Joel Patterson

Review and video by Joel PattersonYou could feel the love at The Linda. The musical community from near and far saluted Albany's own Bob Girouard with…

Review and video by Joel Patterson Photograph by Joe DeuelIf the name Steve Shook evokes some kind of half-buried memory, but you just can't quite…

Review and video by Joel PattersonThe disembodied voice that came booming over the loudspeakers before the show was right up my alley. It encouraged me to,…

Story and video by Joel PattersonWhen is a recording session not a recording session? When it's much, much more. You know what I mean. When it's an…

Review and video by Joel PattersonPlenty of lavishly costumed superheroes and princesses this month, but the really scary ones are the artists! And the…

Review and video by Joel PattersonIs Lisa Gordon going to be Troy's answer to Katy Perry? Well… what's the question? Does she have the same fetching…

Story and video by Joel Patterson Photographs by Rich BordenTribal, jungle rhythms. That's all punk was - that's all any music is, anyway - something…

Story and video by Joel Patterson Photograph by Rich BordenConjure this portrait of the artist as a young man... David Greenberger found himself…

Story and Video by Joel PattersonA funny thing happens to a band like Urban Gumbo, when they are determined to make the album that will be their…

Story and video by Joel PattersonThe future belongs to songwriters. Ever look at it that way? A hundred years from now, I predict two things: the songs…

Video and story by Joel PattersonRemember Urban Gumbo? Of course you do! At one time these Nippertown natives were the darlings of East Coast club-goers…

Review by Denise Borden Video by Joel PattersonOn Christine Ohlman's latest album, The Deep End, she teamed up with Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dion…