ominous seapods

It wasn’t quite Valentine’s Day, but on the evening of February 11th at The Hollow in Albany, it felt like a holiday nonetheless. For night one of their two-night run, The Seapods made their long-awaited and triumphant return with a rare…

May 18th may be just any other day of the year for most of the world, but for the extended Capital Region in New York, it is a day of celebration. 518 Day highlights the variety of local music that has been a defining part of this…

New York is a vast state with pockets of local scenes throughout. While a "scene" these days isn't what it was in the '80s or '90s where bands of similar genres created scenes out of necessity, the music scenes of the 21st century are,…

Mutants clamoring for moe Ominous Seapods after January's successful three show run have something to look forward to in January 2019. Seapods members Tom Pirozzi (bass and vocals), Max Verna (guitar), Brian Magini (keyboards) and Ted…

It's been six years since the last Ominous Seapods show, but after two sell out shows in Cohoes and a first time performance at Brooklyn Bowl, you'd be remiss not to wonder why they don't reunite more often. With fans flying in from as far…

 A Plattsburgh State undergrad once asked Max Verna to define an Ominous Seapod. “I don’t really know,” he said, providing no explanation behind the name of his band for the young reporter working on a feature for his student newspaper. “I…

The Ominous Seapods' Tom Pirozzi revealed in September that the band's reunion show at Cohoes Music Hall on Saturday, January 13 would become a two-night run, plus an addition show on Sunday, January 14 at Brooklyn Bowl, followed by the Zen…

Albany jam band legends Ominous Seapods now have their entire discography on Spotify. The five piece group had a sizeable following in the 1990s, performed at the first moe.down and held great influence over a generation of jambands to…

In the past few months, a group on Facebook of Ominous Seapods Fans have had the benefit of having first listen to OS shows that were, for the first time since the original performance, transferred and uploaded to Archive.org. Thanks to…