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Going Out in Style January 31, 2012
Garland Jeffreys will play at the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling on February 3 at 8:30pm.
Nightlife Highlights: February 2012 January 30, 2012
Handpicked by Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Here Comes a Regular January 30, 2012
Tommy Stinson of Guns N’ Roses, Soul Asylum, formerly of the Replacements, and a talented artist in his own right.
CD Review: Susan SurfTone Shore December 29, 2011
A review of Susan SurfTone Shore’s self-titled album.
Nightlife Highlights: January 2012 December 29, 2011
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Off to See the Wizard December 29, 2011
Peter Aaaron talks with The Wiyos about the release of their new album “Twist” inspired by the film “The Wizard of Oz.”
New York Groove December 28, 2011
Will Hermes will read from his new book “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” at the Golden Notebook in Woodstock on January 14.
With Graceful Voice November 30, 2011
Judy Collins talks with Peter Aaron prior to her performance at the Egg in Albany on Friday, December 9.
Nightlife Highlights: December 2011 November 30, 2011
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
The Gospel Truth November 30, 2011
Peter Aaron discusses gospel music and The Shiloh Baptist Choir in Hudson.
Nightlife Highights October 28, 2011
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Force of Nature October 28, 2011
Peter Aaron interviews Sean Rowe who opens for the Swell Season’s Marketa Irglova at the Bowery Ballroom in New York on November 30.
Hoboken Hits the Housatonic October 28, 2011
The Feelies perform at MassMOCA’s Hunter Center in North Adams, Massachusetts, on November 11.
Lou Harrison: Outsider Inside September 29, 2011
“Works by Lou Harrison” will be performed at Bard’s College’s Fisher Center on October 15.
Academic Excellence September 28, 2011
Peter Aaron highlights the leading qualities of prep schools in the Hudson Valley and the Berkshires.
Nightlife Highlights: Sidi Toure September 28, 2011
Sidi Toure spends a night at The Falcon on October 15.
Nightlife Highlights: The Misfits September 28, 2011
The Chance Theater hosts a night of The Misfits on October 14.
Nightlife Highlights: Sex Mob September 28, 2011
Sex Mob will perform at Helsinki Hudson on October 7.
Love Shack Lady September 22, 2011
The B-52s girl talks about her life in music and the Hudson Valley.
Special Delivery August 30, 2011
Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling plays a free concert at Vassar College on October 1.
Nightlife Highlights: Lucky Tubb August 26, 2011
Lucky Tubb takes his honky tonk flavor to the Basement in Kingston on September 17.
Nightlife Highlights: Jazzstock with Sheila Jordan and Cameron Brown August 26, 2011
Vocalist Sheila Jordan and bassist Cameron Brown join the Colony Cafe’s Jazzstock Series in Woodstock on September 11.
Nightlife Highlights: The Jam Messengers August 26, 2011
The Jam Messengers come to the Spotty Dog in Hudson on September 14.
Nightlife Highlights: Roger McGuinn August 26, 2011
Singer and guitarist Roger McGuinn plays at the Egg on September 9.
Nightlife Highlights: So Percussion August 26, 2011
So Percussion play the Fisher Center at Bard College
on September 20.
Black Cloud, Black Keys, Blue Skies July 27, 2011
Folk rock singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield will play at Belleayre Music Festival on August 27.
Mass Exodus July 27, 2011
Peter Aaron’s rundown of hiking on the Ashuwillticook Rail, resting at the historic Morgan House Inn, and visiting Herman Melville’s home in the mountains.
Nightlife Highlights: High Peaks Music Festival July 26, 2011
The Catskill Mountain Foundation presents the High Peaks Music Festival, August 27 to September 4.
Nightlife Highlights: The Left Banke July 26, 2011
The Left Banke will play at Bearsville Theater on August 20.
Nightlife Highlights: Jake Holmes at the John Street Jam July 26, 2011
Jake Holmes will play at John Street Jam in Saugerties on August 13.
Nightlife Highlights: Nioka Workman/Hui Cox Project July 26, 2011
Nioka Workman/Hui Cox Project plays at the 1833-built Chapel of Our Lady Restoration in Coldspring on August 6.
Nightlife Highlights: Joan Osborne July 26, 2011
Joan Osborne plays at Bull and Buddha in Poughkeepsie on August 6.
