There are bands that I will never understand how they aren't bigger than they are. If they have the songs, the stage presence, and the fan base, shouldn’t th...
I want every show I attend to be the show of the year, but it just can’t happen. Either I don’t know the music well enough, the performers aren’t on, the ...
Moby’s latest album Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt, was released earlier this month and to celebrate it he did a few intimate concerts in LA and N...
by Patrick Jordan, Words by Bryan Lasky
Bands play almost everyday of the year. Some days they are more "on" than other days. You just get locked into a zo...
A rainy Tuesday night in Brooklyn saw the triumphant return of one of the best bands of the early 2000’s to their home base and a rabid crowd ready to let lo...
Watching Joshua Homme onstage is a site to be hold. The man is just taken by the music every second he is on stage. From the sauntering dance he did before laun...
When there are multiple people with their hands on their head and their faces show a mixture of exhaustion and amazement, you know it has been a great show. Kin...
Sometimes there are just months where there are a string of great shows in a row and you want to hit up each and every one so you don’t miss any of those bea...
Having heard Big Eyes’s new album I was really looking forward to seeing what the live performance would be like- and it did not disappoint. Sporting one of her influences proudly on her shirt, Kait Eldridge tore through the set like a bat out of hell.
The Hangar on the Hudson has steadily been getting more shows in Troy, New York. Although Albany usually gets a majority of the shows, some stellar ones squeeze...
When a show ends with the band inviting the entire crowd on stage and the security running around trying to deal with it, you know it has been one hell of a sho...
DMA’s, the Australian rockers, pulled into Albany’s The Hollow this past weekend and though they seemed to be a little low on energy the music was fantastic...
Hailing from Syracuse, New York, Ra Ra Riot were happy to be starting the tour in support of their latest album Need Your Light only two hours from home in Alba...
A packed Friday night at one of Albany’s smallest venues, The Low Beat, had two power trio’s descend on to the stage and show that you can still get down an...
As 2015 winds down, people begin to put together their best of lists and share it right away. I for one think that though you can begin to put the lists togethe...
My Morning Jacket’s The Waterfall has had the band touring hard this year and at their penultimate show of 2015, the band looked as strong as they ever have. ...
As Act 3 wore down, a video during “Man Overboard” showed scenes of a toy Godzilla attacking a city, luchadores fighting in the streets, spaceships flying t...
Watching 20 people come on to a stage to play music can never get boring. Each member slowly takes the stage and gets set up for the evening. After they’re se...
Craig Finn’s last visit to Albany’s The Hollow was with The Hold Steady and was packed to the gills with barely any room for concert goers to dance and move...
