Musician Simon Fletcher will perform a new instrumental song cycle on July 29 as part of Avon Park Theater’s grand reopening.
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Prog-rock quartet AKU busts heads with ‘Brain Grease’ single
With its latest single “Brain Grease,” the prodigious instrumental band AKU suggests prog-rock is on the rise in Rochester.
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Interview: Cory Wong
Cory Wong’s approach to the guitar is melodic and gentle, more like a conversation between an audience’s ears and his Strat. Wong brings his funky sound to Rochester’s Flour City Station on January 22.
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Album review: ‘Soma’
The Moho Collective ‘Soma’ Self-Released themohocollective.com. After almost a decade of perfecting its live sound, Rochester art rock trio The Moho Collective is now celebrating its third release. While more stripped down than previous albums, “Soma” continues to expand its musical boundaries by exploring the sonic possibilities offered in a mid-19th century church recording studio. […]
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Album review: ‘Haunt Your House III’
Steve Wilkins ‘Haunt Your House III’ Self-released stevewilkins.bandcamp.com Continuing his haunted house album series for the third year in a row, Steve Wilkins is a local DIY musician making a tradition out of seasonally themed soundscapes. Having released several albums since his debut “Pasteurized Instrumental Music for Relaxing Occasions” in 2014, Wilkins finds clever ways […]
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The Moho Collective goes acoustic on new EP ‘Soma’
The Moho Collective has taken a slight detour from its
well-known manic, eclectic, electric strain. On Friday, October 26, the Lovin’ Cup crowd will get a taste of these acoustic tunes at the album release show for “Soma.”
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Daniel reviews ‘A Jazz Musician Walks Into a Comics Shop’
On Wednesday, musician and graphic novelist Dave Chisholm presented the most fully realized version of his highly ambitious multimedia project, “Instrumental.” The work has always existed as both a graphic novel and its jazz soundtrack simultaneously. But the Fringe Festival audience at the Lyric Theatre was the first to hear the soundtrack performed live in […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: “Arrival”
Kire Najdovski “Arrival” Self-released Multi-dimensional guitarist, Kire Najdovski occupies an unparalleled stratospheric level of technical skill and power, like a less noodly Jeff Beck. Having lent his guitar to more limited settings — like his work with David Letterman’s Al Chez — “Arrival” marks the arrival of the sonic shriek and fusion found in this […]
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Music Interview: RoarShark
Just replace the ink from a Rorschach test with some saltwater, and visualize surfboards and sharks and sandy beaches instead of the imagined, tell-tale images of hidden psychosis and genitalia, and you’ve got RoarShark. Or better still, assemble four Rochester rock ‘n’ rollers into a tight, guitar-driven onslaught. Then add volume, liberal amounts of reverb, […]
