Working musicians have always had to supplement their incomes to make ends meet. But those side gigs — bartenders, servers, Uber drivers — are no longer an option.
Alex Goettel
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Album review: ‘Something to Prove’
The Byways ‘Something to Prove’ Self-released bywaysroc.com There’s a lot of “wanna” — actual and implied — on The Byways’ new EP “Something to Prove.” It’s acoustically based, and hits its stride immediately on tunes like “Man I Wanna Be.” It all circles back to the quartet’s principal songwriter and quarterback Alex Goettel, and the […]
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Everything galore
The mid-90’s music scene in Rochester was a blur: a whirling cascade of bands and clubs packed with fans, their iPhone-less hands in the air. Back then, a phone call — on a plain phone — cost a quarter. And it seems that the technology developed to promote bands wound up being their undoing. But […]
