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A Roland TR-909. Its gravitas surged through the cardboard box that carried it. In the days before YouTube celebrities whet the consumer whistle with unboxing videos, young Detroit musician Juan Atkins pulled out a folding knife and carefully sliced open the seam of the box to an audience of one. If the history of techno […]
Weekend Pep Talk. So it was a very pleasant 83 degrees and you might’ve just enjoyed it. But unless you were lounging poolside with some fancy Sriracha-inspired suntan lotion, you had to work. Did you put in a pool this early in the season? Is this even early in the pool-building season? Or maybe you […]
Seattle Grunge. It was a tough time growing up. We didn’t have much money, and even though I had friends, I felt outcast, like an odd shoe on the doormat. I was in my room, not much bigger than a walk-in closet, when my mom appeared in the doorway brandishing a pair of cassettes. She, […]
Show Detective – May 12-14, 2023 Friday, May 12th The Platters® with Special Guests The Classic Drifters, Troy Music Hall, Troy, 7:30pm Considered the most romantic of all the early rock & roll groups (that is, the ultimate in “make-out music”), The Platters® produced hit after hit. The quintet effortlessly achieved domestic and international chart […]
Muscle Shoals Sound. About two hundred and sixty miles from Atlanta, a young woman, blind, deaf, and without speech, held her hands beneath a cascading capillary of the Tennessee River and was so moved that a single word found its way to her lips; “water.” And thus Helen Keller added her voice to the magical […]
Show Detective Friday, May 5th Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer and Rakesh Chaurasia, Troy Music Hall, Troy, 8pm Jagged Little Pill, Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady, 7:30pm SOME SHOWS YOU SEE. THIS SHOW YOU FEEL. Joy, love, heartache, strength, wisdom, catharsis, LIFE—everything we’ve been waiting to see in a Broadway show— is here in the exhilarating, […]
Blood donation. An article by Liam Sweeny. A drunk driver swerves erratically down a busy street, losing control of the steering wheel and colliding with a woman in an SUV. The drivers’ side door is crumpled; she’s hurt, and the baby in the seat next to her might just become an orphan on day five […]
The Heights May 2023. Let’s Pray… NO…I’m talking about Keith Pray…Come along and learn about this beautiful man. In every community there resides a unique crop of exemplary individuals that help elevate the consciousness and enrich the culture that exists within. One such person I have continually looked towards for guidance and inspiration is none […]
Interpol Review, by Josh Reedy. My copy: 2014 reissue by Matador Records When people think of early 2000s alt-rock bands that helped reignite interest in certain genres, Interpol is usually brought up pretty quickly. With their tastefully poppy reimagination of 80s post-punk, Interpol and the cult following they accrued after releasing their debut album would […]
Hitchhiking DAY ONE I wasn’t new to cities, I had learned how to survive in a couple of them, but Manhattan in 1982 would take everything I had learned from a year and a half of traveling and living on the street, chew it up, mix it with some depravation, cum and blood, spit it […]
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