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Report covers the period of October 1st to That Is" | "Diamondbacks" | "Rancid December 31st, 2020. The inadvertently Dancer" | "Say Goodbye To Berlin" (single missed few before that time period, which tracks) [hard rock] Albany were brought to my attention by fans, bands & others, are listed at the Maggot Brain - "Illumine" [metal end,along with an End Note. crustpunk doom metal psychedelic sludge] Albany

Mike Vitali - "Album" [heavy stoner rock] Voorheesville

New Saviors - "All Around Me" (single) [hard rock] Thank you to Nippertown.com for being a partner with Bennington VT / Albany NY WEXT Radio in getting this report out to the people!

Oakheart - "Apparition" (single) [metalcore melodic RECORDINGS post-hardcore] Glens Falls

Hard Rock / Metal / Punk Psychomanteum - "Toxic Rays of Dawn" | "Mortal Bloodx3 - "Midnite Calls" [synth-punk darkwave horror Extremis" | "Worms Of Empire" (single tracks) industrial post-punk] Troy [progressive metal] Albany

Brick By Brick - "Thin The Herd" [thrash hardcore metal] Somewhere In The Dark - "My Enemy" (single track) Troy [hard rock] Glenville

Captain Vampire - "Help Has Arrived" [alternative Stöker - "Stöker" [progressive rock metal] Albany metalcore emo indie post-hardcore punk] Albany The VaVa Voodoos - "Apocalypse Wow" [garage punk Christopher Peifer - "The Ride" | "In the Social Distance" rock] Albany (singles) [garage power pop punk rock] Albany/NYC VIOLENCE - "Chug Life" (EP) [metal] 518 Dave Graham & The Disaster Plan - "She's So Hardcore" (single) [garage punk rock] Albany Wet Specimens - "4 hits from HeLL" | w/ Cartridge - "Split" [punk hardcore] Albany Death Vacation - "Nobody Cares How Good You're Doing" (2-track) [garage rock punk] Albany Yawning Earth - "Profiteers" [death thrash metal] Troy

Fine Grain - "Calculate" | "Strings Attached" (singles) Young Culture - "Young Culture" [pop punk] Albany [shoegaze basement post-punk] Albany Rock / Pop Flamuel - "No Blood No Forgiveness" [hard rock metal] Caramel Snow - "Summer Seance" (single track) Albany [shoegaze dreampop] Delmar

Gozer - "Zeke" (single) [hard stoner rock] Albany Christina Reger - "If You Don't" (single) [s/s pop] Grafton

Head of Hydrus - "Unity" [melodic hardcore metal] Troy Conor Walsh - "Away from Home" [easy-listening pop rock] Albany Holistic Wellness - "Synthesis of an Entirely Holistic Wellness" (2-track) | "Piles of Rags to Love and Cherish" Dark Honey - "Lemon Tree" (single) [alt pop rock] Troy [bedroom lofi noise nanopunk] Troy/Albany/Moscow ID Delaney - "Silver Linings (ft. Zho)" | "LA Song" (singles) Ike's Wasted World - "Piece In the Valley" | "The First [pop] Queensbury/LA Time Was the Last Time" | "The Heart Of Everything

DeoWorldWide - "Sometimes" to "wake Americana / Folk / Country / me up" (single tracks) [alt modern r&b Bluegrass / Singer-Songwriter / soul pop] Albany Traditional Alexandra Higgins - "Two People 2021" | Emily Mitchell - "Stop the Bleeding" | "Fade Away II 2020" | "Good Day" (single "Why I Couldn't Stay" (singles) [singer- tracks) [country folk pop blues] Mayfield songwriter pop] Albany / Brooklyn Arthur Buezo - "Savage Folk" [alt folk Fab the Duo - "Heart to Break" (single) americana] Saranac Lake/Beatty OR [modern retro pop rock] Albany/Bennington VT/NYC Aster and the Meteors - "I Don't Want to Be a Ghost" | "Resolution" (EP) [s/s spiritual pop] Girl Blue - "Just a Dream" | "The Woods" (singles) [adult Albany contemporary pop s/s] Troy Atelo - "gently used." | "so it goes." (single tracks) [s/s Glorie Addy - "1127 Gr33n3" [pop] Albany emo folk] Albany

Jenny Marie - "below zero" | "Something's in the Belle-Skinner - "There Grows A Tree in Paradise" | "The Twilight Zone" (single tracks) [smooth jazz pop] Early Covers" (EP) [acoustic folk pop jazz singer- Saratoga Springs songwriter] Albany/Brooklyn

Luxtides - "After" (single) [electro pop] Clifton Benjamin John - "Parasocial" (EP) | "Changes" (EP) [s/s Park/Brooklyn folk pop] Saratoga Springs/The US

Madison Vandenburg - "Eighteen" (single) [pop] Cohoes Brother Kody - "This Is Right" (single) [s/s indie psychedelic folk pop] Albany Mister Rajers' Neighborhood - "Trumpistani Breakfast" (single) [bollywood dance pop] Troy Bryan Edwards - "Brave New World" | "Willow Wisp" (single) | "Brave New World" to "Happy" (single tracks) Millington - "Brass Emo, Vol. 1" (EP) [ska punk rock] [s/s rock] Albany Albany Buffalo Stack - "We Are The Change" | "Too Good To Be Noah Roy - "Runaway" | "The Deep End" (singles) [s/s True" (single tracks) [r'n'b americana blues soul] Beacon pop] Grafton C.t.G.s. (Cosby Gibson & tom staudle) - "LIVE from The Ride The Movies - "Live from Wandering Sound" [alt Mabee Farm - C.t.G.s. Howlin at the Moon" [americana pop rock] Albany traditional folk] Fultonville

Roan Yellowthorn - "I'm Enough" (single) [pop rock folk] Dan DeVita - "Live at EXT" (EP) [s/s acoustic rock] Argyle Morrisonville Dan Johnson - "Trucks and Trains, Bad Luck and Blues" Ryan Robby - "Wish You Could" (single) [pop] Saratoga [americana folk s/s] Burlington VT Springs Dominic Orlando - "In Front of You" [alternative s/s folk] Sandy McKnight with Fernando Perdomo - "Living On Gloversville The West Side" (single) [power pop rock] Lee MA Doug Berggren - "Boogie Man" (single track) [folk] Sirsy - "Astronauts" (single) [pop rock] Albany Ballston Spa

