Head on down to Just Be Cause at 1013 W. State St. in Ithaca tonight, Tuesday, August 27th for a night of creative and dynamic hip-hop and Ithaca Underground's final summer show.



Milo (on Hellfire Club, based out of Wisconsin these days) headlines, wielding his latest, a double EP “Things That Happened That Day / Things That Happened That Night”, a beautiful work of progressive hip-hop embracing obtuse, first-person lyrics (see poetry) and spacious, atmospheric beats. A slight departure, but natural progression from his quick-lipped “Milo takes Baths” work from 2012. Milo’s catalogue is personal, academic, glitchy, atmospheric, melodic and full of soul, jazz, indie, and DIY ethics. An answer for anyone who has ever questioned 21st century hip-hop.

TTHTD/TTHTN producer, Riley Lake will bring his own solo, beat-instrumental tunes to the table. Check out his SounCloud here.



Sammus continues to rise, hitting Bandcamp's #1 spot for hip-hop back in July when it initially dropped. If you live in Ithaca and haven't checked her out... do yourself a favor an do so immediately.



Sapience is Ithaca's latest hip-hop edition, spitting fresh, socially conscious rhymes. He'll be joined with a live band with Chris Ploss on the 16s and guitar, Gabe Millman on drums, Ben Mann on Bass, and Aaron Turkle on keys.

See you all at Just Be Cause tonight - 8PM // $5 // ALL AGES

It's that time of year again for Bubba's birthday show. This year is packed with three stellar acts from the road - Toronto's instrumental math-rock heroes, The Bulletproof Tiger return for the second year in a row, Buffalo's two-piece math-rock wizards, All of them Witches are back for just their second Ithaca appearance ever, and our Albany brothers in Grady Stiles (intense, emotional, complex hardcore?)... plus Mouth To Mouth To Mouth make a special appearance with Gulab of Cattle Drums on guitar. Time to get wild down at Just Be Cause (1013 W. State St., Ithaca, NY 14850 | 8PM | $5).

The Vasudeva (NJ/MA) and Gulfer (Montreal) tour hits Ithaca this Saturday, August 10th with CNY's might Cattle Drums headlining and Buffalo's Del Paxton (featuring members of the defunct Beach Parade, Longitude, and Fairway).  Join us for one heck of a stacked line-up of math-rock, indie, and herd-core (ha).

It's also worth noting that the fine folks in Gulfer were instrumental in helping both Cattle Drums and Ithaca's Mouth To Mouth To Mouth with their recent Canadian dates, so let's show 'em some Ithaca love!

Email Ithaca Underground (contact -at- ithacaunderground.com) for details. 8PM $5











Cattle Drums (Tiny Engines : Oneonta, NY)
Vasudeva (NJ/MA)
Gulfer (Montreal, QC)
Del Paxton (Buffalo – ex-Longitude/Beach Parade)

Saturday, August 10th
Ithaca, NY 14850
8pm | $5 | All Ages

Giraffes? Giraffes! on tour and in Ithaca for the first time since 2010!




Giraffes? Giraffes! (New England)
Goddard (Worcester, MA)
Mouth To Mouth To Mouth (Ithaca)
Cameron Wisch (NJ)

Monday, July 15th

Ithaca, NY 14850

8pm | $5 | All Ages 

Email Ithaca Underground for details

You, Me, & the Radio return home from tour and perform at Angry Mom Records this Saturday. Check out their new release on their new label and check them out before they move to Boston!


You, Me, and the Radio (Ithaca)
Cowboy Band (Boston, MA)
Red Sled Choir (Ithaca)

Saturday, July 13th

Angry Mom Records
(Basement of Autumn Leaves Books)
115 The Commons
Ithaca, NY 14850
6PM-8PM | $5 | All Ages

ITHACA! This Wednesday, there is a very stacked bill to send local math-rock quartet off on the road with the underground legend Cameron Wisch (performing solo and guitar in MTMTM).


