Month: June 2025
Subscribe to our YouTube Channel HERE! Ronnie Romero Takes the Lead: A Live Celebration of Original Songs and Artistic Freedom By Justin Smulison Few vocalists can shift as seamlessly between iconic bands and their own solo work as Ronnie Romero. Known for fronting legendary acts like Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow and the Michael Schenker Group, Romero […]
Life on the Cutting Edge – Discoveries – by Liam Sweeny. Sweden has bottled sunlight into molecules, creating liquid solar fuel that holds clean energy for over six months. https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2019/06/bottling-sunshine-without-batteries/ Japan has created a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours and enriches the soil in just 10 days. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/scientists-japan-develop-plastic-that-dissolves-seawater-within-hours-2025-06-04/ Scientists found a fungus that […]
By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: Commodores / Spyro Gyra / Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble / Dave Brubeck Quartet / Woody Herman All-Stars with Harry “Sweets” Edison, Al Cohn, Carl Fontana, John Bunch, George Duvivier, Jake Hanna & Buddy tate / Dr. John / Jackie Mcean/Rene McLean Sextet / The Johnny Otis Show […]
Greetings – Last weekend our Jazz Pebbles–aged 10,11, 13 and 13–welcomed the Saturday night audience with a swinging courtyard set. We watched a crowd gather as the kids ran through their repertoire of five songs. It was fun to see people stop to listen, and then exchange looks of surprise as they realized it was kids playing. Jazz Pebbles is part of our School […]
Sarah Holub Schrom – Xperience History – by Liam Sweeny. Originally published in September 2019. Art is the currency of meaning. The great thing about such a currency is that you don’t need to hoard it, because just one work can grow in meaning, or change meaning over time, and all you have to do […]
(Image: Jazz fans don their foul-weather gear during an early afternoon shower at the Kool Jazz Festival at SPAC, 6/29/85 – photo by Bruce Squiers for the Saratogian) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Stephen Stills @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center His voice, the same one that led CSN&Y for years, failed him several […]
For Pride Night Out, No Fun held a “Bimbo Night Rave.” Photography by Timothy Reidy. More from No Fun here …
Last Friday’s free Happy Hour show at the Eleven featured TV Doctors. Photography by Timothy Reidy. Read an interview with TV Doctors here …
(Image: 1975 ad for Tanglewood Popular Artist Series) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Stephen Stills / Tom Waits @ Tanglewood The opening act of the evening was singer Tom Waits. Waits looks and sounds like a Bowery wino who’s coming off a long binge. In a hoarse, guttural voice, he sang and growled […]
Last night (June 27) was the opening reception for legendary local photographer Martin Benjamin‘s exhibit at J. Gernon Picture Frame and Fine Art. His book is Rock Shots – 50 Years of Photographing Rock and Roll, and the exhibit runs through July 19. Photography by Sara Busone. Read an interview with Martin Benjamin here … […]
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