Fuzzrod ventures outside the garage punk box on its second album, “II,” but the band sounds best when it sticks to what it knows.
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On ‘Master Cat,’ Hard Nips explore the rough edges of punky power pop
The Brooklyn band Hard Nips blends catchy power pop and raw garage rock on “Master Cat,” released by Rochester label Dadstache Records.
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Anamon releases two new rock songs for the brokenhearted
Rochester garage-rock quartet Anamon delivers a pair of new songs about loss and heartache with a combination of earnestness and detached cool.
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Track review: ‘Favorite Things’
On their sixth digital single, “Favorite Things,” The False Positives engage in multi-genre hijinx, centered around classic rock ‘n’ roll done right.
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Album review: ‘Human BBQ’
The fun-loving Rochester band Harmonica Lewinski has blessed us with another 10-inch party platter of lo-fi, surf-soaked garage rock ‘n’ roll, called “Human BBQ.”
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Album review: ‘Fuzzrod’
Fuzzrod ‘Fuzzrod’ Records Of Choice and Dadstache Records fuzzrod.bandcamp.com Rochester’s noisiest garage rock quartet Fuzzrod is causing a ruckus with its self-titled, full-length debut, released on February 22. Coming just shy of two years after the band’s EP "Fake News," “Fuzzrod” dishes out high-powered party music rampant with anti-authoritarian anthems. Songs like “Baby” and Fuck […]
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Album review: ‘Dirty Anxious Low’
Jan the Actress ‘Dirty Anxious Low’ Self-released jantheactress.bandcamp.com Most bands build up the energy over the space of a few cuts. But not Jan the Actress, no. The band’s latest CD, “Dirty Anxious Low,” delivers that slash, crash and burn immediately. It’s there the minute you switch it on, and it doesn’t stop for nine […]
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Ron Gallo finds the change within
Everything about Nashville’s Ron Gallo is “utter”: utterly chaotic; utterly fractured; and his bio describes a man who is not afraid to call utter bullshit on the most disappointing human norms. He shines bright despite being a sort of anti-rockstar. Musically, Gallo — who fronted Philadelphia’s Toy Soldiers before the band parted ways in 2014 […]
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Old and new collide in Dangerbyrd’s garage rock
If we lived in a perfect world, bands like Dangerbyrd would be the perfect bands. If we lived in an imperfect world, bands like Dangerbyrd would still be the perfect bands. The Rochester-based quartet plays without a shred of phony grandeur or self-imposed elegance. Dangerbyrd is down and dirty and a clever musical synthesis of […]
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Turbo Fruits
Jonas Stein (guitars and vocals) formed this Nashville quartet while his other band, Be Your Own Pet, was slowly coming to an end. Stein, and an early incarnation of Turbo Fruits (which included Be Your Own Pet drummer John Eatherly) released its self-titled debut through Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! record label in 2007. When Be […]
