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TROY, NEW YORK:   The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall is excited to announce pop legend Nick Carter brings his Who I Am Tour the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Wednesday, November 6th!  Pre-sale for the show starts Thursday, March 21st at 10am and tickets will go on-sale to the public on Friday, March 22nd at 12pm.  Learn more below about […]

Doom Dogs ( Last nights show with Doom Dogs (Reeves Gabrels, Jair-Rolm Parker Wells and the super mighty and powerful Jonathan Kane on drums) performed at Alias Coffee Roasters on Saturday, March 16th. Photography by Art Fredette.     More from Art Fredette…

Meet Albert the Alligator – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny. An alligator. A big, mean alligator in residence in an upstate New York swimming pool. A tactical unit. If you put these together, boil them down into a roux, and go easy on the pour, you’d have a pretty okay […]

Amy Ryan Band – Interview – “Thanks for Asking” – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: Who are you? Not, like, philosophically, but you know, who are the members of the band, who plays what? Describe yourself in one sentence (it can be a long sentence.) ARB: We are a 5-piece, Capital Region-based soul blues band playing […]

Schenectady Civic Players’ August: Osage County Delivers a Strong Dramatic Look at the Cruelty of the American Family- by Joanna Palladino. Families can be the most positive influences in a person’s life and they can also be the source of trauma, cruelty, violence, ridicule, and destruction.  Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer prize-winning play August: Osage County is a […]

Rick Bedrosian – Xperience History – by Liam Sweeny. If you know musicians, you might be inclined to think of them as sharks. No, not because of their uncanny ability to smell a good gig in the water from a quarter mile off, but because they have to keep moving. This is probably one of […]

Carnwennan’s Slow Comeup By Colin Roberts “I definitely think that there’s an intention of I kind of want to bum everybody out,” says the enigmatic guitarist/vocalist of doom metal band Carnwennan, known simply as Jack. The Capital Region-based four piece’s sound is rooted in the slow and low nature of the genre, but Jack and […]

The Books – The Lemon Of Pink (Album Review) – by Joshua Reedy. (2003) My copy: 2016 remastered reissue on yellow vinyl with pink splatter by Temporary Residence Limited. Thought For Food is a tough act to follow – the album is so conceptually fresh that expansion is difficult to anticipate. And so Paul De […]

Harbinger Theatre’s In The Blood Tackles Societal Hypocrisy with Heart and Grit – by Joanna Palladino. What happens when institutions with a mission to help and support others are responsible for creating so much pain and trauma?  “In The Blood”  written by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks explores the shortcomings of personal relationships, education, social […]

Eighty Gee – Interview – “A Hot Minute” – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: We all get into creative pursuits for different reasons. Some people get into music and the arts to escape; for some, it’s a natural outlet. What was music, and creativity in the larger sense, for you? EG: Music and Creativity to me […]


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