Dwight Yoakam opens Belleayre Music Festival
They had to coin a term to describe Dwight Yoakam: cowpunk, a raw, anachronistic, bleeding-heart honky-tonk revivalism born in the
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Jonny Monster Band unveils new CD in New Paltz
It used to be that when a band made a Spartan, bare-bones studio CD with a live, roomy sound and
Jesse Harris to play Unison in New Paltz at inaugural Troubadour show
If it is in New Paltz and it moves and/or shakes, chances are that Steve Casa has something to do
Scott Barkan to play Two Boots in Red Hook and Oasis in New Paltz
“We wish to point out,” wrote the poet Amy Lowell in her Imagist manifesto of 1916, “that there is nothing
Chris Bergson Band at the Falcon in Marlboro
It is not every day – or week, or month – that a high blues adept of the caliber of
Tony Bennett to help out UPAC in Kingston
My friend the engineer Tom Rosado worked sound for one of Tony Bennett’s area appearances a while back, and said
The Django of jangle: Chris Stamey at Bearsville on June 7
Beyond talented and prolific, Chris Stamey is important: a genuinely important figure in American music. But I wouldn’t even want
Clown prince comes home to New Paltz this Saturday
Speaking as a small-town kid who grew up along the fringe of the big city’s cultural perimeter, I can say
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
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