On a freezing, blustery night, February 10, 2026, Ophelia’s on Broadway offered the perfect refuge-warm lights, cold coats piled high, and a small but game crowd glad to be out of the biting, sharp temperatures… Fans clustered together on one side of the room, but it didn’t matter: NOTA Band filled the entire venue with sound and […]

Olympics and Codpieces – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny. The Winter Olympics. Italy. A country of romance and love. And if you’re a skier in competition, of the need for an edge. Or a lump, how you look like it. There was a thing called “penisgate,” last year. The men […]

THE SPRING THING is back for a second year at The Hangar on the Hudson in Troy on Saturday, May 2nd. Everyone had so much fun last year at this event, we had to do it again. To celebrate the arrival of spring and kick-off outdoor music season, I’ve put together a mixed-genre eight band bill at The […]

By BradQuan Copeland. We’re really not effective as artists or activists if we’re not in tune with our emotional worlds. This world doesn’t make way for the unbowed who embody the shape of abstraction. Instead, they must press forth on the outskirts of repression, bearing only conviction, fueling the will to radiate through regularity. This […]

Jukebox Foo Fighters Foo Fighters’ 12th studio album, Your Favorite Toy, will be coming in April. It was the band’s first release with drummer Ilan Rubin. Adding to today’s announcement, the band released. “‘Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album,” explained Dave Grohl. “We […]

Forever played Ophelia’s on Metal Night, February 7. Photography by Stephanie J Bartik. More coverage of the show here …  

Shawn Shreds, aka Shawn Shafran, at Metal Night at Ophelia’s. Photography by Stephanie J Bartik. More coverage of the show here …