Amanda E Gross is a multi-disciplinary artist, university educational designer, and re-wilding gardener. Gross’s work in various media is united by a love of play, an intuitive process, and a sacred, radically inclusive worldview, informed by social activism, contemporary and folk art and music, eco-feminism and the re-wilding movement, and since 2017, the biodiversity of the Hudson Valley. Gross’s paintings and illustrations have been featured in contexts ranging from The Salmagundi Club to The Field Museum to The Stranger, and her/their public art experience includes environmental sculpture installations for Compass Arts and Fuller Moon Arts Fest in 2022, with previous experience assisting on installations at Morris Arboretum and O’Hare International Airport. Gross earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
Robert Burke Warren is a writer, performer, teacher, and musician, author of novel Perfectly Broken and one-man show Redheaded Friend, and editor of Cash on Cash: Interviews & Encounters with Johnny Cash. His work appears in Longreads, Salon, Texas Music, Brooklyn Parent, The Woodstock Times, Paste, The Rumpus, The Bitter Southerner, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, among others. You can find his music on albums by RuPaul, Rosanne Cash, and rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson; The Roots used his tune “The Elephant In the Room” as John McCain’s entrance theme on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In the 90s, he performed the lead in the West End musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Prior to that he was a globetrotting bass player. He lives in Phoenicia, NY.
Bitch makes witchy poet pop. She does it with violins and synthesizers. The resulting songs from her ninth studio album Bitchcraft, which came out on Kill Rock Stars February 4th, 2022, are heartbreaking, spectral, political and beautiful.
Bitch is a longstanding queer music icon. For this tour, she has written a narrative play, an autobiographical “jaunt through her herstory” to take the audience on the journey of a shy and introverted child who goes on to reclaim ‘Bitch’ as a name and feminist act. This empowering, funny and heart-felt show is woven together with the huge violin-forward pop songs of Bitchcraft.
“There’s no stopping her now” the LA Weekly said, after she premiered the show in Los Angeles for the album release.
Bitch first achieved notoriety as one half of the queer folk duo Bitch and Animal. The band went on tour with Ani DiFranco, whom they met while playing a gig at a pizza shop in Provincetown, MA. In the mid 2000s, Bitch went solo, and shared stages with the Indigo Girls, acted in John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus, co-wrote a song with Margaret Cho, produced two albums of her elder folk hero Ferron, and licensed some of her songs to the original The L Word.
Eight years ago, she began to weave together Bitchcraft. The project was born in a move from New York City, where Bitch had lived for 15 years, to a log cabin in the woods. There was all the time in the world to make art, and it was there, in the cabin, that Bitch began to write some of the songs that would appear on Bitchcraft.
“It gave me space to think about the biggest version of myself that I could be,” she says of those early days in the cabin. The songs she wrote were a departure from anything she’d ever written before. She began to craft huge pop tracks with the help of her trusty violin. Then, she moved to LA and Bitchcraft began to shapeshift again. In the years that followed, Bitch assembled a coven to complete it. She called on Anne Preven (Beyonce, Demi Lovato), the rapper God-des and Roma Baran (LaurieAnderson) as advisors. Melissa York (Team Dresch, The Butchies) and Faith Soloway (Transparent) co-wrote some of the songs. Bitchcraft, her first album in 8 years, is one that makes you think and makes you dance. It was recorded in LA, Austin, Provincetown, and Boston. Full of violins, synths, and huge vocals, the record is neon pink and in your face. It’s Joni Mitchell set to a clicktrack; it’s queer Cyndi Lauper and will hex you with its brilliance. It also makes you think: about the state of the world, about evil politicians, about what it means to exist as a woman, and how to find joy along the way.
