One of the thrills for new up-and-coming Westchester-based bands is a chance to play the Pleasantville Music Festival. It’s no different this year for the three winners of the festival’s annual Battle of the Bands, a competition that starts in
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Singer-songwriter Paula Cole has released 13 albums celebrating a rich, creative trajectory of deeply heartfelt songs starting with her 1996 triple Grammy-nominated single “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” She won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best New Artist,
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The world has changed in so many ways since the last time the Pleasantville Music Festival was held in 2019. Local music fans who have flocked to the village, typically on the second Saturday of July, for a day of
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery Art Alexakis has had a busy year recording a solo album, but most people will recognize him from his work as the lead songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the popular alt-rock band Everclear. Everclear, founded by Alexakis
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery Dave Pirner always wants a record to have an ebb and flow, where there are loud and soft moments throughout rather than sustaining one pace throughout. When Pirner, the lead vocalist for the Grammy-Award winning alternative rock
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery Swahoogie isn’t a word you’ll find in the dictionary. “It’s just an attitude of playing,” explained Thomas “Zeke” Krouskoff, vocalist and guitarist of the band Swahoogie. It has to do with the people who are playing the
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery Three-part harmonies written and sung by three siblings is rare, but that is the concept behind the band BAILEN. The group is led by a trio of siblings making music that includes artists David, Daniel and Julia
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery The name for the band MOSA came from the frequent mispronunciation of its lead singer’s name – Melissa Frabotta. It would be consistently garbled by the tongue-tied, somehow mixing her first name and last name together. Even
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery Lyrics are important to singer-songwriter Bruce Carroll. For Carroll, it comes from the troubadour tradition of the 1960s, where he was influenced by Bob Dylan and later Bruce Springsteen, the way they were able to convey poetry
Read MoreBy Lindsay Emery The band Melt has gained popularity with their hit song “Sour Candy,” which has amassed more than two million streams on Spotify and spawned multiple covers on YouTube. The six members of the band, who describe their
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