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The Origin of the Listen Up Awards – by Rob Smittix. What must’ve been like six years ago, Art Fredette, Kit Haynes, and I (Rob Smittix) attended a hall of fame induction award show. We went to show our support for all the well-deserved inductees. Unfortunately, the show itself was a snooze fest; it literally […]
Jukebox. Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails is going on their “Peel It Back” Tour starting February 5th in New Orleans. The band called the 2025 leg, ”one of the most thrilling concert experiences of 2025”, and with 22 dates, ending on March 16th in Sacramento. Boys Noize (Alexander Ridha.) Nine Inch Nails 2026 Tour […]
Whassup in the 518? Friday, February 6th Yonder Mountain String Band, Universal Preservation Hall, Saratoga YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND RETURNS TO THE GREAT HALL! Yonder Mountain String Band, a driving force in roots music for nearly three decades and a key player in the progressive jamgrass movement, kicks off a new chapter with “Nowhere Next.” […]
Music Notes: The Art & Science of Music Peak Music Studios Let me say something that might sound counterintuitive at first. Most musicians do not struggle with speed because they lack talent. They struggle because they chase speed before they build musical capability. Somewhere along the way, we absorbed the idea that the fastest player […]
Year of Storms, Chptr 2 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The steady hum of electricity through the walls floated up to the light panels and the sound washed over itself. They were trying to rob her of the sounds of degenerate humanity, but she had to wonder if near-perfect silence was worse. She […]
Lithium, Chptr. 25 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Mel watched the sunrise through the windows of the day room as the nurses wound down from the third shift, hanging off the nurse’s station counter that was holding them up. They took in three new people the night before, and they weren’t well off. […]
The Heights: Lee Shaw – An Xperience Column – by Joe Barna. A Celebration to the Life of Pianist Lee Shaw It was a calm and warm day in late summer of 1999. My friend Andrea and I were traveling north on the Taconic Parkway in my forest green 1996 Ford Mustang enroute to spend […]
Life on the Cutting Edge – Discoveries and Advancements Scientists Have Created Matter from Pure Light https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/149087/scientists-discover-turn-light-into-matter/ MIT Uses AI to Invent Powerful Antibiotics. https://asm.org/articles/2025/august/ai-next-frontier-antibiotic-discovery Artificial Heart that Beats Forever https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12034431/
Bourbon Review: Brick by Brick’s “Smooth Truth” – by Liam Sweeny. So Brick by Brick has made a bourbon called Smooth Truth, out a while now, and in anticipation of their show on March 13th at Empire Live, I will, of sound mind and in fair general condition, review this custom spirit. Their most recent […]
Whassup in the 518 Friday, January 30th A View from the Line: A Chorus Line 50th Anniversary Panel Discussion, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady Featuring Capital District residents and ACL alumni Debra Pigliavento, Michele Pigliavento and Michele Tibbitts. Moderated by Robert Whiteman. An evening filled with their personal stories and memories from Broadway, national and international tour […]
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