NYS Music 202​1

Tag: WEQX

  • This week’s EQXposure features New Releases by Paintbox Records Artists

    Each Sunday evening from 7-9pm you’ll find EQXposure on WEQX, featuring two hours of local music from up and coming artists. Tune into WEQX.com this Sunday night to hear new music from Paintbox Records Artists Senior Living, The Classical, and many more artists from across the Capital Region and Hudson Valley.

    Paintbox Records

    WEQX has long been the preeminent independent station in the Capital Region of New York, broadcasting from Southern VT to an ever-expanding listening audience. NYS Music brings you a preview of artists to discover each week, just a taste of the talent waiting to be discovered by fans like you.

    On Sunday, February 7, WEQX will feature four cuts from the newly minted Paintbox Records Pallete release series. Among them are two songs from Senior Living and two songs from The Classical. Paintbox Records happened because the bands, who are all friends, were planning on touring together last year, but the pandemic prevented those road runs from happening.

    But COVID-19 couldn’t stop this crew of creatives from making rock happen, thus Paintbox Records was born.

    Also featured are new music debuts from two Albany groups – Fine Grain, “Missing Adult,” and Son of Gun “Cry all Night,” the latter off their forthcoming release Turn to Dust, due out February 12

  • Allyson Smith and Monica Uhm Featured on this week’s EQXposure

    Each Sunday evening from 7-9pm you’ll find EQXposure on WEQX, featuring two hours of local music from up and coming artists. Tune into WEQX.com this Sunday night to hear new music from, Allyson Smith, Monica Uhm and many more!

    allyson smith

    WEQX has long been the preeminent independent station in the Capital Region of New York, broadcasting from Southern VT to an ever-expanding listening audience. NYS Music brings you a preview of artists to discover each week, just a taste of the talent waiting to be discovered by fans like you.

    This week, EQXposure features the music of Allyson Smith, spanning her releases. Featured tracks include “Wane” and “Bound2Be” off her release All Good Things, “Vacancy” off the release Carter Creek Choir, and her latest, “The Waves (demo).”

    Also featured is the new release from Monica Uhm titled “Prelude.” Monica is a singer-songwriter based in New York known for her catchy tunes, intelligent lyrics and quirky live banter. Her lyrical style is self-dubbed “philoso-folk” given the push-pull in her writing of the big questions in life found in small everyday snapshots. Her musical style is self-dubbed “kitchen-sink twist on Americana” from the eclectic range of influences in her musical tastes and working with a wide spectrum of accomplished and creative musicians and artists.  

  • New Music from Luminous Crush featured on EQXposure

    Each Sunday evening from 7-9pm you’ll find EQXposure on WEQX, featuring two hours of local music from up and coming artists. Tune into WEQX.com this Sunday night to hear new music from Luminous Crush, Allyson Smith and many more!

    Luminous Crush

    WEQX has long been the preeminent independent station in the Capital Region of New York, broadcasting from Southern VT to an ever-expanding listening audience. NYS Music brings you a preview of artists to discover each week, just a taste of the talent waiting to be discovered by fans like you.

    This week EQXPosure puts a spotlight on a variety of local artists from across the 518 and Western New England.

    The latest from Luminous Crush, “Radio Kills Zombies” has a haunting refrain with a smooth underlying groove, with imagery of the Cuba Gooding, Jr. film Radio attached. The Vermont band is fronted by Laura Molinelli and Ben Campbell. With Christian Heins (bass), Brad Waugaman (keyboard) and Paul Carroccio (drums), they form a quintet that focuses on original dreamlike pop and rock vignettes. Their music has been hailed as “fearless and original” by Dan Bolles, music editor at Seven Days.

    https://soundcloud.com/luminous-crush/radio-kills-zombies

    Allyson Smith a singer-songwriter from Albany has recently released “The Waves.” Her songs weave together inner and outer worlds by juxtaposing emotional and spiritual experiences with keen environmental observations. The Collaborative Magazine boasts of Smith having “powerful songwriting, full of goose-bump raising lines and beautifully dark imagery.”