Twelve Strings Transcendent July 26, 2011
Peter Aaron shows the twelve strings of guitarist Alexander Turnquist.
For the Moment June 29, 2011
Postclassical string quartet Ethel makes its festival debut at Maverick Concerts.
Nightlife Highlights: Ravi Coltrane Quartet June 28, 2011
Ravi Coltrane Quartet will perform at the Belleayre Music Festival in Highmount on August 5.
Nightlife Highlights: Mike & Ruthy Single Release Party June 28, 2011
Folk rock due Mike & Ruthy perform at their single release party on July 29 in Woodstock.
Nightlife Highlights: Blues at Boscobel June 28, 2011
A lineup of Guy Davis, Christine Ohlman, and more at Garrison’s Blues at Boscobel on July 18.
Nightlife Highlights: Green River Festival June 28, 2011
Green River Festival features Emmylou Harris and the Old 97’s in Greenfield, Massachusetts on July 16 and 17.
Nightlife Highlights: Peter Sando June 28, 2011
Peter Sando plays an acoustic set at American Glory BBQ on July 8.
Dar Williams: Big Sister June 28, 2011
Peter Aaron sits down with pop folk singer/songwriter Dar Williams.
Religious Reeding May 28, 2011
Peter Aaron interviews Don Byron, who will bring his clarinet, and New Gospel Quintet to Club Helsinki and the Falcon in early June.
Nightlife Highlights: Todd Rundgren May 27, 2011
Rock legend Todd Rundgren will perform at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on June 23.
Nightlife Highlights: Music from Marcata May 27, 2011
A great lineup of up-and-coming Hudson Valley bands, including SuddenLand, Breakfast in Fur, My Other Friend, and others will perform at Market Market Cafe on June 16th.
Nightlife Highlights: Noveller May 27, 2011
Noveller will perform at the Spotty Dog in Hudson on June 13.
Nightlife Highlights: Tannahill Weavers May 27, 2011
The Tannahill Weavers will perform at the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling on June 10.
Nightlife Highlights: Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo May 27, 2011
Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo at the Rosendale Cafe on June 10.
Sonic Rendezvous: 2011 Summer Music Festivals May 27, 2011
Peter Aaron guides you through upcoming summer music festivals, from bluegrass to techno, indie, folk and jazz.
Nightlife Highlights: BOMB Fest April 29, 2011
With everything from Snoop to Coheed, this festival is a must-do on the summer festival circuit. May 28 and 29th.
Nightlife Highlights: Phish April 29, 2011
Jam legends will electrify Bethel Woods on May 27-29, at 7:30pm.
Nightlife Highlights: Joe Magnarelli and Peter Bernstein April 29, 2011
Joe Magnarelli and Peter Bernstein will create jazz magic at the Athens Cultural Center on May 21st, at 7pm.
Friends of Music Finale with Cliff Eberhardt April 29, 2011
The Friends of Music holds final performances in May at Orange County Community College’s Morrison Mansion.
Nightlife Highlights: Black Violin April 29, 2011
Black Violin to perform at the Hudson Opera House, May 9 at 7pm.
Relatively Speaking April 28, 2011
He was there for Beatles, Ed Sullivan, and Elvis. Chronogram’s Peter Aaron talks with a living legend who’s seen it all.
Of Montreal at Vassar College March 31, 2011
Peter Aaron reviews music by the award-winning Georgie-based band, Of Montreal.
Nightlife Highlights, April 2011 March 31, 2011
Upcoming musical events including Judy Collins, chamber music, Mother Fletcher, Will Oldham, and more. Reviewed by Music Editor Peter Aaron.
Leap of Faith: John Esposito’s Sunjump Records March 31, 2011
Marlborough-raised John Esposito talks with Chronogram’s Peter Aaron about the challenges, faith, and love that goes into starting a record label in the turbulent economic atmosphere.
Gritty and Greasy: Pete Levin Trio March 24, 2011
The Pete Levin Trio at the Falcon in Marlboro on March 26.
Cycledelic Summit: Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd at Mass MoCA February 28, 2011
Accompanied by singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, Joe Boyd will read from “White Bicycles,” his revelation rich 2006 memoir, at MassMOCA on March 12.
Nightlife Highlights, March 2011 February 25, 2011
Natalie Merchant promotes her new studio album, Irish jam nights, Saw Doctors at the Chance, and the Pete Levin Trio play the Rosendale Cafe.
