From Foss Forward: Sara Foss offers her Summer Concert Preview, a list of 11 shows that “I’m either planning to see, or that I wish I could see.” It’s a pretty damn good list, too…
From Keep Albany Boring: KC offers some photographs of the art work of ♥Neener, whose drawings are currently on exhibit at Albany Center Gallery as part of the four-person show, “The Study,” which also features the work of local artists MammalSoap, Emily Dorr and Patrick Picou Harrington.
Nippertown reader Mark McGuire sent this to us, and at first we were very excited. Then we got really scared…
Fortunately local Trojans need not fear the impending apocalypse. The evil hordes of Mumford & Sons will not be invading Troy, NY. But if you happen to live in Troy, Ohio, beware…
From Saratoga Wire: In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Saratoga Race Course and the ever-dwindling one-week residency of the NYC Ballet at SPAC, the streets of the Spa City will soon be decorated with what? More than two dozen five-foot-tall fiberglass pointe ballet shoe sculptures. Huh? Yeah, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, either, but Thomas Dimopoulos writes about the sculptures’ grand unveiling last weekend at the National Museum of Dance.
From 13:13: Becka Diamond’s interview with Melissa Auf Der Maur, who launches the summer season of her Basilica Hudson in Hudson on Saturday night (June 8) with a Goth/New Wave Dance Party.
From All Over Albany: The lowdown on the upcoming Yappy Hour (canine friendly cocktail hour) at the Confectionery in Troy and several other watering holes around Nippertown.
From The New York Times Diner’s Journal: Jeff Gordinier interviews master video blogger and Buzzfeed exec Ze Frank about his relationship with food, which began at the late, great Lark Street restaurant, Cathy’s Waffle Store, operated by his mom, Cathy Frank…
From Hudson Sounds: Liz Friedman’s story on this week’s 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s controversial “Rites of Spring”…
From Foss Forward: In the wake of last weekend’s Beatles A-Z marathon on WEXT-FM, Sara Foss weighs in with her personal Top 10 fave Beatles songs.
From The Wall Street Journal: Speaking of the Beatles, Maryjean Wall reveals the surprising connection between Robert Sterling Clark (of Williamstown’s Clark Art Institute and the Fab Four.
From Reuters: Nate Raymond on the settlement of the lawsuit between the Velvet Underground and the Andy Warhol estate over the banana…
From 519 Music Hub: Dan Barner interviews Albany rockers Hard Soul.
From the Huffington Post: Actor-Renassance man James Franco reviews “The Place Beyond the Pines” and raves about Ryan Gosling…
From the Rogovoy Report: Seth Rogovoy reviews the Nippertown concert debut of James McCartney – yes, the son of Sir Paul – at Club Helsinki in Hudson last weekend.
From CRUMBS Blog: Andrew Gregory serves up a photo array of the musicians who performed along the route of the fourth annual SPAC Rock & Run on 5/19/13
From Berkshire On Stage: What’s the best art museum in Massachusetts? The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown? MASS MoCA in North Adams? No, according to The Times of London, the best art museum in the state is the Museum of Bad Art in Boston. And Larry Murray has a problem with that choice…
The Gregory Brothers recap “The History of YouTube” in honor of the video website’s eighth birthday…
Steve Daub with Rory Block
Story and interview by Wanda Callagy
Steve Daub has been busy in the last few weeks.
Not only did he enjoy some time in New Orleans, he had a birthday and was honored to be a judge at the recent Downtown Albany Business Improvement District’s recent Downtown Albany Blues Music Competition to help determine which bands would perform at the Local Blues Night of this summer’s upcoming Alive at Five concert series. (The winners – Blues Sanctuary and the Tom Healey Band – are slated to perform at Albany’s Riverfront Park at 5pm on Thursday, July 25).
Daub has been an influence in the area for several years, volunteering his Monday nights to promote local musicians on his “Stormy Monday Blues” program heard from 8-10pm on Mondays on college radio station WRPI (91.5 FM) out of Troy. The musicians he has hosted on his program stretch from regional and local artists to visitors to the Albany area, such as Peter Tork and Rory Block.
The radio show has been running for over 10 years now, and Daub says that he got into it quite by accident. A boss’ girlfriend suggested he get involved, simply a music lover. The position grew from being a co-host to running the show weekly with the assistance of audio engineer students who set up and operate the sound system for live performances on the show. With the summer ahead, the students will be gone until the fall, but Daub has plenty of vinyl to play, and though most of the music he plays is focused on the blues, other favorites or new bands are also often presented.
From Buzzfeed: Maria Sherman’s “26 Signs You Were A College Radio DJ” – including a shout-out to Troy’s WRPI-FM…
From Keep Albany Boring: KC gives you the lowdown on this weekend’s lecture and workshop by scientist/survivalist Guy McPherson at Basilica Hudson in Hudson.
From All Over Albany: A story about the Albany Historic Foundation’s plans to hand St. Joseph’s Church – the site of the annual Restoration Festival (aka Rest Fest) fundraisers for the building’s preservation – back to the City of Albany…
From the Rogovoy Report: Seth Rogovoy previews the new Hudson area all-star band the Faux Meek, who make their debut at Club Helsinki on Saturday (May 18) opening for David Jacobs-Strain. What do they sound like? As Rogovoy reports, “Think the Velvet Underground meets the Grateful Dead at a Cocteau Twins concert.”
From Saratoga Wire: Thomas Dimopoulos has a round-up of events for the Saratoga 150 Festival, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Saratoga Race Track.
From New York: The magazine’s travel writer Michael Alan Connelly raves about Saratoga Springs – especially its culinary and cultural options.
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