Zachary Cale is a NYC based songwriter/musician originally hailing from the small southern town of Enon, Louisiana. His music ranges from lyrically driven balladry over American Primitive inspired guitar playing to Cosmic Country music and cerebral folk rock to darker torch songs with Western themes. Cale has played hundreds of shows traversing both the US and EU sharing stages with Sharon Van Etten, Robyn Hitchcock, Neko Case, Six Organs of Admittance, Deer Tick, Ryley Walker, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Pratt, The Black Swans, War on Drugs, Steve Gunn, Villagers, Hiss Golden Messenger, Foxygen, Wooden Wand, Michael Chapman, William Tyler, Chris Forsyth, Angel Olsen, Dan Melchior, and many others. Duskland is Cale’s 5th album under his own name, an album that employs full band arrangements and western motifs to further chronicle Cale’s haunted vision of Americana. The album will be released August 7th 2015 via No Quarter. Megafortress is the music of Hudson resident Bill Gillim. Pitchfork said of the 2014 album, Believer, “For all the album’s well chilled minimalism, Gillim’s voice is the most immediately striking thing about Believer. It’s virtuosic, in its own way; his lyrics are delivered in neat, easily graspable phrases and with piercing plainness, but the notes are pure. He’s not trying to confound or mystify, even though his range can plunge from heavenly falsetto to tormented moan.” Los Angeles-based songwriter Matt Kivel got his start working as a player in various bands during the first decade of the 2000s. Around 2013, Kivel quit playing with other bands to focus on his solo material. The first evidence of his work came in the form of some limited-run cassettes, but he truly came into his own with 2013's full-length album Double Exposure, released on the Olde English Spelling Bee (Julian Lynch, Ducktails) label. Kivel's solo work took a decidedly more subdued path than his previous affiliations, with shimmering ambient synths meeting muted acoustic songwriting and understated vocals. Second album Days of Being Wild, recorded with Palace Brothers member Paul Oldham over the course of the previous summer, saw release on the Woodsist label in 2014.  

When she was thirty-seven, the age most people think it's about time to grow up and settle down, Amy did the opposite and released her first solo album Diary Of A Mod Housewife. The album was voted #8 album of the year in the 1996 Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, landing her on NPR's Fresh Air With Terry Gross and in every major magazine and newspaper in the US, and a lot of small town papers too. She's made more records in the years since, and has been featured on All Things Considered and CNN. She's appeared on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Mountain Stage, World Cafe, PBS's Speaking Freely and PRI's Whad'ya Know and on BBC 6 Music's Marc Riley Show. She's been a panelist and performer at CMJ, Lilith Fair, South By Southwest, Folk Alliance and Rockrgl conferences and Southern Festival Of Books and has had her portrait drawn for the New Yorker. Her songs have been covered by They Might Be Giants, Ronnie Spector and Laura Cantrell and featured in films and TV shows. Her song "Dancing With Joey Ramone" is a staple of Little Steven's Underground Garage show on Sirius XM. She still loves to tour. We're as honored to have her here for the night as you should be. Come on by.

With readings by Melissa Febos, Mark Allen and Christopher T. Funkhouser. Followed by a short set from DJ Andy French Your hosts: Dani Grammerstorf French and Hallie Goodman Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir, Whip Smart. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Glamour, Post Road, Salon, New York Times, Dissent, Bitch Magazine, and elsewhere. Her essays have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, Story Quarterly, and The Center for Women Writers, and she is the recipient of fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and The MacDowell Colony. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), and serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. More about Melissa: www.melissafebos.com Mark Allen has contributed to The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, Huffington Post, The Awl, Four Two Nine and Vice, hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU, and performed storytelling and stand-up at Upright Citizen's Brigade NYC, Cutting Room, Axis Theater and 92Y Tribeca. As a journalist, he has lived for a week with a Japanese home-robot, gone bull riding, and been "cured" by an ex-gay church in front of a live audience. He used to dance in his underwear for a living, and once helped wrap a giant condom over Jesse Helms' house. Mark's first film Sock Job is currently in production. More about Mark: www.markallencam.com Christopher Funkhouser Professor in Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology, is a multimedia artist, musician, and writer. He is author of the books Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archeology of Forms and New Directions in Digital Poetry, the chapbooks Electro Þerdix, LambdaMOO_Sessions, and e-books Subsoil Lutes and Selections 2.0, published by Multimedia University (Malaysia), where he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in 2006. Funkhouser, a Contributing Editor at PennSound, was Digital Poet in Residence at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC and consults with many national advisory boards. Major projects include a commission of digital poetry for Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, and Funk’s SoundBox 2012, which united more than 400 recordings, and was featured in the exhibition Chercher le Texte at Bibliothèque Nationale de France. More about Chrisopher: web.njit.edu/~funkhous

