Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

Green Day at Pepsi Arena — April 25, 2005

Green Day brought the American Idiot World Tour to the Pepsi Arena, with My Chemical Romance opening — a bill that captured the entire spectrum of mid-2000s rock. American Idiot had transformed Green Day from pop-punk veterans into arena-rock political provocateurs, spawning “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Holiday.” Albany was an early stop on the […]

Josh White at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall — April 25, 1959

Garth Brooks 1997 World Tour vintage concert t-shirt with Syracuse listed among tour cities

There are arena shows, and then there is Garth Brooks at the Carrier Dome. On April 25, 1997, the biggest-selling solo artist in American music history walked onto a stage inside a 50,000-seat dome in Syracuse and did what Garth Brooks did better than anyone in country music: turn a stadium into a living room. […]

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