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Nate Danker

by Josh Potter September 27, 2012

Capital Region audiences probably know Nate Danker best for his metal band the Viking, who in their busiest years topped our Best Of list for that particular genre. The average Viking fan, however, might not ...

Grimes

by Josh Potter September 27, 2012

Partway into her set, Grimes (the stage name of Montreal-based electronic artist Claire Boucher) asked the sound man to turn up the drums so she could [pantomimes bouncing in her chair] and the light man ...

Basilica Hudson

Keller Williams

by Elyse Beaudoin September 27, 2012

Hoots, hollers and applause rose up from the crowd as one-man band and looping master Keller Williams strolled onto the Upstate Concert Hall stage with a jolly smile. He wore the same familiar haircut, earth-tone ...

The Upstate Concert Hall

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

by Josh Potter September 27, 2012

If Godspeed You! Black Emperor were given a grant and told to build themselves the ideal musical environment, it would likely look a lot like Basilica Hudson. Which probably explains the intermittently touring Montreal-based band’s ...

Basilica Hudson

Braids, Railbird, Hand Habits

by Raurri Jennings September 27, 2012

Say what you’d like about Valentine’s cockeyed pool table and infamous bathrooms, but they have made one solid booking after another this year, proving St. Vincent’s booking agent dead wrong that there is no market ...

Valentine's

Florence + The Machine

by Metroland Staff September 20, 2012

The dog days are over, as are the days of chilling on the SPAC lawn. Florence + The Machine closed out the SPAC summer season on Sunday with one of the more glamerous stage shows ...

Bon Iver

by Josh Potter September 20, 2012

Maybe he was a little looped on the Rare Vos; or maybe Justin Vernon just knows his audience really well. “Anyone out there just starting college?” he asked, as if he too had been stuck ...

Rough Mix

by Josh Potter September 20, 2012

Running on Empty Laura Carrozza’s occasional flute parts might be the only element remaining from Aficionado’s original guitar-horn-synth prog-army sound the band used to march through the Albany scene and onto the national stage. Since being ...

World Party

by Metroland Staff September 20, 2012

Well, you can’t brown-bag it from the bodega anymore to liven up the LarkFest experience. So, it was a good thing World Party brought some sounds to cure that sobriety. Better known for his ’80s ...

Fall Pop Music Preview

by The Staff September 13, 2012

Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker St., Woodstock, (845) 679-446. Sept. 21: Jonathan Edwards. Sept. 28: Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams. Sept. 29: BoDeans. Oct. 5: the Johnny Monster Band. Oct. 6: Birds of Paradox. Oct. 8: Python Soup. ...

Restoration Festival

by Josh Potter September 13, 2012

“This is like the last episode of Lost,” said mandolinist Matthew Loiacono, looking out at the crowd that had gathered in St. Joseph’s Church for the much-anticipated Kamikaze Hearts reunion Friday night at the third ...

Skerik’s Bandalabra

by Jeff Nania September 13, 2012

“One man steals on another man's birthday,” Skerik improvised on two events he had heard about. “It's one man's birthday, another man had his bike stolen. What does it mean? I think they're both motivated ...

Rough Mix

by Josh Potter September 7, 2012

Beyond Restoration For all you festivalgoers gearing up for the über-busy weekend, it looks like there’s a chance of rain in the forcast. At this, the B3nson collective are likely rejoicing. After Hurricane Irene sunk the ...

The Major Lift

by David King August 30, 2012

I feel confident saying that “The Full Retard” should have been the jam of summer 2012. Brooklyn’s El-P is an MC with indie cred and the kind of politically conscious but expectation-flaunting firebrand who is ...

Japanther

by Elyse Beaudoin August 30, 2012

With a name like Japanther, the Brooklyn-based punk duo seemed like they would shred up the stage, but their performance at Valentine’s proved otherwise. In fact, they are the ones who are about to be ...

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Animal Collective

by Josh Potter August 23, 2012

It used to be that when a new record by a major band was approaching its release date, a few first-glimpse reviews would begin to appear in major publications thanks to the preferential advance copies ...

Dan Deacon

by Josh Potter August 23, 2012

Animal Collective are hardly the outliers when it comes to the trend of streaming new records in advance of their release date, and NPR’s First Listen is often the outlet that scores this privelege, as ...

Japanther

by Elyse Beaudoin August 23, 2012

With a name like Japanther, this Brooklyn-based punk duo seemed like they would shred up the stage, but their performance at Valentine’s proved otherwise. In fact, they are the ones who are about to be ...

David Caldwell-Mason

by Jeff Nania August 23, 2012

I don’t know if it’s the fact that his originals are so damn original, or the fact that he takes unlikely pop tunes and makes them sound like they were always his, that makes me ...

Sean Rowe

by David Greenberger August 16, 2012

Last year, ANTI- reissued Sean Rowe’s 2009 Magic, and now comes his first recording created in the spotlight of that album’s success. The Salesman and the Shark makes subtle use of the opportunities that have ...

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