Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial beginning of summer. We thought what...
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Listen to WEXT on your phone!
We’ve just updated our iPhone App with some really great features, and it works on iPad, too! Plus, a brand new Android App is here!!!
Want the iPhone app? It’s FREE! Click the here.
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Portugal The Man Listener Live @ EXT Session
Portugal The Man is coming to do a special session with you! You’re invited. This special show is only for WEXT listeners who enter and win below.
As they get ready for their new album, “Evil Friends” (6/4), they’re running around the country drumming up support for their new efforts. Oh, and how we love the new video!
Read on to fill out the form, and good luck!
It’s The Staves
The Staves invite you to come be part of an intimate audience as they perform songs from their debut album, “Dead & Born & Grown.”
This exclusive performance and interview event will be by invitation only. It takes place in Albany on the afternoon of May 22nd.
Fill out the form below.
The Beatles A to Z Weekend
Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial beginning of summer. We thought what better way to celebrate the beginning of the “wearing white” season than to play music from the band that gave us “The White Album!”
Our Beatles A to Z weekend will include songs from all of their original albums played from A to Z. We are still in the final layout and planning stages. Return here for updates to this schedule.
Party Horns NYC Presents Josh Roseman
Party Horns NYC returns to move, groove and disprove what you know about party music. A trio of evenings featuring 3 very different ensemble bands, (Outer Borough Brass Band, Dead Cat Bounce and Josh Roseman) all full of beat, rhythm and good time fun straight from the NYC music scene. It’s music that will stir your soul and certainly move your feet.
Josh Roseman is a New York City based trombonist, composer, producer and serial bandleader.
Saturday, May 25, 7:30 pm
GE Theatre at Proctors
For more information, click here. To enter to win tickets, continue reading.
AmericanaRama at SPAC!
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center welcomes the AmericanaRama Festival of Music featuring Bob Dylan and his Band, Wilco, My Morning Jacket and special guest Ryan Bingham on Sunday, July 21st.
You can enter to win a pair of pavilion tickets to Americanarama Festival of Music featuring Bob Dylan and His Band with Wilco, My Morning Jacket and special guest Ryan Bingham at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Sunday, July 21st at 5:30pm. Tickets are on sale now. LiveNation.com, Ticketmaster.com and charge by phone.
Congratulations to our winners of the inside seats! We hope to be able to offer you all more tickets to the show! Rock on!!
Art On Lark
Art On Lark takes over 8 blocks of Lark Street with all things to do with Local 518 art and music.
June 8th from 10a until 5p.
Come witness art in its many forms in Albany’s Arts District Saturday, June 8 from 10 am – 5 pm at Art on Lark presented the Lark Street BID.
Each year, city officials close Lark Street from Washington Ave to Madison Ave to allow over 25,000 artists and onlookers celebrate local art.
You can purchase or just browse awe-inspiring works of art from over 100 artists while enjoying live music, dance and theatre performances, one-day installations, and many more special events.
It’s no wonder why Times Union readers named Art on Lark the “Best Arts Event” of the Capital Region.
WEXT is proud to present two stages of Local 518 music. Keep reading for the official line up.
Free New Music For You
Thanks for helping in our pledge drive. We’ve got some great new music that you can download for FREE thanks to our friends at ATO for this wonderful sampler with music from Kopecki Family Band, Jim James, Bobby Long, and more!
The 500 Best Albums
The 500 Greatest Albums in Rock History. The countdown went from April 18-26. As we counted the albums down, we also asked for contributions to support the station. Nearly 200 people participated in the spring campaign. Thank you for calling 1-800-272-6492, or for clicking the contribute link.
Full countdown PDF, click here for just album names and artists.
Full countdown with songs added in, click here.
Hey Hey I’m Micky Dolenz
Best known as the drummer of The Monkees, George Michael Dolenz Jr. – aka Micky – has fashioned a long-lasting and diversified career in show business. The son of actor George Dolenz, Micky, with American Indian and Yugoslavian blood in his heritage, took to acting as a boy, earning great success in the 1950s with “Circus Boy” (1956). Though he continued to act with the show’s end, he focused more on college studies, his most passionate interest being architecture. He also delved into singing, performing in LA-area clubs with a band called Micky & The One-Nighters as well as with a band called Missing Links; among those who saw Micky in action was Michael Nesmith.
