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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.

Album Reviews

NYC Loft Jazz of the 1970s Comes Alive with “Frequency Equilibrium Koan” by Michael…

Sal Cataldi Feb 23, 2021

CBGB wasn’t the only club/scene to birth a new musical genre in the low-rent, dirty and deliciously dangerous Downtown NYC of the mid- to late-1970s. Alongside the wannabe punks, there were a slew of fiercely talented young jazz…

Book Reviews

Revolver: Novel Gives A New Spin on Lennon

Sal Cataldi Feb 16, 2021

In his debut novel Revolver, Evan Schwartz delves into a playground of fiction popular among music lovers, an alternative history of The Beatles and the late, great John Lennon. From Bryce Zabel’s Once There Was A Way to Larry Kirwan’s…

Artist Profile

Hudson Valley Musicians Tag Team for D.I.Y. Album, The Seed Project

Sal Cataldi Feb 1, 2021

While the COVID-19 quarantine has pretty much killed the live music business, it has only served to radically stimulate every idle musician’s appetite to record. One of the more interesting ventures to come out of this deluge, in concept…

Album Reviews

Ethnic & Electronic Artist Dawoud Unleashes 7 Albums Forged During Quarantine

Sal Cataldi Jan 28, 2021

Dawoud Kringle, aka The Renegade Sufi and God’s Unruly Friends, is one of the more forward-thinking, globally-centric and productive music-makers on the New York scene. The latest evidence is the remarkable cache of seven full-length…

Rock

Levon Helm Featured on Timely Mike Younger single, “Lord of the Fleas”

Sal Cataldi Jan 17, 2021

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Mike Younger has just released a new single just right for these carnivalesque political times, “Lord of the Fleas.” And while the lyrics for this tune were just penned to reflect today’s tumultuous climate, its…

Album Reviews

Hearing Aide: Focus – 50 Years (Anthology 1970 – 1976)

Sal Cataldi Jan 12, 2021

Whether you know it or not, you’ve all heard the band Focus. You know that tune they spin on classic rock radio, in films, ads and during NBA and World Cup telecasts, the one with the demented yodeling and amphetamine shred guitar breaks,…

Artist Profile

Forgotten Genres: The Tielman Brothers & the Instrumental Delights of Indorock

Sal Cataldi Dec 22, 2020

The late, great Edward Van Halen wasn’t the first musician of Indonesian descent to set the world ablaze with his fiery guitar work. That honor goes to The Tielman Brothers, a quartet of Indonesian immigrants to Van Halen’s…

Rock

Steve Earle Joins All-Star 40th Annual Lennon Tribute in NYC Livestream

Sal Cataldi Dec 15, 2020

Theatre Within, the non-profit behind the Annual John Lennon Tribute charity concert since 1981, has announced that its milestone 40th Annual John Lennon Tribute Concert will again offer a free livestream exclusively at…

Film Review

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

Sal Cataldi Dec 4, 2020

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 had created…

Film Review

ZAPPA Documentary: An Artfully Constructed, Comprehensive Introduction

Sal Cataldi Nov 24, 2020

In the gatefold of “Freak Out!,” his stunning double disc debut from 1966, Frank Zappa includes a telling quote from Edgar Varèse, the composer he idolized first and maybe above all others. It’s a creative call to arms…

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