Genre: Rock

Phantogram

Before Phantogram became one of the most critically acclaimed electronic rock acts of the 2010s, Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter were childhood friends from Greenwich, New York, New York. The two met in preschool, grew up together in the Spa City, and eventually began making music under the name Charlie Everywhere, performing around the Saratoga […]

Joe Bonamassa

Joe Bonamassa picked up a guitar at age four in Utica, New York, and never looked back. By 12, he was opening for B.B. King. By his twenties, he was being called the best blues guitarist of his generation. Today, Bonamassa holds the record for the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard Blues chart […]

Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren is one of the most creatively restless figures in the history of popular music — a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and technological pioneer whose work from the Woodstock and Bearsville studios of Upstate New York shaped the sound of the 1970s and beyond. Born June 22, 1948, in Philadelphia, Rundgren arrived in Woodstock […]

Albert Grossman

Albert Grossman did not play an instrument, sing a note, or write a lyric. What he did was arguably more consequential: he built the infrastructure that turned Woodstock, New York, from a quiet artists’ colony into the most mythologized music town in American history. Born on May 21, 1926, in Chicago, Grossman earned an economics […]

Michael Lang

Michael Lang was the dreamer who made Woodstock real. Born on December 11, 1944, in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, Lang briefly attended New York University before dropping out in 1967 and moving to Coconut Grove, Florida, where he opened a head shop and began promoting concerts. His first major production, the Miami Pop Festival […]