Music

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CD Review: Brain Patneaude Quartet

By Chris Kelsey

The Albany-based tenor saxophonist/composer’s music is largely a synthesis of left-leaning major-label jazz from the ’70s and ’80s.

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CD Review: Sheri Bauer-Mayorga and Lincoln Mayorga

By Peter Aaron

This 20-track collection by the Valatie husband-and-wife duo of Sheri Bauer-Mayorga and Lincoln Mayorga is the aural equivalent of a Ken Burns documentary, a broad-scoped survey of American popular music.

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Nightlife Highlights: July

By DJ Wavy Davy

DJ Wavy Davy’s nightlife picks for July.

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CD Review: Kat Mills

By David Malachowski

The ideal combination of songs, players, production, and a compelling artist, Two is an extraordinary outing. Mills got it right on this one.

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CD Review: Preferably Tapioca

By DJ Wavy Davy

Late, great bands like Talking Heads and The Clash created a punk-funk vibe that lay dormant until Preferably Tapioca picked up the spoon on Girl Scout Pocket Songbook.

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Hunger Mountain Boys

By Peter Aaron

The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times, instead taking the music back to its 1920s and ’30s rural, string-band roots.