“Moonlight Passes On” is Rochester-based Attic Abasement’s first record in about 10 years. Helmed by the prolific Mike Rheinheimer, AA is an acoustic guitar-driven indie rock, raucous collective with a good number of releases under its belt within 20-plus years of existence. This new one consists of short, but somehow slow-building, under-the-radar blips that’ll turn […]
Brendan Dabkowski
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Rochester Ten | Jon Spacher
Age: 50Hometown: RochesterCurrent residence: RochesterOccupation: CEO and co-owner, Fee Brothers Jon Spacher doesn’t come across as someone eager to be the face of anything. Gregarious but understated, he’s more at ease talking about Fee Brothers than his own role spearheading it all. But as CEO of the esteemed Rochester cocktail ingredient company founded in 1864, […]
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REVIEW | ‘Rosa do Inverno’ by Rosa Boemia
For the uninitiated, Rosa Boêmia is sultry summer samba, sans singing. The Rochester three-piece’s name translates from Portuguese to English as “bohemian pink,” and they play choro, an upbeat, classical style of Brazilian music with roots in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro. If you’re unfamiliar with choro (as I was), “Rosa do Inverno” is a great […]
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REVIEW | ‘Graceland Way’ by Mikaela Davis
It’s morning. You’re sipping coffee, watching the sun crest over a California canyon. Or, it’s midnight. You’re crushing beers, closing down a bar somewhere on Monroe Avenue. Either way, “Graceland Way,” Rochester-born Mikaela Davis’s latest, would be an apt soundtrack. Davis and company strain melancholy and make-believe through frontier thinking. Orville Peck — your favorite […]
