Mayor Jerry Jennings and the City of Albany present the 2013 Alive at Five...
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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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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.
The Bob Dylan 100
You helped us pick the 100 Best Bob Dylan Songs! On May 24th, 2013, we celebrated Bob Dylan’s 72nd birthday with a play of The Bob Dylan 100! Thanks for your help in creating the original list.
Click here to download the PDF of the Bob Dylan 100.
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.
New Rogue Wave For You!
Here’s a download of the new Rogue Wave song. The album, “Nightingale Floors,” comes out on June 4th.
Alive @ Five Summer 2013
Mayor Jerry Jennings and the City of Albany present the 2013 Alive at Five Concert Series! These FREE Thursday night concerts take place all summer long from 5pm-8pm at Albany Riverfront Park.
July 18:
On July 18, Exit 97.7 presents STARSHIP featuring Mickey Thomas with opening band Wild Adriatic.
July 25:
On July 25, Exit 97.7 presents Local 518 Blues Night, featuring the winners of the Downtown Albany Blues Competition: The Tom Healey Band and Blues Sanctuary.
The Alive at Five series is brought to you by Key Bank, Saratoga Eagle & Bud Light.
For more information, call 434.2032 or visit www.albanyevents.org.
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.
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!!
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!
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.
