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Sal Cataldi

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Covers:  Music. Also a little film, general culture, marketing and politics
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The Jazzy Tune You Heard on Hold? This Part-Time Musician Made It.

The Jazzy Tune You Heard on Hold? This Part-Time Musician Made It.

The New York Times — Meet Harriet Goldberg, a late bloomer who went from a career in social work to the queen of hold music with her 2011 song "My Time to Fly."
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The Reinvention of Sammy Buttons, Master of Sidewalk Funk

The Reinvention of Sammy Buttons, Master of Sidewalk Funk

The New York Times — He started a bike messenger company in the 1990s. But the death of a friend, followed by Covid, inspired him to pursue his passion. If it weren't for the pandemic, Sam Pritchard might still be weaving through the streets of Manhattan as a bike messenger.
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How the Sisters Behind Manic Panic Spend A Day Rocking Out

How the Sisters Behind Manic Panic Spend A Day Rocking Out

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Where Veteran Rockers Go to Reinvent Themselves

Where Veteran Rockers Go to Reinvent Themselves

The New York Times — How the Hudson Valley and the Catskills became the home to grunge icons, ex-punks and one-hit wonders. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
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The Bass Player in Vixen Wants to Sell You Your Next House

The Bass Player in Vixen Wants to Sell You Your Next House

Rolling Stone — An increasing number of rock stars, including members of the Alice Cooper band, Slayer, and Vixen, are pivoting to careers in real estate.
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The Roller Rink Popcorn Factory and the Jailhouse Pub

The Roller Rink Popcorn Factory and the Jailhouse Pub

The New York Times — A look at the endless reinvention of the forgotten old buildings of the Hudson Valley.
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Forgotten Genres: The Tielman Brothers & the Instrumental Delights...

Forgotten Genres: The Tielman Brothers & the Instrumental Delights...

NYS Music — The late, great Edward Van Halen wasn't the first musician of Indonesian descent to set the world ablaze with his fiery guitar work. That honor goes to The Tielman Brothers, a quartet of Indonesian immigrants to Van Halen's native Holland, who helped pioneer a new musical genre in the early years of rock-n-roll.
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The Day I Gave The Sh*ts To 'Fox & Friends'

The Day I Gave The Sh*ts To 'Fox & Friends'

wonkette.com — It was one of the proudest moments of my 30-plus year PR career. It was the day I gave the shits to the staff of "Fox & Friends," the smiley faced folk behind your grandparents' daily dose of far-right propaganda! The year was 2004.
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Dylan & The Band's Big Pink Lives On

Dylan & The Band's Big Pink Lives On

NYS Music — Make no mistake. Don LaSala is not Conrad Hilton and he's not in it for the money. Since 1998, LaSala and his wife Sue have been the owners and loving caretakers of one of the holy sites of rock history, the humble salmon-colored house in West Saugerties, N.Y. known as Big Pink.
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ZAPPA Documentary: An Artfully Constructed, Comprehensive Introduction

ZAPPA Documentary: An Artfully Constructed, Comprehensive Introduction

NYS Music — In the gatefold of "Freak Out!," his stunning double disc debut from 1966, Frank Zappa includes a telling quote from Edgar Varèse, the composer he idolized first and maybe above all others. It's a creative call to arms in seven words, one he lived virtually round-the-clock for most of his 52 years: "The present day composer refuses to die."
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Star Acting Couple Brings Hudson Valley Stories to the Stage with Storyhorse Documentary Theater ...

Star Acting Couple Brings Hudson Valley Stories to the Stage with Storyhorse Documentary Theater ...

Inside+Out Upstate NY — It's no secret that some of the biggest names in film and television now call the Hudson Valley their home. But when it comes to imbuing their creative work with local flavor, none can hold a candle to Jeremy Davidson and Mary Stuart Masterson, the renowned husband and wife thespians behind Storyhorse Documentary Theater.
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Quarantine is the Right Time to Discover the Side-Long Prog Rock Epic

Quarantine is the Right Time to Discover the Side-Long Prog Rock Epic

NYS Music — For all the horrors the COVID-19 quarantine has wrought, it has given us one nice thing - oodles of downtime that we can spend listening to music, ad infinitum. So rather than getting emotionally played by non-stop news, why not invest this bounty of break time luxuriating, in bulk, in one of most maligned fruits of 60s and 70s popular music?
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Remembering Malcolm Cecil, Synth Pioneer and Stevie Wonder Producer