Tess Moore - "Day & Nite" (single track) [synth techno Doug Irving - "Birch Bark Soup" [s/s country folk] pop] Albany Queensbury

Dust Bowl Faeries - "The Plague Garden" Sean Rowe - "Roll Over You" (single) [s/s [dark cabaret gypsy folk pop steampunk] folk soul blues rock] Troy Catskill Sheen - "Blend-A-Phone" [alt-americana Eric Margan - "Forest Fire" | "She roots rock] Glens Falls Sustains Us" | "A Life Is Drawn (Still Life)" | "A Pale Horse" | "November Wind (On Slik Nik & th' Tex's Playboys - "Cursed!" A Quiet Day)" | "So Long" | "White (2-track) [garage country rockabilly Butterfly" | "Look Me In The Eye" (single cosmic honky tonk rock n roll] Troy tracks) [acoustic chamber indie jazz rock singer-songwriter] Kinderhook Stephen Clair - "Vote For Love" (single) [americana indie folk pop] Beacon Feather Head - "Mao's Wet Dream & The Ugly Radish" [acoustic alternative folk rock] Troy Stories Told - "Rise Up" (single track) [acoustic folk s/s] Saratoga Springs Floyd Armlin - "Lingering Shades of Grey" [s/s pop rock] Middleburgh Three Quarter North - "Hobo Song" (single track) [americana folk bluegrass] Delmar Izzy Heltai - "Father" [singer/songwriter folk pop] North Adams/Northampton MA Tom Staudle - "When You Gave Me Your Heart (w/ Cosby Gibson)" (single) [acoustic folk] Fultonville Jacob Billings - "2020: The Year of Perfect Vision" (EP) [singer-songwriter folk pop] Schenectady / Buffalo Tristan Bouchard - "Blue Nights" [s/s indie piano rock] Menands/Boston MA Jacob Shipley - "Weight of the World" (single) [alternative folk rock] Troy / NYC William Lawrence - "Fool For You" [alt-americana country folk rock] Philmont Jim Gaudet - "A Song For Father Young (Special Bonus Track)" (single) [s-s folk country] Albany Jazz / Improvisation Alex Hitrick (in College of Saint Rose Jazz Ensemble) - Josh Clevenstine - "Across The Street" [s-s folk "Seven Ate a Gm9 (Live)" (single track) [big band jazz americana] Burnt Hills pop rock] Schenectady

Joshua LaMay / Band of Ghosts - "Mountain Noise" Darryl Kniffen - "Reflection" (single track) [progressive [acoustic indie space rock] Albany jazz rock fusion] Saratoga Springs

King Pine - "All The Way Down" (single) [alternative Planet Kniffen - "Winter's Lullaby" (single track) americana folk rock] Craryville [progressive jazz rock fusion] Saratoga Springs

Matt Krahula - "Sitting Silently" (single) [s/s folk pop] Instrumental / Electronic / EDM / Soundtrack Colonie/Brooklyn/Hawaii 1983 - "Invisible Cities" (3-tracks) [experimental drone lofi noise tape recorder] Albany Maurizio Russomanno - "Florence" (single track) [s-s folk pop] Troy Andrew Wheeler - "Fade" (single track) [guitar rock] Albany Mitch Elrod w/Albie - "Touche'" (single track) [s/s folk] Albany apostrophebeats - "Hey Creature" [electronic hip-hop rock glitch hop lofi beats] Albany/NYC Pawn Shop Saints - "ordinary folks" [americana roots rock] Adams MA Asvara - "Asvara" (3-track) [ambient guitar soundscapes] Albany Sara Milonovich - "Traditionally, Sara" [traditional contemporary fiddle folk country] Beacon

Buffalo Stack - "Andy Stack Organ Trio Matt Weston / Gaga Draiss - "Bipolar Live at The Towne Crier, 12.17.20" [r'n'b Dolly Sulk" (4-track) [contemporary jazz blues soul] Beacon experimental percussion improv] Albany

Burnt Hills - "Slip Through Time" Mike Hotter Vintage Heads - "Blue [experimental drone improvisation noise Hunter's Moon - Room to Land psych psychedelic rock] Albany Instrumentals (remixed)" [folk rock indie lo-fi psychedelic rock & roll] Albany Carl Blackwood - "Upbeat Groove Sessions" | "Ambient Downtempo Mount Mole - "_devil_emoji_" (single Sessions" [ambient electro hip-hop dance track) | "Flee Marker" [alternative edm] Niskayuna experimental indie rock] Ballston Spa

Carm Grasso - "Siren" [classical prog rock guitar] Peeking Through The Noise - "Skeleton Keys" [electronic Saratoga Springs duo goth indie lo-fi pop] Queensbury/Toronto cats don't have souls - "moodDemo" (single track) Raisi K. (The Raisin Man) - "More Dirty Games" | "1-800 [progressive rock pop post-punk psychedelic] Albany Bigger Flex" [hip-hop/rap instrumentals beats video] Albany Century Plants - "Intrinsic Geometry Vol. 2" [experimental drone improv noise psych] Albany Rawhead the Wreckloose - "Cold Bill" [hip-hop rap beats] Glens Falls Christopher Neuhaus - "In A Silent Way" to "Free" (single tracks) [rock solo bass] Schenectady Rrarebear - "Right Back" to "Happy Now" [chill electronic beats] Albany Doug Berggren - "One Road" (single track) [banjo folk] Ballston Spa soo do koo - "12/26/20 backup sessions" | "assists" [psychedelic hip-hop rap sample beats] Albany DComposeuR - "DCR-HIP TO BE SQUARE-DCOMPOSED" to "DCR-PUSH IT-DCOMPOSED" (single tracks) Still.Floating - "Melody RMX" | "OFF THE ATLAS." | [electronic deconstruction assemblages] STEAL CITY / "Cavalier. RMX" -- Still.Floating / KayCyphr - "In Precise EAST SIDE, PUEBLO, CO Words (Split Tape)" [old-school sample-based hip hop instrumentals] Albany Devin B - "Rhythm of the Night (Devin BPM Remix)" | "Cardi B - Wet Ass Remix (Devin BPM rmx)" (single The Mountain Carol - "Let's Go Away For Awhile Again" tracks) [alternative hip-hop beats] Albany (single track) [casio electro jam synthpop] Saranac

