Wednesday, September 28

Empire Live

7pm doors * 8pm show

JIMMY EAT WORLD

With special guests:

Charly Bliss

Tickets $45 adv/$50 day of on sale Friday, June 3 at 10am at www.ticketweb.com

Thursday, September 29

Empire Live

7pm doors * 8pm show

MATT MAESON

Tickets $25 adv/$30 day of on sale Friday, June 3 at 10am at www.ticketweb.com

FREE-QX

4:30-8:30

Rain location is under the bridge at The Corning Preserve Boat Launch.  

Formed in a North Carolina dormitory in 2012, The Nude Party celebrates the clanging rock of the ’60s while blending modern elements that have made them beloved by fans of all ages.

Originally an extended group of childhood friends and step-siblings who decided to start a band, The Nude Party began learning to play instruments at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. The band is comprised of lead vocalist/guitarist Patton Magee, vocalist/lead guitarist Shaun Couture, organist/pianist Don Merrill, bass player Alec Castillo, percussionist Austin Brose, and drummer Connor Mikita. Most members also sing backup. Soon after coming together, the sextet moved into a lake house and started a nightly ritual of jamming in the basement. It was at a regular gig as the house band at a certain Boone party locale that the group’s practice of performing in the buff earned them a local reputation as “the naked party band.” They adopted the moniker The Nude Party just in time to move onto bookings at local clubs and bars, where they had to perform clothed.

They debuted with the Hot Tub EP in 2016 and followed up the their eponymous full-length debut in 2018. The Nude Party was heralded by Rolling Stone as “equal parts ‘I’m Waiting for the Man’ Velvet Underground and Exile on Main Street Stones.” The band’s sophomore full-length, Midnight Manor was released in 2020. The album was met with critical acclaim, with The Line of Best Fit saying “It’s an addictive and deeply satisfying exploration of the beauty and the pain, the agony and the ecstasy, and the rave up and the come down; all baked into the very grooves of every track on the album.”

Since their inception, The Nude Party have relocated to the Catskills in New York and watched their fan base steadily grow as their music reaches the masses. The boys busy touring the world and have performed with the likes of Jack White, The Arctic Monkeys, Greta Van Fleet among others.

LA trio Slothrust make their return to EQXland. Catch their show at Empire Underground in downtown Albany on Thursday, October 20th.

Head to the Midway Lawn at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex, Vermont on Saturday, June 11th for an evening of music with Guster, The Wood Brothers, and special guest David Wax Museum.

Head out to Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York on Saturday, August 21st as Wilco brings their Cruel Country Tour to town for an evening of music.

SATURDAY MAY 14^TH HEAD TO UNIHOG IN HOOSICK FALLS FOR A GREAT BENEFIT WITH MUSIC, FOOD AND RAFFLE GIVEAWAYS.

FRANCIS OF ASSISI SOCIETY FOR ANIMALS RESCUE AN ALL VOLUNTEER NON PROFIT  IS PARTNERING WITH THE GENEROUS FOLKS AT UNIHOG TO RAISE FUNDS. 

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ENJOY THE SOUNDS OF SAINTS AND LIARS WITH GINGER ROOTS ON THE STAGE AT 7PM.

SUPPORT  FRANCIS OF ASSISI RESCUE TO RAISE MONEY AND FINALLY BUY THEIR OWN BUILDING,  AND TO HELP THEM CONTINUE TO RESCUE CATS IN NEED-  ALL WHILE ENJOYING THE COOL SOUNDS OF SAINTS AND LIARS AT UNIHOG, ON CENTER STREET IN HOOSICK FALLS.  AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES, UNIQUE ATMOSPHERE, FOOD AND MUSIC  ALL WHILE SUPPORTING A LOCAL CHARITY!

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Tickets are now available @
Corcoran’s Towpath Tavern
The rustic barn
The ale house
Ask your bartenders $75 cash

Performances by:
The Pods feat. Al from moe. & Dr. Lo Faber
Dead Man’s Waltz
Jay Collins and the Northern Resistance
Glass Pony
Mushroom Men
Dr. Jah and the Love Prophets
Brian Kane and the Beginning
Rob Beaulieu Band
Sly Fox and the Hustlers
Old and in The Rye
The Corsican Brothers
Mike McMann

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Head to Frog Alley Brewing in Schenectady on Friday, July 15th to catch Everclear’s 30th Anniversary show, along with performances from special guests Fasball and The Nixons.

