(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound bring their funky brand of world-beat-influenced rock ‘n’ roll to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, July 4, at 8pm. Cebar’s quirky take on bluesy rock with an underpinning of R&B and jump blues, laced with his witty vocals, buzzfeed guitar licks, and gritty percussion raised on African, Latin and Caribbean influences, is like a Midwestern version…
Singer-songwriter rocks it more like Lou Reed than Joni MitchellSuzanne Vega Club Helsinki Hudson Saturday, June 22, 2013 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Suzanne Vega too often gets tagged with the Joni Mitchell brush, as do almost all post-Joni female, guitar-playing, poetic singer-songwriters. It’s unfair to them all but especially so to Vega,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds bring their old-school, horn-inflected soul and R&B to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, May 31, 2013, at 9pm. The Brooklyn-based, eight-piece outfit, fronted by Catskill Mountains native Arleigh Kincheloe aka Sister Sparrow, and featuring her brother Jackson Kincheloe on harmonica and cousin Bram Kincheloe on drums,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Central Vermont Americana group Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck brings its blend of roots-rock and soul to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, May 25, 2013, at 9 pm. The group released its third record, Eden, co-produced by three time Grammy-winning engineer Justin Guip, on March 5, 2013. The group features Bow Thayer…
by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y., May 20, 2013) – You can’t envy James McCartney for his lot as a singer-songwriter. Were he instead a jazz saxophonist, or a classical violinist, or an EDM producer, then at least he’d be staking a musical claim to territory relatively untouched by his very famous father and his somewhat…
(HUDSON, N.Y., May 18, 2013) – The Feelies made it seem like 1977 all over again at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday night, with their lo-fi-before-there-was-such-a-thing-as-lo-fi, twin-guitar indie-rock-before-their-was-such-a-thing-as-indie-rock approach that connected the dots between the power pop of the Beatles on the one hand and the arty new-wave of Talking Heads on the other. It’s…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – There is a rarefied club in rock ‘n’ roll – call them the crown princes of rock: Jakob Dylan, Sean and Julian Lennon, Dhani Harrison, Zak Starkey, and James McCartney. Depending on your point of view, these are either some of the most unfortunate musicians in the world, destined always to pale…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Members of several of the Hudson region’s top bands have joined forces to form a sort of supergroup called the Faux Meek, which will have its live debut at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, May 18, 2013, at 8pm, when it warms up the crowd for slide guitar wizard David Jacobs-Strain. Featuring…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Golem, widely considered one of the best Yiddish-klezmer ensembles on a vibrant, international scene, will perform its unique blend of Eastern European folk and theatre songs as well as original numbers at Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at 8p.m. Led by singer/folklorist/accordionist Annette Ezekiel, Golem performs Yiddish folk and…
AIMEE MANN Club Helsinki Hudson Hudson, N.Y. April 18, 2013 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Aimee Mann is hard to pin down. She’s a singer-songwriter, for sure, in that she writes her own material and sings – both very well. But her songs are not singer-songwritery in a folky sense. Her…
