(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson Valley-based roots-rockers the Felice Brothers play Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, November 24, 2012, at 9p.m. The quintet, often compared to its Catskills-based predecessors, The Band, for its fusion of rock, country, folk and gospel, has performed at festivals including Bonnaroo, All Points West, and Newport Folk, and has opened shows…
(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…
(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…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) –Lake Street Dive brings it organic classic rock and soul sounds to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, October 26, 2012, at 9 p.m. Fronted by vocalist Rachael Price, who boasts a powerful jazz-tinged voice in the vein of such 1960s female rock icons as Janis Joplin and Grace Slick, the quartet puts out…
(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,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – With bands like Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers leading the way, old-fashioned, boisterous folk-rock is making a big comeback. With its new recording, The Way We Move, Langhorne Slim & The Law stake their claim to the contemporary folk-rock pantheon. The upstate New York group performs at Club Helsinki Hudson…
by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Acclaimed singer-songwriter Dar Williams performs at Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, September 13, 2012, at 8 p.m. Williams is known for her incisive story-songs; her strongly drawn characters; her portrayals of contemporary women’s lives and struggles; and her deft twists of phrase. Her recordings and occasional choice of cover…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – As soon as he opens his mouth and sings, the relationship is unmistakable. Like his father, Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson has a unique, reedy vocal instrument with a natural twang and vibrato, and a sense of ease with gliding melismas – one note flowing into another on the same syllable. Lukas Nelson,…
