09.14.2024: The Front Bottoms at The Landmark Theater w/s/g Alex Lahey
The fun began in the week preceding the show. The Landmark theater is historic and ornate, that just telling people about the show...
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Paul Branson
Aug 183 min
08.17.2024: Violent Femmes @ Beak & Skiff
The Violent Femmes, backed by their Horns of Dilemma Although it wasn't the final show of Beak & Skiff's summer concert series, it...
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Paul Branson
Aug 155 min
08.13.2024: Vision Video @ the Song & Dance w/s/g Forrest Isn't Dead, Ronnie Stone, and Architrave
This was an fun but unpredictable night which defied expectation. Like it was opposite day, nearly every expectation I had going into...
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Paul Branson
Aug 113 min
08.10.2024: Everclear @ Sharkey's w/s/gs Dracula Jones, Talking Points
The show last night mirrored the changing seasons we're starting to feel in the world at large, with shimmering summery rock from Talking...
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Paul Branson
Aug 13 min
07.30.2024: MC Chris @ Funk 'n Waffles w/s/g Crunk Witch & Zak G
Are you a Millennial? Are the cartoons of Adult Swim a cultural touchstone for you? Did you spend an inordinate amount of time in...
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Paul Branson
Jul 242 min
07.23.2024: The Flaming Lips @ Beak & Skiff
Wow! It killed me that I had to go to my day job before having a chance to sit and write this, so I'm going just jump right in, hang on...
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Paul Branson
Jul 226 min
07.20.2024: The Syracuse Nationals
The Syracuse Nationals was a blast from the past and I don't mean it in a good way. If gasoline is "made" from dinosaurs, and chickens...
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Paul Branson
Jul 144 min
07.13.2024: Korine @ The Song & Dance
w/s/g Pleasure Dome, Viva Whatever, and DJ set by Thao Crash Korine! Last night Philadelphia based duo Korine brought their flavor of...
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Paul Branson
Jul 83 min
07.07.2024: Lake Street Drive w/s/g Alisa Amador @ Beak & Skiff
Rachael Price of Lake Street Dive It was an evening to close a July 4th weekend ripped from the overwrought prose of a fanfic, and as...
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Paul Branson
Jul 23 min
06.29.2024: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit @Beak and Skiff
It was an inauspicious start: 1) over an inch of rain was in the forecast for the day and meteorologists were predicting scattered severe...
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Paul Branson
Jun 253 min
06.22.2024: Tintype Demo @ Erie Canal Museum
Have you ever wanted to have your portrait taken by a professional? Or maybe you've wanted to see what pre-civil war life was like, even...
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Paul Branson
Jun 233 min
06.21.24: Pins & Needles @ Skill Shot Arcade
As a fan of puns and pinball, when Pins and Needles was surfaced by "the algorithm," I knew I needed to go. Created by DJ Silenze and...
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Paul Branson
Apr 132 min
04.06.2024: Wolek's 71st Anniversary Beard Championship @ The Polish Home
If it can be done, people will compete to be the best at it. Were you at Dom Polski (aka the Syracuse Polish Home) on Park Avenue last...
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Paul Branson
Mar 252 min
03.23.2024: Spring Into Punk @ Stout Beard Brewing Company
feat: AMOK, Botulism Warning, Attamizk, No Complyance and Goon Squad. The day started with a foot of fresh, heavy, wet snow. By lunch...
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Paul Branson
Mar 172 min
03.16.2024: Syracuse St Patties Day Parade
It was a glorious sunny day for the 2024 edition of the Syracuse St. Patrick's Day Parade. Salina street was packed as far as the eye...
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Paul Branson
Jan 282 min
1.27.2024: Syracuse Pond Hockey Classic @ Clinton Square
No pond? No Problem! It was a grey, misty day in the mid-30's, par for the course in yet another winter just can't seem to get it's act...
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Paul Branson
Jan 273 min
1.26.2024: The Cold Stares @ 443 Social Club & Lounge
Some nights are just special. On a whim I decided to cover this show and boy am I glad I did! Before this, I'd not heard of The Cold...
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Paul Branson
Dec 27, 20232 min
12.23.2023: Dickens Christmas @ Village of Skaneateles
Looking for a new annual tradition? Are you sick of miserable impersonal shopping experiences like those of Destiny USA or Amazon? Or...
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Paul Branson
Dec 16, 20233 min
12.14.23: Spark Benefit @ Funk 'n' Waffles
feat: Boxie Rob, Undergang, Flashing Astonishers, and Dracula Jones Did you know Syracuse has a music radio station that is truly...
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Paul Branson
Dec 15, 20233 min
12.10.2023: Edison Phonograph Demo @ Fayetteville Library
Have you ever been curious what it was like to listen to music in the old days? No, not CDs, older. No, not records either. I mean the...
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