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GO TO BARS! Hours for your Capital City Pint Sized. Albany (250 Lark) Mon - Fri 5 PM to Mid Sat Noon to Mid Sun Noon to 8 PM Note that our closes are soft closes and we are typically open later than advertised hours. #35mmfilm

This is a public service announcement from DIVE. Alcohol is good. Even for breakfast. We are social beings. Enjoy beverages with friends and family in the real world. Get out there. Our bars are called Pint Sized. We have locations at 250 Lark in Albany & 33 Phila in Saratoga. Open seven days a week at both spots. Visit diveupstate dot com for hours, bar updates, events and info on shows we put on in this area. Google works too. Upstate NY rules if you let it. GO TO BARS!

GO TO BARS! Hours for your Spa City Pint Sized. Saratoga (33 Phila) Mon - Sat Noon to 1 AM Sun Noon to 10 PM Note that our closes are soft closes and we are typically open later than advertised hours. #35mmfilm

GOOD NEWS! We are teaming up with our bffs at Broadway Coffee Co located at 493 Broadway to bring you THE BELMONT ON BROADWAY BAR on June 3! This will be one of very few places, if not THE ONLY SPOT, to get a buzz on the block as Fitz and the Tantrums headlines the big Belmont kick off party. The pop up bar kicks off at 4 PM and goes until ????? Last two years about 10,000 heads headed out for this kick off event. Crush cans and take some shot with us as we bring you a pop up bar that is designed for quick service. There will be a large standing patio area to enjoy your bevs with friends and family for this killer event. Stoked to get back to North Broadway. We miss the old block and can’t wait to head back over for the day. Spread the word. Hit the share button. See you there!

DIVE PRESENTS Sweeping Promises. Live At No Fun (275 River Street - Troy NY) 11/8/2026. Early Sunday Show with doors at 5 PM and show at 6 PM. Vibe - New Wave / Post Punk / DIY. Ticket Information - On sale Friday 10 AM on No Fun’s Eventbrite. $16 ADV / $20 Door. More about the show: Sweeping Promises was born in a disused and reverberant concrete laboratory in Cambridge, MA. Tracked with a self-devised “single-mic technique” and mixed in mono, serial band-starters Lira Mondal and CauField Schnug completed their debut, Hunger for a Way Out, just in time to enter quarantine. With only a single basement show under their belt, the band received an unexpectedly wide reception, firstly in online punk circles, and eventually stretching beyond. In 2023, having gotten the chance to tour the USA and abroad with live drummer Spenser Gralla, the duo relocated to their new home and DIY recording compound in Lawrence, KS, and released their sophomore album, Good Living is Coming for You, on Feel It Records (US) and Sub Pop (EU/UK). The album received wide critical acclaim for its pop songwriting and idiosyncratic punk production and led to yet more touring, boosting the band’s reputation as a fierce live act. We are thrilled to welcome back Sweeping Promises to No Fun after an incredible set back in 2024. Swipe for photos by Brandon Stewart from said gig. Support TBA. GO TO SHOWS!

Join us for a community kickoff event to preview SPAC’s 60th anniversary summer season this Friday May 15th from 5 PM - 8 PM at Saratoga Pint Sized. The staff at SPAC will be chilling with us sharing information about their summer season. Don’t miss this event as there is going to be a prize wheel where patrons can spin for a chance to win pair of free tickets to SPAC events! Some stand out events in their season include: - Ballet X which features music from Dan Deacon a favorite of ours! Show kicks off their season on June 11. - Saratoga Jazz Fest on June 27 & June 28. Jam packed all day Saturday and Sunday event. - New York City Ballet residency from July 8 - July 11. - Philadelphia Orchestra residency from August 5 - August 22 featuring standout soloists and film with live music events. For the happy hour we will be fully stocked on brews from our friends at Whitman Brewing for the event who are currently packaging their SPAC beer this year which is going to be a west coast pilsner called “Pilsner At An Exhibition”. While we won’t have that one in house as it’ll be available next week we will have a sour on tap along with a bunch more to choose from for the duration of the event. Discounts on Whitman beers for this event. Chance to win event tickets, killer brews, patio vibes... this is all good stuff. Hope to see you there!

We haven’t been posting a lot on socials tbh. Here are some pictures. Get off the phone. Go to bars. See your friends irl. Your group text is not sufficient. The weekend commences… NOW! Hours at our locations are as follows… Albany (250 Lark) Mon - Fri 5 PM to Mid Sat Noon to Mid Sun Noon to 8 PM Saratoga (33 Phila) Mon - Sat Noon to 1 AM Sun Noon to 10 PM Note that our closes are soft closes and we are typically open later than advertised hours. #35mmfilm

