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Reflections: Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons

Reflections: Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons

Mike Greenhaus on October 29, 2025
In February, Marshall Allen dropped his debut solo LP, New Dawn, at the age of 100, earning designation in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person to release an album of new material. And then, less than five months later, the veteran alto saxophonist and longtime Sun Ra Arkestra musical director celebrated […]
Wave That Flag: Jim Newton Offers a Multihued Meditation on Jerry Garcia, Ronald Reagan and the Counterculture

Wave That Flag: Jim Newton Offers a Multihued Meditation on Jerry Garcia, Ronald Reagan and the Counterculture

Dean Budnick on October 27, 2025
“I went to the US Festival in 1982 when I was a freshman in college. I’d grown up in Palo Alto and I’d seen the Dead a couple of times at that point, but they never really made that big of an impression on me. Then that morning, when it was Breakfast with the Dead, […]
Revisiting the Hudson River Music Festival

Revisiting the Hudson River Music Festival

Caleb Simmons on October 24, 2025
photo: Scott Harris *** Earlier this week, at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, U2 received the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize. Bono and The Edge made their way to Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa to receive the award, which honors the spirit of folk icon Woody Guthrie. One of Guthrie’s closest friends was Pete Seeger. So with this […]