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PROVIDED PHOTO/GRANT SPANIERThe East End venue, inactive since 2022, welcomes the hometown band for a pair of holiday shows in December. -
PHOTO BY RUDY FABREMusic booker Tony Brown, who owns the concert promotion company Live!, has an unusual take on the concept of musical styles and the impact they ha... -
The Canandaigua-via-Boston band Coral Moons’ last album, 2022’s “Fieldcrest,” was a crisp collection of diverse tunes that spanned warm-weather ... -
The concept behind a collection of instrumentals called “Free,” released on July 6, is simple: eight improvised compositions performed in a medi...
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How does live punk energy translate to studio recordings? The query dates back at least 50 years to the genre’s beginnings. A recent test case i... -
The exclamation point’s modern usage reportedly dates back to the 14th century. Italian scholar Alpoleio da Urbisaglia introduced it as a means ... -
The resurgence of ’90s rock bands on the concert tour circuit is undeniable — something to which Rochester-area music fans can attest. The Wallflo... -
For his seventh release under the No Glitter moniker, Billy Martin lives up to the stripped-down, unadorned style the name suggests. “Vas,” a fi... -
Ellaar is the moniker of Nacelle Stern and Sage Whetham, two electronic musicians who recently relocated to Rochester from their hometown of Buff... -
Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards in the central New York town of Lafayette continues to be a first-rate site for summer concerts with its sprawling, bu... -
“Experimental” music can be a frustratingly wide label. Here’s more precise language: An artist puts their mouth on a plugged-in glass shard and... -
For decades, John Viviani has made music in many styles. He dug into soul and R&B (and backed up Danielle Ponder) as a member of Filthy Funk,... -
To the uninitiated, bluegrass may come across as unsophisticated music from the backwoods. And while the aural tradition of learning and playing t... -
Twelve miles southeast of Skaneateles Lake, a small Central New York town appears like Brigadoon in the mist. Homer, with a population of 6,000 an...
