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Rough Mix

by Josh Potter June 22, 2011

SUMMER FUNSTIVITIES—Last year, the B3nson kids had a great idea: In order to help the Historic Albany Foundation rehab Ten Broeck neighborhood’s historic St. Joseph’s Church, why not use the palatial space to throw a ...

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International Man of Metal

by David King June 8, 2011

"Come stay in the Leo Bar; we have a lion.” Those were the words that started the weirdest night of Jason Keyser’s life. In 2007, Keyser left the comfy ...

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Style Wars

by Josh Potter May 25, 2011

If the heads start bobbing, you know the beat’s hot. No matter how much the producer jumps around on stage or pumps his fist in the air after pressing play, no matter how much his ...

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Of Borscht, Flaubert and Hungarian Mustache Wax

by Jeremy D. Goodwin May 11, 2011

Bella’s Bartok started out as a party and became a band—albeit, one that comes with an automatic party pre-installed. Since their scrappy origins, busking in downtown Great Barrington, Mass., in the ...

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Rough Mix

by Josh Potter April 6, 2011

Space Cowboys It’s been a busy couple months for B3nson flagship act Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned. Before leaving for their first full-blown national tour—a wide orbit of SXSW—the new lineup, featuring Ryan Stewart ...

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Better Living Through Revelry

by Ali Hibbs April 6, 2011

It’s been been about a decade since electronic music events featuring superstar DJs were being thrown in vast music halls, abandoned warehouses and vacant fields across the nation. The rave culture phenomenon, which originated in ...

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Rough Mix

by John Brodeur February 2, 2011

AFRO-GRAM Saratoga Springs’ own Phantogram made their network-TV debut on Wednesday with a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The duo, who are currently prepping a new EP for release this spring (we think), ...

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Monster Mash

by Josh Potter February 25, 2010

The verdict is unanimous. “Yes” and “easily” are the answers. It may be the only thing all six members of Beware! The Other Head of Science immediately agree on. There’s manic dysfunction in the way ...

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Crystal Ball

by Shawn Stone February 21, 2010

When asked what the worst show Super 400 ever played was, bassist Lori Friday responds without hesitation with a funny story about a literal meltdown of their equipment. “I think something’s on fire,” she remembers ...

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Adult Themes

by Kirsten Ferguson February 11, 2010

A year ago last February, the four members of Poestenkill rock band Blue Factory converged on a friend’s rustic lake house deep in the Adirondacks to record their debut album, Limekiln. Slated for release this ...

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Music of the Spheres

by Josh Potter January 28, 2010

When Veena Chandra describes the raga she’s about to perform, it’s as if she’s introducing the audience to a momentary visitor. The song, like the deity it’s devoted to, is defined by its various aspects—the ...

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Vinyl Solution

by Kirsten Ferguson January 14, 2010

Albany punk trio After the Fall christened their latest full-length album Fort Orange, the name given by colonial Dutch settlers to their fur-trading post along the Hudson River where Albany sits today. And the band’s ...

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