Ted Nicolosi is a guitar wizard. And, at a quiet 13 years, he lets his guitar do most of the talking. His fingers move swiftly over his Ovation’s neck as he weaves in and out of complex scales and runs. He makes it look easy. As half of the father-son duo Shared Genes, Ted first […]
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Omigod, omigod, omigod
You know, I thought I was over assumptions. Still, I went to see Nine Inch Nails last Thursday and was pretty sure of what I was gonnasee. Well I scene it and a whole lot more. Word has it the crowd at Blue Cross Arena topped out at 5500. There was plenty of the black-leather, […]
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Where’d this come from?
As far as I can tell country music has been co-opted by yuppies. So I’m pretty suspicious of anything claiming to be country. Look, wrapping yourself in the flag as you burn rubber in your pick up truck on the way to see some cookie-cutter cowboy sing about his flag and his pick up truck, […]
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Bowed onomatopoeia
So there I was in the Bop Shop Atrium to hear Lauren Radnofskyand her amplified cello last Friday night. The space was jammed with people leaning over the balcony, bathing in the surprisingly clear acoustics, and hanging on every note. In her program notes, Radnofsky suggested people listen “attentively with a high level of concentration, […]
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Bee Eater hits the ceiling
Meghan Taylor squirms in an old, torn-up beauty parlor chair in her band’s South Avenue rehearsal space. “Can I just say that I’ve had my bags packed for four years? So I’m ready whenever anybody’s ready,” she says. “My shit’s packed.” Taylor, a pink-haired popster, is the lead singer for Bee Eater, a furious hard-rock […]
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Zenyatta Mondatta parallel
PerthAustralia’s Harper must’ve been holding back a bit when he played the tent during last year’s Jazz Fest. Based on his fiery and funky set I dug a couple of weeks ago at Dinosaur, Harp probably figured those in leather and denim are a whole lot sturdier than those in khakis. Sporting some MotorCity muscle […]
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Rasta slinky
Two Sundays ago I shoehorned The Buddhahood — the whole Buddhahood — into the 98-9 BUZZ studios for a cacophonous, polyrhythmic, sexy, super-shimmy-shakedown boogaloo on The Sunday Night Shakedown (my Rochester-music show). The band mixed New Orleans jazz with Afro-Cuban joy. When the band hits the stage and the electric stuff gets plugged in, they […]
