This three day, multi-band event will feature several of the premiere touring bands currently on the festival circuit. Located at the beautiful Charles R. Wood Festival Commons in the heart of Lake George, NY, the festival prides itself on high-quality production and an amazing atmosphere that is suitable for all ages.  We will also have an incredible beer and wine selection, a full bar and the circuit’s finest food and merchandise vendors. 

moe. – 2 nights/2 sets per night
Twiddle
Prince Bowie: Performing the music of Prince & David Bowie
Roots Of Creation
Kung Fu
Lucid
Bella’s Bartok
Eggy
Neighbor
Dogs In A Pile
Annie In The Water
Baked Shrimp
Hartley’s Encore

The Backseat Lovers w/s/g Sleepy Gonzales

The Hollow – 79 North Pearl St.
Albany, New York 12207

Tickets are $15 Adv | $18 Day of show. On sale through www.ticketweb.com

All tickets purchased or won for this show will be honored for the new date, 3/12/22

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
From its exhilarating opening bars, Made Of Rain – the first Psychedelic Furs album in 29
years – sounds like them and them alone. It’s a joy to hear again, fresher than ever, that
unique mesh of sounds and layers, that fusion of smooth and stark, of restraint and
abandon, of melancholy and rage, of optimism and nihilism, of tough and tender. Their
ageless charisma flows anew. “It’s got that depth and weight of sound”, says Richard Butler
as 2020 begins. Talking about the first track, The Boy That Invented Rock & Roll, he suggests,
“It’s saying rock & roll was born out of feelings like these…”the ticking veins, this godless dark ,
the druggy days, the pointless pain…a bag of tears where love is gone”. In a way it’s about Elvis
Presley and all those people, but not just any individuals – it’s the feelings which rock & roll,
for me, comes from. And of course rock & roll has a great deal of sexuality involved too. The
boy is…an idea: I’m not claiming that position for myself!”
The Psychedelic Furs may not have invented rock & roll per se, but their influence since
arriving on the post-punk scorched-earth landscape four decades ago has reverberated and
resonated among all those who cherish the sweet-and-sour spot where rawness and
romanticism meet. “I’m aware of the fact that people cite us an influence”, says Richard,
“though I don’t often recognise it in their music. It’s gratifying of course, as it is that there’s
still an interested and enthusiastic audience for us. That’s an honour.”
As the Furs ’witty, poetic, pugnacious onslaughts seared out of punk then sashayed beyond
New Wave, launching a fleet of durable hits, they evolved electrically and elegiacally until
taking a studio hiatus from 1991. Yet since reconvening as an essential live act at the turn of
the century, they’ve found the applause growing louder and louder. People realised how
much they loved those songs from the 1980 debut The Psychedelic Furs, 1981’s Talk Talk
Talk, 1982’s Forever Now, 1984’s Mirror Moves, 1987’s Midnight To Midnight, 1989’s Book
Of Days and 1991’s World Outside, from early forays like Sister Europe and India through
Pretty In Pink and President Gas to radio staples Love My Way, Heaven, The Ghost In You
and Heartbreak Beat. And while The Furs lay latent (studio-wise), Butler remained busy,
releasing two Love Spit Love albums and a solo album, as well as painting exhibitions. Yet
the urge, the itch, came back and the skies opened to deliver Made Of Rain.
Given that the band were active touring, why hasn’t there been a new album for so long?
“It’s a fine balance”, muses Richard. “When you’ve been around for a while, people want to
hear certain songs at your shows. It was even like that back when we toured with the
second album…we’d do new ones like Pretty In Pink – y’know, pretty good songs – and
people just stood there not getting it, wanting to hear the “old” stuff! So at first that was
fine, as we didn’t do that much touring. It was exciting to play those songs again after taking
a break. But as we did more and more, eventually we started to feel like a jukebox. And you
want to be CREATIVE. And that won out. It got to this point where we felt we HAD to make anew record, we needed new songs to get into. And now I hear this album and I’m very
pleased we did…”
The six-piece line-up has gelled into a groove-some, guileful beast. With, of course, fellow
founder Tim Butler (Richard’s brother) on bass, it features Mars Williams on saxophone,
Rich Good on guitar, Paul Garisto on drums and Amanda Kramer on keyboards. “Oh it’s a
good thing”, nods Richard. “We’re all friends, we’re all family.
The album, released May 1
st on Cooking Vinyl, is produced by Richard Fortus (with The
Psychedelic Furs), a Love Spit Love alumnus who’s also played guitar with Guns ‘N Roses and
Thin Lizzy. “His band had opened for The Furs once and I liked his playing and his
personality. So when I wanted someone to write with after we first split up, I brought him to
New York. His input on the songwriting (for Love Spit Love) was huge. So that’s where I
knew him from. We kind of co-produced on this, in terms of ideas, but he was inspirational,
led the way”. Mixing duties were handled by Tim Palmer (David Bowie, U2, Robert Plant).
And while making the abundance of riches which form The Furs ’sound shine at its brightest
might be considered a challenge, “They’re all great players. Everyone found a place for
themselves, quite naturally”.
What crystallised the title Made Of Rain?
“There’s…a lot of sorrow and darkness in it. A while ago I read the book-length poem The
Man Made Of Rain by Brendan Kennelly. A person who was dying was visited by “a man