DJ Crazy Feelings - "Feeling Crazy" [electronic hip-hop zs - "Clown Stylings" (3-track) [bedroom pop circus beats breaks] Troy electronica pop post-cringe] Albany

Don Stone - "The Mixtape: Episode 020 Deep, Dark New Zovi - "Stories in Eternal Ash and Elsewhere" [electronic Wave" (15nov20) [new wave 80's goth synthpop] | "The avant-garde cinematic cybergrind hardcore ethereal Mixtape: Episode 019 Electro Breakbeat" [electro pop industrial hardcore progressive spoken word] Troy/NYC melodic breakbeat] Latham/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Blues / R&B / Soul / Funk Emily A. Sprague - "Hill, Flower, Fog" [minimal ambient Barryy - "Wonderful World" (2-track) [alternative r&b atmospheric soundtrack] Albany/Brooklyn/LA soul pop rap] Albany

Half Moon's Mast - "The Perpendicularity" [alternative Dmari - "Story" (single) [r&b soul pop] Albany chamber folk pop rock] Albany Kory Alexander - "Jealousy & Conflict" | "I Can See" Madeline Darby - "Contain It" (single track) [electronic (singles) [hip-hop rap soul pop] Albany experimental glitch minimal noise] Troy

Leah Woods - "Live at Sugarshack Jordan Taylor Hill - "Take Time" | Sessions" [blues r&b soul pop] Saratoga "Seasons" | "All Those Tales" (2-tracks) Springs / Salt Lake City UT [hip-hop rap afropop] Albany/NYC

Misty Blues - "Nothing To Lose" (single) MADDS - "FREAK - Madds & KojinDCLXVI [contemporary female blues] (prod. Boca)" (single track) [hip-hop rap] Williamstown MA Schenectady

Nite Train with Thomasina Winslow - "Cat Nbhd Nick - "Still Going" - "Nbhd Nova" On A Mission" [r&b blues rock soul] (3-track singles) | "Cash Out" - "Freeze" Albany (singles) [hip-hop rap] Albany

Pink Nois - "MASTERMIND" (3-track) [electronic hip- Noah XO - "Radio" (single) [hip-hop rap pop] Albany hop/rap soul trip hop] New Rochelle/Albany Oddy Gato & Ayo B - "Carajo Land" [comedy political Souly Had & Mac Ayers - "Maybe Not" (single) | social commentary underground hip-hop rap] Albany Souly Had & Lonr. - "LEAP!" (single) [r&b soul pop rap] Albany Ohzhe - "WidowsPeak" - "BLACK POWER FT KatSoPoetic" (single tracks) | "Grwth2" [hip-hop rap] The Purple Stuff - "Ask Again" [funk groove jazz blues Albany rock] Albany Older Zealous - "Stayin' Legit (Explicit)" (single track) Hip-Hop / Rap [hip-hop rap] Albany Ab The Audicrat, Timbo King & Xkwisit - "Albany Manor" | Ab The Audicrat & Shyste (ft. Ren Thomas) - "Stop P.A. Soul - "Passion" [hip-hop rap] Saratoga Springs Pretending" | Ab The Audicrat & Shyste - "The Ox King" [hip-hop rap] Albany FNS.Philly - "Bloxk Baby" | "I.D.K." (single tracks) [hip- hop rap] Albany Airline Jay - "Sweepstake" (single) [hip-hop rap] Albany Queen Barz - "BAD BOYZ" (single track) [hip-hop rap] B. Chaps & Freedom Stratton - "Shy Away" | B. Chaps & Albany Freedom Stratton - "Call Me If You Need Me" | B. Chaps & Big O - "Trip (ft. Ohzhe)" (single tracks) [hip-hop rap Thurman Junior - "Town Car" (single track) [hip-hop rap r&b pop] Albany r&b] Colonie

Emcee Graffiti - "Bigger than Bruce Bruce (ft. elsphinx & Toshi - "The Trapper Song" - "Subaru*" (single tracks) Mike Arson)" | "LEVIATHAN" | "Somerton Man" | "Da [hip-hop rap pop] Amsterdam Sermon" (singles) [hip-hop rap] Albany Touchmoney Cease - "I Can't Breathe [ft. FlizzyBeatz]" Foster House, Weerd Science, John the Astronaut - (single) [hip-hop rap] Schenectady "Strange Things" (single) [hip-hop rap pop] Albany Xkwisit - "Get Your Facts Straight" (single track) | Freedom Stratton & Chief Cas - "Sky High" (single track) "spaceX" -- Xkwisit, Ab The Audicrat, Timbo King - "T.I. [hip-hop rap] Albany M. (Thoughts In Motion)" [hip-hop rap] Albany/Bushwick Isaac LaRue - "engineerswhosmokeweed" (single track) [lo-fi hip-hop beattape] Albany Gospel / Christian / Spiritual Akil Hamilton - "Who's Stopping Me?" | "Best Part (feat Jayy Greene - "Standstill" (single) [hip-hop rap] Saint James)" (singles) [Christian hip-hop rap] Albany Queensbury SaviorSongs - "Standing in the Light" (single) [eclectic Johnny 2 Phones - "Second Chance" | "Rescue" (singles) spiritual rock] Albany [hip-hop rap pop] Albany

Alternative / Indie / Jam / Other Justin Friello - "Live: 9/21/20" [acoustic s- alexdgoldberg - "Loste" [avant-pop s chamber folk rock] Schenectady electronic jazz post-rock soul fusion neoclassical] Niskayuna/Brooklyn Katy Ashe - "Weirdos (pencildive Cover)" (single track) [alternative electronic Ampevene - "David Bowie Live 11/30/19" grunge industrial] North Creek [psychedelic progressive art rock] Albany Laveda - "Laveda on Audiotree Live" Asa Morris - "Loud & Sad" [lo-fi alt rock] [shoegaze dream pop] Albany Glens Falls/Burlington VT/Austin TX Log Jam - "Timber" [electroacoustic rock Benjamin Lazar Davis - "What If I" | "If You Want It" jam] Rotterdam (singles) [indie pop s/s] Saratoga Springs/Brooklyn LONE PHONE BOOTH - "RE/SOUND" [alternative emo Cashlin - "Transmission from a Tower" [avant-garde bedroom slowcore] Albany psychedelic industrial noise pop rap] Hudson Falls Luminous Crush - "Blue For You (Piper Song)" | "Sweet Chris Kyle - "Falling in Circles" [avant-garde folk pop] Little Bird" | "No Words Just Dance" (single tracks) Saratoga Springs/Brooklyn [electro pop] Jamaica VT

