The CD’s You Gave Me: Grunge and indie rock with musical clones
Take one part grunge, another part shoegaze pop, and throw in some indie rock in the vein of Elliott Smith, and you have the building blocks of Taking Space the debut nine-song, full-length album by local songwriter Aaron Noble.
Stagestruck: “Culture is my food!”
This year’s through-theme at the Ko Festival of Performance, which opened last weekend in Amherst, is “Habitat (human)” – a topic that also runs through two more offerings this weekend: How I Learned to Drive, from Ghost Light Theater in Holyoke, and Moving Water, a work in progress at Serious Play Theatre Ensemble in Northampton. All three offer rich cultural nourishment.
Valley music staple F. Alex Johnson says ‘goodbye for now’
Johnson told the Valley Advocate, the Pioneer Valley and its rich musical community have made an impact on his life.
The Beerhunter: The Proof is in the Pilsner
Although more craft brewers these days are leaning into lagers, styles like pilsner still feel a bit stranded in the corporate beer-osphere.
Cinemadope: Visionaries
Deeply personal but never navel-gazing, his documentary explores his loss of vision and the possibilities of his creative future not only by looking at his own situation, but at that of other artists who are blind or visually impaired in some way.
Free Will Astrology: Roller coasters can be problem solvers, Sagittarius
I do suspect that any psychological difficulties you encounter can be solved by embarking on thrilling adventures akin to riding on roller coasters.
Stagestruck: Out of the Shadows
“Who knew?” is the question in the air these days at Jacob’s Pillow. For example: Who knew that many of the great Duke Ellington’s compositions were written by someone else? And who knew that the pious religious community known as Shakers had African-American members?
Pamela Means on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is singer-songwriter Pamela Means, who writes politically conscious roots music and jazz.
Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Brazilian folk-pop and music in the morning
Historic Northampton will kick off its Parsons Lawn Concert Series with Brazilian folk-pop artist Sessa this Saturday.
Letters to the Editor: Eric Suher solutions
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Stagestruck: Dreams Deferred
Two fixtures of network TV are opening the season in two quite different plays that have a lot in common. S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order, Lackawanna Blues, the Chicago franchise) headlines a revival of A Raisin in the Sun and Andre Braugher (Homicide, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) plays a convict instead of a cop in a world premiere, A Human Being, of a Sort.
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Pick of the Day 2/27: Andrew Bird at the Calvin Theater
Indie rock and folk singer-songwriter Andrew Bird makes what he calls “three-dimensional music” – a mixture of violin, guitar, and virtuoso whistling, combined with intricate looping pedals.
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Stagestruck: Magic & Mayhem
“If this be magic,” says Shakespeare’s King Leontes, “let it be an art lawful as eating.” On the Valley menu this week are two events that brought that quote to mind. At the Broadside Bookshop tomorrow (Wednesday), the multitalented Andrea Hairston unveils Will Do...