made of rain” and I liked that idea; it fit. For some reason, when writing, I always seem to
tend towards the melancholic. Or sometimes, also, anger. There have been very few
“celebratory” songs…I suppose perhaps Love My Way, possibly Heaven. But for the most
part it’s safe to say the songs are tinged with melancholy.”
And is it different writing in the modern world, much-changed since the last Furs songs?
“For me, not really, because most of my songs address an inner monologue. They’re not
“news-related”. I’ve never sat down and said, “I want to write a song about THIS subject.”
The music comes first, then I’ll come up with a melody, then that puts me in a certain frame
of mind. Then the words come from that place, that frame of mind. It’s not to do with
“world events”. It’s interior.”
In the way the impressionistic phrases spark off each other like juxtaposed images, there’s a
reminder that Butler’s an exhibited artist. “It’s painting a verbal picture of the feeling the
music brings out in me. But one of my favourite lines here comes on Wrong Train. “A wife
that hates me…so does her boyfriend”. It makes me laugh! Sure there’s a certain sorrow to it as
well, but…it’s dark comedy”.
Richard hears echoes of the first two albums in the existential pop song Don’t Believe, the
first single (released January 31st). “It’s very Psychedelic Furs-sounding”. You’ll Be Mineboasts a “very John Cale-sounding” Velvetsy violin. And as the album later slows the tempo,
arching the atmosphere across tracks like This’ll Never Be Like Love and Ash Wednesday, he
points out that the band have always teased out songs like that – he cites Sister Europe and
Imitation Of Christ as examples – as part of the mix. Discussing the spooky Come All Ye
Faithful, he acknowledges an unexpected influence in David Essex’s Seventies hit Lamplight.
“I’d always loved the creepy feeling of that song…hence the church bells…” Hide The
Medicine bears a subtle, sinister rumble of threat, of thunder approaching in the distance.
Talking of Pop Art (weren’t we?), Andy Warhol’s book From A To B And Back Again gets
name-checked in Tiny Hands. Delightfully, Richard has not one but two signed copies. One in
which Warhol, at young art student and Velvets fan Richard’s request, drew a banana at a
London book signing. And another from years later when Warhol invited the band to The
Factory in New York. “He was a wonderful host. Very sweet. After that he came down to a
couple of shows…”
The band’s peerless permutations of art, aggression and ambience drive the dynamics on
Made Of Rain, and it’s always been this originality which has set them apart, a cut above.
Back when they started, Punk Rock “helped us realise, all of a sudden, that you didn’t need a
lot of fancy equipment: attitude was important. But at the same time we were inspired by
Roxy Music, and I still loved Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground. It wasn’t JUST punk.”
Indeed the band, after initial outings as first RKO then The Europeans, chose their name as
wilful misfits. “We’d look at the list of gigs and for the most part names were…violent. The
Sex Pistols. The Stranglers. So I wanted something that made people go, “What the f*ck are
they doing?” And we knew “psychedelic” would do that…”
As they moved to America, where Richard now resides in upstate New York, some were
again disorientated, and the band’s later albums were perhaps perceived from a different
angle. “Some might have thought we were “traitors””, laughs the singer. “But after the
Forever Now tour, I had a girlfriend at the time who lived in New York, and I said to Tim,
“Fancy moving over here?” And we did. I guess that changed English people’s perceptions of
us. Maybe it’s reflected on Mirror Moves. We’d been lucky on the first two albums with
Steve Lillywhite producing – he absolutely didn’t want to dampen down our live sound. He
wanted it to sound like one of our gigs, which was everybody fighting for a place to be heard
on top of a racket! Then later, as we wanted a change, Todd Rundgren was a good choice
for Forever Now. I wanted to do something different, and I’d loved the chugging cellos in
Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring so we brought that into President Gas. And so then we were
in America…”
Yet in another time and any place, the beautiful chaos abides. In recent years the band have
played the Royal Festival Hall for the Meltdown Festival at Robert Smith of The Cure’s
request and everyone from The Killers to REM to Foo Fighters has sung their praises. Many
moons after Pretty In Pink (sort of) inspired that John Hughes movie, Love My Way has
featured in Oscar-winning film Call Me By Your Name and The Ghost In You in sci-fi smashStranger Things. Psychedelic Furs are sounding stronger than ever. As anyone who’s seen
the band lately knows, Butler remains one of the most watchable frontmen in the game:
pacing, crouching, theatrical, enigmatic but engaged. Tours are planned, and prestigious live
shows this year will include London’s Royal Albert Hall on May 14th
. Party time is here again.
“A lot of people tend to look back on their youth as being the most fantastic time, but it
really wasn’t: I think my life is just as good now, if not better. There’s a great deal of
pleasure to be had in knowing yourself rather than always second-guessing. Knowing your
strengths”.
As the closing track on Made Of Rain sighs, “these are the days that we will all remember”.
Does this feel like a special time again?
“Oh every minute you’re alive, they’re all great days.”
What a glorious feeling. Let it rain.

