Justin Veatch, a 17-year-old Yorktown songwriter was found dead in his bedroom early yesterday morning according to The Journal News.  The article, by TJN’s Brian J. Howard, featured comments from Justin’s father, Jeffrey Veatch:
“It’s just a tragedy for us because we had no clue that anything was going to be wrong with him,” Jeffrey Veatch [...]

The hard hitting, Nyack-based funk-rock band Outsly comes to the Hudson House this Friday, September 12 at 9 p.m.  Been playing phone tag with their lead singer Travis Tacon for about two weeks, but I’ve just been too busy journalisting to get back to him.  Definitely will early this week.  In the meantime, here’s a [...]

What better way to start off the week than with a terrifying assault of death metal?  It’s kind of like rigging your alarm clock to dole out electric shocks, or taking your bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, dousing them with kerosene, and sending them up over the morning paper (Actually not sure if Cheerios catch [...]

Well, looks like the musicians’ get-together that Piermont native Britney Boras was planning has fallen through for the moment.  According to her, the owner of Cachaca was being unprofessional, moving the dates/times around on them.  They’re presently looking for a new spot to sing and songwrite.  Maybe they need to channel Dylan’s ghost (I know, [...]

It’s after 5 p.m. on a Thursday before a holiday weekend.   Just finished some fact checking on one of our feature stories. Kept getting transferred over to empty offices.  Voicemail.  People are gone for the weekend already, I guess.  More evidence: Heading to White Plains on the Hutch this morning reminded me of Will [...]

I met up with piano player Gilberto Colón, Jr. (otherwise known as “Pulpo,” the Spanish for octopus) in his Yonkers home last year as part of some research on salsa music that I was doing.  Pulpo, now 55, studied with Charlie Palmieri, and played with lots of salsa greats like Rafi Val y La Diferente, [...]

I blogged about David Powers last week, but I had yet to actually hear much from him in regards to his music.  Powers, if you missed it, is the type of musician who can take you for a trip down 80s memory lane (in your red Camaro, Betamax tapes scattered across the back seat) with [...]

Got an email from Rockland Magazine cover girl (May 2008 issue, “Rockland Idols”) and Piermont native Britney Boras on Friday.  As the article mentions, she’s a Jazz Studies major down at NYU (her late-father used to chair the department), who performs around the city and up here as well.  Looks like she’s starting a singer-songwriter [...]

That’s the motto on David Powers’ MySpace page, and he definitely honors it.  With music that “takes cues from popular FM Rock out of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s,” the Brewster native combines pop melodies with monster guitar rock, the way Van Halen and Bon Jovi did (and still do).  Lest you be confused about [...]

Stumbled upon “The Next Girl,” a track by a performer named A.C., featuring the Brooklyn-born rapper, Breed.  It’s a polished cut that feels a lot like the collaboration between Justin Timberlake and T.I. on “My Love.”

According to his MySpace page, looks like it’s no accident that A.C. sounds like a grown-up ‘N Syncker—his bio says [...]

I figured I’d start out with some posts about bands that didn’t make Rockland Magazine’s “Rockland Idols” list this May (written up by myself and Audrey Green).

One of those musicians was Rick Dobbelaer, who was once the guitar player for a 90s jam band called Last Tribe. They were sort of like Rusted Root or [...]