Founded in 2010 by musician Melissa Auf der Maur and filmmaker Tony Stone, Basilica Hudson is housed in a reclaimed, solar-powered 1880s industrial factory on the riverfront of Hudson, NY. The organization welcomes over 20,000 visitors each season to genre-pushing music festivals, large scale marketplace events, regular film screenings, an artist in residency program, public installations and other community gatherings. The majority of its programs are free or sliding scale.

Through its programs, Basilica Hudson supports the creation, production and presentation of independent arts and culture, and strives to forge experiences that aspire to the scale, grit and beauty of its surroundings. It draws inspiration for its mission and programming from the City of Hudson’s epic history, as well as the region’s artistic legacy and environmental advocacy.

Today, they have announced a day’s worth of epic live sets, work by legends-in-the-making, late night partying, and other cerebral pleasures in our uniquely adventurous spirit – the first event at Basilica that’s anything like SoundScape since 2019!

Performing live…

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR

Perhaps the most revered and steadfastly principled post-rock band of all time whose expansive, heavy records and marathon, multi-sensory live performances continue to provide an anthemic remedy to the nausea, nihilism, and unease of late stage capitalism
Also featuring a special set from…

IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS
The liberation-oriented free jazz collective, a group of fearsome, fearless improvisers that honors the ancestors of the form while pushing ride cymbals, upright bass, horns, and poetry into dizzying, disorienting, righteous splendor. This show serves, also, as a celebration of their grand debut on legendary jazz record label Impulse! – Protect Your Light, recorded in the same room that captured Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, releases worldwide September 8th.

Writers in the Rafters returns with spoken word performances by…

HANIF ABDURRAQIB
Who, across many awarded and beloved pieces, poems, and books, has listened to music more sensitively and more intuitively than just about anyone else. A proud son of Central Ohio, he wields an uncanny, astute ability to verbally place recorded music (and anything else he chooses to write about) both within the wider cultural moment and amid the subjective stream of his own biography. Abdurraqib will read a selection of works between live music sets and will also provide a mixtape soundtrack for the sunset hang.

And SHANEKIA MCINTOSH

A true interdisciplinary writer and artist with a fiery presence on the page and an electrifying manner in performance, McIntosh holds an important voice in the Hudson Valley. Her powerful, economical work can often be seen on various marquees, billboards, and building exteriors in Basilica’s surrounding environs. We are delighted to feature her once again at SoundScape.

Beginning the live music for the evening…

An opening invocation by ZANNIE

A shapeshifting and totally captivating musician local to the Hudson Valley who produces their work “mitotically” – as well as an artist signed to Kill Rock Stars, one of the great punk labels – Zannie will call us to attention in a special, 24-HOUR-DRONE style set (Zannie also has one of the greatest Instagram handles of all time)

And culminating the event…

A midnight afterparty in the West Wing hosted by AUDIOFEMME

An important organization working to uplift the voices of female and non-binary music writers and musicians through intersectional journalism and practice-altering grant opportunities.

Also presenting a handful of other delights, hangs, artists, and vendors…

Art by NIAGARA DETROIT

One of the original architects of the Motor City’s first American punk scene, the New Gallery presents a selection of bold paintings, brash artifacts, and other ephemera from the historic body of work by Michigan femme fatale icon Niagara Detroit. The show will be on view in Basilica’s Gallery building throughout the gig – plus, an appearance by Niagara herself!

A North Hall activation / takeover by JOHN DOE RECORDS

Part really good used records-and-more store and part mystical, cosmic junk shop, John Doe Records has been the askew, beating heart of Warren Street for well over two decades. They’ll recreate the digger’s splendor of the shop in our North Hall in a conceptual pop-up-as-noise-show performance (but you’ll still be able to buy bootleg tapes and rare LPs).

SACRED BONES CURIO SHOP
One of the most daring and consistently excellent boutique labels to ever give it a go returns to SoundScape with a plethora of rare wares, sick merch, and crucial grips

BETTER READ THAN DEAD
From fine and antiquarian to cheap and utilitarian, SoundScape’s only go-to used book vendors offer a deep selection of printed material straight from the streets of NYC to Basilica’s West Wing Bar

FOOD BY LOCAL 111
By now a total mainstay of most events happening at Basilica, the swashbuckling chefs of Philmont’s Local 111 sling an always-satisfying menu of grub from our semi-outdoor kitchen

Plus – expect a SUPER MEGA HAPPY HOUR from 5-8pm

Curated by Brandon Stosuy and Melissa Auf der Maur
Presented with additional support from The Creative Independent

Order tickets for Basilica SoundScape HERE