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A lot of people aren't feeling the new Toucan Sam Froot Loop mascot, what do you think?

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Erica Debie is an amazing mom, volunteer and captain of the Ballston Lake Fire Department. She's also is our February Hometown Hero!

Nichole Naccarato from Latham is the Hometown Hero for the month of January. We're excited to share how she's making a difference!

Once again shoutout to everyone that came out to make our 3rd annual Hot Awards show a success. It was a lot of fun and such an honor to gift awards to some pretty dope people in the 518. Dont miss the vibes next year but until then enjoy these pictures...

First off thank you to each and everyone of our listeners that continuously listens to the station and everyone who came out to be apart and enjoy our 3rd Annual Hot Award show that took place this past Thursday December 19th at Skyloft . This year we celebrated everyone who is doing music in the 518. We honored those that are in front and behind the scenes with awards ranging from Artists of the

If you still haven’t finished your holiday shopping and need a great gift to gift your adult friends with. Two days after Christmas is the Hot Comedy Banger going down at the Egg. Now that’s a nice Christmas gift. The Hot Comedy Banger is sure to be hilarious with comedic acts from Stand-up comedy Capone, John Henton, Carl Payne, Ray Dejon, Cocoa Brown and Timmy Hall...

The Benoits built their enormous family on love, kindness and compassion. They have five biological children and seven children they adopted.

Cody Alessi from Stuyvesant has created TAP Cancer Out and he hustles to raise thousands of dollars while competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournaments.

It's going all the down and up Oct. 6 at the Times Union Center for A Little Music Festival. One big concert starring some of the biggest names in the music industry that is making waves right now. Lil Baby, Da Baby, Meghan The stallion will all be in the 518 Sunday, October 6 alongside Saweetie, Pardison Fountain, TJ Porter, Black Zac, Pop Smoke and Albany's very own Johnny 2 Phones...

Saturday August 17th come out for the 2nd annual community block party outside the Palace Theater in Albany Ny presented by the Palace Theater and Price Chopper Market 32. Its free and open to the public. Come out an enjoy an afternoon of family friendly activities, music by the ILL Funk Ensemble , vendors food trucks and more...

Yesterday was another successful back to school book bag giveaway. Hot991 and the city of Albany teamed up for our 3rd annual back to school skate party where we also collected school supplies for the up and coming school year. The community of Albany came out for the vibes as we gave away 99 book bags along with school supplies for the up and coming school year...

"Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them." One thing I was told a long time ago was in order to be great you have to be able to challenge yourself and listen more then you speak. Experience and knowledge go hand and hand and can go a long way in the music industry...

Yesterday was pretty awesome I must say.  I have been to maybe two Albany Empire games and I have also had done some remote stuff with them as well but yesterday was a different type of vibe. I got a chance to go out on the field during the first quarter and get the crowd hype for a T-Shirt toss all awhile representing the capital districts hip hop station HOT991...

Get ready this Friday G4Boys in the 518 for the first time, performing there hit song "More Ice' for the official Spring Bling more ice party at Putnam Place. It's lit. NY to Ohio originally the G4 Boys have been on the scene for a minute making noise ...

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On January 29, 2019 “Empire” star Jussie Smollet was brutal beaten by two unidentifie

Saturday Nights at midnight is a whole vibe. This Saturday is no different. I have up and coming artists D3V and Ashley ( Delirium Ent) who is now putting artist management under her belt. D3v has a new song "Mad @ Me"  and video dropping January 28th,2019, and if you ever wanted to know how to get on one of Delirium Ent showcases well she has one coming up and she also talks about how t

Missed the Who's Hot show on Saturday? Check out the recap and new some heat from some up and coming artists. Tune in every Saturday at midnight to hear new music on the Who's Hot podcast, hosted by Keisha Renee. Download the Hot991 app to listen on the go...

Its official Who's Hot podcast kicked off this past Saturday night and it was EVERYTHING. Great feed back on how the showed aired and the songs and artist that was featured on the podcast. If you missed it check out the link below. 1) Jelly Man- Drip 2) CASH- In Da Loop 3)Jamie Ray - DollaSign 4) Jeezus ShuttleWorth- NIKE 5) KiingShooter ft Don Q- No Panacing 6) Ray Ray O Special - Smile       If

So mother nature really tried to rain on our parade today and didn't seem to let up until it was only an hour or two left. With the rain coming down we still kept the flow of things and continued to put on the second annual 90’s throwback back to school bash...

It's always a good time and great vibes when people are real and down to earth. I think that's when the best interviews are created and remembered. This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure of sitting down and catching up with Tyler Star, Kindo aka Kindo Arts and Booyah aka Booyah The Great aka Nonhuman...

You may or may not know Dj Ness Nice personally, but he has been rocking with Hot 99.1 for a little while now. You can catch Ness Nice on Saturdays with Keisha Renee during the big throw back at noon. More recently he is the featured DJ for the month of January on the Keisha Renee Show Get familiar with Ness Nice: With virtually 20 years of Djing experience, Ness Nice grew up in a household filled

This weekend was pretty dope. One for the books. Busy, Fun, and exciting all in one. Friday night Jess Hilarious aka Jess Wit The Mess came to Albany NY for a girls night out comedy tour. Before she hit the stage she stopped by Hot 991 studios for a interview and  to tell us a little bit of what to expect from her stand up comedy...

It's all about the Benjamins baby!!! Yea big face hundos. That's right you can easily win up to 5000 dollars every day until October 6th. 3 codewords each day, 5 days out the week. Let's get this money Cap City. For more details check out more details right here...

This Saturday September 23rd come out and celebrate Albany High School 2017 homecoming. Homecoming official starts at 10am with music performances by CASH and PMUNA. Everyone is welcomed as this will be a fun filled day. The homecoming parade kicks off at 12noon ending with an epic varsity football game...

Summer is coming to an end and kids and young adults all over the world will be returning back to school but not before this super lit weekend pops off. A lot is going on this weekend for everyone of all ages. "GOOD VIBES ONLY ALL WEEKEND LONG" Here is a couple dope events happening this Saturday: Hot991's 90's throwback city skate party is popping off Saturday Aug 26th its open to the p

OK, if you missed Lil Uzi Vert last night then you missed out on a good show with nothing but good vibes. Lil Uzi Vert had the Upstate Concert Hall super lit last night and mind you the concert hall was jammed packed. He performed all of his hits, from Money Longer to PS & QS to 7am to You Was Right. No...

So it rained yesterday, well actually it poured for a little while. The festival was postponed for an hour due to the rain but once that had stopped the festival went on. Team Hot was in attendance and made sure to show face at all the locations of entertainment...

Ok wait hold up, time all the way out. I gotta explain this on for my homie Arron's sake and mines as well. So boom it was a nice ass day out,the cookout was popping and all of that. Everyone in a great mood feeling they self so why not get a pick up game of flag football on...