Rochester indie rock heroes Joywave put a cap on the 2021 Rochester Fringe Festival with its “Smokestacks” concert at Parcel 5 on Sept. 25.
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Track review: “U.G.L.Y.”
KOPPS’ new single is a salty and salacious dance floor send-up combining, disco, pop, and rock.
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Caroline Vreeland’s an open book, and it ain’t the Bible
“Notes on Sex and Wine,” the new album from singer, actress, and model Caroline Vreeland, doesn’t heed many rules. Vreeland plays a sold-out show at Three Heads Brewing with Roses and Revolutions on March 6.
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KOPPS: pop plus
KOPPS is a three-pronged attack of techno-fection, but it’s not so sugary as to gum up the works in its live show, plethora of catchy singles, or the numerous music videos that capture the band’s intense visual irony.
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Local bands pay tribute to promoter Tim Avery
Rochester musician and Bug Jar booking impresario Tim Avery is fighting the good fight with the big C. And musicians and music fans alike are rallying behind the man with several benefit shows. As a booking agent and promoter, Avery has proved himself indispensable in filling the void between musicians — whether local, national, or […]
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Frank reviews ‘Dance Macabre’ and checks out Friday on the Fringe
I started the second day of Fringe with a chamber quartet, The Chanson String Quartet to be exact, who played pieces focusing on death so gingerly and gently that the audience in the near-empty Xerox Auditorium (the TheatreROCS Main Stage) didn’t quite know where or when to applaud. The group played Camille Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre,” […]
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CRITICS PICKS: Frank De Blase
“Flatfoots, Floozies & Murder” Set in 1920’s Chicago and overflowing with hot music, gin mills, and gangsters, the audience is invited in to help Dick Tracey solve a murder — or add to the confusion. This is classic fun with the era starring as a character itself, interspersed with language and style that is beautifully […]
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KOPPS musicians share their music-making magic
Music that possesses an electronic component can still be organic; it’s just rooted on the receiving end as opposed to the launch site. Let’s simplify: Though it has some synthetic root, electronic music still gets human (organic) asses in motion. KOPPS is one of those groups that create within this hard to classify hybrid. Call […]
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Joywave headlines its way home
If new wave were made of something more substantial, less-plastic, then perhaps you could call Joywave a new wave band. But with its layered pulse and drive as well as its lofty vocals over a lush electronic bed, this Rochester-gone-big-time band transcends the quick answer and the lazy pigeonhole. In its relatively short history (est. […]
