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Ithaca Underground Music Video Festival

By Bubba Crumrine

This will be the second Ithaca Underground Music Video Festival! Join us for a night (or 2!) of music videos featuring the musical talents of Ithaca and the surrounding area. The same program will run on Wed. January 28 and Thurs. January 29! Both shows begin at 8 PM. https://www.cinemapolis.org/movie/ithaca-underground-music-video-festival/ Submit your video here. 

Naked Noise returns Sept 20th!

By Bubba Crumrine

Join use for the 12th iteration of Ithaca’s premier audio-visual event – the large improv ensemble of drone & noise — NAKED NOISE For details, ticket packages, learn more here.

Naked Noise Artist Preview: Luke Stewart, Sarah Hennies, Kyle Kidd, & more

By Bubba Crumrine

Naked Noise returns and we have a stacked evening of talent from Philly, NYC, and CNY. Learn more here.  

Rainbow Fest 2025

By Bubba Crumrine

What is Ithaca Rainbow Fest?A collaboration between Ithaca Pride Alliance and Ithaca Underground, Rainbow Fest is an all ages event that aims to bring together musicians, drag performers, & visual artists from across the community and beyond to celebrate LGBTQIA+ identities, culture, and community. Rainbow Fest is about celebrating and acknowledging that there is a…

Compactor & Flose return!

By Bubba Crumrine

$10 8PM All Ages – An evening of noise, experimental, power electronics, and performance art at The Nocturnal Café – Tickets on sale now. COMPACTOR returns to Ithaca to perform “Institutionalized Genocide” – a scathing industrial noise and visual performance plus the Ithaca return of Flose, Each Night I Dream Of Razors (new power electronics…

Extra Life , BRIAN! & La Llorona feat. Tara Escudero – Nov 8th

By Corey Mahaney

Extra Life was formed in 2007 as the main vehicle for New York-based guitarist/composer/vocalist, Charlie Looker. The band plays a fusion of aggressive math rock, dark dramatic pop, modern classical, and ancient liturgical music, bridging the worlds of abstract art music and DIY post-punk musical culture. Looker was a founding member of NY noise-chamber outfit…

Song People, Strange Heavy, & Amber Martin on Oct 20th

By Corey Mahaney

Song People (Don Giovanni Records) have been playing and singing in each other’s bands for over ten years as core members of Philadelphia-based music collective Edible Onion. Vivid, propulsive, hypnotic story-songs that work in the city but sleep in a hollow tree. Sun Oct 20th with Strange Heavy and Amber Martin & The Fruit Stand…

ZOOKRAUGHT RETURNS

By Corey Mahaney

Next Sunday (10/6) at Bike Walk Tompkins (behind enterprise–803 cascadilla st) All ages Music starts at 7:00 Free (suggested donation for touring band and IU)

Porchfest 2024

By Corey Mahaney

  We are so excited to be partnering with Gimme Coffee to bring you 3 amazing performers during this year’s Porchfest! 🎶 Music starting at 2:00PM out back in the Disco Garden 🕺 see you Sunday! ALL PORCHFEST PERFORMERS + SCHEDULE  

Naked Noise returns April 15th!

By Bubba Crumrine

Ithaca’s premier experimental music event Naked Noise returns, with our annual large ensemble of improvised ritual drone – our first since 2019!   This April the third floor of Ithaca’s Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) will be transformed into Ithaca’s premiere experimental audio-visual event. A selection of Ithaca’s most talented and innovative musicians…