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We reached out to Peter Pallis of the band AnAkA, who will be playing at the upcoming Rock and Oddities Con. This is their story. RRX: I’m listening to the song “Ominous Visions” on your site. I love the concept, the graphics. And in metal, the apocalypse is never far from being at hand. Ruin, […]
In this edition of Thanks for Asking, we interview Anna Mernieks of the band Beams. Interview by Liam Sweeny. RRX: Every comic book hero has an origin story. What is the origin story for the band? (points if you tell it like a comic book origin.) AM: In the sleepy suburb of Brampton, Ontario, local […]
Liar Liar. It’s sometime in 1965 and an eight-year-old kid is making his First Communion. It’s a big thing. You get gifts. I’m that kid and I’m about to get something that will open up the world to my young ears. No more will my contact to rock n roll be restricted to just the […]
I reached out to Joe Adee from Joe Adee and the Lug Nuts. This is what he had to say. (Law and Order sound.) RRX: The band plays everything from Americana to hard edge blues. Was that clear from the band’s inception? Was there an overall vision for the band, or was it a matter […]
Show Detective. Friday, September 1st Robin and Linda Williams, The Linda, Albany, 8pm-10pm Robin and Linda are closing in on a five-decade-long career that has included 24 personal recordings, thousands of concerts on three continents, a Robert Altman-directed movie, and hundreds of performances on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and other radio and television shows. […]
Show Detective. Friday, August 18th Earth: An HD Odyssey, SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 7:30pm This night features two films shown on large LED screens and accompanied by The Philadelphia Orchestra. Philharmonia Fantastique is set to an original score by Mason Bates. The animated film follows a musical sprite that explores the different instruments of the orchestra and the […]
Steve Candlen interview. The first time I met Steve Candlen, I was a relative newbie on the scene. I had just started drumming for 1313 Mockingbird Lane and was writing for The Source. I was on assignment writing a story on Jimmy Velvet, Steve’s band at the time. In between sets, Steve learned that I […]
Ralph Renna interview. True friendship isn’t a paved road. I think it’s a road that you pave with shared experiences, and the curves and dips and bumps are hard wrought, but give it its character. In any area, in any scene, you find people who have carved out roads well-traveled. Ralph Renna has built roads, […]
Show Detective. August 4th David Wax Museum, The Linda, Albany, 8pm-10pm “Human Nature is a Stranger to the Notion of a Pause” Pioneering folk musicians David Wax and Suz Slezak are the plucky husband-wife duo behind the eclectic, exuberant “Mexo-Americana” band David Wax Museum. After 14 relentless years touring the country and world, half of […]
Friday, July 28th Rye Bread Music and Arts Festival, Schaghticoke Fairgrounds, Schaghticoke, NY Gov’t Mule, SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 8pm The Antarctican, Empire Underground, Albany, 7:30pm w/s/g Fires In The Distance, Frozen Sun and Last To Fall Portyl w/ Surrey Hill, Disfruta, Putnam Place, Saratoga Springs, 9pm-1am Indie Electronic producer Portyl (Tyler DeMartino) from Saratoga Springs, […]
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