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Killer Mike

by Taylor Morris November 21, 2012

One standard of measurement for live rap music is how well an artist can entertain fans in the strangest or least-ideal of situations. Put another way: How comfortable they seem with their artistic merit to ...

Pedrito Martinez Quartet

by Jeff Nania November 21, 2012

Pedrito Martinez is no stranger to the Capital Region. He brought his group with pianist Ariacne Trujillo, Percussionist Jhair Sala, and bassist Alvaro Benevides to Mountain Jam, SPAC Jazz Fest, and Albany Riverfront Jazz Fest ...

The David Bromberg Big Band, Mike + Ruthy

by B.A. Nilsson November 21, 2012

As David Bromberg and his band erupted into his signature original “Sharon” for the umpteenth time, as I felt the joy of seeing and hearing this live, for my own somethingth time, I realized that ...

Yeasayer

by Josh Potter November 15, 2012

Yeasayer’s set Saturday night was a bit like an alien abduction (at least, the bits I recall of the latter). Ominous green lights bathed the stage as a robotic female voice said “good evening Clifton ...

Dillon Francis

by Josh Potter November 15, 2012

It’s a fairly ridiculous proposition to try and review a dance party. This may be one valid argument for the camp that aims to label shows like Dillon Francis’ Wet and Wreckless Tour a “nightclub” ...

Between the Buried and Me

by David King November 15, 2012

Between the Buried and Me are a metal band who speak a musical language all their own, but it’s one they have cobbled together with bits and pieces of the great work of others. With ...

London Symphony Orchestra

by B.A. Nilsson November 15, 2012

Conductor Valery Gergiev is not a bar-shaper who smooths each moment of music that emerges from under his baton. In the context of so many who pursue an interpretive identity through fussiness, Gergiev’s performances can ...

The Ventures

by David Greenberger November 8, 2012

I turned 13 when the Ventures’ Super Psychedelics album was released in June 1967, and I received it for my birthday. This marked my first encounter with the word psychedelic. I’d been following the Ventures ...

Annie and the Hedonists

by Glenn Weiser November 8, 2012

Three men of a certain age in Hawaiian shirts and a woman in a purple dress peer out at you from the CD cover, their upright index fingers pressed to their lips enjoining silence. That’s ...

Dr. John and the Blind Boys of Alabama

by Raurri Jennings November 8, 2012

Dr. John has been my medicine man since junior year of college. From the moment I heard him growl, “Hot steppin’ mama keep on foxing witcha little foxy self,” on “Desitively Bonaroo,” the spell was ...

Pretty Lights

by Josh Potter November 8, 2012

It’s unlikely that many Pretty Lights fans noticed the banner hanging from the Times Union Center rafters—a mock “retired jersey” celebrating Billy Joel’s all-time box-office sales record at Albany’s biggest concert space. And so it’s ...

Out the Trunk

by Raurri Jennings November 1, 2012

There’s a moment in the video for “Marshall Applewhite” where Giant Gorilla Dog Thing (rappers Dood Computer and Dezmatic), Gorilla Tao, and PJ Katz—dressed as Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello of the Teenage Mutant Ninja ...

Nintendo Baroque

by Josh Potter November 1, 2012

“When I first told my friends I was doing this, they said, ‘That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life,’” says Chaz Buchanan, an electronic musician who works under the name Puzzle Boys. ...

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Pounding on the Celestial Jukebox

by Josh Potter November 1, 2012

Stream Like You’re Naked When I bought my new computer, Apple gave me a $100 gift card to the App store or iTunes. In lieu of Angry Birds or some other distraction device (Fantasy Football and ...

The Art of Conversation

by Kirsten Ferguson November 1, 2012

David Greenberger with Jupiter Circle: Never Give Up Study David Greenberger and Ralph Carney: OH, PA David Greenberger & Bangalore: How I Became Uncertain David Greenberger & Mark Greenberg: Tell Me that Before David Greenberger & Dozens: Near the ...

Fiona Apple

by Josh Potter October 25, 2012

To a certain degree, we want our performers to carry the crazy gene. It’s the DNA sequence that makes their persona spectacular—a volatility that can be safely mediated through sounds and images. And yet, the ...

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Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson

by David King October 25, 2012

Marilyn Manson informed the crowd at the Glens Falls Civic Center on Tuesday night that the police had warned him not to advocate drug use and “anal sex” but the only people that bought that ...

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Morrissey

by John Rodat October 25, 2012

The linking of Morrissey with Oscar Wilde is one that the former Smiths frontman and now-iconic solo artist has much encouraged, himself. He’s been photographed lounging at that 19th-century decadents’ Parisian grave and, at Thursday’s ...

Public Image Ltd.

by Metroland Staff October 18, 2012

The whole Public Image Ltd. (PiL) thing has, for John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), been a punk-rock indictment of the celebrity machine that is the music industry. Yet, when Lydon took the Upstate Concert Hall stage ...

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Whiskey, Tea and Jesus

by Raurri Jennings October 17, 2012

Shuffling onstage bearded and besweatered, emerging Richmond, Va., singer-songwriter Matthew E. White was the embodiment of the warmth he committed to tape on his debut record, Big Inner. White was backed by an impressive nine-piece ...