Black Label Society w/ Zakk Sabbath & Dark Chapel August 25 at 7:30pm   Palace Theatre Albany, NY Zakk Wylde will tell you that everything Black Label Society begins and ends with the riff. For more than 25 years, Black Label Society has stood as one of heavy music’s most unshakeable pillars, delivering album after album […]

Year of Storms, Chptr. 8 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The paper crinkled in straight slashes, triangles meeting each other, three dimensions to the surface of the paper. It was an anachronism on the brushed steel counter. It was the light of the world when she was three; its extinguisher by age four. […]

Schenectady, NY – As The Beach Boys mark more than a half century of making music, the group continues to ride the crest of a wave unequalled in America’s musical history.  The Beach Boys – who have become synonymous with the California lifestyle and an American icon to fans around the world — will celebrate […]

Seed and Soul Band – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: It’s a lot of fun living in the present, but we all collect memories and give birth to dreams. We’re talking dreams here. Where you see yourself next year? In the next five years? SSB: In the next year we as a duo […]

Intercut Realities is an exhibition on collage currently on display at Saratoga Arts. It features artists Benj Gleeksman, Alison Bachorik, Avery Hartranft, and Emily Tironi, and can be seen through May 9. Photography by Timothy Reidy. More from Timothy Reidy here …  

Caffe Lena – Week at a Glance – 4/20 – by Liam Sweeny. Greetings – When you get a chance to hear music like this week’s, you want to be in a room where you can hear every word; where you feel the artist on stage being lifted by the energy of the crowd and the history […]

Lil Joisey – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: Is there a favorite time of year? What time of year does the band have the most shows? Is there a recurring thing in the year that’s particularly memorable? LJ: Yo, Lil Josiey here! For RRX, **Summer** is the peak. It’s when the schedule […]