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For Pride Night Out, No Fun held a “Bimbo Night Rave.” Photography by Timothy Reidy. More from No Fun here …
Last Friday’s free Happy Hour show at the Eleven featured TV Doctors. Photography by Timothy Reidy. Read an interview with TV Doctors here …
(Image: 1975 ad for Tanglewood Popular Artist Series) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Stephen Stills / Tom Waits @ Tanglewood The opening act of the evening was singer Tom Waits. Waits looks and sounds like a Bowery wino who’s coming off a long binge. In a hoarse, guttural voice, he sang and growled […]
Last night (June 27) was the opening reception for legendary local photographer Martin Benjamin‘s exhibit at J. Gernon Picture Frame and Fine Art. His book is Rock Shots – 50 Years of Photographing Rock and Roll, and the exhibit runs through July 19. Photography by Sara Busone. Read an interview with Martin Benjamin here … […]
On June 19, No Fun featured a triple bill with Minneapolis’ Keep for Cheap, along with Another Michael, and Birthday Dan. Photography by Timothy Reidy. More from No Fun here …
Lost in Space: Carmine Gontz and the Icons Behind the Anthem – by Lori McKone. How a rising rock visionary joined forces with legends like Rudy Sarzo and Matt Starr to create a sound that’s truly out of this world. Carmine Gontz isn’t just a rising star; he’s an artist who knows who he is. […]
(Featured image: WAITING FOR THE DEAD – Grateful Dead fans wait to get into the SPAC grounds Thursday. The concert broke the attendance record as 40,231 “Deadheads” converged on SPAC. Photo by Bruce Squiers for the Saratogian.) By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: The Grateful Dead brought – still, to this day – the biggest […]
Words and Photography by Nate Black. Skeeter Creek Brings Big Country Energy to Rock the Block in Cohoes From rocking on the river to rocking the block, Skeeter Creek doesn’t miss a beat. The high-energy country-rock band lit up Canal Plaza in Cohoes on June 26th as part of the city’s Rock the Block concert series, just […]
Martin Benjamin – An Xperience Interview – by Sketchy Hubris. Ansel Adams, in 1930, had been training to become a concert pianist while considering a career as a photographer. He decided, after seeing the photographs by Paul Strand, that “the camera, not the piano, would shape [his] destiny.” His mother and aunt both pleaded, “Do […]
What’s Behind the Mirror – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny. I remember my parents and I going halves on a two family house. I remember that when I first was shown the house, what I wanted to see was the basement. This is, of course, practical, because if you want […]
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