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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.

Alternative/Indie

Eclectic Global Music Fest ‘Sound Waves’ Begins August 5 at White Feather Farm in…

Sal Cataldi Jul 28, 2021

Sound Waves at White Feather Farm is a new global music series that will be held Thursdays, from August 5 – September 23, at Broken Wing Barn in Saugerties. The open-minded line-up will present world-class artists in genres ranging…

Book Reviews

Book Review: Ronnie James Dio’s Long-Awaited “Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography”

Sal Cataldi Jul 27, 2021

It makes perfect sense that the irrepressible Ronnie James Dio would be the one to tell his life story in a book completed and released 11 years after his death! If there’s one thing this book demonstrates, it’s that the tiny but mighty…

Album Reviews

Surf’s Up on latest from Rochester Guitarist Greg Townson, “Off and Running!”

Sal Cataldi Jul 21, 2021

Rochester twang bar king, Greg Townson, is back with another super fine collection of surf guitar instrumentals perfect for the hazy days of our post-COVID lockdown summer. Called Off and Running! (High Tide Recordings), it features a…

Blues/Jazz

Women Highlight NY Guitar Festival Tribute to Classical Great Julian Bream

Sal Cataldi Jul 17, 2021

The NY Guitar Festival online performance series Remembering Julian Bream is adding fresh perspective on the works and personal impact on a generation of players of the recently departed classical guitar great. The…

Book Reviews

Summer Reading- Easy-Listening Acid Trip: An Elevator Ride Through ‘60s Psychedelic Pop

Sal Cataldi Jul 4, 2021

With his 2004 book, Elevator Music, Joseph Lanza laid out a lovingly comprehensive history of the much-maligned, mood-altering musical genre also known as Easy-Listening. Lanza’s treatise was ballsy in that it made the entirely logical…

Book Reviews

The White Label Promo Preservation Society: 100 Flop Albums You Ought to Know

Sal Cataldi Jun 26, 2021

You will know them by their wrists. These are old school music lovers. The obsessive Boomers who spent way too much of their youth flipping through tons of heavy vinyl, the literal and figurative. In used record and…

Bethel

Mike Greenblatt talks latest book, “Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm”

Sal Cataldi Jun 21, 2021

He went to Woodstock ’69… and he took the brown acid. Fifty years later, veteran music journo Mike Greenblatt decided to put it all down in a book, one of the most personal, soulful and informative chronicles of this…

Book Reviews

Book Review: Joel Selvin Dissects Rock-n-Roll High School LA-style in “Hollywood Eden”

Sal Cataldi May 27, 2021

One of rock journalism’s most experienced, insightful and productive writers, Joel Selvin, has created a fresh take on the telling of the birth of L.A. pop and the California dream of the ‘60s with his latest book, Hollywood Eden: Electric…

Album Reviews

“RAM ON” – a 50th Anniversary Tribute to Paul & Linda McCartney’s NYC-Made…

Sal Cataldi May 22, 2021

In May 1971, when Paul McCartney teamed with his wife Linda for his second solo album, Ram, the critics greeted the occasion with guns drawn. To many fans and music journos, McCartney was viewed as “the man who broke up the…

Book Reviews

The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life

Sal Cataldi May 9, 2021

Rock-and-roll memoirs are a hit-or-miss proposition. For every surprisingly thoughtful offering (think Keith Richards’ Life or The Real Frank Zappa Book), there are a dozen that are nothing more than reams of gossip penned…

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