Reflect on a strange and trying year with an eclectic mix of Rochester’s finest local music.
Calicoco
Calicocoโs new album โUnderneathโ is an uncompromising indie rock exorcism
“Underneath” โ the second full-length album from Calicoco โ is full of intelligent, intense indie rock and post-breakup catharsis.
2020 CITY Readers’ Picks: Songs of Love and Despair
In conjunction with CITY’s Guide to Sex, Love, & Relationships, we asked you to tell us which local music you think best exemplifies feelings of Love โ as well as songs that evoke its heartbreaking cousin Despair โ and you didn’t disappoint.
Dadstache cares
JT Fitzgerald was tired of seeing bands come and go in Rochester. A band would make the scene, make a little noise, and then vanish, never to be heard from again. “There were a lot of bands we were seeing that would pop up for a few shows and then kinda disappear,” Fitzgerald says. “And […]
Calicoco canโt find one bad thing about making music
On her new album, “Float,” Giana Caliolo, who performs as Calicoco, wields her big guitar like a paint brush to further color the nighttime sky. Her voice is unassumingly pretty and innocent, and her at-times gentle songs serve to pull the listener out of their shell and into her world. “Float” comes out July 6 […]






