Tag: music
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The Hidden New Paltz Music Scene
It’s a Saturday night, and a trio of college students are finally able to put their schoolwork on the sidelines for a night. The flier reads “Doors at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 — $7 Cover.” Knowing there’s no rush, they show up late, and the first band has already started. Seven dollars in hand,…
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Breaking the Chrysalis: Q&A With the Singer of Monarch
Sarah Hartstein speaks about her band and growing as a young woman in music. Sarah Hartstein has always written songs. She sang in her car, with her mother, and remembersbeing in her first house when she was a little girl trying to write a song at the kitchen table usingrandom words, trying to find a…
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Industry Group Seeks To Save Venues Hit Hard By Pandemic
The National Independent Venues Association is trying to build support as concert halls that lack federal funding are on the brink of closing. Edited by Nick Califra Picture this—you’re sitting in a padded seat in the middle of a theater, silent except for the sound of people around you flipping through a paper handout as…
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Krishna Chetan: Childhood Friend Turned Budding Musician
Edited and packaged by Megan Wilson That same sly and goofy smile I knew from years ago greeted me when he picked up my FaceTime call. Krishna Chetan, 21, was slumped in his bed with his white Adidas baseball cap struggling to cover his long, curly brown locks. The brim of his hat and his…
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The Hudson Valley Comes Together Right Now Over Music
Edited and packaged by Norma Brickner It would be an understatement to say the Hudson Valley community misses the lively evenings local artists provided. An art show or a band playing in the area raised peoples’ spirits in the Hudson Valley almost every weekend. The COVID-19 pandemic is greatly affecting the local musicians and artists…
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Local New Paltz Record Store Continues To Survive In An Ever-Changing Industry
Jack’s Rhythms proves that small record stores can coexist with streaming service giants By Nicholas Califra Music is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. While the easy accessibility of subscription streaming services, like Spotify and Apple Music, made up $5.9 billion of the industry’s revenue in 2019, vinyl records and CDs still prove to be…
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SUNY New Paltz Professor Alex Peh Discusses Piano, Culture and the Influence of Music
By Liat Guvenc Edited and packaged by Taylor Dowd On Oct. 5, Alex Peh played piano for the first Burmese-American Southeast Asian Gong Ensemble in the United States at SUNY New Paltz’s Studley Theatre. Peh is an award-winning pianist and an assistant professor of piano at SUNY New Paltz’s Department of Music. What was it…
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Underground Life of House Shows Revealed
Students in Professor Lisa Phillips’ Literature of Journalism class were assigned to immerse themselves in the unfamiliar. Here’s what they found: House shows are a common stable of the New Paltz nightlife. Matt Schenfeld explored the depths of the elusive world of basement shows. Finding house shows in New Paltz takes a little bit of…
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Work, Play, Study
By Melissa Kramer In the frigid basement of a six-person house, curly-haired, 21-year-old Matt Joyce perches on his bed, fiddling with an unplugged electric guitar. The bed, with no headboard or box frame, sits on the concrete floor in the corner. The sounds of rain and wind permeate a small window above his head. The…
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Showcasing Identity: June Cahill of Flower Housewife
For such a petite soul, songwriter June Cahill has some grand ideas. They’re well-read and open-minded, but make no mistake, their take-no-s–t attitude is a force to be reckoned with. Despite the incredibly likable personality they display, there seems to be somewhat of an internal struggle for the artist; a longing for self-acceptance of identity…
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Student Musician Brings Rock Back to New Paltz
By Jennifer Hussein As I walked down the rickety basement stairs of the house, I could hear the screams of guitars, clashing of drums, and the Jim Morrison-esque vocal styles of Steve Milanesi, vocalist and guitarist of the local band, Meercat. Milanesi, a 20-year-old third-year student at SUNY New Paltz studying Digital Media Production, is…
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K-Pop goes global: An Internet phenomenon
By Jillian Nadiak Almost 6 million digital votes were cast from countries outside of Asia during the Mnet Asian Music Awards last year. “So I would say this is totally out of Korea and it’s getting bigger and bigger.” –Sebastian Kim, CJ E&M’s Vice President for Global Business during an interview on American media outlet, Bloomberg…
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My Test: Jillian Nadiak’s 3 Days Without K-pop
In “No K-pop for Three Days”, Jillian Nadiak does exactly as the title explains and ditches the music that is the driving force behind her life. Her video has been featured on Youtube Nation and is currently being optioned for a documentary on one of Korea’s top entertainment companies, YG Entertainment. In the K-pop world,…
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Musicians Sans Frontieres Aims to Change Local Music Scene in New Paltz
By Gabriela Jeronimo In New Paltz, local shows usually take place in somebody’s small, dark basement or at the bars in town after midnight. This limits audiences and excludes those under the legal drinking age. Musicians Sans Frontieres is a non-profit group that aims to change the local music scene in New Paltz. Musicians Sans…
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Forest Fest Rocks Through the Night
With two stages and 15 hours of live music and art, the fifth annual Forest Fest was back and bigger than ever. A steady flow of attendees flocked by car, shuttle and even bike to enjoy one of the warmest days of the year at the Center for Symbolic Studies. The non-profit performing arts center,…
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Students Caught Downloading Illegal Content
U.S. copyright laws have prohibited online piracy since 1998, but illegal downloading is far from being out of the mainstream. SUNY New Paltz students admitted to using programs to download music, movies and other files for free, despite the potential consequences as roughly one hundred students get caught illegally downloading files per semester, said Daniel…
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My Test: Dan O’Regan
Dan O’Regan challenges himself to write a song in one week and perform it at an open mic night. My Test from Dan O’Regan on Vimeo. For members of Lisa Phillips’ Digital Storytelling class, finals week posed new opportunities for students to overcome personal challenges. With topics ranging from culinary efforts to athletic endeavors, students…