Citrus Maxima - "1970" (single) [indie rock] Chatham Mambo-X - "The Greatest Goodbye" (single) [new-wave pop] Albany Curious Comet - "Authentic Earth" [alt rock jazz blues] Shushan Mike Gent - "Archives Vol. 1 - NYC 1997 / 1998" | "Lunar Rover" - "Hold Me" (singles) [alt pop rock] Dawn Deal - "Wishing Well" (single) [alt rock pop] Boston/Saratoga Springs Wynantskill Mike Hotter - "Room to Land" [indie lo-fi psychedelic Delphino - "Take Me Home" | "I Miss The Dog The folk pop rock] Albany Most" (single tracks) [garage rock] Saratoga Springs Mod Fiction - "Devil Take It" [alt rock] Albany Donnie - "So What I Love You" (single) [indie s-s pop] Saratoga Springs/Brooklyn Next Station - "The Long Way" | "Never the Same" (singles) [alternative rock] Albany / Dallas TX El Modernist - "Evolution" (single) [alt indie hip-hop rock] Albany Pigpen Jonez - "Livin' in Delafly" (EP) [retro pop rock] Schenectady Floyd Armlin - "Lingering Shades of Grey" [alternative progressive rock folk pop] Middleburgh Pete Donnelly - "Chalk Sound Boogie b/w The Gift" - "Revoked" (2-tracks) | "Woke Bastard" (EP) [indie jazz Gay Tastee Ex Machina - "SHOOK" [folk punk rock] punk rock underground pop] Saratoga Springs/Katonah Albany Phantogram - "Me & Me" (single) [electronic alternative Jesse Sample - "A Cross to Share" (single) [alternative pop] Greenwich/LA rock] Albany Prison Escapee - "Beware of Dog" (single track) | Jim Connelly - "I Luv Guitar" | "Samhain" | "Tom "Dreams" (cover single track) [electronic emo indie O'Bedlam" - "Vision Seer" (single tracks) [experimental rock] Fort Hunter/LA CA acoustic folk jazz world] Schenectady Ryan Spilken - "I Shoot From The Heart And Don't Aim" Joan Kelsey - "House of Mercy" [devotional chamber [world-beat country electronic grunge rock] Gloversville folk pop] Troy/Seattle WA

Safety Meeting - "Fuck You, Safety E.R.I.E. - "Jingle Bell Rock (Final Master)" Meeting" [indie garage jazz rock] [indie rock holiday classic] Albany Saratoga Springs Fossergrim - "Ave Maria" (one-track) Sean Russell - "Starmaker" (single track) [ambient dungeon synth neo-medieval [alternative jazz rock] Troy fantasy christmas carol] Adirondacks sick nick - "crispy jam" [psychedelic rock Freedom Stratton & Cool Right? - "Wish noise] Albany List" (single track) [hip-hop rap] Albany

Simple Sin - "Runaway" (single) [indie alt- Jim Connelly - "Bonny Yule!" rock] Saratoga Springs [experimental acoustic folk jazz world] Schenectady

Sky Furrows - "Sky Furrows" [noisy psychedelic rock Justin Friello & Victoria Huston-Elem - "What Is spoken word poetry] Albany Christmas Without You?" (single) [acoustic chamber folk rock] Schenectady Swamp Baby - "Water Gods" [chamber pop folk] Albany Lucas Garrett - "Adeste Fideles" | "I'll Be Home for The Northway - "Shocking Stories! (And Those Who Christmas" (single tracks) [standards] Queensbury Dare to Tell Them)" [math pop punk prog rock] Scotia Mike Hotter - "Song For Love (Christmas 2020)" (single The Olson Brothers Band - "The Olson Brothers Band I" track) [indie folk] Albany | "Walls in The Room" - "Don't you Think It's Time" - "Strange" (singles) [alt classic rock] Bennington VT Mike Thomas - "Christmas Time Is Here" (single track) [s-s folk] Amsterdam The Pine Boys - "DEADASS" [rock hip-hop funk] Albany Millington - "Snow Miser/Heat Miser" (single) [ska punk Tiberius - "Furrow" | "Pale Ale" (singles) [indie rock] rock] Albany Rutland VT/Saratoga Springs/Allston MA Onlyness - "Christmas Must Be Tonight (The Band)" Triya Love - "Billionaire" (single track) [alternative folk (single track) Albany hip-hop jazz rap indie pop] Albany Pete Donnelly - "Silent Night - 2002" [indie acoustic Underwater Cartographers - "My Anatomy Is Mad At holiday standard] Saratoga Springs/Katonah Me" [garage rock experimental emo punk-pop] Albany Ride The Movies - "Songs of the Season" (EP) [alt pop Watch Reggie Run - "Giant Pumpkin" (single) rock] Albany [americana childrens pop punk folk rock] Albany Ritz Carlton - "Welcome to The Jingle" (single) [garage Y/N - "Messiah" [avantgarde psych art rock] Albany rock holiday lounge exotica] Albany

Holiday Sounds Russel the Leaf - "This Christmas (Donny Hathaway)" (single track) [holiday pop soul] Troy Alexandra Higgins - "Meaning of Christmas" (single track) [country folk pop blues] Mayfield Sly Fox and the Hustlers - "That Spirit of Christmas (Ray Charles cover)" (single) [blues soul rock] Albany Annie Dressner - "Wonderful Christmastime (feat. The Last Dinosaur)" (single) [contemporary s/s folk pop] Still.Floating - "Frost On The Window [XMAS]" [old- New York/Cambridge UK school sample-based hip hop instrumentals] Albany

Dave Strumfeld - "Winter Songs" (3-tracks) [indie The Northway - "The War on Christmas" (single) seasonal folk rock] Albany/Grand Rapids MI [alternative math pop punk prog rock] Scotia