Girl from the North Country: Melissa Auf der Maur February 25, 2011
Montreal native, and former bassist of the Smashing Pumpkins and Hole tells Peter Aaron where her musical roots come from, her love of the dark room, and her first run-in with Billy Corgan.
Sweet Home Chicago January 31, 2011
Blues legend Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson to play the Town Crier Cafe in Pawling.
CD Review: Alan Shulman January 28, 2011
Peter Aaron reviews the late Alan Shulman’s “Works for Cello.”
Nightlife Highlights: February 2011 January 28, 2011
Previews of upcoming shows by Shana Falana, Bob Lusk, “Nixon in China,” Kane Brothers Blues Band, and Loretta Lynn.
Sower of Seeds: Pete Seeger January 28, 2011
Peter Aaron sits down for a conversation with Pete Seeger at his home in Beacon.
On the Cover: Pete Seeger January 27, 2011
A photograph of Pete Seeger outside his home in Beacon taken by Fionn Reilly.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings at the Bardavon December 31, 2010
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings will perform at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on January 23.
Nightlife Highlights December 30, 2010
Previews of upcoming shows by The Toasters, Ben Allison, Frank London’s “A Night in the Old Marketplace”, “Gamville”, and Claire Lynch.
Nightlife Highlights, December 2010 November 23, 2010
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Jack DeJohnette: Beating Heart November 23, 2010
Peter Aaron talks to one of jazz’s greatest living drummers, Jack DeJohnette.
Mr. Downtown October 28, 2010
Bard College presents “An Evening with John Zorn” at the Richard B. Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater in Annandale-on-Hudson on November 12.
Nightlife Highlights, November 2010 October 26, 2010
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Making History October 26, 2010
Peter Aaron talks to Rasputina’s Melora Creager about the influence of her Columbia County home on the band’s latest release, “Sister Kinderhook.”
Nightlife Highlights, October 2010 September 28, 2010
Rufus Reid Quintet, Natalie Merchant with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Scott Sharrard Band, and more.
Capital One: Kingston September 28, 2010
Peter Aaron profiles historic Kingston, New York State’s first capital.
Declaration of Independents August 27, 2010
The Jim Jarmusch curated All Tommorow’s Parties festival hits Kutsher’s in Monticello Labor Day Weekend.
Saugerties: Cool & Quaint August 27, 2010
Peter Aaron profiles the northern Ulster County town of Saugerties.
CD Review: The David Arner Trio--"Out/In the Open" August 27, 2010
A review of The David Arner Trio’s “Out/In the Open.”
ReadNex Poetry Squad August 27, 2010
Peter Aaron profiles the Hudson Valley words-and-music crew ReadNex Poetry Squad.
Catskill Mountain Breakdown July 28, 2010
The Bethel Woods Bluegrass Jamboree takes place at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on August 22 at 2pm.
Best of Both Worlds July 27, 2010
Girl rocker Tracy Bonham talks about her music career, moving from the West Coast to Woodstock, and forthcoming motherhood.
Phase Me, Bro June 28, 2010
Steve Reich, NEXUS, and So Percussion perform at Maverick Hall on July 31.
Maximum Pickup May 25, 2010
Jeff Beck will play at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston on June 17 at 7:30pm.
Nightlife Highlights: May 2010 April 26, 2010
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
A Higher Voice April 26, 2010
Peter Aaron talks with Dawn Upshaw, world-renowned soprano, on her storied career and directing the Vocal Arts Program at Bard College.
Truck America Festival March 29, 2010
The Truck America Festival takes place April 30 through May 2 in Big Indian.
Nightlife Highlights: April 2010 March 25, 2010
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Play Misty For Me March 25, 2010
Marilyn Crispell talks about her new, fully improvised CD “One Dark Night I left My Silent House” (2010).
Poster Children February 25, 2010
Newburgh documentarian Merle Becker’s American Artifact is an eye-dazzling look at the first 50 years of American rock-’n’-roll posters and the lives, methods, and attitudes of their creators.
Nightlife Highlights: March 2010 February 25, 2010
Uncle Rock, Sam Bush, Robbie Fulks, High Meadow Benefit with John Medeski, Donald M. Pearson Memorial Organ Recital.
David Greenberger: The Museum of Moments February 25, 2010
David Greenberger talks about his new CD “Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time” (2009), in which he chronicles the elderly in music backed monologues.
