These six concerts — ranging from Americana and jam-band rock to hip-hop and soul — offer you serious (head)bang for your buck.
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The ‘Big ‘G’ Jam’ brings funkadelic acts to Hannibal
On Aug. 20 and 21, “The ‘G’ Lodge” welcomes national bands Litz and Dr. Bacon, as well as Rochester acts such as The English Project and The Buddhahood.
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Album review: ‘Breaking Down’
Rochester jam band The Niche kicks out the quirk on its long-awaited follow-up album, “Breaking Down” — 14 years after the band’s initial breakup.
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JAZZ-JAM BAND | Jazz Is PHSH
Created by drummer Adam Chase and his brother, guitarist Matthew Chase, Jazz Is PHSH is more than your typical tribute band. Rather than simply presenting the music of popular jam band Phish with similar or identical arrangements, Jazz Is PHSH repackages the improv-rich music in tight and succinct jazz arrangements. There’s also plenty of funk […]
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2019 Party in the Park concerts offer plenty of variety
With the 2019 Party in the Park concert series, there truly is something for everyone: hippies, pop fans, reggae fans, classic rockers, and folks that get the blues.
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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: ‘Departure’
The Goods “Departure” Self-released Pure marketing genius: celebrate 10 years in the local music business by playing a packed show, releasing a new EP, and then promptly breaking up. A brilliant move pulled by Rochester’s stratospheric rockers, The Goods. The Rochester foursome is saying adios with its latest and last, a four-song CD aptly named […]
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Donuts and jam
When at its most obtuse, Rochester quartet Mr. Donut makes the most sense. The band’s sound runs cool and curious from a bottom heavy-dirge to lofty explorations full of air. And there are the words that show up — not in the songs as lyrics — but rather splayed out in a fictional interpretation printed […]
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And they’re big in Japan
Over the last two years the Sim Redmond Band has become increasingly popular in Rochester… and in Japan. At its initial Milestones appearances, audiences were mostly out-of-towners, fans that had followed the band from its hometown of Ithaca or from some jam-band haven like Geneseo. But lately what I think of as the “Dave Matthews […]
