New York State Music News

Brooklyn-based rock band Bellcave returns with Guess Who I Saw in Paris. A quietly confident reinterpretation of the 1969 Buffy Sainte-Marie song, premiering January 2 on Spotify and Bandcamp. Rather than modernizing the track through excess, Bellcave reshapes it through restraint shifting the song s focus from folk storytelling to emotional atmosphere. Where Sainte-Marie s original […]

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For the past month, one of the Hudson Valley s most iconic record stores has been welcoming customers into a brand new atmosphere. Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie, founded in 2011, opened its new glass doors on November 21, 2025. In its infancy, Darkside Records was located on Main Street in Poughkeepsie, before moving to 611 Dutchess […]

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Phish completed another successful four-day run at their traditional home for New Year’s Eve, Madison Square Garden. The band now has 91 shows at the World’s Most Famous Arena to their credit, including last year’s NYE show. Phish closed out the year 2025 at MSG in typical grandiose fashion, with high soaring jams and a […]

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By any measure, the annual New Year s Run by Gov t Mule at the Beacon Theatre has become a sacred ritual for fans, two nights of deep dives, fearless improvisation, and carefully curated themes that honor the band s roots while pushing them forward. Night one of the 2025 run, December 30, delivered one of the band s […]

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Shakira s global hit Waka Waka. 2004 GRAMMY-winning reggae album, Toots and the Maytals True Love. Album of the Year nomination for Andre 3000 s newest album, New Blue Sun, and the 67th annual GRAMMY Awardn. These are some of the accolades record producer and mixing engineer Fab Dupont has gathered over his almost 25-year career. Additionally, […]

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On Sunday December 28 Gov’t Mule made the first stop of their New Years Run at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady. This run is a tribute to “1971: When Music Changed the World” and will be followed by two shows at the Beacon Theater in NYC on December 30 and 31 to kick of the new […]

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Music has always been a vehicle for telling stories of love and heartbreak, of history and fantasy, and much more.  Sometimes the stories can be related in a tuneful single lasting under three minutes. In other cases, beginning in the late 60s, these stories could unfold across a dozen interconnected songs, an audio movie […]

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For Albany, moe. isn t just a touring act passing through. This is a band the city has embraced so fully that it declared February 24th moe. Day and even named a portion of North Pearl Street in their honor. That shared history was palpable from the first note to the final bow at the Palace […]

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There is no other Upstate New York group better equipped to draw the connections between American history and American folk and popular music than Lost Radio Rounders. The trio – Michael Eck, Tom Lindsay and Paul Jossman – present themed musical/historical programs for libraries, museums, and historical societies in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. The […]

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Manic Kat Records started their holiday season with Nightmare Before Punxmas, a celebration of performers from the label s roster.

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