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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

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…

Book Reviews

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…

Album Reviews

The Raybeats’ “The Lost Philip Glass Sessions” Gets First-Ever Vinyl Release on…

Sal Cataldi May 3, 2021

New York City in the 1980s was a creative caldron where anything could happen. Painting, graffiti, performance and emergent video art, film, dance, theater and music of every conceivable genre were blending into one another, often in…

Jam/Progressive

Remembering Malcolm Cecil, Synth Pioneer and Stevie Wonder Producer

Sal Cataldi Apr 2, 2021

On March 28, the music world, and the Hudson Valley’s close knit community of music makers, lost another great one, Malcolm Cecil. The much-traveled musician, producer and Grammy-winning engineer passed away after a long illness in…

Artist Profile

Sarah King Dishes Out Five Wonderfully Uneasy Pieces with The Hour

Sal Cataldi Mar 29, 2021

Singer-songwriter Sarah King has released her debut EP, The Hour, a splendid, soulful voyage to the darkest corners of Americana. It’s the perfect showcase for her show-stopping vocals and gothic bluesy story songs, something…

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