Badfish and Red NOT Chili Peppers bring their Sublime and Red Hot Chili Pepper tribute shows to Frog Alley Brewing in Schenectady on Saturday, July 9th.

Please visit our Health & Safety Guide for more information regarding Masks & Vaccination requirements.

Demetri Martin is a standup comedian, writer, and director. Demetri won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh for his one-man show, If I. At the Melbourne International Comedy festival, his show Dr. Earnest Parrot Presents Demetri Martin won Australia’s Barry Award. Demetri has released three standup comedy albums and four hour-long standup comedy specials, including his latest for Netflix, The Overthinker. 

Demetri created and starred in his own television series for Comedy Central called Important Things with Demetri Martin. His books, This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, are New York Times Bestsellers. His latest book, If It’s Not Funny It’s Art, features a collection of his original drawings. Demetri’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. His first feature film, Dean, which won the Founder’s Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for best narrative American feature film. 

Demetri has brown hair and he is allergic to peanuts.

Tickets On Sale Starting Friday, April 29th at 10am Local Time on LiveNation.com

Best known from the Comedy Central show Tosh.O, comedian Daniel Tosh is announcing more 2022 tour dates across the United States. Produced by Live Nation, the added shows will visit Burlington, VT, Portland, ME, Albany, NY, and more.

Saturday, June 25

Empire Underground

6:30pm doors * 7:30pm show

DES ROCKS & THE BLUE STONES

Tickets are $20 adv/$25 day of tickets on sale Friday, April 22 at 10am

Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two years – both in and out of lockdown – these songs mark a shift toward something louder, wilder, and more full-color.

From the detuned guitars anchoring “The Hardest Cut,” to the urgency of “Wild,” to the band’s blown-out cover of the Smog classic “Held,” Lucifer on the Sofa bottles the physical thrill of a band tearing up a packed room. It’s an album of intensity and intimacy, where the music’s harshest edges feel as vivid as the directions quietly murmured into the mic on the first-take. According to frontman Britt Daniel, “It’s the sound of classic rock as written by a guy who never did get Eric Clapton.”

While Spoon’s last album, Hot Thoughts (2017), bristled with drum machines, synths, and astral moods, the nonstop touring that followed in its wake tugged the band back toward a stripped-down sound. “I liked where we’d gone on Hot Thoughts – it had a specific style and it covered new ground for us – but we kept noticing on the road that the live versions of the songs were beating the album versions,” says Daniel. “And it got us thinking: The best rock music is not about dialing in the right patches and triggering samples. It’s about what happens in a room.”

It took some relocating. In fall of 2019, Daniel moved back to Austin from Los Angeles. A month later, guitarist/keyboardist Alex Fischel followed him with a car full of gear. The move to Texas added up for a lot of reasons: Daniel was born and grew up there, and his family never left. Drummer Jim Eno has his Public Hi-Fi studio in Austin, which allowed the band the luxury of recording at whatever pace they liked. Above all, regrouping in Austin would help the band break with the sound and the feeling of the last few Spoon albums.

That return felt like less of a homecoming than a jolt to the system. Here was an opportunity to write amidst the creative lawlessness that inspired Daniel to make music in the first place — a city where everything from outlaw country to psychedelic punk have long co-mingled at honky-tonks, house shows and backyard barbecues.

“We wanted to make a record where we could experience and draw from a scene,” says Daniel. “Where Alex and I could write all day, then go out and see Dale Watson at the Continental, then come back home and write some more.”

That scene would yield everything from the scorch and bite of “The Hardest Cut,” the first song written by Daniel and Fischel after returning to Texas, (“I spent a lot of 2018 and 2019 listening to ZZ Top,” Daniel explains), to the gentle dizziness of “Astral Jacket,” a ballad tracked after a night out at the now-shuttered Austin nightspot, Stay Gold. Bathed in atmosphere, it’s the sound of coming down – meandering Wurlitzer, brushed drums, and the thump of a timpani suspended in predawn stillness.