The Sea The Sea - "Stumbling Home (For experimental, folk, honky tonk, noise, The Holidays)" (EP) [indie folk pop rock, pop, psychedelic. holiday] Troy 41. scared 42. dreamlands (part I: going under) The Velmas - "A Very Velmas Christmas" 43. dreamlands (part II: the pitiless sun) (EP) [alt rock holiday standards] Albany 44. devoured by you 45. it's still a game Watch Reggie Run - "Would You Miss Us 46. springtime is over For Christmas?" (single) [kids pop punk 47. wasting away christmas rock holiday] Albany 48. forever ain't forever (anymore) 49. plastic isle William Hale - "Santa Baby" (single track) [holiday 50. here come the crows standard] Glens Falls 51. snowing 52. in the corner of the room Zovi - "'Blue Christmas' from Christmasasaurus X" 53. this year of love (single track) [avant-garde ethereal experimental holiday spoken word] Troy/NYC We Are 518 Albany NY Currently with some 70+ songs, this Spotify playlist is Collections / Compilations dedicated to local musicians. If you are an Albany native or alumni, submit music to [email protected] or Come Home Soon Vol. 3 - Various Artists El Modernist on Facebook for inclusion on the playlist. Everything continues to be real sucky for a whole lot of people right now. Pig Food Records released a third volume of their 'Come Home Soon' compilation series. VIDEOS

French Letter 1981-1992 1313 Mockingbird Lane - "She's Got A Werewolf" A 22 track collection of studio work, demos, live shows and interviews dedicated in memory and tribute to After the Fall - "Strangle Hold" bassist/songwriter/artist/photographer/hairdresser Buck Malen, who passed away from cancer in 2016. An AirlineJay - "Sweepstake" (Official Video) | "Too Much album download includes expanded liner notes on the Sauce Freestyle" band's history and impact, bonus pictures, song list credits and information. Annie and the Hedonists - "The Panic Is On"

Gordon St - Live Another Michael - "I Know You're Wrong" (Official Lyric A few recorded live sets, October 1st to December 30th. Video)

Horse Apples Benjamin John - "The Option" | “Tethered" Jhonn C continually adds to a collection of softly sung improvisational ambient synth pop tunes and world Bill Ackerbauer - "Why’d You Go?" sounds, slightly weird? Calming... and yet… Bloodx3 - "Death's Pets" (Official Video) Mark Shepard - "Life In Song" Mark notes that since 1976 he's been obsessively and Cassandra Kubinski - "STARDUST (DJ Taz Rashid Remix) compulsively writing songs. Some of them are inspired Yoga World Community Flow" by his own life; the attempts to understand love, life, spirituality, peace and justice. You can hear many of his Coupons - "Ansel" (Official Video) | "Moz Disco (Live @ songs from the project at his website and on Bandcamp. The Chateau)"

Steve Hammond - "Small Songs" Dark Honey - "Lemon Tree" | "Gloria's Halloween" (Lyric Many have tried, but this collection successfully added Videos) "A New Song Every Week in 2020!" A mix of

Deb Cavanaugh - "It’s Gonna Be Cold Mister Rajers' Neighborhood - Outside" "Trumpistani Breakfast" (Official Video)

DMARI - "STORY" [Official Music video] Molly Jeanne - "You Rescued Me"

Donnie - "So What I Love You" (Official Mount Mole - "Light Fudge" Lyric Video) Nbhd Nick- "Cash Out (Visualizer)" Dyer Switch - "A New Broom Sweeps Clean" Next Station - "Never the Same" (Official Video) Ella Belle - "fake love" Nite Train w/ Thomasina Winslow - "Truck Trouble" Emcee Graffiti - "LEVIATHAN" (Official Music Video) (OFFICIAL LIVE) | "Stay Even"

Faced - "Power and Strength" Oz Alone - "PUSH." (Official Music Video)

Foster House - "2020" (Official Music Video) Peeking Through The Noise - "Take What You Came For" | "Devoured" (Official Videos) Foster House; John, the Astronaut; and Weerd Science - "Strange Things" (Official Music Video) Penny Knight Band - "You Bought The Lie"

Frank Palangi - "Gone Mad" (Official Music Video) Roan Yellowthorn - "I'm Enough" (Official Music Video)

Girl Blue - "The Woods" (Official Lyric Video) Sandy McKnight w/ Fernando Perdomo - "Living On The West Side" Jocelyn & Chris - "Meet Me in the Morning (Live)" (Dylan cover) Sawyer Fredericks - "Born" (Official Video)

Johnny 2 Phones - "Rescue" Shyste Chronkyte and Rob Viktum - "That's the Day" Official Music Video | "The Beautiful Hoax" J.Marco Johnson - "Touch-and-Go (Kind of Day)" SKY FURROWS - "36 Ways of Looking at a Memory" Joan Kelsey - "Tie Yr Daughter Down" | "Horses" Steve Hammond - "This Year Of Love" (Official Video) Kory Alexander - "I Can See" Taína Asili - "Here We Come - Protest Song Lyric Video" Kory Alexander, Mike Mitch - "Jealousy & Conflict" Talia Denis - "CAN'T STOP ME" (Official Music Video) | KUSHIE SUNOCO - "WITHOUT ME 2" (Official Video) "CAN'T STOP ME" (Talia Denis Remix ft. Amazing Women) Laveda - "Better Now" (Official Music Video) The Sea The Sea - "Rainstorm - LIVE VIDEO (OFFICIAL)" Madeline Darby - "Contain It" (Official Video) Tiff HollyHood - "Get Away" | "Thing 4 u!" | "REAL Madison VanDenburg - "Reason" (Official Music Video) BITCH COMMANDMENTS"

Mambo-X - "The Greatest Goodbye" Touchmoney Cease - "Times Have Changed" | "Savage Freestyle" [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEOS] Mark Emanatian & Joe Mele - "I Can't Believe You're Touchmoney Cease x Telly Zelly - "Surgery" [OFFICIAL Gone" (In Memory of Josh Bloomfield) MUSIC VIDEO] Touchmoney Cease x Playmilly - "Rich Today Freestyle" Mike Hotter - "Pedlar's Parish" [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

Triya Love - "Billionaire” (Lyric Video) Novus Cantus - "O' Thou Man"