A Celebration of Kingston’s legendary composer and humanitarian
“Ongoing celebrations of Pauline ‘s 90th Birthday continue with a Kingston Sonic event presented by O+ in collaboration with M.o.M’s Still Listening in Kingston Program. The event includes special friends of Pauline’s presenting some of her most enjoyable musical creations. This is happening at the OLD DUTCH CHURCH on October 8 as part of O+ Fall Festival !“
What? Is a funk septet hailing out of the Hudson Valley of New York. Drawing influence from the serene landscape of the Catskills that inspired the likes of The Band and Donald Fagan, What? bridges the gap between R&B groove and improvisational jam. Compared to the likes of Stevie Wonder, Lawrence, Phish and Snarky Puppy, What?’s eclectic taste in music lays the framework for a night that spans multiple genres. With a constantly growing following, What? is known to bring high energy, infectious melodies and soulful grooves with their power-house horn trio each time they grace the stage.
To find more about What?, their music, tour and more, please visit: http://what.band
Formed pre-Covid from the ashes of F-16, Waster delivers excitement, intrigue and a rock and roll good time. All original, hard-rocking band from the historic City of Kingston.
Tulula! has been stomping around Rip Van Winkle’s dreamland since the mid-ougts. The Acid-Cowboy quintet of Jason Broome, Rob Norris, Chris Bradley, Daniel Weintraub and Megan Gugliotta come off like a mosh pit at a gypsy carnival followed by a séance with the 27 club. Between them, these five veterans of underground music have toured the world, recorded over twenty-five albums and eaten like princes with paupers. Tulula! is sure to whisk you one dance away from the happy farm.
Northern California’s punk rock cult favorites, TSUNAMI BOMB has risen from the grave and reformed with their third full-length release, The Spine That Binds, and with it they have proven that this chapter of TSUNAMI BOMB not only embraces their signature style of aggressive pop-punk supplemented by a touch of darkness but have taken it even further. Honing their skills of melody while being more in-your-face and more aggressive than ever, they conjure a dark journey of discovery with each track.
Originally formed in 1998, and disbanding after many member changes in 2005, TSUNAMI BOMB reformed at the end of 2015. This new release finds the quintet brought to life with the return of founders Dominic Davi (bass/backing vocals), Oobliette Sparks (keyboards/co-lead vocals), and Gabriel Lindeman (drums). Joined by Kate Jacobi (lead vocals) and Andrew Pohl (guitars/backing vocals), they combine their skills to create a sound that effortlessly mixes dark musings on the search to find ones place in an increasingly uncaring world, into unforgettable anthems, calling on you to get up and sing-a-long.
The Spine That Binds opens with the band’s ominous declaration of their return to life in the album opener, “Tidal”, while the first single, “The Hathors” is a heartfelt rejection of the expectations and the demands that have been placed upon them. The band doesn’t hold back from there, calling out their detractors and drawing lines in the sand with aggressive tracks like “Naysayers” and “Dead Men Can’t Catcall”. TSUNAMI BOMB continues to express its discontent with the world that is unfolding around them with some of the catchiest songs on the album like “Sinkhole”, “Phosphene” and “Lullaby for the End of the World”, while still taking time to morn those they have lost along the way on the deceptively upbeat “Last Call” and the heartbreakingly haunting “Wake The Dead”. While they address the need to move on in the dizzyingly intense and melodic “Petaluma”, in the end they resolve to stand and fight in the anthemic chant heavy title track and album closer, “The Spine That Binds” that makes it clear this time it’s their story, their fight, and their song.
The Spine That Binds is not asking for your acceptance, it demands it. This album will scratch the itch of all the die-hard fans looking for that familiar TSUNAMI BOMB sound, but also show a new, angrier and brutally honest side of the band. With the support of Jello Biafra’s legendary punk rock label, Alternative Tentacles Records, TSUNAMI BOMB has not only heard your call, they are ready for the newest chapter to unfold and they are taking us all with them.
Jake Zavracky and Elizabeth LeBaron met as bartenders in 2015 and formed The Dream Eaters, a harmony-heavy duo with a knack for haunting melodies. During the pandemic, the pair started The Dream Eating Freakshow, a new project to keep their creativity flowing and challenge their range. The show is home to short videos, songs, and skits that assure their audience “it’s okay to be terrified; life’s a Dream Eating Freakshow”. Their new album Disposable Music is out March 8 wherever you listen to music.
