VA - Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes (2025)

Produced/curated by Carl Cafarelli, “Make Something Happen…” is a very special collection saluting – and featuring The Flashcubes. Joining the legendary Syracuse band's three 2025 singles “Reminisce,” “The Sweet Spot” and “If These Hands” are 21 new covers of 'Cubes classics by a dazzling assortment of the band's peers from the '70s onwards (The Spongetones, Sorrows) and leading lights of the current indie pop scene (Joe Giddings, Chris Von Sneidern, and more). The songs, of course, take center stage here, this being a selection of fresh spins on decades of the band's material. What emerges is a songbook rich with a depth of craft and sentiment that is too often overlooked in favor of The Flashcubes' melodic acumen and onstage firepower. Cafarelli, who has long been the band's pre-eminent booster, tells the band’s tale best in his liner notes. Here’s a snippet - “The Flashcubes lit the spark of the Syracuse new wave rock 'n' roll scene, inspiring new groups and delighting delirious, giddy fans. Guitarists Paul Armstrong and Arty Lenin, bassist Gary Frenay, and drummer Tommy Allen burned a hole through the roof of every venue the Flashcubes played. From The Loft in rural Middleville, NY to Max’s Kansas City in New York, the band blazed a rock 'n' roll trail from Syracuse to Boston to Detroit to Cleveland, to CBGB's, to Los Angeles, and even to Japan. Forty-eight years on, the band still features all four original members.”