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WEXT & Discover Schenectady Kick Off to Summer

With Discover Schenectady , WEXT is announces our first ever Kick Off to Summer Event on June 8th in Central Park ! There is so much fun to be had in Schenectady County and this event will help you create your "Summer Must-Do" list in Schenectady! Enjoy live music on the Music Haven stage ranging from jazz to reggae and music from the Empire State Youth Orchestra in the Rose Garden all day long.

In addition to the wonderful music, there will be lots of food, beer & all kinds...

WEXT Presents Lake Street Dive at the Palace Theatre

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Rock Legends at The Egg

Jay Bobbin's Exit to The Movies: "Breakthrough"

By Jay Bobbin • Apr 29, 2019

The Local 518 Show 1913

By Andy Gregory • Apr 28, 2019

There's an unlimited number of great bands in the Local 518. Some are on great local record labels too! Local 518 show host Andy Gregory samples some of the bands represented on Five Kill Records & Bee Side Cassettes. And there's a duo, along with the Attic Classic band, that are all indie. Hear songs by Hate Club, Bear Grass, Blue Ranger, Broken Field Runner, Neighborhood of Make Believe, and Doctor Baker. The origin of our Attic Classic band The Sifters began around 20 years ago at a restaurant in Cooperstown. The only Sifters album that there ever was, was released in May 2004.

Listen: Local 518 Dan Berggren

By Chris Wienk • Apr 25, 2019

Dan Berggren comes from generations of Adirondack dwellers. So, when he took to music, it may have seemed natural for him to play Adirondack folk songs.

Mass MoCA Is Your Summer Destination For Music, and More!

By Chris Wienk • Apr 25, 2019

Sue Killam, Jodi Joseph and Chris Wienk — WEXT

Mass MoCA keeps upping the game! This summer is jam packed! Not only are they playing host to Solid Sound (weekend passes sold out, but Friday and Sunday passes are available), and Freshgrass Festival, but they just announced The Pretenders!

George Benson Returns with Walking to New Orleans

By Chris Wienk • Apr 25, 2019

George Benson "Walking to New Orleans" — Artist

George Benson wanted to try something completely different. He signed with a European label (a first for him), and took them up on a suggestion of what kind of new album to make.

He went to Nashville to work with some serious "pickers." He said "you could really get off track with them as they're so good." But he knew he had to stay the course and be true to the rock n roll legends he was going to cover - Fats Domino and Chuck Berry.

Marshall Tucker Band Takes to the Skyloft

By WEXT • Apr 24, 2019

Saturday, November 2nd | Skyloft at Crossgates

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Rochmon Record Club: Experience "Aja" and "A Night at The Opera"

By Chris Wienk • Apr 23, 2019

Chuck Vosganian of Rochmon Record Club spends maybe a thousand hours listening to one album, looking up information about it, just to give you an unparalleled listening experience. Chuck likes to say you’ll "hear these records as if for the very first time."

Join Chuck, this week, as he presents two more great classics, Steely Dan's "Aja" (Thursday, 4/25 at The Linda) and Queen's "A Night at The Opera" (Friday, 4/26 at Proctors GE Theatre).

The Local 518 Show 1912

By Andy Gregory • Apr 22, 2019

We had a great time at the inaugural Eddies Regional Music Awards show. Can't wait to do it again next year! This episode of the Local 518 Show features some of the Eddie nominees & award winners, and others you should hear too. Show host Andy Gregory has songs by El Modernist, Quantum, Wild Adriatic + Dan Rodriguez, Let's Be Leonard, Julia Gargano, and Lord Electro.

Jay Bobbin's Exit to The Movies: "Missing Link"

By Jay Bobbin • Apr 22, 2019

Max Weinberg's Jukebox Soars at Skyloft

By WEXT • Apr 21, 2019

Sunday, April 28 | Skyloft at Crossgates

As Chuck Berry instructed us in his classic “School Days,”…drop the coin right into the slot” audiences have thoroughly embraced the idea of picking and calling out the songs the band pays—in real time and in a variety of intimate venues. From Beatles to Bruce and Stones to Steppenwolf the band infuses these classics with the respect the songs deserve. As one fan said, “It’s not a concert—it’s party! The bar was packed!”

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First Listen: Sebadoh, 'Act Surprised'

By Stephen Thompson • 8 hours ago

Lou Barlow has been a singer-songwriter — and/or a member of Sebadoh, The Folk Implosion and Dinosaur Jr., among other projects — dating back to the 1980s.

First Listen: Justin Townes Earle, 'The Saint Of Lost Causes'

By Jason Heller • 10 hours ago

Singer-songwriters such as Justin Townes Earle often get pegged as being self-reflective, and it's a fair accusation. Earle himself lingered on his own confessional psyche on his last album, 2017's Kids in the Street, which unearthed all kinds of rocks from his past to see what was squirming underneath them.

First Listen: Petrol Girls, 'Cut & Stitch'

By Lars Gotrich • 10 hours ago

Punk is an unruly but ultimately loving teacher. As a teenager, you come for the music — fast, angry, visceral, sometimes blissful — but even as political and personal issues change, you grow to absorb some of punk's core messages: Call out injustice, make sure everyone has a good time. Increasingly, that has meant making punk a safe space for women and non-binary folks. These are lessons built from generations of hard labor, often on the backs of the very same women and non-binary punks, and while there will forever be space to scream, there's also still room to grow.

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