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Sal Cataldi is a publicist and musician living in New York City and the Hudson Valley. He is President of Cataldi PR and leader of the band Spaghetti Eastern Music and member of the duos Guitars A Go Go, Vapor Vespers and the Hari Karaoke Trio of Doom.

“GET BACK NYC” Benefit for Teen Cancer America Comes to Cutting Room December 6

Sal Cataldi Nov 19, 2021

Given the massive interest in The Beatles’ forthcoming Get Back film, an army of notable downtown artists are heading uptown to the Cutting Room for GET BACK NYC, a local remake/remodel of tunes from the Fab’s classic…

Cate Hamilton Brings Cinematic Pop Sounds to East Berlin

Sal Cataldi Nov 13, 2021

If you dig the lush cinematic pop of Lana Del Ray but wish it came with more heartbreaking lyricism and some heavy R&B vocal chops to deliver it all, you should check out the music of 22-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Cate…

Radio Free Brooklyn Celebrates Changüí and Music of Cuba with free event on November 17

Sal Cataldi Nov 8, 2021

Gianluca Tramontana, music journalist and host of the Radio Free Brooklyn show Sitting with Gianluca, spent 2017–2019 in the mountains around Guantánamo City, Cuba, immersed in—and recording— joyous, all-inclusive and mostly…

Rick Wakeman Brings Gifts of Keyboard Wizardry and Gab to Bearsville Theater

Sal Cataldi Nov 7, 2021

Prog rockers are not a group known for their sense of humor. But there is one towering prog godhead who is top of the heap as an instrumental virtuoso and teller of ridiculously entertaining tales, ones featured in his surprisingly…

Dylan & The Band’s Big Pink Lives On

Sal Cataldi Nov 4, 2021

Make no mistake. Don LaSala is not Conrad Hilton and he’s not in it for the money. Since 1998, LaSala and his wife Sue have been the owners and loving caretakers of one of the holy sites of rock history, the humble…

Tony Falco, Impresario Behind Hudson Valley’s Long-Running Falcon, Passes Away

Sal Cataldi Oct 30, 2021

Hudson Valley lost one of its most tireless champions of music with the passing of Tony Falco, the face behind one of its most vital and varied performance venues, The Falcon. Falco passed away after a six-month battle with…

Musicians and Crew Recall the Glorious 3-Year Run of The Fillmore East in New Oral History

Sal Cataldi Oct 21, 2021

The Fillmore East was called “The Church of Rock and Roll” for good reason; between 1968 and 1971, promoter Bill Graham made music history as he brought the cream of rock royalty to New York audiences in astounding triple-artist bills with…

Acclaimed Guitarist Marc Ribot Unleashes Another Power Solo in his Literary Debut

Sal Cataldi Oct 6, 2021

Throughout his 40-year career, guitarist Marc Ribot has defied expectations and genre boundaries at every turn. He’s been the go-to guy serving up a singular fusion of rootsy Americana meets outré noise jazz meets Cubano swing with…

50th Anniversary Reissue of Eugene McDaniels’ ‘Banned’ Soul Jazz Classic,…

Sal Cataldi Sep 27, 2021

Questlove called him a “genius” and Prince had his music on his party playlist. Living Colour founder Vernon Reid dubbed him a “lodestone for the alternative hip hop of later generations” and singer/activist Aloe Blacc compared his lyrics…

John Burdick Serves Up Dreamy Art Pop on Debut EP “Birds and Birds”

Sal Cataldi Sep 18, 2021

The veteran guitarist and songwriter John Burdick is known in the mid-Hudson Valley as the leader of long-running stumble pop quintet, The Sweet Clementines, as well as for his work as an always tasteful sideman for Old 97’s front man…