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Bio: Sal Cataldi is a musician, writer and former entertainment publicist living in the Hudson Valley and NYC. He is leader of the band Spaghetti Eastern Music (first gig was at the CBGB gallery in 2004) and member of the ensembles Guitars A Go Go, Vapor Vespers and spaceheater. He is also the host of “Reading In Funktamental” on WGXC 90.7 FM/Wave Farm, a monthly show/podcasts where he speaks to the authors of the books on music, many that he reviews here at NYSMusic.com

Features

The Band’s Talented and Troubled Richard Manuel Profiled in New Biography

Sal Cataldi Jun 6, 2025

No group may have shifted the direction of rock music more radically than The Band did at the close of the ‘60s. With their 1968 debut, Music from Big Pink, the Canadian-American quintet single-handedly put an end to the abstraction…

News

Upstate Films’ Sonic Wave Series To Showcase Acclaimed Documentary ‘American Hardcore’…

Sal Cataldi May 31, 2025

Upstate Films' Sonic Wave, its popular Monday night series dedicated to great films about music, will mark the 15th anniversary of one of the most influential documentaries about punk rock with a special screening and discussion of…

Interviews

Interview: Author Walter Kolosky on the Mahavishnu Orchestra

Sal Cataldi May 10, 2025

John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra were, alongside Miles Davis, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, the mightiest of the Four Horsemen of Jazz Fusion. When he burst on the scene in 1971 with this band,…

Electronic

Wave Farm Presents First Four-Screen Presentation of Award-Winning Brian Eno Documentary Coxsackie’s…

Sal Cataldi Apr 16, 2025

On May 29 at 7 pm, Wave Farm, the internationally-renowned Hudson Valley-based transmission arts non-profit, will host a one-of-a-kind event to support its popular radio arm, WGXC-FM 90.7 – the first four-screen presentation of director…

Interviews

Interview: Pete Caigan Relaunches Bearsville’s Legendary Utopia Studios

Sal Cataldi Mar 20, 2025

Woodstock and its neighboring hamlet of Bearsville have long been home to some of the biggest names in music and the studios that produced some of rock’s finest albums. In 2024, one of its most famous recording studios roared back…

Features

MFM’s SoSaLa and Kringle Issue New Releases Stretching the Limits of Jazz & World Music

Sal Cataldi Feb 22, 2025

Musicians for Musicians (MFM) is the name of a New York City-based non-profit advocating for fair treatment of working musicians, especially in the way of payment for live performances. Its membership includes big-name players like jazz…

Show Reviews

Ambient Church Debuts in Hudson Valley with Spirited Performance By Legendary Laraaji

Sal Cataldi Jan 8, 2025

On Sunday, January 5, Kingston’s Old Dutch Church was the site of a singular spectacular for ears, eyes, and soul. That’s when Ambient Church produced its debut Hudson Valley event featuring Ambient music pioneer Laraaji. photo by…

New York Singles

Tryst La Noir Returns with “Dirty & Wild” New Single, “Goddamn!”

Sal Cataldi Dec 26, 2024

The Hudson Valley’s busiest goth triple-threat, musician/DJ/burlesque queen Tryst La Noir, has returned with a new single that’s as “raw, dirty and wild” as love itself, a sonic blast entitled “Goddamn!” Tryst’s latest is…

Show Reviews

Exploratory Power Trio Harriet Tubman Marks 25th Year with Firey Performance at Season Ender for…

Sal Cataldi Dec 9, 2024

For the past quarter century, a trio of future-forward NYC-based musicians have been deftly navigating the boundaries between King Tubby-style dub, Delta Blues, electronica, 70s-styled jazz fusion, metal, ambient, noise- and…

Film Review

Sonny Rollins Breaks a Heel and Makes Cinema History at Opus 40

Sal Cataldi Dec 4, 2024

In 1986, Bob Mugge, the foremost documentarian of music giants, decided to make a film about jazz’s greatest living improviser, the “Saxophone Colossus” himself, Sonny Rollins. Prior to tackling the mighty Rollins, Mugge…

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