The North Country’s Entertainment Magazine
The North Country’s Entertainment Magazine
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There’s no easy way to talk about Taylor Swift without someone lighting a candle in her honor or lighting you on fire for even questioning her. She is an empire, an institution, and a lyrical surgeon. But even empires have fine print, and right now that fine print is spelled i-n-t-e-r-p-o-l-a-t-i-o-n. If you just blinked at that word like a high schooler pretending to understand calculus, you are not alone. Interpolation is the lesser-known cousin of sampling. It happens when...
There is no shortage of social media obituaries for live music in Upstate New York, and if you scroll long enough, you will inevitably stumble across the usual suspects playing their familiar roles: the venue owner bemoaning poor turnout with the tone of a funeral director narrating his own losses, the promoter waxing poetic about the “golden days” as though they alone were entrusted with the keys to nostalgia, and the musician sighing into the void that “the kids don’t...
I have watched bands with all the talent in the world lose everything in the span of a single set. It was not because the songs were bad. It was not because the crowd was indifferent. It was because of something so small, so avoidable, that it almost felt criminal. One night it was a band that walked onstage with guitars so painfully out of tune the sound engineer buried his face in his hands before the first chorus. Another night it was a group that decided their merch table...
