Suzan Pero

With breathy vocals and interesting synthy bits, Little Spoon will dig a little hole in your ear and nest there. It’s chill and slow, true, but solidly in the same vein as Pictureplane, plus all the dreamy keyboards you could ever hope for. If you’re all stuffed up, all the better to get your cough […]

Sunday, February 10 Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 8 p.m. | $12-$15. | 325-5600, waterstreetmusic.com Why? begs a good question: why would we listen to rap without the booty shaking and fronting? Well, for one thing, because it’s awesome. Why? takes it down a peg, and if you’re expecting brain-melting bass, that’s […]

It’s DJ night at Dubland, and SwaggleRock is bringing the bass. While this outfit’s mixes can tend toward the nasty, it’s got an undeniable catchy swing that is certainly worth sticking around for. The night also features a whole grab bag of other DJs, including Skanntron, MK, and GhettoTronics. GhettoTronics is both ghetto in subject […]

The Used is marketed toward the Hot Topic set that isn’t quite all the way into such harsh things as My Chemical Romance. The Used is best taken with a line of pixie stick to mend that broken heart and a heavy ring of guy-liner. And yes, even the band has added some dub to […]

Coming to Rochester from Israel by way of L.A., Infected Mushroom is here to infect you — with the beat. Side effects may include unconsciously doing the “Night at the Roxbury” thing. Mushroom has been consistently rated one of the top acts in the EDM scene. As self-proclaimed purveyors of psychedelic trance, the act presents […]

I’m going to tell you it’s alternative up there, but people, what we have ourselves here is some industrial/New Wave mix in the finest, darkest veins. While The Soft Moon comes from the Bay Area, the band’s music is clearly dragged screaming out from the depths of a crevasse found under a rock. It even […]

Brother Bear heads east from Buffalo to rock the basement at Dub Land and bust out his best mix of house and electronic samples. It’s a bit seamy, but totally catchy, and those who worry they aren’t going to get their dub on can be assured that’s all in the cards, too. Keto will be […]

What Mannheim Steamroller lacks in the harder Christmas rock provided by groups like Trans-Siberian Orchestra, it more than make up for in 80’s-style keyboards and wardrobe — which certainly has its own appeal and amusement value. Mannheim Steamroller is coming to town for its yearly flattening of Rochester, and as usual is bringing a potent […]

Act Live is back in town this week, wrapping up the northeast-spanning Break Out Tour 2012. All manner of MCs, DJs, rappers and what-have-you will bring the party. A large delegation from Boston includes the headliner Du-KaRan as well as Ediquette and Kinetik Dialekt. There’s even “our boy” from Philly, DJ Games. Also look for […]

Blackened Blues started with two brothers, one a rapper in Atlanta, one a bass player in Brooklyn. Since coming to Rochester, they’ve spared no time pulling together a band from various projects currently bouncing around in the depths of Dubland. For this funky brew, you require one dash Subsoil (Brad Sheffield on guitar and Jon […]