With their two shows at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday night, Dave Matthews Band will notch a huge milestone in Upstate music history.
The second largest breach in New York State since 2016 and it's affecting us locally. If you've been a patient at St. Peter's Hospital, your records may not be safe.
I had a lot of people asking me where I was headed to while I was on vacation. The simple answer was: "no where." People don't like that answer. It's a sympathetic reaction of, "aww, well that can be fun, too!" Yes, I know, that's why I did it. That and lets be honest, traveling costs a lot of money for the equal amount of fun I can have right here. But, that doesn't mean I did
Doesn't it feel like news is breaking on Twitter first, then, the rest of the world catches up? I did some research to see what were the three most tweeted-about moments, and here's what I came up with...
Oh, and to put it into perspective, Twitter normally handles around 500 million tweets a day, or 5,700 tweets per second...
After Richie Phillips and I expressed our feelings about missing the days of browsing through Compact Discs, we thought it would be nice to remind music lovers in the Albany Area about a few shops still offering the experience of shopping for CDs and Records.
Richie Phillips recently wrote an article that reflects exactly how I feel about one of my favorite past times, browsing through CDs! As a music lover, of all genres, I always enjoyed skimming the CD racks at Barnes and Nobles, Borders, FYE, Strawberries, Best Buy and the Virgin mega-store, a hobby that is now a thing of the past.
I keep seeing these pictures on Face Book with the caption saying something like “Who remembers what this is for?” There are two pictures that caught my eye.
The other day Richie Phillips and I both did a story about National Eight Track Tape Day, which was April 11th. I mentioned about how we could play music from the eight track tape cartridges in our cars, but we couldn’t play records. One of our WGNA Facebook fans, Steve Ryan, told me that there was a car record player.
I didn't think about this until for a while, until a few friends recently mentioned to me about how they would rather buy a new CD instead of downloading an mp3.