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Gold Rush: Les Claypool Goes for the Trifecta in Saratoga Springs
When Les Claypool comes to town, normal concert rules no longer apply. On Friday, June 12 at the Saratoga…
WICKED Gives Glam Metal a Modern Edge
WICKED approaches music with one foot in the past and the other firmly in the present. But before the…
Vans Warped Tour Returning to Washington, D.C.
With summer officially underway and festival season kicking into high gear, one of the most iconic names in…
Fit For A King Brings Lonely God Tour To Anthology
A beautiful late-spring evening set the stage for a massive night of metalcore as Fit For A King brought their…
April Wine’s Brian Greenway Talks Canadian Band’s History, Current Tour with…
Canadian hard rockers April Wine are currently in the midst of a U.S. – Canadian tour with reformed fellow…
Keep Flying Celebrates Ten Years at Empire Underground
On Friday, May 22, Keep Flying rushed the stage at Albany's Empire Underground as part of their Ten Year…
Lorna Shore Brings Chaos To Sharkeys Event Center
On Wednesday, May 20, a sold-out Sharkey’s Event Center turned into complete controlled chaos as one of the…
Rock Band, Joudy’s Headbanging New Single Out
New York rock trio Joudy released their new single “Three Dollar Bill” on May 20. The track comes ahead of their…
Bellissima Fleshgod Apocalypse at Buffalo Riverworks
Bellissima is not a term I usually use to describe death metal music but in this instance it is the only word I…
Alter Bridge Soars at Historic Landmark Theatre in Syracuse
Alter Bridge returned to Central New York on Friday, May 15, to perform at the historic Landmark Theatre in…
Mind Blown Festival Brings Underground Metal, Rock & Art to Glens…
Mind Blown, a free underground rock and art festival, returns to The Shirt Factory on Saturday, June 27, from 11…
New Zealand’s Earth Tongue Opens U.S. Tour at Bug Jar
Late on Mother's Day Sunday, May 11, a mother of a show blew through the Bug Jar doors in Rochester. Earth Tongue,…
From Full Collapse to No Devolución, Thursday Celebrates Milestone Anniversaries…
Post-hardcore veterans Thursday brought their Full City Devolución tour to Anthology in Rochester on Saturday,…
Raven Bring Hell-Patrolling, Window-Picking, Tsunami-Surfing, Chain-Sawing,…
April 21, 2026 brought a roaring night of new and vintage heavy to Empire Underground in Albany. Headlining were…
Local Limelight: Joe Altier – Just Joe
Reviving NYS Music's feature series Local Limelight is Bethany Couture. A special and yet integral collection of…
Soul Asylum Unplugs at Levon Helm Studios
Grammy Award-winning Soul Asylum brought its Acoustic 2026 tour to Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock Friday, April…
Zakk Wylde Returns to New Jersey as Black Label Society Storms The Wellmont…
Black Label Society brought a wall of sound to Wellmont Theater on April 3, delivering a powerful, no-frills night…
ZETA Celebrate 10 Years of Touring at Bug Jar
Wednesday the 25th at the Bug Jar in Rochester was a night filled with post-rock nostalgia and friends gathering…
Gwar – It’s Not The Bug, It’s the Feature
For 1000 fans, getting soaked with fake blood is not the bug, but the feature. On March 21st the intergalactic war…
Dark Star Orchestra Announces 2026 Summer Tour With Five New York Stops
Dark Star Orchestra has announced the first leg of their 2026 Summer Tour, and New York State fans have five…