Porcelain Helmet
Porcelain Helmet is a thrash metal band from upstate New York formed in 2015.
Dead Leaf Echo
Brooklyn’s Dead Leaf Echo is an music/art collective that released their debut LP “Thought and Language” in 2013. The album had clear 4AD influences as it was mixed by John Fryer (Lush, NIN, Depeche Mode) with artwork by the label’s legendary designer V23’s Vaughan Oliver (Pixies, Bauhaus). Their latest EP “true.deep.sleeper” released in 2014 saw them working with Monte Vallier (Weekend, Wax Idols)
They have finished their 2nd LP again w/ Vallier and also contributions from Guy Fixsen (MBV, WIRE) + Jorge Elbreht (Ariel Pink, No Joy) at Mexican Summer’s studio in Greenpoint. A 7″ single + digital EP will be released in the spring followed by a tour to SXSW. A European tour will happen in late May and the LP to be released in the fall.
DLE has done multiple national tours over the past 2 years resulting in over 160 shows and taking them to SXSW, CMJ, NXNE, Northside Festival and everywhere in between.
Previous tours and SXSW bills included Swervedriver, The Wedding Present, A Place to Bury Strangers & Trail Of the Dead. They festivaled in 2011 with the Psychedelic Furs as well as played sold out shows in 2010 opening for the reunited Chapterhouse and Ulrich Schnauss.
“DLE bring you Dream-Pop!”
-FILTER Magazine
“Some of the best live music in the city”
-Time Out NY
“Brooklyn’s Dead Leaf Echo play guitar-pop in the mold of Primal Scream and Swervedriver.” – Death and Taxes
“We love Dead Leaf Echo’s dreamy pop”
-The L Magazine
Ryan Egan
Ryan Egan is a singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist based in NYC. His most recent single “Finest Hour” premiered on Billboard and his highly acclaimed debut EPPostures has gained praise from outlets such as Noisey, Pigeons & Planes, Neon Gold & more. Set to release his sophomore EP Fever & Bloom this fall, Ryan Egan aims to provoke listeners with his eclectic blend of pop and psychedelic neo-soul, following in the footsteps of artists like Tame Impala, Prince, Beck and others by writing, producing and playing every instrument on his record.
https://soundcloud.com/thisryanegan\
Paperhaus
In-depth conversations about the world and our place within await around every corner, in DC at least. Oftentimes these weighty discussions end at an impasse, each side so confident in the rightness of their held position that there is no change. Every once in a while, however, a new perspective on an old belief is born not through entrenched rhetoric, but candid questions. We’ve all heard it, maybe you even said it yourself: “hm, that’s a good question.” Paperhaus don’t have the answers, hell, they’re still looking for the right questions. And that sense of seeking propels their new record—Are These The Questions We Need To Ask?, out Fall 2017 on Pittsburgh’s Misra Records (Destroyer, Phosphorescent, Great Lake Swimmers)—forward, while much of the world is left looking at the past.
Founded in 2006 by Alex Tebeleff (Black Lodge) along with childhood friends Eddie Rivers and Jeff Galfond, and fleshed out by various collaborators over the years—on ATTQWNTA?, Tebeleff has continued the project and is joined by new writing partners Matt Dowling (Deleted Scenes, Joy Buttons, Swoll) and Rick Irby (Den-Mate, Wanted Man, Jau Ocean)—Paperhaus functions as both a band and a creative collective, the latter in the form of their famed house venue (infamously featured on the pilot of HGTV’s DC Flippers). After a tense election season and the loss of a central collaborator to the sun of Los Angeles, Tebeleff felt it was time to change up the project’s approach. A steady diet of modular synthesizers, community organizing and collaborative experimentation with aforementioned players emboldened his resolve to ride Paperhaus to its inevitable next stage.
