birthdays

Photograph by Kirsten FergusonSammy Yager, the Saratoga musician behind the experimental music of Birthdays, was involved in a serious bicycle accident…

Yup, Clint Eastwood celebrates his 81st birthday today.

Martin Benjamin is not only an award-winning photographer, an art professor at Union College and a frequent Nippertown.com contributor, but he's also one of…

Today is Bob Dylan's 70th birthday. And in case you weren't able to make it up to Skidmore College on Saturday night for the all-star Nippertown throwdown…

Happy Birthday to Bryan Thomas, who, to celebrate, is offering a free download of Smash To Pieces, a smashing 5-song EP he released in January. Today only!…

It seems all so appropriate that one of our very favorite romantic singer-songwriters was born on Valentine's Day. Today marks the 64th anniversary of Buckley's…

Filmmaker, cartoonist, weatherman, musician and artist, the always off-centered David Lynch celebrates his 65th birthday today.In celebration, we present…

599 years ago today, a peasant girl was born in Eastern France who would ultimately lead the French army to victory at Orleans during the Hundred Years War…

Today marks the 69th anniversary of the birth of the sublime singer-songwriter Tim Hardin, who died tragically of a drug overdose in 1980.Hardin wrote such…

Looking back at it now, it's nearly impossible to believe that there were serious arguments about who was the better band: the Beatles or the Dave Clark…

Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the birth of Lester Bangs, the great American rock writer. Bangs died on April 30, 1982.

Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of poet Kenneth Patchen. In addition to poetry, he also wrote several magnificent, experimental novels - "The…