Marco Benevento | Slide and Banjo

Marco mirrors McCartney with a little help from his friends

July 21, 2022
Marty Halpern

Marco Benevento’s musical influences are limitless. From psychedelia to jazz and everything in between, these references are easily identifiable throughout his musical resume. On his latest release, he threw these influencesˆa studio full of keyboards and other obscure instruments into the pot at once. The result, “Benevento,” is a genre-defying exploration caused by being home-bound during the Covid pandemic.

Westville no match for JRAD

July 9, 2021
Marty Halpern

Joe Russo’s Almost Dead finished the second half of its “Go to Haven” concert series at New Haven, Connecticut’s Westville Music Bowl with three more dominating performances. While the shows in May were rain-filled, the sun this time around made everyone in attendance joyous as they walked onto the former tennis courts.

JRAD serves up a straight set victory over Westville

June 9, 2021
Marty Halpern

Nearly 500 days since they last played in front of fans, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead kicked off their post-pandemic 2021 touring schedule with three rainy sold out shows at a tennis center now known as the Westville Music Bowl.

Penchant for Sarcasm: The Karina Rykman Story

May 14, 2020
Marty Halpern

Karina Rykman headed out on tour before she finished college, happily bouncing around as the bass player for Marco Benevento. Despite being “new” or “green,” as Rykman likes to say, she has already released two singles, “Plants” and “Elevator,” and accomplished one critical element to success – credibility.

Marco Benevento and CATS release new music

May 8, 2020
Slide & Banjo

Music lovers stuck at home due to the COVID-19 virus have some new music available to them as Marco Benevento and Circles Around the Sun have both released live albums through Bandcamp.com, a website that lets musicians sell their music directly to their fans.

Marco Benevento’s “Let It Slide” – A Delicious Club Sandwich

August 23, 2019
Marty Halpern

If Marco Benevento had his way, his new album may have been named Leon, instead of Let It Slide, an homage to the album’s producer Leon Michels. Benevento and Michels met through west coast producer and sound man Richard Swift, who was supposed to mix Let It Slide. Swift, after whom Benevento named his 2014 recording Swift to recognize the amount of work the producer put in, passed away in July, 2018 before the album was mixed and things abruptly changed.