Nightlife Highlights: February 2010 January 26, 2010
Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Natalie Merchant Profile January 26, 2010
Peter Aaron talks with Natalie Merchant about her new record “Leave Your Sleep.”
Cool Fusion December 28, 2009
Larry Coryell will perform at the Rosendale Café on January 29 at 8pm and the Ritz Theater in Newburgh, as part of the Tom Humphrey Guitar Series, on January 30 at 8pm.
Nightlife Highlights for January 2010 December 22, 2009
Gigs handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Little Sammmy Davis December 22, 2009
A profile of Little Sammy Davis, one of the few remaining authentic Mississippi bluesmen.
Nightlife Highlights November 25, 2009
Nightlife Highlights handpicked for your listening pleasure by Peter Aaron.
WGXC: Change in the Air November 24, 2009
WGXC, which takes to the air next year, will broadcast community radio to over 78,000 listeners in Greene and Columbia Counties and beyond, holding forth at 90.7 FM with 3,300 watts of power.
Parting Shot: John Foxx November 02, 2009
On Saturday, November 7, John Foxx will visit BCB Gallery in Hudson to read from “The Quiet Man” at 3pm, with a reception to follow from 6 to 8pm.
Nightlife Highlights October 29, 2009
Cool shows to attend in the Hudson Valley handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
GuitarTown September 29, 2009
The Woodstock Luthiers Showcase plugs in at locations around Woodstock.
Turn Once More to Sunday's Clown August 31, 2009
Alt-rock fest All Tomorrow’s Parties returns to Kutsher’s in Monticello.
Table of Song August 28, 2009
Peter Aaron profiles the Georgian song-and-dance troupe Dancing Crane.
Nightlife Highlights: August 2009 July 27, 2009
Handpicked by Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Revival Meeting: The Chrome Cranks July 27, 2009
Music editor Peter Aaron writes about the Chrome Cranks’ reunion.
Of Sound Mind April 28, 2009
Peter Aaron listens deeply to accordionist and composer Pauline Oliveros.
On The Down Low March 30, 2009
Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Kill All Your Darlings, talks with Peter Aaron. On April 6, Sante will lecture at Vassar College, part of its Public Voices series.
Take it to the Bridge February 27, 2009
Joseph Bertolozzi has transformed the Mid-Hudson Bridge into the most unlikely, and possibly the world’s largest, percussion instrument
Totally Wired January 29, 2009
Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute’s new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Man of the World: Angus Martin January 27, 2009
Peter Aaron attends a live performance of Angus Martin at The Black Swan turned tropical paradise.
Bad Girl Hits Bearsville January 27, 2009
Ronnie Spector talks to Peter Aaron about her one-woman, multimedia show at the Bearsvile Theater.
Familiar Stranger January 27, 2009
Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel come to Albany’s Palace Theater.
The DIY Da Vinci: Brian Dewan December 29, 2008
A profile of retro-futurist local musician Brian Dewan.
Avant Goddess November 24, 2008
Peter Aaron talks with jazz legend Carla Bley about the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, her Remarkable Big Band, and the culmination of “Christmas all year ’round.”
CD Reviews: Noah Creshevsky/If, Bwana October 27, 2008
Peter Aaron reviews Favorite Encores by Noah Creshevsky and If, Bwana.
Vindication Stomp October 27, 2008
Peter Aaron talks to Kelleigh McKenzie about the banjo, the stomp box, and her debut album Chances.
CD Review: Marilyn Crispell September 29, 2008
Peter Aaron reviews Marilyn Crispell’s latest album Vignettes.
Not Fade Away September 29, 2008
Peter Aaron talks to Todd Mack, founder of FODFest (the “Friends of Danny” festival) which remembers musician and journalist Daniel Pearl on what would have been his 45th birthday this month.
Playing for Keeps August 25, 2008
Whole lotta impersonatin’ going on: Peter Aaron profiles Elvis impersonator Joseph John Eigo.
Preservation Society July 28, 2008
Peter Aaron profiles Vladimir Pleshakov, owner of The Pleshakov Piano Museum, which houses restored pianos that date back to the 1700s.
Gravity's Rainbow June 25, 2008
“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.
Rock's First Lady March 26, 2008
Rock legend Genya Ravan discusses her long and winding career in the music business.