The third full-length from British rock band The Struts, Strange Days came to life over the course of a charmed and frenzied burst of creativity last spring. After getting tested for COVID-19, singer Luke Spiller, guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott, and drummer Gethin Davies all moved into the Los Angeles home of Jon Levine, a producer who worked extensively on their acclaimed sophomore effort YOUNG & DANGEROUS (including the album’s chart-climbing lead single “Body Talks”). Within just ten days of couch-crashing at Levine’s house, The Struts had laid down nine original tracks and one masterful cover of a KISS B-side: a lean, mean body of work that amounts to their most glorious output to date.

“It was so much fun to make a record this way instead of getting everything done in between touring, working with multiple producers in multiple countries,” says Spiller. “We were all just burning to capture that excitement as much as we possibly could, and at times it felt like the songs were literally just falling from the sky.”

In an organic turn of events for a band massively embraced by some of rock-and-roll history’s greatest icons—a feat that’s included opening for The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Guns N’ Roses—Strange Days finds The Struts joining forces with a formidable lineup of guest musicians: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes, Tom Morello, and Robbie Williams. Mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Panic! At the Disco, Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Marr), the result is a powerhouse album that lifts The Struts’ glammed-up breed of modern rock to entirely new and wildly thrilling heights.

Kicking off with a magnificent bang, Strange Days opens on its title track, a sprawling and string-laced duet with Robbie Williams. “I was doing Quarantine Radio and Robbie hit me up out of the blue asking if we could talk,” notes Spiller, referring to the Instagram Live show launched by The Struts in the early days of lockdown. “We ended up Face-Timing for about two hours the first time we’d ever spoken, talking about life and music and UFOs and everything else you can think of. I asked if he’d like to work together at some point, and while we were making the album he graciously let us come over and record him singing on his front porch.” Despite its prescient title, “Strange Days” took shape from a voice memo Spiller recorded on the band’s tour bus way back in summer 2019. Fused with a cabaret-inspired interlude Spiller had recently dreamed up, the song ultimately evolved into the perfect vessel for the frontman’s force-of-nature voice: a tenderhearted epic that offers incredible solace in the most chaotic of times.

Sparked from a Britpop-leaning riff brought in by Slack, the album’s potent lead single “Another Hit of Showmanship” feat. Albert Hammond Jr. centers on another poignant vocal performance from Spiller, who deftly channels the tension between giving in to temptation and rising above your demons. After laying down the initial version of the track, Spiller reached out to Hammond, for whom the band opened on a series of 2018 solo shows. “‘Another Hit of Showmanship’ reminds me of being at a club night called Ramshackle years ago at the O2 Academy in Bristol, where they’d play bands like The Libertines and Razorlight and Scissor Sisters, and of course The Strokes,” says Spiller. “I hit up Albert out of the blue and told him, ‘We’ve got this song, and I’m so excited to see what you would do with it.’ As soon as he got his hands on it, he took it to a whole different level—it really just shows why he’s so brilliant at what he does.”

