Pedro Soler & Bryce Dessner to play BSP in Kingston
On 2011’s exquisite Barlande, 74-year-old flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler engages in a musical dialogue with his 29-year-old-son, cellist Gaspar Claus.
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Nick Lowe to play Club Helsinki in Hudson
Some people like music. Others prefer songs, and they’re not exactly the same thing. Songs are an aggressively limited subset
Guitarist Gary Lucas at BSP screening & show on Friday
As with so many artists who are casually labeled experimental or avant-garde, a lot of the genuine art in Gary
Tributon takes on Waits
In 1983, Tom Waits released Swordfishtrombones, which (an appreciative) Tony Bennett described as “a guy in an ashcan sending messages.”
Beth Orton at Bearsville
A good half decade before there was “folktronica” and “laptop folk,” there was Beth Orton, the British songwriter whose albums
Doobie Brothers play Belleayre Music Festival this Saturday
The Doobie Brothers, yes, of course; but which brothers? The Hell’s Angels house band co-fronted by Tom Johnston and Patrick
Andrew Bird to bring his unmistakable sound to Bearsville
Like Piazzola, Weill or Morricone, all of whom are arguably influences, the music of Andrew Bird has that unmistakable quality
Julianna Barwick at BSP in Kingston
Of all the shoe-gaze, ambient, New Age and blooming, cavernous dream pop that I have heard, none seems truer to
Liberty of Rhinebeck hosts Dirty River album release party
Before you’ve even heard Forrest Hackenbrock’s queasy baritone and the even-queasier things that it has to say, the opening two-measure
Dave Mason to play Bearsville
Dave Mason has been at it for 50 years. His early career seemed to be mostly about leaving, rejoining, leaving