DIVE PRESENTS Pearl And The Oysters. Live At Saratoga Arts (320 Broadway - Saratoga Springs NY) 7/23/2026. Vibe - Jazz Pop / Art Rock / Retrofuturism. Stoked for the first of many at this rad theater that sits alongside beautiful Congress Park. Ticket Information - On sale Friday 10 AM on Eventbrite (link in bio). $18 ADV / $22 Door. Very excited for our first proper show in Saratoga Springs. Pint Sized pop up bar in the galleries. More info on support acts, food pop up, visuals & more. Spread the word! More about the show: Pearl & the Oysters, international adventurers in eclectic pop, crash-landed their starship in Los Angeles in the year 2020. Born and schooled in Paris, the couple launched a nomadic romance fueled by music that would later see them crooning in New York jazz clubs, then wading the swampy waters of American DIY art rock in Gainesville, Florida. Today in L.A., the band’s evolving sound complements a buoyant moment in a scene where their brand of space age jazz-pop is more than welcome. Juliette Pearl Davis and Joachim Polack met on the first day of high school in Paris - bespectacled Juju and curlyhaired Jojo, both music-obsessed, nerdy, and drawn together by a “poetic connection” and mutual heroes unusual for high schoolers, like Burt Bacharach, Kurt Weill and especially, Antônio Carlos Jobim. At college, pursuing musicology degrees at the Sorbonne, a romantic connection emerged. Today, Juliette and Joachim’s shared journey as love partners and music-makers gifts listeners with a rare experience in pop music - the output of a near-telepathic musical language grown over decades of 24/7 connection and collaboration. Joachim’s influences of Tropicália, analog synths, Juliette’s love for jazz, and the Great American Songbook, and the pair’s shared delight in global pop fusion groups like Yellow Magic Orchestra has alchemized into the kaleidoscopic world-building sound of Pearl & the Oysters. Don’t miss this incredible band’s stop at the Spa City.

It’s getting warmer out. Grab a couple cans. Enjoy outside. Pint Sized is a hop skip and a jump from Washington Park in Albany & Congress Park in Saratoga Springs. See your friends irl. Really Good Beer. Seven Days A Week. Albany Hours (250 Lark) Mon - Fri 5 PM to Mid Sat Noon to Mid Sun Noon to 8 PM Saratoga Hours (33 Phila) Mon - Sat Noon to 1 AM Sun Noon to 10 PM Note - Soft close on all hours. We are typically open later than listed hours. GO TO BARS! #35mmfilm

DIVE PRESENTS Mdou Moctar & Blue Ranger. Live At The Hangar (675 River Street - Troy NY) 6/5/2026. Vibe - Tuareg Guitar Music / Singer-Songwriter / World. Ticket Information - General on sale Friday, April 24 10 AM at the Hangar’s Eventbrite page. $25 ADV / $30 Door. More About The Show: There is a beauty in listening to music made in the spirit of energetic transformation. When the sounds transform the air and the listener. This record transports the listener into the heart of the music of Mdou Moctar. The blending of intention and motivation creates a burst of sound that embraces and shakes and invites one to dance! It invites one to breathe. It invites one to be in solidarity with the music. It invites one to be in touch with the human condition. A sound that carries weight makes an impact. A sound that carries time transcends time. We are not only listening to music but we are living through it. We are living with it. We are living in it. The artist sees history and makes poetry from it for the present. Mdou Moctar’s Funeral For Justice requests your presence. Show up open to the celebration of life, loved as it should be loved. Experience the exaltation and exuberance. The words speak of ascension, awareness, sorrow, apathy, knowing, and growth. The guitars speak of power, energy, jubilation, transcendency, immediacy, and tradition. The drums and percussion mark the pulse of now as well as a timeless dance that involves us all, as it did those that came before us. The wires that carry the message feel alive with fire and purpose, explosive with possibility. So join Mdou Moctar in this funeral for justice, knowing rebirth is possible. A new justice is possible. With your voice, your heart, your dance, your stomp, a new justice is born. Mdou Moctar welcomes you with joy and open arms. Be here. Feel here and do, alongside this music.

DIVE PRESENTS Tim Kasher, Old Canes & Dan LaFave and Craig Dutra. Live At The Hangar (675 River Street - Troy NY) 5/30/2026. Vibe - Indie Rock / Singer-Songwriter. Ticket Information - General on sale NOW at the Hangar’s Eventbrite page. $18 ADV / $22 Door. More About The Show: Best known as the frontman for Midwestern outfits Cursive and the Good Life, Nebraska-born indie rocker Tim Kasher also makes literate and heavily thematic solo music that splits the difference between theatrical rock, chamber pop, and intimate indie singer / songwriter fare. He made his solo debut a full 15 years into band life, with The Game of Monogamy in 2010. Kasher continued to wrangle with the realities of adulthood into the next decade, including on his fourth solo album, 2022’s Middling Age. Excited to welcome back to the capital region with an intimate solo set after back to back sold out shows with Cursive. Support for the show comes from Old Canes, a lo-fi project spearheaded by Christopher Crisci of Appleseed Cast. Our friends Dan Lafave & Craig Dutra kick off the show with a duo set. This is going to be a good one. See you there!

DIVE PRESENTS No Joy, Retail Drugs & Untitled Freak. Live At No Fun (275 River Street - Troy NY) 5/31/2026. Vibe - Shoegaze / Alternative / Psychedelic. Ticket Information - General on sale NOW at No Fun’s Eventbrite page. $15 ADV / $20 Door. Early Sunday show. Door 5 PM. Show 6 PM. More About The Show: Since first arriving on the scene in 2009 with blistering inversions of shoegaze, Montreal’s No Joy has always found formidable ways to reinvent itself. Composed of musician Jasamine White-Gluz, No Joy has evolved over five studio albums and five EPs, defying expectation and genre, and cementing itself as something rare: a band without a category. Their newest work Bugland received much critical acclaim and hit many year end best of lists in 2025 including nods by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork & Brooklyn Vegan to name a few. Opening sets from Ali and Jake of Laveda with their respective projects Untitled Freak & Retail Drugs. Fun experimental gig. Pack it out.