Garage-surf rock band Harmonica Lewinski and electro-pop crooner Beef Gordon will join forces for a show at Abilene Bar & Lounge on July 3.
Abilene Bar & Lounge
The F Word: The new normal and the old weird
Who would have thought I would have lasted this long โ almost six months โ without going out to see live music? Forget the “new normal,” I want the old weird back.
The F Word: Abilene’s Danny Deutsch believes
Rochester-area club owners such as Abilene’s Danny Deutsch have been caught in a kind of COVID-19 limbo. As a business owner who relies on live audiences, how is he coping?
ROCK | The National Reserve
Building its foundation from playing weekly, four-hour-long gigs in a popular Brooklyn bar, The National Reserve boasts a well-rounded, energetic live performance. Frontman and songwriter Sean Walsh, guitarist Jon LaDeau, bassist Ryan Gavel, and drummer Brian Geltner all share a palpable, kinetic chemistry that shines through the band’s varying arrangements. The National Reserve’s newest album, […]
ALT-COUNTRY | Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller is the king of the murder ballad, the prince of melancholy, the champion of the love song. Best known from his position leading the charge of the alt-country darlings Old 97’s, Miller is one of the precious few who legitimately can call his music Americana and mean it. In a sense, Old 97’s […]
I Scene It: Barrence Whitfield and the Savages at Abilene
Itโs gratifying to hear rock ‘n’ roll fans say my article on an artist swayed them to go to the show. So I was pleased to the max my words managed to get a few lonely souls off the couch and onto the Abilene dance floor where Barrence Whitfield fans beat on it like a […]
Abilene and Record Archive announce 3-day bash
Della Mae, Jennifer Westwood and the Handsome Devils, and Hayes Carll to headline at Abilene Bar & Lounge.