Vince Palmeri - "Chemicals React" Ritz Carlton - "Welcome to the Jingle" (Official Music Video) Roan Yellowthorn - "Hard Candy Warden and Co. - "Just a Little Bit" Christmas" (Dolly Parton cover)

Young Culture - "Fantasy" (Live from Rusticator - "Cold Rain & Snow" | "Silver Skyfall Recording Studios) Bells"

Zan & The Winter Folk - "Stay Put" | Sirsy - "Santa Baby (Roxy at the K in D "Second Plate" Club)"

Holiday Sights n Sounds The Velmas - "White Christmas"

Annie & the Hedonists - "Red White and Blue" Warden and Co. - "Christmas is Coming"

Annie Scherer - "After Rain" Video - Collections / Series More than a handful, but perhaps less than fifty. Click Becca Frame and The Tall Boys - "Please Stay Home For the links to view the latest batch of original songs from Christmas" the following bands and artists:

Cassandra Kubinski - "I'll Be Home for Christmas - Dark Honey Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation A playlist collection of 13 lyric videos for songs from performance" their 'Rougher Stuff' album.

Cassie Cenzano - "O Holy Night Cover" El Modernist - "El Modernist Live From WCDB - Full Set"

Conor Walsh - "Auld Lang Syne" Film / Documentary / TV

David Malachowski - "Greensleeves" Bee Side Fest: The Movie In October 2018, Bee Side Cassettes hosted a Bee Side David Yakel - "Blue Christmas (Christmas Cover)" | "I'll Fest in Albany NY. It was filmed on tape. In the end it Be Home For Christmas" just got too long and they had to cut a few acts from the final. At just over an hour, it still features a bunch: Deb Cavanaugh - "Miss Deb Rings in the New Year" Comfy | Greens | Another Michael | Nxnes & Pink Nois | Apostrophe Beats | They Are Gutting A Body of Water Justin Friello - "What Is Christmas Without You? (feat. | Morus Alba | Martin Pohl (Comedy) | Blue Ranger | Victoria Huston-Elem)" Santi Suede | Snake Boy Gang | LONE PHONE BOOTH | Jose Vega (Comedy) | Ther | El Kennedy (Comedy) | Katie Louise - "Let It Snow" | "Step into Christmas" | Lemon of Choice "It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" Candy Store Luxtides x Steve from Young Rising Sons - "Baby Please A music novella directed and produced by Thin Edge Come Home" Films featuring the Dust Bowl Faeries song "Candy Store." Filmed on site at the historic Mayflower Candy Mike Thomas - "Christmas Time Is Here" Shop in Catskill, NY.

Molly Durnin - "For Christmas" Happy Hours with Erin Harkes Your happiness may vary, but Erin's there with music Moriah Formica - "O' Holy Night" | "All I Want for and some funny stuff too. Happy Hour | Happy Hour | Christmas" Happy Hour | Happy Hour | Happy Hour

"How to Write 'Another Song About the songs from their Los Angeles home studio Moon'" Harmonie West. Sarah Barthel and Josh A short film by Buggy Jive about building Carter take viewers on a tour of their a song around a quasi-improvised vocal Laurel Canyon home and their Los track. It condenses 4 hours of fly-on-the- Angeles home studio Harmonie West, wall studio footage down to about 4 displaying the fan art and posters they’ve minutes. The official music video is at the collected over the years, and providing an end. inside look at their creative process for their visually inspired “Ceremony.” Swordpaw Sessions - S2E1 Songs featured: "When I’m Small," "Fall in Pony in the Pancake, recorded in the Love" and "Bill Murray." Main Hall 11/15/2020 at Swordpaw HQ in Troy NY. Set List: Start | We'll Go Walking | In Dreams | The Caffe Lena Rules of Love With a several playlists available on their YouTube Bonus Tracks: There She Goes Again | Forever | Last channel, there's a mix of national & local bands and Night of Summer artists showcased in live video and audio recordings from the Caffè Lena listening room. For the most part Vampire Tango they're free to watch, but viewers are encouraged to “Vampire Tango” is a 16mm film noir short produced visit and contribute to support the artists and the Caffe. and directed by Lisa Thomas in collaboration with Ryder Cooley and the dark carnival band Dust Bowl Faeries. CoverBandTV Presents: Demons, faeries and monsters inhabit the Island of La Covering bands LIVE in the Capital Region of Upstate Sirene where villagers gather to worship the ram NY. View previous broadcasts or find upcoming shows. goddess Hazel. A Voodoo ritual brings life to a Recent shows: mischievous vampire bat. Is the bat to blame for their Carmen Lookshire | Tom Atkins Band | Spoiler | That recent plague of death, or could she be the femme 80s Band | Carmen Lookshire and Life's Guilty Pleasures traitor whom the village has been praying for? | MIKE and the MONSTERS | Carmen Lookshire and Life's Guilty Pleasures | Side Show Willie | Moriah WMHT-TV AHA! A House for Arts Formica AHA! features the stories of artists, makers, and creative institutions right here in our backyard. It's a LIVE from the Strand Theatre celebration of all things creative. The mission of Hudson River Music Hall Productions is These are the local musicians that recorded a few to create community through music and the related songs: arts, accomplished through their venue the Strand Charlotte Reilly - "Hide Away" | "Tomorrow" | "Your Theatre. For upcoming events, visit the website. Eyes" Angelina Valente - "The Woodpecker" | "Waiting in Past performances recorded by Upst8MusicFanZone : Line" | "Out of the Mountains" October – David Tyo - "It's So Easy To Love You" | "Long Way Bill Martin | The Dyer Switch Band | Shaved Fish: Home" Tribute to the Music of John Lennon | Sheen | Simple In the Valley - "Closed Eyes" | "Promised Land" Sin | MARE - LIVE! | An Erotics Halloween | Brandon The Sea The Sea - "Rainstorm" | "A Thousand Years" | Newell and the Old Dudes | The Lustre Kings | Brandon "Stumbling Home" Newell | The Jazz Collective | The Groovy Ghoulies Slam Reed - "Don't Look Away" | "Boom Boom" Joel Brown - "Madeline" | "Everyone's Gone Home" November – Taconic Chamber Players - An Afternoon in Vienna | Joe Live / Concert (Virtual) Phillips | Mark and Jill Sing The Blues | Michael Primeau and Friends | Lucas Garrett and Marc Clayton | The Fab Artists Den - Live From My Den Fellowship - Solo Beatles | Off The Main Road | The Watch Phantogram Explain the Inspiration Behind New York Dance Project | Kelly and Son | Songwriters "Ceremony" on ‘Live From My Den’ Round with Doug Irving | Manticore - Theater Kings on An installment of the weekly series with electronic Silver Wings | Milayne Jackson, Catherine Reid and music duo Phantogram. They perform Friends | Gisella Montanez-Case | The Heavenly Echoes

