Julia Nunes ‘Ughwow’ Rude Butler Records julianunes.com/ughwow Compared to previous outings, a break-up record is not really something you’d expect from Fairport native and singer-songwriter Julia Nunes. But there’s a pervasive melancholy coming out of this artist, pouring out, really. It’s a little unexpected from a songwriter who is generally known to couch her lyrics […]
Julia Nunes
The mind of a musician
Rochester songwriters give a peek inside their process and reveal what’s at the heart of a song
Occasional Saints make being bad sound so good
Paul Nunes’ hands dance effortlessly up and down the 88’s in a powerful polydactyl boogie. It’s a sound of big ease, of Louisiana bump and sparkle with dashes of jazz and pop mirth. It’s beautiful; it’s sanctified. But a saint, he ain’t. Nunes has finally hit the scene with his new outfit The Occasional Saints, […]
Chicks with picks
You see a young girl with a guitar perched on a stool on a makeshift stage in a dimly lit coffee house, and you just know what’s going to happen next, right? There’ll be some left-wing caterwauling, a litany of boy-bashing rhetoric over three or four well-worn guitar chords, and plenty of overwrought passion and […]






