Best of 2009

BRIAN PATNEAUDE (of the Brian Patneaude Quartet)10 Joshua Redman - "Compass" 09 Le Boeuf Brothers - "House Without A Door" 08 Kendrick Scott - "Reverence"…

J. ERIC SMITH (Times Union blogger, former host of "Soundboard," former Metroland music writer)10 The Big Pink - "A Brief History of Love" 09 Matt and Kim…

HOWE GLASSMAN (singer-guitarist of Grainbelt, owner of Valentine's Music Hall, manager of The Linda)This is the best I could come up with. Not in numerical…

TIM LIVINGSTON (songwriter/vocalist with THE LAST CONSPIRATORS)10 The Silver Brazilians - "Fender Car Disaster" 09 Tom Petty - "Live Anthology" 08 The…

Yeah, it's that time once again. Time to look back over the past year and see what stuck in your ears.We want to know what Nippertown.com readers are…

When Mark Eitzel wrote on his blog that his current just me-and-my-piano-player tour was "a kind of a Tony Bennett thing," I had no idea that he meant it…

Let's lay it right out there on the line.On Tuesday night at the Palace Theatre, smoldering soul sensation Maxwell delivered the best concert that I've seen…

Along with Bettye LaVette's performance at Freihofer's Jazz Festival at SPAC last month, this has got to rank as the best show of the summer so far.Go here…

OK, we're at the halfway mark for the year, so let's take a moment to look back over the best concerts of the previous six months.Nippertown.com would love…