Jen O'Connor
Photographs by Timothy Reidy
Let’s put this to rest once and for all – there is absolutely nothing generic about the band formerly known as We Are Jeneric.
Posts Tagged ‘Sgt. Dunbar & The Hobo Banned’
LIVE: The Parlor @ Valentine’s, 4/7/12
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LIVE: WCDB-FM’s 34th Anniversary Music Festival @ Valentine’s, 3/3/12
Friday, March 30th, 2012
Dave Minehan of the Neighborhoods (photo by Timothy Reidy)
Review by Kirsten Ferguson
Photographs by Kirsten Ferguson and Timothy Reidy.
New Jersey indie-punk band Titus Andronicus kicked off their amped-up headlining set on the second night of the WCDB birthday bash with a charged cover of Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town.”
The ‘70s anthem may as well have been the theme song for Boston trio the Neighborhoods, who played earlier in the night and peppered their high-energy set with remembrances from shows past in Albany, where they were a fixture on the local music scene – and a WCDB staple – in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
LIVE: Dryer @ Putnam Den, 2/17/12
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Dryer's Bob Carlton
Review and photographs by Kirsten Ferguson
Saratoga Springs indie-rock trio Dryer – who first formed in 1993 – reunited in 2010 after eight years apart. A disastrous 2002 tour and personal squabbles among guitarist Bob Carlton, bassist Rachael Sunday and drummer Joel Lilley had contributed to the band’s initial painful demise.
But the band – who were on producer Dominick Campana’s local Paint Chip Records back in the ‘90s – put their differences aside two years ago when New Jersey’s Fake Chapter record label offered to release a digital compilation called “Strut and Fret” of out-of-print Dryer songs. Label head Mike Gilligan convinced the band to get back together to support the release, and Dryer dusted off their instruments for a reunion show at Saratoga’s Putnam Den in April of 2010.
Since then, the band’s gigs have been somewhat rare, including a November performance last year at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City for Fake Chapter’s 15th anniversary. And a month ago, Dryer returned to Putnam Den for a free show with vaunted Albany indie outfit Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned and Skidmore College party band Houseboat.
WEXT’s Exit Dome 5 Bands Are Announced
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned performing at The Putnam Den in August, 2011 (photo by Timothy Reidy)
The line-up for the fifth Exit Dome benefit concert for WEXT-FM has been announced. The concert – which is slated to take place at the WMHT-TV Studio in the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush on Saturday, January 28 – will once again feature a batch of some of the finest musicians of the Local 518.
Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned – who also played at the inaugural Exit Dome concert back in January 2009 – will headline the bash. Other featured bands on the bill for next month include MaryLeigh & the Fauves, the City Never Sleeps, MotherJudge and Rosary Beard.
M.R. Poulopoulos playing in the lobby prior to the start of the show, as well as in between the acts.
Doors open at 7pm, and the concert officially starts at 7:30pm.
Tix are currently available here – a pair of tix for each $50 donation to WEXT-FM.
Five Firsts: Louis Apicello of Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Louis Apicello
NAME: Louis Apicello
BAND AFFILIATION: Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned and the rest of the B3nson Family
INSTRUMENT: Trumpet
1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS … Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue.” I didn’t have my own tape player for a long time. I remember when I first got my personal walkman, my parents gave me a tape of “Louis Armstrong’s Greatest Hits” and the soundtrack to the movie “The Big Chill.” I played those tapes over and over and pretended I was playing along until I wore them out. When I finally went to buy my first tape, my sister said I should get “Kind of Blue.” I bought it from the chain store The Wall. I still remember the blue “lifetime guarantee” sticker on the case, and I probably still have it.
2. THE FIRST CONCERT THAT I EVER SAW WAS … Not counting school concerts for my siblings, the first real concert I can remember attending was Maynard Ferguson back in the winter of 1994. It was at one of the ski resorts in the Catskills. I went with my friend’s dad, who was also my trumpet teacher at the time. Maynard completely blew my mind, and after the show I got to shake his hand.
LIVE: Railbird @ Putnam Den, 8/6/11
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Railbird's Sarah Pedinotti
Yeah, apparently, Saratoga really is the August place to be.
How else to explain three of Nippertown’s finest gathered together on the same stage on one night? Timothy Reidy headed to Putnam Den in Saratoga Springs to see Railbird, Matthew Carefully and Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned on Saturday, August 6. And he reported back with these snappy photos.
LIVE: WEXT 4th Birthday Bash @ Valentine’s, 7/7/11
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Lucky Jukebox Brigade
It was good times and a hot, sweaty time on stage for the WEXT birthday show at Valentine’s Music Hall in Albany last Thursday.
First up was the Lucky Jukebox Brigade, who gave a well-sung performance which got the show off to a good note. Next, Scientific Maps got everyone to lose weight with their “lo cal” set, which included a Kamikazee Hearts song, along with a couple of originals and more covers.
Five Firsts: Eric J. Krans of We Are Jeneric, Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned
Monday, November 15th, 2010
(photo by Jason Lehr)
NAME: Eric J. Krans
BAND AFFILIATION: We are Jeneric, Sgt. Dunbar & The Hobo Banned
INSTRUMENT: Anything rhythmic or vocal
1. THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER BOUGHT WAS … Depeche Mode, “Violator”
2. THE FIRST CONCERT THAT I EVER SAW WAS … The Celebrant Singers. They were a traveling contemporary Christian song and dance troupe. (They’re apparently still around. Their website describes them as “musicians as missionaries.”) I think many of them stayed at our house. The first concert I ever “went to” was a Kansas concert my mother took the church youth group to while she was pregnant with me. Apparently, the place was a haze of smoke and the music was deafening, this according to my mom, and I kicked and kicked and kicked and maybe even flipped.
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