As the holidays quickly approach, I am constantly reminding myself how lucky I am to have a wonderful family, good friends and a wealth of talented musicians in the 518.  I’ve been writing this column for a while now and I still have a list of local drummers that I am looking forward to interviewing. […]

It’s that time again. We max out our credit cards and spend time with people we look to avoid most of the year. Somehow, we feel even more freakish during these days. There are radio stations playing nothing but Christmas music when you get in the car and when you head to the mall, that’s […]

Photo By: Robert Cooper Jr. There are over 170,000 words in the English language. And the human mouth can make close to 800 distinct sounds. It’s nothing that we think about, but as an instrument, the mouth is more versatile than just about any other. And in the world of music, it is hip hop […]

Patterson Hood ambled onstage with just an acoustic guitar and a glass of tequila – pretty much everything he needed to entertain a modest but appreciative assemblage  that half-filled Lark Hall last Friday. “I’m gonna digress a lot, I gotta tell you,” he warned us with a sly grin, his drawl betraying Alabama roots (Hood’s […]

As a writer, I’m fascinated by film and shows, television and movies. Actors are wizards to me, able to say a line in a sentence, in a way that might take me ten pages to create in a book. It’s the moment. It’s the character that we fall in love or hate with, executed so […]

Interview: Gary Weinlein (Jim Morrison) By: Rob Smittix If there were ever two simultaneous nights to be in the Spindle City December 8th and 9th are those dates. Classic Rock Productions presents December 8th: “Jim Morrison Absolutely Live” with special guest Grace Slick and Mick Jagger, and December 9th: “Groovin’ Classic Rock Hall of Fame […]

The Albany Barn is one of the coolest places for art (of all types) in the capital city and on Friday December 2nd, The Barn will be transformed into a winter market.  The event is FREE, open to the public and will feature open studios, vendors, music, cookie decorating, gift wrapping services and more! One […]