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New York has settled into its Phase 4 stage of reopening. This means that museums, zoos, botanical gardens, and “Low-risk entertainment services” such as live music are all returning to the empire state. Nobody is bringing live music back…

Protest-folk music icon of the sixties, Arlo Guthrie, collaborated with Solo Pianist, Jim Wilson, to release, "Hard Times Come Again No More." Arlo Guthrie, Jim Wilson and Vanessa Bryan create a stunning, folk rendition of, "Hard Times…

We head back to the Island for this week's Jerry Sundays installment with a Grateful Dead show at the legendary Nassau Coliseum from 1979. The band played two shows here earlier that year in January, more than five years after their first…

WEQX has long been the preeminent independent station in the Capital Region of New York, broadcasting from Southern VT to a ever-expanding listening audience. Each Sunday evening from 7-9pm on 102.7 FM, you'll find EQXposure on WEQX,…

Two years after releasing Tommy and just ahead of the release of Who's Next, UK rock stalwarts The Who performed at Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center on Monday, August 2, 1971. The show would serve as The Who's only performance…

On Tuesday, July 28, Lake Placid native Lana Del Rey released the audiobook for her upcoming poetry collection. Titled Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, it contains 14 of the more than 30 poems to be included in the hardcover version,…

Evan Alexander Moore dropped his debut album The Perennial Millennial is a defining snapshot of our time on May 22, 2020. A quirky social commentary on the American millennial experience in 2020, it’s a concept album through and through.…

Danielle Ponder and Karate Boogaloo team up to create "Look Around," a meaningful single to focus the public's attention towards BIPOC being oppressed and murdered throughout the world. Danille Ponder, an artist and activist from…

If you're in the Saratoga Springs region this August and September and need a safe activity for the whole family, where everyone can feel like a kid again, you're in luck. Saratoga Springs' Universal Preservation Hall has the perfect…

On Thursday, August 13, live music will be returning to Hudson Valley with a drive-in Grace Potter concert presented by Radio Woodstock. Since the COVID-19 shutdown, music events have turned to virtual platforms for fans to enjoy,…