Rochester rock band Maybird digs deeper into their psychedelic roots with a concept album chronicling Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.”
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SPECIAL EVENT | ‘Floated Sofa Sounds’
On May 23 and 24, Floated Magazine hosts a live-streaming event designed to provide musicians with a performance platform and to raise funds to keep the publication above water amidst the COVID-19 aftermath.
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The F Word: Twitterpated immensely
CITY music writer Frank De Blase dishes on Maybird’s recent album release show and guitarist McKInley James’ turn toward original soul and R&B tunes.
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Album review: ‘Things I Remember from Earth’
Maybird ‘Things I Remember from Earth’ 30th Century Records maybird.bandcamp.com Here’s another dose of that psychedelic pop from Maybird, with nods to emo and indie. The self-production on the new, 10-song disc “Things I Remember from Earth” has the band draped in a layered sonic tapestry throughout, though it doesn’t repeat itself. Each tune seems […]
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Interview: ‘Overhand Sam’ Snyder
Sam Snyder — commonly known as “Overhand Sam,” for his unorthodox guitar-playing style — never tries to set expectations. He just imagines that each show, in its own way, will be a great time. The multifaceted, Rochester-based musician is on a roll right now: fronting his own band Overhand Sam (OHS) and working on the […]
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Album review: ‘Unraveling’
Maybird “Unraveling” 30th Century Records/Columbia Records maybirdmusic.com Earlier this summer, Maybird released “Unraveling,” a brisk, four-song EP produced by The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney. “Unraveling” further establishes the rock group’s existing sound while bringing it to a wider audience via Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Records. The layered, folk-psychedelic sheen on which Maybird has built its […]
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Song premiere: Maybird’s “Turning Into Water” (Joywave Remix)
The psych-pop rockers in Maybird are one step cooler with the Joywave remix of “Turning Into Water,” its latest single and EP title track. Maybird’s Josh Netsky is jazzed. “We asked Joywave to put their spin on it,” Netsky says. “I love that it’s super percussion heavy and kind of sparse of the synths, but […]
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Maybird settles into Danger Mouse’s label
When we first sat down to kibitz with pop giant Maybird in 2014, the band was still vacillating between The Josh Netsky Band, which it was, and Maybird, which it was becoming. The band has since eased into that transition, and has hitched its wagon to some utterly amazing pop music: a gorgeous, psychedelic ebb […]
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Mike Turzanski
For many Rochesterians in the emergent art scene, the name Mike Turzanski probably brings up images of intricate line work forming beastly faces and figures full of body distortions, horns, flaccid noses, veiny-hairy-and-melting skin, and oozing sphincters in odd places. Though the 31-year-old artist is not shy about a chortling gross-out, the illustration style he […]