Mouth To Mouth To Mouth (Angry Mom Records : Ithaca)
Cameron Wisch (NJ)
Our Daily Fix (NY)
Perhaps (Boston)
Nicknames (NJ)
Sovereignties (NJ)

Wednesday, July 10th

Bands start at 8PM sharp with Sovereignties. $5-$7 donations. Email Ithaca Underground for details.

Ithaca Underground's summer shows kick into high gear starting this Saturday, June 22nd with Daido Loori, Yakbak, King Sized Pegasus, and Cocaine Breath.

Links and brief descriptions for all of the shows announced so far are below (a final August show is ready to leave our lips soon).
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Daido Loori, Yakbak, King Sized Pegasus, Cocaine Breath
Saturday, June 22nd | 8PM | $5 (email IU for details)


Daido Loori: M/F dual vocal fronted screamo/skramz from NJ. Beautiful, dynamic, with mostly clean-tone guitars and throat shredding vocals.


Yakbak: MTMTM/Beach Parade members playing mathy, melodic punk jams.

King Sized Pegasus: Youth hardcore punk with a brand new 8-track release.


Cocaine Breath: Ultra short set from Dylan Well’s powernoisewtf via Philly/Ithaca.
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Ithaca Underground is extremely proud to present LISTENER on Thursday, July 18th at the new Just Be Cause Center (former Ithaca Paint bldg) - 1013 W. State St., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Tickets are on sale now here. 8PM | $8 adv / $10 dos | All Ages

Check out the new single "Eyes To The Ground For Change" from their upcoming LP "Time Is A Machine" coming 6/18/13. More past clips below.

On Monday, March 4th at The Haunt, KEN Mode return to Ithaca for the first time in 10 years on the eve of their tour with Today Is The Day and Black Tusk (both of whom have also past through in recent years). Their latest "Entrench" hits March 19th via Season Of Mist:


We've got a killer line-up of metallic hardcore, sludge punk, noise-rock, and blistering grindcore/powerviolence. Get familiar with the bands and be there at 7PM for the first act!


FIGHT AMP:
Sludgy, genre-bending punk/noise-rock from Jersey.


LOFTS:
Local blown-out noise rock duo.

Hiroshima Vacation (with Bubba Crumrine)

Local grindcore/powerviolence duo expands to a trio with Ithaca Underground president, Bubba Crumrine on electronics.


Monday, March 4th @ The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850
7PM Start | $10 | All Ages

That's right folks. Legendary California grind troop PHOBIA (Deep Six / Willowtip / Relapse) will be at The Space on Tuesday, October 19th with tourmates D.I.S. and Strong Intention, plus locals Hiroshima Vacation and one more tba.  Presale tickets are up already and are just $8 right here.

Thanks to our pals Odyssey Booking for jumping on to help co-promote this one with Ithaca Underground.

Check out tracks from latest, "Remnants of Filth" issued just this past June via Deep Six and Willowtip.

Paper Mice : Live at Ball Hall from GONZO CHICAGO on Vimeo.

Ithaca Underground is proud to present Diamond Terrifier and Patrick Higgins on July 18th at The Space (700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca, NY).

Diamond Terrifier is Sam Hillmer of ZS - his saxophone and electronics solo project, to be precise. Named after the English translation of the Indo-Tibetan god-name Vajrabairahva, Diamond Terrifier is concerned with the potential positive qualities of destruction as mediated by noise/drone sheets of sound music.  Check out some footage of this performance in Philly earlier this spring and last year in NYC:

In case you haven’t heard, in partnership with our pals at Odyssey Booking we've added Kentucky hardcore quintet XERXES to the BRIAN!/Blunt Guts/Dance-A-Tron weekend kick off gig. Be sure and check them out. Bring some friends to pack the room as we’re finishing up footage for the IU Documentary short at this show!



