Recently everyone was taken aback when it was announced that Nippertown was being acquired by the Schenectady Gazette. Tirelessly hardworking frontman Jim Gilbert, after expanding the original site immeasurably by adding all kinds of content and art genres, recently completed setting up and running the second Nipperfest, which went from a small show with famous local bands to THE festival event of Albany featuring over a dozen local music acts for an entire day. There seemed to be nothing Jim, who was working the equivalent of 2 full time jobs at Nippertown WHILE working another full time job just to pay the bills, could not accomplish. And now it appears he’s receiving his well deserved reward, selling out to the old boys club of established local media! Have a cigar buddy! (we kid we kid we love you Jim!)

And now for our own good news…

Not to be outdone, the Times Union decided to acequire an independent site of their own to supplement their music coverage. And since there happened to already be a local Albany/Troy underground site that famously covered local superhip music AND had a name that was very similar, the TIMES UNION IS GOING TO ACQUIRE TIMES BOREDOM! Watch TU and all the other local old guard major media outlets for the announcement, but for now know that we here at Times Boredom (and our indefatigable helmsman Scott Koenig pictured below) are also moving on to bigger and better things! We’ve been real lazy lately after our exhausive best local bands of 2022 series of articles, partly because our writers have been poached by other local publications (including and esp Nippertown), but rest assured that this merger will provide enough funds for us to re-hire and re-poach our writers and more! We’re gonna be a real local media music magazine! We’re gonna get our shit together and stop just covering the original superhip superdark underground stuff playing at No Fun and branch out to cover the groups that have their own marketing street teams and play covers and big festivals and rich people’s houses etc etc and we’re gonna get mad paid.

Details to come. Keep watching the media!