Lee Ranaldo and the Dust Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. October 8, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Lee Ranaldo and the Dust – with drummer Steve Shelley, thereby essentially half of Sonic Youth – displayed one musical path beyond Sonic Youth in a terrific hour-long set at Club Helsinki Hudson on Tuesday…
Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y., August 22, 2013) – A friend may have said it best when he turned to me midway through Nick Lowe’s superb solo concert at Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday night and asked, “Is this what it would have been like if Buddy Holly had lived?” Probably. Mix in a…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Bobby Previte’s Voodoo Orchestra North made its debut on Monday night at Club Helsinki Hudson with a scintillating musical journey based on Miles Davis’s landmark jazz-funk recording “Bitches Brew.” The group is due back at Helsinki next Monday night, August 26, 2013, and hopefully this series will become a regular gig, bringing…
Chuck Prophet Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. Saturday, August 10, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – For those who perennially need their faith restored that rock ‘n’ roll music can be intelligent and entertaining, thoughtful and fun, Chuck Prophet comes around at least once a year to demonstrate that it can and does,…
Singer-songwriter rocks it more like Lou Reed than Joni MitchellSuzanne Vega Club Helsinki Hudson Saturday, June 22, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Suzanne Vega too often gets tagged with the Joni Mitchell brush, as do almost all post-Joni female, guitar-playing, poetic singer-songwriters. It’s unfair to them all but especially so to Vega,…
by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y., May 20, 2013) – You can’t envy James McCartney for his lot as a singer-songwriter. Were he instead a jazz saxophonist, or a classical violinist, or an EDM producer, then at least he’d be staking a musical claim to territory relatively untouched by his very famous father and his somewhat…
(HUDSON, N.Y., May 18, 2013) – The Feelies made it seem like 1977 all over again at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday night, with their lo-fi-before-there-was-such-a-thing-as-lo-fi, twin-guitar indie-rock-before-their-was-such-a-thing-as-indie-rock approach that connected the dots between the power pop of the Beatles on the one hand and the arty new-wave of Talking Heads on the other. It’s…
AIMEE MANN Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. April 18, 2013 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Aimee Mann is hard to pin down. She’s a singer-songwriter, for sure, in that she writes her own material and sings – both very well. But her songs are not singer-songwritery in a folky sense. Her…
BRAD MEHLDAUD and CHRIS THILE MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Saturday, April 13, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – There was one perfect moment in the unusual duo concert featuring pianist Brad Mehldau and mandolinist-singer Chris Thile at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday night. It occurred right at the beginning of…
GRAHAM PARKER and the RUMOUR The Egg Albany, N.Y. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (ALBANY, N.Y.) – I don’t really care about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – who’s in it, who’s not – but one thing is for sure: the fact that Graham Parker and the Rumour — who…