Arrive early, grab a seat, pay a visit to our refreshment stand, and watch the moving pictures dance across the screen! This year's program includes films by Brian Dewan, Sam Sebren, FX Schram, Evan Curtis, Ray Harryhausen, eTeam, Parker Shipp, James Raymond, Alan Coon, Vita Rabinovich, Patrick Stephenson, Kris Perry, Matt Moorman, the Peter Davis 2000, M Sean McManus, Noah Reibel, Shmitty the anorexic cat, Dr. Bing, the Lumpen Proletariat Rollers, Erich Von Stroheim, friending the Farmer, and the New York State Dept. of Health and Human Safety... and mucho mas  This once-in-a-lunar-eclipse event is held in conjunction with Hudson's Artswalk. See you there!

Join us for the official launch party to celebrate the release of ZEROCOOL: the first of a multi-volume series that features art, fiction and criticism. With content from some great local artists like Max Goldfarb, Sarah Falkner, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Maxwell Paperella and Kianja Strobert and other artists based in New York City. Patrick Higgins is New York based composer and performer of experimental chamber music. Also a member of expermental outfit Zs and owner/operator of Future/Past Studio in Hudson, NY. Jeremy Kelly is a local musician and sonic departurist, who has played in many shows and incarnations at The Spotty Dog. Dan Bunny, is an artist, musician, and owner of John Doe Records (Support them--the store is a few doors down the block from the Spotty), and founding member of Bunny Brains. He also hosts his weekly radio show Battlefield Earth locally on WGXC.

Lucky us! Not only does national food celebrity Nancy Fuller Ginsberg (Host of Farmhouse Rules on the Food Network) have her first cookbook coming out October 13th, she'll be joining us at the Spotty Dog on Thursday October 22nd to chat and sign copies.* See You There! About the Show: Farmhouse Rules is a lifestyle and cooking show centered on Nancy Fuller's kitchen and the Hudson Valley farming community that supplies it. Nancy is a warm, loving, mother of five and grandmother to 13, and a no-nonsense owner of a multi-million dollar business she runs with her husband. Follow Nancy as she gathers the best the land has to offer and feeds her friends and family classic, farm fresh meals. *Why not get your holiday gifts out of the way and get someone a signed cookbook?!

Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM & Spotty Dog Books & Ale present Trick or Transmission: A haunted afternoon in conjunction with WGXC's Dead Air Pledge Drive! Saturday, October 3--HALLOWEEN! NOON-4:30 in the Spooky Spotty Dog Garage (440 Warren St., Hudson, in the back of the store!) Terrifying fun includes: Haunted House! 12-3PM Dare to enter the Spotty Dog Crypt and be surprised, dazzled, and spooked! (For children 2-12. Adults may guide toddlers through the haunted house, and they will be given a less spooky version!). Live Broadcast & Soundtrack 12-3PM Featuring a live sound collage by Tyson Hauf (Zoom) (12-2) & a new episode of Sam Sebren’s Nothing is Real Radio Hour (2-3) Slinky Armadillo & Cowboy Billy's Halloween Show 3:30-4:30PM Kids can listen and shake their bones to Slinky & Billy’s spooky songs of Halloween! $5-20 per family suggested donation will bene fit WGXC 90.7-FM! | Open to kids of all ages! Tune in to 90.7-FM or wgxc.org all day long to hear the terrifying sounds of the Spotty garage!