Remembering Malcolm Cecil, Synth Pioneer and Stevie Wonder Producer

NYS Music — 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 Malden-on-Hudson, where he had lived and continued his work for the past two decades.
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Sonny Rollins Breaks a Heel and Makes Cinema History at Opus 40

Sonny Rollins Breaks a Heel and Makes Cinema History at Opus 40

NYS Music — In 1986, Bob Mugge, the foremost documentarian of music giants, decided to make a film about jazz's greatest living improviser, the "Saxophone Colossus" himself, Sonny Rollins. Prior to tackling the mighty Rollins, Mugge had created acclaimed documentaries profiling Latin pop star/political activist Ruben Blades, proto-rapper Gil Scott-Heron, soul/gospel legend Al Green, intergalactic jazz visionary Sun Ra and a bevy of reggae's biggest stars at 1983's Sunsplash Festival.
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What Shall I Be When I Grown Up? Joey Skaggs!

What Shall I Be When I Grown Up? Joey Skaggs!

HuffPost — What makes you want to be what you want to be when you grow up? Like many a person with interests eclectic (writing, music, art, travel and, yes, cash) and the fuzzy liberal arts degree to prove it, I ventured off into the world of periadulthood with nary a clue as to what I would do to house and feed myself, much less the wonderful children I would be fortunate enough to have.
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Hearing Aide: Focus - 50 Years (Anthology 1970 - 1976)

Hearing Aide: Focus - 50 Years (Anthology 1970 - 1976)

NYS Music — Whether you know it or not, you've all heard the band Focus. You know that tune they spin on classic rock radio, in films, ads and during NBA and World Cup telecasts, the one with the demented yodeling and amphetamine shred guitar breaks, with the relentless riff that's as memorable as "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Smoke on the Water?"
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Revealed -- Top Secret PR Strategy of the Bronx Zoo

Revealed -- Top Secret PR Strategy of the Bronx Zoo

HuffPost — To mangle the Bard, something's rotten. Not in Denmark, but somewhere far closer and dearer to my heart, at that playground for kids of all ages and nations -- the Bronx Zoo. Since 1899, the Bronx Zoo has enriched the lives of countless millions of New Yorkers and tourists alike.
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In The Midst Of Nuclear War Threats, This Playlist Will Help You Chill The Fuck Out

In The Midst Of Nuclear War Threats, This Playlist Will Help You Chill The Fuck Out

Thought Catalog — When it comes to his music, President 45 is decidedly VH-1 Classic Dad, with a pinch of Vegas schmaltz. Among his acknowledged favorites are The Rolling Stones' world-weary, "You Can't Always Get What You Want," and Queen's as rococo as his solid-gold living room, "Bohemian Rhapsody."
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Michael Gregory Jackson Comes Full Circle with "Spirit Signal Strata"

Michael Gregory Jackson Comes Full Circle with "Spirit Signal Strata"

No Depression — One of the most influential guitarist to emerge during New York's loft jazz scene of the 70s has returned to his pursuit of things fully outside with his newest release, "Spirit Signal Strata." For those not in the know, Jackson [...]
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Great Boom Boom Music: Volume One -- Gato's 'Last Tango' Is Top Cat

Great Boom Boom Music: Volume One -- Gato's 'Last Tango' Is Top Cat

HuffPost — True music lovers have a soundtrack for everything. When it comes to under-the-covers jams, there's one disc that resonates in my core. It's Gato Barbieri's alternately lush and animal-depraved soundtrack for the great Bernardo Bertolucci flick, "Last Tango in Paris."
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The Day Prince Made Me Cry

The Day Prince Made Me Cry

HuffPost — Prince was one of the artists who really touched people. We're only now realizing that so much of that spiritual connection came courtesy of his mastery of the six-strings that have been mastered by so few and enjoyed by so many.
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We Are Upstate NY With Gail Ann Dorsey, A Singular Musical Force - Inside + Out Upstate NY

We Are Upstate NY With Gail Ann Dorsey, A Singular Musical Force - Inside + Out Upstate NY

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Spring Into Creativity With These Unique Adult Courses - Inside + Out Upstate NY

Spring Into Creativity With These Unique Adult Courses - Inside + Out Upstate NY

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