The most groovy-heavy work yet from The Struts, Strange Days also delivers hip-shaking standouts like “I Hate How Much I Want You”: a hot-and-bothered stomper graced with a scorching guitar solo from Phil Collen and Joe Elliott’s high-voltage vocals. Another explosive moment, “All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go)” unfolds in snarling power chords and exquisitely cheeky lyrics (its opening salvo: “You look like a movie star/On Sunday morning”). “That one’s based around the idea of being in love with your motorcycle—there’s a bit of innuendo to it,” says Spiller, whose own bike inspired the track. “The whole concept of being all dressed up with nowhere to go seems especially relevant the moment.” Meanwhile, “Wild Child” makes for a fierce and filthy anthem, infinitely supercharged by Tom Morello’s blistering guitar work. And on the beautifully weary “Burn It Down,” The Struts slip into a bittersweet mood, serving up a slow-burning ballad that sounds straight from the sessions for Exile on Main St.

The sole cover song on Strange Days, “Do You Love Me” finds The Struts updating a fantastically sleazy track first recorded by KISS in 1976 and remade in 1980 by Girl (a late-’70s/early-’80s British glam-metal band that, incidentally, featured Phil Collen on guitar). “I was so in love with Girl’s version of ‘Do You Love Me’ and thought the simplicity of it was amazing,” says Spiller. “I wanted to give it an even bigger sound for our album—something way more aggressive, completely balls-to-the-wall.”

In their supreme handling of “Do You Love Me,” The Struts again claim their rightful place in the lineage of rock-and-roll hellraisers. Formed in Derby, England, in 2012, the band quickly drew a major following with their outrageous live show, and later made their debut with Have You Heard (a 2015 EP whose lead single “Could Have Been Me” hit #1 on Spotify’s viral chart). Before they’d even put out their first album, the band opened for The Rolling Stones before a crowd of 80,000 in Paris and toured the U.S. on a string of sold-out shows. With their full-length debut Everybody Wants arriving in 2016, The Struts released YOUNG & DANGEROUS in 2018, soon after wrapping up a North American tour with Foo Fighters. Having toured incessantly since their formation, The Struts have also taken the stage at many the world’s biggest music festivals, including Lollapalooza, Governors Ball, Isle of Wight, and many more.

As Spiller reveals, the making of Strange Days was a period of joyful productivity. “Every day I’d wake up at about 7 a.m., get three venti Americanos delivered to the house, go out to the backyard and smoke a couple of spliffs, and listen to the voice memos I’d recorded at the sessions the day before,” he recalls. “After the first four days or so we hit a bit of a wall, so we decided to get some beers in and just stay in the pool all day—and the day after that we knocked out three whole songs.” Throughout Strange Days, that kinetic energy manifests in the album’s unbridled spirit, an element that makes every track exhilarating. “I think because we’d wanted to make an album this way for years, all that excitement and hunger led to an immediate sort of magic once we started working on it,” says Spiller. “It was undoubtedly a magical ten days for us—and I hope when people hear the album, it gives them a taste of that magic too.”

Join Wild Adriatic, along with special guests 10:01 Band, on August 20th for an evening of music at Unihog in Hoosick Falls, New York.

Saturday, July 31st, it’s a show with The Mallet Brothers Band at Unihog in Hoosick Falls, New York.

FolkFaces make their way to Unihog in Hoosick Falls, New York for a show on Friday, July 16th. 

Blake Christiana of YARN takes a solo set on the road with support from Shannon Roy and Neil Goes on Friday, July 3rd, at Unihog in Hoosick Falls, New York.

Get to Unihog in Hoosick Falls, New York on Friday, June 25th to catch a show with the Blind Owl Band.

Badfish’s celebration of their 20th anniversary brings them to Frog Alley Brewing in Schenectady, New York on Saturday, August 14th.

Friday, July 16th, head to Frog Alley Brewing in Schenectady, New York for a show with Wild Adriatic.

Head to the Charles R. Wood Festival Commons on Thursday, July 1st to catch a show with Warren Haynes.

FLOGGING MOLLY

VIOLENT FEMMES

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

ME FIRST AND THE GIMMME GIMMES THICK

 SEPTEMBER 19^TH   

6:30 PM

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SPIN DOCTORS

Pick yourself up a “Pocket Full of Kryptonite” at Stratton this summer as The Spin Doctors play in the return to live music and the first show of the 2021 Stratton Mountain Music series.

