Albany NY

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Women’s Voices Series at The Linda, featuring Sydney Worthley and Sarah King. Photography by Timothy Reidy.

Kevin McKrell’s Upstate Irish, at The Egg in Albany. Photography by Amy Klemme

Irish rock combines two very different feels in a beautiful way; the Celtic, Appalachian folk sound, with its roots in nature, and rock ‘n’ roll, with its roots in rebellion and overdrive. I like to identify and classify music, maybe you noticed, but only because when I hear a great thing, I want to absorb […]

Some bags are synonymous with the music they play. The Stones are synonymous with Rock and Roll, B.B. King with the blues, and John Coltraine with jazz. These artists and bands are recognized as the forerunners of their genre, and when someone counts the top five on their fingers, these artists are the ones that […]

The Egg in Albany, filled as fans scrambled in, each one, eggcited about seeing Kenny Wayne Shepherd. As I spoke to those waiting for the show, it occurred to me how many of these fans have seen this band before–many times before.  True followers, they came knowing what to eggspect, and they were not disappointed. […]

The birthplace of Hip Hop is undeniably the Bronx but all five boroughs have produced legends that could easily be carved into the Mount Rushmore of the genre. With this being the case we have been inundated with music videos set in NYC. No disrespect because it’s well deserved. Then as the music evolved we’ve […]

Originally from Pittsfield MA in Berkshire County, Paul began his musical career at an early age. Retelling a story from his mother, Paul explains that at three years old she took him for a walk through their Lenox MA neighborhood and walked by a flower bed. His mother, a college professor, pointed to some roses […]

Music is the distillation of performance of experience. In as many cases as it is elaborate and complex, dare even say cryptic, it is always personal. Before it makes you feel, it make the creator(s) feel, and if they don’t, you never hear it. DJ Wiz Hoffa has been making people feel him since the […]

A group of youngsters from Nigeria have been making short sci-fi films and it has caught the attention of hollywood. Our very own Rob Smittix has had the honor to talk to some of the individuals involved in the Critics Company, which will surely soon be a household name!

We were settling into life in the city pretty well by now when Paul’s mother died. After Paul’s father had died, we had moved back east to be closer to our families and had gotten to know Cathy pretty well. She and I’d had a rough beginning. She was an alcoholic and, when I was […]


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