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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

Artist Profile

Made in NYC: Frank Zappa, Madison Avenue Ad Man

Sal Cataldi Nov 12, 2020

AMC’s Mad Men is one of TV’s most critically acclaimed series. It’s a stylish recreation of the martini stoked Madison Avenue advertising world of the 1960s, arguably its most creative era. However, there’s one bizarre chapter I would’ve…

Album Reviews

Hearing Aide: Joe Bonamassa ‘Royal Tea’

Sal Cataldi Nov 9, 2020

Utica’s all grown up boy wonder guitar god, Joe Bonamassa, has just unleashed another fantastic solo album, Royal Tea. Recorded at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios. Bonamassa’s latest is a tip of the hat to his…

Interviews

Interview with Keith McQuirter on EPIX’s New Music Docu-series “By Whatever Means Necessary:…

Sal Cataldi Nov 6, 2020

With the May premiere of Laurel Canyon, its two-part series dedicated to the California rock of the ‘60s and ‘70s, EPIX proved it might just be TV’s best new source for music documentaries. With its latest effort, By…

Interviews

Interview: Musicians For Musicians Founder Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Sal Cataldi Nov 5, 2020

Musicians For Musicians Founder Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi is the personification of the activist-musician. He's got the high-energy, super creative foreign import that keeps New York City’s melting pot, eternally percolating. …

Interviews

An Interview with Tom Semioli, co-Founder of Know Your Bass Player

Sal Cataldi Oct 22, 2020

How many bass players does it take to change a lightbulb? None, the pianist can do it with his left hand! It’s an old musician’s joke demonstrating how little respect some give the men and increasingly women who wield the…

Album Reviews

‘Frank Zappa Halloween 81’ – a 7-Hour Slamming Sound Spectacular and a Costume to…

Sal Cataldi Oct 15, 2020

In his all-too-short life, Frank Zappa composed and captured on tape a truly monumental amount of music. Sixty-two official albums in his lifetime, and another 54 since his death in 1993. But as any Zappa fan knows, these could…

Interviews

An Interview with Scott Parker, Host of the Official Frank Zappa Podcast, on the many NYC Halloween…

Sal Cataldi Oct 2, 2020

Frank Zappa. For New Yorkers of a certain vintage, he is as much associated with Halloween as Jack-O-Lanterns and candy corn-induced cavities. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Zappa brought each new aggregation of his mighty Mothers…

Film Review

Film Review: “Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President”

Sal Cataldi Sep 27, 2020

What comes to mind when you think of the Allman Brothers Band? Likely it’s the fact that they were one of the finest live bands in rock history, the artists behind perhaps the genre’s most beloved live album. What likely doesn’t…

Features

40th Annual NYC Lennon Tribute Concert to Stream Free with All-Star Lineup

Sal Cataldi Sep 25, 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 will be streamed for free exclusively at LennonTribute.org, on what would…

Film Review

Film Review: Meeting the Beatles in India

Sal Cataldi Sep 9, 2020

In February of 1968, The Beatles pulled the ultimate disappearing act. The world’s most culture-bending and publicized foursome went radio silent, forsaking the comforts of Swingin’ London for a humble ashram in remote Northern India to…

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