Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Bard College April 7, 2013 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Writer Neil Gaiman and pop-rock cabaret artist Amanda Palmer must be one of the most charming and talented creative couples on the contemporary arts scene, based upon their winning, entertaining,…
I hope to lay down some words soon on some or all of these, but in the meantime, here’s a glimpse of what I’ve been listening to repeatedly so far this year (as of mid-March 2013): New albums Yo La Tengo, Fade Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away David Bowie, The…
CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Amy Helm Saturday, March 2, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – No sooner did one think he had Amy Helm pegged – “Aha, she’s at heart a gospel singer,” for example, after one number – than did she turn on a dime and another roots-music tributary of American music came…
There is an exhibition of photographs by Allen Ginsberg, taken over the course of five decades, many of them portraits of his Beat era friends and colleagues, including William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, running currently at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery. I paid a visit to the show – “Beat…
CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Martin Sexton Friday, February 1, 2013 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Talk about your one-man band! As Martin Sexton demonstrated in his first set at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday night, sometimes less is more – as in, one musician who can do it all. No matter how…
Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – There wasn’t quite as much emphasis on bass as one may have expected from an event titled “Home Bass: Four Strings, Four Hearts,” a concert to benefit the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, which is building affordable passive solar townhouses in this quiet but needful…
by Seth Rogovoy Last week, I began re-viewing “The Sopranos” from the beginning, for the first time since I originally made my way through the series – not in real broadcast time but on Netflix DVDs (remember those?) as they became available. And I’m here to tell you two things: the show is even better…
by Seth Rogovoy I keep hoping that I will find the time to write about these recordings, but if I wait for that to happen, the change of the calendar year will most likely come and go and it will really be old news and no one will care what my favorite albums of 2012…
Natalia Zukerman has always combined the pop songcraft of Shawn Colvin, the rootsy, organic yearning of Lucinda Williams, and the fierce, funky determination of Ani DiFranco, and given these elements a unique twist with her unmistakably personal and intimate voice. Never has all this been heard to better effect than on her new, two-disc live…
CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Matisyahu Monday, December 17, 2012 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Expectations were somewhat low going into Matisyahu’s “Acoustic Evening with…” performance at Club Helsinki Hudson on Monday night. Was this to be yet another case of a formerly lively performer now forced by a combination of the harsh…
