Deer Tick got all your friends drunk and singing songs at The Haunt last Thursday. Why weren't you there?

Joan Baez and Kris Kristofferson gave Ithaca a bit of old school rock and roll values at the State Theatre on Saturday.

Wilco continues to innovate on their latest and first on their own label, dBpm.

Matt Samet looks at the inefficient voting measures put in place by the Grammys and proffers some predictions.

Country Strong's method doesn’t make sense, but you might find yourself with a new impression of country.

Country is not always the most popular genre. And, if you generally don’t like country, to be honest I don’t much blame you. But the tradition of country music in America (about which I claim no expertise) is full of virtuosic musicians and wonderful songs. It bears little to no resemblance to much of what is today called country.

Everyone’s familiar with Tom Brokaw’s publications that idealize the proverbial “greatest generation,” referencing the generation of Americans who won the second world war, reshaped the world’s political order, built the American middle class, laid the interstate highway system, integrated our schools, passed the civil rights act, challenged us to put a man on the moon and to build a great society, all while generating untold sums of wealth and making America the economic envy of the world.