Music

Gravity's Rainbow

“To play [music] correctly, you really have to leave your ego out of it.” Peter Aaron profiles self-taught Cottekill-based saxophonist Joe Giardullo about how music has shaped his life since his discovery of R&B in the early ‘50s.

Nightlife Highlights

By DJ Wavy Davy

A list of notable musicians and bands coming to the Hudson Valley in July including Kelleigh McKenzie, Inner Visions, Brion Snyder, Alpha Male Gorillas, The Virginia Wolves, and Blueberry.

Bill Brovold & Larval

By Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

Living through five heart attacks within 18 months, and Bill Brovold was still able to produce the suitably titled double CD Surviving Death/Alive Why? with his Detroit-born avant/progressive rock ensemble Larval.

The Gypsy Nomads

By Sharon Nichols

French pop tunes are sung in cabaret fashion in the The Gypsy Nomads latest album, Eternal Summer.

The Chief Smiles

By Jason Broome

Musical genres including Indie, progressive, mental, classical, sweater, and sugar rock are combined in the new album from The Chief Smiles, Great for Terrible Times.

What's Newer Than New?

By Sparrow

A cello, piano, and voice blend together to perform “Songs of Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Musical Illumination of the Poems of William Blake.” Sparrow profiles the Post-Neo Trio, to perform July 25 at Belleayre Mountain.