Kingston continues to inspire me with the constant ways the old and new intersect. From Rough Draft’s opening Uptown to the continued mindful expansion of the waterfront to the influx of friendly faces from yesterday coming back around for the holidays — plus some people deciding to move back and stay when they see Kingston’s rebirth — this is a time of excitement and potential.
Globelamp (aka Elizabeth Gomez aka Elizabeth Le Fay) is in the Woodstock-Kingston area to record the follow up to 2016’s The Orange Glow, released on Wichita Records, at Bohemesphere Studios in Saugerties. ‘I’d never been to Upstate New York,” she says. “I like it here. It reminds me of the Taylor Swift album Red.’
Time happens to everyone, even someone as eternally rowdy as AC/DC’s Malcolm Young, for example. We all have many things
Very respected legacy acts are taking Kingston seriously as a tour stop nowadays.
A local favorite makes the roster.
Basilica Soundscape, the music, arts and literature fest in nearby Hudson, is one of the dopest and most sharply curated annual occurrences you’re going to find on American soil.
We are heading into late summer/early fall and arguably the best time of the year for concerts and micro festivals.
Dear God, I really wish Michelle Obama, Jamie Clayton or John Leguizamo was president right now. As we reel from
Friday, July 28 you can see the affable and enduring rocker at The Anchor alongside local sea-chanty folk punkers Casting Ships for one of the best shows of the summer. For just $5 you are going to have a night to remember.
One band that never forgets to try and unite people around a good time and across backgrounds is the hard-rock group Hellyeah.