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Brule County Bad Boys – Xperience History – by Liam Sweeny. Originally published on September 2020. I personally love ‘outlaw country.’ I was listening to Merle Haggard when I was five and my dad and his friends would babysit me at their favorite bar. Fun times. I think it’s hard these days to call something […]
Jukebox. Alice Cooper There will be more dates added to Alice Cooper’s “Too Close for Comfort” tour. These shows will be on the spring and summer leg of the show, and will feature former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke, who is filling in for Nita Strauss, who ran into conflicting commitments. About his stagecraft […]
Show Detective. Friday, February 14th Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady For the 20th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents “Oscar-Nominated Short Films.” With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t […]
Serpent and the Sun, Chptr. 13 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The board chamber burst into black vapor, a grainy obsidian sandstorm of gnats in a swarm of locusts. President Liu covered his ears with his palms, as pins-and-needles raked across his exposed skin. He ventured to remove one of his hands to […]
For Your Own Good – An Xperience Column – by Rob Skane. Sometimes music just blows your mind, right? It’s hard to describe the feeling that overwhelms you when it happens – but I know you know, you know? Example number one: the J. Geils Band. Holy smokes, they were an incredible live band. The […]
Ric Orlando – Xperience History – by Liam Sweeny. Originally published in September of 2021. Food is beyond fuel. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t need eighty percent of what’s in our supermarkets. It is our comfort, our passion, and our obsession, for good or bad. And the people who provide us this food, should we […]
Prog Digest – February 2025 – An Xperience Column – by Klyde Kadiddlehumper. Welcome to the month of two made-up holidays. One, where if your wife/lover/significant other/partner says “Oh, don’t get me anything,” they really mean, “I don’t want any of that nasty ol’ cheap chocolate in a heart-shaped box. It better be expensive Belgian […]
Jukebox. Outlaw Music Festival Music icons Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson will be coming to the Capital Region this summer for the 10th Outlaw Music Festival. They’ll be hitting the Broadview Stage at SPAC on Saturday, August 2nd with Wilco, Lucinda Williams and Waylon Payne. On August 10th, they will be at the Empower Credit […]
Singin’ Guru – An Xperience Column – by Jeff and Crystal Moore. Dear Singin’ Guru, You talk a lot about the “right” workouts. What does that mean? Sincerely, Need to Know Dear NTK, Glad you asked, and I imagine you asked because vocal lessons with anyone reputable are expensive. And they are expensive for […]
Show Detective. Friday, February 7th Passport Series: Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas, Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga Springs 2023 Grammy nominee Nathan Williams is a zydeco legend with over three and a half decades under his hat as Southwest Louisiana’s most beloved Creole music pioneer. Blessed with a 65th Grammy Awards nomination for his most recent […]