Star-studded Soundout: Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration at Bearsville
Among the most beloved and iconic of American songwriters, but also among the most idiosyncratic and eccentric, Bob Dylan is a tough cover. The temptation to do “that voice” is irresistibly strong; in…
Reunited Babe the Blue Ox at Beacon’s In the Pines Music Festival
What glad news that Babe the Blue Ox is back together, playing out and releasing new music. The Brooklyn-born art/alt-rock trio (now a quartet) introduced its jarring, witty and impassioned avant-rock sound with…
Bern & the Brights in Rosendale this Saturday
Hoboken’s Bern & the Brights kick off their crisp, bracing EP Work with “Slave Driver,” a track that, almost in sequence, introduces all the components of their multi-genre but coherent sound. Dub lasers,…
Man Man to play BSP in Kingston
I can’t believe I have finally grown tired of detecting and celebrating the influence of Tom Waits in modern music. But, 28 years after Rain Dogs changed my life irreversibly and for the…
Creative Music Studio to celebrate its 40th anniversary
Woodstock’s Creative Music Studio (CMS) avoids such self-descriptions as “experimental,” “avant-garde” and “revolutionary” in its literature, preferring to emphasize the cross-cultural universality of music and such kernel virtues as “keen awareness,” “personal expression”…
Smooth sailing with Robbie Dupree
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” says the White Queen to Alice, prescribing for the girl a kind of training regimen for the development of credulity and…
Liana Gabel to perform at BSP
On her upcoming debut CD Rest and Heal, New Paltz-based singer/songwriter Liana Gabel finds an idiosyncratic sweet spot somewhere between traditional vocal jazz and impressionistic, surreal indie pop. The sound is truly her…
Todd Rundgren to launch new release at Bearsville
For all his deserved reputation as a technological pioneer, a studio wizard, a futurist and a playful, sometimes perverse manipulator of public image and identity, Todd Rundgren has never – not once –…
BSP hosts o’death, Trummors & Breakfast in Fur this Friday
On its fine 2011 release Outside, the mostly acoustic ethno-punk band o’death earns the macabre lineage of its name with a tempest of dark folk in far-flung styles. Like a murkier and more…
Places to hear great live music in the Hudson Valley
In the opinion of this writer, this moment is in some respects the best time ever in the history of the mid-Hudson Valley music scene, Dylan be damned: more original acts than ever…