| Audrina Hill | Across The Pond: Music of Holiday Specials (Virtual) The Beatles | Dirt Cheap, The Brokenhearted, Kelly & Son and More CoverBandTV Presents: Benefit Grand Central Station - Fundraiser for The Melodies of Christmas Foundation December – Melodies of Christmas with Grand Central The Switch | Ballet Meets The Beatles | Station Ray Alexander - Jazz Piano | TNT- Tom Brady and Tony Cocca | Alan Dunham & Pony in the Pancake - "Pony in the Liz Winge Christmas Show | New York Pancake Holiday Show 2020" Dance Project - Nutcracker and More | HRMH 10th Anniversary Party | Al and Kathy Bain | Rhiannon's Lark - "Rhiannon's Lark Christmas Special" Sheetless Ghosts | Brandon & Jonathan Newell | A Capital Zen Christmas Sirsy - HELLO 2021! | SIRSY Christmas Spectacular!

Rhiannon's Lark The Sea The Sea - "The End Of The Year” | "Silent Night” Live performances and other videos created to highlight | "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Wonderful the music of Rhiannon's Lark. World” (Holiday Special Excerpts) The Sea The Sea - "Carol Of The Bells - from Holiday Sirsy Virtual Tour / Live Stream Concerts Concert Film Special" With live shows cancelled, Mel & Rich geared up to do some ‘germ free’ online shows to watch from home. Some of them may even have a theme. Past shows & MISC / OTHER future scheduled 'Virtual Tour' shows can be found at Sirsy's YouTube HERE 518 Profiles Magazine November, 2020 - Upstate Beat p.42 The Linda: Open for Take-Out Virtual Concert Series "SIRSY Strikes Back" - After the pandemic hit, SIRSY A program series produced in collaboration with video shelved their touring plans...but still connects with fans production company Chromoscope Pictures. The virtual through their live streams - which they've turned into concerts take place Monday nights, usually at 8 pm. an art form. By Kirsten Ferguson

The virtual concerts are ticketed events, and provide Atwood Magazine fans with a professionally produced concert delivered Breaking the Record with Roan Yellowthorn directly to their homes via YouTube stream. Here's Roan Yellowthorn (aka Jackie McLean) has been writing what's been presented this quarter: a column nearly every Thursday since February 6th 2020 to document, step by step, the process of making Sophia Subbayya Vastek | E.R.I.E. (Album Release Show) their new album. First installment was an introduction, | Kwilleo | The Nellies | Andy Iorio | Let's Be Leonard | with subsequent columns going onto other topics and Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys | Front Biz | THE issues as the year has gone on. Looks like it'll roll right DYLAN PERRILLO TRIO presents: a musical and artistic into 2021 too! interpretation of Albany’s inner city green spaces | Yeah Universe | The Sea The Sea | The Jagaloons | HOLIDAY Bandcamp Daily – EXTRAVAGANZA with The Lustre Kings and Special Album of the Day: Emily A. Sprague, "Hill, Flower, Fog" Guests Emily A. Sprague’s first collection of new material since 2019’s 'Emily Alone' is less an ambient album than a The Palace Sessions garden translated into sound. Filled with lush textures The Palace Theatre, the City of Albany and Mirth Films that evoke springtime’s emerging plant life, it has reedy team up to present a monthly live music series warbles and earthen thuds woven through a suite of sponsored by KeyBank featuring regional acts patiently unfurling electronics. These tranquil performing in unique spaces within the historic influences, however, are only part of the backdrop. performing arts center. Presented this quarter: When COVID-19 took hold, Sprague found herself “sad Wild Adriatic (10/28/20) and scared,” and sought the “the soft ground of

© 2020 Andrew Gregory Page 12 of 15 creating sounds” on her modular touring artists. Mostly filmed in Albany, synthesizer rather than the drones that Saratoga Springs, and the surrounding comprised her previous instrumental areas. The latest features Electric Turtle outing. and Steve Hammond & His Rabid Children performing at Rare Form Brewing, Troy The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp - NY. November 2020: "Hill, Flower, Fog" by Emily A. Sprague TRAX: (Florist) listed among the November six. TRAX is a local music tv/video program, aired on LOOKtv, dedicated to musicians The Best Contemporary Classical Albums in the Saratoga Springs area. Trax of 2020 showcases artists in all disciplines of music playing Defining contemporary classical music is difficult, some original compositions. During this time of COVID-19, people that know would say they know it when they LookTV asked artists to participate by submitting songs hear it, or dissect it. Bandcamp embraced the big from their homes. picture of musical diversity that the 20 albums listed have delivered. North Adams MA calls vocal octet Recent episodes have featured: Roomful of Teeth one of their own. Their album 'Just * Ballet Meets The Beatles, Dan Tepfer, Frederick Constellations' is among the best contemporary Johnson & Michael Ross classical albums of 2020, listed in alphabetical order. * Steve Candlen, Sarah Elizabeth Charles & Jarrett Cherner, Dan Tepfer Cowboys From Space Tagline: A place for stories about art, music and travel WEXT Radio - 518 Sessions "Ashley, a Journey With a Guitar" Live performances and conversations with Local 518 An introduction to the story shared on this site by musicians. Each week highlights a different artist or Ashley Sophia states "Shaped by the landscape that band with a brief interview as an introduction. Airdates raised her, Ashley left home and embarked on a journey are Thursdays 11:30pm & various other times. through America in search of deeper meaning – carrying the torch of 1970’s folk style storytelling and The latest includes AHA Sessions with Charlotte Reilly songwriting." and Angelina Valente.

Guitar Girl Magazine WEXT Radio - Listen: On Demand Issue 14 – New York inspired By GGM Staff Catch new On Demand listening opportunities all The end of the road trip series in New York City. Yeah, gathered in one spot. 518 Sessions, along with guitarists and guitar companies from the Big Apple are Live@EXT and At Home sessions and various interviews, featured but there's also an interview with Moriah will all land here as well as on their associated WEXT Formica on page 32. program pages.

