(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Eilen Jewell, self-styled “queen of the minor key,” brings her blend of noirish rockabilly, surf-tinged country, retro-rock and jazzy folk to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, November 15, 2012, at 8pm. It is the battered cassette jammed in the tape deck of the getaway car, the music Ida Lupino cues up on…
Club Helsinki Hudson Human Sexual Response November 7, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Judging by how many people stopped me to tell me that they had seen Human Sexual Response in a club somewhere 30 years ago, I may have been one of the few at Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday night…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Blending 1970s Nubian songs, Western soul, and vintage Sudanese pop, Alsarah and the Nubatones rock Club B-10 at MASS MoCA on Saturday, November 10, 2012, at 8 p.m. Alsarah, a Sudanese-American firecracker, is the leading lady of this extraordinary band bound together by a collective love for Nubian music and the…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – New wave band Human Sexual Response embarks on a rare reunion tour, stopping at Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, at 8pm, on the occasion of the release of Unba Unba, a DVD recording of the band’s past live concert performances. Rasputina warms up the crowd. Best known for the…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Punk-blues power trio Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, which created the musical template upon which Jack White built the White Stripes and which influenced an entire subsequent generation of punk-infused garage rock, comes to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, November 2, 2012, at 9p.m., in support of its new studio album, Meat and…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra, featuring emcee TK Wonder and singer Jennifer Charles, brings its dance-floor-ready trip-hop sounds to MASS MoCA’s Club B-10 on Saturday, November 3, 2012, at 8 p.m. Rounding out drummer and bandleader Perowsky’s funky combo onstage will be David Baron on keyboards and Michael Blake on saxophone. Ben…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, the reggae pioneer who verily coined the genre itself, brings the 50th anniversary tour of his Jamaican outfit, Toots and the Maytals, to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on Sunday, November 4, 2012, at 7pm for an “unplugged acoustic concert.” Earlier this year, the Maytals…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Hagar and Miriam. Judith and Hannah. The Bible is full of stories – often overlooked, underwritten or ignored – about women. The Patriarchs get all the play, but there’s plenty of drama in the stories of the Matriarchs and their sisters and cousins. Which is what motivated songwriter-vocalist-violinist Alicia Jo Rabins…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – It’s a terrible cliche to compare guitar-strumming female singer-songwriters to Joni Mitchell, who sort of broke the mold of the genre about 40-odd years ago, but there’s no two ways about it — innovative UK folk-pop singer-songwriter Laura Marling recalls Mitchell, not only because she sounds like her, but because she…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – From the opening bars of “Assessing the Assessors,” the first track on Not Getting Behind Is The New Getting Ahead, it’s clear that renowned guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Scott Amendola have gone someplace new and different. The duo, which performs at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, October 19, 2012, at 9pm,…