    You’ll also catch brand new songs from Jade Relics’ freshly released collaboration between Elder Orange, Iame, and Rico James “With You,” United Crates/The Vinylcologist, Older Zealous AKA OJ, “Vodka and Polar,” and a new release from the Bathrobe Robots, “Alt-War.”

    EQXposure will start the evening with two songs in a row for an hour from Ferriday, Dryer, Postage, Fine Grain, Laveda, Bear Grass , Victory Soul Orchestra and TIP the Band.

  • This Week’s EQXposure features After the Fall, Postage and many more

    Each Sunday evening from 7-9pm you’ll find EQXposure on WEQX, featuring two hours of local music from up and coming artists. Tune into WEQX.com this Sunday night to hear new music from After the Fall, Postage and many more!

    after the fall

    WEQX has long been the preeminent independent station in the Capital Region of New York, broadcasting from Southern VT to an ever-expanding listening audience. NYS Music brings you a preview of artists to discover each week, just a taste of the talent waiting to be discovered by fans like you.

    This week EQXPosure puts a spotlight on Albany hardcore, featuring the new song by After the Fall, “I Don’t Want to be Around,” off their latest release Resignation.

    The Albany Hardcore scene is vast, with creative people successfully avoiding the bummer life while stabbing songs across the linear music stream with heart, message, and unabashed, pristine, rock and roll. All of the hallmarks of great bands like Fear, The Vandals, The Circle Jerks, and Bob Mould move the music forward, sustaining all the energy, and could really care less that their music is being played on the radio  – the music is about the moment, the spark, and the infinite aggressive passionate shout.

    EQXposure will also feature four songs by Postage. These quintessential punk blasts take some clever harmonic twists, and the performance of the tunes by the band’s playing is excellent. Enough to hook newcomers to a scene they’ve been missing out on. 

  • The first EQXposure of 2021 features Dryer, Laveda and many more

    Each Sunday evening from 7-9pm you’ll find EQXposure on WEQX, featuring two hours of local music from up and coming artists. Tune into WEQX.com this Sunday night to hear new music from Dryer and many more!

    dryer

    WEQX has long been the preeminent independent station in the Capital Region of New York, broadcasting from Southern VT to an ever-expanding listening audience. NYS Music brings you a preview of artists to discover each week, just a taste of the talent waiting to be discovered by fans like you.

    On Sunday, January 3, 2021 EQXPosure will explore the music of Dryer. The Saratoga based band has been making music together for as long as EQXposure has been on the air, nearly 28 years. Tune in and listen to an eight song career spanning selection of tunes that shows just how incredibly consistent and relevant these four musicians are. 

    Writing songs and making records that stand the test of time is the goal of all artists. Dryer was working out their sound well before global online streaming, when to hear new music people had to go out and see bands playing live, no email lists, download codes, Spotify playlists, it was up to the live show to grow your audience. That work, the real work of putting on a great show, and being remembered is still part of the puzzle today but when this band started it was all there was. That scene, that history, is evident in the records we’re playing. 

    Punk rock, straight rock, up tempo head bobbing jams, this band has been compared to The Pixies but their music is all their own bombastic blast of fun. From their 2016 release, Bright Moon, Bright Sun we will hear “Green Paper,” “Book of Maps” and “Summer of 87.”


    Off their 1996 release Saturday in Vein we will hear the title cut, “Saturday in Vein“, from their 2001 release Everything in Static, “Desperate Annies,”  from their latest release Prognerd, “Operation Suicide,” “Stupid for You,” and from Out of the Loop (1998) we will hear “Red Light.“

    Also on Sunday we will hear” Better Now” the new single from Laveda off their debut album What Happens After. Laveda features dreampop and shoegaze sounds, mixed with a bright hopeful grit and passionate singing of the male female combination of Jacob Brooks and Ali Genevich, who’s balance of pop melodic sounds and broad psyched out soundscapes make for an enjoyable listening indulgence.