“We decided to up ourselves from last year We wanted to raise the bar. Balloonfest wasn’t going to exist a few years ago because they weren’t stepping it up with entertainment. It’s in my back yard and I hated to see it go. It’s a great family event.”.

On May 11, Goomba Music, LLC, issued a press release announcing their latest addition to the label: Syracuse’s own Brand New Sin. The four-piece signed a worldwide marketing and distribution deal, different than label agreements they’ve had in the past.

More than 35 years of guitar-playing later, Reynolds is famous for his own original music as well as his covers of many of the artists he was once denied. “When my parents were gone I would crank my older sister’s records,” Reynolds recalled in a phone interview from his North Carolina home in the Outer Banks.

The sixth annual Loretto Legends benefit concert for the eldercare facility will present the enduring popmusic singer-songwriter on Oct. 6 at the Mulroy Civic Center’s Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater, 411 Montgomery St.

Tim Herron Corporation, Northbound Traveling Minstrel Jug Band, Los Blancos.

The title may hint at what the band was trying to accomplish. Fans will hear lots of little things borrowed from their past work en route to something new and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Rockers “Discoverer” and “All the Best” hark back to the crunch of Document-era.

Politicians have been after this secret for decades: how to instill passion for diversity without manipulation tactics or infomercials. The divine secret is in the drumbeat. Sully Erna,.

John Gourley, singer and guitarist of progressive rock band Portugal. The Man, is different than many young touring musicians. He was raised in Alaska (Wasilla, exactly, home of Sarah Palin) and dropped out of school when he was 15 to build houses with his father. He grew up on a steady diet of oldies rock including Sam Cooke and The Beatles, but Gourley also loved the cover band that featured his friend Zach Carothers (now his bassist and vocalist with PTM), with its repertoire of Nirvana, Slayer and Rage Against the Machine songs. He grew up with a piano, violin and guitar in his house, but never learned how to play them. And he didn't know that people slept past 8 a.m. until he was about 19 years old.