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Zack Lynch Interview. I grew up on comics. X-men. Wolverine in particularly. Something about claws that could rip through anything on the arms of a rough, beer drinking, cigar smoking Canuck was comforting alongside Metallica and Megadeth. As I got older, I got into the process and realized I had no artistic superpowers. Zack Lynch […]
Bryan Hamill will be appearing at the art show, “The Power of Paper,” part of a First Friday Albany re-launch at Overit Media. Hat tip to our friend and contributor Amy Klemme. — Every once in a while, I get a chance to interview someone where I thirst for the answers on a personal level, […]
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 […]
Interview with R.M. Engelhardt As a creative person, it’s great to have creative friends that have, over the years, really transformed their discipline in the area. In this case, watching them take a scene adrift and shaping it into a strong and open community. R.M. Engelhardt has been a driving force in the Capital District […]
Erin Powers. Have guitar, will travel. That sounds so damn cool, doesn’t it? Well, it does to me, and I’m controlling the ink around here. There’s something about the pure freedom of someone going out with their dreams strapped across their back, living by the night, living by the song… it’s what makes America the […]
If you were alive and around in the Albany environs in the turn of the eighties, you might have gone to a sonic bunker of a place called J.B. Scott’s. Owned by Douglas Jacobs and Vinnie Birbiglia, this nightclub had a list of bands go through that would, at the same time be chewing through […]
One of the best things about my gig here is that, by default, I have to expose myself to every type of music. I have to challenge myself, because it’s easy to ask a rocker what kinds of strings they use if you’re into electric guitars. But it’s a challenge to run across a singer/songwriter […]
Freedom Stratton There’s two aspects of music, to borrow from Laurent Rejto, “above-the-line” and “below-the-line.” Above the line is the ‘kumbaya one love zero stress, it’s all music.’ Below the line is the grocery bill, the power bill, rent, and keeping up with the Joneses if one’s so inclined. And in my view, hip hop […]
I suck at writing articles. If any truth ever came from these keys on this keyboard, it is that. I’m awful. They always come out like essays. I even took a journalism course in college. But I took a lot of things in college, so I don’t remember it. So if you’ll indulge me, maybe […]
Talent ends at no border, blocks no abundance or absence of station, and, most importantly here, requires no long hard road of age. For only in the free application of talent could wonder be manifest in a willowy dance or a peal of self-wrought thunder or a haunting, crystalline crescendo arising from three performers with […]
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