(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Upstate New York roots-rockers the Felice Brothers, who have drawn widespread acclaim and comparisons to the Band and Wilco, will usher in the New Year at Club Helsinki on Saturday, December 31, 2011. The Robots will warm up the crowd. The group’s newest and fourth LP, Celebration, Florida, is an exhilarating amalgamation…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, son of famed alt-country legend Steve Earle, performs at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, December 9, 2011, at 9 p.m. Nashville songstress Tristen warms up the crowd for Earle. Justin Townes Earle won the Best New and Emerging Artist at the 2009 Americana Music Awards. His record,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Rising soul-pop singer-songwriter sensation Kristy Lee, who just garnered the opening slot on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend Leon Russell’s fall tour, performs at Club Helsinki on Friday, November 18, 2011, at 9 pm. The Alabama-bred singer-guitarist has a unique style of music that blends reggae jamming, classic rock, Southern…
Alexis P. Suter CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Hudson, N.Y. ALEXIS P. SUTER BAND Saturday, November 12, 2011 Review by Fiona Breslin (HUDSON, N.Y.) – When it took the stage at Club Helsinki on Saturday night, Brooklyn’s Alexis P. Suter Band looked more like a country-music traveling family band than it did a Brooklyn-based blues group. But…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Indie rock legends the Feelies, who updated the sound of the Velvet Underground and like their forebears, inspired a whole new generation of minimalist art-rock guitar bands in the late 1970s, bring their historic reunion tour to MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8 p.m. Noted for…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Austin-by-way-of-Nashville progressive bluegrass outfit the Greencards, Grammy Award nominees noted for touring with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, perform at Club Helsinki on Friday, November 4, 2011, at 9 pm. The evening before, Helsinki presents Twenty Thousand Roads, a tribute to Americana pioneer Gram Parsons and celebration of what would be his…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Pieta Brown, whose father, Greg Brown, was instrumental in establishing the sound and approach of the new-folk movement growing out of the 1970s singer-songwriter revolution — including founding Red House Records, home to some of the leading lights of the new-folk movement, including Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson — brings…
by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., February 22, 2002) – Steven Bernstein’s quartet, Sex Mob, usually gets lumped in with the downtown-jazz avant-garde. This is in part because Bernstein and his Sex Mob bandmates are stalwarts of that scene, often found playing in avant-garde nightclubs like the Knitting Factory and Tonic, and because they incorporate…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriters Kris Delmhorst and Jeffrey Foucault, both sporting new recordings, perform a double-bill at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, September 30, 2011 at 9. Known mostly for her rootsy, original Americana-flavored folk-pop songs, nothing in the music of Kris Delmhorst immediately suggests a deep affinity with proto-punk new-wave masters The Cars, and…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Ecuadorian-Floridian pop experimentalist Roberto Carlos Lange, a new generation’s answer to Tom Zé, performs his gauzy electronic soundscapes under the nom-de-band Helado Negro at Club Helsinki in Hudson, N.Y., on Saturday, July 30, at 9 p.m. Helado Negro’s alternate universe features lilting melodies, purred Spanish lyrics and beats that dance from tranquil…
