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Jukebox. Lollapalooza Lollapalooza 2025 has announced its lineup as tickets went on sale yesterday, selling out within an hour and prompting the event to issue a small amount of single and two-day tickets. The festival will be taking place at Grant Park in Chicag0 from Thursday, July 31st through Sunday, August 3rd. The lineup features […]
Show Detective. Friday, March 21st Free Beer and Hot Wings, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, 8pm The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show is heard on Q1057 and 1035, the Capital Region’s Classic Rock Station weekday mornings from 5a-10a. Hosted by Gregg “Free Beer” Daniels, Chris “Hot Wings” Michaels, Steve, and Kelly, the Free […]
Serpent and the Sun – Chptr. 17 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Apep screamed viscerally, from the depths of his host’s throat. The heart was silenced; Dalton Henry could tell him no more. A shot took out the brain. Must have been the other one, the strange one from Pacific Sanctuary. Apep would […]
Will Knaak – Xperience History – by Art Fredette. Originally published in July of 2021. Blue October is one of the country’s biggest cult bands and is known for it’s distinctive guitar sound. I recently had the honor of posing a few questions to Will Knaak their guitar player and he was generous enough to […]
Show Detective. Friday, March 14th DakhaBrakha, SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 7:30pm Embark on a musical journey with DakhaBrakha, the groundbreaking quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine; known for their innovative blend of Ukrainian folk traditions and global influences. Dubbed as “ethno-chaos,” their sound fuses traditional folk melodies with rhythms and instruments from India, Africa, the Middle East, and […]
Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 16 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Apep was Death in the sky; the sanguine flow of air formed an updraft as it gathered about his suspended form. He peered down at the city of Anchorage. It teemed with life. Mortified, panic-stricken beetles, scurrying from houses to bunkers, dare […]
Prog Digest – An Xperience Column – by Klyde Kadiddlehumper. Let’s talk legacy a bit. And band and crosswinds. Prog Digest is not always about music – as those who have read this column from time to time know. It is, however, about themes and thoughts and timing and influence. Beyond the musings you see […]
Peshy Kruger – Xperience History – by Rob Smittix. Originally published in November 2021. On Friday November 12th at The Madison Theatre in Albany #25toLIFEEE and Peshy Kruger present #LIFEEE Behind Bars 2. For those that aren’t fluent in Rap music lingo, bars means musical bars. The event is a rap battle that will entertain […]
Don’t Fear the Reaper, Boys! – An Xperience Column – by Rob Skane. Nick Lowe. You familiar? If not, then we can’t be friends – it’s that simple. Some might argue that Saint Nick of Lowe is the songwriter’s songwriter: I would be one of those people. And, we all agree, there’s a metric s**t […]
Jukebox. Aimee Mann To celebrate the “22nd ½” anniversary of her 2002 album Lost In Space, Aimee Mann will be going on tour. It will kick off in Canton, Rhode Island on June 5th. There will be dates in Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago and other cities, with the concert wrapping up at the Riviera Theatre in […]