Empire Underground does something clever with geography: it puts you in a basement on North Pearl Street in Downtown Albany and makes you forget there is anything above you. The downstairs room is part of the Empire Live Albany complex, which runs two distinct spaces on the same block — Empire Live upstairs, Empire Underground below — but the Underground is where you want to be when the show calls for it. Low ceiling. Tight floor. The kind of room where a performer either wins the crowd completely or finds out the hard way.
About Jay Webb
Jay Webb is the kind of artist who was built for rooms like this.
The Alabama native — raised between the backroads of rural North Alabama and the city in South Alabama — writes songs he describes as “music for real people with real problems.” His influences span Johnny Cash and Hank Williams on one end and Juice WRLD and Post Malone on the other, and that range is not a marketing exercise. It sounds exactly like what you’d expect from someone who used songwriting to make sense of a chaotic childhood, then spent years building an audience the hard way before a 2022 TikTok moment accelerated everything. He’s now past 415 million streams and a fanbase of more than 2 million — not because he chased a trend, but because the songs hold up. Tracks like “Bury Me With Bourbon,” “Down Here,” and “Broken” are the evidence. His album Where To Find Me has given him a full set’s worth of material that hits like a gut punch, which is exactly what he promises.
About Empire Underground
Empire Underground opened in fall 2021 in the basement of the Empire Live Albany complex at 93 N. Pearl Street in Downtown Albany. It holds around 350 people and leans hard into the intimacy — this is a room designed to collapse the distance between the stage and the crowd. The box office is open Monday through Friday, 11 AM to 4 PM, with hours varying on show days.
Tickets & Show Details
Jay Webb at Empire Underground. Saturday, August 29, 2026. Show at 8:00 PM. This is a stop on The HOMESICK Tour, a 15-date national run that also swings through Buffalo the following night — so if you know anyone who would drive for a good show, now is the time to make the call. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster or the Empire Underground box office. The room holds around 350 people. Move on it.