Since Shpongle’s 2005 appearance at the annual Camp Bisco festival in Van Etten, Posford suggests that “the audiences from the jam-band scene show a lot of similarities to the electronica scene. For a start, a lot of them take mind-expanding drugs and they seem very musical.

• Everyone loves to air guitar, right? On Friday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., contestants will have the chance to channel their inner Jimi as Syracuse hosts its first Air Guitar Competition.

This year marked my 10th trip to the South by Southwest Music Conference (SXSW), the Austin festival’s 25th edition, held this year from March 11 to 20. Syracuse was represented well in Texas.

For veteran saxophonist and composer David Liebman, his upcoming weekend date with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra might seem like just another stop on a very busy schedule, were it not for the special opportunity that awaits him.

“I don’t feel that bad for breaking down,” he says about Dean, who passed away at age 65 on April 4, 2009 after a long battle with cancer. “It just shows I’m human and the impact that the guy had on me. If I can break down, you know that he had that wonderful place in my life and that wonderful place in so many people’s lives.

House on a Spring debuts their long-awaited album …We Gonna Break Free at several upcoming shows

Formed at SU in 2006, Ra Ra Riot returns to play the Westcott on Thursday

The Lights Out, a Boston band with Salt City connections, performs at this weekend’s Relay for Life fundraiser

The sound technicians took the stage in a normal fashion, tuning the instruments that looked as if they were etched by jagged knives. The stage appeared fairly clean of props except for the drum set raised on stilts. Everyone from the sound guys to the photographers prepared for the bloody massacre as flashlights flickered, thereby starting the show.

It’s not surprising that a guy who helped create some of the most memorable and mellow pop recordings of the 1970s is supremely comfortable in his own skin. But John Ford Coley (born John Edward Colley), says that hasn’t always been the case.