The North Country’s Entertainment Magazine
The North Country’s Entertainment Magazine
Sorted by date Results 1 - 11 of 11
Twenty-two years ago, my journey began with the Disabled Persons Action Organization of Jefferson and Lewis County. I photographed the Rock & Roll Hall Fame Inductees, the Doobie Brothers at the Watertown Fairgrounds Arena. It was the beginning of an amazing run of photographing over a hundred and fifty musical acts, comedians and entertainers. My heartfelt thanks go out to Joe Rich. He gave me the opportunity to not only capture the live performances, but to photograph...
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...
Continued photos...
Fourth Coast Entertainment Media got a chance to talk to MARY ANN CASALE A musician songwriter that crosses genres from blues to country to folk from Potsdam, NY Q: Describe you as a person? A: Creative, quirky, yet grounded. Introverted. Q: How long have you been performing? A: Since I was in HS Q: What are your influences? A: Eagles, Bonnie Raitt, John Denver, Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell as well as the old-time blues fingerpicking guitarist/writers. Q: What type o...
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...
Buckcherry stepped out onto the stage twenty-five years ago. Within that time frame they have released eleven albums. The band has hit the gold level of sales with their hits "Crazy Bitch", "Lit "and "Sorry" but they have never strayed too far from their original signature sound of hard rock grit with pop infused melodies. The Southern California rockers have always disregarded trends and have remained true to themselves. That characteristic has enabled Buckcherry to maintain...
Back in 1976-77, when the first explosions of UK Punk Rock were heard, Generation X was there. The band formed in 1976 & practiced & gigged constantly, finally releasing their first album, “Generation X,” in 1978. The personnel for the record comprised Billy Idol on lead vocals, Derwood Andrews on guitar, Tony James on insistent bass, & Mark Laff on drums. They all contributed background vocals. All the songs were written by Idol & James. The album received critical suc...
How long have you been playing? I've been playing guitar for about 10 years and I've been singing and playing out professionally since I was 11. But I've always had the mind of a musician. Music has always been my form of self-expression. I have autism and didn't speak until I was 4. Verbal communication was hard for me and I had a really hard time connecting to people and understanding them. But I could figure out how to play the nursery rhymes on my little toy piano by ear l...
We go north to Canada for this month's review with a musical group that dominated the charts for pretty much a decade. Three Days Grace entered the rock scene in 2003 with their self-titled debut and followed with the release of eight more albums. The top of the charts was the norm with several albums reaching platinum level status. Their latest endeavor Alienation, distributed by RCA Records, is the first as a quintet, creating a unique situation for a rock n roll band....
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...
Jefferson Airplane took flight in late summer of 1966, when vocalist Grace Slick joined the band. Lead singer Signe Anderson had gone out on maternity & never came back. With Grace now onboard, the classic lineup was complete: Grace Slick & Marty Balin on lead vocals, Paul Kantner on rhythm guitar & vocals, Jorma Kaukonen on lead guitar, Jack Casady on bass, & Spencer Dryden on percussion. Their first album w/ the new lineup, "Surrealistic Pillow," released in early 1967,...