Child's Play February 25, 2008
Jam-band Madeski, Martin and Wood are making music the whole family can enjoy.
CD Review: Mike & Ruthy January 25, 2008
Michael and Ruth Ungar spent their Honeymoon in the recording studio making a beautiful album as a duo.
Ramble On January 25, 2008
Triumphing over many hardships, local legend Levon Helm continues to make great music.
The Enchanted Dollhouse December 21, 2007
Blueberry is Snyder’s ongoing “band” concept, a project that has released three albums of sultry, psychedelic pop-soul on the singer and multi-instrumentalist’s own The Shaz Records.
CD Review: The New Friends of Rhythm November 27, 2007
The New Friends of Rhythm is one of the few big jazz bands that successfully played classical adaptions. Listen to this collection.
CD Review: Manhattan New Music Project September 25, 2007
The first of two CDs recorded to document the 30-year career of Paul Nash, before his death in 2005.
Talent with Taste September 25, 2007
A family run coffee shop where you can get a side of blues, hip hop, or hard rock with your apple crisp.
Gutter Rock Girl August 27, 2007
Weird isn’t the word for this spectacle; the Laura Pepitone Show and her infinite energy are almost too much—dizzying, inspiring, funny, and extremely entertaining, in one surreal serving.
CD Review: Samuel Claiborne August 02, 2007
Samuel Claiborne has certainly had no shortage of pain and spiritual trials from which to draw for the sparse, fathomless, and profoundly moving solo piano improvisations in The Annunciation.
Back to the Future August 02, 2007
This is TONTO, which, at a height of five feet and occupying 300 square feet, is the world’s largest analog synthesizer and the very one played by Stevie Wonder.
CD Review: The Last Conspirators August 01, 2007
Tim Livingston is back with The Last Conspirators, a quartet that brings a welcome, Information Age crunch to the tough, melodic sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s Brit-punk.
Old As the Hills July 25, 2007
Part of a burgeoning scene of new, tradition-conscious American acoustic artists, The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times.
Hunger Mountain Boys June 27, 2007
The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times, instead taking the music back to its 1920s and ’30s rural, string-band roots.
CD Review (July)--Poem Rocket June 21, 2007
Formed in New York City around the core, husband-and-wife duo of Michael Peters (vocals, guitar) and Sandra Gardner (bass, vocals, keyboards), Poem Rocket has been plying its highly individual brand of electroacoustic, post-punk art pop for nearly 15 years.
CD Review: Sheri Bauer-Mayorga and Lincoln Mayorga June 21, 2007
This 20-track collection by the Valatie husband-and-wife duo of Sheri Bauer-Mayorga and Lincoln Mayorga is the aural equivalent of a Ken Burns documentary, a broad-scoped survey of American popular music.
Bang in the Berkshires June 21, 2007
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival offers a full schedule of performances by composers from America and abroad, as well as workshops, live improvisation, children’s events, master classes, music business seminars, free gallery recitals, and more.
Po Better Blues May 30, 2007
“I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee’s records as some of the most important records ever made,” says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett.
Black Dirt Blowout April 30, 2007
It’s 2007 and there’s a war on. If you’re a teen or twenty-something with a brain, what do you want, The Cranberries?
Lessons From Legends March 29, 2007
Prior to the Homespun Tapes’ there hadn’t really been any way to learn how to play folk music other than by transcribing it by ear from old 78s or by getting enlightenment firsthand.
Book Review: Up is Up but So is Down March 29, 2007
Anyone who spent time in lower Manhattan during the years covered in editor Brandon Stosuy’s rich and riveting anthology, Up Is Up But So Is Down, will tell you the same thing: Their city is gone.
On the Cover December 28, 2006
David Perry, _Chronogram_’s art director, has a penchant for designing elaborate calendars.
Whitewash December 28, 2006
Painter Tona Wilson’s latest paintings, an homage to German Expressionism, are being shown through January 21 at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson.
Juice-Box Jamboree December 27, 2006
In 2001, ex-Del Fuegos frontman Dan Zanes kicked off the kids’ music revival. Local acts like Dog on Fleas, Uncle Rock, and Elizabeth Mitchell are furthering the renaissance, crafting tunes even adults can love.
Tales of the Jazz Age December 26, 2006
Peter Aaron profiles Rich Conaty, host of “The Big Broadcast,” radio’s long-running program of 1920s and ’30s jazz and pop.