Feb 24th: XERXES (No Sleep Records)
+ BRIAN!, Dance-A-Tron, Blunt Guts - weekend tour kickoff
@ The Space, 700 W Buffalo St - 8PM $5

THESE MACHINES return to Ithaca for their official CD release of "Pharmakon" and to kick of the IU 2012 year!  These Binghamton pals have created some seriously menacing tech-metal with influences all over the grind, death, and hardcore spectrum while creating a hell of a lot of noise for just a trio.  Dual vocal attack from guitarist Tom Doud (also of Sepsis, Dirty Slits, formerly Cancerface) and bassist Paul Ghilardi who get their shred on without any hint of wankness and rounded out with sick kit work via Mike Emm.  Check out footage below from their gig at CSMA with Hiroshima Vacation, et al. from the fall.



Also on the bill are Rochester’s BURN EVERYTHING who, we’ve been itching to play Ithaca as far back as ’09 if memory serves.  This band is crafting some eye-opening, relentlessly scathing melding of metal in hardcore that's all twisted and mangled.  Recently, BE have been getting some national attention from a variety of online hotspots including Metal Sucks:

" Progressive post-hardcore? Dillinger / Burnt By the Sun-esque mathcore? Some other ultimately meaningless label? Beats me… how about just “good”? Burn Everything even introduce elements like elephants marching riffs, Morbid Angel pick scrapes and relentless double-bass pounding you don’t normally hear from bands that fall on the more hardcore side of the spectrum. A true melding of hardcore and metal that isn’t — gasp — “metalcore.” These guys get my vote for sure."



Local metallic hardcore quintet Among Dead Men will kick things off. 





Come by The Space @ GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo, Ithaca, NY 14850 on Friday, Jan 13th at 8PM and check it out. Just $5.  

MOTHGUTS
Get read for Jersey jazz-metal quartet MOTHGUTS, this Saturday at The Space. More info on them below but first let's check out some video of this goodness...



Awesome. Want more? Well, it just so happens you can download Mothguts entire discography right here (3/4 down the page).

So far, the quartet have released three proper studio albums, a live album, a Christmas album, and an improv album. All of which are fully fueled with blistering, Satanic-fit-inducing metallic riffage, sax shronk and skree, a la Painkiller/Naked City/Last Exit but very much their own beast.

The Invisible Hand
We've got another damn good reason for you to show up - your first shot at picking up the latest album from Ithaca's own jazz-noise-punks, The Invisible Hand entitled "A Zen Philosophy" plus the release of guitarist/bassist Mark's own solo EP "The Rapture". Two spankin' new releases at one show. Need something to do in the meantime? How about this official music video from the TIH camp for the track "Fukushima". Come down to the space for more of Mark's video animation during their live set.



Don't Go Into The Woods
Closing out this three band evening is Ithaca's own black metal three piece. Don't Go Into The Woods. Check out some footage from their last IU gig at The Haunt. Who knew psych/folk singer/songwriter Mike (A)! had the blackmetal pipes!


Saturday, November 12th
The Space @ GreenStar (aka The Annex)

700 West Buffalo St
Ithaca, NY 14850
8PM $5 ALL AGES

Cobra Skulls, now on Fat Wreck Chords, return to Ithaca for the first time since the '09 Red Scare tour (Menzingers, Sidekicks) and we are STOKED. Once of the nicest bands we've had through and always a blast live. Nice to see the good ones getting the attention. They've been busy since we last saw them signing to Fat and dropping their "Bring The War Home" EP and just released their 3rd LP "Agitations. Never heard of them? Well... check 'em out and learn about your new favorite punk band.

And let's not forget their former Red Scare labelmates Nothington (featuring ex-Tsunami Bomb members Jay Northington and Gabriel Lindeman) on on tour with CS all the way from San Fran. We've got some footage below to wet your pallet. See you this Saturday!

Cobra Skulls, Nothington, Bombtree, The Dirty Slits at The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850.  Just $8 at the door (or pre-sale here with no surcharge), this all ages show kicks off at 6PM (doors at 5PM) and runs til ~10PM. Off-street parking is available as are meals via Razorback BBQ, located inside The Haunt.


New video for Rebel Fate off Agitations


Back to '10 for one of my favorites off of American Rubicon 'HDUI'