While we’re not always the best at keeping our humble www.b3nson.net updated (with the exception of the prolific Roadhouse), our roster certainly does keep busy working on other projects. Here’s some of what we’ve been up to so far in 2013:

Happy 2012 everybody! Members of B3nson have decided to challenge themselves with the task of collectively releasing at least 1 new song for every week of 2012. Home recordings, demos, live stuff, remixes, collaborations… anything goes! This week’s song comes from a mysterious project called “Thunder Dolphin”. Think about that one for a minute. Thunder Dolphin. Easily the most epic guitar solo in the entire B3nson discography. Go listen now!

We here at B3nson have a tendency to focus on what is currently happening in the capital region music scene and sometimes we even focus on what is going to be happening in the capital region music scene. This is for good reason: there’s a lot of awesome stuff going on out there and there’s always a lot of awesome stuff just over the horizon. But, sometime’s, it’s good to take a step back from all of that and take a look at some things that have already happened. Maybe they happened before you were here, maybe they happened and you missed them. Maybe you were there and need a little trip down Memory Lane. That’s what this column is all about. We’ve had some great talents here in Albany, and sometimes they get overlooked or sometimes they go on to do other things. But with so many good stories to tell and so many great songs floating around it seems like a shame not to share them with people.

Happy 2012 everybody! Members of B3nson have decided to challenge themselves with the task of collectively releasing at least 1 new song for every week of 2012. Home recordings, demos, live stuff, remixes, collaborations… anything goes! This week’s song comes from the temporarily non-elusive Nursing Home Discoveries. It is called Small Talk in the Library and you should listen to it right. Now.

We here at B3nson have a tendency to focus on what is currently happening in the capital region music scene and sometimes we even focus on what is going to be happening in the capital region music scene. This is for good reason: there’s a lot of awesome stuff going on out there and there’s always a lot of awesome stuff just over the horizon. But, sometime’s, it’s good to take a step back from all of that and take a look at some things that have already happened. Maybe they happened before you were here, maybe they happened and you missed them. Maybe you were there and need a little trip down Memory Lane. That’s what this column is all about. We’ve had some great talents here in Albany, and sometimes they get overlooked or sometimes they go on to do other things. But with so many good stories to tell and so many great songs floating around it seems like a shame not to share them with people.

Happy 2012 everybody! Members of B3nson have decided to challenge themselves with the task of collectively releasing at least 1 new song for every week of 2012. Home recordings, demos, live stuff, remixes, collaborations… anything goes! This week we have a long-lost demo from Eric Krans (of The Parlor) recorded sometime between 2009′s “Animals Are People Too” and 2012′s “Our Day In the Sun”. This song is called Lightning In A Jar and it is absolutely terrific!

Inspired largely by the arrival of a little girl named Emily Wing, Swamp Baby’s second full-length album on Collar City Records, For Baby’s Babies, is a labor of love that isn’t afraid to tread deep into the shadows every now and then. Like their 2010 debut All Fours, all the basic tracks (and a fair amount of overdubs) for the new album were recorded at the Interfaith Peace Temple in Greenville NY. The heat of 90 degree summer days in the foothills of the Catskills again informs the sound – …

Happy 2012 everybody! Members of B3nson have decided to challenge themselves with the task of collectively releasing at least 1 new song for every week of 2012. Home recordings, demos, live stuff, remixes, collaborations… anything goes! This week we have a track from Two Dudes Fishing called “The Art in Heart”.

Happy 2012 everybody! Members of B3nson have decided to challenge themselves with the task of collectively releasing at least 1 new song for every week of 2012. Home recordings, demos, live stuff, remixes, collaborations… anything goes! This week we have a special installment – regular Song-A-Week contributor Mount Mole has provided us with an original tune and a remix/mash-up of that same tune featuring Big Digits; some pals of his that will be coming through 51 3rd st, Troy, on May 12th.

Happy 2012 everybody! Members of B3nson have decided to challenge themselves with the task of collectively releasing at least 1 new song for every week of 2012. Home recordings, demos, live stuff, remixes, collaborations… anything goes! This weeks song comes from the mysterious Gypsy Carnival Sideshow… the song is called “Build a Deck 4″.

“We’ve captured a lot of footage over the past month and we figured we’d give you a little taste of what’s coming to the vimeo page. Enjoy!
Shot and Edited by Eamonn McBride”
Barons in the Attic – Sabotage and Footage Mash up from Barons in the Attic on Vimeo.

Happy 2012 everybody! Members of B3nson have decided to challenge themselves with the task of collectively releasing at least 1 new song for every week of 2012. Home recordings, demos, live stuff, remixes, collaborations… anything goes! This weeks song comes from Muddskipper and the song is called “Higher”.