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Greetings all, hope you’re surviving 2022 as best as possible. Personally, I always feel optimism at the start of each new year, then before you know it, it goes right down the crapper. Technically the flush happened about a week from Christmas, but the pain still lingers. When you’re an old bastard like me, you […]
Shortly after I turned in my first column for The Xperience, word came down on the passing of Mike Nesmith. This came as no surprise to me, as I’d recently viewed some clips of the final Monkees tour he had done in the Fall. Mikey wasn’t looking too good. Now, whenever the subject of The […]
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. -“Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka This is a tale of devolution and decline. Whether it is a tragedy or a comedy is yet to be determined, and is largely a matter of taste. Traditionally, tragedy is […]
How does one begin to write about how we come to transform matter and time when we cook? What legerdemain explains to us, how our hands and minds work in concert to produce, some say, the most primal music? Food on a plate, canvas and sate, I am not sure there is a proper way […]
Fourteen years has passed since Stephentown resident, Mike McMann, released new music. 2007’s Streamside was McMann’s final album heard in listener’s ears until True came along. RRX: I listened to your album! MM: Oh good! RRX: Out of the songs I heard, a few of them you performed at different gigs. I was familiar with […]
“Standing on a corner, suitcase in my hand, Jackie’s in his corset, Jane is in her vest and me honey, I’m in a rock-n-roll band” the opening line of “Sweet Jane” by The Velvet Underground. Sometimes, the opening line or verse of a song says it all. It can set the stage for everything that […]
We are delighted and honored to celebrate the third anniversary issue of Xperience Monthly. This month features Tragedy Yager, Willie Nile, and the Builders – Troy Speakeasy. And extra special – a centerfold with the names of everyone we’ve probed so far. Download it here.
At the boundaries of empirical science lies the larger universe, which has been described by groundbreaking physicists and a crapshoot of probability. If you believe this, then you have to take into account that anything has some probability, which means that anything has possibility. Long way of saying that the paranormal is not so para- […]
Dan Shapiro is a guitarist and vocalist in Builders, a band with a philosophy that matches Shapiro’s own fierce work ethic. Shapiro is also the owner of the Troy Speakeasy, a local venue that really puts the y in ‘do it yourself.’ Shapiro has been working on rebuilding what was once a stripped down, barren […]
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