There is a beauty to the Hudson Valley that is very conducive to the music festival atmosphere. The bucolic landscape and backyard-cozy vibes just demand and inspire great music and good times. Woo…

Antietam was and always has been one of the most creatively adventurous, boldly unique and straight-up electrifying acts to come out of the 80’s NYC underground rock scene. On The Counting Ga…

One Eleven Heavy’s Nick Mitchell Maiato’s tightened take on Cosmic Americana highlights all of the best qualities of this nebulous genre. This is perhaps most evident on his new album, …

I've organized this fundraiser for Richard Lloyd, my friend and bandmate in the Richard … Sean Seymour needs your support for Help Richard Lloyd Fight Cancer

It’s been a minute since we last heard from jazz guitarist Brad Farberman and his experimental jazz-funk band, Middle Blue, but as you’ll hear on this new Island House Recordings releas…

If you’re a regular reader here, you’d know by now what I search for the most in new music is something that I’ve never heard before. BJ Cole and Secondson’s new pedal steel…

Roaring straight out of Chicago, Free Times’ latest is a straight up party of a record. Available now on CD, tape and digital, Of All Times features the midwestern psych unit ripping up refri…

Prairiewolf has been blending together the adjacent worlds of ambient country, kosmische musik and minimalist spiritual jazz for a handful of years now, yet on this, their third full-length LP, the…

The continuing solo adventures of Elkhorn’s Drew Gardner find the NY-based artist following the groove and exploring within it thoroughly with an expert crew of free improv players skilled in…

This is an ultimate record for the record collecting heads. Denver’s Osmium House project always mixes together elements of the most far reaching and eclectic corners of the psychedelic music…

Any new offering by acid rock jammers, Jeffrey Alexander and The Heavy Lidders, is a reason to celebrate, but Liquid Donnon is straight up a godsend (but sent by an olde god of ancient pagan myths)…

Folks, we had a blast at Prototype 237 on Saturday night. I’m pretty sure local seismographs picked up all of the heavy vibrations emanating from downtown Paterson as we rode the waves of dro…

The spectrally out-of-time singing of Josephine Foster has never sound more at home than when they’re accompanied by the gently nimble Spanish guitar playing of her frequent collaborator, com…

New Jersey’s Camino Sound have long been favorites in the RCU household, but Remembers Everything is one of their biggest crowning achievements as a band yet. The trio, made up of Van Kapeghi…

*No one turned away for lack of funds. Please email Prototype 237 if ticket cost is prohibitive.  Emily Robb is a visionary composer, performer and studio musician based in Philadelphia. She’s been wo...

Inspired by the ideas of meditation and selflessness found in religious texts, like Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm, and the quieter side of Brooklyn’s environment, Herb Lore’s Mysticism …

Help Mikey and Scout get back on their paws! Hi everyone, our dear friends and fav… Michael Wehling needs your support for Help Mikey & Scout Recover and Move

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Surrealistic electro-folk experimentations adventurously abound throughout the new self-titled album by North Carolina Piedmont-based trio, Setting. Made up of multi-instrumentalists Jaime Fennelly…

On Mountain States, Johnny Bell evolves banjo music for the modern era, allowing the cultural and environmental climates of today to seep into and alter its very DNA. With the influence of the ambi…