A lot of holiday music is impossibly joyful, but with “Church Bells,” Ryan Sutherland delivers a Christmas song that’s honest about pandemic life.
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Ben Morey scales back and settles down
Since his first album with The Eyes, Ben Morey married, bought a new home, and opened a music school. At 33, he has settled down.
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Rochester music teachers go virtual with online lessons
With social distancing keeping Rochester music teachers and their students apart, online lessons on video conferencing apps have been an effective, if imperfect solution.
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Music school project gets creative with fundraising
It’s 8 p.m. on a snowy Wednesday night in November, and a crew of musicians is gathered in the cozy third-floor attic of Ben Morey and Katie Morey-Preston’s home, which doubles as a recording studio and rehearsal space. The group is gathered to rehearse for a rather unconventional event: a live performance of Harry Nilsson’s […]
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Album review: ‘One//Four’
Jackson Cavalier ‘One//Four’ Self-released jacksoncavalier.bandcamp.com It’s not that Jackson Cavalier has signed over to more countrified constraints. But I gotta say: Just dig the tonk and twang of Cavalier’s reedy voice as he puts it through the paces on his new, three-song EP “One//Four.” The first of an eventual quartet of EP’s, “One//Four” is a […]
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Album review: ‘Taller Hearts Will Prevail’
Trevor Courneen ‘Taller Hearts Will Prevail’ Self-released trevorcourneen.bandcamp.com Out on May 7, former Rochesterian Trevor Courneen’s new full-length album “Taller Hearts Will Prevail” is steeped in lo-fi, 90’s-tinged indie rock. Mixed and mastered by Courneen’s long-time recording collaborator Ben Morey, the music has real polish. And while the album’s nine tracks provide a comfy soundscape […]
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Interview: Ben Morey and The Eyes
Ben Morey is a
songwriting machine, with no end of outlets for his prolific and varied output. He also teaches
music, and dreams of opening a music school to further that calling. In the meantime, he’s thinking up new projects, writing songs, and
trying to finish them.
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Fresh Cut: ‘Negative Space’ by Ben Morey
Eschewing the pop panache of his magnum opus, “Mt. Doom,” Ben Morey opts for a scaled-down and somber sound on his new singe, “Negative Space”
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Ben Morey gets help climbing ‘Mt. Doom’
Ben Morey listens to the news when he writes music. That would explain the clever pessimism running through the song “Been Gone,” from his epic album “Mt. Doom,” just released on June 30 through City of Quality Records and Dadstache Records: “I don’t shudder when I read the news / You know nobody in the […]
