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The archives of UpstateLIVE, 2010-2014
Hearing Aide: Pink Floyd ‘The Endless River’
For twenty years Pink Floyd has sailed on that final lyric from their penultimate album. This week the final cut of…
Ray LaMontagne Turns the Palace Into a Supernova
Words by Lauren Byrnes
On Sunday night, Albany's Palace Theatre was given a real treat: The Belle Brigade opening…
Michelle Renee and Local Female Vocalists Serenade the Lost Horizon
Imagine you have a singers voice, a deep love for making music, and a desire to share wisdom through lyrics. You…
Tanglewood 2015 Summer Season Peaks With Odd Pairing
Taking a short drive down 90 into Massachusetts to Tanglewood Performing Arts Center in Stockbridge to see a show…
Danko Jones Announces New Album and Releases Single
Danko Jones, a rock and roll band from Canada, announced that their newest album, Fire Music, will be released…
Interview: Celebrating 20 Years With Lonestar
We all have that one artist/group that no matter how many times you change out your playlist on your iPod, they…
Funk Sessions at Putnam Den with The New Mastersounds
The Heard opened a night of funk at Putnam Den, bringing blazing Chicago funk along with them courtesy of a solid…
Across The Pond: Spoon Plays London’s Shepard’s Bush Empire with…
Spoon is a band from Austin, Texas and on Friday night, the five-piece found themselves playing in London, England…
String Cheese Incident Returns to Upstate
A cover heavy jammin good time was had by a packed State Theater in Ithaca on Monday Nov. 10, the band's first…
Holy Craic! Black 47 To Close Curtain On 25 Year Career This Weekend With Final…
When Larry Kirwan and Chris Byrne met in New York City and formed Black 47 in the late 1989, they had no idea that…
The McLovins Announce Saratoga and Rochester Dates
Hartford, Connecticut's The McLovins have announced four new tour dates including two visits to Upstate in…
Suwannee Hulaween 2014: The Spell has been Cast
This recent Halloween weekend things went bump in the night. They also went womp womp, untz untz untz, and…
The Mule to buck the State Theatre on November 15
Celebrating their first twenty years, Gov’t Mule will be stopping at the State Theatre in Ithaca, NY on November 15…
It’s A Strange And Mysterious Thing: An Interview With Peter Rowan
In referencing how music becomes something tangible to the world, Peter Rowan describes in a new interview how the…
Arlo Guthrie Returns to Bardavon Theater on November 16
Folk icon Arlo Guthrie comes to the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie on November 16 for a Sunday show not…
Bluegrass Legend Peter Rowan Brings Some First Class Music to Oneonta
A dream come true for bluegrass aficionados, Peter Rowan will be bringing some good old-fashioned bluegrass music…
Alan Evans Playonbrother is No More
In a sad announcement indeed, Alan Evans Playonbrother has announced they are going on an indefinite hiatus. Alan -…
Hearing Aide: Cavalera Conspiracy, ‘Pandemonium’
Max Cavalera seems to be a man who can never rest. After years of touring with Sepultura to forming Soulfly, Max…
Albany Native Dani Moz to Launch New LP This Month
Dani Moz, a fan favorite of last year’s installment of NBC’s music talent show The Voice, took to social media to…
Hearing Aide: Dopapod’s ‘Never Odd or Even’
After consuming Dopapod's fourth studio effort Never Odd or Even a few times I started to feel a kinship with that…