Working alongside producer/engineer Mark Rankin (Adele, Queens of the Stone Age) – and with contributions from Dave Fridmann and Justin Raisen – the band’s strategy was straightforward. “I’d come in with a couple new songs and instead of piecing it together like we did the last one, we said ‘Let’s rehearse it’,” Daniel says. “Let’s play it in this room over and over til it becomes something. And let’s just do it with as few instruments as we can.”

Halfway through the recording process, the pandemic hit. The studio shut down, but Daniel continued writing. “There are songs I wrote last spring [of 2020] that I wouldn’t have come up with otherwise,” he says. “It was that first-of-its-kind moment.”

The album’s title track snapshots a late night walk through downtown Austin during shutdown, steeped in the eerie dissonance of isolation and intimacy. Daniel explains: “I didn’t know where that image came from but it felt right, this idea of Satan sitting with me on my couch, staring at me. But after the song was written I figured out that the Lucifer on the sofa is the worst you can become – the bitterness, or lack of motivation or desperation that keeps you down and makes you do nothing or self-indulge. So it’s a song about the battle between yourself and that character you can become, the conflict being played out through a long night walk through downtown Austin.”

It’s also the song where the colors change, the lights turn down and the rules of the record go out the window, the way last songs on a record sometimes do. “It was always gonna be the last song. It wouldn’t have fit anywhere else,” says Daniel.

When the band reconvened in October, Daniel had a new batch of songs, and a fresh sense of momentum. “It’s certainly something we didn’t take for granted, that feeling of being in a room with each other,” Daniel says. “That moment was a once in a lifetime kind of feeling.”

Lucifer on the Sofa is the sound of that moment, a record of defiant optimism, the sound of a band cracking things open and letting them spill out onstage. At a time fraught with uncertainty, it’s shutting the door on the devil you know and never looking back.

• Andrea Domanick

The fourth annual Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards return to the MainStage at Proctors at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 24.

The Eddies is an opportunity to amplify, empower and celebrate professionals
working in the area’s wide-ranging music scene. 

This year, we honor 210 finalists in 36 categories for their work during 2021.
Nominations and voting are determined by a group of judges
representing the local music community. 

View the full list of 2022 categories and nominees at TheEddiesAwards.com.

The musical line-up for the 4th annual Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards will be Buggy Jive, Nite Train w/ Thomasina Winslow, Hot Club of Saratoga,
Rich Ortiz, the Erin Harkes Band and Super 400
with returning emcee Erin Harkes! 

Buggy Jive is a soul rock singer-songwriter who describes himself as “equal parts (Led) Zeppelin and D’Angelo and Prince and Joni (Mitchell).” He has been nominated in each year of the Eddies Music Awards including a record five nominations this year and was a winner of Video of the Year in 2021 for “Ain’t Going Anywhere.”

Nite Train w/ Thomasina Winslow is a seven-piece blues outfit that has been active in the Capital Region for 19 years; singer-guitarist Winslow joined the band in 2019, the year that the band was an Eddies Music Award nominee for best blues act. The band released the album “Cat on A Mission” in late 2020.

Hot Club of Saratoga is a gypsy swing collective that plays a repertoire that reflects the spirit and style originated by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli in The Quintet of the Hot Club of France that was prominent in the 1930s. The act is a 2022 Eddies nominee for Best Jazz Artist.

Rich Ortiz is a singer-songwriter who has opened for Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Styx and many other touring artists. He is a three-time Eddies nominee for Solo or Duo Performer of the Year (covers category), having won in 2019.

Rock trio Super 400 has released one live and four studio albums in their 26 years. All proceeds from their sold-out Troy Music Hall benefit concert on March 23 will be donated to Ukraine humanitarian relief. They are 2022 Eddies nominees in the Rock/Pop Artist of the Year category.

Erin Harkes, a full-time musician and part-time comedian, was a 2020 Eddies Music Award winner in the Solo or Duo Artist of the Year (Covers) category and was a 2021 Eddies Merit Award recipient for her tenacity in developing alternative sources of income during the pandemic. She is nominated this year in the Record of the Year category for “New Year’s Day” and will perform with her seven-piece band during the awards ceremony.

The Eddies Music Awards are an initiative of Proctors Collaborative.