What a long, strange trip it’s been. From playing to 10 people on the roof of an upscale East End watering hole, to creating a booty shake quake with thousands of fans in Red Rocks, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad is clearly the master of roots reggae in the jam band world. It doesn’t lampoon […]
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Green Dreams
In the never-ending quest to corral punk, to throw a saddle on it and ride, bands and their fans spend countless hours in circular debate over this flexible genre’s beguiling definition and their own adherence to its limits. What is punk? Who is punk? Punk is a sound and attitude perfectly exemplified by Rochester’s Green […]
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MUSIC FEATURE: Vinyl Orange Ottoman
The reason it’s so hard to find adjectives to accurately describe Rochester’s Vinyl Orange Ottoman is simple: the band itself is an adjective. The timing is just out of whack. If bands like The Black Crowes or Stone Temple Pilots or Pearl Jam hadn’t come first, chances are hack scribes like Frank De Blase would […]
