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Indie legends Panda Bear and Built to Spill top the billing for the annual Woodsist Festival, which returns to Accord, NY’s Arrowood Farm Brewery on Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21, 2025. The carefully curated festival,…

The further we get from the 1960s, the more we rely on the family trees of legendary bands to keep the music alive. On Friday, April 25 at the Bearsville Theatre, the Terrapin Family Band, joined by special guest star and jam harpist…

For the first of three weekend shows at the Bearsville Theatre, Jeff Tweedy performed unplugged highlights from his Wilco and solo catalog, along with three newly penned and unrecorded songs. Tweedy’s hour and a half, sold-out concert…

What does the son of an Allman Brothers bassist, a late-60s member of The Grateful Dead, and a studio guitar foil for Dickie Betts have in common? All are members of Live Dead and Brothers, a group that pays tribute to the golden era of…

Farm Aid 2024 was a rousing success, as tens of thousands of fans packed Saratoga Performing Arts Center for a long day of music from more than a dozen artists. Adding in the musicians, backup singers and dancers on stage, nearly 100…

Some early evening power outages on night two of Tedeschi Trucks Band (TTB) at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) were no match for the electrifying blues of Susan Tedeschi’s voice and her husband Derek Trucks’ nuclear-in-scale slide…

Dead & Co’s residency at the Sphere in Vegas may be over for now, but the music of the Grateful Dead most certainly hasn’t faded away from concert stages across the country as myriad tribute, cover, and legacy acts continue to perform…

Sun Ra Arkestra band leader and saxophonist Marshall Allen has lived on Earth for a century, but on Saturday night at Opus 40, he pointed to the sky and asked the sold-out crowd “why can’t we go somewhere there?” suggesting he’s still not…

Caffè Lena has been a continuously operating folk coffee house since 1960 and Tom Rush has been a continuously performing folk musician for just about as long. That certainly made Rush, who released his first album in 1962 and recorded for…

In a brief preface to Saturday’s performance at VBI Theatre of Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie, 84-year-old free jazz legend Joe McPhee told the crowd that 'no plan was the plan' and that those in attendance would enjoy a…