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Juice-Box Jamboree

In 2001, ex-Del Fuegos frontman Dan Zanes kicked off the kids’ music revival. Local acts like Dog on Fleas, Uncle Rock, and Elizabeth Mitchell are furthering the renaissance, crafting tunes even adults can love.

CD Review: ReadNex Poetry Squad

Ig’nant listeners might hear hate in some lyrics on this Middletown crew’s debut CD, but a deeper listen draws out the tough love earned by these lyrical flowsters.

CD Review: Wet Paint

By Shannon Gallagher

An artist’s paint waits to create, and the quintet Wet Paint has been laying down sonic strokes with wild abandon since 1995.

CD Review: Michael Merenda

By Rebecca Wild Nelson

Quiver is a quiet, decisively acoustic affair earthily infused with Merenda’s old-school folk lyricism and Ruth Ungar’s autumnal harmonies.

Nightlife Highlights

By Julia Taylor

Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ Wavy Davy for your listening pleasure.

Egg Cooker

Robert Cray brings his band and his soulful, pleading vocals and effortless facility on the Telecaster to the Egg in Albany on January 13.

Eaglesmith Landing

By DJ Wavy Davy

Fred Eaglesmith (aka the “Canadian Springsteen”) brings his Flying Squirrels to the Rosendale Cafe on February 1 to play his brand of blue-collar folk-rock.

Vlad the Prevailer

By Beth E. Wilson

Jazz pianist Vlad Girshevich will make his East Coast debut on January 13 with a solo recital at the Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, part of the 2007 Windham Chamber Music Festival.

John Schrader: Funny Man

By Peter Aaron

Local musician and cancer survivor John Schrader contributed a track to I’m Too Young for This, a cancer benefit CD. Available exclusively to Chronogram readers.

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