Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to find the interesting stuff… and sometimes it ends up not being interesting at all. Some smaller releases from the last few months in a nutshell: Maritime- Heresy & The Hotel Choir (Flameshovel) Top- notch American power pop out of the Cheap Trick/Guided By Voices school and somewhat reminiscent of Philly’s late, great Bigger Lovers. Davey von Bohlen’s...

Electric City Renaissance has been named Best Local Blog in Electric City‘s annual “Best of Lackawanna County” issue, making it three years straight. Thanks to all of our readers and contributors for your support and thanks to Electric City for the recognition. The site continues to change and grow; and in the coming year, we’re going to keep finding new ways to bring you all of the outstanding...

The Anthology bookstore will be hosting Antennathology on Saturday from 5-8 PM. There will be chocolate, wine and prizes to give away, not to mention the melodious sounds provided by one-half of Electric City’s 2007 best DJ duo, Conor McGuigan! (Check out PANKED on MySpace for more details). The flyer for the event is available for viewing and download at www.prunejuice.net/antenna. You can also check it out...

After a long hiatus the “The Doctor of Winganomics” is back baby! It’s been one whole year since my last posting. Exiled to my fortress of wing solitude, the good doctor honed his craft of tasting delicacies that only the most finely tuned mouth could handle. Suffering from a severe case of burn out, the good doctor could not keep up with the rigorous tour schedule that comes with wing sampling at this high...

The most exciting thing to come out of Olyphant, PA since the road to Throop may be local blues/rock duo Dealer In Wares. The group is made up of Tim Beckage on guitar and Sarah Yzkanin on harmonica and vocals. They look like they would get carded buying smokes but they play the blues with more grit and feeling than 90% of the supposed blues cats out there today. Yzkanin’s voice sounds like it may have been lifted...