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TIMES UNION: Troy Listening Room interview

November 02, 2026

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TROY LISTENING ROOM

Interview with Sam Torres and Sophia Vastek

Published by the Times Union in Albany, NY

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2025 Guest Recommendations

2025 Guest Recommendations Originally published on the No Limit on the Words Substack . Subscribe there for all the cool stuff. Remember in the early days of underground music websites when they would have end of year lists from cool people in bands? I used to go through the Hydra Head one and check out everything that everyone listed. Well, this is like that, but with people that I know. The guidelines were simple: genre be damned, anything goes. I highly recommend that you take some time and give these a shot. Tons of links here. I also put together a playlist of all of these—at least, the ones that I could—on Tidal for myself, which is available here for anyone that uses that service and wants to listen as they read.

PLAYLIST: Plaguelist #18: It Has Been One Year Since I Have Seen Live Music

1. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and The Picket Line – Death To Everyone – Funtown Comedown (2009) (0:00) March 11, 2020 marks the last time I was at a live music event. I am someone who went to see some type of music on a nearly weekly basis, so it has been a pretty different year for me. That’s why I started doing these playlist things in the first place. But that final show was Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and things were already pretty weird at the time. Unbeknownst to us, the shutdown was mere days away, but there was already a strangeness in the air. The show was poorly attended and awkwardly quiet, with the artists addressing the uncertainty of the rest of their tour dates. I can’t remember if they played this song or not, but it’s one of my favorites. The original version comes from the essential Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album, I See A Darkness , but here we have a reimagined version played live with a bluegrass band backing him. 2. Pinkish Black – Burn ...

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