Toebow Toebow (pronounced tō-bō) is a progressive cartoon rock soundtrack, forged from the inner goofs of the human soul. The music is a tapestry of dueling guitar lines, rumbling drum parts, synthesizer earth tones, and lush vocal harmonies. Originally conceived in 2013 by friends and alumni of indie dream-pop group BOBBY, the band has evolved from a casual guitar duo to a formidable five-piece band. Toebow released their debut "Spirit Mane" in 2018, described by Brooklyn Vegan as "...a nice dose of shapeshifting, complex art pop that fans of My Brightest Diamond, Sufjan Stevens, and TV on the Radio might dig." Tom Greenberg Based in Hudson NY, Tom Greenberg is the founder of 2011’s BOBBY (via Partisan Records), whose lineup also featured Martin Zimmermann (Toebow). Today, with a cereal mixture of virtual-Renaissance melodies and black hole rhythms, Tom G has been stretching his legs and performing material from his upcoming record. He will be joined by bandmate Elliot Cash. Moon Fruit Moon Fruit is the pseudonym of electronic musician Alexander Pitman. He is based in Hudson, NY.

A jam packed night of performance from local Hudson artists in support of the the Columbia County Bail Fund! Featuring: Janit, Tom Lee, Gerl Props, Jay Shaun, Remyx Lerebel, Kulton the Maker, and DJ Fulathela!!! "The Columbia County Bail Fund (CCBF), is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization operating as a Community Bail Organization (CBO) in Columbia County, New York pursuant to New York State Law. CBOs can provide no more than $2,000 in cash bail for defendants charged with one or more misdemeanors who are financially unable to post bail. CBOs are required to register as a 501(c)(3) organization and may not charge a premium or fee for their services."

Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty. Books are available for purchase and signing. This month's writers include: GARY SHTEYNGART is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Little Failure (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), and the novels Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction), and Lake Success. His books regularly make best-of lists around the world and have been translated into twenty-nine languages. MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY is a New York Times bestselling author, most recently of The Mere Wife, Magonia, Aerie, Queen of Kings, and The Year of Yes. She grew up in rural Idaho on a survivalist sled-dog ranch, and now lives in Brooklyn. Her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and Arte Studio Ginestrelle, among other organizations. MICHAEL J SEIDLINGER is an Asian-American author of a number of books including My Pet Serial Killer and Standard Loneliness Package. He’s currently working on a novel, a nonfiction book about death, and a poetry collection. He serves as Library and Academic Marketing Manager at Melville House, Editor-at-Large for Electric Literature, and is a member of The Accomplices. Followed by a DJ set from a special guest

The last we heard from Ross Goldstein was his second solo album Inverted Jenny, a collection of blissful and exploratory orchestral pop that arrived in the late summer of 2017. Just a little over a year later Goldstein returns with The Eighth House, a complete shift of gears that finds him immersed in a cinematic dreamworld of instrumental sounds that still hold glimmers of the psychedelic spirit inherent to everything he touches. The initial inspirations for the album began during sessions for Inverted Jenny, an album where Ross actually recorded and then removed vocals from many songs, opting for instrumentals that said more than lyrics could. Already leaning towards exploring deeper expression with instrumental compositions, he entered a phase of obsession with science fiction books and movies, as well as listening closer to soundtracks and incidental film music. Turning to an arsenal of classic Chamberlin and Mellotron sounds, he began composing the pieces that would become The Eighth House, fantastical and often slightly damaged scores to imagined scenes of both cosmic and Earthly. While plenty of homage has been paid to the anxiety-heavy synthy soundtracks of 70's b-movie horror flicks or the acid rock freak outs that soundtracked movies from the early days hippie subculture, The Eighth House goes in a very different direction. More than those popular entry points, the music here is subdued and slow-moving, curiously inspecting ideas as the album moves through various fantastical passages. Even when cartoonish sound effects meet with tense swells of strings or dramatic orchestral flourishes (early Chamberlin models recorded their sounds using players of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, no less!), the result is never garish but always patient and communicative. Bells ring in the distance, memories and possibilities are implied but left open to interpretation and strange but friendly sounds linger for just a moment before melting into something else. The result is a muted and wintery paradise that envisions Smile-era Brian Wilson scoring the softer moments of a Jodorowsky film. What's most striking about The Eighth House is how much of Goldstein's sonic personality comes through, even in music that's in some ways striving to disappear into the background. Whether it's lilting chamber pop, the screaming psychedelia of his band Fogwindow or in this case a slowly-unfolding narrative of celestial instrumentals, it's all unmistakably Ross, reflecting an intrinsic kindness that's always at odds with a restless searching. It's definitely present on this album of drifting wordless compositions, as he offers us ripples of boundless imagination and just-out-of-reach impressions of other worlds. credits ~releases October 26, 2018~ Brian Dewan is an artist who works in many media, including art, music, audio-visual performances, decorative painting, furniture design, poetry and musical instrument design. Dewan writes, narrates and illustrates I-CAN-SEE Filmstrips, and collaborates with his cousin Leon Dewan in the electronic music duo Dewanatron. He has produced four albums of songs and concertized extensively as a solo artist, as well as having performed in various collaborations and as a sideman. His musical releases include: Tells The Story, The Operating Theater, Words Of Wisdom, and Ringing At The Speed Of Prayer. Dewan lives in Catskill, New York.

Join us for an afternoon reading with Phillip Schultz, Prize-winning poet and founder of The Writers Studio. Founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York, Philip Schultz grew up in Rochester, New York. He earned a BA from San Francisco State University and an MA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, among them Like Wings (1978), winner of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in literature; Deep Within the Ravine (1984), awarded the Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize; The Holy Worm of Praise (2002); Living in the Past (2004); the Pulitzer Prize–winning Failure (2007); and The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems (2010). Schultz’s work delves into personal history, family, the city, and immigrant and Jewish experience. In Failure, Schultz wrote of his father, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, who attempted a series of unforgettable and unsuccessful business ventures when Schultz was growing up, ultimately leaving his son and wife in impoverished circumstances at the time of his early death. Schultz has observed in interviews that it took him many years to write about his father with honesty. At the Writers Studio, Schultz conducts writing workshops that practice the imitation of particular masters’ styles and stress the importance of arriving at particular subjects a writer needs to confront. Before founding the Writers Studio, Schultz directed New York University’s graduate program in creative writing. Schultz has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry.