Frank Zappa meets Parliament-Funkadelic with the Brooklyn-based band Turkuaz. The nine-piece, powerhouse party band features crunchy guitars, punchy horn lines, explosive drums, and vocals with a sensual attitude. Exploring both silly and serious lyrical concepts. Turkuaz plays alternative funk-rock songs about love, travel, reality, and fantasy, all with moxie and stadium-level energy. Turkuaz will perform […]
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JAM ROCK | moe.
A jam band that went from playing parties at University of Buffalo to headlining major music festivals, moe. has demonstrated perseverance and vitality since forming in 1990. The quintet blends progressive improve rock with Americana, blues, country, psychedelia, and more. The songs’ lyrics have a speedy delivery with honest and poetic rawness, while complex instrumental […]
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Folkfaces frontman Tyler Westcott hosts January residency at The Little
Buffalo musician Tyler Westcott adds his own new, soulful twist to traditional forms of American roots music like folk, bluegrass, and the blues.
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REGGAE | Root Shock
Based out of Syracuse, Root Shock is known for playing heavy reggae-rock with a positive message, and is currently touring behind the 2018 release of its “Many Paths” EP. Vocalist Jessica Brown has the striking vibrato of Gwen Stefani and the commanding presence of Erykah Badu. The band’s sound can change from spacey and languid […]
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Fresh Cut: ‘Safe in the Shade’ by Dallas Greene
Dallas Greene continues expanding her musical boundaries with the release of her latest single “Safe in the Shade,” a dark alternative pop song that grapples with loving someone from a shadowed distance.
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PUNK | ‘Kaiser’s Murray Christmas’
Kaiser Solzie is a local punk musician who’s journeyed from homelessness to helping other punk musicians behind the scenes on various Warped Tours. Solzie now works directly with Person Centered Housing Options to help people in the Rochester community find suitable housing, and he’s hosting a punk rock benefit show to raise funds for the […]
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FOLK | Zack Rabbet Futt
Zack Rabbet Futt has been playing high-energy Americana since 2013 and continues to draw audiences around the region with his upbeat, backwoods foot-stompers. Rabbet Futt has a scratchy, somewhat yodeling voice, with a carefree charm that reflects loving sentiments outward to listeners. Picking along on his acoustic banjo with a pulsing rhythm, Rabbet Futt plays […]
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COUNTRY | Ashley McBryde
If you’re looking for hearty, country rock music, look no further than Ashley McBryde. Based out of Nashville, McBryde wears her heart on her sleeve with raw and honest songs about love and being human. She can transition from an innocent southern belle to a growly bad girl in the blink of an eye, playing […]
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Album review: ‘Oblivious’
Pawner ‘Oblivious’ Self-released pawnerband.bandcamp.com Singer-songwriter Aidan Snyder’s band Pawner has been making its way through the local pop-punk scene since 2014. After surviving a number of lineup changes, Pawner is celebrating the release of its full-length debut album, "Oblivious." Many of the songs on "Oblivious" have poetic lyrics about love, but songs such as "Perfectly […]
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FUTURE FOLK | Odetta Hartman
Never before have traditional folk and electronic music come together as they do in Odetta Hartman’s music. Hartman has a flexible voice that can stretch from low, jazzy tones to bright and angelic sighs. With a spectral mix ranging from acoustic banjos to electronic synth textures underneath, the music blends future folk with psychedelia, blues, […]
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ROOTS ROCK | Donna The Buffalo
Donna The Buffalo is an Americana-folk band that has bridged generational gaps across the country with its timeless originals since 1989. Hailing from Upstate New York, Donna The Buffalo blends roots music with hints of country, blues, and rock. After five, long years since its previous release, the band is finally touring behind its eighth […]
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BLUES ROCK | Catl
Guitarist Jamie Fleming and drummer Sarah Kirkpatrick of Toronto band Catl are touring in support of their fifth studio album, “Bide My Time Until I Die.” Catl sounds like a mix between The White Stripes and The Black Keys, infused with layers of country and punk. Kirkpatrick howls over her drums with a bad-girl attitude […]
