll find in any modern outfit. They are comprised of Matt Gibbs, Ben Pirani, Tre D’Ambrocia, Rafferty Swink, Pat Carr and Jay Mumford. Each of these artists have their own diverse, unique, and mind-expanding talents.
Rafferty Swink was entrusted with the job of arranging these group improvised, spontaneous compositions. The result is a potent, genre-defying kaleidoscope of electric jazz, psych, and soul. The Means Of Production can be described as nothing less than the raw and adventurous sound of the current.
“Silver Pools” by The Means of Production kind of slapped me in the face in the best way possible. The opening little diddly and soft drum kit fiddling followed by the burst of jazzy life took me for a ride. That old style organ, xylophone backing, indie-sounding guitar, smooth bass, and all the other intricate instruments combined to form some real soulful jazz.
There are elements of several artists and eras here. It is clear off the bat that this is heavily influenced by 30s-40s jazz. Not only that but 60s-early 70s rock, blues, and even some modern indie twists are heard here. The Means of Production are certainly performing in the spirit of free-form music and creative lightning.
Ben Pirani
“Silver Pools” was released as a single, and also as the second track on the band’s upcoming self-titled LP. The LP titled The Means of Production is set to release June 14.
The Means of Production Track Listing
1. Welcome 2. Silver Pools 3. Provence Avanti 4. In A Silent Jay 5. Sertraline 6. Positively 5th Street 7. Sun, Moon, Wind, Earth 8. (Di)stance 9. Beware Of The Midnight Special 10. Blank 11. The Lone Square 12. Well…
Rafferty Swink
To hear the bands recently released single, “Silver Pools” and to stay up to date on future releases, click here.