Indie Source (IS) Have a listen to the following from the Local 518: "The Olson Brothers: Meet Your New Favorite Band" AHA Session with Charlotte Reilly | AHA Session with Let's dig a little bit deeper, shall we? Angelina Valente | Kevin McKrell Chats From Home - In An article and interview by freelancer Emily Hinde. Quarantine

Mark Shepard Music Videos - "Life In Song" WEXT Radio - Local 518 Show Since 1976 Mark's been obsessively and compulsively The Local 518 Show showcases original music from writing songs. Some of them are on video. From bands and musicians based in, or have strong ties to, horrible slide show "music videos" from a decade ago to the Capital District. Each show features an Attic Classic - ones created on new and challenging video and editing a song/band from generally a decade or more ago. It's equipment. Find them here. WEXT’s original half hour show dedicated to new and significant music and honoring the roots of the Local SUPER DARK Live Music 518's diverse music scene. Live music presented in the upstate New York (518) area and beyond. A variety of sounds from local to

INADVERTANTLY OVERLOOKED - Dominic Orlando - "Songs for Acoustic RECORDINGS Guitar" (EP) [alternative s/s traditional folk] Gloversville Hard Rock / Metal / Punk EQ - "Giving Up the Energy: Expanded Godzilla Fragment - "Backbone Edition" [prog rock] Albany Abbreviator" [experimental post-punk rock soundscape] Charlton Maxx Thrust - "Forged in Metal" [heavy rock metal] Albany Midnight Bob - "Dark Knowledge" [electronic drum&bass hip-hop r&b soul] New Saviors - "New Saviors" [hard rock] Albany Bennington VT/Albany NY Blues / R&B / Soul / Funk Penny Knight - "Title Shot: Expanded Edition" [prog rock Lucia Byrd & Levi Byrd - "Mama Moon and More" [indie pop] Albany reggae r&b blues rock swing] Schenectady

Yawning Earth - "Yawning Earth" [death metal] Troy Hip-Hop / Rap B. Chaps - "Don't Stop" (single track) [hip-hop rap r&b Rock / Pop pop] Albany Christina Reger - "No More" (single) [s/s pop] Grafton DJ Wiz Hoffa - "I.D.K.Y. (ft. Tiff Hollywood, U.S. Bay, Ceaz Delaney - "Close" | "Cause You're Lonely" (singles) [pop] Sharp)" (single) [hip-hop rap] Albany Queensbury/LA Freedom Stratton - "The Future Deluxe" | "The Future" The East End Boys™ - "True Love" | "Underdog" | "It [hip-hop rap r&b pop] Albany Ain't Easy" (singles) [alt r&b rock pop] Glens Falls Kushie Sunoco - "My Life My Story" | "Heart Break Kidd" Americana / Folk / Country / Bluegrass / Singer- | "Trappin' Like I'm Heez" | "In My Eyes" | "Gun Smoke" Songwriter / Traditional (single) [hip-hop rap] Albany

Dominic Orlando - "In Front of You" (EP) [alt s/s folk] Mic Lanny - "Wedding Cake (ft. B. Chaps)" (single) [hip- Gloversville hop rap] Albany

Eric Margan - "Tree of Life (All My Trials)" (single track) Oddy Gato - "While You Were Sleeping" [comedy [acoustic chamber indie jazz rock s-s] Kinderhook political social commentary underground hip-hop rap]

Albany Paul Michael Tondreau - "Wildfire" to "Where We Go

One" (single tracks) [s/s folk country] Gloversville Rhakim Ali - "Less Is More" [hip-hop rap] Albany

International / Classical / World Alternative / Indie / Jam / Other Albany Symphony - Theofanidis: "Concerto for Violin Another Michael - "New Music" (2-song) [bedroom emo and Orchestra & Concerto for Viola and Chamber pop folk] Philadelphia/Albany Orchestra" (Chee-Yun, Richard O'Neill, D.A. Miller) [20th century classical] Albany Dr. Jah and the Love Prophets - "Creation" [reggae]

Ravena Instrumental / Electronic / EDM / Soundtrack

Barely Alive / Virtual Riot - "Head to Head Vol. 1" (EP) Gay Tastee Ex Machina - "NATURAL DAM ARKANSAS" | [dubstep trap drum'n'bass edm] Great Barrington "Fort Collins, Colorado" (single tracks) [indie folk punk MA/LA rock] Albany

Devin B - "Rhythm of the Night (Devin BPM Remix)" Mod Fiction – "Severance" [alt rock] Albany (single track) [alternative hip-hop beats] Albany

VIDEO End Note There's an amazing amount of original After The Fall - "Decency" music recorded and videos produced by Capital Region musicians, bands, and Annie Dressner - "Midnight Bus (feat. artists every year. By no means are these Matthew Caws)" listings all-inclusive. If you know of a release or video or show you loved but Beth Zaje - "Sing For Me" was inadvertently overlooked, let me know. You can reach me at apgregory65 Bvlcony - "On Your Mind" at gmail dot com

David Yakel - "Mrs. Someone Else" If you or your band have an upcoming release planned, please visit The Local 518 Show for airplay submission KUSHIE SUNOCO - "CARE FOR ME" | "NEVER CHANGED" guidelines. | "BIG DIFFERENCE" (OFFICIAL VIDEOS) KUSHIE SUNOCO Ft. Glo - "Racks In" Since 2012, it’s been an eye-opening experience putting these quarterly reports together for the fans, New Saviors - "Without You" [Acoustic] supporters, and most importantly the creators of original music in the Capital District (and just a bit Oz Alone - "FENCES." (Official Music Video) beyond).

Yeah Universe - "Wasteland"

Collections / Series More than a handful, but perhaps less than fifty. Click the links to view the latest batch of original songs from the following bands and artists:

Seth Carter's Music - Choose from a playlist that features "Through the Mud" to "Devil Repellent"

Live / Concert (Virtual)

CoverBandTV Presents: Covering bands LIVE in the Capital Region of Upstate NY. View previous broadcasts or find upcoming shows. Past shows: Thanks! | Feed The Animals | New York Players | Moriah Formica

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