PHOTOS: NEPA Scene’s Got Talent, Week 3, 04/07/15
Week 3 of the NEPA Scene’s Got Talent open mic and talent competition was so unpredictable that even the group who won the audience vote on Tuesday, April 7 didn’t know what was going to happen until they started jamming onstage. Handpan player Steve Werner, cellist Dan King, and drummer Matt Montella – who had […]
Guitar virtuoso Tim Farrell will perform and hold fingerstyle workshop in Honesdale on April 18
From a press release: The Cooperage Project is proud to welcome fingerstyle guitar virtuoso and composer Tim Farrell to The Cooperage in Honesdale on Saturday, April 18, both to perform and to lead a hands-on guitar workshop. Farrell is a highly accomplished guitarist whose roots and influences transcend genre. He has mastered the intricacies of […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: Cello, djembe, and handpan cover of the ‘Game of Thrones’ theme song
The fifth season of the epic fantasy series “Game of Thrones” begins tonight to HBO, so Scranton musicians Steve Werner and Dan King are celebrating with their own epic cover of the show’s main theme music. King, who plays cello in A Fire With Friends, and Werner, the drummer for Blinded Passenger, won the audience […]
2015 Vans Warped Tour lineup at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton announced
The 2015 Vans Warped Tour lineup has been announced, mixing artists from many different genres and including some established names among the many younger up-and-coming acts. The Warped Tour will roll through The Pavilion at Montage Mountain (1000 Montage Mountain Rd., Scranton) on July 21. Below is the full list of bands slated to perform […]
PHOTOS/VIDEO: All Time Low at the Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre, 04/04/15
Maryland pop punkers All Time Low officially released their sixth studio album, “Future Hearts,” on April 7, but fans who sold-out pre-orders at the Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre were treated to a preview a few days early during an in-store acoustic performance on Saturday, April 4. Feet First Productions was also there to film […]
PUTTING IN WORK: Musical composition copyright laws explained as simply as possible
In my last column, I talked about the two very different copyrights used in music. As you might remember, there’s the copyright for the musical composition and the copyright for the audio recording – I’ll refer to that as the master from now on. In this article, I’m going to talk about the musical composition […]
EXCLUSIVE: Watch video of and stream/download 3 new live studio songs from Skip Monday
Kaylin Karr and Nathan Montella of Scranton indie pop duo Skip Monday joined us on Episode 20 of the NEPA Scene Podcast for an extensive interview and conversation, and while they were in The Stude at TwentyFiveEight Studios in Scranton, they recorded three original acoustic songs for us that can only be heard at their […]
Local Weezer tribute band No Memories picks their favorite Weezer songs
No Memories, the brand new Weezer tribute band from Northeastern Pennsylvania, is making their debut at O’Leary’s Pub in Scranton this Friday, April 10, so we asked vocalist/guitarist Ed Cuozzo (A Social State, Melded, A Fire With Friends), lead guitarist/vocalist Mike Ghigiarelli (Shattered Sky Productions, Melded), drummer Brad Beneski (Pull the Pin, Melded, Shattered Sky […]
Celebrating 50 years, Gordon Lightfoot takes the ‘Carefree Highway’ to Wilkes-Barre on Aug. 2
From a press release: It was announced today that renowned singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot will visit the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre on Sunday, Aug. 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets, which are $39.50, $49.50, $59.50 and $71.50, plus applicable fees, go on sale this Friday, April 10 at 10 a.m. and will […]
