Saturday, August 18: If you listen to the first four Kansas albums, you will hear compositions that are every bit the equal of early Genesis in terms of counterpoint and formal design, and the music routinely rocks harder as well.
Saturday, August 11: The man who laid down grooves for more or less everyone brings his hot band to Marlboro’s jewel of a venue.
Saturday, August 11: Colony presents an iconic giant of the old school: New York City comedian and film actor Gilbert Gottfried, a veteran of Saturday Night Live and many film roles.
Friday, August 10: In 2010, the prevailing Australian kings of soft rock Air Supply released their most recent collection of new songs, Mumbo Jumbo. A surprisingly arty and electronic/symphonic effort somewhat reminiscent of the formal experimental pop of 10cc, with a nod to Jim Steinman’s micro-operatic mode, Mumbo Jumbo would probably challenge your sense of what Air Supply is all about.
Saturday, July 28: The bands on the bill at Seed Song Farm are some of the best-known in the genre, including Brooklyn’s Raya Brass Band and the What Cheer! Brigade.
Tuesday-Sunday, July 31-August 5: Thunder Ridge, the Charlie Daniels Band and Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters headline this fair’s musical acts.
Friday, July 20: With her first consistent post-Sonic Youth project, Kim Gordon certainly did not make a beeline toward pop and the big payday. Body/Head – her somewhat unsettling collaboration with guitarist Bob Nace – is, if anything, more abstract and less congenial than most anything Sonic Youth ever recorded.
The Bardavon presents Brian Wilson – with special guests and old friends Al Jardine and Blondie Chapin – giving final performances of Pet Sounds at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Sunday, July 22 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, July 14: Chart-toppers from bygone eras teaming up for nostalgia shows at the big-shed summer venues: This has been a model of success for years and years, a way to tap not just a band’s legacy but an era’s. So what it is about this one that surprises me? I guess it is the thought of Steely Dan playing nice with any of their era peers and ever agreeing to period branding such as this.
Friday, July 13: A tireless touring and recording artist, a versatile confessional-style writer with a distinctively soulful voice, Sexton is one of the godfathers of today’s groovy acoustic folk/rock.