Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

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. […]

Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart at Palace Theatre — April 24, 1975

This was the Bongo Fury Tour — Captain Beefheart’s only tour with Zappa’s band, undertaken partly to help Beefheart through a period of contractual disputes. The lineup included George Duke on keyboards, Napoleon Murphy Brock on sax, Terry Bozzio on drums, and the Fowler brothers. The live tracks on the Bongo Fury album were recorded […]

Pharoah Sanders at SUNY Albany — April 24, 1971

Stone Temple Pilots — On This Day

Stone Temple Pilots in the spring of 1997 were a band caught between creative ambition and personal chaos — which, for STP, was always where the best music lived. Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop had pushed the band’s sound in unexpected directions: Beatles-influenced pop melodies, bossa nova rhythms, psychedelic textures that proved […]