Just a short ride on Amtrak from Penn Station, Hudson - with its quaint brick buildings, historic architecture, and riverside views - has become an enclave for New York City’s artistic expats. One of its architectural centerpieces rises from the city’s industrial past: Basilica Hudson, a sprawling 1800s foundry reborn in 2010 as a concert [...]
Blanck Mass at Basilica Soundscape 2017. Photo by Samantha Marble/The Creative Independent Day 1: I knew this would happen. My one-person tent is sagging like ruined soufflé. Its support beams are in all the wrong holes, and the whole thing is yet to be staked in the ground. The bus for Basilica Soundscape [...]
Basilica Hudson is a "non-profit multidisciplinary arts center" in Hudson, NY that supports "the creation, production and presentation of arts and culture while fostering sustainable community." They're also throwing a killer music festival September 16-18, called Basilica SoundScape.
Gamelan Dharma Swara, photo by Lindsey Rhoades Touted as a cure to "festival fatigue," this past weekend marked Basilica SoundScape's third year in Hudson, NY, two hours north of the city. Nestled in that bucolic landscape hulks a cavernous 19th century foundry revamped and rechristened by Hole's Melissa Auf der Mar and her [...]
Emily Reo photo by Daniel Dorsa Emily Reo's swirling brand of bedroom pop is the kind that makes you feel like you are sinking and floating all at once. Recording almost every sound herself, from watery beats to hazy synths to manipulated vocal loops, Reo has produced two albums in the last five years: [...]
