You call that a jam?
Mountain Jam comes to Hunter May 31-June 3 Mountain Jam’s 2012 logo is a classic, compact bit of psych-art, toned down perhaps for more sober times but still singing unironically of ’60s rock…
Tony Levin brings Stick Men to Bearsville this Sunday
I was in a car returning home from college the first time I heard “Elephant Talk,” track one on King Crimson’s 1981 album Discipline. The fact that I remember the circumstance attests to…
Electronic tonic: Bob Lukomski and experimental music in the Hudson Valley
On a spring day in the late ‘80s, I took a rowboat out to Esopus Island with Mark Marinoff, Phil Farber and some other friends. After exploring the rocky little island – a…
A good turn: Patronize your Mom-and-Pop record store this Saturday
Saturday, April 21 is the fifth annual Record Store Day. My town, New Paltz, is uniquely blessed with two independent record stores: Jack’s Rhythms, founded by the late Jack Goldberg and now run…
New Rosendale Guitars offers hip vintage guitars & good advice
It is a cliché by now to say that what the malls did to the Mom-and-Pops, the commercial Web is doing to the malls. The more interesting story is how each can find…
Mark Donato to perform at ASK on Saturday
When you go to see Mark Donato at the Arts Society of Kingston on April 14, I suggest that you print the lyrics from his website and bring them along. I have found…
Local guitar prodigies Connor Kennedy, Jonny Klenk & “Mojo” Myles Mancuso
John Lennon said that the blues is a chair. A lesser-known but even more fraudulent blues apologist named Althius “Pop” Hinks called the blues “a slippy eel, elusive in its properties,” which may…
Roots radical: Jim Campilongo takes up residency at the Falcon
The name Jim Campilongo is known more among electric guitar aficionados than among the general music-fan population. He is especially familiar to devotees of one particular make of guitar: the Fender Telecaster. While…
The mid-Hudson Valley kids’ music renaissance
Rod Morgenstein drummed for the Dixie Dregs, a rocking fusion band that formed at the University of Miami in the early 1970s, around the time that Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny were there:…
Sketch sound with Karl Berger and friends this Friday
One of the most charmingly awkward moments in American cultural history came when Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen jammed on the Steve Allen Show in 1959, intending to demonstrate to uptight America, once…
