Josh Landes
Berkshire Bureau ChiefJosh Landes has been WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief since February 2018 after working at stations including WBGO Newark and WFMU East Orange. A passionate advocate for Berkshire County, Landes was raised in Pittsfield and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, receiving his bachelor's in Ethnomusicology and Radio Production. You can reach him at jlandes@wamc.org with questions, tips, and/or feedback.
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One of the biggest stories of 2025 in Berkshire County was a debate in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, about how to remedy a long-running water crisis. -
One of Berkshire County’s biggest stories of 2025 concerns a proposed camping ban for the region’s urban hub of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. As WAMC reports, the debate over how to address unhoused community members remains unresolved heading into 2026. -
After more than three decades promoting live music in the Capital Region, Greg Bell is preparing to retire. But not after one last blow-out at Albany’s Palace Theater. -
Upstate New York jam band veterans moe. are capping off their 35th anniversary tour with a concert at the Palace Theatre in Albany tomorrow. -
Berkshire County’s largest health care provider and employer has opened an urgent care center in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The new facility helps fill in the rural region's health care coverage gaps. -
In this installment of Shakedown Beat, WAMC's Josh Landes interviews bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Rob Derhak of beloved New York State jam band moe. -
The ribbon has been cut and the doors are opening at a long-awaited new housing resource center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. -
In this installation of Shakedown Beat, WAMC's Josh Landes offers a review of the jam band Goose's annual holiday extravaganza known as Goosemas. -
A mass shooting at a Hannukah event in Sydney, Australia, has sent ripples of fear, loss, and hopelessness across the larger Jewish world at the start of the week-long holiday — reaching community members in Berkshire County. -
The town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is teaming up with an affordable housing nonprofit to help struggling residents to pay their rents and mortgages.
