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Guitarist Dennis Taylor stepped up Friday night at the Egg to cover some of the intense guitar work (originally performed by Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine) that helped make Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend  one of the ...

As Bootsy Collins, legendary superhero-bassist for Parliament Funkadelic, was warming up the packed audience at Alive at Five for an encore of “Mothership Connection,” a man in the front row was holding up a copy ...

After three hours of opening acts, Peruvian-born, Harlem-based rapper Immortal Technique graced the stage at the Upstate Concert Hall on Friday. His most recent tour is promoting the documentary The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique, which ...

I’ve always had the notion that the nostalgia-act label was foremost an indictment of a band too proud to call it quits, too unwilling to reconcile with the fact that their creative well has run ...

It’s somehow fitting that Flag Day should be the biggest event in the town of Hudson’s calendar year. And it’s a perfectly Hudson experience to roll into the normally relaxed downtown only to find Warren ...

Mountain Jam is the kind of festival where you can see the Screaming Eagle of Soul flying up the mountain on a chairlift. This was, of course, Charles Bradley himself just a short while after finishing ...

It’s still inevitable in rock & roll that when a British quartet of young moptops splash down in America, a certain mania ensues. No one’s limo got mobbed when the Kooks played the Upstate Concert ...

It’s pretty weird to hear an Americana band set down the guitars after a beer-soaked shout-along and proceed to sing the next tune over a preset electronic drum beat. But the Felice Brothers make it ...

At 67, Gladys Knight doesn’t have anything left to prove. But at her recent, almost-sold-out show on the mainstage at Proctors, the soul diva proved a few interesting things anyway. Knight can still sing. Whether it ...

DIIV (formerly Dive, the change coming just over a week ago) are a young, Brooklyn-bred four-piece making good, if not particularly original, music. It’s not an awful thing, their lack of originality. They’re still building ...

Sure, “Sleepyhead” was bound to get the biggest crowd response of the night, but four years after penning that monster hit, Passion Pit are working the stage hard to prove it won’t be their one-and-only. ...

In Valentine’s tight, intimate, and oddly charming upstairs, Lockett Pundt’s Lotus Plaza continued a night started by experimental locals Location Ensemble. Pundt—known particularly for his work as Lieutenant to Bradford Cox’s General in much-loved indie ...