And here we are: now. ATTQWNTA? marks a turning point for Paperhaus. Through a wide palate of psych, kraut, classic pop and noise Paperhaus rips through eight exciting new tracks, each paying service to the album’s whole. The current ensemble shines most on new songs like “Told You What To Say,” “Go Cozy,” and “Walk Through The Woods,” where some of the band’s heaviest guitars mix with a potent, mechanical rhythm section and Tebeleff’s Moog Sub 37, on which many of these compositions were first conceived. The lyrics—penned by Tebeleff and Dowling—reflect the band’s newly matured worldview, infusing their long-held commitment to community with a sense of wide-eyed awe. Settling into a series of studios over the last two years, the final recorded product was expertly engineered & mixed by Peter Larkin of The Lighthouse Recording Studio in Alexandria, VA. All things considered, ATTQWNTA? shows a new band ready to lead their peers out onto the next branch. They haven’t forgotten where they came from, but instead, they’re forging ahead, despite the anxiety of the unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/user/paperhausmusic
Justin Tracy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Singer-songwriter Justin Tracy was born and raised in London and currently lives in Hurley, NY. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a focus on guitar and voice. He is also a record producer, composer, arranger, and vocal coach. Justin began his career as a jazz drummer performing with acts including Earth, Wind & Fire at the Nice And North Sea Jazz Festivals. Most recently, Justin worked with acclaimed tabla player, Nilesh Jhadav on his albums Bangla Motor and the forthcoming Mumbai Night.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrJustintracy
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Payne’s Grey Sky
Payne’s Grey Sky is an American roots rock band from Kingston NY. Jimi Scheffel (lead vocals, guitar), Rich Dymond (bass, backing vocals) and Dave Sahloff (drums) formed the band in 2009. PGS often includes Hawk Hermann (fiddle, backing vocals) and Betsy Scheffel (backing vocals). In June 2015, PGS released their first CD of original music, the self-titled Payne’s Grey Sky. A number of tracks can be heard in rotation on local radio stations, WDST, WKZE and WVKR. Almanac Weekly music critic, John Burdick wrote in his review of the CD, “Lyrically, it is bardic, perching with impeccable balance between personal and social, addressing relationship challenges in a high diction that could just as easily be describing the historical moment. Musically, it’s ecstatic chamber/ folk rock …”
Over the years, Payne’s Grey Sky has lovingly donated their time for local fundraising events, including YWCA’s Tunes for Tots, the Ulster Police Women’s Auxiliary’s Coming Together for Kids, the Gruner Memorial Bike for Cancer Care, and The Delisio Memorial Golf Tournament benefiting the Special Olympics. In 2014, Payne’s Grey Sky was presented with the “Y” Ally award from the Ulster County YWCA for their support of this great local organization.
The band performs frequently at a number of local venues throughout the Hudson Valley, many of which are supporters of the O+ festival year after year.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC054gB0c55UKgECToglWb8g
A Gong Supreme, with Gongs, Reiki and a Steel Cello
Birthed by Theresa Widmann and Michael Jay in 2017, A GONG Supreme returns to the Festival this year for a gathering of Gong players using the healing power of NOISE to spread love, heal, and uplift. This year, in addition to several Gong players such as Ben Brown, Vinny Colandrea, Neslihan Ulus Lord, Sue Silverstream, Micah, and more, we’ll be joined by Steel Celloist Katie Down and Reiki/Energy Healers Jenny Mulak, Zoe Moffitt, Faith Ruggiero Barr and Maritday Rodriquez. This event is expected to be outdoors with a rain location inside of the Fair Street Church. Please feel free to come and go on your own time. We’ll have some mats and blankets, but please bring your own if you have them.
Hardc0re
Hardc0re is a 14 year old DJ/Producer from NY.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE30jl_YkNgUQQgajqTlODQ
Candy Ambulance
In the summer of 2014, at a crossroad in her life, singer and guitarist ran away with longtime band mates Jesse Bolduc and Jon Cantiello. They moved in together immediately and became a happy family.
The Zambonis
The world’s greatest (and only) all hockey rock band. The Zambonis formed in 1991 when defenseman/guitarist/singer Dave Schneider ask brothers Tarquin and Peter Katis if they want to start a group that played nothing but songs about hockey.
The boys said yes and hockey rock was born.
The only band to claim The Beatles and Wayne Gretzky as two major influences.
What sounds like an absolutely stupid, horrible idea turns out to please music fans, critics and hockey people like it too.
Rave reviews and features in the Ny Times, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, ESPN Magazine, LA Times, Magnet Magazine and many more has proven over and over that these guys are not only not a joke band but, are no joke.
Savvy songwriting, musicianship and wit exceeds the one dimension you would expect. Not only can they carve out great songs about hockey, life, love and hockey again but, in 1997 they received a cease and desist from the actual Zamboni® Company. After teams of lawyers battled it out, the two left the lawyers in the office and met in person. The off ice battle, was simply resolved with a hand written letter asking The Company to please not make us change our names to “The Motorized Ice Resurfacing Machines”.
25 years, 9 records, a bunch of jerseys and a whole lot of fun.
Hockey rock is alive and kicking in 2017