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In an alternate reality, Jake Xerxes Fussell would be the unassuming face of Americana music. In place of omnipresent beards, false bravado, antiquated wide-brimmed hats, whiskey-soaked vocals, and reheated lyrics about an America…

About six weeks ago, Graham Nash fell and broke his patella in New York City. One knee surgery later, the 83-year-old Nash is using a cane to walk and has to keep his braced right leg straight. For most octogenarians, this might mean some…

There were two major lessons learned on Sunday of Saratoga Jazz Fest 2025. First, don’t sleep on the acts that play the smaller Charles R. Wood Discovery Stage (I’d been told this for years and it was spot on). The Discovery Stage…

The Saturday schedule for Saratoga Jazz Fest at SPAC was full of artists who shared something in common: a willingness to incorporate a wide variety of influences that push at the boundaries of any one genre. From vocal jazz to…

It’s unclear whether record collector rock is an actual genre, but it might be the best descriptor for Ithaca’s Material Objects. The trio released In Revision, their first full length, earlier this month on Resident Recordings.…

Downstairs in the Bearsville Theater, there’s a short corridor decorated in fitting fashion: framed album covers of all the Bearsville Records releases from the 1970s adorn the hallway. It recalls an era when Todd Rundgren was one of…

The Bongos, founding fathers of the Hoboken pop scene of the 1980s, will cross state lines and take the stage at the Bearsville Theatre on May 30 to celebrate the CD release of The Shroud of Touring: Live in 1985. Originally taped…

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…