Image: Love Tractor: (l to r) Armistead Wellford, Mark Cline, Mike Richmond, Kit Swartz. Photo by Liwkram, licensed under Creative Commons. By Tara Davis. Most of our readers and RadioRadioX listeners are familiar with some of the bands that were originators of the wildly creative music scene that was Athens, Georgia in the ‘80s, such […]

(Warning: You May Accidentally Become an Artist) By Charla Earney. UNIHOG is an odd name. I still haven’t learned exactly where it came from. I could go online and deep dive into the history of the place and probably learn quite a bit. But UNIHOG is one of those places I’ve deliberately wanted to understand in […]

By Joshua Scarselli. This is the inaugural interview in my new Artist Spotlight Series. I’ll be looking for different types of artists to interview. The more unknown or peculiar, the better! If you would like to be interviewed for this series, you can e-mail me at powderkegpictures@gmail.com. Today we talk to Michael Politan. Michael is […]

Femininomenon at Ophelia’s featured Nocturnne, Shannon Tehya, Caity Gallagher, Keegan James, Aila Chiar, Julia Alsarraf, Sydney Worthley, and a First Friday Birthday Party for DJ Fearless. Photography by Timothy Reidy. More from Femininomenon here …

By Larry Felton. When artistic director Michael Burns suggested Maria Ayoob as someone to interview at MopCo Improv Theater, he also invited me to enroll in her Improv 101 class. Three weeks later, after six hours as one of her students, I sat down with Maria to talk about how a Google search turned into […]

By Liam Sweeny. No Fun is the life of Monument Square in Troy on any given night. Its walls are tagged in band stickers, and its checkerboard floor offers patrons the dull gleam of a surface that embraces foot traffic. It’s got a bar and a foosball table and a big screen calling out future […]

By I Am Lorelei!. Walking into Empire Live on Thursday, August 6, 2026, there was no avoiding the larger story surrounding Wolfgang Van Halen — but what mattered most that night was the music in front of us. Mammoth (the WVH suffix was dropped last year) isn’t built on nostalgia. It’s built on Wolfgang’s own […]