Interview: Tommy Stinson (The Replacements/Guns N Roses & More) By: Rob Smittix RRX: Alright, so right before we started recording you said that you got a deer whistle in the mail, what’s that? TS: Oh yeah, my daughter… the kiddo has been driving home in rural Columbia County late at night and hit deer, 4 […]

…2..3..4 – An Xperience Column – by Chris Busone. “Blowin Snow” As I write this latest missive, it is January, and the Northeast is about to receive a full-frontal assault by the biggest storm system since Bing Crosby invented the snowflake. And as we prepare for our impending inclement demise, I am reminded of winters […]

Whassup in the 518? Friday, March 13th Archduke, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady theREP presents the Wilma Theater’s Production of “Archduke” by Rajiv Joseph “The comic energy of the writing carries the characters to their tragic finish line.”—The Los Angeles Times Serbia, 1914. When teen-aged Gavrilo Princip coughs blood into a doctor’s lace handkerchief, he’s delighted that […]

3 Questions with Johnny Cattini – An Xperience Interview – by Rob Skane. Johnny Cattini is a working guitar player based in Nashville, Tennessee. He’s toured regularly, on his own and also as a sideman. You should hire him to play on your next recording project. He can even track it for you, just saying […]

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“They kick out the jams and take us higher and higher, swinging and swaying with pulsing horns and pulsating guitars. Richly textured, raucous and rambunctious…we’re dancing from the first track to the last.” –Living Blues “Roomful of Blues are the best little big band on the scene. Virtuoso musicianship [that is] jubilant, horn-propelled R&B magnificence. […]

Documentary subject and favorite of Tom Morello, Ike Reilly brought his outfit, the Assassination, to the Hangar on March 3. Photography by Timothy Reidy. More from the Hangar on the Hudson here …