BARDAVON OPERA HOUSE GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR Sunday, November 25, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.) – Two great English R&B-fueled rock bands reunited on Sunday night with original members after years – decades in one case — of layoffs. Over in London, original bassist Bill Wyman and long-ago guitarist Mick Taylor…
CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Felice Brothers with Hunger Mountain Boys Saturday, November 24, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – It’s too bad the Felice Brothers have been hyped to the heavens as the second coming of The Band or more, because that’s an impossible comparison to live up to. It’s not fair to…
By Seth Rogovoy Alfred Hitchcock’s reputation as one of the greatest film directors of all time is safely in the can, so all that’s left to deal with is the man himself. Two new films — “Hitchcock,” a biopic starring Anthony Hopkins, and the HBO film “The Girl,” about Hitch’s troubled relationship with actress Tippi…
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…
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Toots and the Maytals Sunday, November 4, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Some fifty years into his career, one can’t begrudge Toots Hibbert the desire to kick back and be casual onstage. Which is just what the reggae pioneer is doing on his current acoustic tour, which…
Tommy Sharp State Street Breakdown Tommy Sharp’s debut album, State Street Breakdown, introduces an artist of multiple talents: a singer with raw, organic power and achy vulnerability; a songwriter infused with the sounds and lessons of classic rock, from the garage to the top of the pop charts; and a guitarist who wields the sounds…
Mahaiwe 2012 Gala An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin October 14, 2012 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – I’m not a great fan of Broadway show tunes or “the Great American Songbook,” but that’s apparently partly because so few performers render it like Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin did on Sunday…
Review by Seth Rogovoy Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood (2007) is probably one of the best films of the past quarter-century – probably one of the 100 best films of all time. So anything he does subsequently will have a hard time measuring up to what may be seen as his masterpiece. The…
Review by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – While it may be lost on the average or casual moviegoer, there has been a revolution in the film industry over the last decade or two in terms of how movies are made, shown, and distributed. Just as in other art forms and modes of business and communication,…
by Seth Rogovoy For those who think the rock concept album is a thing of the past, for those who fear that in the age of the single download, the big statement is no longer the province of pop, take heart. With The Suburbs, a glorious song cycle that is novelistic in scope, the contemporary…