A staple of the ’90s music scene with six albums including the triple-platinum Pocket Full of Kryptonite, which sold more than 10 million copies, The Spin Doctors bring their vibrant, blues-influenced sound and unique chemistry to the Stratton stage on Sunday, July 4. Tickets are only $35 in advance, $40 day of.

This is your chance to hear the hits all right here at Stratton Mountain this summer in a concert that promises to be “playful, tight and exuberantly fun.”

Doors open at 5:30PM with the opening set from 6PM to 7PM. The Spin Doctors are set to get the crowd going at 7:30PM.

Attendance is limited. Please check back here for regular updates.

Rooted in the rowdy spirit of rock & roll, Wild Adriatic has built an international audience on a combination of groove, grit, and guitar-heavy swagger. Whittled into sharp shape by a touring schedule that’s kept them busy for roughly 250 days a year — including several European tours, countless stateside runs, and appearances at festivals like Bonnaroo & Mountain Jam — the band continues to place an emphasis on evolution. “We’re silly weirdos living out our childhood fantasy and we feel so lucky to able to continue chasing the dream,” says drummer Mateo Vosganian. Singer and guitarist Travis Gray agrees, saying that the goal is ultimately to continue to celebrate the electricity and elation of playing in a traveling band. “We love this,” he adds. “We’re just normal dudes who are lucky to be supported by fans who buy tickets and come out to shows, and we like to hang out with them. We aren’t trying to take ourselves too seriously. We’re trying to connect. We’re trying to feel.” With plenty of new songs and dance-party inciting jams, Wild A brings with it the next level of the explosive & fun live performance that gained them early acclaim from outlets like Rolling Stone, USA Today, and the Huffington Post.

Welcome back! Come celebrate live audiences returning The Linda at the Open for Business Concert Series. OFB features the home-grown outstanding performers of the Capital Region, special guests and you. Let’s do this.

Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys make one feel as if they’re traveling in time, maybe back to Louisiana in 1963. Mel Guarino of The Bluebillies said, “There is no other band that I know that can sound so modern and yet so classic and nostalgic. It’s at once, “Old Timey” and “Timeless”, echoing the sound and feel of maybe Hank Williams or the Stanley Brothers, with a “hill-billy” edge.”

Welcome back! Come celebrate live audiences returning The Linda at the Open for Business Concert Series. OFB features the home-grown outstanding performers of the Capital Region, special guests and you. Let’s do this.
The NoLaNauts with special guest, comic Chris Lamberth!

Meet the NoLaNauts, a spicy groove collective dedicated to serving up a healthy dose of “Who Dat Funk.”

The NoLaNauts reflect years of living, visiting, immersing and loving New Orleans, its people and their rich culture. New Orleans is the most interesting city in the United States and it lives by its own rules and traditions – Mardi Gras – Jazz Fest – Red Beans – Tipitina’s – PoBoys – Preservation Hall – Crawfish and festivals that celebrate every aspect of being alive and being in the Crescent City.

The NoLaNauts are the dream of Tom O’Connor and Brian Lawlor who have faithfully participated in every available New Orleans experience including decades of nearly religious attendance at New Orleans’ Jazz and Heritage Festival. Tom and Brian have played music together for over 30 years and seized the opportunity to assemble some of the finest musicians in the area to bring a taste of the New Orleans music scene to life in the Northeast.

These musicians have worked tirelessly to respectfully capture the joy and depth of the music of New Orleans including the Meters, Allen Toussaint, Dr.John, Neville Brothers, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Subdudes, Little Feat, The Iguanas and many more artists who honor the spirit of New Orleans and its people.

SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Hanging out with the NoLaNauts can be mildly infectious. Symptoms include: Loss of inhibition, careless displays of groove induced happiness, feverish outbreaks of funky fires and decadent desires. Fortunately….for all of our sisters and brothers…. there is no known antidote for this condition!

So- put on your dancing shoes and load up on the beads!!

The NoLaNauts are: Peter Andriakos: Percussion & Vocals Brian Bean: Bass & Vocals Brian Brancato: Trumpet and Vocals Brian Lawlor: Drums & Vocals Colin McInnis: Sax & Vocals Ben Moss: Guitar & Vocals David Macejka: Drums – Percussion & Spoken Word Tom O’Connor: Guitar & Vocals Joe Sobero- Drums and Vocals Bill Ringwood- Sax & Vocals Rick Rothermel: Keyboards-B3 & Vocals

Message from the band regarding the cancellation of this show: