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Erin Powers. Have guitar, will travel. That sounds so damn cool, doesn’t it? Well, it does to me, and I’m controlling the ink around here. There’s something about the pure freedom of someone going out with their dreams strapped across their back, living by the night, living by the song… it’s what makes America the […]
For two hours every day, you strum lock step with a thunderous beat. Four strings saturate the room in low end while Cindy shreds arpeggios like a San Francisco bookie shreds betting slips. It’s rhythm and melody as two pythons body wrestling. It is glorious in the few seconds just before the garage door opens, […]
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy performed at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on March 21st, 2023. This is the review, by Ed Conway. The preeminent 40s, swing era, big band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy made a stop at one of the most sonically perfect venues, The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. The band began in 1989 […]
Show Detective Welcome to the Show Detective. Our trusty gumshoe has been out there collecting word on the street and fishing flyers out of dumpsters and we bring you the unfiltered happenings from Friday, April 7th to Sunday, April 9th. Here’s to a good time. Tip your bartender. Friday, April 7th KISStory, Cohoes Music Hall, […]
Waiting on that Train His fedora cocked, his beat-up suitcase serving double duty as his chair while he watches the tracks with a steely resolve. The same kind of steel he imagines wound up around the strings that slither through his acoustic guitar. Both the fedora and the suitcase, parting gifts from his father. The […]
Last hurrah for pioneering band that put Capital Region on national music radar (From press release) ALBANY, N.Y.—April 4, 2023—Lark Street. 1978. The Albany music scene is catching fire, with the fresh energy of punk and new wave building on, not just breaking down, the concepts of decades prior. The Units, fusing the sheen of […]
Amy Spence performed at The Linda on March 31st as part of the Women’s Voices Series. Photography by Timothy Reidy.
It was a Super Dark No Fun in Troy on March 30th, presenting T.V. Doctors, Bright Dog Red, and Sound For. Photography by Timothy Reidy.
Freedom Stratton There’s two aspects of music, to borrow from Laurent Rejto, “above-the-line” and “below-the-line.” Above the line is the ‘kumbaya one love zero stress, it’s all music.’ Below the line is the grocery bill, the power bill, rent, and keeping up with the Joneses if one’s so inclined. And in my view, hip hop […]
On Tuesday, March 28th, alternative rock group Third Eye Blind will be appearing at The Palace Theater in Albany. The band saw enormous popularity at a time when the music industry found, in small measure, that it was not too big to fail. Third Eye Blind has been on tour since 2022, and the tour […]
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