The Food Truck Rodeo at the Rochester Public Market is on the last Wednesday of every month, from April through September.
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2019 Party in the Park concerts offer plenty of variety
With the 2019 Party in the Park concert series, there truly is something for everyone: hippies, pop fans, reggae fans, classic rockers, and folks that get the blues.
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Album review: ‘EP’
The Dirty Pennies ‘EP’ Self-released thedirtypennies.com Looking for a guitar hero? Look no further than The Dirty Pennies, a Rochester trio which, on its new “EP,” serves up the songs like cuts of lo-fi beef. It’s slick, but it’s not showy. It’s primal rock ‘n’ roll with just the right amount of blues to keep […]
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Songwriting icon Chip Taylor plays Abilene
Chip Taylor is a mellow cat. He’s so cool, sheep count him. Artists like Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Eddie Arnold, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Jimi Hendrix have had his words in their mouths.
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METAL | Kryst
Not only is it a tasty name — ooh, sacrilecious — but it’s something you’ll find yourself muttering loudly in order to hear yourself over the ringing decay in your ears. Kryst Guitar player Mark Rapone is a walking, talking ready-made Shroud of Turin, but the catechism ends there. This new conglomeration of head-bangers is […]
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Album review: ‘Radio Silence’
The Squires of the Subterrain ‘Radio Silence’ Rocket Racket Records squiresofthesubterrain.com Here’s another analogue nugget from the Squire’s subterranean lair in the bowels of the South Wedge. However, expect a few surprises on “Radio Silence”: the track “House of Ghosts,” in all its rag-tag, Tin Pan Alley glory; and “Another Ghost (in the House),” with […]
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Album review: ‘Partly on Time: Recordings 1968-1970’
Kinloch Nelson ‘Partly on Time: Recordings 1968-1970’ Tompkins Square Records kinlochnelson.com The inquisitive exploration and curiosity are all there. In fact they’ve been there sitting on guitar wizard Kinloch Nelson’s shelf for 50 years, undisturbed — but fortunately not forgotten. Though Nelson presents the 12 original songs on “Partly on Time: Recordings 1968-1970” acoustically, the […]
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Album review: ‘Warm Prickly’
Benny Bleu ‘Warm Prickly’ Self-released bennybleu.bandcamp.com It sounds like I’m lying when I tell you a performance or record from Benny Bleu, a k a Ben Haravitch, features the entire Hochstein School of Music’s banjo faculty. That’s because he’s the only one there. Though Haravitch spends a lot of time solo on his new CD […]
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Interview: The Cadillac Three
They call it country fuzz. It’s an ominous boogie coming out of Nashville’s The Cadillac Three, a trio that resonates with country and rock ‘n’ roll in equal parts. What separates them from the rest of the heard herd, while welding genres together, is the trio’s application of the sweet grind, whine, and growl of Kelby Ray’s lap steel.
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The F Word: Is It True?
Is it true, pretty
baby, what they said about you? This week, two music icons were taken from
us. R&B-soul shouter Andre Williams and surf guitar
originator Dick Dale. Something ain’t right here.
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HARDCORE | The Weight We Carry
A frequent problem for hardcore artists is that the music’s discernibility and dynamic subtlety tends to get lost under the weight it carries. That’s not a problem for Rochester’s The Weight We Carry. The formidable five double-clutch the speed in a drop-tuned grind, beneath vocals that are so much more than the Cookie Monster-primal roar […]
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SINGER-SONGWRITER | Sam Nitsch
It’s almost as fun just watching Sam Nitsch perform as it is listening to him. With mad scientist-like genius, he goes on a veritable musical spree via loops to construct sweet, swirling patterns and myriad melodies. At times, the technical end threatens to get a little ahead of him, and a certain degree of calamity […]
